Exactly! Women are always dictating what their man can or cannot do. This is why I don't have a girlfriend and will never get married. I want to enjoy my freedom as a man, hehe!!
Unless you’re a gigging musician, you don’t need a dedicated synth. A good midi controller (like a Nektar Panorama) and a good library of plugins and the DAW of you choice will do it all. I have an ancient Axiom 61 and cheap a Casio hammer action piano. Would love to get a Panorama P6 to replace the Axiom.
The JD-Xi is my "if I could only have one synth and drum machine on a desert island" synth. The 128-voice virtual analog is a very deep synth engine which sounds great, especially for pads (the "flanger" can act as a very rich Juno-style chorus). The drums have a lot of variety and the sounds can be significantly edited. The analog synth has quite a bit of that TB-303 vibe to it, while being a good deal more flexible than the 303. The effects add a lot of creative possibilities to the sounds.
Sure is digital, the first digital best-seller. What I mean is : "we" have been about 20 years crying and asking the developers to make again analog synths, and now that, finally they are making them...."we" start whinning and crying that what we really like and want is the DX7...lolz
Jeremy Thornton does it have the piano quality of nord electro 4? Does it have better sound quality than the motif or montage or Roland g8 or fa 8 ?If so it's worth it
Here I was, sitting nice and comfortably taking in every word, when all of a sudden BUGGER OFF!!!! Lmao, Cheers for that Woody, I almost fell off me chair!
I really wish I had the balls to sell a lot of my gear. Every time I've sold something, I've wanted it back - and in the process, ended up buying 2 or 3 more synths. It's a hydra! All I really need is my spectralis 2 and Access Virus TI - but I unfortunately have way more. Some day - I'll get the courage and sell :/ Good job on clearing house. Enjoy what you kept.
Ouch... I think some of you are being really mean to Woody here. He explains perfectly well his reasons for letting certain synths go. He swaps and changes synths and keyboards like others do with cars. Try it. enjoy it then pass it on if it doesn't tick all the boxes. We may disagree with some of the choices but we aren't the one's making them. I bought my Electribe from a guy who hated it and couldn't get on with it, whereas I took to it straight away. Horses for courses.
Love these videos. What you need is a fully restored Fender Rhodes piano from the early 70's. That is, if you want the most organic music machine ever made. You will feel a connection to something very real, if you like that sort of thing.
Aw Woody !!!! The D50 :-o ...... You loved those sounds. I know they can have issues as they get older, but still ??? Loved your vintage reviews though. Keep up the good work :-)
I was surprised you let the DX-7 and the D50 go. Are you no longer acquiring new gear for review purposes or are there more goodies coming down the pipe? Love the vids; keep it up.
thanks for the comment mark! just not using them on a regular enough basis to justify hanging on to them. and yes, frees up some funds and space for new spontaneous purchases.
Yeah, I guess you could sell all of them and get a simple controller keyboard and a laptop running VST's. But for me that's just not as much fun as real hardware. I like the knobs and sliders :)
Thanks for sharing in fact am also looking to get Yamaha but the version with the middle eastern stuff, i believe its typically the same except they added some middle eastern accompany as well as i can get the quarter tone on it. Amazing case and sure please share the link where did you get it from and what brand, its also gonna keep it from any sort of dust and safe storage indeed. Thanks woody and keep the good going :)
If you miss the DX7, want hardware similar to it but can easily be taken with you, you might want to get the Korg Volca FM. I have it, and it's a fun little thing. If you wanted, you can load in the 32 original DX7 patches, OR create your own with a VST plugin OR an iPad app (which the name of has left me). It's an inexpensive thing, too! I got mine for around $200 USD with a 2-year protection plan.
I’m a bass player, but I’m picking up a relatively inexpensive synth for the piano player in a group I’m putting together. It’s a DS8. Is that a good choice for more progressive and fusion style music?
Hi great channel, just discovered you by accident - but glad i did, love your presentation and content. I'm a guitarist who plays mainly ambient style music, generally swells etc using reverb and delay effects. I would like to add some synth / sequence to my playing can you reccomend a good compact all round unit for a beginner?
Thanks for the insight Woody! Are you aware of the replacement panel that Roland has made available? it's white lettering on matte finish... no more glossy red!
I love the sounds and kinda intrigued at the decisiveness. I'm a guitarist and CANNOT sell guitars. I just can't let them go. Hence why I've got 17 now. However I adore many plugin instrument including Korg stuff and therefore really get the M1 and Wavestation (etc) plugin comments. Just incredible to have these. Keep going. Can't wait to see what you do next!
interesting video. As a guitarist I am a little concerned about your choice of amp for playing the synth through. I have one of those amps, a fender mustang modelling combo. Some fantastic guitar tones as presets that can be tweaked to your hearts content. For keyboards I'd sooner opt for a nice HH ic 100 combo that doesn't colour or distort the sounds of your keyboards with what are primarily distortion modelling tones of the Fender mustang designed for guitar..........but hey.....lets see another vid on the sound you achieve through the mustang. I could be eating my words
i don't know either, but guys used to put rhodes through fender twin reverbs, with the aim of getting the colour! if you want clean tone then yeah, might as well use line-out or phones. maybe the fender amp simulation will deliver? only one way to find out! :)
You should try out a Yamaha MOXF6. They're pretty reasonable in price, have the full Motif XF soundset, and have really excellent sequencing and accompaniment capabilities. They're also quite light (even the 88-key model is only 15 kilos). It's a bit more professional than the Yamaha that you kept and might induce you to trade up. I recently got a Yamaha SY-99 from 1991. It's huge, but it sounds like nothing else, and I'm having a lot of fun with it (despite having plenty of more modern gear).
i played with the motif xf for a few months, and it was a great kayboard, but since I've explored the sounds on that I probably won't revisit them in the moxf. agree with you that it's a great synth though! i think the sound engine made it to my psr. that sy99 is a monster of a synth!.
I am new to the channel and after you sold those instruments and you showed the Nord electric I was expecting a big warkstation, something like a Fantom, kronos or motif/montage or a pro level arranger like pa4x, genos, or even a beast synthesizer like v-synth/jupiter. A kurtzweil instrument maybe... And then I saw a very very expensive toy... XD :P Right.... I mean, don't get me wrong but I was expecting a flagship or something. I really loved the vintage synth videos!!! :D Now I want to buy one!
