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AxeBreaker
Jan 1, 2005
Who fucking cares?

What you are describing is a low-end portable arranger, or ROMpler. They are kinda cheesy and dead sounding in general. Sound wise, you would be better with your plugins. You CAN get a good sounding synth for $300, the korg monologue is one, and many more decent ones at $500. The catch is that most of them are analog, or are digital "Virtual Analogs" going for the same sound. Generally electric pianos and organs can be done but real pianos can't- low end synths don't include the special engine tweaks that make a digital piano good. That's the realm of the digital piano, the Nord Stage series ($$$$) and the big rear end workstation. About the cheapest thing I can find that doesn't sound like rear end, piano wise, is the KingKorg, which you can find used for around $700, new, $1000. A bit of a warning about that one, it has pretty simplified and kind of limiting synthesis controls, but that might be what you want. Lower end Yamaha workstations run about the same.

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