J.F.N.
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All you need is a Yamaha CP70/80, a Rhodes and a Wurlitzer, and proper amplification for those, a Hammond with Leslie, a string machine, a DX7, a polyphonic analogue synth or two, a Minimoog, and probably it'd be good to have a Hohner Clavinet as well, and then you should be fairly well prepared for most gigs, unless you play symphonic rock and also need a Mellotron that is of course!
We're very spoiled these days, luckily!
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Sent a message to the maker in a YouTube comment got a reply that he's now added a velocity knob for the filter, good start, let's hope he looks into the aftertouch too.
Nice with a response and actually a quick improvement!!
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20 minutes ago, ProfD said:
Shortly after the artist was born along came the critic.🤣
Some humans are funny when it comes to fame and notoriety.
They don't give a sh8t about someone flying somewhere between obscurity and fame.
Become successful or famous or both and just as there will be fans, the haters will show up too.😎
It's not a coincidence that some people become super stars and some aren't, the biggest egos have a much straighter line to the top than anyone else, no matter what price they need to pay, they will do anything to get there...
In my work I often meet people working with very famous artists, behind them, tech staff etc. and they are without exception always very down to earth and humble people, it would never work else, there's only space for one ego at the top.
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Hmm indeed, I can't find any controller mappings anywhere either.
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From the user manual, interesting "For indoor use only"
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5 minutes ago, D. Gauss said:
I wonder how many decades that will have to pass before this item severely decrease in value, ie. when is the legacy of Bowie going to be sufficiently unknown to kill the hype of this unit.
Was thinking about this when Knopfler auctioned his guitars, "when generation x has died out these guitars are worthless" was my train of thoughts...
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1 hour ago, Thethirdapple said:
Whats wrong with this RB dude, tunings !?!? As if equal is the only available tonal reference point…And please i would really like for RB to stop exploiting his kids talents for clicks…
giving me really bad billy ray vibes!PEACE
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_And showing off his kids for sure rubs off on him too, not going deeper into the psychology of these types of behaviours, but it fits very well in on the rest of his profile...
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12 hours ago, JoJoB3 said:
??? Uh, you can bite whatever you like but even a basic search will tell you reasons to avoid. They're unreliable and not easily repaired today (IOW, free is how much $ you should sink into one).
Has nothing to do with the vent.There is a salvation for those who sit with a bricked XB2, Keyboardpartner has a kit with their HX3 that is created to replace the brain in these bricked XB2s..
https://shop.keyboardpartner.de/en/p/hx3-xb2-retrofit-kit-1
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I can't stand him, in my perception he's a smug cnt.
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14 hours ago, Delaware Dave said:
The past few shows over the course of 6 weeks i've been using both the Vent and the BURN w/ KB3 (dry) of the PC3 and the Forte. With the right tweaks to the organ section the combinations work. Two uncorrectable things are the C/V itself (the chorus is horrible) and that the percussion routes through the C/V rather than around the C/V. Mitigation is that I use C1 and turn off C/V when engaging percussion. Also, if you turn off C/V when engaging the internal leslie in fast speed it sounds much less phasier than when C/V is engaged.
Below is a link to a double leslie that i worked on 10 years ago. Its much improved over anything delivered within either the PC3 or the Forte. It is a double leslie that will consume 14 of the available 16 DSP units of the PC3.
https://forums.godlike.com.au/index.php?topic=3861.msg31597#msg31597
Bill Whitney created a single leslie that is available here. I'd also try this as an alternative.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/yM7zSGNSsXuKHDde/?mibextid=oFDknk
Wow, that sounds interesting, unfortunately I don't have access to any of those links, I guess I could sign up to godlike, though no such thing as social media will ever again enter my life, but anyhooouu, great thanks for the pointers, highly appreciated!
Interesting experiences with the C/V and the percussion, and their routing, are Kurzweil informed about these things too?
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5 minutes ago, Stokely said:
I bought my Lester K specifically to improve the Forte's organ (which sounds about the same as the one on my pc3 I used to gig with). Lester K definitely was better for me than the stock leslie(s).
However, once I went with a Nord Stage 3, I don't think they are so much better or worse than "different" so I'll be selling the Lester--maybe my trial run for Sweetwater Gear exchange will be that pedal
Okay, so Forte didn't bring anything more to the table FX wise for the Leslie algorithms, good to know.
Yeah, Lester K, Ventilator II, Burn.. No idea which one it will be, I am kind of biased towards the Vent from what I have heard so far (youtube).
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Just now, Moonglow said:
It’s been a while, but I ran the KB3 engine in my PC3x through an original Vent to see what it sounded like. Substantial improvement. Kind of had a greezy thing going on, IIRC.Hehe, yeah, I mean, the organ tones themselves sounds more than okay, and the chorus is decent, so should probably be pretty pretty I would guess!
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35 minutes ago, BluMunk said:
This arrived a few weeks ago... loving it so far.
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Stunning! How's the condition on the the keybed?
I used to have a Roland MKB-1000, with its original stand as well, brutal piece, unfortunately the keys were in need of love, and in the end I stopped using it and finally sold it one day.
