Keyboard Synth
Posted in Instruments by admin
on January 5, 2010
Need help with choosing keyboard/synth for my band?
I'm VERY uneducated in this area.
I want to produce chord sequences resembling the likes of Delphic, Friendly Fires, Ellie Goulding. I have Logic. And could use my macbook live.
But if i where to buy a keyboard what would I want, I get a little confused to how the bands ^^^ actually get the noises they do ^_^
Thanks
Joe x
What you need is a keyboard with sampling capability, and some time to figure out how to work it. Synth/sampling is a slippery and expensive slope. But sampling doesn't generate sounds; it plays back sounds that you have loaded into the machine.
I've found that for live applications, because I need to sing at the same time, I haven't been able to wrap my head around sampling in a live setting. I just have reasonable synth replications programmed in the order that I need them.
As far as brands go, Yamaha and Kurzweil are great if you use a lot of piano. Kurzweil is quite expensive. I've found Korg products are much easier to use than Yamaha, and I prefer the sound to Roland, which I only have a little experience with. You'll have a learning curve any route you go, but when you get a handle on it, a good keyboard or workstation can be an incredibly versatile tool.
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