He wants "lots of styles to just hit a button and play along to." That's what an arranger does, and MODX scenes do not provide this function. You have scenes that can kind of work like variations in an arranger.It seems to me that MODX8 is inferior to the DGX-660 for the things he has expressed wanting to do. Second: MODX8 is far superior to DGX-660. You have scenes that can kind of work like variations in an arranger. Pianos: Kawai GM-10 grand, Yamaha DGX-660 digitalįirst: DGX 660 is at its end of life spawn. Working on: Mozart, Adagio in B minor, K.540 I bought mine on returning to the piano after 40 years away, and though I've since graduated to an acoustic grand, will always keep my DGX-660 as well.
Arranger piano series#
"Peterws" on this forum has owned several DGX series models, used their arranger capabilities extensively, and been pleased with them. I own one and have reviewed it at length - click on my name and go to the first few posts, with follow-ups in later posts in response to questions from others. It has weighted and graded keys, but is still a relatively light action. It has a 6-track arranger, 554 voices including 15 drum kits, 205 styles, and a great user interface. About $800 in the US, before store discounts, with stand and simple pedal. Thanks.Īnother shoutout (after "anotherscott") for the Yamaha DGX-660. Specifically the quality of the piano action, sounds, and ease of use. I would appreciate thoughts on these types of boards.
I know the Casio PX 560 would have been a better fit but wasn't available when I got the PX5S. Even though I love the powerful sounds it has that is not its forte. I had hoped my Casio PX5S could do this more easily. But I've always wanted something like this and this seems to hit a sweet spot for a good action, lots of sounds, lots of styles to just hit a button and play along to. Maybe it is my organ background from when I was a kid. And I believe cost around $1000 Canadian dollars if I remember correctly. The XE-20 seems to combine the best of piano style keyboard and arranger capabilities for when you want to have some fun with popular songs. I am wondering if anybody here has experience with these type of keyboards. Some YouTube videos show favorable/positive findings. He has received credit for adding musical style and panache to otherwise-forgettable music.I recently read about and saw some reviews of the Korg 88 key XE-20 piano with arranger features. He also had to produce commercial pop songs that would sell. He could produce convincing keyboard impressions of many famous pianists of his day, including Fats Waller (whose work he apparently completed when Waller proved too intoxicated to show up to complete them himself), Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Erroll Garner. While he is best known for his nickelodeon arrangements, Cook also produced music for band organs, hurdy gurdys, carillons, chimes, and all mechanical instruments.Ĭook was considered a musical chameleon. The first roll Cook ever produced was for the fox trot, “The Little Red School House.” To Cook, the art of making piano rolls was as simple as “getting holes in paper in the right place.” He claimed that it took about three hours to create a fox trot of thirty feet, which translates to 2-1/2 minutes. He worked in the industry for around half a century and produced over 20,000 pieces of music for the piano roll industry, continuing even after his retirement from the Imperial Company (formerly QRS) for collectors and enthusiasts. Cook is considered one of the most prolific arrangers of all time. This was the personal arranger piano of J. When mistakes were made, unwanted holes could be filled in.
Once the arranger perfected the song, they would then play it on the top keyboard, which was attached to a machine (not present) that literally punctured holes in a master paper roll to correspond with each of the keys on the orchestrion’s piano.
The lower keyboard – a traditional piano keyboard – was used to arrange the song and to hear how it would sound for the piano portion of the nickelodeon. Some arrangers also composed, but not all of them. The Arranger would listen to or read a musical composition and sit at a piano like this one to create paper rolls from that music (more specifically, the arranger would create a master roll using a flexible cardboard book, from which the waxed paper rolls we have were copied). This piano tells the story of how the paper rolls are created, and who makes them.
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