zoomer Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Hi everyone, this is my first post on this board. I have a Kurzweil PC88 soon to be replaced with a Roland RD700sx. Question: I play mostly blues and boogie-woogie piano, and want to configure the Roland so that I can play piano with both hands, and somehow make the unit play a triad or seventh chord in tonewheel organ mode, and control that function (making the three I-IV-V chords as needed) via a pedal assortment. Can the Roland be made to do that? If not, could a Casio 3000 or 3500 that has a nice tonewheel be used is that fashion? The Casio would also be controlled via pedals, to make the chord changes as I play the piano on the Roland. It seems that this should be possible, but I am not very savvy about such things. Any help, such as how to make it work, and what pedals could be used, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another mike jones Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Yup, the Casio will do that. Actually you've got a bunch of ways to achieve that goal on the Casio. Theyve got a few different modes for chord patterns. "Casio chord" has you play the root and then a number of keys above to form different forms of the chord (i.e. C key= CEG, C+D= Cm, C+D+E= C7, C+D+E+F= Cm7, etc.). "Fingered" mode has you form the chord but the chord is all it plays, no melody or anything. Or theres just normal mode. 1 thing is that you'll have to set the "Accompaniment mixer" to all organ settings or else you'll have guitars, pianos, ep's and etc. But midi-ing a bass pedal board would get you what I think you're asking for. Plus, it has a sequencer so you could create a midi for the song and have it play along. Mike "Get out of the road, if you want to grow old." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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