YYZumbi Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 I was watching A Show Of Hands in yesterday. And I noticed that Geddy had four keyboards on stage. These days he only have one. How come he does not use four keyboards these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DistantEarlySignals Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Back then it was mostly analog, so he couldn't get all his sounds on one keyboard. Nowadays, with MIDI, he can load up the proper sounds on one keyboard in an instant. I think he still uses a MiniMoog too. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanMeanPride Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 What he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZumbi Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Back then it was mostly analog, so he couldn't get all his sounds on one keyboard. Nowadays, with MIDI, he can load up the proper sounds on one keyboard in an instant. I think he still uses a MiniMoog too. Thanks for a great answer! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) Because he sucks at playing keyboards, so they want to keep that shit to a minimum. Edited July 19, 2015 by Dr. Sheldon Cooper 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Edited to make reply snarky, rather than helpful. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
librarian Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Does not want to use them as much and really - doesn't need to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraroc Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 For the recent tours, the top keyboard was a small synthesizer while the bottom keyboard is a whole music workstation. It's primarily used as a digital piano, but is also a sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WavesandWindows Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Because if you look at the setlists, and how they were playing the songs at the time, there was a lot more he needed. In this day and age, he's opting to play bass as much as he can and less synth, so he needs less. This, as well as the previous Analog/MIDI poiint raised before, wood probably steer you close to the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I dosen't know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Because it is 2015, not the 80,s!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Because it is 2015, not the 80,s!!!!!!!!!!!! Only truth is spoken here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merely Space Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Geddy never really had as many keyboards as you think. On the HYF tour, one of the "keyboards" was actually a cigar humidor, while another "keyboard" was really an ice chest, well stocked with beer. You could always spot that one, because Lerxst was constantly trying to get into it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Because technology has advanced to the point that he doesn't need all that. Computers used to be so big they filled a room. Now we can hold one in the palm of our hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexMike Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Doesn't he have a lot of keyboard sounds programmed into his foot pedals now too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 All the MIDI answers. He can get all the ounds he needs from a PC or a rack processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mother of all machines Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Well, he has never considered himself as keyboardist at all. If i dont consider myself a guitarrist, i wont have 5 guitars. Maybe he needed the 4 keyboards back then, but remember technology has also improved a lot. A piano is at the same time a keyboard and a trumpet and even a drum. God knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I think it was clear that in the eighties he was a huge poser. He just wanted to look cool, like Wakeman or Emerson: "look at me, look at all the keyboards I can play!" It was pretty damned obnoxious, but he's matured a lot since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 They don't play any instruments live these days,it's all sequencers and samples, everyone knows that, Geddy just presses a note on the keyboard and it's all taken care of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraroc Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) I think it was clear that in the eighties he was a huge poser. He just wanted to look cool, like Wakeman or Emerson: "look at me, look at all the keyboards I can play!" It was pretty damned obnoxious, but he's matured a lot since then. Uh, no....The 80s wasn't like the 2000s, digital stuff was still in it's primitive state. He needed all four keyboards. They don't play any instruments live these days,it's all sequencers and samples, everyone knows that, Geddy just presses a note on the keyboard and it's all taken care of! LIPSYNCGATE 2015 Edited July 21, 2015 by fraroc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I think it was clear that in the eighties he was a huge poser. He just wanted to look cool, like Wakeman or Emerson: "look at me, look at all the keyboards I can play!" It was pretty damned obnoxious, but he's matured a lot since then. Uh, no....The 80s wasn't like the 2000s, digital stuff was still in it's primitive state. He needed all four keyboards. I stand corrected. :eyeroll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjnev Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 (edited) Basically todays keyboards can load digital samples of vintage synthesizers and play them . In the 1980s and the early 1990s you couldn't get the same sounds on a Oberheim OB-8 as you could on a Fairlight CMI or Wave PPG.Now the Roland Fantom X7 he uses is a monster workstation and actually has a 16 track recording studio on it with onboard effects. He uses the new minimoog also for solos thats the smaller one on top. With todays technology all Rush has to do is load samples of the fills Geddy used to be tasked with playing live and assign them to a certain key or bass pedal or even drum pad. I wouldn't be surprised just as a back up if there isn't a laptop or two offstage . But the Roland is a beast and has good reliability. Unlike the analogue equipment of the 1980s . Edited July 22, 2015 by patjnev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 He will be using an iphone next(not as silly as it sounds,i run various gizmos for my guitar through an iphone) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I wonder though how much of the live show is not really being played live, some of it is obviously a sample such as the backing vocals, the rap section on RTB and we know that the keyboard intro to Mission for example is triggered by Geddy hitting only one key, but what other sections are there? Anyone take a guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertrobyn Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 "Because its not even a real instrument" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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