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hisham

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Roland RS-5 Roland RS-5
hisham
hisham

62

A beautiful and performance-oriented rompler

Considering the limitations of a non-expandable rompler (you can't really model sounds, only combine and apply effects to the sample-based sounds stored in its ROM), this is the keyboard I'm most comfortable with. Perfomance-oriented: lots of buttons for tweaking attack, release, cutoff and resonance, and the Roland X/Y pitch/mod bender which I've grown dependent to. Beautiful: even though more recent models are way more feature-packed, I don't think Roland has made a better looking keyboard ever since. This is a keyboard that manages to look as good as a guitar.

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Behringer FCB1010 Behringer FCB1010
hisham
hisham

62

Very versatile!

Very programmable MIDI unit. Supports triggering MIDI notes (yes, I've used it to play pedal keyboards) — it's unfortunate it doesn't have 12 note-pedals! There's an amazing modding community in the internet, but I haven't modded my unit.

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jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1

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the functionality on this thing is SO FAR BEYOND my needs, and despite behringer's bad rep mine seems sturdy as heck.... the downside of all the functionality is that it takes forever to program. After spending a lot of time creating nice presets on the devices I have it controlling its hard to get motivated to map the FCB to switch them all together...

Line 6 POD xt Line 6 POD xt
hisham
hisham

62

Outdated but still handy

Second generation of Line 6's modeling solution Pretty versatile to get a lot of basic amp sounds. Some effects are workable, some sound clearly digital. It's really picky about its voltage.

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