John Sayers Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 Most of my music friends are acoustic songwriters and we go to each others places and spend afternoons or evenings playing on someones veranda or on someones lawn with all the kids and dogs etc. and everyone sings their songs. You know what I mean, we have some great times as some of these guys and gals write great songs and others just enjoy performing so house of the rising sun and summertime always get a good run. For a keyboard player this poses a problem, you need a keyboard, stand, pedal, amp, power.. so I went searching the music shops for a cheap keyboard that ran on batteries and had it own speakers. After going through all types and sizes I settled on one for $499.00 about US$350 Its neat I had to learn to switch off the auto light show that came on automatically if you didnt play it for a few minutes and the lighting keys that light up when you play them and Im never going to use the 3 step tutorial built in but of all the cheap keyboards it had the best internal sounds for the price. IMO. Its light you can pick it up with your little finger, and you can even plug in the mike, switch on the drum machine and the auto follow bass, take a break, and some three note piano player will eventually create an instant song. My friends love it they say John, where did you get that neat keyboard?? Cheers john Studio Design Forum Studios Under Construction Home Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 Soo, which one is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Doe Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 Just a guess .... CLONK! No signature required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Lander Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 This one looks interesting. Might have to think about it, MF has 'em for three bills. Our Joint "When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it." The Duke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Sayers Posted May 7, 2005 Author Share Posted May 7, 2005 Yeah - you got it - that model is actually better than mine cheers john Studio Design Forum Studios Under Construction Home Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondottcomm Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I got the Casio WK-1630 about 3 years ago.I paid about 350.00 for it.Great songwriting tool!I use it all the time..I have a couple of buds who borrow it for the same reason,even with Kerzwils and Tritons ect. you can't beat the simplicity! What? you mean I can take this block of fine swiss and make a song??...COOL! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblue1 Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 My first electronic keyboard was a Casio MT-40. It had those 4/5 size toy keys (which meant I got used to an octave spread the easy way and then had extra motivation when I graduated to regular size 'boards) but there was a 'full size model' with the exact same features for a couple hundred bucks more. (Mine was $150, I think.) This was, like, '82 or so, so that didn't buy much, but it had all the standard electric organ sounds and a delightfully dorky drum machine. I played the holy crap out of that thing. bookmark these: news.google.com | m-w dictionary | wikipedia encyclopedia | Columbia Encyclopedia TK Major / one blue nine | myspace.com/onebluenine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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