Workstations (I need a good one to learn piano on)

[Juho L]

Triton Extreme is ok, but some of the ROM samples are weak and a bit 90'shy (weird artifical sound). This actually means that to get all joy out of Triton Extreme you'll have to use the sampler board.

Motif ES8 is great, but has crappy orcestral sounds and acoustic pianos are bit weak. Also the touch of that keyboard seems a bit spongy, so it's not a hammer-action at all.

Fantom X8 would be the best option for piano's because it has the same hammer-action keyboard and piano samples as Roland SX-series stage pianos. It also has some interesting sampling features, which makes it very good for loop-munging. I'm not sure what kind of problems there have been with X-series. I have two friends with X-series synths and they haven't had any trouble (except one, who first had a faulty unit, which he traded instantly to a new one in the store).