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Hello!

I play piano / keyboard in a Pop Rock band. We're now adding a second keyboard, and we'd like to use something that can somewhat recreate the high-quality Omnisphere (pad, organ, bells) sounds that we used on our album. Could either do this by tweaking the built-in synthesizer controls, or by "loading sounds" onto a memory card or something. It would be great if it was 49-keys or less. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you so much!

Michael

Your best choice would be to run Omnisphere on something like a Macbook Air and use the exact patches you used on the album. If you don't have the budget for that, let us know how much you can spend.

We have all the supplies (Macbook Pro, MOTU Ultralite, Ableton, Omnisphere) for that, but our lead singer is opposed to having a computer onstage. He thinks it ruins the aesthetic, and if we used Omni TR (an iPad app to wireless control Omnisphere "LIVE" Mode) we'd still have to connect a really long MIDI cable between the MIDI controller and my computer off-stage.

As of right now, the keyboard would be used mostly for piano / organ sounds... I personally think it would be really cool to add some of the ethnic instruments, bells, and various instruments that we used on the actual album later on.

But our singer thinks our best solution is to buy a Casio xw-p1. Have any experience with that keyboard?

My plan is to sample softsynths I am playing live onto my M3....

Walker wrote:But our singer thinks our best solution is to buy a Casio xw-p1. Have any experience with that keyboard?

No, haven't used it. A Blofeld keyboard can sample and is good at pads etc. Another option would be the Kurzweil PC3K

i feel like running omnisphere live would be hazardous doesnt it draw from 40mb of samples? why not massive?

Walker wrote:our lead singer is opposed to having a computer onstage

Well, whatever you get make sure the singer pays for it

c-level wrote:i feel like running omnisphere live would be hazardous doesnt it draw from 40mb of samples? why not massive?

Streaming samples from an SSD is very fast. You don't need 40GB for every patch.

Receptor VIP can run Omnisphere...

Walker wrote: He thinks it ruins the aesthetic, and if we used Omni TR (an iPad app to wireless control Omnisphere "LIVE" Mode) we'd still have to connect a really long MIDI cable between the MIDI controller and my computer off-stage.

Wireless MIDI not an option?