This is a custom synth pad preset with 3 layers I made for Korg Pa5X. New presets are available for purchase on Patreon. Get access here: / samuelarbamusic contact: samuelarba@hotmail.com #korg #keyscape #pa5x #arranger #piano #synth
The 5x is an arranger keyboard, no deep sound design. Only minor changes and layering can be done. The true usefulness of an arranger keyboard depends on if you use it as a toy or as a song writing tool. As a toy, any arranger is good for playing to a backing band. For the creative, the writers, the arranger must have a limitless style creator. It is the power of the style creator that makes an arranger a professional keyboard or a toy. 99% of buyers never learn how to build their own styles from a blank program, these arrangers don't need to be anything more than a toy. Next, the style creation you just made needs the option of sending out up to 8 tracks over the MIDI output to synthesizers that can truly sound design. Without full sound design the arranger will soon become a keyboard only capable of making a few songs, then you run out of sounds that sound unique to each song you write. And all keyboard have the ability to make at least one stellar great sounding patch, but again, the true power is in how many for your genre you can get out and actually use in your next song composition.
@@rolandv-piano Because I bought a Roland E-A7 that will do all I need and never need upgrading, or the cost of upgrades, never will corrupt, and never will have to re-learn how to use it. Muscle memory will be ultra-fast in getting tasks completed, and the efficiency and speed of using my hands over a mouse is never going to be eclipsed. Then the complete and total pleasure of using hardware over a clumbsy interface to a computer makes the writing of music a complete joy, instead of a complete burden and chore. If you only compose a few songs every few years, then a computer would be fine, probably. But when you are at this every day, the difference in my life was: Computer = no songs. All hardware studio, no computer = over 70 albums of music over the last 10 years. IF you want to build a song like a brick layer, blocks of music on a screen assembled into a song, use a computer. IF you are a master of your instruments (keyboard) then play in your songs with all the skill and passion your experience has given you. One song will sound like a robot on a computer, the other song will be free, innovative, original, and beautifully humanly expressive.
In my opinion, nowadays music are mostly produced in computers while arranger keyboards are intended to live performances, backing for writing music or just for amusement, that is probably the case os most buyers. I can tweak styles but never created a new one from scratch. But hey, I'm very happy with my expensive toy and I bought it just to have fun as a hobby! There is nothing wrong about it.
@@rolandv-piano Okay. It's your money anyway. You are so lucky to have these keyboards. The price of that is like a 1 year rental of a 3 bedroom apartment here.
