It’s been about two months since the keyboard arrived, and we love it. So far we can confidently recommend it to anyone considering a high end model. A keyboardist friend who regularly drops by to jam knows more about its bells and whistles than I do, which has been a helpful bonus as we learn its capabilities together.

Beyond the built in multi-style band, chord sequence capability, split keyboard function and the usual selection of bass guitar and bass synth voices, one feature has become quite useful for writing bass lines: a physical Octave +/- button. It shifts the entire keyboard up or down three octaves from the default; a full six octave range, so no longer is the bass voice confined to the low end of the keyboard. By moving the bass voice into the upper register, my right hand can play it comfortably while still sounding like a bass guitar, which makes experimenting and working-out bass lines much easier. Then of course I translate my bass line to my bass guitar.

This same feature would also be great for players of sax, flute, or other instruments who prefer a particular hand position to work-out their lines: you can place any keyboard voice where it’s most comfortable for your hands. Absolutely cool stuff. There are so many goodies packed into this instrument that it will take me years to explore them all, a good problem to have smile

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For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.