Keyboard Track Advise

[VesuviusJay]

I am preparing to capture some keyboard tracks for one of my projects. The only keyboards available to me are casio's arround $200.00 a piece. L-O-W E-N-D! I can't afford the triton studio at this time of year. So what are some recomendations for choosing a recording method. Here are my choices as I see it, either continue to amp the keys through a 2X12 cab (decent results) or Trigger MIDI samples. If I use midi I don't have the layering capability, but I can work arround that with multiple tracks. I am getting great tone from the cabinet through the monitors. I am just not quite satisfied with the casio sample quality. ie: The violin sounds too synthetic etc.

Can anyone advise?

 

[dafduc]

That's some low end, man.

If you're recording on a computer, just record the midi and play back using some soft synths (or soundfonts, if you have the right setup). Plenty of free DXi/VSTi type modules out there.

If you're on tape, well, GFL...

Daf

 

[TexRoadkill]

If you want more quality and realism than samples on a softsynth would be the way to go. You can get cool textures by micing the cab if you want more weird sounds or for stuff that is normally amped like organ, rhodes or a mellotron.