Playing a keyboard through a guitar modeler

[Jim Soloway]

I'm starting to have problems with my left hand so I wanted to see if I could learn to play keyboard. Last week I bought a Casio CT-S1. It's a cheap keyboard with decent electric piano sounds. I'm playing exclusively through my computer and headphones. It sounded ok but it occurred to me that if I ran it though S-Gear (which I've used for years ), I'd have access to better reverb plus quality delays. It turned out that the guitar amp modelling also works with the Rhodes sounds. After 10 days of messing with it, I'm pretty much convinced that a guitar modeler is a perfect tool for almost any keyboard, especially if you're running a Rhodes or Wurlitzer sound. Almost any modeler should work, especially if it has a stereo out. It's made the process a lot of fun. This is what it sounds like on day 10.

 

[jay mitchell]

I'm pretty much convinced that a guitar modeler is a perfect tool for almost any keyboard,

I'm right with you there. Ca. 2006, my middle child, Ginny, would occasionally practice her piano lessons on my Hohner D6 Clavinet through my Boss GT-3 (ugh) and powered monitor. She was especially fond of the "Fender Crunch" patch I had constructed.

IMO some amount of hair improves Wurlitzer and Rhodes, as well as organ, sounds. That makes sense, considering that tube amps were the original amplification for all of them. Additionally, judiciously-configured flanging can do a decent job of making Leslie-adjacent sounds.

 

[Piing]

The next step is to play a Hammond tone through a cranked Marshall Major and four Leslies

 

[timbuck3]

I'm starting to have problems with my left hand so I wanted to see if I could learn to play keyboard. Last week I bought a Casio CT-S1. It's a cheap keyboard with decent electric piano sounds. I'm playing exclusively through my computer and headphones. It sounded ok but it occurred to me that if I ran it though S-Gear (which I've used for years ), I'd have access to better reverb plus quality delays. It turned out that the guitar amp modelling also works with the Rhodes sounds. After 10 days of messing with it, I'm pretty much convinced that a guitar modeler is a perfect tool for almost any keyboard, especially if you're running a Rhodes or Wurlitzer sound. Almost any modeler should work, especially if it has a stereo out. It's made the process a lot of fun. This is what it sounds like on day 10.

Why? My more Kronos has enough effects to make your head spin

 

[Piing]

Why? My more Kronos has enough effects to make your head spin

Casio CT-S1: Reverb, Chorus, Delay, EQ, and Surround. [end of list]

 

[Fireproof]

Sorry to hear about your hand. I’m sure that is super frustrating.

But learning keyboard sounds cool and I imagine a modeler would give you all kinds of sounds and tones to play with.

 

[Aleksi]

Why? My more Kronos has enough effects to make your head spin

A Kronos is a high end workstation that costs like 15x as much as a CT1S

 

[FuzzyAce]

I'm pretty much convinced that a guitar modeler is a perfect tool for almost any keyboard, especially if you're running a Rhodes or Wurlitzer sound.

Definitely, as those 2 sounds in particular originally had an amp and cab setup, then mic'd.

 

[JiveTurkey]

 

[FuzzyAce]

 

[TJontheRoad]

I often run my synths and eurorack through my FM9. This both effects and recording interface.

 

[ragingplatypi]

Lots of folks ran their Rhodes, Wurlys and Clavs through a Fender twin back in the days of yore. And yeah, Keith Emerson had a Marshall for his Hammond M3 that he’d throw knives at to sustain some low notes.
Makes me wonder if we could pull off some destructive showmanship with some old zoom and digitech pedals and m-audio controllers