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Dave Bryce

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Alesis Andromeda

More Moog Modular

More Buchla Modular

Buchla 300, 400, 500

Technosaurus Selector System "D" (current avatar image; currently own a "C")

Oberheim 8-Voice

EMS VCS-3 rev 1

KYMA

MPC-3000 or 4000

Wiard Modular

Fairlight 2 and 3

Maybe a Prophet VS, Gigastudio, etc.

 

This hasn't changed in two years.

 

Someone loan me bux :D

Give me the ANALOG and no one gets HURT
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Nothing too fancy.

 

Front: K2600XS and XV88

Left: Hammond B3 w/2-147 leslies, with Korg Triton Studio 76 above that, and Andromeda, above that.

 

Nice and easy. After all, one only has two hands.

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Erlic

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Mine is fairly straight forward:

Left: Rhodes 76 w/Andromeda on top

Center: B3 and Leslie w/Triton on top

Right: Yamaha Baby Grand (why muck it up with something on top?)

 

For now, I'm fine with my B3, Leslie 122, QS 6.1 and Ion. As soon as I get a new job and move into a two bedroom house, I'm going after a used baby grand or, worse case, an upright piano.

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  • 2 years later...

I already have:

 

Roland A-90EX

Roland JD-990 w. Vintage Synth expansion

Roland P-330

Yamaha A3000 V2

Korg 01/W Pro

 

I would replace Korg 01/W Pro with a Yamaha Motif ES7, and Roland P-330 with a Roland MKS-20. Then I would add:

 

Korg CX3 (The new one)

Korg TR-RACK

Roland XV-5080

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Originally posted by Botch.:

My rig hasn't changed in two years: Kurz PC-88MX, Yamaha EX-5, Nord Lead 1. If I had the $$ and more confidence in the future of live music here where I live, I'd like to have: still the PC-88MX, Kurz 2661 loaded with sampling features, the Nord Lead 3, and a Nord Electro with physical drawbars (they don't make one yet).

This thread is pretty funny! My rig now has a Nord Electro added to it (sans drawbars), but still have the EX and the Lead 1. My fantasty rig, since it doesn't include roadies, would now be a K-2600 on the bottom, with a Nord Stage Compact above it, no other keyboards. In reality it'll probably end up a Fusion on the bottom with my Electro on top, we'll find out again in three years or so when someone digs up this thread again!

 

Some cool names I hadn't heard in awhile too. "Bucktunes", Steve Buckner, is an outstanding keyboardist I got to see perform in Vegas, he was just about to move to (I believe) Illinois to be closer to his wife's family, and I don't think he's posted since, guess he went into another line of work. Would be nice to know what happened to him and a few others, like Fletch and Bobro. :)

Botch

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In Beer there is Freedom

In Water there is bacteria

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Well since this is a live situation and want to max out my sonic capabilities without taking up more than my allotted stage space as well as what realistically u can run to here is what it would be:

 

Front:

Fender rhodes markI 73 w/ MIDI

Alesis Andromeda atop the rhodes

 

Left:

B3 into a leslie 122

Hohner Clavinet atop the B3, fed into a crybaby

 

Right:

MiniMoog Voyager

Korg padKontrol (triggerin samples)

Open Labs Touchscreen Midi controller

 

behind me:

Quad-core opteron computer with 8gigs ram running Gigastudio, controller via MIDI by the Andy and Rhodes, used for those burnin orchestral, horns, and piano sounds

 

And of course id be sitting on a nice swivel stool haha.

 

In ear monitors, and the sound guy can run it through whatever his cream rig is, except of course gotta use that leslie

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After years of complexity and ever changing keyboard configurations I've come to like extreme simplicity live so the current live rig is one keyboard, a nearly maxed out K2600XS. If I could have anything and had roadies I'd go for an Oasys up front and a B-3 topped with an Andromeda on the side.
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Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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Originally posted by DavidRR:

Basically my dream rig is very heavily based on John Medeski's rig. If it's good enough for him it's good enough for me. ;)

Well, I posted here almost 3 years ago, and the quote above still remains true. The revamped lists:

 

Rig 1 (small, club rig)

Yamaha S90 (I still prefer it to the Motif ES or MO8 in my listening experiences)

Nord Electro 61 through a Line 6 delay pedal

To my right: M-Audio Axiom 61 (which I have) controlling Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Arturia Minimoog V, and various audio samples in Live 6 on a fully loaded PC laptop.

