Moonglow

Congratulations, Tom. Now play the sh1t out that piano!

One of my favorite bands during the 1980s was Journey, and Jonathan Cain became one of my first keyboard heroes. The Prophet-5 and Jupiter-8 were prominently featured in Journey’s albums (e.g., Escape, Frontiers) and I attended concerts where Jonathan use both of these axes. I have heard Journey live in recent years, and I’m quite certain Mr. Cain could afford to maintain an arsenal of Prophets and Jupiters, but to my ears his Jupiter-80 and Kong Triton Studio fulfilled these roles quite nicely. As with pianos, EPs, organs, clav, etc., it seems the issue here is the extent to which the advantages of using reasonable facsimiles of analog synths (e.g., romplers) offset the advantages of the genuine article.

I would like to see a set list feature added to the Nord Stage 4.

It’s been a while, but I ran the KB3 engine in my PC3x through an original Vent to see what it sounded like. Substantial improvement. Kind of had a greezy thing going on, IIRC.

+1 for a piano mover. Also, obtain a few estimates if possible. I recently moved a spinet out of my mom’s basement, and the first guy I called wanted $1,800. Younger kid, rather snippy/arrogant, gave me a litany of what would be involved. Said he could squeeze me into his schedule. I then found a local family-owned piano moving business that has been around for over 40 years; they did it for $300. I must confess experiencing some delight in telling the fist guy to go piss up a rope.

Okay, sorry, I’ll stop being goofy.

Thanks for the information. I was initially wondering if this thread had anything to do with the present date, but decided to bite. A couple more: You Are My Sunshine …..and how could I not recommend “Moonglow” I do understand the “broad spectrum of audience” thing probably disqualifies these entires, although if your audience is of a certain age…

Dark Side of the Moon

The “required” component seems to be a (very) “old school” type of thing. I recently watched the movie, The Rat Race (1960) where Tony Curtis plays an aspiring sax player who eventually lands a gig on a cruise ship where he is required to “mix” with folks in the crowd. I never minded doing this sort of thing, but it was not required at any venue I played. Back in the day (circa 1980s) I often did it to promote our band; we called it “hustling.” Read the room, and as EL Lobo suggested, express appreciation. I usually keep it short and simple, “Hi, I’m Chris, I’m in the band, and just wanted to thank you for sharing your evening with us.” I try to keep moving along, but will certainly talk more if they engage in reciprocal conversation.

The Nord Stage with a Ventilator sounds better than the Kronos/CX-3 with a Ventilator. Nord Stage + Ventilator > Kronos/CX-3 + Ventilator

I’ve found that certain Leslie simulators sound better than others depending on the source organ. I have an original Ventilator which sounds comparatively better when paired with my (original) Nord Stage than the Kronos CX-3.

I purchased Organimation for the Kronos which delivered organ programs with considerably improved Leslie simulation compared to the stock programs and/or anything I could come up with. There are some excellent programs in that package, and I use it with my smaller “B rig” which does not involve the Ventilator. The problem is that the Organimation parches are extremely resource intensive when it comes to effects, so when using an Organimation program within a Combi, another non-organ patch in the Combi can easily “steal” crucial effects from the Organimation program, producing less-than-desirable results. So you have to decide between using an effects-compromised Organimation program or an effects-compromised (non-organ) program in the Combi.

Thanks for posting that, very cool. I discovered that I’ve been playing the Rosanna piano part wrong all these years, albeit only slightly wrong. 😁

I bypass the internal sim for my CX-3 programs, which are routed to a separate output, going to a Ventilator. I typically assign the CX-3 program to a channel within a Combi and use the slider associated with that channel to control volume/overdrive. I understand that most folks would probably opt for a pedal for this purpose.