Talk:Keith Emerson/Archive 2

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"There are a couple of missing instruments from the documented rigs of Keith Emerson... noted on company sites and also by Wikipedia itself. The Kurzweil K250, invented by Ray Kurzweil, and the Roland JD 800 are two extremely well sounded and patched state of the art synthesizers relating directly to Robert Moog. The Kurzweil project was consulted by Moog after his departure from Moog synthesizers, and the 250 was used by Keith after Robert Moog had left his own company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzweil_K250

The Roland JD 800 and JD 990 I have seen elsewhere were used in the 1990's as part of Emerson's rigs... the 800 being the keyboard version and the 990 the module. They were at the time the state of the art synths from Roland, and based on analog synthesizer sound, though engineered digitally. There is a rolling controversy about adapting the analog synth sound of the seventies and eighties into digital formats... somewhere along the lines of vinyl album recordings vs CDs. A digital version of an analog synth will always and forever be an imitation of an infinite possibility analog synth, albeit touchy and flaky in performance, requiring high maintenance. The digital version of anything is limited by the sampling capability of the patches stored and recreated on board the synthesizer of the original analog sound. It is much like looking at the sun outdoors, versus taking a picture... or many pictures... of the sun outdoors. While the photos resemble the appearance of the sun, and can call into immediate use any appearance of the sun, it is not and never will be the actual sun. Analog clocks theoretically have an infinite number of time representations, and digital clocks do not. The digital clock is less touchy, but keeps time in a usable way that serves mankind. The analog clock being the original form of clock... mechanical or electric... possesses somewhat of an old world mystique, while the digital clocks have utilitarianism and can be taken anywhere as long as there are batteries or electricity. Ultimately, it is the mind of the user who has to decide if digital representation of sound and or music is sufficient for his own tastes.

The reason the Kurzweil and the Roland synths are so very important is that these are two keyboard instruments which held preeminent positions in Emerson's rigs from the nineties on. To accurately represent Keith Emerson's sounds, especially in his last 25 years of life, one needs to be using Roland and Kurzweil. In the music world... most musicians look down on Yamaha and Korg synthesizers as also-rans which are constantly playing catchup to the superior Kurzweil and Rolands. Stevie Wonder would not think about going on stage without a Kurzweil, being instrumental in the company's beginnings, and the Roland analog sound broke ground in the 1980's with the Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 synthesizers which had no competition or rival in the Yamaha lineup, including the DX-1 and the DX-7 digital Yamaha synths of that time period. Also, the Kurzweil 250 represented a new sound level in sampling digital synthesizers that actually bankrupted other competitors in the early 90's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_JD-800"

Should any of this information be added, if suitably supported by sources? It all looks like someone's personal opinion to me. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

I have adjusted the infobox per the template's documentation, all other instruments should be brought up in the Instrumentation section. Mlpearc Phone (open channel) 18:40, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Infobox change

@86.174.162.59: Consensus is needed for infobox changes. - Mlpearc (open channel) 20:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)