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For someone who has played left-hand-bass in a 3-piece band, having 2 manuals (or a split-keyboard like my Synergy) is a great option. On my M2, it gives the opportunity to play two sounds at once (playing counterpoint, etc.)

Vance

On 1/3/2011 7:36 PM, Chris Dale wrote:

 

Having a two manual machine sounds a bit richer than one because you have two of everything.
Visually it's striking as well, because two manuals one above the other is not as surprising.
The tapes though in any two manual machine, must be in tune with each other - this is something that gets overlooked when swapping out tape sets.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gary Brumm <gabru@comsec.net> wrote:

 

Obviously the original ~had~ to be built that way (mechanical logistics) but why you would want to connect 2 manuals

side by side in ~modern~ times is beyond me…..

 

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That would be kinda like putting a Ferrari engine in a Ford Cortina with all of the original Cortina Instruments and controls. That would be something, wouldn't it?

 

In a message dated 1/2/2011 9:39:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, charel196@yahoo.com writes:

I personally would love a dual manual M4000D (Markus' digital unit) in a replica MKII wooden cabinet with authentic controls, an accessible hard drive with the entire library, and digital reverb/efx with some nice JBL speakers in the cabinet:)