Item Reviews for: Korg SV173 Vintage Stage Piano  -  KOR SV173 LIST

Probably a great keyboard if we could find one that works
By: Lu Ann Bradshaw from Andover KS      Submitted: 3/20/2013

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Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? We purchased this keyboard and it was defective right out of the box. Three of the keys were frozen. So we returned it and AMS shipped another one. This time, only one key was frozen but it was defective nonetheless so we had to return the second one as well. It seems to me that making sure the keys work would be the simplest quality assurance task that could be performed on a keyboard yet we got two in a row that had this defect. We still want the keyboard but we are forced to buy it from a local retail store so that we can take it out of the box to make sure all the keys work. We spent 2 months receiving and shipping back defective keyboards and have no more time to waste. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? N/A since we never got to use the two we received. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Seems like it would be easy to use but don't know yet since we had to return both of ours Sound How is the tone? N/A Overall Your general opinion of this product. Love the idea of this keyboard and the one we saw in a retail store seemed awesome. Hopefully we will find one that is not defective soon. Value Was this item an overall good value? Seems like a good keyboard if Korg could get their quality under control.
I have giged with this for a year now. Sounds and plays great add ver 2 patches
By: roger B from Manistique Mi, rogerbeau@gmail.com      Submitted: 6/12/2011

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Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? I have had no problems with this unit. I have updated the BIOS and added ver2 patches from the Korg site. Only complaint is the rounded corners make it hard to handle, wants to slip from your hands Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Like the vintage sounds and easy of customizing them. Like the easy location of controls. So So on the weighted keyboard. Would like to see some add vintage patches like Sax and Harmonica Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Operation is straight forward. Pick the sound and add some additional effects if you feel like it. Easy write to memory. The loading of the Ver2 patches required a bit more thought and contains 8 patches which replace the presets. This means you lose the option to save your twek sound. So you may not want to load the 8 preset patches with ver2 sounds Sound How is the tone? I was a bit dispointed in the piano sounds but much better with the Ver2 sounds from Korg. Love the organ with the Lesley speaker effect. Value Was this item an overall good value? I bought this because of the weighted keys and the vintage sounds. Great for classic rock songs. Not sure now if the action was worth the extra weight and $. May have oped for a lighter action with some addition sounds. But love the vintage that are with in this board.
Vintage Tunes!
By: Rhodes Fanatic from washington      Submitted: 6/29/2010

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Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Only had it a few weeks now but it is high quality. Driver updates regularly, very intuitive interface. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? I like the ability to re-write your own custom settings over the pre existent sound banks, but i wish there was a more extensive 15 or 31 band eq on the program rather than a bass treble mid. Its difficult to switch your external eq for different sound banks during live shows. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? The knobs on the front are okay for quick dialing in, but the interface via CPU is where this baby gets its value. You can only tweak so much on the panel, by integers of 10, which can make getting the perfect sound difficult. But when you get into the program and tweak it is way more customizable and you can really fine tune your sound to get it just spot on. Sound How is the tone? Great tone. I mostly use the Rhodes and the piano pads strings, but they all sound awesome. The rhodes can come across a little to bellish at times, which is why i wish the eq was a bit more extensive to really cut down certain harsh frequencies, but i can do that externally so it really sounds great. The piano is decent in stereo and the ability to throw it into an amp sim really gives it some Death Cab flavor. Value Was this item an overall good value? When you can find this thing cheaper, at a sight like AMS that will offer you a 15% discount during 4th of july, YES! although at full price it may not be so awesome.
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