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Dr.InnoVation · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject:

Wow. Thank God not all Italians have an attitude like yours.
I'm Italian and find it so disconcerting reading your post.

For the record comparing sounds isn't a competition, and taking it that way, the way you have says something subliminally about you.
I'm an amateur, not professional. I have experience in this sort of thing so I'm qualified to comment and while you may think my opinion isn't fact, well, real pianists would agree and wouldn't purchase an M3 strictly for the piano patches in contains. I'm so sorry you don't have thicker skin and cannot fathom the M3 piano sound being what it is. One day you may see the light. Until then I concede Ignorance is bliss. Surprised

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silverdragonsound · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:47 am Post subject:

Opinions are just that opinions. I have an acoustic piano that I play everyday and others I can play at work. As a former owner of a Fantom X, the piano sounds were just ok to me. Certainly better than the Triton Extreme and comparable with the M3. I would take the Fantom over the M3 but I would take the Yammy P250 over both of them. Personally I like the piano on the Yamaha Motif XS better than both the Fantom X or M3.
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klarnet basowy · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:26 am Post subject:

kbrkr · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

I have two requests, please!!!

One:

Can you please not hijack my thread and create a separate topic on whatever it is you guys are arguing/talking about:

Two:

To Dr.InnoVation.Bennicelli, can you please remove the photo/graphics from your tag line. It is sucking up valuable storage space on this site, taking up valuable white-space in our posts, and making message threads hard to read.

Thank you and have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New year!!

EJ2 · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject:

bctines · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:12 am Post subject:

Amen 2.

I've found that several of my XS7 pianos (I'm on the road and the XS is home so I can't recall all the patch names) cut through better in a live situation, unless I do a bunch of EQing on my M3-73. EXCEPT for the lower octave on the M3. That's more ballsy than the XS.

But it's also heavily related to what one uses for amplification. I tweak for a Bose PAS (for solo gigs) and a sort of generic buzzcutter for band dates that I usually have to massage for the venue.

But what beats it all for me is the feel of the M3's keybed. It's so much more fun and much less tiring than the XS.

There's another part of this for live giggers, IMO...how much more easy it is to work with the M3's screen. As Jim Aitkin recently said in EM, the XS screen is almost impossible to read at angles the M3's is OK. So when switching piano timbres (like from the 3-way AP to a tackyized honky-tonk AP, I'm less likely to grab the wrong one on the M3. This may not directly address your opening questions, but on stage it is important.

How well an AP sounds in the sterile studio is one thing. How it sounds in a loud venue is another. Maybe that's obvious, but I don't think it's terribly useful for live players to compare sounds except in the heat of battle.

Re the Fantom, I don't have one, but if it's the same as the SRX sounds, I like the XS/M3 better on stage. I do use the SRX pianos with my Keytar and the APs just don't "bite" as well.

I'll leave the drawbar part of this for later. I use combis from someone other than Korg. His name escapes me right now, unfortunately. But they are much better for country rock and jazz, IMO, even though it is so subjective.