[musictlk] Question about keyboards

Christian Comaschi christiancomaschi81 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 18:18:53 UTC 2011


Hi all, my name is Christian. I'm new to the list and I lhope I am in the right place for sharing informations about music and music technologies!
Two years ago I bought a Yamaha Mo6, because there is no touch-screen and it seemed to have all the features I was interested in.
After using it for some time, I found some strong limitations:
- instrument change is terribly slow, and while the new sound is loading there is an audible break (about half a second);
- the possibility to use numbers to select instruments or sound combinations is useful when there are only a few changes per song, unfortunately, some songs I'm playing require many changes and they must be done quickly, sometimes even while I'm playing with both hands.
A possible solution could be some kind of hardware or software to store for each song all the sound changes in the order they appear in the song, and  I could use pedals to recall the stored sound combinations.
Some people told me that I must use a MIDI pedal keyboard for this purpose, but I'm worried about its accessibility.
Do you know anything about pedal keyboards?
Has somebody of you an idea on how to play songs with many sound changes?
Should I buy a new keyboard? What about a master keyboard connected to a laptop?
Thanks in advance
Kind regards,
Christian


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