 

Rig 2 (no-holds-barred fantasy rig)

Steinway or Yamaha grand piano, properly maintained

Roland Juno-106 on top of the piano, through Korg Kaoss pad

To the right: Rhodes Mark 2 73 with Cry-Baby wah, Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser, and Line 6 delay

Minimoog on top of the Rhodes; M-Audio Trigger Finger controlling one-shot samples.

To the left of the piano: Hammond A100/Leslie 147

Hohner D6 Clavinet with Cry-baby wah.

 

We can dream, right...

 

David

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Nord Electro 5D, Novation Launchkey 61, Logic Pro X, Mainstage 3, lots of plugins, fingers, pencil, paper.

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Originally posted by nursers:

Commodore 64

Yamaho Electone Organ

Radio Shack Microphone

Wooden, home made keyboard stand.

 

BEAT that!

OK, not as minimalist, but close:

A MacBook Pro running Logic Pro with a USB keyboard controller and some decent powered monitors.

Which coincidentally is what I'm using now. ;)

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Right now, my gig rig is an RD700SX and an Electro2 73. My home rig is a Motif ES8 and a Triton Pro. There's a D10 in our practice room.

 

My fantasy rig would be to probaby have a Fantom X8 under my Nord and have a Motif ES Rack midied to my Nord. I could probably do everything I need to with that setup.

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Dream Rig? Hmmm..

 

Well, first thing is a band with some of the greatest people Ive had the privilege of performing with and my wonderful wife on atmospheric percussion :-) Really, without them, the rest of the stuff is just a waste

 

On the Left:

Yamaha Disklavier Grand Piano

Novation Remote SL 61 (on top) controlling a Mac Pro Quad running Absynth, FM7, Kontakt 2, Atmosphere, CS-80V, Cameleon 5000 etc.

 

Center

Korg Oasys 88 Key

Yamaha EX5

Yamaha MFC10 MIDI Foot Controller (on the floor of course)

 

Right:

Korg Oasys 76 Key (spare)

Yamaha EX5 (spare)

Novation Remote SL 61 (spare)

Yamaha BLUE WX5 MIDI Wind controller with Yamaha VL70M Turbo

 

Music I've done recently:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=518985

Korg Kronos 2 73 key,

Kronos 1 61 key,

Novation 61SL Mk2,

Novation 25SL Mk 2,

Access Virus TI2 Darkstar,

Ableton Push,

Akai APC 40 Mk2,

MOTU 896 Mk3,

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Powerful dual core laptop loaded with :

 

Kontakt 2

Reaktor 5

Reason 3

Motu Ethnic Collection

all Roland CDX CDs, Indian traditions CD, EWQL Brass, EWQLSO silver orchestra, FM7.

Sampletank 2.0

Stylus RMX

bunches of sample CDs - just for 1000 bux

Everything running on Energy-XT

 

 

On the hardware part:

 

Novation Remote SL 61

Mackie C4

Mackie Universal

Fantom S88

Korg N5EX

Motif ES8

Virus TI

Korg Triton Studio maxed out

ROland KC550

JBL Eons x 4

all hooked up to Yamaha 01/X

 

 

Ima happy camper. :)

Dont follow me....i'm lost too....
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Originally posted by steadyb:

