Ska keyboardists, what's your setup?
Bill de la Suspect
Joe, key man for The Suspects, plays a Rhodes vk-1000. Weighted keys,
slidebars(!), and rad tone/controls. Too bad the keys keep breaking!
While it was in the shop, he had one of those XB-3's that are supposed to
re-create the hammond sound... NOT!! At least, not by themselves. The
word is, if you get the xb-3 AND a Leslie cabinet, you've got the true
b-3 experience.
Bildo
The Suspects
-----finger me for upcoming Suspects shows!!-----
Hey! It really works now...
SKAmble
-Sean
Zachary Brines
: I'm just trying to get some insight from others before making my purchase.
: So what do you play, and how do you like it? I'm looking for a synth,
: rather than a Hammond organ, or a Fender Rhodes, something that
: will provide a good ska organ, and piano sound.
Good luck. I did a bit of shopping around for my Roland JV-90. It amazing
how many keyboards don't even come with a decent organ sound, although organ
sounds are used the most. As for my Roland, I don't particularly recommend
it. It does the job, it's fully programable, plenty of octaves, expandable
etc, but I just can't get a decent B3 type sound out of it. The thing about
synths is that all the programming in the world won't compensate for weak wave
forms. Luckily foryou (if your considering those Korgs, which I've heard were
pretty good), you have more money to spend then I did. So far, I haven't
heard any digital gizmo that fully reproduce the orginal sound, so I guess I'm
not that much help.
Let me know what you find.
zACK
(the Skavengers)
ar...@artc.tiac.net
Nigel Knucklehead uses a Yamaha electric piano plus a Hammond XB2 portable
(with sampled Leslie). He finds the action on both keyboards excellent and
has had no problems with sound or tuning.
Go You!
--King K.
--
ar...@artc.tiac.net
finger for PGP public key if I'm logged on.
Jason Priebe
(synth). The sampler is great for the simple reason that I am not restricted
to whatever sounds the manufacturer decides to put in a given synth. It is
bad, because it takes me about 4 to 5 minutes to load in my samples from
floppy disks. (If I had the $, I could get a hard drive for it...) One
night, one of our guitarists accidentally unplugged my rig. Being unprepared
for such a situation, we had about 5 minutes of downtime. :-(
I'm not too picky about what organ sounds I use. I usually load up about 4
organs on the ASR, and I have a bunch on the SQ-80. The ASR has much richer
sounds, and a built in FX processor, so I use it the most. I really only use
the SQ-80 when I have to switch between sounds quickly, or play two boards at
the same time.
A sampler is also good when you want to use good piano patches (although more
and more synths have good pianos built into their sample ROM)
Hope this helps you make up your mind!
-Jason
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
-- Regatta Sixty-Nine -------- http://www.cs.unc.edu/~priebe/regatta69.html --
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
Zarge Jeffrey R
Try using a SAMPLER!!!
I have a Roland W-30 (I bought it when it came out).. I have it connected to an80MB external hard drive (speeds up loading tones & patches!!)..
(You might want to stay away from Roland.. They dio make nice stuff, but if
you have a problem with your board and there is no decent local music place
to take it, than you're FUCKED!!! Luckily, when I opened my W-30 up, what
had to be fixed was just pushing an extra chip into the curcuit board! I had
called up Roland pertending to be an "authorized Roland dealer just to get
help!!! PLUS, I found black & white checker board contact paper and covered
up everything on my keyboard that said "Roland".)
Anyway, with a sampler, you can get thousands of sounds!!! I found one place
(Greytsounds in CA) that had several Hammond B3 sounds.. You can also get
any kind of horn, ie- trumpet, sax, trombone... Plus, the prices were
reasonable!
But if you get a sampler, make sure you get a popular one so you can get
support from 3rd party companies that sell samples!!!!
If you need more info, just e-mail me..