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Published on 11/27/09 at 12:22
Best value:
Poor
I'll give my opinion on this keyboard I tried a full hour in the store. My personal comparisons are:
- A North electro 2
- A Nordstage (version 88 and also hit waterfall).
- The Kawai MP8.
- The sounds of piano and acoustic electro various workstation market.
- Ergonomics and use.
It is the strong point of the machine. The interface is amazing, it is dessuite "inside". We understand very quickly how it works, everything is in front.
The touch is good but not extraordinary. It is above Nordstage 88 (I like that personal touch at all levels), a hair below the Nordstage Compact, well below the Kawai MP8 which for me hit level, is the rolls.
- Sounds and effects.
- The effects are of excellent quality, I was really amazed. It sounds, it really grain.
- Simulations of preamp I have not found it great ... It saturates a little on the lamp, but it makes little difference, not even a little heat.
- The piano sounds are comparable to what korg (top version). It is very very good, really, though usually made Korg piano sounds very average. This is below what can be done Yamaha, and below the piano Nordstage.
- EP (Wurlitzer 200A, Clavinet, Rhodes etc etc ...). It is expected that the instrument, and the Hammond, and it is clear that ... the appointment is missed. The least we can say is that Clavia is well ahead. Whether a simple or a Nord Electro Norstage it sounds infinitely better, I was expecting a little about what kind of result, but not at this point. SV 1 person flat in this register, not the expressiveness of the Clavia stuff when you attack, the statement is immediate and without appeal, no grain ... No soul. It's still OK, but really nothing more. I think a big Motif XS offers you the same easily.
- Hammond, far below what electronica offers north (I do not even speak of a C1 ...).
- Violin and other ... : The violins sounded really great, the characteristic of Korg in the register. Anyway, both have a Workstation for that. The few synths are available ... gadget.
Ultimately, this machine offers multiéchantillonage vintage machines with all the "next" to do "as at the time" (simulated preamp, lamp, very good effects classics of the time ...), but nothing more .
Finally: We have an average unit, with a super multi-effects and a good hit ... too expensive for what it is, and well below what the competition offers in the registry. In the register of PE (where it is expected) it is barely better than the workstation's time, which is not eligible for an instrument meant to be "highly specialized".
This choice of purchase is to be done: Certainly not.
- A North electro 2
- A Nordstage (version 88 and also hit waterfall).
- The Kawai MP8.
- The sounds of piano and acoustic electro various workstation market.
- Ergonomics and use.
It is the strong point of the machine. The interface is amazing, it is dessuite "inside". We understand very quickly how it works, everything is in front.
The touch is good but not extraordinary. It is above Nordstage 88 (I like that personal touch at all levels), a hair below the Nordstage Compact, well below the Kawai MP8 which for me hit level, is the rolls.
- Sounds and effects.
- The effects are of excellent quality, I was really amazed. It sounds, it really grain.
- Simulations of preamp I have not found it great ... It saturates a little on the lamp, but it makes little difference, not even a little heat.
- The piano sounds are comparable to what korg (top version). It is very very good, really, though usually made Korg piano sounds very average. This is below what can be done Yamaha, and below the piano Nordstage.
- EP (Wurlitzer 200A, Clavinet, Rhodes etc etc ...). It is expected that the instrument, and the Hammond, and it is clear that ... the appointment is missed. The least we can say is that Clavia is well ahead. Whether a simple or a Nord Electro Norstage it sounds infinitely better, I was expecting a little about what kind of result, but not at this point. SV 1 person flat in this register, not the expressiveness of the Clavia stuff when you attack, the statement is immediate and without appeal, no grain ... No soul. It's still OK, but really nothing more. I think a big Motif XS offers you the same easily.
- Hammond, far below what electronica offers north (I do not even speak of a C1 ...).
- Violin and other ... : The violins sounded really great, the characteristic of Korg in the register. Anyway, both have a Workstation for that. The few synths are available ... gadget.
Ultimately, this machine offers multiéchantillonage vintage machines with all the "next" to do "as at the time" (simulated preamp, lamp, very good effects classics of the time ...), but nothing more .
Finally: We have an average unit, with a super multi-effects and a good hit ... too expensive for what it is, and well below what the competition offers in the registry. In the register of PE (where it is expected) it is barely better than the workstation's time, which is not eligible for an instrument meant to be "highly specialized".
This choice of purchase is to be done: Certainly not.