Well although we have never been to this meeting here before things seem fairly quiet, which has been confirmed by people who have been here before. Anyway this morning we saw a very good demonstration by Paul Carman of Orla's new organ the Moderna, the sounds and styles seem to be greatly improved from their previous ones. The main aim of Orla organs seems to be ease of use, which they have always done. It does not mean you can not set things up yourself, you can, however it is so easy to use if you do not like having to think what instruments best suits a particular style etc. This of course can be done on virtualy all new keyboards & organs but Orla seems to be even easier. If you remember at our visit to Pakefield in September I reported on the new Ringway organ RS400eu, well they have now brought out the new RS480eu, which is an improved version of the RS400. Orla have had more of an input on this one than they did on the 400 by using more of their styles and sounds. From what Paul showed me this moring it is certainly much improved and for just under £3000 seems very good value. You can see it demoed for yourselves on Orla's site.
I have also seen the improved Korg PA3X which works along with an ipad to give instant setups to scanned PDF music, that is you select the tune you want to play and everything is setup specifically for that tune. Apparantly this only works with the PA3X performer model.
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