ElmerJFudd Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Is this something you’d want taking up space in your living room? Practice room? Studio? Donate to the church? Leave at the curb for Monday trash pickup? Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Use in the studio as a controller for B3X (if it has MIDI). Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogs Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I used the simple MIDI out from my old Yamaha HC2 Electone to control my YC61 and MOX6 . (Upper manual is channel 1 - lower channel 2 - pedals channel 3) Annoyingly, the YC61 only has a single channel MIDI input so it's not an ideal arrangement. I needed to use the MOX voices for lower manual and pedals. I guess the B3X could be more comprehensively connected. I think most Electones from around 1990 - maybe a bit earlier? - all had at least simple MIDI outputs. 1 Quote Yamaha - YC61 - P105 - MOX6 - HC2 -- Neo Vent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpn_user7629 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 It looks fun....is there synthesizer technology inside? Maybe some similar componants as this modified Electone E70? https://reverb.com/item/27536616-yamaha-electone-e70-modified-into-cs80-type-synth-1977 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 It sounds very synthy! Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 On 2/5/2022 at 6:14 PM, rogs said: I used the simple MIDI out from my old Yamaha HC2 Electone to control my YC61 and MOX6 . (Upper manual is channel 1 - lower channel 2 - pedals channel 3) Annoyingly, the YC61 only has a single channel MIDI input so it's not an ideal arrangement. I needed to use the MOX voices for lower manual and pedals. Electone MIDI out -> MOX MIDI IN MOX MIDI THRU -> YC61 MIDI IN Set YC61 to listen on Channel 1, MOX on channels 2 and 3. Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogs Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 3 hours ago, stoken6 said: Electone MIDI out -> MOX MIDI IN MOX MIDI THRU -> YC61 MIDI IN Set YC61 to listen on Channel 1, MOX on channels 2 and 3. Cheers, Mike. That's what I did, but of course it means that only the top manual uses the YC61 voicing.... The lower manual and pedals need the MOX for voices. Short clip of how it sounds (ignore the bad playing! 🙂 .......) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2r4kNdxWn4 Quote Yamaha - YC61 - P105 - MOX6 - HC2 -- Neo Vent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 Anyone know how flexible an Electone like the 315U might be for controlling B3X on Mac/PC? I have a Unitor 8 midi interface. https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/9/324909/315D.pdf 315D manual makes no mention of MIDI, these models might pre-date it. It's a 1979 model. History of Electone Organs Too bad. The EL series (90s to early 2000s) or later seem to be best bet as MIDI controllers. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogs Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 17 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said: Anyone know how flexible an Electone like the 315U might be for controlling B3X on Mac/PC? I have a Unitor 8 midi interface. https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/9/324909/315D.pdf 315D manual makes no mention of MIDI, these models might pre-date it. It's a 1979 model. History of Electone Organs Too bad. The EL series (90s to early 2000s) or later seem to be best bet as MIDI controllers. The MIDI spec was published in 1983, so anything before that won't have MIDI. I think Yamaha added it to all Electones from around 1985?... This list is from Europe, so not all models may be relevant in the USA: https://www.imoose.nl/electone 1 Quote Yamaha - YC61 - P105 - MOX6 - HC2 -- Neo Vent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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