Which Keyboard Should I Buy? What to expect from professional musical keyboards.

well hello and welcome to the channel my name is derek and today we're going to talk about

which

keyboard

should

you buy now. This is a question that, of course, many people ask all the time. I see it on my channel in several videos um, I see the same question in various groups and things that I'm a part of on social media and people ask

what

kind of

keyboard

should

I buy, but a lot of times that's not the way they express it. the question, the word that should be the question. Do I get a Nord Stage 3 or should I get a Core Chronos,

which

is better, so there are a lot of comparisons of

what

I consider apples to oranges when it comes to

keyboards

and what I'm realizing is that there are a lot of people out there.

There are those who don't understand the different types of

keyboards

that exist, there are several categories, like when you have cars, for example, you have four-door sedans, you have sports cars, you have SUVs, you have trucks, you have crossovers and So if someone is going to do The question, which one should I buy? Should you buy a four-door sedan or a station wagon? That will largely depend on what you specifically need. Keyboards are the same way today in this video I want to go over some of the categories their strengths and weaknesses to help you make a purchasing decision let's get into it so the first category we're going to cover is actually the midi controller category Now I want to say that in terms of all the categories, there will be many different keyboards that come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes and different prices in each category, but what I hope to do is go over the features that virtually all of the keyboards within one specific category they will have, so I want to go over the things they do have and then learn about some of the things they don't have.

This is a midi controller and is designed to control some type of device. via midi so you can control you can actually control another keyboard as long as you can connect this to that keyboard you can control another keyboard using this in other words you can play the notes here and the note when you actually hear the sound which will hear the sound of the other keyboard it's connected to, but normally people use them to control a daw or some other kind of software with soft synths, so a lot of people just have their sounds on a um on their laptop or something like this and they have tons and tons of sounds, you buy a midi controller and voila, these are very, very good at that kind of thing, um specifically, this one here has great integration with the daw, since they all, uh, really do it They do, this one is specifically set up to use with ableton live, now you can set it up to use it with other dolls, but since I use ableton live, I have it set up to use ableton live, so I have my transport controls here, so I like my game. and my stop and things like that here they record and so on.

I have all my sliders um here and these sliders actually control the sliders for the different channels when you're recording something which is where you know control the different volumes. You can mix your tracks and stuff like this. You have several knobs right here. Encoder knobs. I can use them for panning and things like that. I can select my different channels. You know, by selecting these buttons here. I'll select the different um I'll select the different tracks I can put together a track I can play something I don't like I can hit undo Basically what this allows me to do is I don't really have to touch the keyboard and mouse much when I'm on ableton live or even when I'm using it, you know various soft synths and things like that, um, so it really gives you a kind of hardware feel because you don't have to be playing with the mouse and keyboard. and as a musician, one of the things that often interrupts the actual workflow of a musician is having to bend over, grab the mouse, play the keyboard, things like that for a lot of musicians that get in the way, this allows you to keep your hands on something that really feels like an instrument and isn't really touching the keyboard, the mouse, that kind of thing, which is why it excels at integrating with the daw.

You plug it right in, it's pretty much just plug and play, you plug this into a computer and it's ready to go, of course. They have midi controllers that come in, you know, 88 key midi controllers that come in 61 keys, I specifically got 49 um just because 49 is going to fit on my real desk, um, but you can get them in 61, you can give an 88, you know ? and uh you can get them even smaller and 25 and stuff like that, you can get ones with even smaller keys and you know they really fit, they're really really small, you know, use the one that's in your backpack and carry it with you, so the mini controllers are very very popular now, this one has, you know, pads and things like that, it's considered a high-end midi controller, it has back touch, it has a very high quality key base, so it's not a cheaper quality keys, but they come in all kinds of you know different qualities, but this is designed specifically to work with a wrist, designed specifically to work with the computer, soft synth things like that.

