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I wonder what hardware besides keyboards everybody uses who is on stage.

This is what I take on stage besides my keyboards and stand:

Laptop
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 3rd gen
Behringer XENYX mixer
Midi interface
3 Yamaha FC7 pedals mounted on a pedal board
K&M laptop stand with mouse stand for Behringer and Ipad mount
Ipad

So I use a lot of "lose" gear. Somebody who has built this kind of stuff in a flightcase?

Less is more:

- NS4C w/NP5 as midi controller
- Spider Pro stand
- JDI stereo DI
- 2 FC7 pedals (sustain/leslie), one continuous pedal for organ swell (mounted on pedalboard)
- a nice stool and some cables

No laptop, mixer or FX as none needed. I used to carry all that crap, no longer.

cphollis wrote: Yesterday, 15:38 - 2 FC7 pedals (sustain/leslie), one continuous pedal for organ swell (mounted on pedalboard)

Really? An FC7 for sustain?

Hardware only guy with a very simple gig setup:

• Piano 5-73 or Electro 6D 73 (swap in the Electro 7 when it arrives)
• Nord Music Rest
• K&M 18880 stand
• Electro Voice EVerse 8 speaker
• M Audio sustain pedal
• Yamaha FC7 when needed
• 2x TS cables - each channel out of the Nord into the two speaker channels
• 12" iPad Pro for music

I travel simple, light and quick. Packs up fast and can be hand carried in one haul.

The home studio is, of course, a completely different beast. Someday I'll post about it.

FZiegler wrote: Yesterday, 16:08

cphollis wrote: Yesterday, 15:38 - 2 FC7 pedals (sustain/leslie), one continuous pedal for organ swell (mounted on pedalboard)

Really? An FC7 for sustain?

Sorry, typo -- it's just a normal sustain pedal

- Nord Electro 5D with Hammond CU-1 halfmoon switch attached
- Yamaha FC-7 and FC-5 pedals
- stand and seat

as well as

- guitar
- amp
- pedalboard

I have been doing my gigs with a single board now for 15+ years, starting with NS2 88, then a few iterations of NS2 EX 76 and NS2 EX Compact...now it is NS3 Compact. I am gradually working in a Prophet 6 for at least one of my bands, and have a Roland XV3080 rack module on tap as well. Those may become a more regular part of the rig over time.

As for the "gear besides keyboards," I have a rack that always travels with me. It sits offstage or behind me on stage and has my Shure PSM900 wireless IEM rig, my Radial KL-8 mixer, my Neo Ventilator, and my Shure P4M submixer for the IEM rig.

On my custom stand, I have two Yamaha FC7 control pedals, a Nord sustain pedal, and a custom fast/slow switch for my Ventilator.

Otherwise, I have a Rock N Roller cart on which all of the above can travel, though I might get a bigger one as things start to get a bit heavy and bulky if I am bringing a second keyboard.

Good thread - interesting to see the variety of different things people use live!

For me, on top of the Stage 4 compact sits a Sequential Take 5, using a Quiklok/Stay Tower stand (like Spider Pro).

Sometimes, but not always - attached to the Nord using a W3BRR tablink bracket is an iPad Pro connected via USB to Radial Key Largo, for AUV3 synths with the Sessions app.

Underneath, to the side, is the Radial Key Largo mixer, my XVive PX In Ear Monitor, a Boss FS-6 dual footswitch (layer 2 toggle and leslie speed). These are all mounted on a pedal board.

Finally a Nord SP-2 sustain pedal and a Boss EV-30 expression pedal.

Piano 3 Bottom / Electro 5D 73 Top

K&M 18810 Stand with custom extensions for NORD Piano Monitors, Microphone-Stand attatched w/ Audix OM1
SM Pro Audio DI-8 (8x DI Box with Mixer, gives me freedom for every engineer-constelation and mixing desk setup) integrated in the stand
Seat - https://www.thomann.de/de/millenium_kb_2008_red.htm
A small case with all sorts of spare cables and a Palmer Stereo DI box (https://www.thomann.de/de/palmer_pan_04.htm).
But I never actually need this stuff, since my stand has all the cables attached.
I converted my pedals (Nord Triple 1 and a Dual Fatar for rotary/sustain) to jack sockets so I can unplug them from the aforementioned cable bundle.
Korg Volume Pedal EXP-2 (Volume Pedal for Electro-Organ)