Keyboards that Get You

70sSoundquality wrote: Lets not forget the phenominal sounds of the Orchestron, Optigon, Birotron, and Polymoog

Birotron.Was someone trying to copy the Stylophone?

 

With midi these days I can't think of sound that can't be reproduced so for me it has to be the feel and action of the keyboard. (for example; Native Instruments makes a great Hammond sound with it's B-4.)  I learned on piano and it is really hard for me to play non weighted keys.  Korg and  Kurzwell make great weighted keys entries. Yamaha Clavinova action is my favorites.

My favorite keyboards are an Oberheim OB-X for harmony parts and pads and Minimoogs and Arp 2600s for lead parts. I also like Moog Taurus Bass Pedals. These things have more fat in them than a truck load of donuts. I love the Moog Bass and the low filter on a Minimoog.

My favorite Minimoog sounds are ANYTHING played by Jan Hammer and the melody bridge in Tom Sawyer by Rush. I also like the Minimoog solo in Machine Messiah by Yes. That is probably the coolest.

I also like how Robert Fripp uses Mellotron. And, of course, anything with Hammond B3 is golden by my standards.

Long live MINIMOOG!!!

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my favourite sound on a keyboard is that very 80's/new wave chessy sound. along with the keyboard style that is present with the unicorns.

Of late, i have also become more a fan of samplers. even if it's playing one note very fast, then jumping up and down a scale very quickly, then back to the one note. it sounds very cool, and easy to dance to.

asuma wrote: my favourite sound on a keyboard is that very 80's/new wave chessy sound. along with the keyboard style that is present with the unicorns.

Wasn't that the Yamaha GX1??

Altho Keith did really enjoy that ribbon controller, didn't he....

Lunarscape wrote: ThreeFates; Sorry to desagree a bit. The true King of the Hammond in Prog Rock is Thjiis Van Leer. Give "Moving Waves", Focus III and Hamburger Concerto a try and you'll know why !

 You almost made me spit my sides laughing....Maybe you should listen to some of the Nice's albums... start with Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack

ivan_2068 wrote: Kurzweil Keyboards, Iván

ivan_2068 wrote: Hey Garion, watch Kansas  Device, Voice Drums DVD and listen the sound created by Steve Walsh with his Kurzweil K2661, it's amazing. Iván

 

Yes he does. 

That is a great concert DVD although it would be better recorded today because he is singing better now.  It is amazing when you think of all those hands and keyboards Kansas used to create the songs in the 70's  that he does with KURZWEIL now by himself.  He was such a great singer that people tend to forget how great a keyboard player he was too. 

 

If it wasn't clear, the Godley-Creme Gizmo was a guitar effect: a series of 6 wheels, each under a string - so when in operation a string could be depressed on to its wheel to give a violin-like sound. Consequences was the optimum demo album to show what other tricks/sound effects were possible. I'm sure somebody corrected my long term assumption that the choral effects (e.g. I'm Not In Love) was not in effect G & C  stripping out the standard tape loops from a Mellotron and replacing them with tape loops of their own voices.

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sigod wrote: DH, thank you for that mate, I was always curious about how the Gizmo functioned. I wonder how many were produced though? I'd have one even today.

 

Interesting that G & C dropped out of 10cc (and where did they get their name from....?) to promote their patented invention the Gizmo, they must have felt they had some real business opportunities?