Christmas came early this year

[xmlguy]

Best Buy is test marketing some music gear departments at some locations. I got a fabulous deal during the Black Friday sales. I was looking at the Microkorg but I wasn't too impressed with the toy keyboard.

Got the R3 for $412.64.

I also got a pair of Peavey PR10 speakers for about $110/each to go along with my PR15. They sound great with the R3.

[embry0]

Now that's a good deal ,it's about $1000 here in Sweden.

While i'm at it, let me be the first to welcome you to the forum.

Have a blast.

Regards
/embry0

[xmlguy]

Thanks for the nice welcome! I'm also on the Yamaha Owners forum because I also have a PSR-S900. It's already been a blast using the R3 as a MIDI slave to the S900. The S900 is a new arranger workstation that has most of the features of the Tyros 2, but for less than half the price. It has a good number of dance/trance styles in which individual parts can be redirected to external MIDI devices, allowing the R3 to be sync'd to the melody or other parts. With the live parameter and pitch/mod wheel adjustments, the R3 adds a lot of cool frequency/phase/flange sweeps for trance tracks. The S900 has MIDI thru, stereo aux audio in, multichannel mixer, and can also record directly to USB in stereo. So combined with my laptop running Cubase AI4 as my sequencer, I can fully control and record the R3.

Have you or anyone else seen a Cubase MIDI device patch script for the R3?

Now that's a good deal ,it's about $1000 here in Sweden.

While i'm at it, let me be the first to welcome you to the forum.

Have a blast.

Regards
/embry0

[meatballfulton]

That's interesting. I've seen some beginner electric guitar and M-Audio keyboard/softsynth packages at Best Buy over the last year or two but R3s and MicroKorgs? Wow.

Takes me back to when I was just a kid in the 1960s and many department stores sold guitars, amps, organs and drums.

[xmlguy]

The Best Buy music gear section had more than a dozen synths, including the Korg TR & x50. Guitar Center has more products, but Best Buy has enough to be a worthwhile detour for price comparisons. It had better selection and prices than most Mom & Pop music shops in the area.

That's interesting. I've seen some beginner electric guitar and M-Audio keyboard/softsynth packages at Best Buy over the last year or two but R3s and MicroKorgs? Wow.

Takes me back to when I was just a kid in the 1960s and many department stores sold guitars, amps, organs and drums.