Bought a Keyboard (synth)...oh err!!!

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Well after the hugely succesful sale on ebay of the drum stuff - would have probably got a little more had I'd not told so many people to feck off...oh well - I decided to do a Buy it Now on a Roland Fantom X8 keyboard! It has 88 keys and they are proper weighted too like a piano which is good! These semi weighted things like my m-audio just do not have that 'feel' if you know what I mean!

The Fantom X is a previous generation model but still a powerful synth! The latest and greatest is the Fantom G8 which is around £2600 which is a bit too pricey for a newbie like me! Also, my tutor advised to always go the next generation down in Keys as normally the bugs and problems have been sorted! Anyway, it's a flippin great looking bit of kit and I can't wait until I collect it! Link is here: http://www.roland.co.uk/products/productdetails.aspx?p=589

I have missed out on 5 Fantom X8s over the past 3 weeks as I always tried to bid to win! The X8 last night was posted up at £100 with £900 BIN..£900 is the average figure that they've been going for on fleabay. The auction was a 7 dayer and within an hour the bids were up to approx £750...I put my max to £800 and was outbidded pretty much in minutes! So I thought fvck it...the dude is up the road from me so I'll do a BIN!

I'm so excited! (learning that tune too)

 

Nice. I was actually looking for a last generation keyboard from the so called Big three on ebay. Kind of a toss up between X6 or Motif ES6...but I'm a sucker for the colour screen on the Fantom . I would like the X8 with proper weighted keys but don't have enough space for one.
In a ideal world I would get the new Fantom or Motif (both looks wow to me) but the price tag on it just makes my eyes water. I can't justify paying that much when I'm stuggling to find time and energy to play

 

I've got an M-Audio Keystation 88 Pro controller... Had it for ages, still find new cool things/uses with it (when I have time to spend on it anyway). I agree it doesnt have the true piano feeling, but it's still good for the price. Depends what you want to do with it really though

Cool buy

 

Cheers reverb. The X6s are going for about £500 to £600...not sure about the Motifs as I haven't seen any up for grabs.

Well i fancied the new Motif XS or the Fantom G but prices as you say are just too high! Also Roland are phasing out the Fantom G7 due to poor sales?? Kind of odd that really as the G7/X7 are quite ideal for gigging!

The other problem is that the Motif XS as been out for ages, however, support is good! But there is a lot of complaints about the Fantom G series about bugs, poor quality patches, lack of firmware upgrades and a total lack of expansion cards! Whereas the X has about 12 SRX cards out there and is meant to have better sounding patches than the G series.

I pick up the Fantom X on Friday!

 

Cheers

Well mine is the cheap m-audio Oxygen 61...so I have this issue called 'running out of keys' at the moment! LOL but it's done me well!

I'm hoping to eventually gig with the Fantom , but I want that weighted piano like key action in order to save my fingers and wrists! A few hours on semi-weighted keys don't half mak my fingers ache!!!

 

That's a nice keyboard, the high end of controller kb. I had a controller keyboard but I sold it because I couldn't be bothered with the computer setup....I found that I wanted something I could turn on and play in a instant. Well I actually have a sort of hybrid digital piano/controller now for this purpose

What do you use for your sounds then?

Yeah I see a few X6s, not many Motifs on ebay.
Phasing out X7? never knew that. I suppose newer is not always better You are running out of keys? You must be good! I don't think I'm even that good enough to use up 37 keys lol.

 

Reason primarily, Cubase ("The Grand" for piano samples), Kontakt, AbletonLive, Sonar, FL Mad/Fast Tracker Whatever I can really.

You can turn this on and play it in an instant! ..just can't take it anywhere without taking my rig. Not prepared to pay stupid amounts for a mac either before anybody suggests!

I've also got a Creative Prodi Keys for stabs and beats, very useful and 'compact', got it for £20 aswell brand new from dawsons.. bargain!