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#97044 - 05/05/05 10:29 AM
Need of criticisms about Arranger Keyboards
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I need your criticisms about Arranger Keyboards Hi everybody,
I'm a french musician writing from Paris, so please excuse the poorness of my english, which I hardly practise more than one or twice a year...
Your experience and knowledge will be really helpful to me and mostly your unfortunate experiences withe the following arrangers whiwh I'm planning tu buy for professional live use. I pre-selected, after hearing their online demos and having a look in stores, the : -Korg PA-50 -Roland EXR-7 -Yamaha PSR-1500
In fact, I already own a Yamaha DGX-300, and it's the biggest mistake I've ever made... I play in pro gigs, and the keyboard must be amplified though professional sound engineering systems. And the Yamaha DGX-300 is everything except a professional machine : it only has one audio output (jack) which sounds awful, and in my case, it's just unusable. The sounds are correct (I mostly use piano), and the ergonomy is, I must admit, fine.
But let's get back to the 3 machines I mentioned above. Does someone have had such a terrible experience with one of this keyboards/arrangers that he wants to prevent new customers from giving money to a bad product ? Your hate for a disastrous machine, if motivated, may be helpful for a fellow musician, so don't hesitate in sharing your bad memories.
My criterias are these (sorted by priority : 1-Quality of sounds (especially piano, but not only) 2-Quality of the audio outputs (in order to be amplified for big concert halls) 3-Solidity (I'll have to carry it all year long, plug and unplug jack cables, you know : live touring) 4-Weight : my keyboard is 10 Kgs (22 lbs), and since my back is already rather weak, I won't be able to carry a 20 Kgs (44 lbs) machine. 5-Price. I'd like to stay between 900 USD and 1500 USD (700 and 1200 euros).
Ergonomy would be appreciated : I need to quickly change sounds, styles, tempo, and manage starts/breaks/endings. But that's all : I don't need nothing more complicated than that, I won't be doing any sophisticated technical stuff with it : I use what's inside, and that's all. What kind of use I need : 50% of the time, I play piano. 30% of the time, I play with synth and electric piano sounds. 10% of the time, I play piano but I have to add drums and percs because I play alone with the singer and the bass player The rest of the time, I play all alone with the singer, and then I need the real "Arranger" functions, which means, in my case : -selecting a style (e.g. bossa nova), a tempo, playing a chord and let the machine start playing with me.
Thanks a lot, I should even say : merci beaucoup !
i-Moi
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#97051 - 05/07/05 07:13 AM
Re: Need of criticisms about Arranger Keyboards
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Registered: 01/28/05
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i believe psr3000 is a good choice if you can afford more than what you said. i am not gonna say otherwise. but for the money you have, my personal pick is korg pa50. if you will use the keyboard mostly for playing piano and once in a while something else, you might as well consider exr 7. so, what to do? ![](http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif) give it a try, take advantage of 30 days trial time, and test also the resistance to your use! go for it!
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