Great video Woody ! , thats was a brilliant collection of synths that you went through and a lot of history too ! , i think you were right about the one's you kept , your Psr s970 will blow your mind when you get inside it and see and hear what it can do and i will look forward to what you come up with it ! , in someways its sad to see all those synths go but if Mrs Woody aint happy then Mr Woody wont be happy in the garage (lol) , i really enjoyed all your video's on all the synths and plugin's , well done Woody , keep up the great work ! , 😎AK 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
HI Woody, I have been watching for a while but I never posted a comment before. I have mint Korg NS5R and I was wondering if you or someone on here knows if that has the sounds from the A1? I love the vids, keep them coming. I live in Orlando btw.
I sold my Korg M1, Roland RD700 digital piano. Also sold my Prophet 5 (regret that one big time). Purchased Yamaha s90es (not happy with it.) Would like to sell it and get a Nord or other decent piano with great action and decent B3 programming. Any suggestions - need hammer action - would like less than 88 as I'm tired of schlepping a beast around.
But the JD-XI just feels so cheap and the sounds are plasticky compared to the Nord Lead. I've played both and decided to pay more for the Nord because it's gonna get used at gigs.
Hello. I want to buy a synthesizer. I have some options like Korg M1, Korg N364, Roland RS70, miniKorg and Roland a.juno 1. May i ask you which one do you recommend? Thank you in advance :)
You had a Wavestation and a Subphatty. What is wrong with you? When he pulled over the big case I was sure he was going to unveil some jaw dropping vintage poly synth. A Jupiter maybe? But no, an arranger!
one other interesting note, those things he could fix. he was primarily concerned about the cosmetic condition, since that cannot be fixed. mine was pretty much mint-
Woody, I am a Korg Arranger player, the older PA800. If you like the PSR S970, I wonder if you've looked at the Korg PA4X? Don't get me wrong, I love Yamaha keyboards. I used to sell them, and for the longest time, they were, without doubt the best Arranger style keyboards with the best sounds on the market. However, starting with the Korg PA4X, I seriously believe that Korg has unseated Yamaha, even the Tyros5, as the reigning King of Keyboards. The only keyboard that might be better than the PA4X would be the Ketron Audya 5. Now, I will admit that the PA4X, with the speaker system, in the 76 key version is about two thousand British Pounds more than the PSR S970, but I truly believe you get so much more. Check out the six-part Bonner's video series on the PA4X. ua-cam.com/video/vocWSlaDcaE/v-deo.html
The Wavestation ex was my first synth. It's great but a nightmare to program. Not because of the synthesis but coz the interface is sooooo sloooow. Especially when setting up long wavesequences. Legacy has changed all that though. Highly recommeded.
OOOooooo, Woody, your decision to let the DX go but keep the other thing has caused some anger. Jack Dempsey needs to realise that they are not his synths therefore it's not his decision. If it works for you, then it's right for you, end of... I loathed the DX7, worst synth ever made (or so I thought in the 80s) - sounds shit, you can't program it without a degree in psycho-acoustics, nuff said...give my that Juno. But I love my Volca FM...it's a DX with knobs and works for me. I love it so much that I want a DX7...isn't time weird?
getting a lot of criticism for letting that dx7 go, completely justified, just get yourself a dx7 whilst they are not much more expensive than the voica!
hi nathan, i take your point, it's a bit irrational of me. i notice that I say all sorts of strange things on camera in the heat of the moment! i guess i would say that the dx7 had great sounds for the time, astonishing sounds that we'd never heard before, however by today's standards they are a bit boring? would you accept that?
That is totally fair woody and I know being in front of the camera adds an entire different dynamic to it and you do an excellent job of it. Honestly though you kinda had a thing going with the dx7...its a massively popular synthesizer and in my opinion your you tube content / input for the dx7 got me hyped! Personally i love the sound and have never gotten tired of it...check out my dx7 rendition of "if you love somebody set them free" and then tell me the dx7 is boring! With a nice spring reverb the dx7 sounds magical. Keep on rock'n woody! & replace your dx7 asap!
El teclado de mi JD-Xi se rompió después de aproximadamente 60 horas de uso. Tienen unas teclas realmente frágiles, fabricadas con un plástico de muy mala calidad. --- The keyboard of my JD-Xi broke after about 60 hours of use. They have really fragile keys, made with a very poor quality plastic.
I own Yamaha TX81Z rack. Great FM synth! Using midi usb cable and free TX editor. Experiment from 1000 of presets. Best producer secret :-D Bevare of ass-crack.
Enjoyed a look "backstage" about something we all deal with but don't discuss much. There are lots of videos about whether to buy something, but this is the first I've seen about what to keep or sell. It's very helpful to get your thoughts after you've used something for a while. Good one, thanks.
I know how easy it is to get sucked in to collecting stuff. Especially things that you couldn't get in the childhood/teenage. I collected video games for almost a decade, but now I've sold almost everything. By the way, I love the red Synthesizer stand you have in the video. I bought that one for myself after seeing this video. :)
2:48 ha! Just doing a hardcore Dexed vs real DX-7 tests with modern (custom) sounds i programmed. Even right now i can hear some of the sounds are night day difference. However most of those old presets are more less sounding the same. But man those basses on a real DX-7 are to die for when compared to Dexed! Can't wait to make a video. I hope it will be out next week. Will let you know. In fact if you want i can link to your video for those who are more interested in traditional (retro) patches comparison.
i've noticed also that some of the basses were a bit lacking in software but I think they could be tweaked. yeah please go ahead and share link in the comments on my dexed vids, i'll approve.
i was hoping woody knew about that while i watched this vid. He's liked your comment so i'm glad he's aware and has a sense of humour about it. Good from you woody
lol! that's interesting. seeing crazy amounts of traffic for this vid aompared with usual mediocre trickle. glitch in the youtube algorithm working in my favour? thanks for stopping by anyways.
no chance, this is the third time i saw this and it keeps popping up for over a year now, but i do have one worrisome question woody: you have no corner in the room to put up your synth?? at least a corner? garage? cellar?
Well, if it makes you feel better, Gary Numan has also sold off most of his hardware synths, only keeping a couple, and has gone pretty much totally software synth for his latest album! It's funny when interviewers who have only ever heard "Cars" ask about whether he's still using the old PolyMoog, and his response is something like "Naah, that was nearly 40 years ago... Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 is my favourite synth nowdays!"
