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Okay, here is our situation.

Currently, we have a electric organ in the choir loft and a spinet acoustic piano down on the floor. The organ is fine for all the traditional church hymns and anthems. The piano is fine for all the piano based songs that the choir does.

Our pastor wants to liven up the music program. He wants more modern sounds as well as traditional orchestral sounds. So ideally, a piece of hardware like Omnisphere would be great.

The problem is, whatever we get would require the purchase of another keyboard, even if it's just a MIDI controller to play modules off of. The downside to that is that we'd have to put this away after each church service. Otherwise, anybody who we rent the church to could just walk off with it, unlike the organ and piano that weigh hundreds of pounds.

** IDEAL SOLUTION **

A console keyboard with built in piano, orchestral and synth sounds. I have researched such a beast and it doesn't seem to exist. I guess there is no demand. However, if somebody here knows of such an animal, please post it here. Must be a console, like a real piano but with tons of additional sounds. This way, we can get rid of our piano (that's constantly going out of tune) and have something more stable WITH variety of sounds.

** ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION **

We keep the piano and just add a hardware synth. Since it would be used for just non piano sounds, it would not have to be 88 keys. In fact, I'm thinking that a 49 key unit is more than good enough.

** BARELY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION **

A MIDI controller (49 keys) and a rack mount rompler that has synth and orchestral sounds.

Thanks for your help.

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wagtunes wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:14 pm A console keyboard with built in piano, orchestral and synth sounds. I have researched such a beast and it doesn't seem to exist. I guess there is no demand. However, if somebody here knows of such an animal, please post it here. Must be a console, like a real piano but with tons of additional sounds. This way, we can get rid of our piano (that's constantly going out of tune) and have something more stable WITH variety of sounds.
Really? I thought this is where the bulk of Korg/Roland/Yamahas* revenue comes from. Have you looked at things like the Fantom/Motifs/Kronos, etc?



* Yes, I know. I'm just referring to the professional audio department.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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Surely this bad boy does what you want:
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/kronos2/
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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Mushy Mushy wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:21 pm Surely this bad boy does what you want:
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/kronos2/
Yeah, its not a console. That's the problem.

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wagtunes wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:23 pm
Mushy Mushy wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:21 pm Surely this bad boy does what you want:
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/kronos2/
Yeah, its not a console. That's the problem.
Ah, ok :oops:

If money is no object could you get a trademan in to fabricate a pretty wooden enclosure for it?
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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Mushy Mushy wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:24 pm
wagtunes wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:23 pm
Mushy Mushy wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:21 pm Surely this bad boy does what you want:
https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/kronos2/
Yeah, its not a console. That's the problem.
Ah, ok :oops:

If money is no object could you get a trademan in to fabricate a pretty wooden enclosure for it?
I guess we could but then I have no idea where to go for something like that. I don't think it's a widely known trade that you just look up in the yellow pages. And nobody in our church has the skills to build such a thing.

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I’m surprised there isn’t something suitable because the worship market is huuuuge.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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Perhaps a 4th option would be to buy a nice digital piano which can both be played acoustically with it's built in speakers etc, but also has a midi out?

http://www.roland.co.uk/blog/connecting ... -computer/

Just a thought, I of course have no keyboard at all.. :hihi:

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Reefius wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:37 pm Maybe something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7VcyCP00U

This is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp5HpjhKHKs

It looks like it's this here:
https://my.yamaha.com/en/products/music ... index.html

These things are expensive, $13200 :o
http://www.yamaha.com.sg/eshop/en/yamaha/ELS02
Ding ding, no more calls. We have a winner.

Now I have to get consistory approval to spend $13,000.

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how much cooler would church be with a huge wall of modular stuff?

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vurt wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:06 pm how much cooler would church be with a huge wall of modular stuff?
Jesus loves a hipster.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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vurt wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:06 pm how much cooler would church be with a huge wall of modular stuff?
Unfortunately, not practical for what we need to be able to do.

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wagtunes wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:09 pm
vurt wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:06 pm how much cooler would church be with a huge wall of modular stuff?
Unfortunately, not practical for what we need to be able to do.
shame :(

i wouldn't have made a jokey comment, if you hadn't already found your answer :)

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vurt wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:25 pm
wagtunes wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:09 pm
vurt wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:06 pm how much cooler would church be with a huge wall of modular stuff?
Unfortunately, not practical for what we need to be able to do.
shame :(

i wouldn't have made a jokey comment, if you hadn't already found your answer :)
It's all good. The hard part is going to be convincing the consistory.

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