Alesis Andromeda

B3, Buchla modular

CS-80

DX7-IIFD

E4

Farfisa Combo Compact Deluxe

G4 Titanium Laptop

Hohner Clavinet

Ice cold Beer

Jupiter-8

K2500RS

Leslie 122, 147 & 900 series

MiniMoog, Mellotron

New England Digital Synclavier II

Oberheim Matrix-12

Prophet T-8

Qasar

Roland System-700 modular

Steinway D Concert Grand

Theramin, Taurus II pedals

Ukulele

Vox Continental

Wurlitzer Electric Piano

Xylophone

Yamaha CP-70

Zither

 

 

steadyb

What he said.
Reality is like the sun - you can block it out for a time but it ain't goin' away...
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My turn. I'd wish for -

 

A well-maintained piano (Steinway or Bosendorfer)

A big Hammond with multiple leslies

A great analog synth (A6 or PEK with PER)

A great ROMpler - (K2661 or maxed out 2600)

 

And an audio system that makes it sound like it does in my head.

Tom F.

"It is what it is."

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with roadies and unlimited funds:

B3 + Leslie, Moog (or maybe Andromeda) on top

Rhodes 73, D6 on top

Crybaby + Line6 POD

er, if you'd send a Rhodes and D6 through a Line6 Pod, well, why not just use a rompler?

 

with roadies and unlimited funds you should really have a couple of bitchen tube amps in your rig, let those wonderful instruments come alive!

 

I never did add my dream rig to this thread...my choices have changed a lot since I was last here...

 

MY Rhodes 73 (none like it)

Yamaha Grand Piano (or a nice Baldwin)

Hammond B3

Poly Evolver

Mini Moog

Open Labs Neko

Wurli

vintage livingroom pump organ

glokenspiel and vibraphone

 

Amplification:

Fender Twin

Marshall Stack

2 Leslies

some stuff would go direct to PA

 

Effects:

Cry Baby Wah

any decent Digi Delay with knobs

several volume pedals

moogerfooger

MXR phase

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Originally posted by RABid:

Does this fantasy rig come with a fantasy staff for transport and maintenance?

 

Robert

If not, it wouldn't be a fantasy, it would be a nightmare.

"In the beginning, Adam had the blues, 'cause he was lonesome.

So God helped him and created woman.

 

Now everybody's got the blues."

 

Willie Dixon

 

 

 

 

 

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Originally posted by RABid:

Does this fantasy rig come with a fantasy staff for transport and maintenance?

 

Robert

If not, it wouldn't be a fantasy, it would be a nightmare.

"In the beginning, Adam had the blues, 'cause he was lonesome.

So God helped him and created woman.

 

Now everybody's got the blues."

 

Willie Dixon

 

 

 

 

 

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front:

minimoog -> Custom100 -> 4x12 -> mic

Andromeda (midi to rack)

Rhodes Suitcase MK1 -> mic, split to pedals->bassman59->mic

 

right:

Steinway B with some killer mics etc.

Prophet Rev2 on top, w diamond echo

Jupiter 8 way up, tilted - sync to P3

 

left:

CS-80 w heatsink to all vcos mod

XK-3 into Leslie 145 etc

OB-X(for pads/synths)

 

back:

ssl 4000 smaller frame mixer

rack w EIII rack, Prophet VS-Rack, E4XTU, Sequentix P3, Eventide 8000, Lex224 and 81. Dynacord SRS56, few G-SSL st compressors, few space echo RE201s, (rare but existing) PPG 2.3 Rack, Solina DIY boxed and midied via Doepfer64 retrofit (actually viable), moog phaser, AKG BX-5 spring etc..

 

 

okay, i really went all the way.. :D:cool: . now that i got that off my chest, in reality i think i could probably do well with Nord Stage+UF5 midied to Receptor+E4XTU+MW1, P3, 2xAndromeda and mini. PCM81/91. few choice bbd delay and phaser pedals.. dynacord leslie sim. midas venice 160.

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I have very simple needs. A Yamaha CFIIIS 9ft Concert Grand. It would be nice if it came with a bass player and drummer too (for free), available at all times.

Hamburg Steinway O, Crumar Mojo, Nord Electro 4 HP 73, EV ZXA1

 

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