I love looking like a weary old cat (which I am) playing a trusted and solid keyboard, rather than a geek showcasing an Apple product his mommy just bought him. Just metal, wood, understated but slightly menacing look, suggesting a quiet force. No bells and whistles and fancy lights and TV-screen featuring Wyle Coyote cartoons. Oh, finally: FWIW: classy, classy, classy look. OR: people who play full orchestral backings on it. I didn't even try repalcing real analogue with it, so. So, my "excelent" vote is based on MY priorities: 1) controller, 2) master, 3) rhodes, 4) legacy rompler samples (e.g., I am trying to discard a korg t3 but I want two or three of its signature sounds)ĮG: I know a guy who transformed his pc3k in a "flagship VA" with mega-oscillators, allocating all its buttons and sliders to analogue emulation. You may see that I don't use its VA, I still carry around real analogues, and use very little its orchestrals. Let's say its rhodes are worth 25% less that the kronos' (the best I have heard recently), but at a far lower price and with the added value of master functions.Ĭ) 10% as a generic synth: some pad, a couple of ethnic sounds, one hammond drone, some samples of older synths. plenty of high frequencies to feed the effects. I use distorted, whawha-ed, phased and flanged rhodeses, and it's good. I do ethnic winds using breath and ribbon, e-pianos, use the sliders, partitio the keyboard in three or 4 zones on the fly.
Not the most realistic piano keys in the universe, etc, but by far the best COMBINATION of features). I bought the pc3k8 in order to replace: a oberheim mc2000 master, a patchbay, and a roland xv5080 module overstuffed with rhodes samples and expansions.īest master I ever owned (considering keys+ease of use + features +controllers. Andy Keys wrote:How do you find the PC3K8 for live use? Andy