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Re: the smallest portable hardware keyboard synth




Louie Angulo schrieb:
> Hoi boyz,
> if u were to pick the smallest most portable hardware keyboard synth
> with really nice qualitiy strings,vintage pianos,organs etc. which one
> would it be?
> here is one ive been looking at
>
> http://www.korg.com/microkorg
>   
With your wide array of required sounds (especially notice the "etc."), 
I wouldn't go for a Microkorg, simply because that's very much focussed 
on virtual analog/MS20-style sound synthesis (which Rick already pointed 
out before I sent this msg.)

The same is, to a lesser degree, true for the M-Audio Venom (discussed 
in-depth on this list some time ago: 
http://loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/201102/msg00132.html): 
http://de.m-audio.com/products/de_de/Venom.html - which is also a little 
bit bigger.
A similar concept, albeit with smaller keyboard, is found in Novation's 
Xio: http://www.novationmusic.com/products/hardware_synths/xio

In short: if you want to get a really huge bandwidth of sounds, in my 
experience it makes sense to go for something sample-waveform-based, and 
that is usually not the case for the really small keyboards.
Alternative: get a small and inexpensive MIDI masterkeyboard (for 
sub-€100) and a small sound module, something like Roland Sound Canvas 
series, which are really jack-of-all-trades sound generators. E.g. this 
http://www.roland.com/products/en/SD-20/specs.html, or this 
http://www.roland.com/products/en/SonicCell/index.html

Rainer

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