Excellent setup Graham
good luck..

Looks great Graham..

After the Corona cricis i will have to find me a Cabinet maker/Carpenter..
That wil make me a slide out drawer stand which allows met to use my jupiter 80..
(Or any other future 76 key workstation)
In an organ position, as well as a stand alone slide out..

And then also offer room for the ipad and a windows tablet running V-console..

Nice ideas...

Hi,
I have mine set up like this, it is a spare bedroom / music room though

Rikki, where did you get the platform the keyboards sit on?
best regards, charles

Hi Chuck,
It’s a bit of a weird setup.

The bottom keyboard is a Yamaha p121 piano. ( 73 keys) with the optional 3 pedal unit unit and the p121 piano stand.

The sx 900 sits on an old glass hall stand ( table basically) that just happened to be the correct height and length behind the piano. I covered it with a black sheet instead of just having the clear glass showing, along with all the cables and junk.
The sheet hides it all nicely.

I can actually slide the sx a bit further forward if I want to,.

I’d even looked at using a small book case to put sx on, and covering with a black sheet, just happened to have the right size piece of junk, ( hall stand) sitting in the garage wasting away.

Even a book case would have been safe enough , the piano wedges it against the wall , so it can’t topple.

P.s. the p121 doesn’t have 5 pin midi ports , so I use my laptop as a midi interface between p121 and sx 900 via USB. I could buy some sort of dedicated little black box to do it, but I have my sx connected to laptop most of the time anyway, so haven’t seen the need to buy something extra.

I use the p121 as a controller for the Sx900. Normally I mute the p121 piano sound when I play in arranger mode. The weighted keys make the sx piano sound nearly as good as the p121 piano, so decided not to have the hassle of a complicated midi set up.
Sustain for sx900 I actually get via the p121 sustain pedal. I then have the other 2 pedal connections for the sx itself. One I have set for registrations, the other one, I’ll possibly end up using for expression, if I can get the old Technics pedal working with it.

Rikki,
I really like your setup...when you play chords on the 121 when using in arranger mode, does the weighted keys cause any issues,,, as it is harder to get the keys down (piano action)?

Im keen on what you said about the piano sound in the SX900 being lots better when you play the 121 and control it.....I find it difficult to hit the SX keys properly to get the piano to work right, sound good etc.
Thanks,
Lee

You have my interest. I have a Sx900 and a Pa4x.
What would I gain? (your opinion)
How do you suggest I set it up?
Or do I need a different type of second keyboard.

Can’t get out of my house, gotta do something. (smile)
John C.

After the Corona cricis i will have to find me a Cabinet maker/Carpenter..
That wil make me a slide out drawer stand which allows met to use my jupiter 80..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h2ASVeePowde5EwKx6GgLIEXutxwZxZC/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DLMWi7ALnXCNSZku326N0ruE2rkMDAOv/view?usp=sharing

This is a desk l made for my girlfriends son to use in a small recording studio l built for him. The first picture shows a pull out to hold a desktop keyboard. The other is a slide holding a Technics keyboard he uses. THe top part has compartments for rack mounted recording equipment and the monitors.

That looks great ... nice job ... if you made that one why can't you make the one for yourself?

Hi Lee,
not for me, I love the weighted keys, gives it more dynamics. I haven’t played piano for 20 years or so, and I’m not finding it difficult.

I’m using the p121 totally now as controller. When I first had my set up , I had it in an L shape, so I only used the p121 as controller if my melody sound was piano ( which is most of the time) . When I played strings or whatever else, I just played the sx and forgot about the p121.

Now that I have this setup, I only use the p121. I’m not an organ player, so using 2 sets of keys is a bit foreign to me. hence I mute the p121 sound.

With the set up I have, the midi is very basic. The p 121 just mirrors what is set up on the sx. Left hand split, and the 3 voices spread over 73 keys instead of 61.

Uncle Dave first mentioned about using weighted keys as controller and how the sx piano sounded better. It does to me too.