CyclotronMajesty Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I've been a musician and piano player my whole life. At age 6 I had my first piano lessons in suzuki which lasted 6 years untill age of 12. After that I never looked back. I was sick of practicing, I was sick of being forced to learn to play. My parents bought a VFX ensoniq music synthesizer some years after that. I remember enjoying finding and making strange alien sounds with it. I even experimented with making my own music using logic audio platinum. I made a fun drum and bass track some years ago. I have now been gifted with this: Yamaha YPG-225 http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%253D65246%2526CTID%253D205200%2526CNTYP%253DPRODUCT,00.html And have always wanted to make some music and actually move on the ideas i've had come to me and fulfill my potential musically... Now I have this sythesizer. It seems to be a keyboard for families. It does some things I could never get the VFX to do. BUt I need a keyboard for making what I listen to. I like the full spread of 8 octaves it gives me. But other features it has like "music lessons" seem useless to me. What I really need is a Keyboard that will interface with my Mac and be able to use: As a MIDI contoller to control software synths and experiment with new sounds. To make drum sounds, and bass sounds. Filter sweeps, mids, highs, U know waht I'm talking about. --- I don't know if this keyboard can do that or not. All I know is that this thing bundles software for windows computers and not for mac. and teaches me how to play "Fur Elsie" which is great but - I really don't need a keyboard to feature that. I expect most people use windows for some really incomprehensable reason... But I probabaly need to get a music sequencer program too don't I? Somthing like Logic Pro or Logic Express. Anyway this synth seems more like a family toy than a professional music creation synth for cutting edge psychedelic trancedance music. What should I do? What do I need to do? What do you think? I'm ready to make some electronic music I just don't know what i'm really doing. I wonder If I should sell it and invest in somthing else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyclotronMajesty Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Yea it's got the Midi out and USB connectivity. I don't know If It can be used as a MIDI controller for software synths though. THat said I find some neat features in it like "Harmony" where it can modulate any voice to a 1/4th 1/8th/ 1/12 1/16th 1/24th or 1/32nd beat It also has tempo control and the possibliity of uploading new "styles" which I'm not sure what a style is. I suppose it's difrent from a voice... And it's the voice that is really the sound so... mmm i dunno. I would like to get LOGIC PRO but that is a 1000 dollar software app. Impossible to pirate... I'm getting a copy of Cubebase now. I just gotta see what this synth can do. If it is really worth keeping or if there is somthing more suited to my needs.... that is somewhere around same price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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