DX7 had a dreadful keybed. Midi CC only up to 100 (instead of 127), wtf?!
Fatar learned a lot of lessons from Yamaha in that regard.
Looking forward to adding an Expressive E Osmose to my rig soon ..
Fatar learned a lot of lessons from Yamaha in that regard.
Looking forward to adding an Expressive E Osmose to my rig soon ..
Just the fact that a synth thing was so (relatively) affordable and accessible and also made music we heard all the time.
I should probably make a Dexed thing. Ultimately I don't even play an instrument with frets, let alone keys, so it would only be for tinkering.
Get a Zynthian and dive right in to all the FM synthesis you can possibly imagine, and more. Its pretty freakin' powerful. Plus, you can do all kinds of mad things with it, vis a vis oddball controllers and such.
At the moment I am mostly playing lap steel but it's early days as an electric player so I am trying to not spend much money :-)
For lap steel which is continuous pitch I feel I'm more likely to settle on a Boss SY synth pedal or something signal-processing-based like it, rather than MIDI. But these days audio-based midi-tracking like MIDI Guitar 2/3 seems to work quite well. I know of at least one player using a Fishman Triple Play on a lap steel but that's an expensive experiment.
>Boss SY synth pedal or something signal-processing-based like it
.. is exactly what the Zynthian delivers, plus way, way, way more. You can run Dexed on it, and also run multiple signal-processing chains for your lap steel. It is huge bang for the buck! Especially if you do live things, you can have Dexed tracks running in parallel to your FX chain ..
Just sayin', take a closer look. For lap steel (and indeed any similar instruments), Zynthian is a godsend. (Get a good mic for it too, of course..)
I am positive you will find it extremely rewarding to pipe your lap steel through these:
https://zynthian.org/engines#effect
.. alongside these:
https://zynthian.org/engines#synth
(Dexed is but one in a very, very sexy list..)
The Yamaha FSR1 would be nice, too! :)
No keyboard on an FS1R, although a workstation version of the FS1R would kick serious ass.