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Well I did reference Leon’s show stealing performance at the Concert for Bangladesh, which of course was his iconic Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood medley.

I’m sorry but while there are so many wonderful rock keyboard players listed here, I am truly shocked there is only one mention of Leon Russell. Truly THE greatest. I wish I had time to list all of his achievements and in more detail, but quickly … his credits on literally hundreds of hit songs throughout the 60s, in every style and genre you could imagine. One of the first usages of synth on a rock record (1968, Asylum Choir… I only know The Monkees preceding it). Conceiving organizing arranging conducting and playing in Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen, one of the greatest live rock ensembles of all time. Inspired and contributed to the development of the Linn Drum with Roger Linn who was his engineer and guitarist at the time. Literally stole the show at Concert for Bangladesh from a stage full of superstars. His songs covered by everyone from The Carpenters to George Benson, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, Barbra Streisand, Donny Hathaway, Tedeschi Trucks, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, BB King, Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton…. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Largest concert draw in US 1973. Basically wrote, performed and produced Watching the River Flow for Dylan.

Really?? I’m an outlier on this? The coolest looking keyboard ever. At my level it is rare I have the opportunity to sit at a real piano on stage. But the CP70 came close and in some ways was even cooler. Everything else, (whatever their own benefits), feels like a toy to me.

I was hoping someone might be so kind as to give me some help getting this Clav sound,… starting at 10:40. I have no experience with a real Clav and little with VSTs, but I have the Scarbee Clav, Ampl;itube 5, IK Multimedia Clavitube and Arturia Clavinet V. I didn’t find any presets that’s seemed to work but possibly it is more to do with how to play the sound.

Ok that’s great! Thanks for that info!! The next question though is if when using the Yamaha USB interface is it good enough quality to get low latency playing the VSTs

I am wondering if anyone can tell me about the audio over USB in the YC/CP. Is it possible sand is it good enough to plug a laptop into running Gig Performer and various VSTs? Or is the audio only out.

Thanks! That should defintely do what I need, but even used at around $99 is a bit more than I'd like to spend and the size a bit bigger than I'd like for my purposes. I'm wondering if just an Apple USB Camera Connector will do what I need? Does anyone use RTPMIDI? That would get me MIDI though not audio

I'm hoping to get some advice on how to connect an iPhone 7 to a Windows 10 laptop, running Gig Performer. Ideally I would like to be able to send MIDI to Soft Drummer on the iPhone and audio out of Soft Drummer to Gig Performer. I am aware of Studiomux which apparantly is supposed to do this well, but it is now broken with ios 14 and the Beta not yet playing well with Windows. And I suppose I should mention, some sort of expensive hardware interface probably not a solution for me. But I hope this is easily accomplished though I can't figure it out. Thanks!

Hey @Groove On, thanks for all your help with this, but i can't seem to figure out how to connect the iPhone/iPad to Windows laptop...and I'm going to move this to a new thread.

Thanks Groove On!!! So just a regular data cable with appropriate connections. I will be sending CCs to the iPad from within GIg Performer, so Gig Performer needs to see the iPad as a MIDI device. I imagine there might be something I need to do for that to happen? And yes, you got me thinking... if there is just a lightning connection, how do I get audio as well as the MIDI connection? iPad would have to go to powered hub... and then is option for audio only a USB audio interface? Getting a little more complicated and expensive. I'm almost thinking to go with an older refurbished iPad with headphone jack, not only saving me money on iPad but not needing an audio interface. This is for live work and I think quality from the heaphobe jack will be good enough?

Hey guys, I'm pretty certain I am going to splurge for an Ipad and go with Soft Drummer. But I am curious what is the porcess for connecting my Ipad to my PC, what sort of cable would I need? Thanks!

Wow thanks so much! Lumbeats and particularly Soft Drummer seem to be exactly what I was looking for. The main drawback for me is it's ios, but I'm seriously thinking of picking up a refurbed iPad just to be able to use it. And I am wondering what MIDI capabilites it has (if any, I have no idea how that works on an iPad)... but I would really want to be able to assign some of the paramaters (start/stop etc) to a pedal and controllers and or keys on my keyboards. Beat Buddy also seems like a very good option, but the Lumbeats just feels a bit more right on to me. I just wish it was regular Windows software with full MIDI implementation

Well, I have a pretty good audience...for just me, one guy. I'm a piano player basically and do some fun things with my synths to augment things now and then... emulating guitars etc. People seem to enjoy it and I don't see anyone walking out. My thought... after seeing a lot of people in this format using a loop pedal, which I don't want do for some reason, but wanting some kind of support on certain tunes... was to occasionally have a subtle drum backing. But again I don't want to program out an entire song. It's just not where I'm at with my time allocation and I perform in a very improvisatory manner. I can understand the drawbacks of a simple 4 bar pattern repeating endlessly and was hoping there was something that gave enough variation on its own or simple enough real time control to make it interesting enough to work for me. Thanks for all the other suggestions so far!!! I guess I should explain I am on Windows (will Garage Band work for me?) and also I do not work with an iPad. It is just a Windows laptop, for me, running Gig Performer and various VSTs.

I am intereted in using a drum machine, preferably software... for some light occasional backing on a solo gig However I am not the slightest bit interested in doing any programming whatsoever. I am thinking that possibly at this point the technolgy has reached a place where I can basically just pick out a groove and tempo and the drum machine can add some variation and randomization on its own that makes it at least a little interesting if far from perfect. Is this a thing? Alternatively, I could see maybe if the drum machine had some variations that I could assign to a foot switch to step through might work as well. Anyway any thoughts/suggestions on this sincerely appreciated.

Thanks for sharing Jim!! And great playing, really enjoyed it.