JohnnyFoster

Best and truest statement I've read all week. So many refuse to believe this, however.

Well, if you got four years out of it for the price, then that is pretty good considering I just bought mine brand-new for $545. Beats lugging around a 40-lb monster.

It's a shame the price of the higher-end of the two boards is now creeping up into the $1000 territory, considering what it does and still doesn't do... The organ section is still not convincing, and adding polyphony and supposed revamped piano samples isn't enough to justify a $150 increase from the previous price. It was once a great value - now its, "Meh"... $900 for this barely-improved same old thing... probably will pass.

I bought a new Yamaha YC88, a great condition Kurzweil K2600R on eBay with 64mb RAM and 8gb SD card / floppy replacement for $1000, and a new Korg Wavestate Mk I. They're all amazing!

As appealing as the iPad platform appears today, I can’t see it being a wise long-term investment to base your music on, as they won’t last even close to Macs and PCs. It truly is planned obsolescence. I have three iPads and will not invest in anymore of them after these wear out. Who knows how long we’ll be able to retrieve and use the apps we’ve paid for? It’s out of our hands, and that’s a disconcerting prospect. It’s too bad more confidence can’t be had in this platform for music.

So...what in the heck are we / users supposed to do with pre-USB-C iPads if they're not going to be usable with the CCK? Are these now, in effect, musical doorstops? WTF?

Makes sense ; I've played it (what feels like) a million times, and even sat in with T.O.P. a couple of times and played it with them. Great song.

Funny - "What Is Hip" isn't something that people dance to... Lol.

One of the big reasons I no longer buy keyboards, or anything musical, anymore. It's just not worth it. I've got everythng I need, and when it's gone, it's gone.

Of course. One of the first things I checked. No dice. Works with the MacBook Air M1 just fine.

Yes - I'm using USB only (not MIDI 5-pin) out of the Yamaha MOXF6 to the iPad. Attempts to connect to my MacBook Air work fine - the iPad does not.

What controller are you using? I've tried using my Yamaha MOXF6 as an iPad controller with an Apple Camera Connector, but the iPad won't see it. My MacBook Air M1 sees the Yamaha fine. Not sure what's going wrong when trying to use the iPad.

Yep - that's all anyone really needs to create music. This iPad, or a laptop. Everything else is just clutter. I dumped EVERYTHING I owned and all I have now is a Yamaha MOXF6 and a 2020 MacBook Air M1 16/2TB. Nothing more is ever needed for music.

After 40 years of playing professionally in just about every genre imaginable, with the money being amazing as well as horrible, I finally realized what a waste of time the whole gigging thing has been. In retrospect, I should have chosen a much more stable and sensible profession. I had a great time over the many years and became a very proficient player and what many people even called "very talented". Yet, I regret this occupation choice very much, as it has not provided any sort of financial security or lasting satisfaction for me as I approach 60 years old. I had a considerable amount of professional and artistic success as a keyboardist and musical director, but damned if shouldn't have become a dentist instead. It's too late now, most regrettably. I have no spark or desire to play my instrument anymore in any context, going on three and a half years since my last gig. The music "business" today is a joke compared to what it was in the 80's, 90's, and even the early 2000's. How anyone would enjoy playing the crap music that is popular today is beyond me. Jazz has been done to death, literally, and it always sounds like a circle jerk to me, even though I played "jazz" for many years. Again - a totally over-hyped waste of time. A schmooze-fest of cliques and name-dropping. Bitter much? Not me! (LOL!) Anyway - just my input on this thread... JT.