Fran,
I'll be gone most of today. If I get a chance I'll try to rip a quick mp3 for you this evening.

I do want to point this out. Sure, you can record HipHop, Rap, and R&B on ANY keyboard that has recording capabilities (even arrangers) The problem is that 99.99% of the time the recording will sound downright cheezy. It's not a knock on your G-1000 either. I've heard that board before, and it too (using internal voices) will sound cheezy.

Reason for this.....,simple! Arrangers do not have the voice set for recording these styles, and if you want to record these styles you MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST have a keyboard with SAMPLING capabilities, be it direct sampling or just the ability to load samples. You NEED to be able to bring in external sounds, and loops to do this. You MUST have a dedicated sampling synth/workstation, or something like an MPC-2000+ to do these styles and make them sound good.


If I can find the file I might already have a good one to send you. I did a killer HipHop beat on my Casio WK-3500. The only reason it turned out so darn good is because the Casio loads (user samples). I was able to use sounds (outside) of the Casio internal voices.

Also the ONLY arranger that has EVER been produced that did an awsome job at recording HipHop, Rap, R&B, Dance, ect was the ORIGINAL Yamaha DJX. Why oh why for the love of all that is holy did Yamaha totally sh** on that keyboard and released that crappy DJX II?????? They really had something going there. I don't think Yammie really knew how many DJ's and HipHop artists actually bought those things. I had one and DAMN! That board even though it's quite a few years old would dance circles around the PSR-3000, and others when it came to writing those styles.

Squeak

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