DaveMcM

I have the DMC-122/Gemini and don't find the AP to be laggy at all.

Why thank you.

Go to www.whois.com and type in the website address. Then click on the WhoIs button and this will show the owner of the website and contact info. Maybe even though he is not actively supporting the musicator program, maybe he will still help you out. Just a thought.

Thanks for the heads up on the Electra brand. I just picked one up. It's the Townie 21D. Road it last night after dark around the neighborhood and it is so much more comfortable than my other bikes. Sitting with a straight back, no pressure on my wrists, it's great. http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/wdmcmahan/ElectraTownie21D_zpsljsailk5.jpg

Funny a thread about bikes show up. Just yesterday I was cleaning my two bikes with the thought of selling or trading them in on a new one. http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/wdmcmahan/Cannondale%20Silk%20Path%20500_zps8icpd7m9.jpg http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/wdmcmahan/Schwinn%20Le%20Tour%20III_zpsjbnrierw.jpg

I wonder if these or something similar are made in a small enough size to fit a R&R cart: Marathon Industries Never mind, I didn't realize RocknRoller already had these.

looks like it's going to be shown at Messe 2016. DD is correct, the photo I saw is E-E You're correct. And it looks like they shifted the upper manual to the right by one key width so both keybed a still line up. Smart.

If that's true, I wonder if they removed the left lower end block to make room, turning it into a 74 note keyboard or did they shift the keys to the right by one note (which would make it feel very weird when playing it as a dual manual organ).

i purchased the Upgrade Kit 'C' from CPS to turn my Mk2 into a Mk3 and just finished the upgrade. Well worth the price of admission. The highs and mids are more defined, the bass is tight and more present and the new side speaker is much fuller sounding than the original. Very happy, thanks for making this kit available Aspen.

I played that instrument at a NAMM show way back when. What a cool looking beast.

Hi Rich, The Pro3 has a single footswitch input that utilizes a TRS (tip/ring/sleeve or 'stereo') jack. Using a male to male stereo 1/4" cable, the sleeve (the metal closest to the cable) serves as ground for both switches. The tip of the 1/4" male jack goes to one switch and the ring goes to the other. The Pro3 responds to the state of both switches, either opened or closed circuit independently to allow separate control of stop/start and fast/slow. I'll bet your unit accepts a dual switch. If you have a 1/4" stereo male to male cable hanging around, try plugging it in and use a short piece of wire to connect the tip to the sleeve and then the ring to the sleeve. That's the way to know for sure. If it accepts a TRS cable, then the tip will do one thing and the ring will do the other. If a TRS cable can't be used, you won't hurt anything by trying this little test because the worst that will happen is you connect ground to ground which will do nothing.

Regarding attached cables. There is a convenience of having permanently attached cables to pedals. But then again, the most likely thing to go wrong with a pedal is the cable. I have a couple of old Roland EV5's and M-Audio EX-P expression pedals, all of which ended up with bad cables. I replaced the cable on them all with female stereo TRS jacks so I can use separate 1/4" TRS cables with them. I keep several extra cables in my gig bag as backup. I am even thinking about doing the same thing to my damper pedals.

Single footswitch Dual Footswitch Either of these should work. I use one similar to the dual FS above when I take my Motion Sound Pro 3 to gigs so I have control over both speed and start/stop. I like having the LED's so I know the state of the rotor speed without having to turn around and look at the horn, or try to remember where I left it on the last song. The battery lasts a long time because the LED's draw very little power.

I use an SWR workingman's 10 (sorry, I said 12", it's a 10" actually). It's small, light, and fills out the low end.

When I know that is going to happen I use the sub out through a single 12" bass amp and problem solved.

I was introduced to the original Space Station Mk1 years ago at a NAMM show and was impressed. I currently own a Mk2 and it always draws attention, first during set-up and especially once I start playing. The sound this little box puts out is incredible. Organ (Hammond XK3 and/or Roland VR760), Rhodes, Synth, Strings, etc. from my Korg Krome 88 are just great. And after some parameter tweaking the acoustic pianos are fine as well. I really can't say enough about the Space Station. I can't wait to hear the new version.

