PIcs of your cribs..

Hahaha it's true.

By the way it's a early CMA 10-2DL, the D albeit looks similar is totally different inside.

What is amazingly funny is today I managed to find some KEF Reference One's for 50 quid at a boot fair hahah
Seriously amazing speaker but I still prefer the 104aB so I'll stick these in the living room I think

It's a 3 way speaker if any one cares, the main driver is Kef's single point source uni-q driver (tweeter where dust cap usually is) and the low frequency driver is hidden inside with it's own cabinet

It may look like the picture was taken 10 years ago (it is not), this is the current setting. The keyboard is K2000, which I just got it a few weeks ago. MPC-2000XL, SL-1200 MK2, and old Numark mixer, (which I overhauled), and Aiwa mini component stereo from 80s' (no, it does not sound good...) I just use what I have...


Record shelves. I have more records on the other side.


But, I've been on this electric piano (This was expensive purchase, but it was worth it.) I did voicing, tuning, cleaning, replaced a lot of worn parts. I've been trying to learn how to play piano. This is placed in a living room. I like playing without the harp cover, I like the noise it makes.
The guitar amp is Fender Princeton Chorus, (which is very, very common amp and cheap in used market) it actually matches very well with Rhodes. It has stereo chorus, which is really great for Rhodes. The pedals are Russian Small Stone (which I applied volume drop mod) and MTR stereo tremolo (Fender Princeton Chorus has stereo effect loop, so ping pong effect can be applied to stereo chorus.) On the side note, Tuna melt pedal was pretty good with Rhodes, but it is not stereo.

JVC: Where did you get those record shelves?

Nice set up, by the way...

wudsiba wrote:JVC: Where did you get those record shelves?

IKEA!

JVC nice Rhodes!!

Tha_Skywalker wrote:JVC nice Rhodes!!

Thank you. Rhodes piano sounds great, even if you are terrible keyboard player (like myself!), at least to the person playing! However, it does require A LOT of TLC.

Nice room JVC, like the rhodes

How you getting on with the K-2000? Always wanted to try one, the bad youtube videos where it sounds like General MIDI put me off lol
But she's capable of a LOT

vinyl_junkie_1620 wrote:Nice room JVC, like the rhodes

How you getting on with the K-2000? Always wanted to try one, the bad youtube videos where it sounds like General MIDI put me off lol
But she's capable of a LOT

I was looking for DX-7 type of keyboard (I don't know why in retrospective, but I'd watched a couple of nice DX-7 demos on YouTube) but I found K2000 for $200 (which seems better deal than getting DX-7, which is usually traded around $200, or give away...)
I haven't go beyond factory preset, which features some really nice pads & strings patches, but none of the bass presets are very appealing to me... Of course I should not judge with factory presets though.
Although it is a sampler, sampling unit is option board. Mine has no options, so it cannot sample, but K2000 can read WAV, Akai SND files, and Ensoniq audio files, so I don't think I'll care for the sampling capacity board.
The real deal on K2000 is V.A.S.T synth engine, which is a basically VST. This keyboard must have been mind-blowing in 1991, I can totally see that. The fact that maximum RAM (4 slot SIMMs) is 64MB is also monster quality! (MPC-2000XL, which came out in 2000, is only 32MB max.)
I've just printed the very thick manual, (which is over 600 pages!) I've only read a few chapters... But I think the OS is very well organized, the navigation is kind of MPC style, the major potion of the manual are about V.A.S.T functions.
Physically, it is a nice looking solid keyboard, nice synth keys with aftertouch.
This is a deep machine, maybe too deep...

JVC wrote:

vinyl_junkie_1620 wrote:The real deal on K2000 is V.A.S.T synth engine, which is a basically VST.

apples and oranges if you ask me

peace

peterpiper wrote:

JVC wrote:

vinyl_junkie_1620 wrote:The real deal on K2000 is V.A.S.T synth engine, which is a basically VST.

apples and oranges if you ask me

peace

You are totally right, I was lazy to explain!

Nice JVC!

JAH wrote:

clean!! can't see under the desk, what other hardware are you working with? show a pic with the mpc software running for the ren. side by side, that ren looks smaller than the 2500 and a hell of a lot smaller than that 3000

sparq wrote:clean!! can't see under the desk, what other hardware are you working with? show a pic with the mpc software running for the ren. side by side, that ren looks smaller than the 2500 and a hell of a lot smaller than that 3000

This pic was taken after I just cleaned up. Normally, I have cables, water bottles, money, rags, etc everywhere.

Under my desk is a rack with hardware I haven't turn on in a long time (Glyph SCSI hard drive, MIDIsport 8x8, Eurorack Pro, Furman AR-Pro...) Only my Apollo interface in the rack is used. My Kronos, Fantom G, and ASR10 are not in the pics. I will post the final pics soon.

The Ren has a very low profile. But it is actually wider than the 2500 and 3000. I can show pics of the software that are like the ones on Akai website. But can't show any screens that are not in the public domain already.

I think I've been through about 5-10 different change up's in the last couple years but my current one is the most comfortable and easily the simplest . Loving my new monitors and Maschine & Komplete 8 is the power combo right now . Thanks to everyone on here for ideas .



I'm looking forward to getting a Ren but I'm gonna give it at least a year after it drops to see how support is for it .