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akai miniak
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:24 pm
by plurp1000
Hi I was thinking about purchasing the akai miniak but I don't know if it has a piano sound or not, or if it does is it any good? Thank You
Re: akai miniak
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:29 pm
by ozy
plurp1000 wrote:Hi I was thinking about purchasing the akai miniak but I don't know if it has a piano sound or not, or if it does is it any good? Thank You
If carefully programmed, it can make a nice emulation of one Mr Boesendorfer shooting himself in the head rather that hearing that somebody usues the Miniak to play piano.
Is that a good and concise enough review of the piano qualities of the miniak?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:31 pm
by ozy
vEddY wrote:drama1 wrote: BUT, I certainly congratulate Korg for a board that FINALLY has seamless program/combi switching
Hm. You can do this, very nicely, with M3 and OASYS. Especially by using KARMA.
this is somehow an euphemism.
either you use karma, or NO WAY the M3 has un-bumping (much lesss "seamless") combi swithing.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:33 pm
by plurp1000
I was going to use it in my live setup and I need an acoustic piano sound sometimes. Don't want to haul both units to the gig so I thought maybe I could just bring one, but not if it doesn't have the preset. Just a simple question but thanks for the sarcastic response.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:38 pm
by Summer2000
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:41 pm
by Biopharmer
OH MY. I'm not interested anymore. I'd rather get a Virus for that price. Hmmm... yeah the new DSI Tempest looks hella nice.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:42 pm
by kimu
very interesting....
reading carefully the spec i think we cannot say korg has failed...
ok, this time has no created a new market segment but they have just set new standard in Workstation market and give this out to a reasonable price...
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:42 pm
by ozy
plurp1000 wrote:I was going to use it in my live setup and I need an acoustic piano sound sometimes. Don't want to haul both units to the gig so I thought maybe I could just bring one, but not if it doesn't have the preset. Just a simple question but thanks for the sarcastic response.
it is a virtual analogue synth.
a cheap virtual analogue. It does (badly) moog imitations. gnewww, whiiiiiiir, tum tum tum, got it?
it has NO piano samples, None, nein, zero, zilch, nada, kaputt!
it has 32 keys, for budhhassake!
How do you like it as a f***king stage piano?!?
can you play piano parts on 32 keys with no piano samples?
You'd better off using a TRUMPET as a stage piano!!! A kazoo!!!
and that's written in the specifications!!!
You don't want sarcasm, don't ask rhetoric questions.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:44 pm
by ozy
. oops.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:48 pm
by Summer2000
I have a few questions:
Does anyone have any details about the sequencer? Has it been revamped? If it's the same one from the Oasys then forget about it!
Also does it have time stretching for samples?
Does it import Rex files?
Does it have independent track looping?
Can you preview and audition patches while the sequencer is playing?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:48 pm
by ozy
Summer2000 wrote:$2999 for the 61 keys
which means 3000 euros and 2500 pounds, considering european taxes and dealer's policies which are different from USA.
The guy this morning was well informed
This means
the 88 will be going for 3800 euros, 3200 pounds.
In one year and a half it will be a buy, at 2500 euros the 88, all bugs removed, new OS, and a tee-shirt
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:52 pm
by keego
Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:01 pm
by embry0
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:02 pm
by ozy
keego wrote:Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!
it doesn't work like that. Simple currency conversion won't work.
Korg (yamaha, roland, DSI, Moog) prices are not the same in UK / Euroland as they are in the USA.
after shipping, taxes and different regional policies,
I usually use as my rule of thumb: take the US$ prices, make that euro at 1:1 (which, on the other hand, could happen soon thanks to our portuguese and spaniard friends),
THEN apply market exhange rates to eur-->gbp
It always works, with all japanese and American producers.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:03 pm
by Pepperpotty
keego wrote:Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!
But you're not taking in to account the VAT at 20%. So that makes it more like £2280. Plus they'll be more expensive in the UK than they will in the states. So Ozy's guess of £2500 will probably be pretty accurate.
