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Hello, I play rhythm guitar and keys in a bar band and I'm looking to upgrade my consumer level yamaha keyboard.
Looking for standard piano/organ sounds to be great and also need some pads and lead sounds from time to time.
My biggest gripes about my current setup are
1) no leslie sound for organs (does not have mod wheel)
2) piano and some other sounds are noticeably noisy/low resolution samples
3) saving user defined sounds/splits is awful
4) effects default to on and are time consuming to turn off.
My interests so far were the roland juno series, yamaha mm6 and (through internet recommendations) the korg m50. based on some things I've read about the mm6 I don't think it would work for me. I would prefer to buy used, but I could swing $500 perhaps.
here's what I'd like to have in a new keyboard
easy recallable splits with naming ability for custom sounds
separate audio outputs for splits to do left hand bass sometimes
ability to switch very quickly between two different sounds
leslie simulation with two different speeds on organ patches, or at least leslie on/off!
Since I also play guitar in this band I really don't want to use two different keyboards as we run out of room and setup time. Also, I'm not being cheap -- I'd love to have a $1000 board but I couldn't risk it getting damaged at weekly bar gigs.
Thanks for your patience and wisdom
Morgan
Looking for standard piano/organ sounds to be great and also need some pads and lead sounds from time to time.
My biggest gripes about my current setup are
1) no leslie sound for organs (does not have mod wheel)
2) piano and some other sounds are noticeably noisy/low resolution samples
3) saving user defined sounds/splits is awful
4) effects default to on and are time consuming to turn off.
My interests so far were the roland juno series, yamaha mm6 and (through internet recommendations) the korg m50. based on some things I've read about the mm6 I don't think it would work for me. I would prefer to buy used, but I could swing $500 perhaps.
here's what I'd like to have in a new keyboard
easy recallable splits with naming ability for custom sounds
separate audio outputs for splits to do left hand bass sometimes
ability to switch very quickly between two different sounds
leslie simulation with two different speeds on organ patches, or at least leslie on/off!
Since I also play guitar in this band I really don't want to use two different keyboards as we run out of room and setup time. Also, I'm not being cheap -- I'd love to have a $1000 board but I couldn't risk it getting damaged at weekly bar gigs.
Thanks for your patience and wisdom
Morgan