Bye Bye Yamaha, Hello KORG!

Our new Korg Triton Extreme Workstation will be arriving today! Woohoo! It's a much awaited replacement since we last sold off our old but trusty upright Yamaha piano. With a much smaller apartment, there was no way were going to fit that vintage piece into the limited space in our living room. It was with much relief (more sadness for my sentimental mother) that we parted away with the piano. It did bring us lots of memories though. My brother practiced on it for years and I remember picking up the piano by translating what I learnt on the organ onto the simplified, unsophisticated acoustic instrument. I fondly recall the days rehearsing worship sessions on it and vividly remember the day I did a "John Koh" by boldly leading worship on a keyboard... after days of countless practice of course!

And so with the passing of the old comes the new. These days synthetisers are intelligent machines, with highly advanced features and the ability to create your own music and tweak the individual sounds to suit your liking. Among some of the features of the Triton Extreme include a 16-bit 48kHz sampler, powerful compositional tool, 1,344 programed sounds, 50 drum kits, 1,280 combinations, each composed of up to eight Programs, split, layered, zoned and velocity allocated across the keyboard... ok, you get the idea =) And that's just a small part of what this amazing workstation can do for you.

Well, I reckon I'll only probably be using 30% of the functions. Can't wait to get started on it! I do hope to compose a couple of songs with it and who knows... the floodgates of creativity and inspiration might just open!

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Hey Janelle! We've got another keyboard for our network camps!

Ah Fern! Pop over one of these days to check it out!

Kenny ah, wanna have a taste of it? Let's make music!

Read more about the Triton here.


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