Now what it doesn't have is it has no sounds, there was absolutely no sound on this keyboard, so if I unplug this from my computer, which is connected to my computer now, it's actually my computer that's actually providing the power. I don't actually have it plugged into the wall. It can be powered via USB, but if I unplug this from my computer. essentially it just becomes a paperweight, it doesn't have any sound, it doesn't do anything, it has to be connected to another device in order to work now when it comes to integration with daw and stuff like that, that's where they excel and you can get them. keyboard controllers, you can get them for a relatively cheap price, um, and you can control your daw and do everything you need, you can get them for a relatively cheap price because, again, there's no sounds there, there's no um. audio outputs and things like that on the back because you're not going to connect it to a sound system and things like that because there are no sounds, so if you're a person that's going to stay in the studio and all you're you're going to do, you are going to record in the studio, you are going to create products, complete studio projects, things like that, everything you do is in the studio and you have a lot of common sense, you have a lot of knowledge, various. sounds and things like that that you've gotten, you know they're software based, this is the type of keyboard that you might want to consider because it's going to be something that's going to suit your needs and believe it or not, I get questions when people uh, you could show a keyword like this or something like that and people ask, okay, you know what it sounds like or what kind of sounds it has, well this doesn't have any sounds now it comes with software, it comes with the artery. um software that gives you like 6,500 sounds um and it has a lot of different emulations of old popular smells like the roland jupiter 8 or the roland juno or the yamaha dx7, it has several moogs and so on from you know, dsi and so on. so, uh, but that's all software, so it's great for software, great for media integration, that kind of stuff, but again, it doesn't have sounds and they can't really work on their own.

Now let's move on to the next category, okay, so the next keyboard category. What I want to talk about here is the stage piano and what you are currently looking at is a Nord Stage 3 stage piano. Now a stage piano is primarily developed for the stage, that is what it is developed for the live performer, whether you are playing. in a big concert hall or if you're playing in a casino or maybe you're just playing at home for an audience of one, but it's designed for the live type of player. Can you use this like you use the other one? like if you use the key lab arturia you know the key lab 49 arterial midi controller um so yeah you can plug it in and use it with a daw it transmits to me um but it's going to be a little bit more uh it's going to be a It's a little harder to set something up so that everything works correctly with your dog, like it doesn't have transport controls and stuff like that, like it doesn't have a start and stop and stuff like that that's going to work. for that, this particular one doesn't really have sliders and things that you can actually use to control your various um on your various channels and things on a graj and so on, but if this is all you have technically speaking, you could make it work, you could map some different things or whatever, but that's not really what it's designed for.

This is a stage piano really designed for the stage and the emphasis was on the piano. Now specifically, I have this one here and the compact Nord Stage 3. The 73 version is really designed more for the organist, so it has what's called a cascade key base and a cascade keyboard basically means that the end of the keys here are rounded instead of square like a piano. It's more rounded like an organ that way, when you play the organ, a lot of times people make spots like that with their palm, if you're going to spread with your palm, that makes it, um, let's put out the river.

It's more comfortable, so I didn't design it specifically with the organist in mind. It has drawbars here. It has percussion controls. It has vibrato and chorus, so it has a lot of different organ controls and then it has a piano section. so it has a piano section for all your acoustic pianos and stuff, it has them there uh let's just turn it on and you'll see a lot of different handy controls, it's easy to layer sounds if I wanted to layer this piano with the organ, I just turn on the organ and now they both They are in layers.

If I want to overlay this piano here with a xeno synth, it sounds easy, I just press a button and turn it on, so really, with most of the stage. pianos, layering some sounds together will be very, very easy to do and overall a stage panel will be pretty easy to use in compa, you know, compared to other keyboards and other categories, um, very, very easy to use . lots of practice, you will have controls and things in front of you, some other examples of stage panels would be like a roland rd2000. I have one of those.

I've made some videos and stuff about that too. The living dexabell. s9 um, the core grand stage even though it's been discontinued, um, the yamaha cp88 and um, the yamaha yc series of keyboards as well, not only is there the cp88 which has 80 keys, but also the uh cp series, so who know a few different versions of the cp series, I think there are two different ones, um, you can also get the yc series, which will be a little more versatile, it will be more like the nord, do you know some drawbars, sliders and things like that, where is the cp?