Now this is something you dont see everyday wow ! . Woody, i can completly understand and relate to your reasons for decluttering the keyboards/synths. I used to do the same quite often. I must admit ,"thou i hate to lol", emulation software has come on leaps and bounds, and sometimes makes it hard to justify having the space consuming hardware equivelant. I owned the M1 years ago and witnessed a massive increase in the price of PCM and ROM cards so found it hard to keep up. Ultimately i did make the right decision to sell even thou , this was years before the software arrived . Again like yourself My D-10 had to go , i had the JD800 and JV 1080 so to be fair it didnt have that wow factor that made me want to delve deeper with it . (In hindsight , i should have , sone fantastic LA sounds). The only regret i have was getting rid of the hybrid Ensoniq SQ80. I eventually sold my jd800 and later replaced it with the 990 with absolutly no regrets considering the obvious diffrence in immediate control. Anyways enough of my stories. Great video and must say i am little sad you had to sell some of your legendry collection, but hey, ...you have definitly kept hold of some very worthy badboys !!!!
I had a lot of Analog (was strictly analog back then) Stuff in the 90s.. But I got so SICK of working on everything more than I played the damn things! And I was keeping stuff like the Juno 60 and the OB8 because of just a couple of pads they did. So I just said #$ it !!! one day and cleaned everything up nicely and sold them all on Ebay and Analog Heaven forums. I mean digital has caught up now where it can do just as good pads as Analog gea7r, but it certainly wasn't so back in 1998! I don't regret my choice back then and still don't! I made out well too, as I only bought the best condition gear and the7re was a bit of a craze going on for analog so I ended up with much more money than I bought everything for in the first place!
I sold my Jupiter 8 about 15 years ago. I honestly don't regret it (other than the fact that it's quadrupled in value since), likewise for a custom 3-SEM Oberheim & programmer.... but the machines that I really wish I'd kept were an Emulator III (keyboard), Simmons SDX full kit and Sequential Studio 440.
If my wife asked me to put my 3 synths (or any other belongings that don’t take up THAT much space) in to a corner and boxed up, I wouldn’t let it happen, and if she insisted then I would initiate a breakup or divorce. It’s ridiculous when a partner has to walk on egg shells in a relationship because the other partner is such a drama queen or is dictating your life. Marriage is meant to be equal. If her stuff takes up 50% in the house then you should take up the other 50%. Ooh, she doesn’t like it? Maybe it’s time to break up. If a relationship only works because you’re walking on eggshells and you’re afraid to be yourself, then it’s not a healthy relationship and you should get out. It’s sad to see that you are so passionate about music, and synths, and instruments, and here there are boxed up shoved into a corner, it seems like you can’t really be yourself in your own house.
I totally understand your reasoning for selling the vast majority of your synths. I personally am contemplating doing the same with all my games consoles and retro computers. They just take up too much room and quite frankly look shite on a modern tv (unless you have a CRT lying around, which i dont and do not intend on obtaining. Again, just sheer clutter). My reasoning is that i don't have the time to play them anymore and hate shit just sitting around when somebody else could be getting enjoyment out of them, plus i'm supposed to be saving up to either go traveling or for a mortgage deposit lol. Might keep my SNES and some of it's key games though cos it holds so much sentimental value... Synth wise I only own a microkorg and korg volca beats so just gonna keep those, not doing any harm haha.
interesting point, yes, the retro gaming scene is similar to old synths in that you can emulate every old console and all the games, cheaper and more convenient than hardware,. Remind you of VST plugins. The sentimental value is huge factor though, if you bought something new as a kid then yeah, i wouldn't be able to sell it after so many years. all these synths i picked up pre-owned just a few months ago, easy come easy go :)
Ahhhhh I see, well with a lot of computers like the Amiga, ST, C64, Spectrum and a few others along with consoles like the Saturn, dreamcast and a few others I have picked them up over the past 7+ years from starting Uni and living in my own place so don't really have much ongoing sentimental value for me (in fact I didn't even grow up with the old micros other than the amiga!). But the Snes, N64, PS1/2 hold so much sentimental value because it partly developed who I am today. But again, if i come back to most of this stuff I feel underwhelmed at how clunky they feel and just a faff to set up. Nostalgia is a powerful force and It's so much easier just to have an emulator set up :P Legality wise I used to care, now couldn't give the remotest of a toss haha.
madcapoperator I know exactly what you mean. I got rid of my Nes, Snes and Genesis and instead am just using RetroPi. I'm a guitarist so now I'm thinking of getting a fractal or Kemper for an amp or just use some other type of emulation. I think it's fantastic the world we live in now, I see it as long as it sounds great then I don't need the physical equipment.
I do think they're is something in owning physical hardware/software, just not too much of it. I'm no longer into collecting for collectings sake. I used to be mega impressed when I see somebody with rows upon rows of Video games, consoles, computers etc etc or like a complete US NES or Genesis collection and now just think that type of setup looks crass and wasteful. Collections like that should really be the reserve of a museum or maybe even a library type setup open to the public. I personally don't need that kind of collection in the home.
Keep the gear, sell the wife. You'll find another one. ;-) Have you ever tried any of the Kurzweil series? I have a PC3K7 and love it for all the same reasons you love your Nord electro 4 - great pianos, electromechanical and Hammond sounds, plus thousands of other instruments, a full blown synth, sequencer and you can load your own samples into flash memory with virtually zero loading time at boot up. A great Swiss army knife of a keyboard.
I have a Kurzweil K2000rs (rack version with sampling interface). Some of the built in sounds are cool and it's easy to download more with a USB floppy drive, but sadly the interface is pretty counterintuitive for making and editing your own sounds, which is why I got it in the first place. On paper the machine can do all kinds of crazy and unique things to whatever sounds you sample into it, but in practice I find the process a bit too time-consuming and unintuitive to do as often as I'd like. For playing sounds from Kurzweil and 3rd party libraries it's great though
I have a PC3K8 and a K2600RS (yes, I have a very bad case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome). Anyway, Kurzweil sounds awesome, especially the strings, brass and guitars. Pads and synth sounds are also nice. I'm not sold on the Fatar keyboard on the PC3K8, which is noisy and too light for a weighted action. But it's an awesome keyboard, especially, the setups that you can assemble from program sounds. Very highly recommended.
geoffk777 Yes the PC3K setups are extremely powerful, especially the MIDI routing, with up to 16 assignable zones which can be used for splits, layering and channel rerouting. I use it as the lower keyboard in a two-keyboard and bass pedals setup, with Roland pedals underneath and a Tyros 4 above. It can accept MIDI in from my bass pedals on one channel, and route it either to one or several of it's own internal sounds or send it out (on completely different channel/s if necessary) to drive the Tyros. It can also route controller information independently from notes, so my expression pedal can adjust my PC3K7 and my Tyros4 simultaneously, for example. I assign one zone to send the relevant program changes to the Tyros, so as I flick through setups on the Kurzweil, the corresponding registration memory on the Tyros comes up automatically. I absolutely love how versatile it is. It's one shortcoming is that you can't change time signature mid-sequence, so I use Tyros for drum sequence programming.
you're right. good value compared to a tyros, you lose the hard disk (i prefer usb thumb drive anyway), get a cheaper build and keyboard, but gain in portability and built-in speakers. i guess you get more sounds and styles with tyros too, and better screen. i couldn't really afford or justify the price of a new tyros.
