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mawcs	Date: February 18, 2004 @ 4:25 PM I play a Roland 1000s from 12 years ago. I like it because the keys are weighted so that it feels like a grand piano.
SoulBeats	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 9:25 AM I have a crappy piece of shit Casio.
Apertome	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 12:33 PM I have an Oxygen 8 MIDI controller. It's OK for what it is, but only having 2 octaves drives me insane! Yes indeed, double the # of keys in the emoticon and you've got my keyboard! It does have 8 assignable knobs plus pitchbend/modwheel, and there are octave up/down buttons.
starseven	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 4:04 PM oh this forum just fucking ROCKS!!!....... i have tond of keyboards i lve them all... ok.. herels the list 1959 hammond m3 Roalnd jx-305 groovesynth(2) Roland Juno 106 Roland sh-32 Korg triton Korg ea-1 Korg er-1 Alesis ION Quasimidi sirius Nord lead II 2x Moog voyager i think that's everything
Apertome	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 4:30 PM
Veracohr	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 5:13 PM I have a Roland XP-10. It's fine for a controller, except it has no knobs to play with. It's got two sliders, but for unknown reasons the keyboard won't let the sliders be assigned to CC numbers above #97 or thereabouts. It doesn't have aftertouch, but I've never missed it and I have no idea what I would use aftertouch for if I actually had it. One thing I really like is the combination pitch/mod joystick. You push it left or right for pitch bend, and push it forward for mod. I've never played a keyboard with separate pitch and mod wheels, and I think it would be weird.
Apertome	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 7:01 PM Those pitch/mod joysticks look cool, but I'd be concerned I'd accidentally change the pitch when trying to modulate or vice versa -- is this a problem? The thing I like about the separate wheels is that it's relatively easy to avoid changing one accidentally
Veracohr	Date: February 20, 2004 @ 6:16 PM Actually, mux, I do occasionally get some accidental pitch change info when making a mod change, but it doesn't happen very often, and even when it does it's probably no more than a few cents. And of course it's easy to filter out that data. On my MIDI sequencer (Digital Performer 2.72), CC messages show up as different marks and colors. The modulation changes (CC #1) show up as orange dots, and the pitch change (CC #7) shows up as blue squares or something like that. So if I get accidental pitch change information, I see it immediately when I bring up the MIDI graphic editor.
Veracohr	Date: February 20, 2004 @ 6:17 PM Oops, I think I wrote the wrong CC number for pitch change, but that's beside the point.
EmpireDay3	Date: February 20, 2004 @ 6:42 PM Korg MS2000, Kurzweil K2vx, Oxygen 8 midi controller for an Emu Audity 2000, Proteus 2000 (with upgrade sets), Orbit and XL1 as well as EXS24 and ES1 Logic software synths
leerees	Date: February 26, 2004 @ 8:04 PM i have a radium keyboard, feels pretty crap to be honest but i use reason and get some really cool sounds out of the synths.
leerees	Date: February 26, 2004 @ 8:06 PM personaly i think you should be able to change the mod with a foot pedal, this would be cool for playig leads where your already using your left hand for pitch bends. id wire the mod to a band pass filter!
johnnygnote	Date: February 26, 2004 @ 8:24 PM Alesis Nano Piano with a casio 600 series to drive it, a Yama FB01 and I use Reason for more synth sounds.
Jazzmary2U	Date: February 28, 2004 @ 12:04 PM Verachor.. I have the XP-10 as well. Great little keyboard for festival gigging.. virtually indestructable!! at home, 7 year old Roland JV-80 for controller, and a Korg digital grand for serious gigs. I sniff out real grands to play around town, tho..
leflaw	Date: February 28, 2004 @ 7:27 PM Kurzweil pc88mx and a a Yamaha synth something or other. Plus a 5' 2" Yamaha diskclavier
victorsskull	Date: February 28, 2004 @ 11:01 PM jackson
Arthen	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 8:46 AM :laugh:
Arthen	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 8:47 AM ooops. not well versed with emoticons hehehe korg triton studio 88
harperandjoh...	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 5:54 PM yep fraid to say, just a crappy Yamaha DJX. but it does the job none the less.
JohnnyBB	Date: March 1, 2004 @ 7:55 PM I've got one of them nifty microKORG's and a Midiman Radium controller, and an AKAI S2000 sampler.
smooka	Date: March 3, 2004 @ 5:51 PM Fender Rhodes Triton
Order	Date: March 10, 2004 @ 5:55 PM Midiman Oxygen 8 (I love this thing) Korg Z1 Waldorf Microwave XT Yamaha DX21 (Cold and sterile. Pretty, sometimes) Korg ER1 Various softsynths I think my next big purchase will be a Roland V-Synth...I played one in guitar center for about 2 hours. Wow.
