Getting the wrong end of the stick

[MarkOne]

They were, indeed, horrible to play.

I can attest to this too. The Planet T is the only keyboard I ever sold and not at some time after regretted it. The action was horrible. It was barely touch sensitive, the energy in the tine came from lifting a 'sticky' rubber pad, and when it couldn't stick any longer it release the tine, the difference between softly playing and hammering was not very great at all.

Particularly hated the fact that there was no sustain pedal, you could just about get away with a reverb pedal to 'fudge' that

Also as the key release was basically the rubber pad dropping back onto the tine, in the lower register you could get a lovely farty noise as the tine vibrated against the pad.

But as a teenager, in the 70s it was a way for me to have an electric piano because a Rhodes or Whurly were well out of my reach. Also it was basically its own flight case.

I really can't believe the prices they're fetching now.

[IAA]

This!

I gave mine away in disgust as soon as I could! BUT a well set up one did have a very lovely pure sound - lost in a rock band mix I found . In Kontact of course you can add the entire kitchen sink to make it have a real bite. I think Tony Banks did a similar thing with a fuzz box in between lead guitarists.

[MOF]

You can get a Pianet/Clavinet combo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rkHvsvRdBg

[Arpangel]

Nothings perfect in life, is it?

[FrankF]

Fifteen hundred quid for a bleedin' suitcase?

For that money you could get yersen a brand spanking new Hydrasynth,
and still have plenty of notes left over for a KFC bucket or three,
several boxes of Fondant Fancies,
and some of the finest wines available to humanity!

[Arpangel]

Fifteen hundred quid for a bleedin' suitcase?

For that money you could get yersen a brand spanking new Hydrasynth,
and still have plenty of notes left over for a KFC bucket or three,
several boxes of Fondant Fancies,
and some of the finest wines available to humanity!

But it’s got no Rhodes, or Pianet, plus, I don’t like KFC, but I’ll take the cakes and wine though.

[Hugh Robjohns]

But it’s got no Rhodes, or Pianet....

But you could create good emulations of both (with better dynamic control than the latter)...

[sonics]

I had a Pianet which I sold as soon as I could. I only bought it because of Tony Banks. It was horrible!

Get yourself a nice 73/76/88-note controller and a laptop running samples.

[Arpangel]

But it’s got no Rhodes, or Pianet....

But you could create good emulations of both (with better dynamic control than the latter)...

A Rhodes? On a Hydrasynth? really?

[resistorman]

But it’s got no Rhodes, or Pianet....

But you could create good emulations of both (with better dynamic control than the latter)...

A Rhodes? On a Hydrasynth? really?

I was just thinking the same thing! I get the feeling that you're looking for a sound, not a specific instrument.

[Arpangel]

But it’s got no Rhodes, or Pianet....

But you could create good emulations of both (with better dynamic control than the latter)...

A Rhodes? On a Hydrasynth? really?

I was just thinking the same thing! I get the feeling that you're looking for a sound, not a specific instrument.

As usual, it’s all down to money, if you’ve got deep pockets you just get stuff, regardless, it doesn’t have to justify itself so much.

[ajay_m]

The stage ep pack from air which I have on my akai force includes a Pianet and that pack is included in the mpc61 as standard.
All the sampled instruments are very high quality and one of the great things about the force is you have 8 touch sensitive rotary encoders each with its own little oled display that map directly to instrument settings which makes tweaking very immediate.