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McHale · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject:

I've never had a Korg product come out of the box faulty. The last 2 roland controllers I bought (within the last year) were so bad they were unusable. I buy BOSS products for my guitars and have zero problems with them.

End caps? Hardly the same thing.

And ALL new Rolands sound thin and crappy to me. Tack on their utterly worthless keyboard amps and I have zero confidence that Roland actually gives a crap about their keyboard line. If they did, they'd stop rehashing old products over and over and over again.
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TSUNAMI · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:39 pm Post subject:

Many moons ago it took 3 tritons before i had one that worked, First one the screen was dead, second one 3 of the keys where damaged third one was OK ... Till some F@£$ER knicked it !!!
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aron · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:32 pm Post subject:

My cheapo Juno-G required a LOT of work to make sound decent. It required the Piano Plug-in, plus lots of EQ and programming - but it worked perfectly and never failed me. It just was a little too cheap for the requirements.

I have owned a lot of stuff, but the one keyboard that gave me fits (and still does) is the PC361.

Transformers held in by self tapping screws into a channel - these transformers rip themselves out of the channel when the keyboard is knocked about.

The keyboard failed me onstage - really got me upset. No repair center close by and right now it's still in for service - over a month now.

I've been dealing with a turn on issue - imagine wondering if it's really going to turn on.... on the gig.

Finally, the thing that really gets me is so many people telling you that the piano is just really great. You just have to "get used to it". Wow, I can't trust my own ears? It's all in my perception - I see, get used to it. Every other manufacturer is wrong (with their pianos) and that piano is the correct version. Meanwhile when I play my other keyboards - everyone ELSE tells me how good the piano sounds compared to the PC361's piano. Whatever.

Despite the extreme unreliability, the rest of it is pretty good and the polyphony algorithm is the best period.

Never had a Yamaha fail me - just great keyboards - now too heavy and too big and just not enough polyphony for what I need.
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jahrome · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:33 pm Post subject:

McHale · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

Rosen Sound · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject:

McHale · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:25 pm Post subject:

Rosen Sound · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject:

the touchscreen, is more responsive then the triton classic, less responsive to the triton studio, or triton extreme. I read that in an SOS review, and tested it the other day while owning an TEX and having an M50 and triton classic in. And can say, its very true...

most M50's that come in are usually for the joystick (i get that more then the tritons! which is very weird to me...), or for the buttons. The buttons seem to be the main deal. They wear out incredibly fast. and they break super easy... and they come in blocks of like 4 i think, which can be problematic when they just want to replace that one always used button with a standalone button on the board they never use (rush jobs...) the tactile switches underneath wear out quickly.

To summarize the many issues. they always come in with SOMETHING not working on the front panel.. sometimes as petty as the buttons work, LEDs dont. or more serious like the buttons work but the touch screen doesnt.

even though its made of metal, please keep in mind that the inner build still is greatly effected. if you drop one, the metal aint gonna help you... its still gonna destroy the terribly built inside of the thing.
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jahrome · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:40 pm Post subject:

McHale · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject:

McHale · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject:

Rosen Sound · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject:

jahrome · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:05 pm Post subject:

With the Kronos, you get the 9 synth engines and it streams from SSD. But the rest is pretty much identical to the OASYS and the M3. And still, the M3 has some sequence editing functions that Kronos doesn't have.

The core of the Fantom G is pretty much the same as the X. It's sequencer is a little better but it's sampler isn't.

The Motif XF adds the flash memory and improvements to the GUI.

The differences between these current keyboards and the ones that came before it are not drastic IMHO.
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