Autophage	Date: March 10, 2004 @ 10:33 PM Yamaha sampled electronic piano (88 weighted keys, does piano, electric piano, organ, harpsichord, and string sounds) as a controller for a DX200. Also, a Casio SK-1.
synthsect	Date: April 5, 2004 @ 10:59 AM casio cz-101, microkorg, roland alpha juno, and a shitty casio ctk. ive got a busted cz1 that barely works too.
synthsect	Date: June 12, 2004 @ 7:53 PM oo i sold that ctk to a friend and bought an e-mu protues . very very nice
Intergalacti...	Date: June 13, 2004 @ 9:47 AM No keyboard but Zender piano, lovely sound but hasnt been tuned in years
ICF	Date: June 13, 2004 @ 10:46 AM Hmm well i mostly use the Yamaha Clavinova's. Not sure what they're called but ones a CVP209 i think. If im just practicing or want the nice effect i use the Boston Grand piano. I love it!
furiousBall	Date: June 13, 2004 @ 2:30 PM Yamaha Motif 6
rylos22	Date: September 5, 2004 @ 3:07 AM Yamaha DX7II with TouchRam control surface. http://img30.exs.cx/img30/8244/tquad.jpg http://img50.exs.cx/img50/1345/jes0011.jpg Also have acoustic piano, and harpsichord.
Maffmatix	Date: September 7, 2004 @ 10:52 PM Skin Flute
MickeyBreezy	Date: September 11, 2004 @ 9:22 PM i played a casio 1ce
imemine	Date: September 11, 2004 @ 10:54 PM With myself Uh-----that didn’t sound right!
BIG-P	Date: September 18, 2004 @ 10:57 PM I play a jessie french cabinet grand
Izekial	Date: September 30, 2004 @ 10:56 PM Peavey DPM 2, early 90s model. It's loaded with samples, but one of the keys is broken. I lost the samples chart too. Sometimes I use an RP5 with it, and I get these really huge, fucked up sounds. I'm always fucking around with keyboards, but I can't actually play the instrument. It's ideal for experimenting, though, trying to add something weird or unorthadox to a song.
Ratdart	Date: November 18, 2004 @ 4:53 PM I'm looking into getting a keyboard soon.
Lastsongsang	Date: December 31, 2004 @ 10:45 PM I can't remember the model and all that, but it's by Yamaha.
EvilPicnic	Date: May 21, 2005 @ 7:27 AM A Kessels upright that my grandad found about to be chucked in a skip...
zedsalt	Date: May 21, 2005 @ 12:33 PM I have a mid '90s Yamaha SY55 and a '65 Silvertone organ. I use my Hohner melodica basso a LOT, and on rare occasion, I use a cheap Chinese student model melodica...would you call those "keyboards" or "wind instruments"?
TheFearDrone	Date: May 22, 2005 @ 10:34 PM I use an old Roland G1000....doesn't seem very user friendly tho.
DigWeed	Date: May 23, 2005 @ 4:29 AM Access Virus Indigo (built in keyboard) & Yamaha psr-64
HenriRoger	Date: May 28, 2005 @ 12:39 PM Kurzweil K2500 ,RolandD550 ,YamahaDX7 But I prefer my Pleyel
HenriRoger	Date: May 28, 2005 @ 12:40 PM Kurzweil K2500 ,RolandD550 ,YamahaDX7 But I prefer my Pleyel
tomatobaby	Date: July 17, 2005 @ 6:40 AM Korg N364 ~
mattbanx	Date: August 10, 2005 @ 11:34 PM Nothing nearly as fancy as the rest of you. I have a Casio CTK-411 and a Yamaha PSS-50. Although I have only used my Casio for my MP3's. There is too much feedback from the Yamaha. It is a minature keyboard. But I would like to find a way to get rid of the feedback. I like picking it up and playing it like a synth axe.
shadowself	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 1:02 AM Just a Midiman controller these days. Used to have a Korg M1, a Korg Poly-800 and a Yamaha DX21.
psypig	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 4:22 AM Korg MS2000B, Yamaha AN1X, Novation Nova (with a crappy old controller keyboard) Next i'm after an SH-101...
zedsalt	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 12:24 PM I had an SH101 that I let go for chump change when I was in college. What was I THINKING?!?
psypig	Date: August 11, 2005 @ 1:02 PM dude...
