Old Motifator threads are available in the Archive.
seniorblues
Total Posts: 11
Joined 01-08-2014 status: Regular |
I’m hoping to hear from those of you who are doing solo gigs. Two questions to start: 1) What features do you use? and 2) What sort of rooms do you play? Bars? Restaurants? Do managers think of you as someone who fills a band slot or a solo slot? How you answer the first question will influence your answer to the second, I guess. |
piano-player
Total Posts: 51
Joined 02-21-2012 status: Experienced |
I use it in many different ways
A. Just as a piano playing background-music at cocktailparties
I’ve played all kinds of sologigs. Cocktail background music, Dancemusic at weddings, Background music at dinners, entertainment-music at galas etc. At sologigs I almost always use my own mini-PA. I plugg in my S90XS straight into a couple of Yamaha MS60S. Kind regards from Sweden |
seniorblues
Total Posts: 11
Joined 01-08-2014 status: Regular |
Thanks for your response, piano-player. (I have relatives in Smaland.) Oddly I use my S70XS more like an organ duo, except that I haven’t found a suitable drummer, so zone 4 is always a drum ARP. Zone 1 is always a bass voice, leaving zones 2 and 3 for piano organ, EP strings, etc. Occasionally, I’ll use zone 3 for a second drum ARP where a change in groove (but not tempo) is called for. I also sing. I can send it all through a 350W powered speaker and/or a 1000W PA, so I have the capability of filling a slot normally dedicated to a dance band. This isn’t the only keyboard that has that capability, but it works well and is a huge improvement over the Farfisa Duo I had 50 years ago and even the B3/Hohner key bass that replaced it. Is anyone out there doing anything remotely like this? |