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Buying a Synthesizer - recommendations?
Smug Duckling
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It's my brother's birthday tomorrow, and I want to buy him a synthesizer keyboard for various reasons. I have no doubt he'll love it.
The only question is, I have no idea what to look for in a synthesizer. If possible I'd like a wide range of effects as well as a full keyboard, hopefully for a cost of less than $500. Some good integration with the PC as well as a way to play it standalone would be awesome also.
I'm going to go to some music stores tomorrow to have a look, but in the mean time, does anybody have any guidance towards good brands or if this type of thing is within my price range? I know things about guitars and pianos and such, but know nothing of the keyboard/synthesizer market.
The only question is, I have no idea what to look for in a synthesizer. If possible I'd like a wide range of effects as well as a full keyboard, hopefully for a cost of less than $500. Some good integration with the PC as well as a way to play it standalone would be awesome also.
I'm going to go to some music stores tomorrow to have a look, but in the mean time, does anybody have any guidance towards good brands or if this type of thing is within my price range? I know things about guitars and pianos and such, but know nothing of the keyboard/synthesizer market.
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the microKorg is also awesome. it doesn't have a full-size keyboard, but you can get one used for around $300 and then spend the rest of your budget on a midi controller
alternately you could go the softsynth route and spend all your budget on a midi controller, and play with the thousands of fantastic VSTs people make and then release for free on the internet
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It's got plenty of big sound all wrapped up in a small package (although with the benefit of full-size keys). I have one of these along with my analog synth and the sound quality is impressive for an analog-modeling synth.
It's portable and the manual is very comprehensive.
Opened it to discover I need a mini stereo to stereo adapter though, lol.
YOU KNOWWWWW
DEM BILLS, DEY WAS GREAS'D
AND SO LOW, ON DOWN
LOW, I DID FELL