[LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

[Carlos Sanchiavedraz]

This one, ken?
http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/gx1.php

In wikipedia says it was $60000, no more no less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_GX1

You always have nice stories, thanks for sharing Ken.


2009/10/16, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:01:30PM +0100, philicorda wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 15:13 +0200, Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >
>> > So you say something like to achieve little variations of notes
>> > ("vibrato" alike) depending on the key/finger movement, isn't it? I
>> > think there is something like that in really expensive
>> > keyboards/controllers, but not sure.
>>
>> Some of the older Yamaha organs have this.
>> The D-85 has a synth keyboard with 'side to side' sensitivity that can
>> be routed to filter/LFOs etc. No midi as it's a monophonic analog synth.
>> The whole keyboard moves as you shift your fingers.
>>
>> I'm mentioning it as these old organs can be sometimes bought for next
>> to nothing, and it's a helluva lot of sound for the money! Not that far
>> from a GX1. :)
>>
>> http://www.electone.com/museum/index.html?i=290
>>
>
> I got to play a relatively new GX-1 when I was about 12 years
> old. It was in the living room of a classmate's house. We were
> running around his house, I wandered past the living room, saw that
> thing, had no idea of what it was or how expensive it was, but I
> had been playing organ since I was about 6 and had no fear of
> things with many keys and lots of buttons... rather, I was
> like... I GOTTA play that thing! It may not have been exactly
> a GX-1, it may have been a home model variation of it. But
> it was definitely THAT beast.
>
> I didn't realize that my classmate's dad was (obviously) very
> wealthy. I'm pretty sure he was a lawyer or something and IIRC
> had something to do with the entertainment business. We weren't
> really close friends; this was the first time I'd been to his
> house. At the time, suburban families in New York had Baldwin
> "fun machine" organs in their living rooms as a matter of course.
> This wasn't no Baldwin. Again, this dude had some serious money.
>
> Anyway, no kids were allowed near the thing, but somehow I was
> able to talk his mom into letting me play it-- probably because
> she felt like I knew what I was doing (I mean, I'd played
> church organs by that time, theater organs, this wasn't no
> big deal to me). She stood there terrified as I turned it on
> and started playing it. My friend was forbidden to touch
> it, but as I jammed away his mom let him jam along with me.
> After a while she realized we weren't going to blow the thing
> up, and went off to fix dinner. We did this until my mom
> came and picked me up around dinnertime.
>
> It had a cassette tape recorder bolted underneath the lowest
> manual, and I recorded some of what we did. I doubt the tape
> exists anymore. I do remember that it sounded SWEET. I spent
> a lot of time playing the little chicklet-keys mono synth
> manual on it.
>
> -ken
>


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