You had some sweet synthesizers. I enjoy all of mine. I enjoy the sounds of vintage Roland Synthesizers. I haven't found anything like them. The first time I played the Juno 106, Jupiter 6, and Juno 60 I was so impressed. However, when I played the Jupiter 8 my mind exploded. I finally have most of the synthesizers I'll keep. I may get rid of a few as well. Anyway, take care and keep up the great videos. :) Take care, Sam.
Hahahaha, I knew that you would keep the PSR 970 in the end!! Wise choice ;-) I just regret for you selling the DX7, the "panzer" of FM synths!! LOL but as you mentioned, maybe come back in the future. I guess you're orienting now toward the instant playing/ performing that's very logical, as you don't play in a band, YOU are the band! :-)) With all the great VSTs we have, it's a bit silly keeping the original hards if you're not a collector. Cheers, Gareth.
Did doctor mix buy them all
Lads, if the misses doesn't let you have just 1 room dedicated to toys, she isn't the one.
Exactly! Women are always dictating what their man can or cannot do. This is why I don't have a girlfriend and will never get married. I want to enjoy my freedom as a man, hehe!!
Exactly. Mine actually encourages me to buy more. She actually bought my last one as a “just because” gift.
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That's right, also the other way round in my opinion. It should be more accepted that women can be nerdy and have toys as well ;)
Unless you’re a gigging musician, you don’t need a dedicated synth. A good midi controller (like a Nektar Panorama) and a good library of plugins and the DAW of you choice will do it all. I have an ancient Axiom 61 and cheap a Casio hammer action piano. Would love to get a Panorama P6 to replace the Axiom.
The JD-Xi is my "if I could only have one synth and drum machine on a desert island" synth. The 128-voice virtual analog is a very deep synth engine which sounds great, especially for pads (the "flanger" can act as a very rich Juno-style chorus). The drums have a lot of variety and the sounds can be significantly edited. The analog synth has quite a bit of that TB-303 vibe to it, while being a good deal more flexible than the 303. The effects add a lot of creative possibilities to the sounds.
I just bought KORG Monologue yesterday. I absolutely love it. Only a few knobs but massive amount of possibilities.
We recently purchased a Motif xf6, amazing bit of kit, will take years to delve into, the sounds are terrific!
Omg...It has started already...now that the developers are making analog synths again, people start crying for the DX7...I knew it xD
great point, quick, buy the DX7, 01/W and D70 whilst the prices are rock bottom :)
lol, maybe is a good time for speculation over the vintage digitals, really :p
I've been buying the digital's for 4 years now and yes the price's are going up.
I thought the DX7 was a 16 bit all digital FM synthesizer? I had a DX9 a few years ago that I gave to a friend for safe keeping until he stole it.
Sure is digital, the first digital best-seller. What I mean is : "we" have been about 20 years crying and asking the developers to make again analog synths, and now that, finally they are making them...."we" start whinning and crying that what we really like and want is the DX7...lolz
Wow, glad that you kept the JD-XI, I found your channel by searching that model since I bought one.
way to go, that's awesome, congrats on yours, still one of my favorites.
Get a Korg Kronos. You just can't go wrong with it. I've got a version 1 and am still learning about all it can do.
Jeremy Thornton does it have the piano quality of nord electro 4? Does it have better sound quality than the motif or montage or Roland g8 or fa 8 ?If so it's worth it
yamaha's new flagship workstation looks way better than kronos imo...if i were gunna get a kronos i'd just get an m3 for cheaper
Here I was, sitting nice and comfortably taking in every word, when all of a sudden BUGGER OFF!!!! Lmao, Cheers for that Woody, I almost fell off me chair!
I really wish I had the balls to sell a lot of my gear. Every time I've sold something, I've wanted it back - and in the process, ended up buying 2 or 3 more synths. It's a hydra! All I really need is my spectralis 2 and Access Virus TI - but I unfortunately have way more. Some day - I'll get the courage and sell :/
Good job on clearing house. Enjoy what you kept.
midera thanks, will do, have some regrets about the dx7 though, but we'll find another one perhaps.
Sorry to see the DX7 go, but thrilled you kept the JD-Xi. I recently picked one up myself and I love it to pieces. So much potential and applications.
Ouch... I think some of you are being really mean to Woody here. He explains perfectly well his reasons for letting certain synths go. He swaps and changes synths and keyboards like others do with cars. Try it. enjoy it then pass it on if it doesn't tick all the boxes. We may disagree with some of the choices but we aren't the one's making them. I bought my Electribe from a guy who hated it and couldn't get on with it, whereas I took to it straight away. Horses for courses.
Love these videos. What you need is a fully restored Fender Rhodes piano from the early 70's. That is, if you want the most organic music machine ever made. You will feel a connection to something very real, if you like that sort of thing.
we're on the same page, i love playing the rhodes, even wrong notes sound right...
Aw Woody !!!! The D50 :-o ...... You loved those sounds. I know they can have issues as they get older, but still ??? Loved your vintage reviews though. Keep up the good work :-)
yeah, a piece of me died when i let that go! i'll just have to rewatch my old vids. :)
I was surprised you let the DX-7 and the D50 go. Are you no longer acquiring new gear for review purposes or are there more goodies coming down the pipe? Love the vids; keep it up.
thanks for the comment mark! just not using them on a regular enough basis to justify hanging on to them. and yes, frees up some funds and space for new spontaneous purchases.
i would love to know how much these went for too. nice to see you kept the jdxi. I've had a love hate relationship with it but lately i'm loving it
i guess it's no secret. you want swedish prices?
wow didn't see this coming ,tune in next week for woodys fly fishing
Bugger off !!! Made my day, tks. Truly honest video making, Brilliant.
