mini synth with transpose??

[Rickbrown74]

Been looking at the Alesis Micron and the Novation K Station. Dont know much about synths but I like the sounds and I was going to get a vocalist in our band to do some basic pads / lead on one. Except given she has limited keyboarding experience a key transpose function would be pretty important.

Can anyone recommend a budget box which has transpose but still pretty cool sounds? 2-3 octave keyboard all thats required.

Many thanks

 

[noisewreck]

I am not quite clear if you're looking for a synth with transpose capabilities (I thought they all did?) or a keyboard controller. If it's the latter, you can take a look at the Oxigen8 which is a 2 octave keyboard with transport capabilities.

 

[Rickbrown74]

I am not quite clear if you're looking for a synth with transpose capabilities (I thought they all did?) or a keyboard controller.

Looking a synth with key transpose capabilities. not linked to anything else, will be used in studio as well as live but no controller facilities required.

Hope I'm using the right terminology. I need the keyboard to be able to transpose to B flat while she plays in G etc...

 

[altitude909]

Yeah you are. Usually, any subractive synth will allow you to tune your oscillators to whatever root key you want. I'm pretty sure the k-station and most of everything these days will have that feature. As far as keyboard octave's, just about anything evermade will allow you to shift octaves (my pro-one and sh-101 had that feature, and those are 20 yrs old)

 

[noisewreck]

I need the keyboard to be able to transpose to B flat while she plays in G etc...

To do this, you will need to tune the oscillators. So for B flat, you'd need to tune them down 2 steps. Some synths have master tune knob that shifts the tuning of the whole synth up or down a couple of steps, some of the older analogs had these, more because they couldn't stay in tune. Not sure if the Novation has this.

 

[altitude909]

Some synths have master tune knob that shifts the tuning of the whole synth up or down a couple of steps

Tune will usually only do semitones. So OSC tuning is whats needed.

All novations are digital so i dont think staying in tune is a problem on those