Dave Weiser

I'll have whatever he's having! I'll bet he's a fun hang - the guy seems genuinely full of joy. (And of course I'm a huge fan of his playing and singing.)

I may or may not have killed a lot of brain cells while listening to this album in college. This one and Paul's Boutique are still big favorites.

I love so many things about this one. Can't believe I hadn't seen it until recently.

That right there is some damned good parenting. I salute you!

The funk is strong with them, love the music. The bari sax is a freaking treat. But mostly I'm just so tickled that they go the extra mile for the gag.

These guys have it all.

My friends at R&D told me that these were in fact hand built prototypes. Based on how the PC4 and K27 turned out, I'm optimistic that these new units will look cool when they're released.

Your best bet is to ask in the PC4 Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541708299314501

That Rhodes sound could make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window! Thanks for sharing. My only complaint is that he didn't take a rippin' solo.

Fair enough - I stand corrected. Tatum was a beast! I also just checked out some old Fats Waller clips - glad to have a reason to revisit that stuff, so much fun. Nothing like a good Youtube rabbit-hole!

The second half of this thing is bonkers - seems to be at the edge of what is humanly possible!

THIS. The many layers of analog goodness through which the Beatles' Pianet signal traveled makes me shiver. Preamp, compressor, mixing board, tape, etc, all contributed to it sounding so damned good. The clip you posted shows a nice contrast of what you get when you don't have the signal path of analog sweetner. (Very cool to have that clip though!) To get the murk and the grunge on the Kurzweil preset, I actually ran it through a Leslie effect on slow (possibly at 50% wet?), with a bit of overdrive and the high freqs rolled off. For the warble (the Pianet's vibrato), I just used an LFO in the synthesis engine to mod pitch slightly. Also, I found another clip with the exposed Pianet for Getting Better. Again, I think it's such a pleasing tone - I could listen to that sucker all day. (Pianet at 10:48)

I had no idea that Viv Savage was in a band!! I'll be checking out Rare Bird later tonight. Thanks for mentioning! When I was new at Kurz, they gave me the task of recording the Pianet samples with a 24-bit DAT machine. (It was 2001.) We usually recorded 4 takes of each key, but went with 8 for the Pianet because the notes could be so finicky. Later on, getting to create presets out of the processed samples was much more fun.

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this - the isolated Pianet (with guitar) track from I Am the Walrus. Back when I worked for Kurzweil, I spent a million hours working on a Pianet preset for this song, and holy sh*t I would have loved to have had access to this audio! (Instead of listening to the opening few seconds on infinite repeat.) The Pianet bit starts at 8:10, but the whole thing is awesome.

That right there is a cool signature. Wow!