Holy S@it Get a load of this. After seeing these (NOT A SOUL HERE) should complain about a 40-50lb 76 key arranger (or synth).

This beast is actually the portable model!
http://synthesizers.com/portable88.html


Here's one for all you home players!
http://synthesizers.com/studio110.html

Imagine lugging these bad boys around....

Squeak

And this could be the on stage computer that you store your extra midi files & MP3's on:



At over 1900 pounds I'm sure this computer would make your roadies sweat a little. But imagine the build quality


pure insanity


Dennis

Just try moving a C3 in ice and snow.........

After that, you can lift an E80 with your pinkie!

Donny,

Read the specs. This thing only weighs 80 lbs. This is probably less than a Roland E80 or Korg PA1X or GEM Genesys with hard cases.
And since it is split between two 40 lb boxes, it should be a lot easier to carry.

Too bad this is not an arranger... With such size they could have put buttons for every function, instead of a goofy touchscreen

To bad that weight you described does not include a keyboard controller
That of course is an extra option.

Dennis

They can keep it!!

The suggested keybd controller only has 61 keys.......pose

Dennis ... where the heck did you get that pic ???
When I made the decision that music wasn't going to be my main bread 'n' butter gig, I went to IBM school to learn how to wire those things to perform the right calculations ... my first job in the field of 'Data Processing' was running those machines and others like it ...
I'd LOVE to know the web site ...
thnx,
t.

Tony,

Here's the webpage where that picture originated from:
http://www.users.nwark.com/~rcmahq/jclark/ibm650.htm

Links back to the SOURCE: John R. Clark, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Information Systems
http://www.users.nwark.com/~rcmahq/jclark/lgp30.htm
http://www.users.nwark.com/~rcmahq/jclark/nsfayi.htm
http://www.users.nwark.com/~rcmahq/jclark/index.htm

Scott

Ahh Memories. I actually did some playing on the moog back in the 70's. Patch cords and all. The last of that generation I worked with was the Arp 2600. I remember reading the manual about 20 times before I even turned it on. I think that generation of keyboards is what made the first of the next generation (Yamaha DX7) such an interesting transition. You actually had to understand the theory of the acoustics of the actual sound and then how the electronic instrument modeled those acoustics with waveforms, FM operators, ect. to get the desired effect. I remember being at the rollout of the DX7 and how you could learn to listen to recognize the beat oscillation of a single violin note. Now we use samples. Much to our benefit for realistic acoustic sounds.

As for the IBM. I knew that one too. Nothing better than to see the expression on someone's face when you shuffled their punch cards.

THE ENIAC was a non portable device, but there was a lot of space in the room for live gigs.....

Scott . thnx,
t.

Must be those gigs where the roadies outnumber the audience.

I taught in a school with John Mauchly's (created ENIAC with Eckert) daughter. Interesting trivia, he spendt most of his life and money collecting reams of weather data from around the world. He filled his garage with it. He believed that a computer could accurately predict the weather if it had enough data. The project never got to the data entry stage.

Here's something neat: My supervisor at University here in England is Kenneth Flowers, son of Tommy Flowers who disigned the Colossus computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers





[This message has been edited by Carrie-uk (edited 07-20-2006).]