Re: Looking for a good pocket recorder and small keyboard...
Originally Posted by
dadsaster
... torn between getting a full-sized keyboard with weighted keys ...
FWIW, when I shattered my right humerus in '07 (6 months out of work, 4 months not driving, 18 months w/out guitar, BUT it got me into mandolin!), it was a friend's $1 yard-sale-special 1st-gen Casio keyboard (2 1/2 octaves?) that kept me sane and let me work thru (left hand only!) "The Idoit's Guide to Music Theory".
Since then, a Yahama 61-key (5 octaves) w/ "semi-weighted" keys and a vast array of sounds has been wonderful to have around. I rarely need more than 3 octaves anyway (just like guitar or mando) and, on a Yahama 400-level guy, the keys FEEL weighted but aren't, AND their response changes based on the sound selected. For example, faster/harder makes a piano sound louder, but an organ sound not, just as on the real instrumment. I've really enjopyed it!
- Ed
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