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I'd like to start learning keyboard. I'm already learning guitar and it will be easier for me if I learn both at once. I'd also like to get a decent sampler. It looks like something like a Yamaha Motif would be right up my alley since I can use it as a regular keyboard and as a sampler,synth and what not...unfortunately the price range is not. I don't need anything spectacular, just something that will sound good and offer decent sampling features. Something better, anyways, that my AW16G...actually much better preferrably. The pitch bend wheel would be a big plus :).

Any suggestions? I know nothing about this stuff.

Thanks
-Dinsdale
 
Few keyboards sample and few samplers have keyboards, so if you are bent on getting a sampler to learn keyboards you are pretty much limiting yourself to Motif, Triton or a Kurzweil. None of them are exactly cheap.

However, it's perfectly feasible to buy a sampler and either a synthesizer to use as a controller, or simply a separate midi controller keyboard.

I'll recommend what I always recommend. A second hand Yamaha A3000. The most bang for the buck you'll find sampler-wise. Make sure it has v2.0 and a harddisk, though.

Something better, anyways, that my AW16G...actually much better preferrably

Better than your AW16G? You are comparing apples and oranges, my friend. A sampler is never better than your AW16G. It isn't worse either.
 
Something better, anyways, that my AW16G...actually much better preferrably

Better than your AW16G? You are comparing apples and oranges, my friend. A sampler is never better than your AW16G. It isn't worse either. [/B]
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Sorry...didn't mean to put it like that. I meant to say a sampler that is much better than the built-in sampler in my 16G.

It sounds like getting a keyboard and then a dedicated sampler might be my best option if I don't want to shell out the cash for a Motif or one of the other models listed.

I'm not really sure of my max budget. I'm pretty much trying to see what's available and then deciding if I want to spend the money right now. If it's possible to get a good keyboard for $500 or less, that's probably what I'd want. I just checked on ebay for an A3000 and there weren't any for sale right now. I found a few EX5's, but I'm not sure that's the one for me. I'd rather spend more money on a Motif that's still supported by Yamaha and has a lot more headroom. Plus, I've already talked to the guy that runs www.awinspire.com, an AW16G/Motif site. But chances, are...I won't get either and I'll just buy a seperate keyboard and sampler.

Or, maybe I'll get a keyboard, and then use my computer for sampling. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good software sampler?

Thanks for the help!
-Dinsdale
 
Buy a copy of Computer Music (a UK mag). Free CD with each copy - current CD has the DS-404 sampler. Haven't worked with it much yet, but the price is right!

Computer Music goes for about $10 US a copy. Borders Books usually has it, or check your local Guitar Center.

DS-404 is VST. If you're using Cake or something else that doesn't do VST, :confused:
 
Dinsdale said:
Sorry...didn't mean to put it like that. I meant to say a sampler that is much better than the built-in sampler in my 16G.
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Oh, right, forgot about that one.

Although that shouldn't be too hard, isn't that just sample triggering for beats and drums and such? Can you even play the sounds from a keyboard?
 
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