Can anyone identify this synth

[OneWorld]

Is this just a toy? Sorry about the long link, I don't know how to get a pic displayed here

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146915581684 ... 4NYRATBTDS

[BigRedX]

AI. Look at the black keys.

[OneWorld]

AI. Look at the black keys.

Did you scroll down and have a look at the other pic?

It looks jazzy whatever, an oak synthesizer, looks great, good for playing "Switched on Bark" or something by Justin Timberlake? Roots Reggae?

[The Elf]

The screen maybe suggests an arranger keyboard of some persuasion - maybe Yamaha?

[RichardT]

All the keyboards are wrong, so I'm sure they are AI.

Playing the white notes on those would lead to some very interesting scales!

[BigRedX]

And none of the writing on the front panel is even remotely legible.

At least the players appear to have the correct number of fingers.

[Martin Walker]

Despite being AI-generated and having dodgy keyboard rendering, it does look lovely though!

[Wonks]

When's the Behringer version coming out?

[ajay_m]

awww. Kinda reminds me of the Yamaha CP30 I owned many decades ago. Of course, AI-generated synths are supposed to be played by AI avatars, who can, of course, dynamically alter the number of fingers they have as they are playing. Hence the rather.... interesting... keyboard layout could probably alter dynamically at the same time, bringing back disturbing memories of the 500 Fingers of Dr T

[Martin Walker]

awww. Kinda reminds me of the Yamaha CP30 I owned many decades ago.

Aha, that's probably why I was so enamoured of this one - I too owned a Yamaha CP-30 many years ago as well

[OneWorld]

When's the Behringer version coming out?

Just watch out for Behringer buying in a load of MDF.

This wooden synth would look ok in the living room maybe, with an aspidestra on it?

[N i g e l]

I thought fwood was an upcomming trend but its still bubbling under.

This fwood is metal...

[James Perrett]

awww. Kinda reminds me of the Yamaha CP30 I owned many decades ago.

Aha, that's probably why I was so enamoured of this one - I too owned a Yamaha CP-30 many years ago as well

And if anyone fancies a CP30, my lad's piano teacher is still trying to get rid of his.

[ajay_m]

Although they are a big heavy thing, the CP30 does have quite an appealing sound, there's a Hall and Oates song that uses it, can't recall the name, but it sounds quite funky in a different way to any other electric piano I can think of. It was a divider-based instrument with two entirely separate oscillator chains, as I recall, which you could then detune (in stereo). It therefore had effectively I think unlimited polyphony as a consequence. This does give it quite a fat sound and the keyboard action is quite nice too. Also means you can't really sample it convincingly.
I recall getting a really cool sound out of it by sending the L and R channels into a stereo 1/3 octave graphic equaliser and then setting the knobs for the L and R channels of the equaliser to be alternately full up and full down, but with the channels reversed for the other side, so that where L might be boosted, R would be cut. Then use the tremolo on the CP30 to pan the signal. It was definitely good for doing the keyboard intro to Zeppelin's "No Quarter" as well.

[BillB]

As RichardT says, it's worth browsing through the other keyboard images that accompany this pedal. There are some really wild alternative keyboard layouts, including alternate white-black-white-black...

Got to admit, I was fooled by the image before BigRedX pointed out it was AI. Just goes to show how photo-realistic (keyboard layout aside) these images can look. We need to be wary of all presented images!