I really like my Voyagers very much. But some of my older gears as well. Therefore the idea came up to store these sounds, e.g. from a Yamaha SS20 String Ensemble, a Crumar CompacPiano, or even sounds from the EDP WASP on a portable, polyphonic sampler which I could combine with the Voyager by Midi. Although a mountain of surrounding keyboards looks powerful and could underline a certain potence apperance I actually would accept a compromise towards a lean structure herewith to minimize my back bone strain. Is there a product available which is recommendable?
You don’t choose an instrument because of its weight and size. You choose an instrument because it expresses what you want to express.
Samples of synths are pointless. They severely hamper all of the aspects of synths that make them synths. The point of synthesizers is fashioning the sound you want… implementing all of its realtime choices. It sounds like you’d be happier with softsynths.
thanks for your reply. I agree with you to choose an instrument by its performance rather than by its weight. But some instruments may have not that kind of importance to me than my Voyager does. And some instruments maybe difficult to carry, e.g. there is a nice Klais-organ in the Dome of Wuerzburg which hardly fits into my Skoda…
many thanks for your reply and your suggestion to play in the Würzburger Dom. That’s actually sounds quite great to me. Twenty or thirty years ago we had an approach by a friend of mine (Olaf Joksch, organist in Offenbach) and myself to play some tunes on the new Klais there but unfortunately we did not get the relevant person - I think it was Paul Danjakob at that time? -on the phone. So a new approach now seems to be interesting.
But now I’m actually looking for a good acoustic place to perform our current electric music with synthesizers and Theremins. Again the Würzburger Dom would be perfect for that (even with no ignition of the 6652 pipes of the organ)
You know that there is a rumor that says Würzburg has one of the highest suicide rates in germany and that this is due to the extreme church density? Can’t believe that rumor, but the high church density is true. Because today many people are contracting out of church, there should be a better chance to play. All those churches have to be financed, so i think they could allow you to gig if they get a part of the entrance fee.
well, our electronic music may drive some people commiting suicide. In addition with the relation of church density and suicide rate in Würzburg such a combination may lead to a certain death desire augumentation there.
This brings an imagination to me which shows me the death of the french organist Louis Vierne who died during an organ performance at the console of his organ in Notre-Dame in 1937 due to a lethal stroke attack. A mighty final cluster - fit for a musician!
The more I’m thinking about the idea to play in Würzburg the more thoughts about life, universe and everything came into my mind.
Anyway many thanks for your comments and considerations.
Best regards from the Ammersee and southern Bavaria, the land of easy living and noproblem-life-enjoying…
