Keyboard Magazine - March 2008 - (Page 23) JORDAN’S DREAM THEATER RIG “When you see Dream Theater play, about 95 percent of what you’re actually hearing is the Korg OASYS,” says Jordan. “Live, that is the main axe that’s holding down the fort. One of the things that I’ve added is the Manikin Memotron. It’s an incredibly realistic digital recreation of the old Mellotron. I discovered it when I was out at the Frankfurt Music Messe. We have a lot of Mellotron sounds in the music, and I thought that, visually this little white thing that looks like the top of a Mellotron would add a nice element to my stage appearance. “I’ve also added the Korg Radias to my rig. I brought the Radias into the studio for the first time on this last album, Systematic Chaos, and every time my hands touched that keyboard, everybody would go ‘What’s that sound?’ We’d come up to a part in the music and John would say, ‘What about something spacey? You got anything spacey?’ I’d literally walk over to the Radias, lay my hands on it, and we’d all be like, ‘That’s it!’ [Laughs.] “Roger Arrick of Synthesizers.com custom built me a gigantic modular synth which I traveled with at the beginning of this tour,” Jordan continues. “As wonderful as it is, the thing is gigantic, and I realized it was going to be a lot easier for everybody if I sent it back to my home studio. So I made an executive decision and opted to not use it, at least on this U.S. leg.” For more on Jordan’s use of the Korg OASYS and Haken Continuum, read Michael Gallant’s last interview with him in our August ’05 issue; you can view it online at www.keyboardmag.com. MusicPad Pro Memotron MIDI Out MIDI Thru Radias Pedal (exp) OASYS 88 Switch (x3) Program Up Sustain Pedal (x3) Fruman P PL-8 V-Synth XT ynth FS-5U (x3) ynth V-Synth XT To Direct Boxes V-Synth XT ynth Allen & Heath Mix Wizard 16 (backup) MIDI In MIDI In Octave Switch Stereo Volume Pedal Exp. Pedal Damper (x3) To Direct Boxes FS-5U (x2) To Direct Boxes MIDI Out Zen Riffer Haken Continuum Wireless MIDI Out Learn to play like Jordan with our lessons and transcriptions on pages 40–45. For more on Jordan, visit www.jordanrudess.com. Follow Dream Theater at www.dreamtheater.net. To see video of Jordan talking music and recording with associate editor Michael Gallant, visit www.keyboardmag.tv. 03-2008 keyboard 23 http://Synthesizers.com http://www.keyboardmag.com http://www.keyboardmag.tv http://www.jordanrudess.com http://www.dreamtheater.net http://www.keyboardmag.tv
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