zukskywalker

Incredible! I also still have my SX64. I remember commodore and sequential circuits predating midi and using the joystick ports to interface keyboard note data. (and operating in a 32K environment !) ( did anyone out here ever come across the legendary dual drive DX64?) btw it is said that the lowly AMIGA totally revolutionized video editing and video graphics forever. and then there’s SID. (REM: POKE 54296)

Oh boy, now it gets really fun!! we’re responsible for all things audible in all media so yes 5.1. i’ve had a few synths die because of the inboard cheapo displays so how about HDMI OUT with 5.1 and digital video out?(imagine the possible menu displays) And while you’re at it can I have some GPI TRIGGERING?

I voted wheels because of the convenience of standardization but for “other” I kinda like the “log” on korg’s prophecy

Yeah, I was wondering why it was so impossibly heavy. I’ve never been able to afford a Rhodes and never enjoyed the luxury of transporting one. Opened the inner vase yesterday and the harp seems to be fully intact but will likely need a good overhaul. Obvious Action work is needed on only a couple of keys. I still feel extremely blessed!

I was in such a rush to get the piano in before the wife got home that I failed to notice that it was a mark II 88! Just wow!!

Oh No!!!!! There are more?? I thought that I had ALL of them. Run away, run away! (“My god, it’s full of stars!”)

PWhile technically not a purchase. I was just gifted a Fender Rhodes Mark II. yes, though this is kinda the holy grail of electric pianos, cosmetically it is the most beat up EP that I’ve ever seen. It’ll take a few days before I can fire it up and I’m scared of what I might find. Whew. Talk about joy and pain! And it is Heavy as…

The stand is actually a discontinued ultimate support Deltex 48 pro now cut down to about 32 inches instead of 48. The Deltex is a lighter “prosumer” version of the apex and I got this one used/cheap because of a busted back leg support. I have to say that it’s a bad design but hey because of that I got it for dirt cheap!😎

Reface yc motherboard of course

Yes, absolutely! Now also working on a yc “expansion” module that will hopefully attach to the bottom of the cp(small under tray containing a yc motherboard)

first mock-up of the ultralight to include Iconnect/iPad/12step/fc7 and sustains

An iconnectaudio 4plus (powered usb) hub attached will mount on top with iPad resting(somehow) on top of the interface. (the top micro controller is a midiplus AKM 322 and it’s a tiny little beast! Wow! This thread has taken on a kinda David and Goliath feel to it and clearly Goliath wins! But dang!! (that, and I think I’ve earned the micro rig as in my early years I hauled a few Hammonds, Leslies and 88s. (I’m too old for all that now….) oh, and Goliath….let me introduce you to my little friend…the 31h/A100 combo. pics when I get back home. this is going to be fun. Let’s make some music!!

Theory of operation being that as went the “wall of sound” show methodology….so will go the Uber expensive/massive keyboard rigs and as smaller gets better downsizing becomes easier. so here is the beginnings of my first micro rig. More soon as I integrate stuff.

Great timely thread and it’s a great day for all organ. Yes the transistors started as yuck but eventually came into their own…and the Hammond schlep is the stuff of legend as is the tonewheel sound…which is now pretty accurately available at the weight of an iPad, controller and decent set of speakers or headphones. But God bless the fact that the sears and roebuck chord organ sound never caught on. Talk about butt ugly! (I didn’t get a farfisa until years later.) I so hated that thing and fortunately only struggled with it at practice. for some immediate relevance,I’ve just embarked upon a reface YC project specifically for “various” organs. Y’all are sooo lucky!! l

I had not even thought about this mod until I took the bait which was a reface yc board for sale for less than fifty bucks. I just couldn’t resist. My reface CP warranty will probably get voided today. Weee!🤠(I’ve been inside a few yammi boards before but this level of miniaturization is a bit beyond.)

Not discouraged at all and thanks for the heads up. You’re right it’s not a ton of space but maybe just enough.

There are only two boards inside every reface keyboard. The reface YC sliders/drawbars are on the “other” interface board mounted inside the top half of the keyboard. The main board mounts inside the bottom half of the shell. They’re both tiny boards with the main board being only a little larger than the interface. Lastly the cp main board is almost identical to the yc main board in every way. Tons of room inside. A crazy serious modder could probably easily squeeze all four models into one single shell.

The reface yc main board arrived today there is an indication that it’s a damaged board so i think that I’m in for it on this one! Deepest of troubles attempting board level troubleshooting and repairs await me for sure. I’ve seen grains of rice that are larger than many of the components on this board. And I don’t have a flow table. Wish me luck!

So I already use and very much enjoy a reface cp which i use primarily as a midi controlled piano module. Having now found a reface YC main cpu board for sale and also discovering that the reface CP main cpu Board is nearly identical to the reface YC main cpu board I am about to embark upon a project to add the reface YC main board into the Reface CP with the idea being to have both YC and CP in one midi controlled reface CP shell. (my thinking is that very little modification to the shell will be needed. especially if I don't need to add any manual controls for the YC ) .. So the quick question is...does anyone here know what functions on the reface YC are NOT addressable over MIDI? and while here about the reface YC does anybody know if the recent big YC leslie update might also apply to the reface YC? Many thanks in advance!

Wow...someone actually invoked the Amiga here. Incredible. and an incredible game/industry changing machine. I sat in a DC law office many, many years ago and there was a motherboard sitting on the coffee table in the waiting area that had the biggest cpu chip on it that I had ever seen. That was the motorola 68000 cpu on a soon to be released Commodore Amiga and linear editing went bye bye forever shortly after the Amiga video toaster appeared on the scene. But apple was more midi friendlythan others back in the early days so a mac plus and then the mac se-30 rocked my world way back when. today IMHO in terms of music ios pretty much rules the land.

Funky Skull

Just hearing the Doppler effect from my flying alarm clock after throwing it out the window made it a worthwhile experience!! Backstory: I had the kind of job that was ultra time sensitive and I absolutely could not be late for work in the morning. so i dutifully set my alarm clock before going to bed the night before wholly unaware of the power failure that was about to occur in the middle of the night. the phone woke me when the call came in telling me that I was late for work. You'd think that was bad enough but it gets far worse. Super pissed off about the power failure I went out and Bought a big red windup clock with the two big red bells on top...kinda cute. The next morning that puppy went off sounding like a five alarm fire right next to my head. I jumped up, slid the window open, went into quarterback mode and launched that clock waaay down the street. Briiinnnngggg!! good riddance wind up clock. ( I would so destroy that little drone alarm clock! batter, batter...batter up!)

Ok well then⦠wanna go big? I"ve got access to a 31h 'tallboy' Leslie and a Leslie 900. but I just made a minor discovery in a different direction. That being a 'mini'with a 'micro' 2nd tier nested on top. This started out as 'reface frustration' due to lack of wheels(pb and mod) and ended up with aâ¦dare I say, craptastic midiplus 322 neatly nested on top of a reface cp (see that dead space behind the fx knobs?) and never mind keybed action this combo(with a tiny bit of duct tapeâ¦.and a spongeð¤ª) makes for a neat little flyaway kit on the side. (Ready for the next time I play to the humvees rolling down mass Ave.ðâ¦somehow I think they"ll be back again.)

Happy Birthday ProfD

Well, this is overkill but it IS also a stereo volume pedal. (Adds batteries or another wall wart to your bag). And, makes for a pretty brutal clav wah underfoot. Or set to 'auto' and forget about it. Gigfx mega wah