Christmas keyboard stuff

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:43 pm

Nice heavy-duty stand and nice solid sustain pedal. It's amazing what a difference that sustain pedal makes, compared to

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:12 pm

yeah I want to get one too. what is better about the classic style pedal?

you have a roland D-10 right? I was looking at getting one (or a D-20). but I decided that my jv-880 is too similar. I'll just get a better keyboard to use with the jv-880. ...and sustain pedal and such.

sweet demo here:

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these are all custom patches that he collected from the internet

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:41 pm

I dislike the X style stands because they're not very good for playing while sitting if you're a pedal user.

I prefer the Z stand or the V stand:

I have the V and I don't complain but I want to try the Z on a more permanent basis. Also, yes, that M-gear pedal is actually very good. I use it with my Korg M3.

Mages wrote:yeah I want to get one too. what is better about the classic style pedal?

Proper pedaling technique involves depressing and repressing the pedal very quickly (re-pedaling) after every chord change. It is near impossible to do with a spongey pedal, you need something with a lot of spring.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:07 pm

what about one of these "T stands"

honeyiscool wrote:
Mages wrote:what is better about the classic style pedal?
Proper pedaling technique involves depressing and repressing the pedal very quickly (re-pedaling) after every chord change.

ah ok, I don't do that stuff. the sustain pedal is only useful to me for pads and stuff like that.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:30 pm

Mages wrote:yeah I want to get one too. what is better about the classic style pedal?

you have a roland D-10 right? I was looking at getting one (or a D-20). but I decided that my jv-880 is too similar. I'll just get a better keyboard to use with the jv-880. ...and sustain pedal and such.

The D10 became too unreliable for stage use, I passed it on and bought a Yamaha NVP-60. It isn't a synth but it has good enough preset sounds for the cover band stuff. Wish it had proper MIDI IN/OUT rather than "USB MIDI". Now I can pass the stand on too. The classic style pedal is a lot easier to do the piano pedalling with, the switch is OK for keeping the strings sustaining on while I switch to guitar for "Road To Hell" (Chris Rea), or building huge synth brass chords the length of the keyboard for the end of "Radar Love".

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:39 pm

NickS wrote:the switch is OK for keeping the strings sustaining on while I switch to guitar for "Road To Hell" (Chris Rea), or building huge brass chords the length of the keyboard for the end of "Radar Love".

oh ok, cool. that is exactly the kind of things I use the pedal for. or just slowly evolving soundscape kind of stuff. right now I just have the control change # set to a knob on my MIDI controller, but a pedal would be better for obvious reasons.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:46 am

Even for sustaining things like brass, I hate spongey switches because they always seem to be a bit late when it comes to finishing the sustaining portion.

And yeah, I think the T stand looks great, too. Seems a little bit more to set up, though. The nice thing about the V stand is the ease of setup. It's not the sturdiest, I'd imagine that the T is better in that sense, since it is equally supported on four legs. For a semi-permanent use, I'd love the T stand, and then I'd take the V stand on the road. Honestly, though, on stage, X stands are fine, since you usually don't want to sit live anyway.