EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 39, Issue 10 This issue's topics: Choosing a synth Korg or Yamaha? (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1992 09:16:12 PDT From: Steve Buck Subject: Korg or Yamaha? I'm currently looking at a couple of keyboards and have narrowed it down to about 2 of them. One is the Yamaha SY-99 and the other is the Korg O1/W Pro...the Korg is slightly cheaper, has more memory, 10mb compared to 8mb, and the sequencer can carry 48,000 notes as opposed to 27,000. My question is this: If I wasn't going to be working with sampled sounds that the SY-99 could work with, would the Korg be the way to go?....which one sounds better? Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> < Steve Buck Internet: (sbuck@eddie.ee.vt.edu) > < > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1992 09:39:00 EDT From: RAY BROHINSKY Subject: Re: Korg or Yamaha? Steve Buck asks about the SY-99 and the O1/W, which sounds better... Which ever sounds better to you, steve. We went synth-hunting for my wife's primary keyboard. She wanted good strings, piano, harpsichord, and organ. She settled on the M1 instead of the O1/W because the O1/W was less bright than the M1 (a byproduct of better technology, no doubt! Between the Korgs and the SY-99 (which was considerably more than we could afford!) she liked the Korgs. More real, less electronic (although she did, as I said, prefer the grainer M1!). Now if you can make some kind of use of that kind of personal perception of `better', you're welcome to it. I think you'll still be better off applying ALL of Metlay's law, and try them out at the store (or find another store) and ensure that you like one before taking it on anyone else's advice. raybro *** Nieder mit den Tueten! Freiheit fuer Gummibaerchen! *** ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************