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Moon Zero Two

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  1. college jazz gig - got off stage and a cute girl from my dorm said to me "I could tell you guys were really trying."
  2. Plus 1 for keytar! I have a roland connected to a jd990. I think it is fun to try to play along with commercials or theme music. I don't know when it would come in handy but I can play the theme to The Daily Show and IT Crowd.
  3. I agreed. The Nord 4HP was on my short list and I was so disappointed by the action. Hated it. I really like the CP4 action - I just finished my last xmas gig and the board did a great job. Sounded great - one of the bass players even commented how much better it sounded than my last keyboard, which come to think of it was an Electro 3 last year.
  4. Keith Jarrett Rio. In Jazz piano there is Keith and then there is everyone else. I just made it through The Vigil the new Cd from Chick Corea - I don't know - I liked the electric band better - it was good but didn't wow me.
  5. Sorry bad posting on my part I meant today that the cp5 rhythms didn't do anything for me. I will not miss them on the cp4.
  6. The cp5 didn't do anything for me. They won't be missed.
  7. Plus the Moxf8 weighs half of what the xf8 weighs.
  8. That's a great picture of Chuck - reminds me of the first time I saw him at a NAMM show demonstrating the Korg Poly 800. Gosh I am old.
  9. one neat thing about the CP5 is that it has five zones with knobs and on off buttons - of course that is for the internal sounds (4) and a mic - I have not tried to use it as a midi controller, this is my live performing board. However having the four knobs to adjust the level of the splits and layers is very useful. I want to know if the music rack I had to buy separately for the CP5 will fit the CP4. And honestly why isn't the music rack included on all models, I mean come on.
  10. Gotta ask: what does 45 pianos and 47 electric pianos mean in the ad copy?
  11. I was all set to get either the Nord Piano 2 or Nord Stage 2 76 this week, but now I want to wait and see when the CP4 will materialize. PS- Yes I know there is a big difference in price and features of the Stage and Piano - I usually only use piano sounds but I went to a jam and used some organ sounds behind a guitarist and had forgotten how much fun that can be so it's the old debate about are the additional Stage features worth the prices jump ($1000+) from the Nord Piano 2, and does the keyboard feel between the two models vary.
  12. I hope by staying out of it you mean talking specs or hands on experience in playing the board or shipping date or MAP. I would like to hear more about that...otherwise, to paraphase an old joke, what has two thumbs and doesn't care about nondisclosure/magazine vs website commenting? This guy.
  13. One other thing I am hoping for in the CP4 is that the height is less than the CP5. The tops of the keys on the CP5 are over 5 inches from the base. I have mine sitting on my omni rack studio desk and my chair cannot be adjusted high enough for a comfortable playing experience - I use a DW throne set pretty high. Oh - and I went to jam and used someones MOX8 - same or similar feel to the P105 and all of the sounds of my Motif XS7 but some didn't sound as good and honestly I am tired of the Dynostrait/Hard Vintage etc EP sounds. Took ten years. I think I learned at that session that I do not care for weighed actions when it comes to lead sounds - like the pervasive Sweet Flute that I use all the time - I much prefer using the XS7. Though for B3 I miss my CX3 or Nord waterfall keys.
  14. Adan - you are too funny - Please don't rain on my CP4 fantasy so soon! I was cleaning the garage over the weekend and moved the empty Gator 88 case with wheels that I use for my CP5 and thought this thing looks like a coffin! I tried a P105 over the weekend for a second time - I like it - the keybed could be a little better, I couldn't figure out how to make a bass piano split or how I could control the volume balance of the split - but I prefered the piano sound and one of the Rhodes sounds to the much loved and written about PX5S. It is a brave new world - I guess 25 is the new 55 in terms of weight. How is the P105 working out for you? I use a Motif XS7 for gigs once in a while - when I need more than piano sounds - and I think it is around the same weight as the CP4 - I would say it is as heavy as I would like to move around.
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