I definitely like what I see in the V-stage. I have no use for one, but would surely enjoy playing it.
That said a stage keyboard emphasizes on quickly selecting and tweaking bread and butter sounds: piano, organ, electric piano and synth (probably pads, strings, brass). You just press a button in each section and voila, you have that sound up and instantly tweakable with the controls.
The Montage, well not so fast. You have to make a performance, select the parts one by one, add/program effects with a gazillion parameters each and go into so many screens and settings it would make a space-x rocket blush.
Or you can bail out and use one of the thousands preset performances, just modifying it a bit to suit your needs (Just going through the performances though is a tough job)
BUT once you have done this for and you have a live set for what you are going to play (live) it's instantly recallable.
The Montage as a massive instrument/workstation/synth can probably do most of what the V-stage can and then some (going into completely alien synthesized sounds). Sure some sounds will be better on the V-stage (the organs I guess). But the workflow would be vastly different anyway. I can easily see a serious gigging musician having a good reason to own both.
That said a stage keyboard emphasizes on quickly selecting and tweaking bread and butter sounds: piano, organ, electric piano and synth (probably pads, strings, brass). You just press a button in each section and voila, you have that sound up and instantly tweakable with the controls.
The Montage, well not so fast. You have to make a performance, select the parts one by one, add/program effects with a gazillion parameters each and go into so many screens and settings it would make a space-x rocket blush.
Or you can bail out and use one of the thousands preset performances, just modifying it a bit to suit your needs (Just going through the performances though is a tough job)
BUT once you have done this for and you have a live set for what you are going to play (live) it's instantly recallable.
The Montage as a massive instrument/workstation/synth can probably do most of what the V-stage can and then some (going into completely alien synthesized sounds). Sure some sounds will be better on the V-stage (the organs I guess). But the workflow would be vastly different anyway. I can easily see a serious gigging musician having a good reason to own both.
Statistics: Posted by sonic2000gr — Thu May 08, 2025 6:05 am