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baD mR fRosTy

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  1. I am not. I took that picture on my honeymoon in Greece. ah...a traveller and a romantic. We'll make ye a honorary schoonerman! Tony banks only used the slow setting...that's interesting, because know that I think of it, you're right, I can't think of him usinging a fast setting. It reminds me of a little deep Purple band some fellow musos and I threw together for some fun, and to stretch our chops...sometimes even playing original composition, or studio sessions...doesn't "challenge: us in a way that learning some stuff from the masters does. I am, of course, a big Jon Lord fan, and when my band mates joked if I'd be bringing a Leslie; there were surprised when I said "why? the songs we are doing from the early Gillan/Blackmore/Paice/Glover/Lord line up, he didn't use one! I still the effect in though, because later he started using them live after about 1971 or so. I am curious about his pedal that everyone swears by...this ventilator. It strike me as odd when companies discontinue great products! But, being keyboard players, we have seen this time and again throughout the years *sigh*... I wonder if they're new, smaller version, probably meant for guitar, will sounds as good, on average? Anyone tried one? The "mini" I think they're calling it, is it?
  2. It is odd, in this day and age, that Hammond would only include a twerpy little 25M for its libraries! About half the new library voices will fit on at a time, I have found. "68K, that should be enough for ANYONE!" Steve Jobs, 1982 "25M, that's plenty of memory for voices!" Hammond/Susuki, 2011
  3. @ Bill W, That's a lovely staysail schooner in your avatar, are you a sailor?
  4. ""In the same menu section where you load libraries there is an option to select and delete them. (Pg. 132)"" I can delete entire libraries...like all the recorders, or all the synths. But is there a way to just delete SOME of the recorders (try as I might, I cannot make the "auto-chord" feature sound musical to my ears, lol)...I really like some of the synth sounds,(from the new Hammond library) but don't need half them. Or, alternatively, just delete them all, and then go back and just upload the ones I want? I wouldn't care so much if I was down to my last few available megs! I love this organ, and the EVs are just icing to me...but I am ALMOST at a place where I could conceivably just show up with this one board - in a band situation, not solo... Just. a. few. more. patches! From what I can tell, it's kinda all or none? I tried saving the one recorder I wanted into a User patch...but it disappeared after I deleted the recorder library. Which has helped me understand a bit what is going on here...
  5. Present road block (*sigh*) How does one DELETE EVs that we don't want?? I put the recorders on, now I don't want them. I believe I am out of memory, after putting strings etc on. And no, nothing else will load, so I assume my massive 25 Megs ig gone, lol...but how do I make space?? I can't find out how to delete thsee EVoices anywhere!
  6. Right now, though, my challenge seems to be getting my head around the "EV sounds" as opposed to just "User patches"... I have been moving sound library sounds into the EV library...and then putting them as "User" [patches)...but something odd happens....they don't really BECOME, say, User 10, do they? They just become "the EV on top of User 10! Augh...I find it hard to explain my problem...I will just have to keep farting with it. The whole storing/renaming/organizing business of modern keyboards and workstations, I detest!. But I trying to get a bunch of useful patches from User 1-10 (theirs that I flashed)and then User 11-whatever. I think have just ended up changing the name of some patches, lol...and then the EV still plays on "solo" (?) ...I find it a bit confusing. :-/
  7. Well, if you are a Hammond player, and you want a light weight clone that so far, sounded great to ME...yeah, you may have missed out. On the other hand, my whole life I have watched keyboards at a certain price "new", drop dramatically after a couple years....and there is a new version coming...although it does less! Witness each now Motif series by Yamaha...ES,XS, XM...all designed like a digital cameral or smartphone - let's see if we can get everyone to move up to the latest model! It's has always been like that with electronic keyboards - although certain boards have more "leveling" power than others: they will only go so low. I'd say $999 is an amazing bargain. I wouldn't perhaps if Hammond/Suzuki was more like Korg/Yamaha, e.g. trying to "upsell" everyone ecevry year or two on the next model/more sample memory/bigger display etc etc. But H/S's next product is an organ-only SK-1 for $1500. I think this is a clever move by H/S. It may keep the value of these SKs up,or not, lol...it matters not a lot to me...only that this is the first new(ish) keyboard I have bought for 20 years since my original Nord lead. It's sound is, to me, SO musical - it's hard to describe, the clavs and strings (Soloina "fake" type) are just more fun to play, than either my Motif ES or RD-700NX...part of that is the keyboard. I love the feel. Anyway, It might have been a great deal...even to flip...or, it had some cosmetic damage! I'd go for the latter, and not think about it, lol...the grapes were probably sour! ;-)
  8. JMcS, am I right that that's the only 'set" that load in all 10 at once, and that the rest of the new patches go in one at a time? How do we 'test' the patch to see if we want it? Is there a way to do that? Otherwise, I will try them based on their descriptions. You know, I actually LIKE the idea of carefully choosing what patches I have - I started playing before there were presets, lol...and I remember when 8 was a lot! (CS-20M...still have it)) But, today's workstations are just overwhelming with the variety, don't you think? I have a Yamaha Motif with 3,657,899 patches on it, and I spend more time second guessing my choices in the studio, than I do creating my parts!
  9. Yes...that's all it took. The directions kinda say that the "SK1 STD" will magically appear as soon as you plug the thumb drive in. Specifically, they say "spin the VALUE dial" until it appears, then press enter. As you say, there is an extra step there, with the buttons...but I found it after a bit. I kinda prematurely ran to this forum, lol! But cheers, that was it indeed...