Intergalacti...	Date: August 15, 2005 @ 10:42 AM I also have a piece of shit casio but i use a zender classic when playing real keys
GeneHilbert	Date: August 16, 2005 @ 1:55 AM Two Ensoniq VFX-SD's
ray104	Date: September 8, 2005 @ 12:40 AM CASIO LK-43 CASIO SA-67 Casio PK-1 Casio SK-5 Yongmei MS200A (semi lo fi Digital keyboard with 8 sounds with mid sized keys) Yongmei YM398B-looks identical to MS200A exept Color and button layout and has instead of a digital chip a Sawtooth transistor orcan chip) Yongmei (unknown) similar to YM398b in harware exept it doent havve the Drum and rhythm chip from the Dancing skull haloween toy soldered in like the 398B (but still has a birthay cared melody chip to make demo songs) Yongmei (54 key electronic keyboard) This fullsized beast is availibli in like 3 different colors (20 bucks at walmart in the hobby section) (nice piano sound) still looking for it's better sucessor) the YM-490F (its on e bay all the time but i wanna buy mine at a normal store! (saw a similar instrument at toys r us but the drumpads are a different shape and the 6!!! output jacks arent on theat version so i left it HMP-138 (only rhythems and some other buttons work correctly) (keys wont play) i tried fixing t HMP-139 (duller sucessor to the one above) 9works fine) Yamaha PSS-190 YAMAHA PSS-170 (used by rapper MC EHIT) YAMAHA PSS-80 RAidioshack Magic dial keyboard Music major keyboard Yongmei -high freqency keyboard (uses PSS-190 Case) Realistic concertmate 350 Gran Prix (has 2 sounds organ and piano (squarwave mono keyboard) Yongmei -unkownwn Fisher price keyboard with Beautiful sampled piano sound V teck toy baby keyboard
Intergalacti...	Date: September 11, 2005 @ 7:41 AM I need to buy a new kjeyboard and/or piano. My 25 year old casio sucks and my zender is a bit beaten
FraDonaghy	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 11:10 AM What would you suggest for a good keyboard to record onto PC via the audio mic port? The one I have at the minute (No idea of the name) was inherited from my grandfather, but is relatively new. However, it can't be recorded in that way for some reason.
LChen	Date: January 6, 2006 @ 12:23 AM Man, some of you guyys have an insane amount of keyboards. I mean that as a compliment. All I have at the moment is a Yamaha PSR-19 that's been lying around for ages - 7 years, at least. I hope to upgrade soon.
tsand19151	Date: January 6, 2006 @ 12:39 AM I use to own two Yamaha PSR's. The first was a PRS-48. Made my first midi connection between that and a TX81Z sound module. Right now I have an Alesis QS6.1 which is starting to show its age.
TruonGLe	Date: January 6, 2006 @ 4:09 AM games
MinisterofSc...	Date: January 7, 2006 @ 12:13 PM I play a sweet little bontempi 3. It's kinda old and yellowy but it's got the nicest wheezing sounnds you've ever heard! I can really kick out the jams...as long as the drummer plays quiet enough and everyone else turns their amps down to around six decibels.
MinisterofSc...	Date: January 7, 2006 @ 12:17 PM Oh yeah! actually...I forgot. My parents have a heavy stand up yamaha electric keyboard with weighted keys (all 88 of 'em) and external speakers. It only has 5 different instrument types though and isn't really portable enough for me.
leedsquietman	Date: January 22, 2006 @ 12:12 AM A crummy Casio CTK that I use with a MOTU midi interface for most of my softsynth needs - I have bought lots of softsynths, my favourite being the Korg Legacy Digital edition, I also like Reason for it's analog sounds in subtractor and Malstrom is one quirky synth for odd occasion and sampled sounds (pianos, strings etc) which I find are better suited for my needs than purchasing a hardware synth. In the past I have owned a Roland JX 3P, Kawai K1, Yamaha DX-100 (cool mini keys thing cut down dx-7) and a Korg M1r.
akis23	Date: February 17, 2006 @ 7:52 PM SH-60(not SH-101) and Novation Nova laptop
mawd	Date: February 23, 2006 @ 8:29 AM hi....I have a Korg Triton, a Roland Juno 106, a Yamaha DX-21. The Korg is my main 'board. MAWD
PrincessTast...	Date: February 28, 2006 @ 12:49 AM Yongbo and I also have a Mini-Korg from the 70s. You can hear it making the squiggly sounds on "Don't Lose Yr Head" (that was me playing it, not very well I might add)
TameasDust	Date: March 2, 2006 @ 2:33 PM a EZ-7000
Whitefire	Date: March 19, 2006 @ 10:40 PM I'm on a Korg Triton Le and it serves me well.