Originally Posted By Bill Lewis
Maybe I'm just over thinking things. My BK9 is great but in its Gator Pro case its a bit heavy and bulky. Even though its a semi rigid case I think it weighs almost as much as the keyboard but the protection it gives is worth it.

I have a Yamaha YBNP76 case, which only weighs about 4 lbs and can hold the BK9. Of course, it's not the same rugged protection you've got there, and I wouldn't suggest it if you've got roadies handling your stuff. But if you're carrying your own gear reasonably carefully from home to car and car to stage, it's sufficient for that, and there's your weight savings. You can get it for about $60.

Originally Posted By Diki
About the only thing that tempts me at the moment is hooking up the BK9 to my iPad, and using the amazing modeled instruments from SWAM (the saxes and the solo strings are absolutely as good as it gets!), and some of the virtual synth stuff like the OBXa and Memorymoog emulators.\

I have not yet really looked into using the BK9 to control an iPad sound source. In a brief scan, I couldn't find anything in the manual about, for example, specifying an external part for Upper 1 or Upper 2, or otherwise specifying any kind of recallable external zone (e.g. having a sound over some part of the keyboard trigger an external iPad sound, using whatever MIDI channel and some Program Change command for selecting the sound). How would you go about integrating the kind of iPad sounds you're talking about?

Kind of getting back to the topic of this thread, having first played the BK9, I wondered about whether a BK-7M might be a better choice for me. But...

...having "favorited" a bunch of BK9 sounds, I was surprised at how few of my favorites were in the BK-7M. To my ears, most of the best sounds are exclusive to the 9.

... I'd miss the clonewheel organ

... I'd miss the BK-9 Editor which makes it easy to customize sounds via an iPad. That appears to be the only model that has such an editor. (Editing on the small BK-7M screen doesn't seem so appealing,)

... I don't think the BK-7M has a way to create your own rhythms...?