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Is the keyboard retro?

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:06 pm Is the keyboard retro?

Nope, the retro item is musical.

Icky wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:58 pm There is a bit of retro present in that pic if anyone can spot it.

Hmm... The picture is too small for my old eyes to pick out any detail, but it looks like, at a guess, a Yamaha XG-xx synth module on top of possibly an old late 70's graphic equalizer...?

Icky wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:09 pm

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:06 pm Is the keyboard retro?

Nope, the retro item is musical.

That's what I said... the keyboard... not computer keyboard.

@mrbombermillzy was close. The unit on top in the rack is a Roland Sound Canvas SC-88

Icky wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 6:54 pm @mrbombermillzy was close. The unit on top in the rack is a Roland Sound Canvas SC-88

Though it was a Sound Canvas...couldn't tell which one from the picture though. I've got an SC55 as well as an SC88 VL (the latter came with a Roland MIDI keyboard & the virtual Sound Canvas s/w to IIRC)

JezC wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:45 pm Though it was a Sound Canvas...couldn't tell which one from the picture though. I've got an SC55 as well as an SC88 VL (the latter came with a Roland MIDI keyboard & the virtual Sound Canvas s/w to IIRC)

That one is actually the VL version as well @JezC.

@mrbombermillzy, not a graphics equaliser but a Mic / Instrument pre-amp MIDI box. It's a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20.

Icky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:04 am @mrbombermillzy, not a graphics equaliser but a Mic / Instrument pre-amp MIDI box. It's a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20.

Well I was pretty far off that one.

It looks like a very nice unit though, once I looked it up.

I hope that laptops DACs are going to do it justice (unless its using a digital out of course).

Icky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:04 am That one is actually the VL version as well @JezC.

Mine's still packed away in its original box ATM... making do with the SC55, MU50, FB01 expanders plus DX7s, M1, 01R/W keyboards for now

Shame on you both @PhilC and @rubber_jonnie. Between the two of you I have ended up with a Z88 from @PhilC. @rubber_jonnie, your compulsion and threads of your latest purchases sparked all this.