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psionic311 · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:10 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I tried replacing my tier 2 X-station with Akai MPK61 Mk2, keys were a joke. The Arturia Keylab 61 Mk2 are pretty decent, almost as good as the Prophet Rev2.

I tried various 88 keys about a year ago. Roland FA08, nope. MOXF8, nope. Any of the Akai or M-Audio stuff, nope.

If you're keeping your Kross to gig with K61, you should be fine for occasional piano parts.

But if you intend to play a lot of piano on gigs, but go with the K61, you could leave the Kross at home and go with a portable 88key to pair up with the 61. Again I urge you to consider a Privia PX-5S, or if you don't want to spend that much, just about any Privia 88 key will do, like the mentioned PX3. They are light action but have a pretty wide expressive range.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

Zeroesque · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:01 pm Post subject:

Zeroesque · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:04 pm Post subject:

ChrisDuncan · Senior Member Joined: 17 May 2018 Posts: 389

mm-pro · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 7:56 pm Post subject:

I always play with a bassist, so the 73 has worked fine for me.
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psionic311 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:11 am Post subject:

Joe Gerardi · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 2:01 pm Post subject:

I started with the Kronos 88, but traded it with a member for the Kronos 61. Size and weight had nothing to do with it- if you can't carry a 54-ish pound keyboard a couple of hundred feet, then either go to the gym and man up a little, or take up the penny whistle and play Ren Fairs. But, I used to haul a 420-pound Hammond organ to gigs because it was all that was available in the 1970's, so maybe that's why these things till feel light to me.

For me the problem was the controls. The 88 keys made it the piano part of my rig (duh...) and that meant it was always on the bottom of the stack on the right side of and "L" shaped rig. THAT meant that when playing other instrument and using the Kronos via MIDI, I couldn't access the controls easily with my left hand. Plus, being on the bottom, there was always something on top, and the layout of the controls isn't exactly conducive to easy viewing that way.

So I traded for a 61, unpacked and dusted off my Roland XV-88, stuck that on the bottom, and life got much better and easier. I was going to whip out my Yamaha KX88 - which still has the best action of any 88, IMHO - but the Roland adds an XV-3080 to the mix, and one can NEVER have too many synths.

..Joe
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