My pleasure. Surely there are some kind of stores in your neck of the woods that could recreate that battery. Maybe this one; Batteries Plus 130 King St, York, ON M9N 1L5 416-861-0212 -or- Batteries Expert 633, boul Jutras E, Victoriaville, QC G6P 7H4 819-758-2020 Good luck and let me know if I can help in any way. Best Regards, Dave

Hi Sue, Nice to hear from you. The problems you are describing sound more like a software issue rather than a battery issue. On the other hand, it would be a good idea to replace the battery anyway since it probably can't hold much of a charge at this point. If you pull the battery out of the unit and take it to a Batteries Plus store, I'm sure they can make a new one for you that will plug right in. Or you can try contacting Artie in Chicago. If you need his contact info just send me a PM. Now on to the problem. The first question out of any decent tech support person's mouth is "have you tried a hard reset?" So... My guess is you have, so moving to step #2, we can try reinstalling the O/S. I can email you the instructions with links to the necessary files, but you need a special cable (pin out diagram is included in the document) and a Windows PC running Win98, although I have known Win XP to work, but have no experience with Win7. Hope this helps, Dave

Hi guys!

Stop, you're making me blush. But seriously, it was my pleasure to help out. And you just reminded me that I meant to mention the Equinox as well. What an instrument. Besides a powerful synth engine, and a special Drawbar Organ mode, you could assign separate sequenced phrases (called Grooves) to each key. These could be one shot or looped and the pitch bend wheel could be set to a mode that simulated turntable scratching. The unfortunate situation with that instrument was this. Someone at Generalmusic either in the US or Italy decided that it would be a great choice to have Peavey be the U.S. distributor of GEM pro keyboards. "If I had been around during that time and had any say in the matter...." Not to slight Peavey by any means. I have a lot of respect for the man and the company. But keyboards is not something that they should have ever got involved in, IMO. Anyway, Dave, I'm glad you still are getting use out of your Equinox collection. I would love to have a 76 note version.

Glad to see Generalmusic (GEM) being discussed. I was working in music retail when the S2/3 and SX2/3 were introduced. They had some great features that went beyond what other brands offered at the time. After a 5 year stint working for ENSONIQ in Pennsylvania I moved back to Cincinnati and nabbed a position at Baldwin in their digital piano division. Generalmusic in Italy manufactured the Pianovelle line for Baldwin. After Baldwin was taken over by Gibson I continued on with Generalmusic. If the marketing had been different in the US, and had the powers that be in Italy taken our suggestions, perhaps GEM would still be around today. It is very sad that such an innovative group of product designers and engineers are no longer creating new GEM products. The Genesys line was very, very cool. It was a pro level synth workstation with 32 sequencer tracks, internal hard drive, audio recording direct to hard drive, internal CD burner, 32 MIDI channel capability, mic/line inputs and 4 part vocal harmonizer, etc. And then there was the Promega line. Not until you sat down a played that instrument a while did you realize just how great is sounded (and still does for that matter) and how very useful the front panel layout is for live use.

Hi Erik, The B2 does not have percussion. However, percussion can be added to the B2 so that is not a problem. I have added a Trek II Percussion unit to my B2 and it is actually better than the original percussion on the B3. Instead of just having the ability to turn 2nd or 3rd harmonic percussion on and off, and only having a choice of fast or slow decay and normal or soft volume, the Trek II offers 2nd, 3rd and 5th harmonic percussion selections each having individual volume faders. The decay is also controlled by a continuous fader. So you have much more control over the percussion than on the stock percussion. An added bonus is the potential to have a combination of 2nd, 3rd and 5th harmonics playing simultaneously all with their own volumes. Plus you can decide which set of tone wheels will be shut off when the percussion is active. This unit creates the percussion sound in the very same way as the B3 original percussion unit so the sound is identical. See the Trek II HERE The other difference is in the physical drawbars. The B2 drawbars have very noticeable notches though the 8 steps that make it very hard to due "on the fly" drawbar changes. The notches were removed on the B3 (the 8 volume steps are still there, but the drawbars move smoothly from one step to the next. All in all, if you can get the B2 for $500.00 that is a very righteous deal. Best Regards, Dave