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Korg X50 or Moog Litte Phatty


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I am looking to purchase a new keyboard/syth to replace my 1980's Yamaha. I am an average player and I have been researching for about a week now and I seem to be looking at The Korg X50 and the Moog Little Phatty. I am trying to replicater sounds ranging from Daft Punk,Horse the Band, Covers of Songs like Mortal Kombat and Hip Hop Songs like Still Fly. I have been to guitar center a few times to test them but I cant use them to their full extent in the store. I have a budget of about $1400. Throw out any suggestion of diffrent synths or keyboards.

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That's like asking if "should I get a Honda Accord or Harley Davidson bike?"

 

The Korg X50 is a ROMpler...it contains thousands of patches (which are samples) than you can play with, and tweak slightly.

 

The Moog LP is a VA synth (it is VA...or is it AA?). Essentially, you have to build the sounds from scratch. On top of that, it's a MONOPHONIC synth. Meaning, you can only play one note at a time. No chords, no pads, no nothing but leads and basses.

 

The X50 can instantly sound like a piano, a flute, an orchestra, as well as a range of synthesizers. The LP will only sound like a synthesizer, because that's what it is.

 

Your budget actually affords some options. If I were you, I'd buy a quality ROMpler like a Korg Triton Extreme (much better than the X50), as well as a lower-cost VA synth like a Roland SH201 or Korg R3.

 

If you decide you don't need an actual SYNTH (and just a ROM-based keyboard like the X50) and want a drum machine/sampler, you could go with something like a Triton/Fantom/Motif and something like a Roland SP404.

 

Hope this helps.

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I am not trolling. Didnt even know what that meant till i looked it up on wiki. I was considering the MicroKorg But i heard the Alesis Micron out preforms it. Ihavent actually tried a Micron, but i have use a microkorg and I dont know if its right for me, Ill test it again when go over to my friends house.

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Make fun of me becasue i dont know what to buy. Im sorry i have no clue what im looking for. All i know is i want to beable to replicate the beats of daft punk or something close to it but also beable to cover songs. I thought i would come here to get help but i guess not.

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I'm not very familiar with Daft Punk, etc., but out of those two choices, you probably want the X50, especially if you're just now getting into it. The Little Phatty is what is known as a "boutique" synth, in one sense, that means it's pretty expensive for what it does (monophonic/one-note-at-a-time synth). That said, if you want a REAL analog sound and don't care about chords, it can't be beat. I've had mine for a few weeks, and there is NO recreating that bass-pedal-type sound on ANYTHING digital.

 

All IMHO, of course. Hope this helps, and good luck!

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Neither the X50 or the Little Phatty will do what you want, although you could use them to help, they aren't essential or even important to do daft punk covers. A talkbox is essential. Looping and sampling are essential (via software or hardware). A synth is essential, but a softsynth is fine, and if you pick a good one like Massive, then it's usually better than most hardware synths under $1,000.

 

To replicate daft punk well, I'd recommend a minimum of a talkbox like the Banshee 2, Ableton Live with Essential Instrument Collection for looping, and midi keyboard and pad controllers. The new Akai APC40 controller also looks like a great pad controller for Ableton. The X-Station 61 is an excellent midi keyboard controller, included a great audio input/output box, and ton of assignable knobs and faders with a synth engine.

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Make fun of me becasue i dont know what to buy. Im sorry i have no clue what im looking for.

Then you should've titled your topic "Daft Punk beats - what do I need?". Right now you're comparing apples to rhinos.

 

All i know is i want to beable to replicate the beats of daft punk or something close to it but also beable to cover songs. I thought i would come here to get help but i guess not.

 

Neither synth will do the job because the Moog won't have any drum sounds in it at all, and the X50 will just have generic drum kits that don't sound anything like Daft Punk. Even then, you're still not there because Daft Punk samples their material.

 

You're off better with a copy of Ableton Live and a stack of old disco records. Get the trial and see what you can do with it.

 

If you want to play covers, the X50 will do the job - just don't expect it to do much for modern electronic music, since that's a melting pot of various techniques and devices. It's not going to come out of a single box :).

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Neither synth will do the job because the Moog won't have any drum sounds in it at all, and the X50 will just have generic drum kits that don't sound anything like Daft Punk. Even then, you're still not there because Daft Punk
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their material.

 

 

Old Daft Punk didn't. Later Daft Punk was pretty much that, though -- they started the short-lived "run some Eurodisco bar through a rez filter and call it a day" trend.

 

If "Mortal Kombat" is the Mortal Kombat song I'm thinking of, that's also heavy on the samples.

 

Yes, you are better off with the softsynth / Ableton Live route IMHO.

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Daft Punk is a talk box and sampler band. You can't get their sound any other way. They also use vocal pitch modulation, which requires AutoTune or other vocal harmonizer.

 

I TOLD you I wasn't very familiar with Daft Punk.....

 

I'm gonna go finish learning the organ solo in Supper's Ready now.... :facepalm:

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Old Daft Punk didn't.

 

That's right, but nobody in the US gives a {censored} about the "Homework" album while "Digital Love" and the rest of Discovery causes wet pants :D.

 

If "Mortal Kombat" is the Mortal Kombat song I'm thinking of, that's also heavy on the samples.

 

That's an alias of Praga Khan, which indeed means a crapton of samples and typical early rave sounds.

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