i'm still searching for that keyboard that draws me to it to play,makes me want to play,create . last keyboard that did that was my b3 ans a roland tr 505 drum machine. even then i was always trying to make it better. the newer stuff is sooooo far advance but there is STILL something not right,something missing. maybe its in us. keep looking donny and dont ever give up.
I think what your missing is what a lot of us are missing. The total immersion into playing. The Arrangers take a lot of the load off of us and thats good for certain situations. I too miss Playing my B3, kicking bass on the pedals and having two other keyboards and a drum machine around me. Music moves on. The most satisfaction I get now is playing my FP90 piano. Just piano, nothing else with it.
Hit the nail on the head. Today I was in my studio and started 'doodlin' on my SEVEN (Rhodes clone). Two hours later I realized I'd overshot dinner by an hour. Did almost the same thing yesterday on my KeyB (clonewheel). On the 'B3' I even forgot to turn on my drum machine (BK7m). Been playing some form of these boards for the last fifty years and am just as infatuated with them as ever....never bored. There is just something 'spiritual' about playing unaccompanied keyboard (and/or probably guitar as well). It's like starting each painting with a blank canvas and whatever is created is ALL YOU. Every note that is played is played only because YOU decided it should be played. Note, I'm not talking about "filling the dance floor" or "gig profitability" or "portability" or any of the other things drive us to play AI-driven pre-recorded riffs that are as predictable as your teenage kid's first fender-bender.
I'm not saying that you won't enjoy that shiny new arranger (for awhile); I'm just saying that the odds of you still finding it pleasurable and inspiring 40-50 years from now are very, very low (3 1/2 hrs in some cases
).
chas
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