Gear

(Picture: home studio 2026)

Equipment I use at the moment:

• Nord Piano 5 - Digital piano

• Uhl X3-2 - Digital tonewheel drawbar organ + Neo Instruments Ventilator

• Clavia Nord Stage 4 Compact - Piano/organ/synth stage keyboard

• Moog Voyager - monophonic analog synthesizer

• Korg Pa5X 76 - Arranger workstation

Other equipment and software:

• Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate Collector's Edition (900 GBytes sound library, software instruments and effects)

• SuperiorDrummer 3 - Drum software and various libraries

• Samplitude Pro X6 Suite - DAW

• Various Plugins from iZotope, Magix, HOFA and Native Instruments

My keyboard journey over the years:

• Korg CX-3 (1st. Gen.) My very first keyboard

• Ensoniq ESQ-1 My first synth, quite exotic in a time when everyone used DX-7, M1 or D-50. The user interface of the ESQ-1 was brilliant.

• Kurzweil K-1200 its sounds were far beyond their time

• Korg Polysix I got it used, but unfortunately it died some years later

• Roland D-110 my first and last Roland synth, horrible menu diving

• Viscount D9e "pocket Hammond" with a poor Leslie simulation, but with MIDI

• Korg Triton Le great synth, it was still the time when Korg offered premium keybeds - with aftertouch - even in entry/mid level workstations

• Nord Electro 2 my first Nord keyboard

• Korg M50-73 one of the worst keybeds I owned, but fantastic sounds and a lot of fun to play with it

• Nord C2 finally a real organ, I still miss the gorgeous baroque pipe organ of the C2 - Clavia never ever added this quality to any of their later instruments

• Moog Slim Phatty my first Moog, I love this sound

• Yamaha MoXF6 my first and last Yamaha, great but somehow "sterile" sound, poor user interface

• Moog Little Phatty as I'm no fan of rack synths I had swithed to the Little Phatty with keyboard, unfortunately no aftertouch

• Moog Voyager Oldschool what a beast, what a sound, an icon and jewel, I still regret having sold it

• Korg Kronos 2 61 an universe full of sounds, but in the end I mainly used it as a preset instrument

• Nord Lead A1 one of the best sounding and so easy to program synths, unfortunately with a cheap keybed without AT and no real display

• Nord Stage 3 Compact everything from Nord in one instrument, although the Hammond part was quite weak, planned for playing live

• Sequential TAKE 5 awesome little synth, easy to use, top build quality

• Korg Pa3X Le Arranger workstation

• Clavia Nord Lead 4R virtual analog synthesizer - but I liked the Nord A1 more

• Korg Pa700 Arranger keyboard with good sounds and styles but horrible keybed