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#20275 - 02/22/00 08:28 PM
Re: Kurzweil equivelant of Alesis QS8.1?
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Registered: 11/26/99
Posts: 241
Loc: Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
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Hi, Phil,
Like you I spent a lot of time in search of a decent 88-key hammer-action keyboard. I owned Alesis Quadrasynth plus piano which had pretty good mid to low bass but very thin and sharp mid-high to treble piano sounds. Kurzweil PC88MX's piano sounds are sweeter and its keys are very responsive but the durability of its keys has been a big complaint among different synth/keyboard forums.
Owing to the recommendations from George Kaye and Uncle Dave, I tried Yamaha P80 and S80 at a local store. After carefully playing both models for a while, my vote went to the S80, a full-featured 88-key hammer-action synth (without floppy drive and sequencer for recording). I ordered one from one of my regular musical instrument suppliers and got it at the price slightly lower than the Alesis QS8.1. If you have not tried the S80, you might want to try it to see if you like the keyboard action and its piano sounds. I rate it higher than both the Alesis QS8.1, Yamaha P80 (much less features), and the Kurzweil PC88MX. If you like it and buy one please make sure you buy a 32 MB 3.3 V SmartMedia for data storage, very useful for system backup, patches and playback of MIDI files with its playback only sequencer.
Paul Ip Austin, Texas
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