Keyboard Forums


Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes

hammond or synth

 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
Hello

I have a good piano (korg SP250) but I want a synthiser with a good hammond sound.
Hope you can give me advise:
1) iam not a pro
2) i want good stuff
3) I want to use strings and a good mellotron and hammond sound.

What should I buy? a synth with inside sounds like roland juno or VK8 roland hammond?
Price around max 1000

Thanks!!
 
Reply With Quote
 
 
 
 
Keyboard Master
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 337
The Y_man's Avatar

 
      4 Weeks Ago
1000 dollars, 1000 euro, 1000 kina?

The Y-man
 
Reply With Quote
 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
In euro
 
Reply With Quote
 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
Quote:
Originally Posted by asha View Post
In euro

Is THE welson à prof organ? Hoe is THE hammond sound?
What About THE philcordan?

Thans again
 
Reply With Quote
 
Resident
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: North Wales
Posts: 112

 
      4 Weeks Ago
1000 Euros is about £800 I think, correct me if I'm wrong.

For that sort of cash you could pick up and excellent second hand "Rompler" which would certainly do what you're after.

I'd be inclined to look at a Korg Triton, Roland Fantom, Kurzweil K2500. These might be a bit "in depth" for what you're trying to achieve but they're certainly future proofed. You don't want to spend that sort of money and then realise in a years time it's not up to the job anymore.
The three synths I mentioned above are all capable in some form or another of loading third party samples, so you should NEVER run out of new sounds. So if you don't like the Mellotron preset, get yourself a new Mellotron sample pack and you're good to go.
A Juno (if you mean a proper Juno) isn't the right thing, it's an eighties polysynth. A Roland VK8 can ONLY do hammonds and electro mechanical simulations. If you want a bit of a Jack of all trades, take a second hand workstation like the ones listed above.
 
Reply With Quote
 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
[
Thanks you. Does THE korf produce own sounds likje strings mellotron?
Is it easy to creatie new sounds?
Iam not à pro.
So of i correct you well, juno gI is not profes. In his sounds?
I want to produce symfo rock, 80 style.

QUOTE=ootini;160688]1000 Euros is about £800 I think, correct me if I'm wrong.

For that sort of cash you could pick up and excellent second hand "Rompler" which would certainly do what you're after.

I'd be inclined to look at a Korg Triton, Roland Fantom, Kurzweil K2500. These might be a bit "in depth" for what you're trying to achieve but they're certainly future proofed. You don't want to spend that sort of money and then realise in a years time it's not up to the job anymore.
The three synths I mentioned above are all capable in some form or another of loading third party samples, so you should NEVER run out of new sounds. So if you don't like the Mellotron preset, get yourself a new Mellotron sample pack and you're good to go.
A Juno (if you mean a proper Juno) isn't the right thing, it's an eighties polysynth. A Roland VK8 can ONLY do hammonds and electro mechanical simulations. If you want a bit of a Jack of all trades, take a second hand workstation like the ones listed above.[/QUOTE]
 
Reply With Quote
 
Resident
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: North Wales
Posts: 112

 
      4 Weeks Ago
Hi, the Juno GL is a professional synth, but it's a "budget" model. It's not in the same league as the other three I mentioned.

All three of the workstations, the Korg Triton, Roland Fantom, and Kurzweil K2500 are all serious professional instruments. All three will probably have a Mellotron string patch or two already onboard when you buy it, you can tweak these sounds and create new sounds from scratch using the onboard synthesis capabilities. The Kurzweill has the most powerful synthesis engine by a long stretch. You can also buy "sample packs" which will contain other sounds which you can then load in to the machine and play as if they were preset sounds. How "easy" it is to create new sounds depends on how well you get on with the synthesizers architecture. Personally I like Roland and Kurzweil, Korg is a bit of an odd one, but it's simply what you're used to, but remember the VAST system used by Kurzweil is very, very powerful and can be very complex to a newcomer.

Last edited by ootini; 4 Weeks Ago at 11:38 AM..
 
Reply With Quote
 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
Kurzweill2500 sounds good, but About Roland s5 any tips?
Wicht is beter, has more inside sounds? Looping for mellotron and hammond.


Quote:
Originally Posted by ootini View Post
Hi, the Juno GL is a professional synth, but it's a "budget" model. It's not in the same league as the other three I mentioned.

All three of the workstations, the Korg Triton, Roland Fantom, and Kurzweil K2500 are all serious professional instruments. All three will probably have a Mellotron string patch or two already onboard when you buy it, you can tweak these sounds and create new sounds from scratch using the onboard synthesis capabilities. The Kurzweill has the most powerful synthesis engine by a long stretch. You can also buy "sample packs" which will contain other sounds which you can then load in to the machine and play as if they were preset sounds. How "easy" it is to create new sounds depends on how well you get on with the synthesizers architecture. Personally I like Roland and Kurzweil, Korg is a bit of an odd one, but it's simply what you're used to, but remember the VAST system used by Kurzweil is very, very powerful and can be very complex to a newcomer.
 
Reply With Quote
 
Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 14

 
      4 Weeks Ago
Quote:
Originally Posted by asha View Post
Kurzweill2500 sounds good, but About Roland s5 any tips?
Wicht is beter, has more inside sounds? Looping for mellotron and hammond.
What About THE clavia nord lead 2
 
Reply With Quote
 
Resident
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: North Wales
Posts: 112

 
      4 Weeks Ago
The Nord Lead 2, can only play 8 notes at a time, it's "ok" at hammonds and other than that it does "synth" style sounds, not really what you're after I wouldn't have thought. It could fake mellotron strings but not aswell as the Kurzweil could
 
Reply With Quote
 
 
 
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
My brutally honest opinions on *soundcard* MIDI synths. Radium cakewalk.audio 51 03-13-2007 08:36 PM
Soundcard-MIDI is *not* obsolete. It just takes an evil form. Radium alt.steinberg.cubase 14 03-03-2007 09:25 PM
Soundcard-MIDI is *not* obsolete. It just takes an evil form. Radium cakewalk.audio 20 02-25-2007 10:07 PM
I am digusted with Creative Technology because they no longer make Creative Music Synth [220] Radium cakewalk.audio 14 02-02-2007 06:53 AM
Creative Music Synth [220] is my favorite MIDI synth. F--k Sample-playback synths. Sample-playback MIDI stinks like human kakaa. Radium alt.music.synth 0 01-22-2007 05:13 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 08:58 PM.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33