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There are also these two tiny cuties. Make unbeatable discreet Xmas gifts. Just make sure your floor is very solid.

How many tons ? Oh... Only 520 lbs.

Below is another feature unique to the MIDIboard. https://vimeo.com/837737660

The MIDIboard is heavy because inside its metallic case is a quasi indestructible action with long wooden keys and individual lead weights somewhat similar to what you find in an acoustic piano.

Keep looking, sometimes you can find an used Kronos in great shape. Then you decide if you sell your Nautilus or keep it with a "new" Kronos.

Hi there, IMHO you just got the best machine possible today. I updated mine as well with a 500 GB and other things and you will have fun for many years. Congrats and enjoy !

iPad as a musical instrument ?

Yep, times have changed. Adapt or die is the new motto.

+1 for ER mentioned earlier. Also, almost anything by Mark Snow (X-Files, Millennium, etc.) and Barry Gray (XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Space 1999, etc.). Oh and that wonderful Badalamenti music...

Yep.

Decades ago, I bought the rights for the Skriabin chord, the James Bond chord and Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps chord. So you're warned. Anyone trying to use them is gonna be in trouble.

In my particular case, not at all. When it was time, off went the C3, M400S, synths, blablabla. The only instrument I am sentimental with is the current one. Besides, it happens to be a Korg Kronos (KK), in which I sampled all the important sounds from the sold ones. So since I can continue to play them in the KK, I don't feel missing any of them, especially the 200 and 450 lbs ones.

Or a coffee machine with lots of additional sample libraries cups. This one also comes with a custom Bourbon/Cognac Dampp Chaser life saver system.

That's pretty much how I use my Kronos since several years. If I need sounds/instruments not in the thousands already on board, I simply create new multisamples of them using the integrated sampler. Takes some time and effort, but everything is there, including all favorite sounds from older gear I sold since then. YMMV

A few thoughts here (know the RH3 action by heart). You could ask for a pic of the original box and/or a video with the seller playing keys on it with sound. If you see big damage on the box or if they don't want to send a video as proof the unit works fine, forget about this. It is indeed easy to fix if the keys are simply out of their fulcrums. What's not so good is if the seller says it is easy to repair, why doesn't he fix it before selling the unit. Reputable music stores have a keyboard tech for such quick works. A positive point is there doesn't seem to have damage on the upper part of the D1 near the controls. For RH3 keys to disconnect this way, you need a quite important amount of vibration. Or someone who initially assembled the keys incorrectly, which is doubtful to happen at a Korg factory. Another possibility is that the middle octave keys broke after a shock. Then you need RH3 parts and they are difficult to find. Or you could swap the broken keys with their counterparts on the highest octave. BTW, problems start at the lower Bb up to the B key one octave higher. The worse I see is, the B under the lower disconnected Bb seems equal with his adjacent A and you cannot remove a black key on a RH3 unless the two whites around it are removed. In other words, this Bb key is probably damaged/broken. So now, even if you would swap the damaged keys with the highest octave ones, what happened with the rest of the unit following intense vibration or it was roughly dropped during transport ? Maybe there are now loose metallic leaf springs shorting components, PCB damage, etc. So I would recommend to buy it only if you are used to fix such stuff.

If you also use a laptop/PC in studio or for gigs, then you could easily map the CC messages to SYSEX with a freeware like MIDIOX.

Geez... This is Pink Floyd, not the Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson or Stewart, Holdsworth, Berlin and Bruford. So analyze it as much as if you just had some LSD-25. 🤪 Don't overthink, man. Feel it. Many moons ago, as musical director this is what I told the guys in the PF tribute band to play : a) Em9 , A7 b) CM7, Bm7, FM7, G7, D7#9, Cm/D# The last chord in the studio LP was a Cdim/D#, but I always found it imperfect/boring compared to sound a G (Cm) instead of a F# (Cdim) in the transition before the return to Em. So emphasizing the lower RH notes in the original (Cdim/D#), you get F#, then F# then G once back to Em. With Cm/D#, you get F#, then G and G back to Em. So it develops more gradually to the Em return. Remember Pink Floyd is the minor chords everywhere band. In DSOTM, Wright insisted a few weird chords should be heard here and there (remember that other unusual Us and Them chord), but besides that, it's back to the PF basics.

Another alternative is a Glenn Gould chair. Compact, light, solid, no assembly required and possibly instant improved dexterity.

I was afraid this would happen this year as I knew Mr Sakamoto was very ill. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. I discovered his music in the 80s and back then thought his compositions were amongst the most original, refreshing, creative and entertaining of all. RIP.

Another common mistake about buying new keyboards is to evaluate them according to their factory "programs". There are countless videos comparing factory piano, organ, etc programs on different machines with near definitive conclusions given right away. "The ABC machine pianos sound much better than the ones on the DEF". Well, good recent keyboards allow you to greatly modify preset sounds, which makes those comparisons not very useful. Of course, not everyone has the time to tweak sounds to their liking, so many just buy a keyboard and end up playing the factory programs with few adjustments.

70s humor ?