My Gear

PAST

  • My first piano was a Bell upright piano from Quebec (after many years of use, it needed rebuilding)
  • I practiced on a Yamaha Clavinova for my Grade 8 Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) exam as my upright piano was out of commission.
  • Yamaha Portatone
  • Yamaha SY22 (traded up)
  • Yamaha SY77 (traded up)
  • Yamaha SY99 (traded up for 01/W proX)
  • Yamaha TX16 hardware sampler with, wow, a floppy drive built
  • Roland Sound Canvas (traded in)
  • Edirol PCR-50 USB powered keyboard
  • Yamaha QY100
  • Yamaha QY700
  • Korg 01/W ProX music workstation master synth (88 weighted keys)
  • Korg X5DR sound module
  • Yamaha C5E grand piano (Conservatory Series)
  • Roland Fantom-X8 Music Workstation (128-voice polyphony sampling synthesizer / digital recorder, 400,000 note sequencer)
  • Roland FP-5 digital piano (88 keys, weighted progressive hammer action, sustain and soft pedal + half-pedal compatible, very nice sounding piano samples)

 

PRESENT

  • Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV (DC5M4T) Conservatory Series MIDI grand piano
  • Yamaha Motif XS7 music production synthesizer (76 keys, 128 voice polyphony, integrated sampling, & vocoder)
  • FreeHand Systems MusicPad Pro Plus (sheet music viewer - scanned music, PDF, MusicXML, MIDI files etc. can easily be converted for viewing /annotating on this tablet display)
  • Sibelius 5 (music notation software)
  • AMuseTec Musebook Score /MidiScore - automatic digital sheet music page turning software - Learn more about it at www.musebook.com
  • Recordare Dolet for Sibelius Plug-In for exporting MusicXML scores for MuseBook Score / MidiScore
  • Visiv SharpEye v2.68 (sheet music equivalent to "OCR") which does a good job of converting printed music to MusicXML ---> MIDI
  • Timewarp Technology Home Concert Xtreme (really cool music accompaniment software that follows what you play and matches your tempo!)
  • Synthogy Ivory software - awesome Yamaha, Steinway, and Bösendorfer concert grand piano samples
    (real-time sample streaming off an Firewire/IEEE1394 external hard drive)
  • Cakewalk SONAR 6 Producer Edition (multi-track audio and MIDI sequencer, surround sound mixing, MP3 & WMA encoding)
  • Echo Audio Gina3G sound card with break out box (24-Bit, 96Khz audio, surround sound mixing cable, SPDIF optical/coaxial I/O, and MIDI I/O)
  • M-Audio Firewire 410
  • M-audio Axiom 25 (two octave USB MIDI controller keyboard)
  • Marantz PMD670 compact flash audio recorder
  • MS-957A microphone
  • Finale 2006 (music notation software)
  • Surcode Surround Sound encoding software.