On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:29:32AM +0100, James Stone wrote: > > 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. > > I think I may have found just the thing: The xiosynth from Novation. I > think you can get it for around £190 new (4 octave version). It does > analogue modeling, and apparently also has some sampled sounds. In the > end I bought a second hand yamaha an-1x which has a very nice solidly > built keyboard - 5 octaves with aftertouch , and good (analogue > modeled) sounds. I paid £210 for it. > Apparently one Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson speaks highly of it as well: http://blog.thomasdolby.com/?p=522 -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
