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Someone help me out here.
I"m a gigging musician in a 5 piece indie rock band. I've widdled it down to the above two keyboards or maybe just a controller with sound board/laptop. I need:
1 - Weighted or good semi-weighted key feel.
2 - Great piano sounds and decent electric and organ sounds.
3 - Easy pre-set buttons to switch quickly between sounds during and between songs. A lock-button would be nice so I don't accidentally hit a button during a song.
4 - Light weight! Tired of lugging around 40-50 pound boards.
5 - 76 keys prefered for stage constraints, but 88 is not unheard of (I"m using an 88 Yamaha YPG-625 now for gigs).
6 - $1,000 or under.
After researching and researching, It's come down to the Casio PX3 or Kurzweil SP4-7. The Juno Stage seems nice too, it's close behind in the No. 3 spot.
I do like the 76 keys on Kurzweil, but the feel is obviously not as nice as the Casio's weighted keys. Both are priced and have the right weight (around 23-25 pounds each). Kurzweil seems to have better sounds. I've read on a couple of forums that the Casio PX3 has sustain issues on occassion, like a note or two getting stuck... only to be fixed by turning off/on the keyboard (not sure if this is an issue with keyboard or the crappy sustain pedal it comes with).
I could ditch both keyboards and just go with an M-Audio weighted keyboard (76 keys) and a laptop or some sort of sound board. My fear is this might be clunky to dial up sounds while on stage. Would much rather have simple, pre-set buttons on my keyboard to access my various sounds.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
I"m a gigging musician in a 5 piece indie rock band. I've widdled it down to the above two keyboards or maybe just a controller with sound board/laptop. I need:
1 - Weighted or good semi-weighted key feel.
2 - Great piano sounds and decent electric and organ sounds.
3 - Easy pre-set buttons to switch quickly between sounds during and between songs. A lock-button would be nice so I don't accidentally hit a button during a song.
4 - Light weight! Tired of lugging around 40-50 pound boards.
5 - 76 keys prefered for stage constraints, but 88 is not unheard of (I"m using an 88 Yamaha YPG-625 now for gigs).
6 - $1,000 or under.
After researching and researching, It's come down to the Casio PX3 or Kurzweil SP4-7. The Juno Stage seems nice too, it's close behind in the No. 3 spot.
I do like the 76 keys on Kurzweil, but the feel is obviously not as nice as the Casio's weighted keys. Both are priced and have the right weight (around 23-25 pounds each). Kurzweil seems to have better sounds. I've read on a couple of forums that the Casio PX3 has sustain issues on occassion, like a note or two getting stuck... only to be fixed by turning off/on the keyboard (not sure if this is an issue with keyboard or the crappy sustain pedal it comes with).
I could ditch both keyboards and just go with an M-Audio weighted keyboard (76 keys) and a laptop or some sort of sound board. My fear is this might be clunky to dial up sounds while on stage. Would much rather have simple, pre-set buttons on my keyboard to access my various sounds.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
