Korg X5D 61 Key Synth

Playing with funk, soul, blues and rock bands for ten years.

Great little synth for the money I think. Some very useable sounds, nice organs, very nice rhodes and some excellent strings, brass and woodwind patches. Pianos were fairly bad IMO but electric pianos good. Drums and Effects are okay for the price. No aftertouch, arps or sequencing, its bsically a sound module with keys!

User interface isnt very friendly and programming patches and adding effects is very fiddly, but it taught me a lot about programming and is grand to use live or at home once you become familiar. I never had any faults with it except the power adpater cable is poorly designed and breaks/shorts easily. It survived a fall from height except for breaking two keys which are cheaply available from korg and easy install so its fairly rugged. Its also extremly light and compact which makes lugging it around very easy.

Good for a beginner synth or for basic live work.