What is your ultimate keyboard?

[odnt]

I'll have my QSC K12 paid off in October. I have always dreamed of owning a Virus TI2 keyboard.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ACCVIRUSTI2KB

$500 a month for 6 months...

Just curious - if money were no object what keyboard would you buy? Or maybe already own?

 

[happyrat1]

If money were no object? 1 of these, fully loaded... No question.

http://musiccomputing.com/

http://musiccomputing.com/kami-xl-keyboard-production-station-windows/

$19,957 USD with all the options selected


Gary

 

[odnt]

I'm sitting in this meeting http://www.steamboatschools.net/board-of-education-2cca26aa looking at your keyboard Gary. I'm the one drooling on my phone

 

[happyrat1]

Don't even dream about it unless you have a $100 Million Movie Budget. Those are the usual customers for the Music Computing's Stuff.

Gary

 

[Eric Barker]

I don't think they make it. But let's try:

Start with what I've got: Arturia Keylab 88 controller
- change out the Fatar keybed for a Kawaii
- waterfall style keys
- Give me a K2600-style ribbon controller
- Improve the build-quality on the faders
- Ditch the endless encoders, and give me traditional pots
- I wouldn't mind a built-in sound engine with Piano, Rhodes, rudimentary B3 patch and Sawtooth lead, just for when everything else fails (it's never happened, but who knows).
- Lastly, throw in a MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM (I'm still waiting!)

 

[happyrat1]

I don't think they make it. But let's try:

Start with what I've got: Arturia Keylab 88 controller
- change out the Fatar keybed for a Kawaii
- waterfall style keys
- Give me a K2600-style ribbon controller
- Improve the build-quality on the faders
- Ditch the endless encoders, and give me traditional pots
- I wouldn't mind a built-in sound engine with Piano, Rhodes, rudimentary B3 patch and Sawtooth lead, just for when everything else fails (it's never happened, but who knows).
- Lastly, throw in a MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM (I'm still waiting!)

Not a Kawaii Keybed but a Kurzweil PC3K8 comes close on that.

88 Piano style keys Fatar TP40
Optional Ribbon Controller Available. Simple Plug attachment.
Full set of 9 drawbars/assignable faders.
VAST Sound Architecture. Kickass Triple Strike Pianos and Hammond B3 sounds.
32 Assignable/Controllable Zones.

32 Gig Macbook? Ask Santa

Gary

 

[Eric Barker]

32 Gig Macbook? Ask Santa

Santa's not the problem here, Apple literally doesn't make one. I would buy it in a heart beat if the did, my MainStage project is running out of juice at 16GB.

I don't really see how your list gets me much closer than what I already have. I can purchase an optional USB ribbon controller, and I already have everything else on that list. Except my controller is a TP/100 not a TP/40.

Ribbon isn't that much of an issue anyway, now that I have a Seaboard. Though if I were making my dream traditional keyboard, that would be on it.

 

[happyrat1]

The future of music...

Gary

 

[Marten Richens]

I don't want some all singing, all dancing piece of technical wizardry. For me I'd be overjoyed to own a pristine Farfisa Combo Compact or Vox Continental.

 

[odnt]

.......... For me I'd be overjoyed to own a pristine Farfisa Combo Compact or Vox Continental.

I've owned a few Farfisas back in the day. You could use and abuse the pazingle out of those things and they'd never let you down

 

[ptooner]

Hmm, I think there is still a vox continental in my attic that I put there 40 or so years ago. Seriously though, it's an interesting question and lots of different ideas about it. For me, I am totally satisfied (well as nearly as you ever get) with my recently purchased Roland VR09. Yes I have and have had many keyboards that do various things better but the little VR09 is the one I can put under my arm and take to the gig and get the job done without roadies. Now if it is a jazz gig, I would take my FA08 but really the little 09 has grown on me. In the spirit of the thread, though, I would probably go with an original B3 with a fender Rhodes sitting on top of it.

 

[Jeremykeys]

This one is pretty cool!

 

[happyrat1]

Heheheheh... Pretty light show... Can it actually make music or is it just a mock up?

EDIT >>> Apparently yes it can!!!

It's like flying the bloody starship Enterprise

Gary

 

[Rayblewit]

Lol . . Now we have to become scientists as well as musicians.
I would have no hope . . It took me 10 years just to find middle C . .
Yes indeed pretty cool Jeremy.
Ray

 

[tassiespirit]

Can I have this - it's just for show mind you , but man if you've got , flaunt it

Galaxy Piano – $1.36 million

We said golden, we meant golden! Meet the Galaxy piano, named so because it looks out of this world!! (and also because it was built by a UAE-based firm of the same name, but never mind). This futuristic piano was designed for the most eagle-eyed of clients and features a nice little array of artistic perks we wouldn’t mind having in our own humble abode (for aesthetics, of course, not because we’re materialistic or anything). That includes a 24-carat gold plated fiberglass body, automatic lid (cover), curved keys (the only one in the world) and gold-plated embedded figurines. You’re probably thinking, ‘Sounds good to me! Where do I sign up’? The answer to that is, you can’t! Only 5 such pianos were made in the history of time, and unfortunately, none of them belong or likely will belong to you or I in the near or infinite future, ever.


Allan

 

[happyrat1]

The only thing missing from that rig is an animatronic Liberace complete with diamond studded candelabra

Not really my cup of tea anyway. Pretty to look at but not very useful for recording dubstep

Gary

 

[RalphL]

I think Yamaha tyros 5 would be more than enough for me as "the ultimate keyboard", considering the limited time I could spend on practicing keyboard.

 

[tassiespirit]

Yamaha Tyros 5 76 keys or the Korg Pa4x 76 keys keyboard I think is more practical for the one man band or duo setup. They have many features far beyond a home keyboard and are just great for writing new songs on the fly.

 

[allan70]

If money were no object? 1 of these, fully loaded... No question.

http://musiccomputing.com/

http://musiccomputing.com/kami-xl-keyboard-production-station-windows/

$19,957 USD with all the options selected


Gary

Hi Gary well way back when l owned a Roland Jupiter it was way ahed of itself l traded in for the first Korg M1 and the Roland s10

 

[Biggles]

Korg PA4X