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The K5000 is GREAT! One of my more favorite members of my studio family. Mine is the K5000s. Bought it a few years ago on the recommendation of a friend, right after it first came out. One of the better investments I have made. For some(?) strange reason, Kawai quit making these incredible instruments not all that long after they were first introduced. Go figure...? But, my ARPs still rule the roost and the SCI Pro-one is another very worthy member. (there are others as well...:-) ) -Rev. Fever On Sep 28, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Bob Weigel wrote: > You can get a lot of sound samples on my sounddoctorin.com SDstudio > page and the global synth section of course has tons of helpful > links including some with sound samples. For strings and misc. > useful attributes and lots of patches available out there...I'd > tend to steer someone towards a Kawai K5000 or Korg Karma if you > have a little more. -Bob > > James Richmond wrote: > >> I've been collecting synths from the 80/90's- more because the >> prices are in the $100-300 range and I like having a lot of options. >> >> Some good ones: >> >> Roland JV1080 with world and vintage cards. Excellent bread and >> butter sounds, very flexible. >> Roland JD990 - great basses. >> Kurzweil K2000 (or K2k rack) - incredible sound engine, flakey >> sequencer, wonderful fx engine. >> Yamaha SY 77/85/99 - Nice strings, fm synthesis engine (like a DX7 >> on steroids). Skip the SY22. >> Quasimidi Sirius or Polymorph - More techno-oriented, great >> filters, Polymorph has a great interface, sirius has a nice vocoder. >> >> You could buy ALL of these synths on the secondhand market for >> what you would pay for a new ROMpler synth, although Quasimidi's >> are starting to increase in value. >> There are some incredible bargains going in hardware synthesis >> right now. >> These synths were in the $1-2k range on release but are worth >> almost nothing on the secondhand market now everyone is going >> softsynthy. I have no prejudice against soft synths- I have loads >> of them but there is something great about hardware. >> >> Try to find a used Roland JP8000 - they came out around £1500- >> Bought mine in Switzerland for 600 chf (about $500) and they kick >> ass. >> Incredible strings, amazing basses, decent fx (although not as >> flexible as kurzweil)- you really should check one out. >> Check ebay- if in the US try checking ebay Germany- there are >> always a lot of bargains on ebay Germany (I guess due to economy >> being a bit screwy). You can easily convert a 230v power supply to >> a 110v one with one simple solder join on the PCB. Takes 5 mins. >> >> Regards, >> Jim Richmond >> >> On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:17 PM, mike@michaelplishka.com >> <mailto:mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote: >> >>> Am looking for a keyboard for the studio-good strings are a plus >>> as well >>> >>> as cool World Music sounds. Been looking at the Korg stuff: X50 >>> and TR61. >>> >>> I can get decent deals on both-one being new the other slightly >>> used. >>> >>> >>> Any thoughts on these or others? >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> Plish >>> >> >