The series is more piano-based, of sorts, but in general, a stage piano is designed to give what keyboardists often call meat and potatoes, the kind of sounds that a keyboardist playing needs, so that the people who do. not people, when manufacturers make a stage piano, they do a lot of things, they focus quite a bit on the sounds of the piano, to make sure they give you a great piano sound, not only that here, but we know we can go through here and uh. let's see, so it's got some upright pianos, so it's got some nice upright pianos and stuff here too. um meat potato sounds every time the pianos never come out like um eps so it's got some cool electric pianos here and then of course I can. add various effects, so this is a phaser, let's see here, we can add this here and I can change this to, let's say, chorus, very good chorus sounds and stuff, so there are a lot of different ones, you know, I have different simulators of amplifiers and stuff. so here let's also turn one on here change it just by going through different amps do it, as you can see, you could work very, very quickly with this keyboard, just, you know, pressing a button, you know, turning it on, etc. and so on, I really love, love the workflow of the Nord Stage 3 as a stage piano.

Now, this is what happens with a stage piano when I say it sounds meat and potatoes. So, you're talking about your grand pianos. maybe upright pianos, so some type of pianos, um electric pianos, of course, um cabinets, but those are meat and potato sounds once you get out of the organ, the piano, the eps, those types of sounds maybe some strings, some pads, maybe a some synths or something like that once you venture outside of that um then the sounds won't be there or they won't be as good so for example the kawaii um I think it's just the aqua mp11se. gives you about 40 sounds or something, the yamaha cp88 only gives you about 50 sounds or something, uh, the yc series of keyboards is a little more diverse, so it will give you more sounds, a hundred and you know , 30 or so sounds and then they add some sounds and stuff like that, but basically what I'm saying is if you want a really good saxophone sound or a really good guitar sound or a really good bass or really good bass. drums, then a stage piano is not what you are going to look for or a stage keyboard is not what you are going to look for.

This is designed so that you can get up and running very quickly and give you the sounds of meat anddad that most keyboard players would need a gig, so you'll have your organs and pianos and you know, some pads, you'll have a very quick workflow, it'll be easy to use, I think the manual for this is about 70 pages or so, no It's very big, once you get used to using Nord it's very easy to use, let's say with the rd 2000 you're up and running right away, it's got all the controls and stuff. in front of you, little little screens here, it's got two screens, a lot of stage pianos only have one screen, and they're usually quite small, they only give you the basic information that you need and you know there's not a lot of it. of menus and things like that with these pianos so you know this doesn't have a sampler this doesn't have a um this doesn't have a sequencer um in fact this doesn't have any drums so if I was going to create I wanted to create a full

musical

production, you can't do it with a nord um, not with a north stage piano and most stage pianos you can't do it with um, so I don't think I have any information on that. 400 and something sounds on it, it's got about two gigabytes that I can have of piano sounds and I think it's 480 megabytes of various synth sounds and stuff like that, and I can load sounds from the Nord website and put them on the keyboard.

I can rearrange them and stuff like I want to set them up for a specific gig I just carry with me the sounds that I need this particular keyboard comes with software so you can do sampling so you can sample things and you can put them on This board, but it doesn't really give you a lot of space to put a lot of sound, so you're not going to be carrying 75 gigabytes of sounds, samples and so on that you've loaded. this keyboard you won't be able to do that with this right and with this keyboard specifically, you can edit your sounds a little bit, so I like to say, uh, we'll just take this piano here and I can do that a little bit. of eq or I can make it brighter, but for the most part these sounds are what they are, there's not much editing you can do with these sounds, now there are other stage pianos you know where you can actually edit the sounds you know and stuff . and it gives you a lot of different sound editing parameters like the rd2000 which you can literally edit in the v piano section because it has two sound engines like a v piano sound engine and a supernatural sound engine again.

