Gear

(Picture: home studio November 2023)

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

• Korg Pa3X Le - Arranger workstation

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

• Epiphone Les Paul Studio - electric guitar (Thank you, Alan!)

• Jazz Bass

• SuperiorDrummer 3 - Drum software and various libraries

• Samplitude Pro X6 Suite - DAW

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

Keyboards I owned in the past:

• Korg CX-3 (1st. Gen.)

• 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 - polyphonic analog synthesizer (awesome little synth, easy to use, top build quality)