Comment by dofm
4 days ago
Yamaha DX7.
Oh you mean… OK. The one on my 2008 unibody MacBook, which I likely put the most hours in on of any of them. Then the one on my ancient and lovely Thinkpad T240 — one of the most pragmatically delightful computers ever — and probably the N33SX I owned in 1992.
The keyboard on the M1 Max MBP is quite nice, too.
OMG thank you - as a musician, that's the first thing I think of when I see "favorite keyboard."
The only good laptop keyboards have been older MacBooks and older Thinkpads.
The only way to top that would be someone eschewing portability for a mechanical keyboard of some kind. I would totally buy that
First generation powerbooks, the 140/170, were amazin keyboards. The 100, not so much.
What, did Korg release an M1 Max? How did I miss it?
Yeah. Loads more keys.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/
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 ..
I never actually owned one but I loved playing one.
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.
The DX7 IIFD is a bucket list keyboard for me. I fell in love with it in my youth, and I will eventually buy one in good condition.
The Yamaha FSR1 would be nice, too! :)
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>Dexed
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.
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