I made a video on the rd2000 and you can literally tune each note any way you want, so a lot of detail goes into making the pianos the best they can, but again, there won't be a sequencer here if you're thinking of making a production Complete

musical

If the studio is primarily where you stay, a stage piano may not be for you, however, if you play and need those meat and potato sounds, you need basic piano pads, strings, you need to layer them, you need to do it fast, you don't want to Spending endless hours reading manuals and trying to figure out how to use a keyboard and stage piano is good for you and one of the questions I get a lot and I even made a video about it is whether I should get a Nord. stage 3 or should i get a roland phantom well a roland phantom is more like a workstation its not a stage piano so the comparison between a nord stage 3 and a roland phantom or nordic stage 3 and a core cronos or something like that you're really comparing is really an apples to oranges comparison, of course a workstation will have more features than a stage piano, but a workstation in general will have more features than any stage piano, it doesn't matter the price. um, it's on a stage piano, good meat and potatoes sounds and stuff like that, if you want a sound you know, really good bagpipes, if you want a really good accordion sound, uh, if you want a really good oboe sound, um, if you want really, really deep synth editing capabilities and stuff like that, I mean, this has a synth engine and it has more synth stuff you can do than a lot of other stage pianos, um, if you really want to dig into the deep editing and stuff like that and really modifying. your sounds and you want to layer 16 different sounds all over the keyboard and split them into different kinds of shapes and you've got all these complicated routing things and stuff going on and a stage piano is not what you're looking for if you're looking for that easy meat and potatoes use are you playing you need pianos you need eps you need organs you need some strings and some pads and maybe some horns and things you know in a pinch then a stage piano might be Now that we've covered the stage piano, let's look at the next category of keyboards.

Well what you're looking at now is a yamaha psr s950 and this type of keyboard is an arranger and ranger style keyboard which means it has various styles and things like that you might like to play along so this is more like kind of a one man band if maybe you're doing weddings or playing at a restaurant or something and it's just you and you're on your own um a keyboard arranger can be a great option for you so this keyboard arranger on individual has many different options. I can plug a microphone into it and I can sing on the keyboard itself and when I do that it will actually harmonize and stuff with me, I can actually create my own styles and by style, uh, it was like what you were hearing, there was a style, so It was a jazz style, but it has all kinds of different types of styles and let's see, we can just press play here, let's see that this particular one has several styles, so you have, you know, you have your jazz, your swing, your Latin and you have several ballads. r b you got parlor stuff you got world stuff you got all kinds of stuff you know like edm kind of stuff um stuff for movie scores and stuff like that's the kind of stuff you want, but basically it's got auto accompaniment so there's a band that's kind to back you up, uh, whenever you're, whenever you're doing things like I said before, I think you can, you can put your own styles and stuff in here, it's got a USB drive so you can bring it in, you know, play songs and those things. like this and play with your favorite songs, you can put songs here via USB, like a USB drive, put it on the keyboard and then you can mute the voice so you can sing with your favorite band and play. with your favorite band, so those are the characteristics of an arranger, they're going to have a lot of different styles, um, and then you're going to have to know a variety of different um, just like a variety of different um, a lot of different types of um. sounds and stuff too, so you came up with all your different types, like guitars and stuff, and they really wanted to sound as real as possible, so this is the kind of keyboard you would use for that.

I have a question about um, well, no. one question, someone was in one of my other videos and he was talking about the yamaha modi x and he was like, hey, you know, I don't like the yamaha modi I can't play the chords and the band follows me, that's because the yamaha modi x is not an arranger, if you are looking for something where you are like a one man band and the band will back you up with your left. hand you can play the chords or even with the right hand, but you play the chords and then a band follows you and backs you up and you have several variations of those different patterns and things like that, you want to get an arranger, these, uh, there are no styles and there is no auto accompaniment on a nord stage three because it is a stage piano, you don't have any on a cp 88 or any of the cp um yamaha series or yamaha yc series, you don't have it. it doesn't have a rd 2000 there is no auto accompaniment there is no auto accompaniment on the dexa bale vivo s9 there is no auto accompaniment on the kawaii mp11se there is no auto accompaniment on almost any stage piano so if you are looking for something where if you are going to have auto accompaniment , then you're going to have to look at arrangers like the yamaha, you know, genos or uh, the tyros, which has now been discontinued, but you want to look at ranger type keyboards, so this is an arranger, etc. it's got a bunch of those kind of instruments so you know how to solo and you know all kinds of different things, so, and then all your styles and things to follow, and it also has a song mode, it's got lyrics and stuff. you can post here, you have this one in particular, it has a video output so you can send a video signal to a larger screen so it knows karaoke and things of that nature, that's what this keyboard is really designed for, that's what it's designed around a lot of different styles and things like that, it's a lot of fun to play at home.

