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06-21-2004, 07:26 PM
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Well my good 'ol friends need a keyboard player and asked me because I always recommend good lines to fit in. It is a metal band and I'm looking for keyboards under $500. I have been thinking about taking up a second instrument and have debated over a keyboard and synthesizers for several months so this may be it. Any recommendations.
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06-21-2004, 09:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | Used Roland XP-30.
Excellent soundset, very portable, great feeling keys, and no sampling - sequencing baggage that you probably won't want or need anyway. 
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06-22-2004, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New Jersey, USA | | Thank you 
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06-22-2004, 05:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: University of South Carolina | | you a keyboard player  
whatever you end up getting i hope it serves you well; have fun with it! |
06-22-2004, 05:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: here I am,you're looking at me | | | Not a fan of the Roland stuff myself, but bimp is correct about the XP-30. If you can find a way to add about a Benjamin to your budget you can probably even get one new, or a new Alesis QS6.2, Korg X5D, or (and this is the one I'd go with for the sounds alone) Kurzweil KME61.
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06-22-2004, 05:34 PM
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06-22-2004, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | | If you like Hammond sounds, I'd avoid the Kurzweil KME61... the other sounds are great, but the Hammond in the KME61 is sorely disappointing.
The Alesis QS6.1 / 6.2 has rip roaring Hammond sounds.
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06-23-2004, 12:52 AM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | | Who has the best old-school Hammond and Rhodes kind of sounds?
Well okay, obviuosly old Hammonds and Rhodes, but I meant in a single unit and hopefully for a decent price.
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06-23-2004, 08:36 AM
| | | | I was thinking of getting an Alesis myself for my keyboard needs. A QS can be had new for $599 or so. |
06-25-2004, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Bard2dbone Who has the best old-school Hammond and Rhodes kind of sounds?
Well okay, obviuosly old Hammonds and Rhodes, but I meant in a single unit and hopefully for a decent price. | http://www.clavia.se/nordelectro/index.htm
Without a shadow of a doubt, the best combination of Hammond and Rhodes (along with Wurlitzer, Clavinet, and Piano) is the Nord Electro 2.
Listen to the sound clips, they speak for themselves.
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06-25-2004, 10:23 PM
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06-26-2004, 07:16 AM
| | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | Then tell me everything you can think of about the Nord.
Please. 
Edit: I got a chance to read up on the Nord. It sounds like a real winner. But how much are they? And who carries them? I haven't ever seen this keyboard around here. With that red paintjob I think I would have noticed. It sounds like one of those would solve a third of my keyboard-sound dilemmas.
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