![]() Hi I am new to this forum and new to the world of Workstations and Arranger keyboards. I have had a Yamaha Clavinova for the last 15 years but would now like to spread my electronic wings. ![]() I would be really grateful for your thoughts. What I would really like to do is spend a couple of years getting to grips with the music of Pink Floyd. Is there a single keyboard which would allow me to reproduce their sound? The guitar for 'Hurt' is the acoustic guitar patch on the on the orchestral rom. The drums for 'The Becoming' were also programed on a K2xxx series. Richard Wright The Kurzweil K2500 is know as 'the Pink Floyd Synth' for has been used by wright since it cames out. I love the Kurzweil 2500 for it’s playability, ROM based sounds and. Kurzweil Zone Kurzweil release the PC3LE6 for the budget concious. K2000/K2500 - Pink Floyd: Patch that simulates Pink Floyd's 'On The Run' synth patch. Joe KC Island #2527864 - 09/16/13 09:28 AM Re: Pink Floyd - Which Keyboard? [] MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 04/30/10 Posts: 2475 Loc: Toano, Virginia, USA. According to, Wright used Kurzweil after 1987 to cover the bases other than piano and Hammond organ, so that would be a good starting point. The main bases to cover are: Hammond organ piano Moog synthesizer (mostly monophonic, but often multi-tracked in the studio) Mellotron With a smattering of polysynth (in later stuff), Rhodes, Farfisa, and Clavinet. The PC3 can do all of these. The biggest limitation with a single keyboard is that you'll want hammer-action (aka fully weighted) for piano and Rhodes, unweighted for the others. Most of us don't feel that 'semi-weighted' is a good compromise, so we have two keyboards even if all the sounds are coming from one of them. #2527880 - 09/16/13 10:26 AM Re: Pink Floyd - Which Keyboard? [] MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 01/22/01 Posts: 2687 Loc: Framingham,MA,UNITED STATES. I think it would be a considerable challenge to reproduce the feel of Wright's tapestry of sounds with a single keyboardist in a live setting; let alone a single keyboard. I'm not sure what sort of a budget you have to work with, but I would argue that a used Nord might be a good start for the organ and pianos, along with a smaller board dedicated for synth to cover some of the other 'stuff and things'. I think there are a couple of threads around here which weigh the pros and cons of some of the newer controllers and VSTs available. I personally prefer hardware to software, so I recently picked up a little piece of Korg for a couple hundred bucks. It has some decent Floyd-esque sounds to it and I've already gotten quite a bit of mileage out of it. #2527940 - 09/16/13 01:51 PM Re: Pink Floyd - Which Keyboard? [] MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 04/21/11 Posts: 3056 Loc: Take a guess. In the 90's PF covered the non-organ sounds with the Kurzweil K2000/K2500/K2600 models. If you check the 'Pulse' video you see that both Jon Carin and Ricky Wright used them and Ricky also used a Kurzweil to cover the digital acoustic piano in the video (perhaps just as a controller, not completely sure).
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