I like to create my own little styles and stuff sometimes and then, you know, just follow the chords and create some things and get some musical ideas etc. Go ahead, but if you're going to try to control a dummy, this isn't what you really want to use because it won't integrate very well with ableton live or anything like that, as you can see, this particular keyboard has speakers and stuff. Many keyboards that are arranger style already have speakers and such, so you don't have to connect them to anything external if you don't want to or if you don't need to if not. just performing in a small room or something, sometimes just the keyboard speakers will do depending on where you're playing, if you're playing in a living room or you know somewhere pretty small, um, the speakers right here. many times it will do, you don't need anything bigger than that or you just know you can take this anywhere.

I could take it to my room, plug it in and play and I don't need anything really extra to listen to it, so um on The Rangers, of course, they come in different price points, and all that, if you get the flagship arranger, you know the flagship Rangers are some of the most expensive keyboards on the market, but they really have many functions, but the features they have. dale are you more prone or more because they are more prone uh they are more um designed for that person who is that one man band or plays at home or you want styles and a backup, you know you want things that support you and things that you just you play some chords and you get these full songs and this full sound, that's what they're for, so this is where you're going to have good guitars and good saxophones and good flutes and good trumpets and, you know, some pretty good organ sounds and stuff like that for that type of thing, so if that's what you're looking for, something that will give you automatic accompaniment, then you'll want to consider getting an arranger type keyboard, so now that we have After covering the arranger here, let's move on to the next type keyboard, so the next category of keywords we're talking about here is a digital synthesizer and what you're looking at is a Yamaha 7 setup.

Now a synthesizer is going to have a lot of different sounds usually in the thousands of sounds for being able to cover any genre of music that you play, so it was kind of like edm dance stuff, but of course, you know it's going to have your pianos, but it's just going to have a bunch of different pianos and things that you can use, you're just going to have a lot of your ep sounds, but you're going to have a bunch of them, you're going to get them like you know. pad sounds, so that's your kind of digital synthesizer.

Do you know that almost any sound you can imagine will be there? It will have good saxophones, good flutes, good bases, good harps, well, everything you know. if you need bagpipes it will have bagpipes in there if you need an accordion sound it has accordion sounds in there uh it has all kinds of different synth sounds this one in particular has fm an fm sound engine and a sample based sound engine , so you have two sound engines on this keyboard. I can split and layer sounds any way I want across the entire keyboard on this particular keyboard.

I can play eight different sounds or not sounds, but I can have eight different parts of the keyboard itself um. another eight parts that are being triggered by an external midi device. um you see all these knobs and sliders and all these buttons and they can all actually be mapped to do what you want them to do, very, very complex routing and so on on the back it has extra outputs and things you know so you can route clicks and things in different places or routing your various instruments or sounds to go to different places to, you know, control your mix and things the way you want, really this.

The keyboard has so many features, it's so deep and so versatile and it can really handle so many things you throw at it. It's a very, very good keyboard, so another keyword that you would compare to something like this would be like Jupiter x uh done. by roland that's another synth with a bunch of different synth sounds and stuff like that and this just covers a lot of different sounds the yamaha the modi x is the same way they have the same sounds on the modi x this other instrument goes to cover a lot of different sounds um and uh yeah it's just that it has oh it has harps it has your woodwind instruments it will have all kinds of different drums that you can play um and you can attach this to a jaw and um and this particular one has an audio, an audio interface, so you can plug it into your daw and this will send 30 tracks of real models to your daw and receive six back.

Can I connect a microphone to this?keyboard and use a vocoder or have something kind of a talkbox, effects and things like that with a microphone and things like that connected it's kind of a sound design machine, so if you're going to design sounds and you want to go really deep and you really want to change a lot of different things and stuff like that, then a synthesizer. It will work very well for you, so like the Nord Stage 3, it has a compressor. You just push a button, turn a knob, and you have a one-knob control kind of like compression, but in this one you do have compressors, but you can control the you know the ratio, the thresholds, and the composition gain, and you actually go in there and adjust. the type of compression that you want on each specific instrument, each specific part, and you know that, then it becomes very, very, very deep with a keyboard like this because this is really focused on the sounds and being able to edit your sounds and control them and basically give you a large number of sounds.

