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These are
older
photos.
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we looked like in March of 2008 - with a new Korg Triton
Extreme and three 'boards. To the right you can see the old laptop
on the boom arm. This has been replaced by a tower computer
with a 24" monitor, all mounted on a boom stand. |
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| Here's the Triton, which also is
used for controlling the Minimoog Voyager rackmount (the unit
with all those red and blue switches on it). |
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| This a wallpaper I made with a Hubble
image of a planetary nebula :) |
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| This is the studio before I got the Triton and
the new 'puter. You can make out the laptop with keyboard and
mouse, all mounted on my home-made boom arm which extends
from a 5-wheeled vertical base (weighed down with
freeweights). A second monitor is mounted closer to the
vertical column of this rig. It currently has a 24" monitor in
place of the laptop. I can use it seated in my office chair,
or tilt the screen and lay in bed (as I write this). The whole
rig moves up or down a pneumatic column at the push of a
button. |
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| Multikeyboard
bliss. The Alesis QS8 on the left, and the Novation X-Station
on the right. |
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| Here's a circa
1981 shot of my studio in San Rafael, CA. A custom
Dyno-My-Piano Rhodes (where I worked as a tech in 'Frisco), and a
Roland SH-1000 synth (the first Japanese synth). The dino
poster is in my classroom at the High School. The series of
pics that follow are all scans of Polaroid instants. |
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| Here you can see my old Oberheim FVS-1.
This was one of the first, and best, polyphonic synths ever
made. The stuff of legends. I have some regrets over
having sold it :( In the right center you can make
out the blue Mu-tron Bi-Phase. Also legendary, and I still
have it in perfect condition(see if you can find it in the top
pics). This largely made George Duke's sound. The keyboard beneath the
Oberheim is an RMI Electra-Piano. Now that was a dinosaur - I
bought it used back around 1975. |
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| I modded my Roland around this
time. It was fairly light and a lot of fun to play! I
ran a medusa of maybe 25 wires (!) out of it, which
created hum, but nobody noticed. I'm wearing a shell
necklace too ;) I planted that deodar cedar at right, which is
now visible above the roof of the house. |
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I used a rotary knob for pitch bend, not
unusual at that time. I mounted it on a separate, smaller box
which could pivot. Above that from left are the filter
cutoff, portamento toggle, portamento speed, and resonance pots. At the top right is a
tuning pot (and a hole for a stretch tuning adjustment pot). Barely
visible just to the left of the bender knob is
the silver transpose toggle. I
still have this 'board, but don't use it anymore, because the sound just doesn't cut
it compared to my newer gear, and since there's
no midi (it hadn't been invented yet), I can't use it
as a controller for my other synths. Shame! |
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