Mr RAT suggested I post this publicly...
Hope you won't think I'm a complete idiot, here, but it's been a serious while since I've worked with keyboards. My initial run was a Hammond B3 and a Fender Rhodes 88, and since then it's been an occasional plink on a piano.
I've picked up a Korg Kronos 73. I own it but don't have it (my nephew in SF picked it up for me from a Craigsist ad and is holding onto it until I get up there from LA, or vice versa). Thus the questions about stands, monitor speakers, etc. I've been playing guitar and a little bass and have scads of stuff for those, but nothing for keyboards at home.For gigs I use a modeled guitar through a power amp and a set of full-range speaker cabs that will be just fine for keyboards for anything up to arena use <G>.
I'm wondering two things.
One, can I hook a second keyboard (cheaper, non-Korg) into the Korg and control another set of Korg voicings with that. I realize that I could probably bolt a second Kronos onto a stand, but I'm guessing that there's a lot of processing power in that Kronos that could be put to use somehow. Yeah, there's a user's manual, but I probably won't see that until the keyboard gets here, and it likely won't tell me the "gotcha's".
Two, any recommendations on that second keyboard? The Kronos 73 is neither fish nor fowl -- it's weighted, but not an 88 (and I can play an 88, but don't know that I'll need to when gigging for now, and the Kronos 88 was significantly more expensive). And I do well on a synth style keyboard (ala the B3), but in the Kronos series that was only 61 keys, and not particularly wonderful for piano. I can use BOTH an 88 weighted and a 61 synth-style and will have to make a choice at some point, but would really love suggestions on both (and I'm leaning toward the 61 only because it's more likely to make the cut for gigging).
Hope you won't think I'm a complete idiot, here, but it's been a serious while since I've worked with keyboards. My initial run was a Hammond B3 and a Fender Rhodes 88, and since then it's been an occasional plink on a piano.
I've picked up a Korg Kronos 73. I own it but don't have it (my nephew in SF picked it up for me from a Craigsist ad and is holding onto it until I get up there from LA, or vice versa). Thus the questions about stands, monitor speakers, etc. I've been playing guitar and a little bass and have scads of stuff for those, but nothing for keyboards at home.For gigs I use a modeled guitar through a power amp and a set of full-range speaker cabs that will be just fine for keyboards for anything up to arena use <G>.
I'm wondering two things.
One, can I hook a second keyboard (cheaper, non-Korg) into the Korg and control another set of Korg voicings with that. I realize that I could probably bolt a second Kronos onto a stand, but I'm guessing that there's a lot of processing power in that Kronos that could be put to use somehow. Yeah, there's a user's manual, but I probably won't see that until the keyboard gets here, and it likely won't tell me the "gotcha's".
Two, any recommendations on that second keyboard? The Kronos 73 is neither fish nor fowl -- it's weighted, but not an 88 (and I can play an 88, but don't know that I'll need to when gigging for now, and the Kronos 88 was significantly more expensive). And I do well on a synth style keyboard (ala the B3), but in the Kronos series that was only 61 keys, and not particularly wonderful for piano. I can use BOTH an 88 weighted and a 61 synth-style and will have to make a choice at some point, but would really love suggestions on both (and I'm leaning toward the 61 only because it's more likely to make the cut for gigging).
