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I would urge people to check out anything that Kit Downes (Troyka, Deadeye, and a host of other things) does, the guy is an absolute genius. Talking of genius, 'Organ Freeman' is a fantastic name for an organ-led group, wish I'd thought of it 🙂 Here's my contribution, an organ trio with a slight difference - organ, drums and…vibraphone. Saw them play in Budapest a while ago, was very nice indeed.

That sounds great, thank you so much for the link.

@Delaware Dave thanks for the confirmation. @UnderGroundGr thanks for your point, I had been vaguely aware of this issue (I'm new to the Kurzweil world), just did some further research and see that this issue was discussed on the board some years ago (including input from Dave as well). I guess the only workaround is to pair a KB3 program with a Vast B3 program, or pair two Vast B3 programs?

Hey, thanks for the reply. The specs look fine, is the feel similar to a PC4-7 (apologies if this has been discussed before).

Hi, looking to add a second keyboard to control my PC4-7 (hopefully allowing me to do dual manual organ stuff on the cheap etc). Can anyone point me in the direction of the best budget midi controller with a similar feel to the PC4 7's keybed for this simple task? Waterfall keys would be nice, and nine sliders for drawbar functions would also be good. Anyone able to help?

And, as far as I know (from another forum), the synth model expansions come in at about 120mb each (iirc), which would mean that not all of them could be loaded at any one time on the keyboard, which has 256mb for expansions/ samples. Happy to be proven wrong on this, because for me that is a major shortcoming (but possibly understandable in terms of competition to the more expensive range).

Not ever tried with a usb-c ipad, so can"t comment, sorry.

For what it's worth, I use an old Alesis IO Dock II to integrate my ipad into things, charges my ipad air 2 while using it, 'proper' interface (1/4 inch jacks, midi in/ out etc), footswitch option etc. Cheap as chips (if you can find one), not seen anything better than it around, so have three of them as back ups :-)

So you most likely saw my video Yes, it was your video/ comments I was refering to :-) I presume that your P515 is still working fine?

One thing I would add to this discussion, as a P515 owner, is that I (and at least one other person I've come across on the internet) have a problem with the headphone section of mine, namely that, if you turn the unit on and immediately start to use it with headphones, for an initial period of time the sound through the headphone sockets gradually pans randomly from side to side/ loses volume/ disappears, making it annoying at the least/ impossible at the most to use. For some reason, I have found that if you turn the unit on and leave it for 10/15 minutes, then try with headphones, the issue has disappeared. Done extensive testing on it and don't think it is a user error (happy to be advised otherwise :-)) and the other user I mentioned on a different forum reported the same issue, which was eventually resolved by a replacement part. The unit is out of warranty and I don't have the finance or logistic means to resolve the issue, so stuck with it for the time being. Apart from that (highly annoying) bug, very happy with it in general.

If it is of interest to anyone, here is what the setup ended up looking like...Yamaha ME30 going into Behringer is202 with Ipad2 running Gallileo (will integrate B3X at a later date). Yamaha automatically maps midi channel 1 for the top manual, 2 for the lower manual, 3 for the pedals (can't seem to get the Yamaha volume pedal to send midi at the moment, anyone know if this is possible?). Corey, Joey, eat your hearts out, ha ha :--)

Just thought I'd quickly post an update...based on the comments and input here (thank you!) I found a Yamaha Electone ME30 in the locality and have hooked it up via midi (yes, individual midi channels for each manual and the pedals!) into an Ipad running Galileo (haven't tried it with B3X yet). True, no drawbars etc, but a whole lot of fun to be had, and a much more satisfying experience than playing both parts on one board. Never thought I would own an Electone-type instrument, but never say never I guess :-) The only problem is that it has rather whetted my appetite for the real thing...

Thanks for all the thoughts and comments, will investigate them further. Much appreciated!

Thanks for all the input and suggestions, all very helpful. Is there any resource out there which covers fingering options/ best practices for more 'exotic' scales?

Hello all, Did a search here but couldn't find anything (although I seem to remember it was discussed sometime ago?). What's the conventional fingering pattern for a 7 b9 scale, ie (in C) C, C#, D#, E, F#, G, A, A# C? I am trying 1,2,3,1,2,1,2,3 in the RH, 4,3,2,1,3,2,1,2,1 in the LH, but it doesn't feel smooth, and in other keys this finger pattern doesn't seem to work for me. Is there a conventional fingering pattern for this scale, or could someone point me to a resource with such details? An internet search has elicited no help thus far. Thanks in advance!