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Clannad, Neville Brothers, Brothers Johnson, Staple Singers, The Waters, Aretha Franklin with her sisters on b.vox

I had no problems with the reverse black/red key SV1. I do have similar concerns for the black buttons on black panel on the new Vox Continental 73, it looks great otherwise but on a dark stage may be a bit of a nightmare, especially when it's partly hidden under another keyboard as mine usually is.

This. For the OP’s purposes the Vox ‘d be my pick if you don’t need splits, which are limited by not being able to octave shift each side of the split separately. I didn’t love the original AP patches but the baby grand (Upright bank #8) is IMO superb for jazz or soul. The organ is fine if it’s not a Hammond-centric gig (the Vox and Farfisa sound superb), the Leslie is better than that on the YC. And the OP mentioned working the synth patches live and the LED strips facilitate that nicely, though the filter sweep isn’t smooth.

That’s northern hemisphere spring, autumn here i.e. March maybe May, and iirc the first shipment of SKpros to Australia arrived just before the US got them, but who knows with COVID shipping chaos

Skx PRO | Hammond USA (hammondorganco.com)

Thanks Jim, that covers my last question, great to have both EQ on and overdrive back on the front panel. Any idea of shipping dates?

Yes. Want.

Thanks Jim, but damn, there goes this year's lunch money and then some

I think that Roland set up didn"t take off cause the RD64 just wasn"t a great dp. The convenience of a single board with 2 manuals with a handle hold built into the back panel is one of the things I love about the SK2. Fingers crossed the 23kg is wrong.

My SK2 is 16kg, if the SKpro is indeed 23kg I"ll pass.

Yes. But the main improvement of the SKx over the SK2 was the second set of draw bars. Without them it"s an SK2pro. I"ll probably buy one anyway for the key action, but i think my preference would actually be keep the second set of draw bars and lose the mono synth entirely. I guess we"ll know soon enough

Someone posted somewhere that it would have been cool if they had allowed 9 of the 10 mono synth sliders to do double duty and be switchable to act as lower manual drawbars, an interesting idea. It wasn"t me but I did think it cause it"s what"s done on my Korg Vox Continental, though I"d prefer two sets of draw bars with a button to toggle one set between draw bar messages and synth messages.

Be interesting to see if it is an SKpro with 2 manuals? or keep the 2 sets of draw bars and lose the mono synth? or redesign the top panel to fit everything in?

must be a thing. Solo from 1:05 [video:youtube]

I just purchased 2 albums from Bandcamp, it's still my go to: [video:youtube] [video:youtube]

fyi: https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/covid-19-is-speeding-up-australia-s-shift-towards-a-cashless-future/ar-AAS91zA?ocid=msedgntp Anyone doing anything like this?

Sheryl Crow songs usually had some Hammond or wurli. Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity, Cosmic Girl, Canned Heat, Black Capricorn Day ... Everything But the Girl: Missing I played a set of No Doubt songs at a tribute band gig, all really interesting keys, except I'm Just a Girl: great hook but incredibly boring to play Not sure why people are mentioning Cranberries, great songs but there's no keys afaik

There was a thread about low stands a few years back. I wanted something that I could put a speaker on and have it at head height for me sitting down. I got two of these: http://www.samsontech.com/samson/products/accessories/speaker-stands/ls40/

