The best keyboard to buy

[ministerofmusic02]

Yea I would also say the Motif ES that would be an excellent choice

[Mysteryman]

I have no idea cause the Mo8 haven't come in yet. I should get it probably Monday and Tuesday. What I may do is midi my MO to my Radium49 and put that on the top and put the MO on the side for the bass and synths...and if I need the piano I just use the MO itself.

How you going to play all that stuff. I need some equipment.

[ddw4e]

How you going to play all that stuff. I need some equipment.

You be surprised what I play with on major services.  I had 3 boards for convocation last year LOL. One on top, bottom and on the side...the one on the side was just for drum tracks.  The conference this year is at my church and I have 4 boards running this year...I don't play!

[demikoo]

You should first set a "budget".  The Fantom, Triton and Motif are all nice, but if you don't havr $2,000+ to spend on a board, then you shouldn't ge these.

i agree -- we didn't have $1000 to spend on a Motif, which is what I really wanted.  So instead we got the Kurzweil SP88 which has decent piano sounds and can convert into a pretty good controller.

[IcyMane]

I own the GW-7.  I like it a lot!! At $700.00.

[earlbjenkins]

I have a yamaha S90ES and all of the sounds are outstanding, especially the pianos.

[T_Keys]

I have a yamaha S90ES and all of the sounds are outstanding, especially the pianos.

YES the S90 has THE BEST stage pianos i have ever heard!

You be surprised what I play with on major services.  I had 3 boards for convocation last year LOL. One on top, bottom and on the side...the one on the side was just for drum tracks.  The conference this year is at my church and I have 4 boards running this year...I don't play!

lol! when I play for something big at my church I use the Yamaha MO8 on bottom, and Korg TR6 on top, the Korg is connected to the laptop 4 virtual instruments and to play back tracks... also a MPC for the loops!!

[ddw4e]

lol! when I play for something big at my church I use the Yamaha MO8 on bottom, and Korg TR6 on top, the Korg is connected to the laptop 4 virtual instruments and to play back tracks... also a MPC for the loops!!

you didn't had to go there with the MPC.... LOL! and I do the same with the laptop and VSTs but either to the Kurzweil or the Radium...most of the time I use the Kurzweil.

[2tight]

You be surprised what I play with on major services.  I had 3 boards for convocation last year LOL. One on top, bottom and on the side...the one on the side was just for drum tracks.  The conference this year is at my church and I have 4 boards running this year...I don't play!

i agree with u.You doing it real big.

[Kevykev388]

I own the GW-7.  I like it a lot!! At $700.00.

How you like that GW-7 man? What are the sounds like? (pianos, basses, horns, elec pianos, strings, organs, ie: basic church instruments)

[IcyMane]

Well, The sounds are great basses are pumping. I just got it so I'm still learning. Man the brass sounds are tight. One of the things I love about is that I can tweak the sounds very quickly. However, I like to layer and split my sounds; this board will only let you do one or the other. But other than that it's good. Will talk more about it later.
Question (off topic)
Can I use a MIDI controller to split and layer?
really don't know what that is, just have always used more than one board.

[Kevykev388]

Ahh man...only one or the other. Sounds like my XP10....a board just good enough to get the job done!