best keyboard for techno / dance

[pcxmac]

alright guys, i have been lookying over the motif and triton. i cant say either one is better, the triton is kewl but i have heard its buggy and the effects are more limited than advertised + switching from different modes requires more work than their should be. i have heard the motif is a great sounding units, buts its hard to work, and imo it seems a little more behind times. the tyros looks kewl, but im not sure if thats like a good thing to sequence / sample with. so i ask, which is the best to use for doing live / studio work w/ techno / dance in mind?
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[Bob]

are you much into programming your own sounds? have you looked at the Kurzweil K2600?

[pcxmac]

ok so is it possible to program new sounds with cakewalk or any other soft synth application. i would think a laptop or something would have more pute power, and it would be less weight slash more of what i would be looking for. are there any software voice synthesizers?
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[TeeCee]

pcxmac:
What have you used before? I think it is a mistake to try to do everything with one box to start with. I believe that for good sound diversity, you need a few real synth engines (even if they are soft synths), not just sample playback devices and sequencers.

[michaelhoddy]

If you're not a programmer and you're looking for techno/dance, you'll like the Triton, especially some of the expansion boards. The arpeggiators and loop triggers are nice touches. You might like some of the Roland XV-series sounds, again from the expansion boards, and you'll probably want to get an analog or virtual analog synth like one of the Nords or the Alesis Andromeda at some point if you're doing techno.

The Triton can sample as well. The XV-5080 can play back samples loaded from SCSI.

[pcxmac]

haha i saw the mini korg and it rules, ok well im not to knowledgeable and stuff but definitly kewl, i believe it had the vocoder on it. can voices be recorded and altered with a triton? it might not be real time like a voicecoder but still.
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[SMS]

I write a lot of material on the techno/electronica vein, mainly for production music libraries, and I ried out both the Triton Studio and the Mofif. I ended up choosing the Motif, mainly because I thought it had much better "live" drum sounds, "vintage" keys like rhodes/wurli (I do a lot of breakbeat/funky breaks and retro-funk, too), and more up-to-date synth sounds. Though I thought that the Triton's kick drums and pads were excellent, I didn't like any of the Korg drum sets (even with the Dance expansion).

That having been said, my main axe for techno is not the Motif but a Novation SuperNova II rack. Synths like the SuperNova, Waldorf Q, and Access Virus are made specifically for techno/dance, and IMO are better suited for this type of music than either the Triton or Motif.