Whats a decent price for a Used Roland Fr8x/

[Valski]

I've just taken delivery of a brand new 8X for £3719. Lots to learn now

Congratulations and have lots of fun.

 

[Mockie]

Good price, I bought a used one, very low mileage for €3800, very happy. great instrument, The bellows is the first thing to get right, you can experiment with different settings until you find one that's near enough to an acoustic accordion. It will be different though but it will be outweighed by all the goodies . I

 

[The Gambler]

Good price, I bought a used one, very low mileage for €3800, very happy. great instrument, The bellows is the first thing to get right, you can experiment with different settings until you find one that's near enough to an acoustic accordion. It will be different though but it will be outweighed by all the goodies . I

That's exactly what I'm experimenting at the moment, as out the box setting is way harder than my Hohner acoustic

 

[Alan Sharkis]

Not only complex, but useless and FAR from complete. I hated that manual even before I had an 8X... lol

I made a backing track for Tom but I cheated... I record 4 channels to my recorder/mixer... FR-8X L and R hands and the BK-7m L and R channels, I just exported the 2 BK channels and sent them to him in a MP3 file... 30 seconds of work and done.

The problem with backing tracks is that you absolutely have to play it 100% the same... each time, so I am not a big fan of backing tracks, the arranger gives me a bit of fluidity and control.

True enough, Jerry. But even

 

[JerryPH]

True enough, Jerry. But even

I understand, and yes playing with straight backing tracks can be very satisfying too.

 

[Keymn]

Thats because it wasn't as well known, Older synths and Cordovoxes had no programmability that could be added beyond the sounds they came with and those were far limited in comparison.

Play with your 4X on nothing but factory sounds... then play with them using a Richard Noel or Mathis set, you will see that:
1. They don't really do anything all that special with their programming and...
2. The sounds are FAR superior than full factory only and that this is the way they SHOULD come from the factory.

Comparing a huge keyboard to an accordion is not making that large keyboard in to an accordion. Some people have the gift of being able to move back and forth between full sized keyboards and digital accordions... unfortunately, I feel that I am the majority in that if I want to play a digital accordion, I have no desire to connect to an external 44-keyed arranger. . Thats not to say I'd not consider an arranger from Korg that takes that keyboard off and makes it 1/4 the size and lower in price, but then again, I'd likely still continue the path to programming my 8X... it's fun and educational, and let's me get the most of my financial investment.

Actually not difficult to program…I use quite brighter sound on my accordion then most…guess cause of my Milwaukee polka roots…? A keyboard arranger like Korg pa1000, light/lighter then accordion and powerful arranger much like the FR4x. Easier to program backing styles…as the keys are more responsive to play and create a style loop. The midi to style function is very powerful as it creates the intros, variations endings with once touch of a button. One of the reason I went with pa1000 as my older fr3x did not have that feature.

You will never have to purchase another arranger as it has many ways to upgrade. Like software PaManager ables you to format new styles to the older models…