GREAT instrument! Typical Kurzweil but new and enhanced sound samples and programs! Warning: The sound from the instrument should be way louder like the presenter's voice!
I need a new 88 note stage keyboard, I Can't demo these anywhere near me and just can't decide whether to buy the latest Korg Kronos or Kurzweil Forte, need the most authentic acoustic piano sounds, good Hammonds and EP's, and synth strings type sounds
What did you decide? IMHO, I'd go with Kronos. The Kurz sounds very "canned" to me. Great technology, but I'm more into authentic instruments on my main keyboard. Kronos organs aren't stellar to me, though.
Really great review hitting on the high points needed by most performers. I bought this board about 4 years ago and unfortunately the pianos just sounded awful to my ear. Mid range was just too harsh. Funny how sounds, especially acoustic pianos, can sound great on a RU-vid video but when amplified life can sound so poor. I ended up with a Korg Grandstage because for my bottom board, Piano sound is paramount.
that bit @ 10:00 sounded like a pipe organ, but it also sounded like one of Bernie Worrell of Parliament favourite sound for incidental riffs and such. I've been listening for the sound and it's possible generation device. oh I just can't wait to Incorporate it in to some of the more funkier chior songs. What!? black church music can most definitely get stank at the drop of a baton.
I just bought a nord stage 2 ex 76 hp. But I returned it to the store. Bad choice for me. Now I hesitate. Kurzweil pc3a7 or Forte 7 ? I'd like to keep the fatar TP40 (on NS2ex76hp and Forte7) I wonder if the sounds of the forte are better than the pc3a. Hard to find a store with kurzweil demonstrated in my region. Not easy to hear with youtube demos. If someone clan help. Thks ;-)
arnaudchabo did you end up buying a Forte 7 ? I’m on the fence about it. I like the Kronos but I don’t have that much time to dedicate to learning it and there is a ton to learn.
The reason to oversample when recording is if you are going to edit the waves such as in a DAW. Digital audio editing is essentially floating point math whereby the more the internal resolution, the lesser the effect of rounding errors on fidelity.
+J.J.A Florida maybe slightly but we tend to compare them to software libraries regarding cost and that's unfair. the development and production cost of hardware like this plus shipping add up to give a much higher cost than software which doesn't have hardware cost at all, and many are online distributed so no distributor and shipping fees. another problem is because software is cheap more people can buy them so even if each copy costs less, it will still recover the R&D cost. hardware on the other hand is expensive so a lot less people buy them so in order to recover the full R&D cost, each copy of the instrument will need to have a much higher chunk of R&D added to it's price. I'm still a fan of dedicated hardware though. they give a better sense of ownership and something tangible to build a relation with.
zeebazu Thanks for the positive information:-) Software vrs Hardware war: Do you think that software is road ready worthy? I'm mean is software dependable enough for Stage performance?
+J.J.A Florida they've becoming quite stable for the most part. I have a colleague who uses ableton on a weekly basis for local shows. the challenge is dealing with a LOT of software layers simultaneously in a computer setup. interestingly, some modern workstations are not very different than PCs (korg kronos is an intel atom PC running linux). so modern software are very good. My advice is to install only what's necessary.
+zeebazu This is Kurzweil's most interesting offering(as I especially like the PC integration)....but when you consider how much more the Korg Kronos offers and that it's $300 less than the Forte SE...Kurzweil is definitely overpriced. However...with Kurzweil's V.A.S.T synth engine & full on-board editing and retro compatibility in terms of their sound libraries...it's still a magnificent piece of hardware.
No church musicians is not looking for a transposer button we don't like em we love the old C3 or B3 hammond and keyboards without the transposer button. We like to transpose ourselves we change keys by how the congregation or Preacher changes their key. That statement stands for correction. The transposer is convenient but we don't need it.
The bigger the market, the more "something-for-everyone" the instrument has to be. Like in a system called d***cracy, to get majority vote, one needs to offer something for everyone, and that more than often leads to big compromises. The best instruments are "everything-for-someone' instruments, the no compromise solution. Think of the V-Piano. Would it get a popular vote of all keyboard players? No. Is that a great instrument? It is. If someone likes Hammond or Kurzweil, don't lay down on them the "hugeness of the market" ideology.
