I love synthesizers and electronic music because I get to build
instruments by designing patches and I have access to lots of sounds.
But synths, even with all the bells and whistles, poly after touch,
ribbon controller, extensive modulation capabilities etc. don't have
the feel and expression found in actual mechanical keyboards.
Take the AN1X. Nice and light, portable. For gigs this is great. For
serious rock playing, an old upright is much better.You can really
pound the piano and it doesn't move. Wooden keys! Then you have all
the chaos generated by all those strings and all that wood, plus the
touch isn't limited to 128 MIDI steps. Look at all the cool stuff
going on inside a Hammond organ. Again you've got the weight, the hot
old wire smell, all the chaos theory in tubes, vibrato chrous, real
cool drawbars, spinning speakers.
I know this goes against all the current rules of manufacturing but
I'd like a 500 pound AN1X with 88 wooden keys-three unsison notes,
each slightly detuned per key-all the sympathetic string vibrations,
all the sound board stuff all the natural changes in timbre, all the
chaos and unpredictability but still with the cool synthesizer
sounds.I want the old hot wire smell too.And a massive mahogany
cabinet.Oh yeah, some tubes and a spring reverb too.
Rainbow Jimmy
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