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I finally watched the video and laughed out loud through the first half. It IS a rant, but with tongue definitely in cheek! “What do you mean you haven’t heard the song before?!” Hilarious.

My Kurzweil PC4 has balanced outs and a hot signal. Plugging mono TRS to XLR directly from instrument to PA, I can only move the volume slider to about halfway. Any further and I get overload distortion. Been playing like this for years but would a DI box help? Miraculously give me a strong, clean signal? I don’t really want to pay $250 for a Jensen just for a -15db pad. So, keep the volume at half or go for the DI?

Let's get something straight. The sound of a Hammond and Leslie in a room cannot be reproduced. The sound of a miked Leslie through a PA can. And that's what all Leslie sims seem to strive for. What I play is a Kurzweil PC4 and the Hammond and Leslie sims are very satisfying for me. I have heard the complaints: too much doppler, bass rotor is not quite right. But one of our guitar players shocked me the other day when he said he loved it when I went from choral to tremolo. I didn't know guitar players cared about that at all, but he said it sounded exciting to him. At one time, fifty years ago, I owned a B3 and a Leslie, so I know exactly what's cool about that sound. The best example I ever heard was at Shreveport Music ten years ago. A completely refurbished B3 and two refurbished 122's about 30 feet apart. The amps had new tubes, no rust or dust, etc. In 5000 sq. ft. of showroom space with a low ceiling, it started gurgling with the pedal about half way up and only really screamed at full volume. Sound swirling everywhere, bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Delicious! And unreproduceable. My PC4 doesn't sound like that. Not exactly, but very, very good. So, my Leslie sim is great and yours sucks. Or maybe I just like mine fine and so do you like yours.

The seventh one, because Dathon when the audience fell asleep.

Synthaholic, when I did the latest update, I restored everything successfully with OVERWRITE, which puts everything back where it was with the original numbers. I believe FILL packs everything into the lowest numbers possible for each category. See page 9-22 in the user manual. Since there are 50 factory QA banks (supposedly, I think there are hundreds possible just like the PC3), maybe try looking for your QA banks in the 2000 or 3000 range, or BANK 51. I started by replacing the factory banks at #1 so I haven't gotten that far yet. I use four or five banks per gig, naming each bank by date, location and "A", "B", etc. as in 10Jun22AmLeg A. American Legion first bank. I still have a job from 2010 in my PC3!

Synth programming beginner on PC4. I need to make one white noise note and control it with a low pass filter for Edgar Winter's song Free Ride, which I did on my PC3. I can probably figure out the filter but can not find white noise in the keymaps or elsewhere. White noise is a synth staple so I'm probably just missing it. Suggestions?

Taking classical piano lessons from age 7 helped make me a rock snob. 1-4-5? Really? Two recordings changed my mind. First was Paperback Writer in 1966. The opening and recurring vocals are so dense and it's a 1-4 song! Soon after came Light My Fire in 1967. When some friends learned I could play the opening theme and the long solo, I was in the band. About 25 years ago I had to drop my country snobbery, too. My next song choice for the band may be Last Date by Floyd Cramer. Making that sound like an afternoon stroll in the park will take some concentration. Not giving up my Bebop snobbery, though. Just kidding. Never could play it anyway.

Sean, thank you for your suggestions. Both worked. Love this forum. Synthaholic, I have not done an OS update yet. If anything weird happens I'll post it here next week.

For the past two weeks I've really been enjoying my new PC4. I have figured out most of what I need, but, I can't seem to find how to name QA banks. It's not in the documentation that I can find. Five banks will hold enough songs for a gig song list, which is what I like to do, but I also like to name the banks by date, location and bank order, as in "13May22 StateFair A", "13May22 StateFair B", etc. My old PC3 has gig lists from 2009! Also, does anyone know if Programs and Multis can be searched by name? It was possible on the PC3, but again, I can't find it in the documentation or by hunt and peck. Thanks for any replies.

What EP is used on the Jetsons TV show theme song? Doesn't sound like Rhodes or Wurly, so to me it's obscure. Almost like a harp. No need, just curious. Thanks.

We needed a talk box for a couple of songs but the guitar players refused to put a tube in their mouth! So I volunteered and we made one from scratch. A cheap driver, some clear plumbing tubing from the driver to my microphone and a left over PA amp somebody had. Overdrive a clean guitar sound and it's plenty of fun. When the PA amp cratered, I replaced it with a little Orange Micro Terror that sits on the empty left side of my PC3-7. Apparently, I'm going to have to work a bit more to get to Mr. Troutman's level.

Glad you found some parts! I love my two Yamaha pedals and made my own TRS split cables but they look terrible: TRS male to RCA female L&R, to RCA male L&R to TRRS female, held together with heat shrink tubing. Did I say they look terrible? Although I am not a past customer, I could really use three FC7X adapters, two plus a spare. You should get an email from me soon. Thanks.

Mr. Nightime, look around in the effects. My PC3 has dozens of different leslies; surely the PC4 does, too. Probably not as good as your Vent, though.

