Phil O'Keefe Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 I would love to go back to 1987 and bring back my OB-Xa with MIDI. Sold it when I got off the road to help pay for school. They were big, but boy did they ever have a great sound! Nice picture too - what were the other (3?) keyboards in your rig back then? I cant see myself paying 8k for one. If anything ill end up getting an OB-6 desktop to add to the OB-6 keyboard and make it a 12 voice. Now you're thinking! I have played the OB-6 and it is a really nice sounding keyboard. Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith should do more collaborations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 The last Great American Rock Band. Rest in peace Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Is that your B-3 and Leslie? A great sound, to be sure! There's nothing quite like a real Leslie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 19, 2017 Members Share Posted October 19, 2017 I was lucky enough to own a Prophet 5, Jupiter 6, and Mini Moog back in the day. Wish I still had them! But I would love to play around with a CS-80 or a Mellotron just for the hell of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 I was lucky enough to own a Prophet 5' date=' Jupiter 6, and Mini Moog back in the day. Wish I still had them! [/quote'] What a lucky guy! I wish I had a Mini - I never did. I've had cheaper Moogs a couple of times, and I had a borrowed Rogue in my studio a few years back for a couple of years, but I never owned a Mini. I had a P5 for a while, and a Pro One - loved them both - especially the Pro One, which I purchased new - the Prophet was something I picked up second hand, and it had some annoying issues. Had a couple of vintage Rolands back when they were still new too, but never a Jupiter. But I would love to play around with a CS-80 or a Mellotron just for the hell of it. I've never had the opportunity to play a real CS-80, but I have played Mellotrons. Ungainly beasts that take a lot of effort to maintain - it must have been torture to try to move and maintain them for the folks who toured with them back in the day. Not really worth the effort these days IMHO... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 19, 2017 Members Share Posted October 19, 2017 What a lucky guy! I wish I had a Mini - I never did. I've had cheaper Moogs a couple of times, and I had a borrowed Rogue in my studio a few years back for a couple of years, but I never owned a Mini. I had a P5 for a while, and a Pro One - loved them both - especially the Pro One, which I purchased new - the Prophet was something I picked up second hand, and it had some annoying issues. Had a couple of vintage Rolands back when they were still new too, but never a Jupiter. Yep. Unfortunately I had to sell the P5 and the J6 back in the 90s when I was super broke and they were worth next-to-nothing. Had I known what those things would be going for now?? Oh well.. Such is life! My P5 was a Rev 3.3 that I had retrofitted for MIDI and it had issues with overheating. Especially in hot nightclubs. I'd sometimes have to duct-tape a bag of ice to the heat sync during gigs! lol And it had the usual problems that would occur with the contacts on a lot of those older boards. Other than that, very solid unit. I've never had the opportunity to play a real CS-80, but I have played Mellotrons. Ungainly beasts that take a lot of effort to maintain - it must have been torture to try to move and maintain them for the folks who toured with them back in the day. Not really worth the effort these days IMHO... No doubt. But I've never played either. I'd like to know what they were all about. Not sure I'd actually want to try to and find space in the house for them though..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 21, 2017 Members Share Posted October 21, 2017 I'm very lucky. I couldn't possibly afford a truly vintage keyboard nor fit it in the front room of the house. But, through a series of incidents, I've become the de facto organist at the town's Catholic church. Which means I have a key to the church and the organ loft and can go play their delightful Casavant pipe organ any time of the day or night if nothing else is going on in the church. It's a fairly simple organ as Casavants go (still worth more $ than our house) but is perfectly suited to the church and it sounds both sweet and magnificent. The church bought it used from a convent in Quebec in the early seventies. All the labels are in French. I sometimes wonder that they had before… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crazyfoo Posted October 21, 2017 Members Share Posted October 21, 2017 Roland JX-8P ( great pads and horn shots)Ensoniq ESQ-1 - really loved that keyboard back thenKorg Poly 800 rack : for $800 it offered a lot of great soundsRoland SH-5 moni synth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted October 23, 2017 Members Share Posted October 23, 2017 Roland Jupiter 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 Very nice! Congrats on the very cool scores... and thanks for the great and knowledgeable post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 Roland Jupiter 8. How much does one in half-way decent shape usually go for these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted November 6, 2017 Members Share Posted November 6, 2017 I have a Kurzweil Midiboard, which is pretty darn cool and pretty darn vintage too. The sounds aren't much -- none -- but it's a great MIDI keyboard with 88 wooden weighted keys, some nice controls and, best of all, polyphonic aftertouch. If I was more of a synthesist and less a piano player, I'd gig with it. Except that it weighs about 90 pounds. It *does* make a lovely desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 I have a Kurzweil Midiboard' date=' which is pretty darn cool and pretty darn vintage too. The sounds aren't much -- none -- but it's a great MIDI keyboard with 88 wooden weighted keys, some nice controls and, best of all, [b']polyphonic aftertouch[/b]. Which as I'm sure you know, is quite hard to find - but extremely useful. I wish more manufacturers offered that on modern keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted November 7, 2017 Members Share Posted November 7, 2017 The only current keyboard, I think, that has it is the VAX. I may be wrong. Luckily, lots of virtual synths can assign poly AT and maybe a few hard synths can use it, even though they can't produce it. I use Logic and a couple of its synths can attach AT to anything and it knows automatically when it's coming in. Very nice on a filter for pads -- multidimensional timbral shifts that remind me of the northern lights. I worked on using it to bend notes, too, but that was really hard to control. Pianoteq can take it too -- they added it so you can get realistic vibrato on the clavichord, I think. The way they read the individual key pressure is brilliant. The keys are class 1 levers with the white or black part at one end and a dome-shaped rubber bumper on the top of the other end -- like you'd install on a cupboard door. The bumper strikes what appears to be a pressure-sensitive capacitive plate and the midiboard reads everything it needs for velocity, hold, AT, and release from how hard the bumper presses the sensor. So simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted November 7, 2017 Members Share Posted November 7, 2017 I would really like a Casio CZ-1. Very underrated synth that sounds very fresh and bright. The tedious youtube "click through the patches" demos do not do it justice so don't bother looking it will put you off I also have an Octave Kitten but it has a VCO fault. Unfortunately some of the chips on that board are unobtanium. When I get some cash it is going off to a specialist for repair and setup which is a pita on those Credit Vintagesynth.com ( I already have my total near vintage favorites Korg M1 and DSS-1 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Good luck getting the Kitten repaired - I hope that works out for you. I'd love to hear some clips of it once you get it back up and running. I've never had the chance to hear one before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted November 7, 2017 Members Share Posted November 7, 2017 You can hear the sounds in this excellent demo on how to use (rather than play) the Kitten here.Very logical and detailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kbeaumont Posted November 7, 2017 Members Share Posted November 7, 2017 I wish I had an Andromeda A6 its been one of my favorite synths since it was released back in 2000. Is 17 years a classic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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