Keyboard with quality church organ sounds

[The Piano Man]

What would you recommend?

 

Looking for

- 61 keys

- good range of church/pipe organ sounds

- audio outputs required

- no need for built in speakers

- max weight of around 10kg

 

Budget: £400-500 (UK)

 

With budget in mind, second hand is obviously strongly considered!

 

Happy to hear what you would also recommend if budget were no option.

[Bobadohshe]

That budget is terrible for both of these recommendations but the Hammond SK's have good church organ emulations and the Yamaha montage has a killer church organ performance

[Sven Golly]

With budget in mind, second hand is obviously strongly considered! the only option available.

 

Fixed.

 

Happy to hear what you would also recommend if budget were no option.

 

Dexibell Classico L3 is right up your alley, although it also has built-in speakers.

[AnotherScott]

Hammond XK1C is probably the least expensive board that is strong for this.

[Song80s]

With budget in mind, second hand is obviously strongly considered! the only option available.

 

Fixed.

 

Happy to hear what you would also recommend if budget were no option.

 

Dexibell Classic your alley, although it also has built-in speakers.

 

I am looking for a church real cheap that already has a quality pipe organ.

 

Much cheaper than a Montage, I bet

[GRollins]

Pick up a Yamaha Motif Rack-XS and drive it with a MIDI board. It's got the best selection of pipe organs I've found.

 

Grey

[Six-string-man]

Did you think about going with iOS? A few good church organs on there. If you already own an iPad, an app and a decent controller will be well under your budget.

[Mighty Motif Max]

I don't know of anything in that budget range. Outside of it, besides the others mentioned already, there is the Johannus One http://www.johannus.com/en/collection/home-organs/one/one, and Viscount has their Cantorum line http://www.viscountinstruments.com/classic-organs/keyboards-expander.html. Roland used to make some "classic keyboards", and I think Orla did at one point too.

[Polkahero]

Get a used Alesis QSR rack module and load it with their Sanctuary Q card, these are the best pipe organ samples I've ever heard from a ROMpler.

[Synthoid]

Korg Triton Classic.

 

 

[The Piano Man]

Thanks all. I own a Yamaha S70xs so will check out the samples on there. However, I have also just picked up an Alesis QS6.2 on eBay for £75, so will check that out when it arrives. Certainly the key action will be more organ like on there than on the S70xs. Will try and find the Sanctuary card to go with it.

[pjd]

Hi --

 

I'd recommend getting a Yamaha PSR or MOXF with expansion memory and adding a pipe organ expansion pack. The "Church Organ" expansion pack for S-series PSRs is pretty darned good. DCP Productions offers "Majestic Pipes" for MOXF, but I don't have any direct experience with it. At the suggested budget, you're probably looking at a used 'board.

 

I'm a church musician who gigs every week with an MOX6. The built-in pipe organ sounds are just OK -- nothing to write home about, and to my ears, not much like a real pipe organ. The S-series expansion pack is much better. Of course, there's always Genos or Tyros5, however that's way over budget! :-)

 

All the best -- pj

 

[Polkahero]

Thanks all. I own a Yamaha S70xs so will check out the samples on there. However, I have also just picked up an Alesis QS6.2 on eBay for £75, so will check that out when it arrives. Certainly the key action will be more organ like on there than on the S70xs. Will try and find the Sanctuary card to go with it.

 

You won't be disappointed with the QS6, check out the "Full Ranks" in the Program banks and "Cathedral" in the Mix banks.

[The Piano Man]

Thanks all. I own a Yamaha S70xs so will check out the samples on there. However, I have also just picked up an Alesis QS6.2 on eBay for £75, so will check that out when it arrives. Certainly the key action will be more organ like on there than on the S70xs. Will try and find the Sanctuary card to go with it.

 

You won't be disappointed with the QS6, check out the "Full Ranks" in the Program banks and "Cathedral" in the Mix banks.

 

Thanks man! Appreciate the advice, will check those programs out!

[Gretel]

I would be interested in how you find the QS6 and the S70. Let us know when you got your QS6. Personally I would think that the QS6 without the card lacks softer registrations. The Full Ranks and Cathedral sounds will only work in rare cases or else sound out of place in my opinion.

[The Piano Man]

Hi --

 

I'd recommend getting a Yamaha PSR or MOXF with expansion memory and adding a pipe organ expansion pack. The "Church Organ" expansion pack for S-series PSRs is pretty darned good. DCP Productions offers "Majestic Pipes" for MOXF, but I don't have any direct experience with it. At the suggested budget, you're probably looking at a used 'board.