Quick Access on gigs for me. On a lot of our songs, I'll play more than one sound. So, I have a Setup (multi) for every song and it is named after the song. Before a gig, I'll put the forty-plus songs into Quick Access on my PC3 and there's the list in front of me. Very convenient. Takes maybe ten minutes to put in the entire night's songs. And I label each set of ten with the venue name (bar, festival,etc.), then A or B or C at the end. I can look back to 2010 and tell where I played. As to how many sets of ten, I've used way more than fifty. I think it's an estimate and is really related to memory usage, not the number of entrees. The PC4-7 is almost half the weight of my PC3-7 and is very tempting.

The article says two things that aren't entirely accurate. As to your question about Multis storing Program data: the solution, which I use with my Kurzweil, is to make a program for each Multi. If a factory program is altered, it is saved in a new slot with a new Program number; the factory Program is not overwritten unless you force it to be. I rename my altered Programs to reflect the Multi with which it is associated. I've had mine for over a decade and have not run out of storage for altered Programs. The article says that when in Quick Access mode, that "...it does not appear to be possible to step through..." the Programs using a pedal. I'd be surprised, if after all this time, Kurzweil abandoned this very useful feature that they've had for years. Part of the back story of the PC3, supposedly, is that Andrew Lloyd Weber "picked up the phone" and asked Kurzweil to come up with a replacement board for the ones used in all of his musicals, as the old ones were wearing out and hard to find parts for. The pedal step-through feature was used all night long in his productions. As a matter of fact, I believe that when a company bought the score, they also got a memory card with the Programs and Multis laid out ready to step through by pedal. The last OS update was March 20, 2020 and the Release Notes do not mention the piano tuning problem.

This sequence is just 8 eighth notes over four beats, so quantizing shouldn't change it, but I did try it. It didn't change it. There's kind of an extra sixteenth rest before the loop plays again. Frustrating. Thanks.

While trying to use the sequencer in my Kurzweil PC3 for the first time, there's something I can't understand. After recording an 8-note sequence and looping it, there are a few milliseconds of delay after the 8th note and the first note; in other words, each of the eight 8th notes play at tempo, then there is a hesitation before the next beat. I can't use that! Is there something about sequencing in general that I don't understand? I have also tried doubling the length of the sequence, but that hesitation is still there after note sixteen. Thanks for any suggestions.

Classical piano lessons from age seven. At 15, someone found out I could play the long solo in Light My Fire and asked me to join their band. I played their Wurlitzer electric until I got a Yamaha YC10, a Leslie and foot pedal to make them work together. Then I got a B3 to go with the Leslie. I played with those guys through high school, then everybody took 20 yrs. off to have a life and children. They called me about 26 yrs. ago saying they were back together and needed a keys player. Been with them ever since. It's cheaper than golf!

My band played In My Life a few years ago, but we've since dropped it. The "played at half speed" story...seriously? I played the harpsi part and it's not that hard or fast. And that's not bragging because I'm not that good. But the band is; we nailed the vocals!

The PC4 has a Quick Access mode, same as on my PC3. QA has banks of ten slots each that you can populate with your favorite Multis or single sounds. I use it to store the 45 or so songs we will play at a gig, for every gig. I title each bank with a date and description, such as "04Jan20 Festival A." Next bank would be "04Jan20 Festival B" and so on. It's very useful and only takes about ten minutes to program the five banks for each job. I believe the PC4 is the successor to the PC3. I'd love to get the new board but the old one is built like a tank and just won't die!

For the longest time I carried three keyboards, one of which was a Hammond XK-? and a Motion-Sound R3-147, plus amp and other stuff. 12 years ago I bought a Kurzweil PC3 and never looked back. I'm not trying to convince anybody that its organ sound or Leslie simulation is perfect, but, a few years ago one of our guitarists told me that he always got a little thrill when I turned the Leslie on tremolo! I never knew he felt that way. Anyway, it sounds good enough to me that I really enjoy playing it; and I used to own a real Hammond and Leslie 147 (in the '70s.) I'd love to have a Mojo or similar and a Vent, but that's just too much stuff and I don't play for a living. I'm a one board guy with a pedalboard, IEMs and no stage amp. Done.

Once, when it was my turn to put a song on our song list, I chose Put It Where You Want It. We played the music like the Crusaders but also sang the words from the AWB version. I believe Mr. Sample wrote the words, too. Two guitars did the horn licks and I had a wah-wah on my EP sound because Larry Carlton used one. It stayed on the list until it was voted down two years later by everyone but me! But it was fun to play it for a while. Genius voicing for the EP and what a great bass line. By the way, my bandmates and I are almost all in our late 60s or have reached 70 and we play mostly 60s & 70s rock/pop and some country, so it was a slightly weird fit. RIP Joe.

Thank you Sven. That did the trick and changed the times on every post.

Wow. My own post is dated today at 2:23pm. Is this forum's server in England? No, wait, it's 3:23 in England. So, the server is in the Atlantic Ocean? Iceland?

What am I not understanding? I'm in the Central Time Zone and it's 9:20am here. I just read a new thread dated today from Florida that is timestamped in the afternoon! If it was from the other side of the globe, I'd understand, but Florida should only be an hour off from where I am. Is the forum clock needing to be reset? Or something else.