Pretty much this. In the lead up to Covid I'd been pretty busy with gigs and the occasional rehearsal, like other folks here I'd basically finish one gig/rehearsal and move on to learning/woodshedding/programming sounds for the next one: gigs accounted for 100% of my motivation. And then of course it all stopped. First lockdown I didn't play at all. Motivation zero. When we went into lockdown for the second time, in August, and gigs were cancelled, I asked myself what could I do that does not have the next gig as the goal? The first answer was to go back to pipe organ, repertoire I hadn't played for 35 years. Set up the SK2, explored the pipe organ stops and set up some 2-manual settings, started with the 2-part inventions, ordered a huge Bach compendium and a set of MIDI pedals. I love the sound and of course the music itself. It's therapy for my soul. Even if I am sight-reading the music, at half-pace, badly, lol And I bought a proper knobby synth, a Novation Summit. If I don't feel like playing Bach, I can sit at the Summit and find some happiness just fiddling with knobs: What can I do with this preset to make it into something where I can just revel in the ear candy? Totally unlike all the tweaking/programming I've done in the past which has always been for the next gig. And I'm learning the synth as I go, and just enjoying the process without having to worry about nailing some sound on a recording. Sometimes I'm really not motivated to do either, but if I can make the effort to sit down and turn the keyboard on, I quickly realize how much happiness can be gained from just playing. As for new gear, the Summit has worked for me, but at the same time I've hardly explored the SKpro I bought earlier in the year - used it on 4 gigs for Hammond+clav+wurli, sounds great, but it's really a gigging board, not the sort of thing I really enjoy playing alone for long, a run through Green Onions and Back at the Chicken Shack and I'm done.

From the product page: "The third stage includes a nine-band EQ that can be set using the touch controller. The final stage features a valve drive circuit with Nutube. All of these settings can all be saved to the scene memory." On the original with the 2.0 update scene memory does NOT store the EQ setting or the valve setting (or the 'dynamics' knob setting). Maybe there will be an OS update soon for the original as this seems to be the only non-cosmetic change, if the information is accurate.

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Stand: https://www.quiklok.com/product/ws-640-multi-purpose-t-stand/ I think K&M make a similar model. My SK2 gigbag is a Gator, not sure what model but it fits great and has held up for years of gigs and rehearsals.

Barbieri is the antithesis of the keyboardist whose needs can be met with a tonne of preset sounds. He's not a player, he's a sound designer: 'I didn"t have any technical ability, and I didn"t have any musical theory knowledge,' Barbieri tells us. 'Until I got a synthesizer and then the controls became more important to me than the keys. I actually started to forget about the keys and just explored sounds using the controls. I found a way to do something that sounded different and that a standard keyboard player just wouldn"t go and play. That for me was the breakthrough - it meant my contributions to Japan were much bigger.'"- https://www.musicradar.com/news/richard-barbieri-i-didnt-have-any-technical-ability-and-i-didnt-have-any-music-theory-knowledge

I found it not so much challenging as just not obvious, whether you've come from Roland or Korg or what. The multis (combis, whatever you want to call them) only have 3 sounds each, just set the receive channel and you're good to go. The user interface is actually relatively simple because your editing options are so limited, it's just not obvious what is where, so you gotta rtfm. IIRC Hardware's issue was that at the end of the day the sounds just didn't meet his expectations, especially strings and brass, but he had come from software and giga libraries and was trying to lose the computer, so a different challenge. I have the SX7 in a small rack case with a Gemini. The SX7 fills in the Gemini's major weak spots, i.e. piano and strings. I use it for little else. There is very limited editing, no control over the filter on synth patches for example. By comparison the Gemini allows you to edit a stack of parameters for the sounds and fx, but you get 2 sounds at once instead of 3. The Gemini gives me electric pianos and a few synths. They make a good pair. I had an Integra and it saw a ton of gigs but the sounds never really made me smile the way some of those in the Gemini and SX7 do, but it's 16 part multitimbral with detailed editing, and though it is kinda like painting a house through the letterbox the user interface is as straight forward as it gets, imo, everything is where you'd expect and easy to navigate, and it has a bazillion sounds. The online audio doesn't suggest to me that Dexibell's tonewheel organs are in the same league as the Gemini's. There has been an ongoing issue with editing the Gemini because the wi-fi dongle is a pos, but that's just been fixed with a standalone software editor that works via the usb connection. I have also never been able to get the sustain pedal to work on the SX7 via MIDI from another keyboard, but there are plugs at the back of the SX7 for pedals so i just go with that; one day I will care enough to email Dexibell.

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