You got all those nice classic synths that you all sold, but you kept the one with the 'toy' keyboard, and the home keyboard, really? wow!
have more use for those at the moment, simple as. :)
Yeah, I guess you could sell all of them and get a simple controller keyboard and a laptop running VST's. But for me that's just not as much fun as real hardware. I like the knobs and sliders :)
Thanks for sharing in fact am also looking to get Yamaha but the version with the middle eastern stuff, i believe its typically the same except they added some middle eastern accompany as well as i can get the quarter tone on it. Amazing case and sure please share the link where did you get it from and what brand, its also gonna keep it from any sort of dust and safe storage indeed. Thanks woody and keep the good going :)
hiya softarno, hope you find your yammy, the case, it's this one:
gatorcases.com/ata-tsa-keyboard-cases/
If you miss the DX7, you should look at Korg's Volca FM.
If you miss the DX7, want hardware similar to it but can easily be taken with you, you might want to get the Korg Volca FM. I have it, and it's a fun little thing. If you wanted, you can load in the 32 original DX7 patches, OR create your own with a VST plugin OR an iPad app (which the name of has left me).
It's an inexpensive thing, too! I got mine for around $200 USD with a 2-year protection plan.
cool, thanks, it's been on my radar, i think i haven't got one yet because of limited poly, but for basses and the like it would be perfect.
so glad you decided to keep the JD-Xi!
I’m a bass player, but I’m picking up a relatively inexpensive synth for the piano player in a group I’m putting together. It’s a DS8. Is that a good choice for more progressive and fusion style music?
Lol @9:30 (amazing actually tho, because it sounded like a true expression of how much you love the sequencer).
could you put in the description which gear you kept?
Hi great channel, just discovered you by accident - but glad i did, love your presentation and content. I'm a guitarist who plays mainly ambient style music, generally swells etc using reverb and delay effects. I would like to add some synth / sequence to my playing can you reccomend a good compact all round unit for a beginner?
hi mickey, i think the little jd-xi would fulfill your needs, great sounds, drums, fx and easy sequencer.
Woody Piano Shack Many thanks for the reply. I will do some research. Have you ever tried any of the korg volca units?
Thanks for the insight Woody! Are you aware of the replacement panel that Roland has made available? it's white lettering on matte finish... no more glossy red!
thanks strange, yeah was aware of the panel, you saying my tape is inferior? ;)
Woody Piano Shack Hey, whatever works! :)
I love the sounds and kinda intrigued at the decisiveness. I'm a guitarist and CANNOT sell guitars. I just can't let them go. Hence why I've got 17 now. However I adore many plugin instrument including Korg stuff and therefore really get the M1 and Wavestation (etc) plugin comments. Just incredible to have these. Keep going. Can't wait to see what you do next!
interesting video. As a guitarist I am a little concerned about your choice of amp for playing the synth through. I have one of those amps, a fender mustang modelling combo. Some fantastic guitar tones as presets that can be tweaked to your hearts content. For keyboards I'd sooner opt for a nice HH ic 100 combo that doesn't colour or distort the sounds of your keyboards with what are primarily distortion modelling tones of the Fender mustang designed for guitar..........but hey.....lets see another vid on the sound you achieve through the mustang. I could be eating my words
i don't know either, but guys used to put rhodes through fender twin reverbs, with the aim of getting the colour! if you want clean tone then yeah, might as well use line-out or phones. maybe the fender amp simulation will deliver? only one way to find out! :)
You should try out a Yamaha MOXF6. They're pretty reasonable in price, have the full Motif XF soundset, and have really excellent sequencing and accompaniment capabilities. They're also quite light (even the 88-key model is only 15 kilos). It's a bit more professional than the Yamaha that you kept and might induce you to trade up.
I recently got a Yamaha SY-99 from 1991. It's huge, but it sounds like nothing else, and I'm having a lot of fun with it (despite having plenty of more modern gear).
i played with the motif xf for a few months, and it was a great kayboard, but since I've explored the sounds on that I probably won't revisit them in the moxf. agree with you that it's a great synth though! i think the sound engine made it to my psr. that sy99 is a monster of a synth!.
I am new to the channel and after you sold those instruments and you showed the Nord electric I was expecting a big warkstation, something like a Fantom, kronos or motif/montage or a pro level arranger like pa4x, genos, or even a beast synthesizer like v-synth/jupiter. A kurtzweil instrument maybe... And then I saw a very very expensive toy... XD :P Right.... I mean, don't get me wrong but I was expecting a flagship or something.
I really loved the vintage synth videos!!! :D Now I want to buy one!
i'm full of surprises! the jd sounds bigger than it is...
However I was talking about the psr... :P I was exaggerating obviously but, you get the point. @@WoodyPianoShack
Great video Woody ! , thats was a brilliant collection of synths that you went through and a lot of history too ! , i think you were right about the one's you kept , your Psr s970 will blow your mind when you get inside it and see and hear what it can do and i will look forward to what you come up with it ! , in someways its sad to see all those synths go but if Mrs Woody aint happy then Mr Woody wont be happy in the garage (lol) , i really enjoyed all your video's on all the synths and plugin's , well done Woody , keep up the great work ! ,
😎AK
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well said ak and as always, thanks for the words of appreciation. mrs woody not to happy about the remaining synths cluttering up the corner btw.
HI Woody, I have been watching for a while but I never posted a comment before. I have mint Korg NS5R and I was wondering if you or someone on here knows if that has the sounds from the A1? I love the vids, keep them coming. I live in Orlando btw.
Thank you.
Try a V-Synth, if you haven't already. Mine's a keeper!
You should check out the Korg Triton, it's much better than your Yamaha.
Did you happen to sample any of the D-50 patches before you let that bad boy go??
no sir, will use roland's own d50 plugin if i need to scratch that itch
Hi! JD-Xi and FA08 have both the same Preset Tone list of Supernatural Synth engine, they also sounds identical?
nah, not identical presets, but same sound engine, both sound similar.
Woody now looks like the little guy that used to come out of my clock when it was lunchtime.
kegam that's hilarious. i'd love to see that clock!
Selling your DX7 was a mistake, yes. Check out my youtube demos of my soundbanks for it. You'll want one again :)
yeah like your pads, strings & ambient demo
The keybeds on the DX7's are gonna be missed for sure.
miss everything about that magnificent synth! i had no idea that i would when i sold it.
