Roland XP 60 v/s K2000 which one's better?

[Feltronc]

Guys, i need your help quickly 'cause in the upcoming weeks i must buy a keyboard, and i don't know which is better, the XP 80 or the K2000..-
i need you to give me reasons

thanks a lot

(i actually own a korg x5d)

[Tusker]

There is quite a difference in key action between the XP80 and the XP60. The XP80 is better.

Here are the pros:

K2000

- ability to VAST (advanced synthesis) including a lot of VA (virtual analog) functions
- upgradable through sampling option (a little limited by today's standards)
- wheels
- DSP Oscillators sound stronger than XP80 samples


XP60

- Better keybed (and the 80 is even better)
- Better interface for programming
- Better samples (IMO)
- Upgradable through expansion cards
- More polyphony (64 versus 24) in most applications
- Better effects

The K2000 is a more experimental, adventurous synth. You can mangle sound with it. The XP is a practical gigging synth. I would buy a K, but that's becuase I would get the polyphony and samples from my other synths.

Does this help?

Jerry

[Taurus]

I own an XP-80 and indeed, im not regretting any of it and im using it as my main board. The custom sounds you can get for this board are often amazing. The presets themselves are great great quality too, especially the strings and pads, so you can quickstart very easilly. Its more of an allround board, but creating sounds goes very easy because of XP-80's big display.
I'd like to have your X5D as well though, since that would combine a great setup! :)

Im unfamiliar with the k2000 so perhaps to some people i might be pimping my XP too much, compared to the k2000. Anyways, an XP is expandable, you'll be able to put 4 expansion cards in the XP-80. So i think in the end you can end up with 10.000's of different sounds: presets, customs, expansioncards..

[synthguy]

I have a K2000 module, and if you want a straight comparison, the others have it right. The Kurzweil is a much better synthesizer and it has some excellent sounds. The effects are pretty good but very limited, and if you use chorus and reverb, the reverb quality is a bit lame. If you want to get into programming your own sounds, VAST will take your breath away. It's VERY powerful, and you have tools available in it's processing functions you may never know quite what to do with. But it has plenty of features that make sense, and Kurzweil has available thousands of patches on its website, so you may never have to program it at all! It does very good analog sounds and it has some nice juicy filters, a lot of them. It has epandable memory, and if you want to sequence on it, you simply have to get one with its ram expanded, because the patch and sequencer memory are shared. And this is different from the sample ram, the on board memory is called PRam. The sequencer is very good, but you might have to break up sequences into sections because each sequence is limited to 64K, and if you get very clever or use a lot of bender and other controllers, you'll have to do your songs in sections. The 24 voice polyphony can be pretty limiting, so you'd have to have another synth - like a K5D - to pick up the slack. :wink:

The Roland XP synths are much better all around instruments. The instrument and synth samples in rom are much better, and the filters are good for doing plenty of acoustic and synth patches. The expansion boards are fantastic, and almost give you a new instrument. The effects are much better, very flexible, and have a nice distortion on it for doing screaming leads or guitar patches. You can have three effects like distortion, chorus and reverb without affecting the quality of the effects. The organs you can create on it are superb, as are all the keyboard and drum sounds. The sequencer is the best on a synth in my opinion, and you can do a lot with it. And the synth engine in the XP has some algorithms a bit like some on the Kurzweil so you have a lot of sound making power for very expressive patches.

If I were going to pick one and didn't have another synth, I'd take the XP. Having a K5 available would make it easier to choose the Kurz, but I still lean towards the XP, because the Roland sound is so good, the sequencer so powerful, and the effects are much better.

[Feltronc]

Thanks guys for your answers and advices!
They've been very helpfull to me, but the keyboard that certain person is selling to me is a XP 30, although the specifications say that they're the same sounds of the XP 60, i think i'll go for it, 'cause i don't have so much money at this moment :cry: