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Those of you who subscribe to Scribd (and maybe even those of you who don't), can now access several back issues of the late, lamented B3 Player Magazine, which have been uploaded by a guy named Christian Madden. They contain an incredible wealth of useful information -- transcriptions, instructional material, interviews, reviews, etc, -- for organists from beginners to expert. I wish it were still being published. Thank you, Mr. Madden, whoever you are. And thanks to Scribd, which is an amazing resource for musicians. https://www.scribd.com/user/544296969/Christian-Madden/uploads

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- Los Lobos at the Channel in Boston in 1985: I was in grad school at MIT and heard cuts from Will the Wolf Survive on the student radio station, bought the LP and then got tickets the next day and my skeptical wife said "we are going to see a Mexican polka band?" One of the all time exciting shows I've ever seen; the energy and joy was just over the top. (It was also one of the loudest I've ever been to...but that is coincidental) I saw Los Lobos at Irving Plaza in NYC during the same tour, also because I'd heard "Will The Wolf Survive" on the radio and was curious. Can confirm that it was a stunningly brilliant show, and also ear-shattering loud (I think I actually had my fingers in my ears for much of show). It led me to take a deep-dive into accordion-driven Tejano music -- Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez, Steve Jordan, etc -- and to eventually buy a cheap accordion so I could play a bit of it (along with Klezmer music). Still love Los Lobos.

Of the many DP's -- too many!-- I've played, and owned over the decades, my GEM Promega 3 remains my unqualified favorite. Beautiful APs, EPs and other stuff, lovely keyboard, simple, intuitive interface. Too damn heavy for gigging given what I typically get paid for a gig here in flyover country, but still a joy a home. I have an RP-X which occasionally I've used on gigs, but I'm so lazy that I usually can't be bothered with making the extra-cable connections.

I discovered in high school that I could not remember tunes or arrangements or lyrics or sequences of synth patches or anything. So I became a jazz musician and stuck to playing the piano.

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Too amazing to be true, perhaps.

Looks cool, but my brain would probably have a hard time playing it.

Are you talking about this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218514522127298&set=a.1025664294855&type=3&theater Yes. In the comments that accompany the teaser for the Mojo Classic that Crumar posted today, I think that's what Marco Ballarani is suggesting. I don't know what else that organ in the foreground could be. I don't recognize it. Do you?

If you go to Crumar's FB page and look at the photo posted on February 19th, you can see part of the new Mojo Classic in the foreground. https://www.facebook.com/instruments.crumar/

This is both amazing and terrifying. The era of Deep Fakes is upon us. It will not end well.

I had similar issues with my Mojo dual. I also found that the relative clarity of various registers on the organ was often different from venue to venue, and that the on-board EQ controls on the Mojo were not nearly sufficient to get the thing to sound the way I wanted it to sound. Got myself this inexpensive Behringer 9-band equalizer, and found that it really helped make the board a lot more tweakable: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FBQ800--behringer-minifbq-fbq800?&mrkgcl=28&mrkgadid=3308753025&product_id=FBQ800&campaigntype=shopping&campaign=aaShopping%2520-%2520SKU%2520-%2520Studio%2520%26%2520Recording&adgroup=Signal%2520Processing%2520%26%2520500%2520Series%2520-%2520Behringer%2520-%2520fbq800&placement=google&creative=290335234556&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmZDxBRDIARIsABnkbYSChQZIX29WuY1OgW8wMJCC3WGnsQJ5R-2_AEsyBdD0xd1HSLAolZ8aAoi7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds It weights next to nothing, and though it feels really cheaply made, it's dirt cheap and get's the job done. I've never played the Mojo with a Leslie, but YouTube has videos of people doing just that:

Okay, I had assumed from the original post that you were interested in using the lower manual as a stand-alone controller. But from the above post I think you are wanting to play an external module from the lower manual, while it"s connected to your Mojo61. That"s exactly what many of us are doing. In my case, the module is an iPad, Check out the long Mojo 61 Review thread below. On Page 26 (by my prefs) there"s a discussion on how to set that up. Hope this helps! Exactly what I'm hoping to do. I'm going to look for your post now. Thanks!

I'm using the Mojo 61 with lower manual mostly for straight ahead jazz organ trio stuff. But I'm thinking about expanding my palette by using the upper manual for organ, and then, via an external sound module, splitting the lower manual between bass sounds and other sounds -- pianos, pads, synth, whatever. I realize I could do this using a second keyboard, but that introduces its own set of complications. Just thought this might be worth a try, which is why I asked the question.

Thanks! I messaged them about this and I'm waiting for an answer.