Anyone have opinions on this?
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=kore_us
Hi Jeff:
What’s the model of that Keyboard you got from Radio Shack?
IT appears like that keyboard would make a nice controller… Is that how you’re useing the one you have?
IT appears that Radio Shack Canada is no-longer… The name has been bought out… I believe that the distribution of Tandy products has taken the name of “The Source”… Or the distribution of Radio Shack products is no longer… in Canada… or at least, in these parts…
It would be nice to know if “The Source” has a keyboard of the model… you have…
Bill…
Jeff, if you can find an old Peavey Dynabass Unity, they’re pretty nice. Good bass, different weight and balance I think, so it’s about what you like.
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Oh yeah- great local user reviews on one of the Danelectro line- a long-scale that looks like the old “Short-Horn” model. I’ll try and remember the name; it’s supposed to have great tone, and it’s very light.
I’ll get back.
A Steinway & Sons baby grand
My Hagstrom HB-III bass that I sold 30+ years ago when I went into the military (My P-Bass doesn’t come close).
3 hot-looking babes with great pipes to provide my back-up vocals.
OK - Realistically, I will settle for a Kick-A$$ CPU for my new DAW currently under construction.
Allright, if we’re getting into the retro wish thing, I want my Rickenbacker Blackstar back- #199 out of 200 pcs made.
I was a fool, and I’m sorry… 
OK,
While we’re wishing for the stuff we used to have, I’d give a couple of body parts to have back the 1966 Twin Reverb I sold in 1990 for $250 because I didn’t like carrying all that weight!
Of how about the Ebony Gibson ES-355 (just like the original Lucille) and the J-45 that I sold to buy my Martin D-28?
And I sure wouldn’t mind having the Jazzmaster that I got in 1960 when I was 13 years old (my first good guitar).
Or the original Arbiter Fuzz Face that got destroyed in a small house fire in 1985?
Lots of good stuff has passed through my place, along with a lot of junk that I wonder why I ever bought. But these are the ones I wish I had back.
Don 
Careful what you wish for there, Don! 
Radio Shack DP-4073
Folks at the “Keyboard Corner” forum (hosted by Keyboard Player magazine) were raving about it for having a decent action and even a usable piano sound, very light and so cheap. It’s a re-branding of the Casio Privia PX100 (or is it the 110?)
The RS info page says it has MIDI/USB, but folks who’ve bought it say that’s a lie, it has MIDI connectors.
Makes an excellent controller. Most of the folks buying it have multi-keyboard setups and/or rack modules for sounds other than piano, and are lightening up their rig and leaving their $2000 digital pianos at home.
Unfortunately, it sold so fast most stores don’t have them. You can’t order it, you can only get one in a store. Evidently they’re selling it near cost just to get us to come in, or something like that. (And it’s working …)
I’ve tried other Privias, and their action is rather beefy like a grand piano. Definitely good if you want to work on your piano technique. Might be a bit heavy as a general purpose controller: can’t do those fast minimoog licks, and Hammond organ palm-swipes might be a bit painful. But having only one keyboard, I’d far rather have a good piano action and compromise on the other, than vice versa.
I believe it has 5 buttons on the front to choose sounds, and you can have it use a different MIDI channel for each of them. That would work for me, since pretty much I just use piano, Rhodes, and hammond (plus piano & rhodes layered) and occasional clav or Wurlie.
Hi Jeff:
That’s a beautiful Keyboard… You know, before the Radio Shack store in my neighbourhood changed over to The Source I do believe they had one of those keyboards there… I gotta go down there and take a peek around and mabey ask the owner/manager what he might have laying around, in the back room, and all… Ya never know, unless you ask…
I have a Roland D-5 61 note keyboard right now… It’s as “Plastic” as you can make IT, for action… but That’s the way they were way back then…
All studios shoud have a nice “Weighted” controller… 
Bill…
You really want both types, weighed and unweighted. Different purposes, really. So, you’d be golden! Put it on your wish list! 
Hey, Don, I think I got your Jazzmaster – was it black with white pickguard – what they now call a “greenguard”? (Actually, mine’s a '65. Sounds great, but buzzes like a banshee.) It’s worth more as parts than put toghether, strangely enough.
Sloom, I’ll keep an eye out for that.
BTW, anyone know what a “peavey” is? Hint: it’s a tool. (Not a joke, just trivia.)
Now where did that thread about High Voltage lumberjackin’ go…
D – useless trivia? Sigh My wife thinks so…
| Quote (learjeff @ May 03 2006,22:02) |
| BTW, anyone know what a "peavey" is? Hint: it's a tool. (Not a joke, just trivia.) |
Peavey
Now, that is useful knoweldge! 
they have one of those electric pianos in the Radio Shack in the mall. I drooled over it for a whiles today, but as I’ve just ordered the Edirol keyboard (plus expression pedal, plus hold pedal, plus an essential spare SM57), my wife would probably assassinate me if I bought it.
| Quote (Mark A @ May 03 2006,04:59) | ||
Peavey |
I thought it was a small Peave sometimes kept as a pet!
KingFish
| Quote (TomS @ May 03 2006,19:18) |
| Now, that is useful knoweldge!
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Yes!
More in the same vein: The Finnish language word for a peavey is "keksi", which also happens to mean "biscuit". As logging camp is a traditional milieu for Finnish movies, the tool is pretty well known, so puns flourish.
Well of coarse Canada is well know for it’s tradition of lumberjacking. My research on the origins of Peavey has resulted in a slightly different meaning.
So quoting from the Canadian Glossary of Lumberjack Terminology , “publisher Simon & Schuester-1812”.
peavey(n)- the visual result of splitting the urine stream in two parts, forming mirror image diagonals originating from a vertex point, thus resembling a V like pattern. The visual effect can be primarily attributed to unexpected penile interactions with wind blown branches when relieving one’s self in a woodlands environment or in an industrial forest production setting.
Ha - I knew urine was involved somehow…but I can’t seem to locate the book you cited, stu.
Since we are doing useless trivia here… anyone know what a “Cooper” is?
No. Not the old, dead movie star…
D