It's not just hey, we know pianos and electric pianos and you know some organs and then the rest. sounds you know and some strings and some pads and the rest of the sounds, uh, nothing really notable, no, for the most part, all the sounds here are going to be very, very high quality, um, very, very high quality sounds , but this is a music synthesizer, but the disadvantage, well, it's not necessarily a disadvantage, but the result is that the fact that it's a music synthesizer and it's so deep means that it's also complicated to use. This isn't something where you just pick it up and start playing it.

Now, if you're just going to answer, you know, I mean, yeah, you can pick a sound like a guitar, you can pick a guitar sound or any sound and start playing. Yes, you can do it, but once you start doing it. Edit your sounds and actually access the features you'll need to decipher the manual. There's so many things hidden, there's a lot of menus buried, you know, you press different menus and it goes to different places and there's a lot of different parameters. and things like that, if there was a knob to control every function on this keyboard, I mean, you would have tons of your keyboard, it would be full of knobs everywhere, um, it's just not realistic, um, on a keyboard like this. because it's very complex, but if you're looking for a lot of sounds and you want them in one hardware unit then a synthesizer may be the way to go, now what a lot of people do is they just get a controller and get you know, they get a laptop or something like that and then you have even more sounds or a lot more features just using a computer, but a lot of people don't like using computers, especially live, they're just worried, you know. hard drives and things like that, hardware failure in general on a hardware, a keyboard, will be more reliable in general, so, a lot of people just don't care about laptops and computers and things like that.

I still have hardware synths and I do edits and stuff like that, and that's what montage 7 is. Now montage actually has a sequencer, so it starts to venture into sort of the workstation category, but synthesis It's the sequencer. it's something that came later when several yamaha customers were saying: we want a sequencer on the unit, so yamaha was forced to put a sequence on the unit, but the sequencer they put on the unit is quite limited, it doesn't really it is. that deep um is like an afterthought, something that they add, you know, it works, it gives you a quick workflow and it's fast and stuff like that, but it's not a really deep sequencer in um because at its core, at its core , this is a synthesizer and that's why they designed it to give you all the sounds you could want so that you can make a musical production, you can play any style at any concert, you can cover any song of any genre anywhere using something like this, like this that if you want to do a lot of deep sound editing and you want a lot of complex layers and things like that and you want full control over every aspect of every sound that comes out of your unit.

A synthesizer will probably be something you should consider. Alright, now let's move on to our last category that we're going to cover in this keyboards video. Okay, so what you're looking at is a Korg Chrono, specifically the Core Chronos 2 in 88 which has 88, um, fully weighted keys. keys um graduated action like a piano and this keyboard is a workstation it's a workstation now a workstation originally when they were designed um uh yeah like the m1 and some others um the corrigan were really designed so that you would have everything you you needed you could record directly on your keyboard, you didn't need anything else to record songs and projects etc., and the core cronos is truly a workstation, it has a sampler so you can send it, you can bring your own samples to this keyboard, um , also as far as bringing samples, you can plug it in, it already has an SSD drive, but it has a slot for an additional SSD, so you could put an extra SSD inside here and you could literally bring two terabytes of samples if you want, if you want, um, so you can bring all kinds of different samples and stuff in here, this is actually the most powerful keyboard that I have, this is my main keyboard, I probably use this keyboard more than any other keyboard, it's just very, very powerful , does so many things, has a lot of different sound engines, etc., and so on.

I have videos and stuff about it where I know, I'm completely excited about it and to this day it's still my main uh. my main keyboard, um, it's a little bit heavy, so when you use it like a geek, this particular keyboard is as heavy as a tank, it's really unique and so on, but the main thing is that this keyboard has a sampler. a sequencer so you can record all your songs and stuff like that. Now this particular keyboard will record 16 audio tracks and 16 midi tracks and of course you can always bounce those tracks and have 16 fresh new ones.

