A couple of posts ago, I offered to sell my keyboard and case (
here). I'm going to either sell it to the music store this week, or to whomever wished to buy it that I know here. I've reduced the price to see if I can sell it in the next two days, before seeing it go to the music store.
$400 for the keys (Proteus MPS + Orchestral -as seen in the post mentioned above)
$130 for the case (SKB 4214 61-key keyboard flight case)
I may still be a bit flexible yet, you never know.
After shopping keys for awhile, I decided to get the
keystation pro 88 for the studio. It feels a whole lot like the piano I grew up on (still in my living room), and it has the knobs and sliders I've been wanting for my growing number of virtual instruments...
Our studio also just bought
EastWest/Quantum Leap's Symphonic Orchestra Silver. It is truly like having a full symphony orchestra at my fingertips. The thing is amazing. Cirque Du Soliel uses it!
Now we have just a couple more expansions to buy for the
Stylus RMX, and the
Trilogy Total Bass Module, and I will have the music creation tool of my dreams readily available. I'm really excited! It should all happen this month! I'm amazed by them all. I've played demo mp3s and demos for quite a few musicians (respective to their actual instrument), and they couldn't tell the difference. I suppose it's all about instrument theory (how you play each if you were holding the real thing) from there.
I also have a studio gig coming up which will afford us to upgrade the studio quite a bit more. I imagine that by the end of the year, the studio will be completely where we've wanted it to be.