Hi Leeboy
Yes you can connect any Midi Keyboard/pedal board to the Pegasus wing, and it also has a dedicated section for pedals so that you don�t have jump through hoops to set it up. (Wersi (Music store) may also re-introduce dedicated pedals in the future, but this is pure speculation at present)
You can download the English brochure here http://www.wersidirect.com/www.wersidirect.com/Pegasus_Wing.html
Hope this helps

Bill

lee.....very enjoyable...would love to see her head too ....but the instrumentation is superb. I am sure she has been playing since a child to be at that caliber. What needs tio be done if at all possible is to educate today's children so that they can learn to appreciate this kind of music because in all actuality if they dont start to love it and want to learn how to enjoy it and play it no matter what instrument it is I'm afraid all of this will die out in years to come and all that will remain are small audiences that will appreciate it. It's sad but it is what it is.It's really amazing to listen to these people play as they are arranging and orchestrating on many levels with 2 hands & 2 feet to create a full Symphony Orchestra effect...brilliant!!!

Does a hammond have pianos, strings, horns, drums ???? No !!! Does it even have the capacity to program these things ????? No !!!so you are asking a question that you already know the answer to. But you can make incredible music on a hammond. Well i dont know for a fact that you can but i know other musicians can.

It doesnt matter what you buy lee. Because if you cant make incredible music with the current line of arrangers out there to satisfy your ear then you might want to take up the Kazoo ! I have been reliably informed that you can do amazing things with a kazoo :-) ( i am playing with you Lee)

Best of luck whatever you buy or dont buy.



[This message has been edited by spalding1968 (edited 09-04-2010).]

This video really impressed me. That�s what I call a true one-man-band, or�..one-woman-band��or�..one-person-music. Not the players who do runs up and down the board. They�re technicians, not music makers. This lady is a �music-maker.�

Anyhow, I have some questions if some of you can answer them.

1) who is the lady��I did a Google search and couldn�t find anything for maru (is that her name?). And�..I�m assuming she�s Japanese?

2) Is this her own arrangement, or is it the actual score from the movie?

3) Is she using a Roland Star Wars �style/pattern?� Is she playing on top of a MIDI file? If so, did she make it herself?

4) I hear lead (right hand), background (left hand), bass notes, individual drum beats, and fill-ins (where I don�t see her fingers move). What�s playing what? I�m watching her left foot but I can�t quite make out what she�s doing with it (my guess is she�s playing �accompanying� drum beats).

5) She did the �gliss� with her left hand. I�m assuming she�s left handed and that would account for a lot of her left hand dexterity?

6) Anyone know where I can read about her?

I really like what she does!!! That�s something to shoot for.

Lucky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxtlCLwWvA&feature=related

I still believe that a MIDI file (the one i pointed in my previous post) is doing the "background" work. Of course left hand right hand, feet etc are all hers. In another tune that donny posted she stops playing the music, turns a page on her book and the background still plays. Probably a style or MIDI of some sort that provides the backbone.

I would have to agree with you about the MIDI file. At one point in her Star Wars I heard a repeating snare drum and her fingers weren't moving with it.

So I view her as an ordinary mortal now. But still, I'd like to know what she was doing with her left foot? My guess is since the MIDI file was playing the bass line, she was playing the rhythm section making all those background drum beats for each note. Not an easy task I might add.

I'm not that familiar with the Star Wars theme. Did she add a lot to it with her playing or was most of it done automatically?

Anyone?

P.S. I thought that was a Roland. I've since learned it's a Yamaha keyboard.

Lucky

Lucky, see my previous post where I posted the Star Wars midi, play it, and then hear her performance again.

I think she actually plays A LOT of it, but that the registrations change from a file or are preprogrammed

That said, i wish I could play half as good as she.

Ahh and guys, in some videos on You Tube, she answers questions iand seems to have a good command of English language. Why don't you ask her how she does it? Hell I will do it.

[This message has been edited by trident (edited 09-06-2010).]

OK, I got it now.

If you can read Japanese, go to www.ymm.co.jp or view it through an on line translator.

They publish a lot of things for the electone series, including registration disks, song disks and books like this:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/463682317 6/r...76&linkCode=asn

It is probably a kind of arrangement written especially for the Electone and then played back with the aid of regisrtations and background song data.


[This message has been edited by trident (edited 09-06-2010).]

Most Electone players play from Electone books that come with registration disks. They're very popular and come in several levels (grades).

As with many things in Japan, they even can be found in vending machines. How cool is that?

Most of Yamaha's Electone demonstrators were finalists in the Yamaha Electone Competition.

Taike

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