You know so many different features, now the manual I have on this is about 1170 pages long, so yeah, it does a lot of things, but at the same time, it's going to be quite complicated, using the Chronos core is not something I would say. be easy to use now, other workstations that are on the market like the Roland Phantom uh, that's a workstation, um, although Roland doesn't call it a workstation, so it may not be, but of course anyway it can be considered a workstation um kurzweil now has a new workstation so they are still creating workstations and they have sequencers and stuff on them so you can record your project from start to finish just on this board it has everything different kind of effects. um, all kinds of different EQs, you know, and all kinds of different, um, what I'm trying to say, all kinds of different compressors and reverbs and, again, this is going to have thousands and thousands of different sounds, so you will know a lot of different ones.

The piano sounds like a lot, you know, it just has everything, so this is where you can base your fluids as well as the montage, you'll get all kinds of different sounds and stuff like that because it's meant to cater to whatever genre you want. play, this is meant to be able to keep up with you no matter what you're doing, so this is the most powerful keyboard I have, it does everything, but it's very, very complicated to use now that I have another workstation, um, it's the korg m50 that came out many years ago before the cronus came out and it wasn't their flagship, but it also has a sequencer and the ability to change and alter sounds and do different things, some sound design and things like that. but this is a completely different world when it comes to sound design and stuff, so if you need a keyboard, you're going to record on your keyboard, you need a keyboard and you're going to bring samples and stuff, then a workstation.

You know you might want to see something you can get now? I will say this about workstations, workstations like full-featured workstations, like these center corners, you just have everything in the kitchen sink, it's kind of a dying breed, a little bit even the new Roland. ghost, although you know it's called, people call it workstation, even they are the people who work for a role and they call it workstation when you look on the website, I don't think it says workstation, but I can go to look That's later, but even though it's a workstation, you know it only has a pattern sequencer, so it doesn't have a full sequencer, uh, you know, like the Core Chronos, I don't think you can record audio and those things.

However, on the Roland Phantom I don't know if that will come, it's just that a lot of people, when they do full productions, now use dolls, a lot of

professional

s do full production keyboards, I mean full musicals. production studio productions are now using some kind of daw to do that and a workstation doesn't do the heavy lifting anymore so these keyboards are disappearing a little bit, that's how it looks like now they may have a resurgence, they may come back you know , korg can come out with something new uh they came up with the korg uh nautilus and the nautilus is like a more accessible version of the cronos and it has some new pianos and stuff in there. new sounds and all that, so you get most of the features, you know you don't get karma and some other things, but you get most of the features that are on the chronos, you get them on the nautilus and they are both very workstations, very powerful, so if you want to record on your real keyboard and stuff like that, then a workstation might be something you want to get, so we covered several different categories, now we don't cover the analog sense and I don't cover, you know, pianos digitals and all that, I just didn't cover them, but if you're looking for a keyboard and maybe you play live or maybe you play in the studio, etc., etc.

Go ahead, when you compare keyboards, make sure you know what it is, if it's a stage piano, now you have some kind of idea of ​​what you're getting, it was the workstation, you have some kind of idea of ​​what you're getting now. There's a lot of you who know that there's a lot of overlap now, nowadays, when it comes to these keyboards, you know, and the lines are starting to get a little bit more blurred, because, like the assembly, you know it has a sequencer in it so you know that if you continue with Sweetwater and search for workstations, the montage will appear and show you the montage, but underneath it's not really a workstation, there are a lot of different pianos and things inside. the central cronos, but at heart it's not a stage piano so it's not going to be that easy and a lot of these are easy hands-on controls and you just press a button and now you're playing the piano and you know and then you know layer something and you just press two buttons and now you know a bunch of things layered together, you don't know, it doesn't work that way, it's a little bit deeper, well, it's a lot. more in depth, but with that complexity comes a lot of power, so when you buy a keyboard, make sure you're looking for the right category of keyboard for what will suit your needs and me, because my needs can be quite broad, I've simply created Plus, I've created a collection of keyboards so I have a multiplicity of keyboards that I can pull from and use the one I need to get the job done, so I hope this helps clear up some confusion. for people who are just starting out or just learning the technical side of keyboards, if you like videos like this, in-depth videos and stuff like that, please consider liking my channel and subscribing to the channel and stuff too . because I frequently upload new things, so stay tuned, there will be more things to come.

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