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    Addicted to 1 tier stands

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    I"m a single-tier fan and I usually Velcro a mini-keyboard on top of my main board. Thanks Scott, that Knox stand is exactly what I"ve been looking for to replace my, ahem, traditional-style stand. Minimum height according to Amazon is 27' which is a couple of inches higher than I currently use when seated, so I"ll have to experiment with bench height.

    Re-visiting an iPad Live Rig

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Yes, to my ears B-3X sounds much better / authentic than the Electro 4D B3.

    Great playing and sound on that clip! I got to use B-3X on my last gig before lockdown, with the iPad headphone output going into the input of my Kurzweil PC4 to avoid having to use a keyboard mixer. Sounded great on "Hush", "Time Of The Season" and "Magic Carpet Ride" - my bandmates complimented me on the solos without knowing I was using my iPad. I later realized I had screwed up by using a silent non-KB3 program on the PC4 - a KB3 program would have given the high attack point over MIDI and fast passages would have been much easier.

    Rare and Unusual Score

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    I did a little research, and found that Ace Tone was started by Ikutaro Kakehashi, the founder of Roland.

     

    I am really hoping it has that transistor organ sound.

     

    Yes, indeed, it does.

     

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    I didn"t know Steve Buscemi got his start as a model.

    OT: Favorite Dylan Lyric

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is

    They put ideas in his head he thought were his

    He was a clean-cut kid

    But they made a killer out of him,

    That's what they did

     

    (Best version was by Linda Gail Lewis who plays a mean piano, like her brother Jerry Lee.)

    Learning Beatles songs

    in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage

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    I even have a setup on my Forte that lets me bring in the the ba ba ba backing vocals (stacked under the piano in that range only, volume controlled by footpedal) using the Manhattan Transfer sample set.

    dB

    Cool - is the Manhattan Transfer sample set built into the Forte, or an external library? I"m wondering if I can get it for my PC4.

    Gotta Love BandMix

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Unfortunately the default setting in BandMix's signup form includes every instrument type in the "seeking" list! So as Math&Music noticed, if you search for bands that are seeking keyboards (or bagpipes for that matter) it matches nearly everyone, making the search completely worthless. I pointed out this problem to BandMix support and forums years ago and never got a reply.

    Working with Bassists?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    I play in several groups with the same bass player who appreciates that I generally stay out of his way, often sticking to right-hand parts. But we recently did a show of Queen covers - Freddie Mercury played a lot of left-hand octaves and it's a key part of the sound of his piano songs. So I agree with Majuscule that we shouldn't always avoid the bassist's range. I'd never join a band where I was forbidden to play left-hand parts at all - many songs depend on those parts.

    Gig bag favorites

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    In another lifetime, I left a group, and I was replaced by another keyboard player. After a while, I asked the guitarist in the band about how the new one was doing, and he said... "He's very good, but his appearance is terrible. He comes to gigs carrying a Kurzweil K1000 in its shipping box, and dragging a keyboard stand and a supermarket plastic bag with all his cables."

    Hey, it worked for him. :D

    Actually that Kurzweil K1000 shipping box was a beaut. I used one for years back in the 90s - it fit nicely in my hatchback, and it was real easy to maneuver the keyboard into the styrofoam end pieces. I would just leave the box in the car and carry the K1000 into the gig.

    How to get over a bad gig?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    A lot depends on how mistakes are handled. When someone messes up the agreed song structure in one band I'm playing with, instead of going with the flow as if nothing was wrong then discussing at the break or next practice, there's often an on-stage post-mortem and "joking" to the otherwise-none-the-wiser audience about how we stuffed it up. As Jackson Browne wrote (at age 16): "Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them".

    Kurzweil PC4

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    I agree that fit, finish and hammer action are fine for a sub-$2k keyboard. I slightly prefer the PC4 action to my Casio PX-5S - certainly the keys are quieter, and organ sounds are much easier to play due to the high attack point in KB3 mode on the Kurzweil. Both are a cut above the heavy hammer actions on the cheaper models I"ve tried from various other manufacturers. If you"re looking for a compact padded wheeled bag, I"ve found the PC4 fits snuggly in the Kaces XKP15KB XPress Slim (which fits on the back seats of our Camry and Mazda 3).
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