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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:	* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Moderator:	DYPSS1::SCHAFER

Created:	Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2852
Total number of notes:	33157

582.0. "Wanted: Good synthesised Rhodes" by MARVIN::MACHIN () Tue Nov 25 1986 09:59

    I stumbled upon a demo in a local music shop here in Reading
    of a large Roland piano. It was huge, wood-effect, and had
    a built-in amplifier/speaker cab. It offered superb Steinway,
    Rhodes, clavvy and Harpsichord sounds, and had a weighted
    touch-sensitive keyboard.
    
    It also cost 2,200 pounds.
    
    I'd like to know if anyone has heard this brute, and if they know
    of a smaller, cheaper, more portable keyboard that offers as good
    a rhodes sound. (This is the first time I've heard a really good
    traditional rhodes sound, as opposed to the DX-7 chorussy variety).
    The touch-sensitivity is also a must, though we might sacrifice
    the weighted keys.
    
    Many thanks, 
    
    Richard.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
582.1	Why? Why? Why?	JAWS::COTE	Prone to absurdity...	`Tue Nov 25 1986 10:15`	8
	Keybored mag did a review of that unit in the Alan Parsons issue. Me thinks it was an MKS20 with a keyboard in a pretty box. I forget the model number... As an aside... How come so many people are chasing down Rhodes sounds instead of Rhodes? Edd (who'd_gladly_trade_his_76_for_a_3_tier_USS)
582.2	'cos 'cos 'cos	MARVIN::MACHIN		`Tue Nov 25 1986 10:28`	2
	Well, you don't risk a double hernia shifting it about. And if you do drop it, you don't need a toolbox to put it back in tune/in tone.
582.3	What Does a real Rhodes sound like	MINDER::KENT		`Tue Nov 25 1986 11:03`	11
	How about the Rhodes sounds in the DX21 type machines. I always thought that they sounded more like the real thing than the "Chorused" Dx7 version. However this might cause arguments? Have you ever heard anybody play a real Rhodes without any effects at all? If you like the DX21 type sounds you could go for an Fb01 and a controller. Dare I say KX88 and the whole lot would cost less than a grand (English Colloquialism which also fits the context) Paul.
582.4	And lucky to get it	CANYON::MOELLER	Just try doing THAT on a guitar !!	`Tue Nov 25 1986 14:19`	17
	This past weekend I finally sold my mint 1974 Rhodes Stage piano. For $250. Almost threw my back out setting it up. I disliked the Rhodes sound without effects. I used to run it through a Boss stereo chorus. Yes, the Roland piano you played was the 'consumer' model. The 'musician' model has no internal speaker and is called the RD-1000. I didn't like the keyboard action so I got the rackmount MIDI module, the MKS-20, and a Yamaha KX88 keyboard to drive it. And any OTHER MIDI modules that strike my fancy. It strikes me strange that one would go for the Roland piano because of its two Rhodes sounds.. that's like buying a Maserati because you like the hood emblem. k moeller in the sun, 73 degrees F.
582.5	Yamarhodes?	BARNUM::RHODES		`Tue Nov 25 1986 15:36`	5
	I love the Rhodes sound on the DX100. The patch is called "Old Electro". It should co-exist on the FB01 too. Try one out... Todd.
582.6	What d'you mean 'I can order one for you'?	MARVIN::MACHIN		`Wed Nov 26 1986 08:44`	7
	re .4 -- I know what you mean about the hood emblems. I certainly don't intend spending that sort of money on an electronic piano, even if I liked the Steinway sound (which I don't). But people _do_ buy Maseratis just to do the shopping in... Thanks for the info on keyboards/sound modules. I'll psych myself up to do battle with the pre-Christmas shopping throngs in London...
582.7	So What Supercedes the KX88?	MINDER::KENT		`Wed Nov 26 1986 09:03`	11
	Ignore London ! Come to manchester and get yourself a real deal. Seriously though you must have seen how cheap KX88's are in the U.K. at the moment. If you are thinking about any sort of keyboard midi/playing at all check one out! Tack it onto an Fb or DX100 and you have a readymade 88 key supadupa synth.