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#426681 - 10/05/16 05:05 AM
Second KB in live performance?
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Senior Member
Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 6703
Loc: Roswell,GA/USA
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I know that many of you have non-arranger boards in your homes/studios, but do any of you use a secondary board for live performances (ie clonewheel, stage piano, synth, etc.)? If so, in what configuration and why do you feel it's necessary. Just curious, as in 50 yrs of playing, I've never used anything LIVE other than an organ. But that's only because I've only (mostly) played in organ-based trios/quartets. However, from the beginning I've always owned synths, DP's, Workstations, etc.
chas
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#426709 - 10/05/16 10:57 AM
Re: Second KB in live performance?
[Re: Uncle Dave]
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Registered: 01/02/04
Posts: 7305
Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
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Chas, I generally always use at least one additional keyboard. Sometimes, I use a piano at my right had...90 degrees from the main.
Recently, I have been using an arranger at the bottom, my new little Hammond on top of that and a Yamaha digital piano on my right hand. For really large jobs, I sometimes use a synth on top of the piano.
For years, I used at Rhodes on my right hand and a B-3 in front, plus a synth on top of the Hammond.
Once, when I was wearing a full whiter tux on a revolving stage between a dining room and a lounge (the stage turned after dinner hour), I took a perfectly good Hammond C and added a three note Fender steel on the top. The white shiny case was built around the steel. All this was matched to a white acoustic piano (Miked) on my right hand at 90%.
Love stacked keys for walking left hand bass lines and endings.
R.
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#426729 - 10/05/16 09:45 PM
Re: Second KB in live performance?
[Re: mirza]
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Registered: 03/02/06
Posts: 7143
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When I was using arrangers I always liked having a synth above it. Either Triton, Motif or Fantom. As long as it has sampler so I can load my custom samples to it. And that was always only for solo sounds. Now I am only using Montage. My budy that I play with took my pa4x. I think Montage and PA4x would make a great combination, also when played on top of eachother... Tough i think when having a Montage i would add a little Ketron SD40 just to have some awesome styles... Now, i am only a home player, but i tried moving away from arrangers, but love the easy access to new performaces that arrangers offer way to much.. I also love having an 88 key for piano and a synth/organ keybed for organ and synths (altough both Kronos as well as Montage 88 keysbeds would suffice for both in the end)... also a synthworkstation really adds a lot to an arranger, as you mentioned above. In the end, if you have arranger needs however, only having a Kronos or a Montage will not work, so if you want a high end synthworkstation you need to add some kind of arranger to it.. Montage/Tyros would work, but if you add 2 different nrands, it should work even better as they add more to eachother... So Montage/Pa4x, or in my case Kronos/Tyros5. Adding the SD40 module to any synth workstation is allways an option. But then, i just play at home, so i can not say if having 2 keybeds for a giging player is worth the fuzz of taking them around to 3 gigs a day.. Thats something everyone needs to decide for himself. But i can say, that having 2 keyboards that add to eachother in both functionallity as well as in sound characteristics will be an advantage for most...
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