Julien Claassen wrote: > As always, there are probably dozens of answers to such a question. > From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I > came across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There > are keybaord versions and rack versions. > Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times > and was never disappointed. > From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two. > Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds. > With a Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano. > Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP, > perhaps they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced > in that series. Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately, > because they just offer grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, > 2-3 organs (hammond and church), strings, choir, guitar and bass. > And about Yamaha, which ones are good. Ok the CP series, but what more? In The Netherlands we use markplaats.nl for shopping the second hand market: Here is a list with the offered Roland and Yamaha stuff. Maybe you can see which ones are good and worth a try, if you want: Roland: http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muziek-en-instrumenten/soundmodules/c772.html%3Fxl%3D1%26ds%3Dto%253A1%253Bpu%253A0%253Bl1%253A728%253Bl2%253A772%253Bdi%253A%253Blt%253Azip%253Bsfds%253A1%253Bpt%253A0%253Bmp%253Anumeric%253Bkw%253Aroland%253Bosi%253A2%26ppu%3D0%26p%3D1%26av%5B-1%5D%5B0%5D%3D0 Yamaha: http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muziek-en-instrumenten/soundmodules/c772.html%3Fxl%3D1%26ds%3Dto%253A1%253Bpu%253A0%253Bl1%253A728%253Bl2%253A772%253Bdi%253A%253Blt%253Azip%253Bsfds%253A1%253Bpt%253A0%253Bmp%253Anumeric%253Bkw%253Aroland%253Bosi%253A2%26ppu%3D0%26p%3D1%26av%5B-1%5D%5B0%5D%3D0 I think I my budget is max. 150 euro's, but till 200 is interesting.. Regards, _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user