Ever thought about aerodrums?
As replacement for synthesizers, the Korg PA 900 would be better, you can much more edit.
I sold my Korg M1, Roland RD700 digital piano. Also sold my Prophet 5 (regret that one big time). Purchased Yamaha s90es (not happy with it.) Would like to sell it and get a Nord or other decent piano with great action and decent B3 programming. Any suggestions - need hammer action - would like less than 88 as I'm tired of schlepping a beast around.
Bruce Jandrey Nord Electro 5 hp? Check that out
I wish I had that Nord Electro 4 though... looks choice!
It sucks. Electro 5 is where it's at unless you like pressing button drawbars.
But the JD-XI just feels so cheap and the sounds are plasticky compared to the Nord Lead. I've played both and decided to pay more for the Nord because it's gonna get used at gigs.
Hello. I want to buy a synthesizer. I have some options like Korg M1, Korg N364, Roland RS70, miniKorg and Roland a.juno 1. May i ask you which one do you recommend?
Thank you in advance :)
You had a Wavestation and a Subphatty. What is wrong with you? When he pulled over the big case I was sure he was going to unveil some jaw dropping vintage poly synth. A Jupiter maybe? But no, an arranger!
oh dear, so sorry about the not-so-happy ending. :) worry not, we'll get a vintage poly one day.
Have you tried the Hammond XK-1C? It is a superb sounding B3, in a lightweight package.
yes, i used to have an xk-1, it was fabulous and a pleasure to play. even bought foot pedals for it.
If you ever get into effect pedals.
For all the people in the comments getting mad about which synths Woody chose to sell, click this timestamp... 9:30
Where can you get a nord drum for $100?
np here in stockholm (first model)
Did you tell the buyer of the D-50 the state of it?
yeah of course! although he told noticed the sticky keys when testing it, I'd never even noticed myself.
one other interesting note, those things he could fix. he was primarily concerned about the cosmetic condition, since that cannot be fixed. mine was pretty much mint-
Woody. The DX7? Bad move. It was an investment! Regretting it already, aren't you?
YES i am rather. was a bit too hasty to sell the dx. you just don't know what you will miss until you let it go.
Woody, I am a Korg Arranger player, the older PA800. If you like the PSR S970, I wonder if you've looked at the Korg PA4X? Don't get me wrong, I love Yamaha keyboards. I used to sell them, and for the longest time, they were, without doubt the best Arranger style keyboards with the best sounds on the market. However, starting with the Korg PA4X, I seriously believe that Korg has unseated Yamaha, even the Tyros5, as the reigning King of Keyboards. The only keyboard that might be better than the PA4X would be the Ketron Audya 5.
Now, I will admit that the PA4X, with the speaker system, in the 76 key version is about two thousand British Pounds more than the PSR S970, but I truly believe you get so much more. Check out the six-part Bonner's video series on the PA4X.
ua-cam.com/video/vocWSlaDcaE/v-deo.html
The Wavestation ex was my first synth. It's great but a nightmare to program. Not because of the synthesis but coz the interface is sooooo sloooow. Especially when setting up long wavesequences. Legacy has changed all that though. Highly recommeded.
Korg is super i have a Kronos
You have an awesome voice!
omg, you kidding? hope not. i hate listening to it whilst editing. thanks!
Sir, you are setting a really bad example for synth freaks everywhere! More importantly, we need to hide this video from our significant others.
:)
so true i'm doing the community a disservice. go ahead give the vid a thumbs down and bury it!
Pete Brown haha!!!
no Virus....?
It never ceases to amaze me when I see people using social media thinking the rest of the world actually thinks their opinion matters?
I would never sell my DX7IID. But i sold MK1
Would've kept the A1 over the Roland jdxi but that's just me
i only wanted to keep one synth and yes, was a close call between them, chose the xi for the fun sequencer.
+Woody Piano Shack
Word. I use a DAW, but if you don't very often I can see why the sequencer is more important
OOOooooo, Woody, your decision to let the DX go but keep the other thing has caused some anger. Jack Dempsey needs to realise that they are not his synths therefore it's not his decision. If it works for you, then it's right for you, end of... I loathed the DX7, worst synth ever made (or so I thought in the 80s) - sounds shit, you can't program it without a degree in psycho-acoustics, nuff said...give my that Juno. But I love my Volca FM...it's a DX with knobs and works for me. I love it so much that I want a DX7...isn't time weird?
getting a lot of criticism for letting that dx7 go, completely justified, just get yourself a dx7 whilst they are not much more expensive than the voica!
I can't believe this...after all the dx7 content you produced you sold & reduced the dx7 to having "boring sounds"?!
Woody have you been using PCP?
hi nathan, i take your point, it's a bit irrational of me. i notice that I say all sorts of strange things on camera in the heat of the moment! i guess i would say that the dx7 had great sounds for the time, astonishing sounds that we'd never heard before, however by today's standards they are a bit boring? would you accept that?
That is totally fair woody and I know being in front of the camera adds an entire different dynamic to it and you do an excellent job of it. Honestly though you kinda had a thing going with the dx7...its a massively popular synthesizer and in my opinion your you tube content / input for the dx7 got me hyped! Personally i love the sound and have never gotten tired of it...check out my dx7 rendition of "if you love somebody set them free" and then tell me the dx7 is boring! With a nice spring reverb the dx7 sounds magical. Keep on rock'n woody! & replace your dx7 asap!
I sold my synths, but not my steeeeereeeeoooooo
r u kiddin me ?! yamaha Pr series ?!?!
Wake me up when it's over.....
El teclado de mi JD-Xi se rompió después de aproximadamente 60 horas de uso. Tienen unas teclas realmente frágiles, fabricadas con un plástico de muy mala calidad.
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The keyboard of my JD-Xi broke after about 60 hours of use. They have really fragile keys, made with a very poor quality plastic.
ouch, sorry to hear that.
Get a Prophet 5 and keep it.
These are synths with crap interfaces...good that you sold them. Very boring ROMplers. Should have kept the moog.
I like the more modern wavestate as a substitute for the original wavestation.
When a spousse is annoyed by stuff being partner's favorite occupation there is a deep underlying problem. Demand your space!
I'll miss the DX7, I think you could've shown a lot more of its true potential beyond the presets
Check Power DX7 for that. Amazing channel.
bradley, i totally agree. i only played the presets, i should have done more with it. don't worry, we'll get another one some day.
