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From my Lylecentric playlist for today, a track from an ECM album by Steve Swallow called 'Home'- musical settings for poems by Robert Creeley, with Lyle Mays on synth casting a mood that matches mine today. Sadly this link only works for 'YouTube Premium' subscribers; since I'm a 'regular' guy, I'm taking it on faith that it'll work for those who are paid up. Next up on my list, 'Imaginary Day' in 5.1 surround. Pretty much an epic experience. Thanks for the beauty you sent into the world, Mr. Mays. [video:youtube]

[One odd thing I noticed though. when I plug the Alto into my Roland VR 730, it makes a very quiet but noticeable white noise type of sound anytime a key is engaged - but only with the organ setting (not pianos or synths). I've never heard or noticed this on any other speaker(s) I've used with that board. I wonder if it's the board, the speaker or some combination of the two.] This sounds vaguely reminiscent of what my Kurzweil PC3 and SP6 do on all patches (not limited to organ or other category) when I connect them with unbalanced TS cables- if your VR 730 has balanced outs try balanced TRS cables and see if it clears up.

Love Terry Adams, especially in the classic Terry, Al, Joey, and Tom NRBQ lineup. Here's another example of concept asserting dominance over precision, and sanity, featuring the recently deceased Neal Innes as part of the Bonzo Dog Band- [video:youtube]

I see Kurzweil support has already given you an answer that was covered in the manual for how to save your song as a PC4 file. I assumed you were trying to export a Standard MIDI file; I recall having trouble finding this function when I first got my PC3, I'm not sure why Kurzweil's manuals are coy about how to do this. I can't imagine with they haven't included the ability to save and load SMFs. If that's what you're trying to do, then I agree it isn't in the manual, a search of the online PDF found no reference to 'smf', 'standard midi file', or 'export'. If you can't find it among the file storage menus, it's probably tucked away in song mode somewhere. Good luck. Another interpretation of your question is that you're hoping the PC4 can poot out a wav file of a song. I'm not aware of it having that capability.

Target audience alert - The January 2020 issue of Sound on Sound has a glowing review of this book, available for a mere $60. http://www.classickeysbook.com/ They lined up some pretty legit endorsements, Donal Fagan and Rick Wakeman to name two. I got a brief look at a copy while visiting EMEAPP (that's another topic, see emeapp.org) and it looked gorgeous, it's now on my Amazon wish list. My birthday's in July. Just saying.

Maybe I've missed it somehow, but I don't recall ever hearing this place near Philadelphia mentioned on KC- https://emeapp.org/ When I actually get in to see this insane collection, which includes some of Keith Emerson's gear, I'll have more to say. Check it out.

This might be a Rhodes, but I"ve been wrong before. And it isn"t strictly speaking solo. Here"s Stephane Grappelli duetting with himself on violin and electric piano. [video:youtube]

Since there doesn't seem to be a keyboard requirement for this thread, and most of my favorite key-centric trios have already been mentioned, here's a trio I'd travel pretty far to see again- [video:youtube]

I have to be in the mood, apparently this morning I am- [video:youtube]

My new SP6 arrived Friday. I pulled the trigger on it because my problem child PC3 failed to function at a couple of practices and I have a gig in two days. One selling point for me was being able to load some favorite sounds from my PC3 and that's where I have a couple questions. With my PC3 I've always used one expression pedal, plugged into the #2 'wah' CC pedal jack. I've liked the way it defaults to 'swell' pedal with KB3 sounds and otherwise consistently works as a 'wah' pedal on every sound programmed with that effect. I'm not really a volume pedal guy except for organ, and my band plays a few songs where a wah pedal gets me where I want to go, if you know what I mean. The SP6, as far as I've been able to determine, can only use a CC pedal for overall volume- when switching to KB3 sounds, response is modified slightly so it can't completely silence all output. I'm not sure whether this is the same as the 'swell' pedal effect on the PC3 KB3 sounds, where I hear some extra distortion added as the volume increases- this makes me doubt that the pedal's actually sending out the same CC with KB3 sounds that the PC3 does; if so, imported KB3 sounds won't quite have the same response to pedal data on the SP6, and making wah pedal effects work on imported PC3 sounds might require some editing and/or external hardware. The SP6 has a global override for any of the 4 possible 'switch' pedal inputs, but no such luck on the CC pedal. Has anyone found a workaround that would change the pedal's effect globally, rather than having to modify individual sounds to redirect the pedal to a different destination, if that's even possible? I've thought of labeling wah sounds as organs to see if the pedal function would remap like the PC3 but haven't tried it yet. If anyone can either help me get this working or tell me it's not possible without some extra hardware, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

From the department of nobody cares but me- There's a word for confusion-generated alternate versions of misheard lyrics and verse- mondegreens. Here's the Harper's 1954 essay from whence it sprang- http://www.drapersguild.com/uploads/1/2/8/5/12854632/harpersmagazine-1954-11-0006768.pdf

You might want to pick up a copy of this CD/DVD set, AH with Soft Machine live in '74. https://www.allmusic.com/album/switzerland-1974-mw0002806877

Not all bands need keyboards- but some videos could use better editing. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac live in Sweden, and/or hanging out at the airport...? Great tune, among the last PG recorded with the band.