PRS guitar verses keyboard

[CoreyT]

Kind of a cool new video they put up.

 

[Huggy Love]

That guy is really really good at emulating guitar licks and catching licks note for note on the fly, but it sounds like a wet noodle compared the PRS.

 

[CoreyT]

It kind of reminded me of Ritchy Blackmore and Jon Lord swapping licks back and forth.

 

[László]

Well the secret of that particular keyboard is (beyond that a very good player is using it) the keyboard itself, a ROLI Seabord grand. It has rolling keys that are not like a traditional MIDI keyboard, and that's the point of the Anderson advertisement (yes it is an advertisement promoting the ROLI that they sell and showing how different it is from other keyboards). So more of an ad than a musical demo.

https://roli.com/products/seaboard-grand

It's also a very expensive keyboard, as you'll see when you click the link. The 88 note version is $8,888.

 

[Huggy Love]

Well the secret of that particular keyboard is (beyond that a very good player is using it) the keyboard itself, a ROLI Seabord grand. It has rolling keys that are not like a traditional MIDI keyboard, and that's the point of the Anderson advertisement (yes it is an advertisement promoting the ROLI that they sell and showing how different it is from other keyboards). So more of an ad than a musical demo.

https://roli.com/products/seaboard-grand

It's also a very expensive keyboard, as you'll see when you click the link. The 88 note version is $8,888.

Compared to the real thing it sounds a bit cheesy to me, but I can see the potential. Maybe if he used a generalized synth sound I'd hear it a different way but the guitar patch was a bit weak to me.
As a keyboardist primarily, are you thinking of trying one of those in the future?

 

[László]

Compared to the real thing it sounds a bit cheesy to me, but I can see the potential. Maybe if he used a generalized synth sound I'd hear it a different way but the guitar patch was a bit weak to me.
As a keyboardist primarily, are you thinking of trying one of those in the future?

Well, remember that the keyboard is just triggering samples there, however, it's a very interesting keyboard. It'd sound great with a sample library designed for its capabilities.

Still, I can play the real guitar, and don't need something like that to play orchestral samples that tend to have many more articulations than do guitar sample libraries. If a library was designed for it, different story maybe.

But my next keyboard will be a Prophet 6 hardware synth to compliment my Prophet 5, something I do want to work with. I do like the idea and innovation of that Seaboard keyboard, however!

 

[Blues Trucker]

I like guitars

 

[garrettb]

The keyboard sound likes Jeff Beck.

 

[Goldtop]

Cool video. Thanks for posting it! I dig the tones of each.

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