I’m trying to figure out how sturdy this beast is.
I won’t have space to keep it always on my desk, so sometimes it will be leaning on the wall, vertically, on its side.
Will that be a problem?
Don’t do that…
You’ll mess up the paint job at minimum. At least get a soft case.
How sturdy?
Chuck Norris lost a blinking contest with the AK screen.
It’s a carpet floor, so that should help with saving the paint, I might put some soft materials on the wall so it will lean against something nice.
Apart from the paint though, it is as a tank a the A4, right?
It’s solidly built from strong metal. However, you’ll want to be careful of the overhang at the front of the keybed. I’d be wary of someone (myself included) accidentally kicking a key off when it was leaning against the wall.
Food for thought: a stud-finder, a couple of shelf brackets, and a piece of remainder lumber would be a quick and cheap DIY solution to avoid having to lean it against the wall.
Give it a shelf above the desk. If guitar players can hang their instruments all over the wall, why can’t we?
The AK sounds super sturdy! There’s no equivalent. The sturdiness makes my woofers go wild!!!
And, yes, the build quality is second to none. But hey, I have a Prophet 600 running next to the AK, which wouldn’t pass any quality control nowadays, and it still sounds and plays great (and looks good). Just be careful when you’re not playing the shit out of your keys and then, sturdy or not, you’ll be just fine.
I think all this worrying about breaking the keys is a bit nonsense. Yes, we’ve all seen pictures of the original Odyssey having broken keys, but if you don’t go around throwing your keyboard or taking a hammer to the keys, there’s not much to be afraid of. For all the paranoia (underbridge? really???) I have yet to see one actual report with photo of any owner breaking a single key. I’m not saying it can’t or won’t happen, I just think there are much more important things to worry about.
I’m generally not worried about it, but when you lean something on the wall it is eventually going to get kicked.
I don’t feel any need to get the underbridge, but I also don’t leave my keybeds lying around at foot level.
+1
It’s a $1500 instrument you guys, why are you treating it like your $200 Laptop? Where is this fear of broken keys even coming from?
Take care of it like a normal person but it’s not like its a giant slab of glass either.
@op - got a pic of your workspace? May be that theres some better space-saving solution. Leant against a wall sounds a recipe for disaster imo, sturdy or not (why risk it?).
Here a picture, it would either lean where the midi keyboard is now or against the wall next to the A4.
its totally good to go, i do the same thing.
Key exposure and duff inside the display are a issue for SOME
Tight squeeze! Something im picking up next month is a swivel arm to attach to my desk, so that the laptop and 2nd display are floating over my Instruments - that may work in your situation too (can be a bit pricey though), could ditch that riser then. Or maybe a laptop table (can pick em up for like £25-30) and have it against the wall?
its built better than the boxes