The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Thankyou very much.
I have printed this out and will refer to it as I shop around. 
Thanks again. Much appreciated.




--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "uralmoto2001" <uralmoto2001@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I would advise checking out the keyboard section of your local 
music 
> store, such as Guitar Center. Play around with their demo units 
and 
> see what fits best. If you're after a decent piano sound and 
> realistic sounding instruments, then a sample-playback type synth 
> would work best. Alesis QS6.2 and Roland Juno D are examples of 5-
> octave sample-playback keyboards under $600. An 88 note keyboard 
with 
> weighted piano-type action, such as Alesis QS8.2 or Yamaha S08, is 
> closer to $1000. The An1x is a VA (virtual analog) designed to 
sound 
> like older analog synths. VA's have a good classic synth sound  
but 
> no realistic piano or orchestra type instruments.  Most synths are 
> fairly easy to learn to operate. Workstations such as Korg Triton, 
> Yamaha Motif, Roland Fantom, have a much steeper learning curve 
and 
> are rather expensive.