 

I'm a church musician who gigs every week with an MOX6. The built-in pipe organ sounds are just OK -- nothing to write home about, and to my ears, not much like a real pipe organ. The S-series expansion pack is much better. Of course, there's always Genos or Tyros5, however that's way over budget! :-)

 

All the best -- pj

 

Excellent suggestion PJD. Ive had a listen and the expansion pact sounds excellent. I just dont feel great about using a Yamaha PSR. I really dont like the look and dont want big cheesy inbuilt speakers. Hoping the Alesis Q Card expansion will give me what I need (in an only marginally less cheesy looking keyboard!)

[The Piano Man]

I would be interested in how you find the QS6 and the S70. Let us know when you got your QS6. Personally I would think that the QS6 without the card lacks softer registrations. The Full Ranks and Cathedral sounds will only work in rare cases or else sound out of place in my opinion.

 

Sure! Will do. Cheers

[dglcomp]

There is always the Roland classic series, not sure about the used price though.

[Radagast]

Viscount Cantorum Duo. A portable TWO manual classical organ.

 

http://www.viscountinstruments.com/cantorum-duo.html

 

And pedalboards:

 

http://www.viscountinstruments.com/classic-organs.html?p=4

 

[Nils_O]

One option could be a used Roland vr09. It has all the church organ sounds from Roland Atelier series, quite a lot.

It's possible to use 6 sound simultaneously.

[Kelly Gibson]

The Nord Electro 5 and 6 have dedicated pipe organ settings. However, these may be well beyond the stated budget.

[Gretel]

One option could be a used Roland vr09. It has all the church organ sounds from Roland Atelier series, quite a lot.

It's possible to use 6 sound simultaneously.

 

Really? Thats surprising! Can anyone confirm this, or are you really sure? This would be the first time I heard this. Would make the VR09 immediatelly quite interesting to me.

[Nils_O]

One option could be a used Roland vr09. It has all the church organ sounds from Roland Atelier series, quite a lot.

It's possible to use 6 sound simultaneously.

 

Really? Thats surprising! Can anyone confirm this, or are you really sure? This would be the first time I heard this. Would make the VR09 immediatelly quite interesting to me.

 

Yes. Need to be accessed via midi though but can be saved in memories.

Easy with the CTRLR editor.

Read about it here

https://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2935039/114

 

 

 

[Gretel]

Thanks for the links! Looks really quite promising, didnt know that this little board has anything like this under the hood!

[Gretel]

I would be interested in how you find the QS6 and the S70. Let us know when you got your QS6. Personally I would think that the QS6 without the card lacks softer registrations. The Full Ranks and Cathedral sounds will only work in rare cases or else sound out of place in my opinion.

 

Sure! Will do. Cheers

 

Hi PianoMan, did you had a chance already to check out the QS6 in terms of church organ sounds and how they compare to the S70?

[hardware]

PianoTeq if you have a laptop or PC.

 

[uhoh7]

What would you recommend?

 

Looking for

- 61 keys

- good range of church/pipe organ sounds

- audio outputs required

- no need for built in speakers

- max weight of around 10kg

 

Budget: �400-500 (UK)

 

With budget in mind, second hand is obviously strongly considered!

 

Happy to hear what you would also recommend if budget were no option.

 

Well if you have any apple computer, mainstage is cheap and has good organs, or even IOS there are some decent ones, no? You can run audio straight out of that, or use a seperate cheap DAC. Then all you need is a decent 61 controller with sliders to do the drawbars. Necktar T6, and there are a bunch of others even cheaper...alot cheaper. And they are very light. Like 10lbs.

OR:

Find a Deal like this

 

That would proabably sneak you by better than many alternatives, though not as good as the best clones hard or soft. You can get VERY good software organs. Alot of competition for whos does it best, I can't keep track.

 

In short, with a decent laptop and 500 quid, you could have a great array of church sounds, but would take a lot of time possibly, and once it works, never update the laptop

 

[stillearning]

I would guess he"s found something some time ago. Thread"s over a year old.

[The Piano Man]

Didn"t expect this old thread to get a bump but, as the OP, I can update by saying that I ended up buying A LOT of different things.

 

Alesis QS6.2 - keyboard arrived faulty so was returned.

 

Hammond SK1-73 - love it! Brilliant sounds for all types of organs. The pipe sounds are excellent. B3 is obviously brilliant. And the board looks beautiful.

 

Technics P50 - actually has a nice selection of organ presets, albeit it is a hammer action board.

 

MarcMoerd IOS app - pricey for an iOS app but the pipe organ sounds on here are absolutely brilliant. I"ve midi"d it to an old Korg X5.

 

Kurzweil PC3x - bought one of these for the home, for pianos, orchestral and workstation features. However, I noticed that there are some very nice pipe organ setups. Probably the work of someone of the talent of Dave Weiser.

 

Tempted by a Nord Electro 6d 61 but really need to sell before I buy again!!