Bruce,
This is the reason why I started sampling and offering samples to my colleagues on my website. I would hate to have to turn on my Mellotron everytime I wanted that sound. And performing live, that's a whole other story.
I now have a Yamaha Motif ES7 loaded with the Pinder tron samples and my own Mellotron, Farfisa, Vox, Gibson, and Hammond B3 samples. I have an amazing variety of classic keyboards (that reside safely in my studio) all at my fingertips on one board!
Reviewing your comments below I suggest you go with the Motif, Fantom, or Triton keyboards. Make sure you get as much sample memory as possible (The Motif ES can have as much as 1GB!).
Can someone recommend a specific model of sampler (Akai CD3000i, Emu e6400,
etc.), or maybe a sampler/keyboard (Motif ES, Fantom, Triton, etc.) that
would match up well with the Pinder sample CD? Something that might be easy
to program for a few specific tasks and is intuitive to run?
I don't need all the bells, whistles, and synths that seem to go along with
the modern keybaord/samplers, just a sampler and keyboard controller for
doing the Pinder, Optigan, and maybe Clavioline sample CDs..
I've been leaning towards a Nord keyboard as a controller, which has some
great Clavinet sounds which would be useful, or so I've heard. But which
sampler?
In short, I'm ∗the∗ guy ("you gotta be crazy to buy one of those!") that the
Memotron folks are trolling for, and I'm even considering one.
But I think I can set up a system that might be more useful for me...
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice....
I'm all ears...
Bruce
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