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)
- Marantz PMD670 compact flash audio recorder
PRESENT
- Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV (DC5M4T) Conservatory Series MIDI grand piano
- Timewarp Technology Home Concert Xtreme (really cool music accompaniment
software that follows what you play and matches your tempo)
- 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 6 (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
- 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 X1 Studio Edition (multi-track audio and MIDI sequencer,
MP3 & WMA encoding)
- M-Audio Firewire 410
- MS-957A microphone
- Finale 2006 (music notation software)
- Surcode Surround Sound encoding software.
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