Likewise, if you want to play with a church pipe organ sound, your best option is to play an actual church pipe organ, and your next-best option is to use a portable organ that has an excellent church pipe organ sound. For instance, if you want to play using an acoustic grand piano sound, then your best option is to play using an actual acoustic grand piano- except it's a hassle trying to get an acoustic grand piano into the back seat of your car, so the next best option is to use a conveniently-portable digital piano that has a high-quality acoustic grand piano sound, along with authentic-feeling piano-action keys. General-purpose keyboards usually have a smorgasbord of sounds to try to fill all needs, but for specific types of sounds it's usually better to have keyboards which excel at those particular sounds.
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But by playing the different sounds on different keyboards you're able to use the full range of each keyboard for each sound, rather than being limited to just a few octaves per sound, and you can switch from playing with one sound to the other without having to press any buttons to recall the correct registration.Īnother part of it is that different keyboards may be better at making certain sounds.
And most keyboards also have registrations or memories for storing different setups and recalling them quickly, so you can switch between different sounds while playing. Most keyboards have a split function that will let you split the keys between a left section and a right section, so you can play with a different sound in each section. That's partly so you can play with more than one sound at a time. Still, the PSR-E403/YPT-400 isn't nearly as sophisticated as much more expensive ROMplers. So you can't create new sounds in the sense of loading new samples or actually editing the existing samples, but you can sort of create "new" sounds by changing how the built-in samples are played back and how their sound is modified by LPF (Low-Pass Filter) and DSP. The PSR-E403/YPT-400 is like that, and even has two "Live Control" assignable knobs that can be used to change the Cutoff and Resonance, or Attack and Release, or Reverb and Chorus while you're playing, as is generally true with a synth. On the other hand, some ROMplers let you modify how the samples sound by changing things like the ADSR envelope (Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release), the filter parameters (cutoff frequency and resonance level), and DSP effects (Digital Signal Processing) such as reverb and chorus that can be applied to the sound. But even though they technically are synths of a sort, ROMplers usually aren't considered to be synths per se, because in general synths let you create new sounds on the fly, and normally the only way to create a new sound on a ROMpler is to load new sound samples into its expansion memory- although lower-end ROMplers don't usually have expansion memory (the PSR-E403/YPT-400 does not), so you're limited to using just the built-in sound samples. Is it a synthesizer? Yes, technically it's a type of synth commonly called a "ROMpler"- a synth that plays sound samples (a "sampler"), but the samples can't be modified because they're stored in ROM (Read-Only Memory). But I do have the YPT-400, which is the same as the PSR-E403, so I'll talk about it. I'm not familiar with the Korg, so I can't compare and contrast it with the PSR-E403.