The Laptop was also an ebay special I now find myself playing with a rig that cost about 1/3 of what my Ventillator pedal cost and considerably less than the now unused VK8R. Managed to find some 3rd party usb drivers for windows 7 that work and got all the faders to work with the mixer in the DAW so this is very nice as I now have 2 pretty solid midi controllers that cost next to nothing I've got it configured as Hammond on 1 and other Keys on the other with the option to switch to all Hammond upper and lower manual. So I stripped it totally cleaned and rebuilt it reprayed the end cheeks (black) and changed the encoder and its like new almost, also looks very cool in black. This took the biscuit at a gig when I nearly lost it altogther so decided to get something else well It happened to be yet another UF6 £30 off ebay in a well gigged condition but all working apart from a dodgy encoder. The CME controlling B4 was very nice the edirol wasn't too bad but I spend half the night chasing it up and down the rack as its so light it moves around as you play. So then I loaded up a laptop added a second control keyboard (edirol) yeah that was £5 off ebay with the usual totally dead keys that I fixed and off I went. So dumped all my keyboards back in the studio and found another UF6 on ebay needing a minor repair £20 this time. Soon decided that I hadn't missed lugging loads of gear around. Then it kind of went silly I joined a band to help out an old mate of mine. I then discovered that there is a button that says 'Drawbars' this is interesting when you hit that the faders reverse and it is mapped to B4 and VB3 'result' It is actually a chinese knock off of a Fatar feels a bit cheaper but still miles better than a lot of the modern offerings from the usual crowd. I decided to use it via midi so the transport controls dont work and the faders seem to do what they want however the keyboard isn't too bad. So a UF7 came up on fleabay for about £35 and I got it.

It is brilliant 8 midi ins and outs merging and routing keys are quite nice but I'm not a pianist so always found the action a bit slow for me. My Fatar 2001 is way too big and heavy and I never really got on with it anyway. Last year I decided to have a rearrange in my studio.

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