Get Yamaha TX7 rack
I own Yamaha TX81Z rack. Great FM synth! Using midi usb cable and free TX editor. Experiment from 1000 of presets. Best producer secret :-D Bevare of ass-crack.
How?? with such a HORRENDOUS interface?
Enjoyed a look "backstage" about something we all deal with but don't discuss much. There are lots of videos about whether to buy something, but this is the first I've seen about what to keep or sell. It's very helpful to get your thoughts after you've used something for a while. Good one, thanks.
Yeah but whatever you do, make the exact opposite choice's of this guy.
I know how easy it is to get sucked in to collecting stuff. Especially things that you couldn't get in the childhood/teenage. I collected video games for almost a decade, but now I've sold almost everything. By the way, I love the red Synthesizer stand you have in the video. I bought that one for myself after seeing this video. :)
2:48 ha! Just doing a hardcore Dexed vs real DX-7 tests with modern (custom) sounds i programmed. Even right now i can hear some of the sounds are night day difference. However most of those old presets are more less sounding the same. But man those basses on a real DX-7 are to die for when compared to Dexed! Can't wait to make a video. I hope it will be out next week. Will let you know. In fact if you want i can link to your video for those who are more interested in traditional (retro) patches comparison.
i've noticed also that some of the basses were a bit lacking in software but I think they could be tweaked. yeah please go ahead and share link in the comments on my dexed vids, i'll approve.
Don Solaris Agreed, can't beat the original hardware
Have you compared against FM8 as well? I thought Dexed was nice but a bit weedy in comparison to it.
DX7 v1? I quite like my DS8 over the tx81z, but don't have a hardware 6OP. Also waiting for your MW1 soundset :)
Oooh will anticipate much!
I see you kept the Asscrack-01.
How's the action on that?
i was hoping woody knew about that while i watched this vid. He's liked your comment so i'm glad he's aware and has a sense of humour about it. Good from you woody
There. I finally watched this video. Now can UA-cam stop recommending this to me?
lol! that's interesting. seeing crazy amounts of traffic for this vid aompared with usual mediocre trickle. glitch in the youtube algorithm working in my favour? thanks for stopping by anyways.
lmaoooo
no chance, this is the third time i saw this and it keeps popping up for over a year now, but i do have one worrisome question woody: you have no corner in the room to put up your synth?? at least a corner? garage? cellar?
Well, if it makes you feel better, Gary Numan has also sold off most of his hardware synths, only keeping a couple, and has gone pretty much totally software synth for his latest album! It's funny when interviewers who have only ever heard "Cars" ask about whether he's still using the old PolyMoog, and his response is something like "Naah, that was nearly 40 years ago... Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 is my favourite synth nowdays!"
that's a really interesting comment about one of my all time favorites :) thx for sharing, it makes me feel better
Kraftwerk did the same and went VST. But to my ears, it is a downgrade in sound.
Ultravox did the same, with Currie keeping only his Arp Odyssey and OSCAR...the rest on the Brilliant album was VSTs.
Now this is something you dont see everyday wow ! . Woody, i can completly understand and relate to your reasons for decluttering the keyboards/synths. I used to do the same quite often. I must admit ,"thou i hate to lol", emulation software has come on leaps and bounds, and sometimes makes it hard to justify having the space consuming hardware equivelant. I owned the M1 years ago and witnessed a massive increase in the price of PCM and ROM cards so found it hard to keep up. Ultimately i did make the right decision to sell even thou , this was years before the software arrived . Again like yourself My D-10 had to go , i had the JD800 and JV 1080 so to be fair it didnt have that wow factor that made me want to delve deeper with it . (In hindsight , i should have , sone fantastic LA sounds). The only regret i have was getting rid of the hybrid Ensoniq SQ80. I eventually sold my jd800 and later replaced it with the 990 with absolutly no regrets considering the obvious diffrence in immediate control. Anyways enough of my stories. Great video and must say i am little sad you had to sell some of your legendry collection, but hey, ...you have definitly kept hold of some very worthy badboys !!!!
I had a lot of Analog (was strictly analog back then) Stuff in the 90s.. But I got so SICK of working on everything more than I played the damn things! And I was keeping stuff like the Juno 60 and the OB8 because of just a couple of pads they did. So I just said #$ it !!! one day and cleaned everything up nicely and sold them all on Ebay and Analog Heaven forums. I mean digital has caught up now where it can do just as good pads as Analog gea7r, but it certainly wasn't so back in 1998! I don't regret my choice back then and still don't! I made out well too, as I only bought the best condition gear and the7re was a bit of a craze going on for analog so I ended up with much more money than I bought everything for in the first place!
Very interesting combination of synths! My top 3 would be A Roland Gaia, Roland V-Synth GT and an Access Virus Ti2.
I think I'll sell my Jupiter 8, my Jupiter 80, my Matrixbrute, my tr808 and tr909 and probably my MiniMoog.......WILL I F**K!!!! 🎶✌🏼
dukeofpearl haha your comment caught me off guard 😩 until I reached the end, so funny. 🤘
I sold my Jupiter 8 about 15 years ago. I honestly don't regret it (other than the fact that it's quadrupled in value since), likewise for a custom 3-SEM Oberheim & programmer.... but the machines that I really wish I'd kept were an Emulator III (keyboard), Simmons SDX full kit and Sequential Studio 440.
Eoin Coughlan must be black friday..
If my wife asked me to put my 3 synths (or any other belongings that don’t take up THAT much space) in to a corner and boxed up, I wouldn’t let it happen, and if she insisted then I would initiate a breakup or divorce. It’s ridiculous when a partner has to walk on egg shells in a relationship because the other partner is such a drama queen or is dictating your life. Marriage is meant to be equal. If her stuff takes up 50% in the house then you should take up the other 50%. Ooh, she doesn’t like it? Maybe it’s time to break up. If a relationship only works because you’re walking on eggshells and you’re afraid to be yourself, then it’s not a healthy relationship and you should get out. It’s sad to see that you are so passionate about music, and synths, and instruments, and here there are boxed up shoved into a corner, it seems like you can’t really be yourself in your own house.
Respect Woody. :)
What a lucky man !
Yep! Wishing you good luck woody!
The best video ever, finally someone who has seen sense.