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Anyone of you PC3 series owners who's run the KB3 dry out and through a Ventilator? I am toying with the idea (to get a reason to buy a Vent..) of using the aux outs on the PC3 for organ through a Vent, and as the Leslie algorithms in the PC3 are not that amazing compared to the math of today, I am hoping it could be an upgrade worth it.
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12 minutes ago, kpl1228 said:
Yamaha DX7 when it first came out. I made payments on it as a VERY young (in my late teens) bar musician and after playing very subpar, broken-down and inadequate keyboards from the '70's (you gotta start somewhere) the DX7 was heaven. Nonstop noodling, and finally I could "sound like the song" in the cover band I was in. Such an all-around workhorse in 1984.
Sometimes I miss that feeling of youthful musical joy and discovery with a cool new groundbreaking instrument. Ever since that day I've been chasing the dragon, so to speak.
And I assume you became a Master of FM programming? I have never managed to get anywhere with FM (can't say I have been that persistent), but one of my good synth geek friends was in the same situation as you as a young asipiring keyboardplayer, worked his behind off until he'd saved up enough for a DX11 (DX7 was too expensive), and for a long time after he finally could afford it and bought it, that was his only synth. He of course is since then a bad ass FM synthesis programmer..
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11 minutes ago, Dave Keys said:
These are all time contextual but here goes:
Roland U20 - yes it's a rompler, but it was 1992, I was 18, broke, and never had a board before then that made authentic Piano and string sounds. I traded in 3 analog synths to get one.
Korg Kronos 2 61 - the swiss army knife of boards.
Yamaha YC73 - a real players instrument.
Casio CT S500 - a joy - no wires, no amps. Just pick up and play - the sounds are awesome, the action v playable.
Which 3 analogs did you abandon for the U20? 🙈🙉🙊
I don't want to think about things I've sold and traded during the years...
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6 hours ago, Shamanzarek said:
Brian's career has really taken off with acclaim from Downbeat mag and others. In 2017 he subbed for me at a Doors tribute concert in New Jersey.
That's a nice stack of machines you have there, "OB8, Matrix 12, Jupiter 6", you hit the head on the nail on two of my three favourites all time there, M12 and JP6, just the Prophet VS missing! And on top of those 3, for the OB8 I would choose an OB-Xa instead, or, as well... haha!
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1 hour ago, JohnDoe said:
I tried the Numa 2 and to my ears Numa 1 had better tone, click, crosstalk and sim.
I found more information after searching here, interesting, the Numa Organ 1 is a KeyB in Studiologic clothes, while Numa Organ 2 is a model from Studiologic (or a licensing of something else I would imagine..).
https://forums.musicplayer.com/topic/161218-whats-wrong-with-the-numa-2-clone/
Anyways, listening to the demonstration here, I definitely find Numa Organ 2 to be a worthy clonewheel for serious usage:
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1 hour ago, JohnDoe said:
IMHO the Numa Organ 1 sounded better than the 2, including the sim, just like KeyB Organ Duo Mk2 did.
Any more details? Just found a Numa Organ 2 at a decent price, not clicked buy yet, as I got curious on your experience! 😊
Don't "need" it, but could definitely use it... 🤣
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41 minutes ago, YashN said:
Something beginning with a 'K' and ending with an 'L'. 😆
KlockenspieL 🤣
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8 hours ago, dazzjazz said:
At this point, most organ clones do a pretty decent job before they hit the Leslie sim. If you have a Ventilator then you should be fine with a used KeyB or Legend Live, Hammond XK series. Your budget precludes the better clones such as MAG or Soul unfortunately.
Though the MAG use the HX3, which you could use with any keyboard of your choice, you could grab a Mojo and use both as it is and as a controller for the HX3, I am planning to get the split Mojo, and use both as controller for my HX3, but also use it alone if/when I need/want that.
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10 hours ago, Husker said:
I'd love a Jupiter X in a rack or module format.
A desktop version, +1 on that!
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On 4/10/2024 at 11:01 PM, Delaware Dave said:
The latest and greatest is HX3.6
I'm using the 3.4, understand that the main thing in 3.5 was the extended organ types, nothing I believe I would have use for, so what's new in 3.6?
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1 hour ago, KenElevenShadows said:
A much larger studio in a much larger house.
That's pretty much all I want at this point. There. Such a simple list.
Hehe!
On the wishlist for my next home is a huge living-room where half of the room can be for creative work, music and photography (not shooting, but editing and printing etc.), and with a curtain rail in the ceiling so if I want to have a cosy living-room for dinners and parties, that's possible too.
Divorced about 6 years ago, no family, living with my dog (JRT) and soon another pup too, long distance relationship since 2+ years and we have no ambition to change that. As it looks now, never again going down the road I was on before, living my best life, so yeah, creative living-room ftw! 😊
Anybody loving the D9X drawbar controller?
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Is there no Arduino editor environment, web or iOS/Android app, where a kind if GUI "form" could be implemented and with that, fix this once and for all and make the setup process fool proof even for people who have no clue about these things, kind of like Visual Basic/ Excel VBA forms ?