If you are playing live, with a band, honestly, buying an expensive keyboard is a waste of your money. The over-hyped, over-priced keyboards in the market have so many thousands of features that you will never get to use them.
The arppeggiator is one. Honestly, if you are a keyboard player and you can't play arppeggios yourself in a LIVE gig and have to depend on a machine to play it for you, then you might as well tell your band members to go home, and sequence everything yourself.
There are many other egs. the D-beam is one. Seriously, how many times do you need to detune your sound in one song? I have seen keyboardists blowing a big hole in their budget, only to use 10% of what the keyboard has to offer.
Look at the top keyboard players in any respectable professional band. Sequencing is used only as a 'backing', never the 'front'. The best keyboardists showcase their live PLAYING talents, not sequencing prowess. Anyone can sequence well, given time and technology. But not everyone can play well.
The staple sounds of a keyboard in a live situation are in this order: pianos, tines, organs. Then pads, strings, horns. You referenced any keyboard sounds with these staple sounds.
So go ahead and invest in a reasonably priced keyboard. And don't be fooled by the sales people in shops who are only too eager to demo the keyboard to you using the preset factory demos. Never buy a keyboard because the demo impressed you. It wasn't you who played the demo. It probably was eric persing who spent 3 weeks on it.
More importantly, invest in yourself, your skills, your talents. That should be where your money is.
The arppeggiator is one. Honestly, if you are a keyboard player and you can't play arppeggios yourself in a LIVE gig and have to depend on a machine to play it for you, then you might as well tell your band members to go home, and sequence everything yourself.
There are many other egs. the D-beam is one. Seriously, how many times do you need to detune your sound in one song? I have seen keyboardists blowing a big hole in their budget, only to use 10% of what the keyboard has to offer.
Look at the top keyboard players in any respectable professional band. Sequencing is used only as a 'backing', never the 'front'. The best keyboardists showcase their live PLAYING talents, not sequencing prowess. Anyone can sequence well, given time and technology. But not everyone can play well.
The staple sounds of a keyboard in a live situation are in this order: pianos, tines, organs. Then pads, strings, horns. You referenced any keyboard sounds with these staple sounds.
So go ahead and invest in a reasonably priced keyboard. And don't be fooled by the sales people in shops who are only too eager to demo the keyboard to you using the preset factory demos. Never buy a keyboard because the demo impressed you. It wasn't you who played the demo. It probably was eric persing who spent 3 weeks on it.
More importantly, invest in yourself, your skills, your talents. That should be where your money is.