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ChrisE

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  1. Welcome to this great and informative forum
  2. Nice song Bobby and I like that lead solo near the end !
  3. Hello, Im Chris and I have been following your forum for over two years now. I would have joined a long time ago, but I have a chronic dry eye condition that severely limits my time on the net. I finally decided to join the KC since I think you are a great group of folks who seem to have a strong sense of camaraderie here, and I have learned a lot from the advice/tips/stories I have read here. I have been involved with keyboards since the early 1980s and I have had no formal training in music, so I classify myself as a hobby studio musician. My first synth was a Yamaha SK-20 polyphonic ensemble I bought in 1983 (it had a good Hammond sound but I sold it in the early 90s for peanuts as it was falling apart internally). Prior to that, I owned an old and cranky red Farfisa single manual organ which used to get hot and sound out of tune occasionally. I then bought a Roland D-70 in 1990, although I played and wanted a JX-10 (the salesman said the D-70 was way better and convinced me to wait a few months until it debuted). I love the D-70 for its sound and controller functions (IMO it was ahead of its time, while its poor reliability gives me a frequent headache). Since then I have acquired a few more boards including a cool Technics SX-U90P organ. In the past I have had the chance to play the Yamaha CS-70M, Memorymoog and Prophet 5. Throughout the early 80s-90s, I would hang out at the local music stores on weekends to try out their fancy gear, so I was never bored. I enjoy programming my own sounds and understand the basics of Midi but my DAW experience consists of using Sonar LE for a few hours in the past, although I would be a DAW fanatic if my eyes were better. I currently use my onboard sequencers along with my older reliable MC-50Mk2. My musical influences are Saga, Genesis, Marillion (with Fish), Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Amin Bhatia (Interstellar Suite) and Michael Stearns, just to name a few. I also enjoy all of the pop/rock bands of the past as well as some of the current dream pop such as M83. I was fortunate to grow up listening to classic jazz as my Dad was always playing something from that era, so piano greats such as Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck and the like were always playing in the background. The first album that got me into synths was Pink Floyds Animals, that I got as a birthday gift in 1977. I wore that record out in no time and recall one of your members here was also taken back by this album. My first Keyboard mag I purchased and read cover to cover was an old issue featuring Patrick Moraz and his Oberheims on the cover. As for my professional life, I used to implement and maintain quality systems for small to medium sized high-tech manufacturing firms. Cheers.
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