Simon Williams wrote: > david wrote: >> My Yamaha PSR-255GM is 36" wide, 14" deep, 5.5" high. Has 61 keys, >> decent speakers built in, and one line out. > > Hmm. I looked at the manual for the PSR-255GM and I can assure you that > it does *not* have line out. It has a headphones socket. Everything has > a headphones socket. OK. I have it running into a splitter cable that feeds into my stereo mixer and that feeds in to a separate amplifier, and don't have any noise problems whatsoever. > But I want line out, which will usually come as > Left and Right channels as two separate mono 1/4" jack or phono/RCA > sockets. Any stereo jack socket is certainly a headphones socket. It has > to be labeled "line out"- "headphones/output" isn't line out. > A headphones socket has a different impedance to a line out socket, > which makes it less useful for connecting to a PA system. You will get > more noise when using a headphones socket to connect to a PA system > because the levels will be all wrong. > The other issue is that a headphone socket will mute the onboard > speakers whereas line out will not. The PSR-740 has two Line Outs (has a separate headphone jack on the front) - one for Left, one for Right. > Al Thompson wrote: >> My suggestion would be to stop looking at low-end consumer grade >> gear. > > That's great in theory. Except for one thing- I can't find what I'm > looking for in higher end gear either. Most of it is 8 octaves long > which is too big (though the Korg X50 looks promising). Has no-one > considered churches and small bands? That's exactly what I use the PSR-740 in - a church's worship band. And we need the portability, because we don't have our own property yet, so we're renting space in school cafeterias. >> If I were to put together something like this, I would get a >> MIDI controller keyboard, which will be about the size of what you >> had before (or maybe even smaller), and get a used Roland JV-1010. >> You'd end up with something as portable as you want, with vastly >> superior capabilities from what you had before. Controllers or >> cheap, and a used JV-1010 is cheap too. > > david wrote: >> Of course, neither of them is made anymore, but perhaps later PSR >> models would be suitable. Don't know how it compares to your >> Evolution. > > Perhaps I didn't mention that my Evolution is a cheap USB Midi > controller keyboard. It's supposed to be good, but I'm convinced that > the pads have worn out or something because I often get notes suddenly > played way louder than the rest. It's possible. They may just need to be cleaned? > I had a look at the JV-1010, and it's a possibility, but the problem is > that I still need to replace my MIDI controller with something better > and then buy some sort of amp. I'm not sure it's worth it. > > James Stone wrote: > > I thought the korg X50 looks quite nice.. I am considering getting > > one, although I don't think the keyboard will be much of an upgrade > > over the Evolution.. I think the built in sounds are pretty amazing > > though. > > I really like the look of that. But at 450 pounds it's still somewhat > over my budget. > > Cue everyone rolling their eyes and thinking to themselves "you can't > have everything and get it cheap". But in all seriousness I shouldn't > have to be looking at expensive high end gear to get what I want. The > perfect solution would be a consumer grade keyboard, but with line-out > added (there's no way that's hard or expensive), and different > proportions. I'm not really asking them to cram stuff into less space > (though I *know* there's no need for them to be that size). Just change > the proportions. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
