Hello keyboardist here

[Kayakmoose]

Hello.

My name is Andy. I started playing when I was 11. My dad purchased a technics E33 organ for me and I loved it. I went through the grades but became really fed up with playing the type of music required to impress an examiner. In a teenage strop I quit.

 

Then I found synths. My first was a Roland JD800. It was fantastic. Then disaster struck. I got married. She hates everything about electronic music so I stopped playing.

 

Luckily for me the bitch had an affair which left me free to start playing again. Then disaster struck again. I injured my left elbow which in turn left my left hand slightly paralysed. I gave up playing and sold the JD.

 

That was 20 years ago.  In 2018 I met a surgeon who reckoned he could fix my fingers and with nothing to loose I agreed to the surgery. Weeks of physio and now my left hand is pretty good. Not as good as it once was but at least now I can play chords again.

 

I decided to get back in the saddle and purchased a Korg Triton. Last year I bought a Triton extreme and have been playing now for 2 years solid.

 

My influences are Tangerine dream, Jean Michel jarre, vangelis, Mike oldfield, kraftwork, anything electronic.

 

I hope to meet and work with others as my technical knowledge around sequencers and samplers is limited. I have some good ideas and plenty of bad ones.

 

 

[Cody]

1 hour ago, Kayakmoose said:

I have some good ideas and plenty of bad ones.

 Welcome! and my favorites are always the bad ideas  

 

Those Korgs are nice! I've been drooling over an 88 key one for quite some time, it's on a wishful thoughts list,  but a little ways down  

[Cody]

5 hours ago, Kayakmoose said:

That was 20 years ago.  In 2018 I met a surgeon who reckoned he could fix my fingers and with nothing to loose I agreed to the surgery. Weeks of physio and now my left hand is pretty good. Not as good as it once was but at least now I can play chords again.

 

and yeah congrats on that, I play mostly guitar anymore but sliced my left hands fingers pretty good 3-4 years ago, I could still play with 1 finger and thumb, or a slide, but it took my heart out of it for awhile.  Really just got back into it a little over a year ago now, still don't quite feel my left hand is back to where it was, but getting there, best of luck to you! 

 

Oh and @Patchez I did find this really cool little free synth modulator for android, it's $5 for the record option(which you can still do free out of HP out) haven't tested it through an actual stereo to see how it actually sounds yet,  and $.99c for some of the extra sound packs,  does some drum machine stuff too have a full array of manipulations and touch pads........ still a little bit ticked off at myself I don't really need another rabbit hole, but probably about to be using it quite a bit hahaha. 

[john]

Hey Andy

 

Welcome to Songstuff! Great to have you with us. Welcome back to music making

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

[Kayakmoose]

5 hours ago, john said:

Hey Andy

 

Welcome to Songstuff! Great to have you with us. Welcome back to music making

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

Thanks John Cody and patchez for the warm welcome.