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Hello, and many thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond. I know it's a bit draining after a while to keep coming back to the same old questions, and I do appreciate everyone's efforts!
I'd like to start playing around with home recording just as a personal hobby (so no friends to play with or gigs to consider).
I have an old CVP-305 and after watching some random YouTube videos I thought I might get a new synthesizer to experiment with.
I love Pink Floyd and I'd like to record cover versions of their songs, mainly because breaking the music down and building it up again gives me a fresh appreciation for it, whilst also helping me learn the instrument, how to layer sounds etc.
I was thinking about a Korg Kronos, mainly because I saw a video for a "Pink Floyd Sample Pack", which seems to provide the presets for various songs. I'm thinking this shortcut will hopefully help me understand how to build new, similar ones myself later when I'm more familiar with the board, process etc.
However, I read that Korg are discontinuing the Kronos and I was worried I'd end up buying something which is maybe becoming out of date.
I saw the Kross as a possible replacement, but I couldn't see any similar Floyd sample pack, which put me off.
I did see some packs for Nord, Yamaha etc. and I also started to wonder if I'm better off maybe buying a keyboard/synth plug-in to use with Cakewalk and just use my CVP-305 as a trigger.
I then started to feel that I've literally no idea what I'm doing and so thought I'd ask for help from you fine folks! (I live in the sticks with no local music stores).
So, in summary, I'm looking to recreate (as best an amateur hobbyist on a budget can!) the soundscapes of Pink Floyd.
Ideally I'd like a new board but if it's much better to spend the money on software and trigger it via the CVP I'll consider that.
I'm probably looking at around the £600-£850 mark but could stretch to £1k if that brings worthwhile benefits.
As before, many thanks to anyone who took the time to decipher this and post a reply!
I'd like to start playing around with home recording just as a personal hobby (so no friends to play with or gigs to consider).
I have an old CVP-305 and after watching some random YouTube videos I thought I might get a new synthesizer to experiment with.
I love Pink Floyd and I'd like to record cover versions of their songs, mainly because breaking the music down and building it up again gives me a fresh appreciation for it, whilst also helping me learn the instrument, how to layer sounds etc.
I was thinking about a Korg Kronos, mainly because I saw a video for a "Pink Floyd Sample Pack", which seems to provide the presets for various songs. I'm thinking this shortcut will hopefully help me understand how to build new, similar ones myself later when I'm more familiar with the board, process etc.
However, I read that Korg are discontinuing the Kronos and I was worried I'd end up buying something which is maybe becoming out of date.
I saw the Kross as a possible replacement, but I couldn't see any similar Floyd sample pack, which put me off.
I did see some packs for Nord, Yamaha etc. and I also started to wonder if I'm better off maybe buying a keyboard/synth plug-in to use with Cakewalk and just use my CVP-305 as a trigger.
I then started to feel that I've literally no idea what I'm doing and so thought I'd ask for help from you fine folks! (I live in the sticks with no local music stores).
So, in summary, I'm looking to recreate (as best an amateur hobbyist on a budget can!) the soundscapes of Pink Floyd.
Ideally I'd like a new board but if it's much better to spend the money on software and trigger it via the CVP I'll consider that.
I'm probably looking at around the £600-£850 mark but could stretch to £1k if that brings worthwhile benefits.
As before, many thanks to anyone who took the time to decipher this and post a reply!