I totally understand your reasoning for selling the vast majority of your synths. I personally am contemplating doing the same with all my games consoles and retro computers. They just take up too much room and quite frankly look shite on a modern tv (unless you have a CRT lying around, which i dont and do not intend on obtaining. Again, just sheer clutter). My reasoning is that i don't have the time to play them anymore and hate shit just sitting around when somebody else could be getting enjoyment out of them, plus i'm supposed to be saving up to either go traveling or for a mortgage deposit lol. Might keep my SNES and some of it's key games though cos it holds so much sentimental value...
Synth wise I only own a microkorg and korg volca beats so just gonna keep those, not doing any harm haha.
interesting point, yes, the retro gaming scene is similar to old synths in that you can emulate every old console and all the games, cheaper and more convenient than hardware,. Remind you of VST plugins. The sentimental value is huge factor though, if you bought something new as a kid then yeah, i wouldn't be able to sell it after so many years. all these synths i picked up pre-owned just a few months ago, easy come easy go :)
Ahhhhh I see, well with a lot of computers like the Amiga, ST, C64, Spectrum and a few others along with consoles like the Saturn, dreamcast and a few others I have picked them up over the past 7+ years from starting Uni and living in my own place so don't really have much ongoing sentimental value for me (in fact I didn't even grow up with the old micros other than the amiga!). But the Snes, N64, PS1/2 hold so much sentimental value because it partly developed who I am today. But again, if i come back to most of this stuff I feel underwhelmed at how clunky they feel and just a faff to set up. Nostalgia is a powerful force and It's so much easier just to have an emulator set up :P
Legality wise I used to care, now couldn't give the remotest of a toss haha.
madcapoperator all you need is a Wii U with homebrew so you can play roms 😎
madcapoperator I know exactly what you mean. I got rid of my Nes, Snes and Genesis and instead am just using RetroPi. I'm a guitarist so now I'm thinking of getting a fractal or Kemper for an amp or just use some other type of emulation. I think it's fantastic the world we live in now, I see it as long as it sounds great then I don't need the physical equipment.
I do think they're is something in owning physical hardware/software, just not too much of it. I'm no longer into collecting for collectings sake. I used to be mega impressed when I see somebody with rows upon rows of Video games, consoles, computers etc etc or like a complete US NES or Genesis collection and now just think that type of setup looks crass and wasteful.
Collections like that should really be the reserve of a museum or maybe even a library type setup open to the public. I personally don't need that kind of collection in the home.
A PSR over a D50 LMAO... Your not into programming huh?
Keep the gear, sell the wife. You'll find another one. ;-)
Have you ever tried any of the Kurzweil series? I have a PC3K7 and love it for all the same reasons you love your Nord electro 4 - great pianos, electromechanical and Hammond sounds, plus thousands of other instruments, a full blown synth, sequencer and you can load your own samples into flash memory with virtually zero loading time at boot up. A great Swiss army knife of a keyboard.
I have a Kurzweil K2000rs (rack version with sampling interface). Some of the built in sounds are cool and it's easy to download more with a USB floppy drive, but sadly the interface is pretty counterintuitive for making and editing your own sounds, which is why I got it in the first place. On paper the machine can do all kinds of crazy and unique things to whatever sounds you sample into it, but in practice I find the process a bit too time-consuming and unintuitive to do as often as I'd like. For playing sounds from Kurzweil and 3rd party libraries it's great though
k2000 with usb floppy sounds awesome, on my bucket list :)
I have a PC3K8 and a K2600RS (yes, I have a very bad case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome). Anyway, Kurzweil sounds awesome, especially the strings, brass and guitars. Pads and synth sounds are also nice. I'm not sold on the Fatar keyboard on the PC3K8, which is noisy and too light for a weighted action. But it's an awesome keyboard, especially, the setups that you can assemble from program sounds. Very highly recommended.
geoffk777 Yes the PC3K setups are extremely powerful, especially the MIDI routing, with up to 16 assignable zones which can be used for splits, layering and channel rerouting. I use it as the lower keyboard in a two-keyboard and bass pedals setup, with Roland pedals underneath and a Tyros 4 above. It can accept MIDI in from my bass pedals on one channel, and route it either to one or several of it's own internal sounds or send it out (on completely different channel/s if necessary) to drive the Tyros. It can also route controller information independently from notes, so my expression pedal can adjust my PC3K7 and my Tyros4 simultaneously, for example. I assign one zone to send the relevant program changes to the Tyros, so as I flick through setups on the Kurzweil, the corresponding registration memory on the Tyros comes up automatically. I absolutely love how versatile it is. It's one shortcoming is that you can't change time signature mid-sequence, so I use Tyros for drum sequence programming.
...and the free PC program editor for the PC3K is very good. Much more intuitive than stepping through menus on the onboard display.
I'm going to sell my Nord drum as well. I has potential,but the interface is really bad.
can you produce more JD XI videos for tutorials or making songs?!!
yeah, perhaps we should. perhaps a live song composition or something. thanks for suggest.
The PSR-S970 is the not-quite-a-Tyros. Considerably less expensive, for almost all the features.
you're right. good value compared to a tyros, you lose the hard disk (i prefer usb thumb drive anyway), get a cheaper build and keyboard, but gain in portability and built-in speakers. i guess you get more sounds and styles with tyros too, and better screen. i couldn't really afford or justify the price of a new tyros.
You had some sweet synthesizers. I enjoy all of mine. I enjoy the sounds of vintage Roland Synthesizers. I haven't found anything like them. The first time I played the Juno 106, Jupiter 6, and Juno 60 I was so impressed. However, when I played the Jupiter 8 my mind exploded. I finally have most of the synthesizers I'll keep. I may get rid of a few as well. Anyway, take care and keep up the great videos. :) Take care, Sam.
hi sam, thx for watching, it was enjoyable for me to recap and ponder on all the great synths we've covered during the last 12 months.
Are they jean pants or are they jean shorts? The world will never know
We don't get to keep our gear. We really just rent it.
Glad to hear you are keeping the little jd-xi. I finally got one recently and it's amazing how you can quickly sketch out music ideas!
aha, congrats on your xi. yes, it's really good for that!
Hahahaha, I knew that you would keep the PSR 970 in the end!! Wise choice ;-) I just regret for you selling the DX7, the "panzer" of FM synths!! LOL but as you mentioned, maybe come back in the future.
I guess you're orienting now toward the instant playing/ performing that's very logical, as you don't play in a band, YOU are the band! :-))
With all the great VSTs we have, it's a bit silly keeping the original hards if you're not a collector.
Cheers, Gareth.
gully, you said it better than i did:)
Thanks, Gareth! :) I love your smart way of using collector synths.