  10. OK... I have fluked into it - my directions were missing a step, I had to go to "Library" and fiddle with the up/down buttons until I happened to glimpse "SK1 STD ENT". I can't remember exactly what I pressed, lol...it was one of those frustration hunting trips with the menus! These new "base" organ sounds are killer. I still had the original "Rock organ" patch in P/U 001 etc ec...and that was cool enough - but this thing just went into another dimension. That pipe organ is the most fun I have ever had with my clothes ON! ;-D Sorry for the gushing...honestly, I just love playing: I still love my VK-8M... but this little Hammond continues to amaze me - and I have yet to move it out to the live room and play through the 122 and the Marshall. I am going to need a defibrillator on standby first! The keyboard really seems to be "loosening up"...I believe the new OS has made it faster, by raising the point at which the key sounds. Can you imagine the full-blown models with the 8 separate contact points, as the key is depressed, how funky that must be to play?? Has anyone here got/tried one of those 'top" models yet?
  11. Now, after all that love...I cannot seem to load the "USA Standard" settings. My thumb drive is formatted...I used it to flash the OS, and it currently has the "Hammond" files: audio, lib, patch, setup, sys on it. I extract the "USA Standard Setup" and put it on the flash, in the SET-UP folder, eject it from Windows, put in the SK-1, and after saying "confirming USB, it does nothing, just returns to play. The read me says that spinning the value dial should yield "SK1 STD", and I then press enter. But I do not get this...just the 100 user sounds, and the 100 preset sounds... What am I missing here, lol? It sounds dead simple, and I'm like a zoo monkey here, repeating the same thing over and over to no avail?? Anyone out there?? Cheers John
  12. And overdrive (and other effects) can be mixed in with the expression pedal, and that setting saved right in the patch. It's a time-taker, but in the end, it is far more powerful to be able to do that, than just have the expression pedal do one thing at a time for all patches. I wish the SK-1 had MORE expression pedal/switch inputs - it's routing abilities are fantastic (for not being a full blown workstation).
  13. Another cool thing I found...and I have read through a LOT of this thread over the past week....but it's long one, sorry if this has been mentioned. I found this old guitar amp pedal in my the "spare parts" bin...and it's a old "channel and effects" foot toggle...but here's the cool part: it has a stereo jack (TRS)and two stomp switches and so, when it's plugged into the back of the SK-1, I can have two separate switches from one switch pedal. I have the left one on fast/slow Leslie effect, and the right one on "favorites advance" - but there is a setting that makes it act like a pitch bend as well. Haha...foot-operated pitch wheel, I love it! The default setting was one note "down", and that gives leads a cool effect, because folks are used to "up" bends on guitars... You don't get much "control", but makes a nice consolation for there being no pitch wheel. The way it is set now, the effect is, I step on the switch, the pitch goes down, I let go and the pitch comes back (even though it's NOT a momentary switch, it's a clicker - don't ask me)... The effect is like switching the tone-wheel organ off during a trill, and then on again a second later...yeah, like that Boston tune. But to have that on a foot switch!? A nice precise pitch bend. down and up again, by foot?? I am VERY pleased. I love this organ.
  14. Tip: Not sure if there are any Deep Purple/Jon Lord fans here, lol... But after finding out that my SK-1 has a ring modulator, I poked around. The "ring heaven" patch is, of course, more of a novelty/demo patch...and it's mod source is an LFO...*yawn*..."wooop, woooop". But entering into the effects, and changing the "SRC" from LFO (low frequency oscillator) to "NOTE" (or EXP: I grabbed an FC-7 today, love it!), and then tweaking the effect level/mix and frequency, and adding some pan delay and overdrive, yields the crazy lead organ sound from "Hard Lovin' Man", from 1970's "In Rock"... I have been trying for 30 years to get this sound! The more I teak, the more I love this organ. I have a VK-8M which comes close, and has the "I-beam controller" which can modify the ring modulator, but there has never really been a way to hold it steady enough. And it's a pretty 'masty" ring mod - which is cool...but the SK-1 is spitting up some great sounds with this effect....more musically useful/tweakable If you play hard rock, and have trouble cutting through the guitar sound during heavy organ solos - add a little bit of ring mod, lmao... John Lord had one that sat atop his '58 C3. I have the 58 C3, lol...but the SK-1 has given me the sound! Here's is Lord on the original recording; the original "ring mod organ" player - and, as far as I know, the sole reason that all these clones have that effect.
  15. Hello. It seems not everyone makes use of the "meet and greet" newbie announcement, but I was inspired by cphollis, lol, to do so! I'm a 49 year old male keyboardist from the east coast of Canada, (spent 7 years in BC, 7 in Eurpope, 2 in central America, playing (and also working to supplement my income). But I am originally from Halifax, NS and that is where I have returned to. I generally would have used my birth name, John David Peer as a used name, I have no qualms...although a few folks on other forums know me by my 1990's "techno" band name: baD mR fRosTy - and since I have resurrected it for the purposes of Youtube, I am using it at a posting name more and more again. Especially on non-political forums such as this *whew*... I welcome any PM's from my forum colleagues, and I have taken a few hours to roughly familiarize myself with this forum. I am going to post an "omnibus" question about the Hammond Suzuki SK-1, the organ which drew me to this site, because it is clear thatb folks here know more than my local music store! And I admit, even though I have perused the search/FAQs, I have found interesting threads...but some have opened more questions than answered...and I have drifted off into all kinds of sidebars and interesting topics....but I haven't foundd my answers yet...so.... I am glad I have found this, as you'll know when you see my next post. thanks in advance... jdp aka baD mR fRosTy
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