I still have my 20 year old Yamaha Tyros 2 and I love it. It somehow still works too! I loved it though because it was such an all in one solution for writing, recording and performing music and vocals. By today’s standards though it does feel like operating a telephone exchange in a world full of smartphones (and you have to constantly dodge super cringe music styles - OberPolka2 or LimboRock anyone?) .
My question is what do you young’uns use these days that could give me that same all in one feel with lots of auto accompaniment support? Also, I’d love to be able to sample my vocals and layer them within the one unit. Is there anything like that around? I mean I assume there must be given 20 years of technological evolution since the Tyros 2 came out 😄
It really depends on your budget. I’m not saying I’m a ‘young’un’ though.
If you’re looking for the same thing but newer, you’ll be out quite a bit of cash. If you’re okay with going a little bit more modular, I’d suggest something like an AKAI MPC One with an external MIDI keyboard, you can pick pretty much any keyboard but I’d be partial to Novation or Arturia.
And as far as sampling goes… How about just getting a mic with a jack plug and using it on the audio in of a device? I’ve used the audio in of my buddy’s MPC to hook up a record player and do some crazy stuff with that to use as textures and FX.
Some devices, from cheap to expensive with functionalities increasing every step:
That’s amazing! Thank you so much :)