Guy plays cheap synth by the ocean

Making the most of a crisp and sunny midwinter day in Ystad, Sweden. The KORG KROSS 2 runs on batteries so why not? Demo and performance using the COMBI sounds of the PIANO category. Plenty of pads, drums and cinematic foorage of Skåne region of Sweden.
Filmed on SONY CX405 Handycam camcorder.
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[@adrimathlener8008]

You're a modest man, but well known among your 60k viewers :-)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

and i'm extremely grateful and humbled by that, thank you one and all!

[@davidm3569]

He returns.............. Amid the calm scenery he creates a symphony of sounds and beats.until.........as if trying to take that elusive perfect picture........someone gets in the way. However soon harmony is restored and all is well again...🎵🎶🎵 Welcome back Woody. 😀

[@WoodyPianoShack]

most poetic comment today, thx!

[@davidm3569]

@@WoodyPianoShack Most kind 😁

[@bio-metric-1016]

Lovel sounds lovely views wish I could live there so much better than uk thanks Woody good to here the synths again

[@WoodyPianoShack]

nah, wouldn't say that, UK has its fair share of much more magnificent coastline!

[@XavierRadix]

Away from the banjo's, back to the keyboards and synths. Welcome back Woody. :) Also, great view over there! Beautiful place.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thank you, the banjo is sulking in the corner, it too wants to go to the beach.

[@SamNiverba]

@@WoodyPianoShack banjo jams at the beach :)

[@SamNiverba]

Welcome Back Woody Piano Shack :33333333

[@AndrewAHayes]

Are you kidding me Woody? you are a legend!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

not to these ladies, unfortunately

[@jonglass]

You're a legend in our minds. ;-)

[@saulcross9690]

You are kind of famous in a niche 😎. Lovely video and welcome back to the keys. You are a star.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

you're very complimentary, I'm flattered!

[@arcanics1971]

That's my baby! (The Kross, not Woody!) Nice video, Mr W! It's really nice to hear stuff on the Kross so different to what I tend to use it for. Really enjoyed it.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi and glad you enjoyed it. just playing random piano combi patches here, you can get interesting results with the cutoff knob and those two switches!

[@WillsJazzLoft]

You are famous to the 59 K + of us who subscribe to you 😊. Btw not only is the music good. But you also did a splendid job with shot selection and post production. 👍

[@mr_floydst]

That was a nice conversation. :-) I guess the guitar buskers have some serious competition now!

[@theaudioeng]

Just as well Woody speaks Swedish right?(!!) 🤣🎹🎵👍🍻

[@WoodyPianoShack]

haha, that would be fun video! been looking for excuse to buy an amp...

[@rebeccaabraham8652]

Been missing these videos! It’s not just keyboards that sound great by the beach - trad flute, harmonicas and the Xaphoon also go great with a beach - especially at sunset; strangely - I’d never take a guitar to the beach!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i've never taken my guitar anywhere, but perhaps I should. Or banjo maybe? maybe not.

[@aussierob7187]

So good to see you playing outdoors again

[@this.is.shashwat]

Love this man, awaiting more synth and keyboard videos

[@nijurosu2169]

Happy to see you still own the Kross 2, your reviews a while back sold me on it and I love mine.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i'm not sure if I've ever got around to doing a review on the kross, just loads of demos so far. glad they helped anyway, i really dig mine too! congrats!

[@kingrs]

Always makes me smile when I watch your KZbin videos. Stunning views and beautiful playing.

[@KJagdAmbient]

Hi Woody nice video looks good, good atmosphere in the beautiful weather, and delicious sound from your synths

[@erik_gerhard]

Love what you do, man. 😊

[@MarkSomosoMusic]

I have fun watching your channel. Love the scenery. Specialy the sun with the reflection of the water.. Great place. The lady will discover that your famous on the keyboard nitch

[@WoodyPianoShack]

doubt it, she will probably never know... i'm good with that. :D

[@pidmjproductions986]

Such a shame there is nobody watching you play live! I love playing in music shops and then turning round and seeing people enjoying my music. The place for that is Benidorm, Spain. No, not me! But I like to watch people playing in the warm evenings. And 2 things: They play really well! I mean professionally or semi-professionally. REALLY WELL!!! And the gear they play! Really expensive keyboards etc. Kurzweils, Ketrons, top Yamahas etc and really top keyboards and synths. Well apart from the new trend which is controller keyboards connected to laptops! OK, it's still good but I love it when they use a good keyboard. My wife gets a bit annoyed though, as I MUST find out which keyboard it is, and have a little chat with the player etc!!! Anyway, great to see you playing live music by the sea. Next time I hope there are some people around you appreciating it. And... Are there any musical instrument shops around? You could try doing a video playing inside a store, with their permission of course. Great to see people's reactions too... Best regards, Phil

[@WoodyPianoShack]

very interesting phil! also need tome battery powered amps if I'm going to entertain passerbys on the waterfront!

[@hartleygabolinscy3152]

Great Woody. Woooooooooooo. Great leap forward.👍❤️👍

[@apreviousseagle836]

I freakin' love that chord progression at 8:31!! It's straight out of a Nitrous Oxide song!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

cool! makes me happy :)

[@larsbergen6126]

Come on Woody, You ARE famous! 😉

[@ThomasCorfield]

Yes, but he's turning on the charm for the LADIES!

[@McN4styFilth]

You may not be well known but you're a hero to me.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i so appreciate that!

[@pawelsz95]

Big sound from that portable synth. Lovely scenery.

[@davidmartin123]

Excellent composition - both musical and visual. @4:30 sun, ship vs ducks, waves, shore... Nature composes the shot for us - all we need to do is to be observant enough to notice it and hit the record button!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

very well said sir!

[@billyruss]

An inspiring setting and some lovely sounds. Great to hear you back on the keys, Woody 🙂

[@stevec.1802]

Love your presentations about achieving more with less expensive gear, and your seaside studio. 🎹

[@WoodyPianoShack]

seaside studio, that's a great term, thanks!

[@JL-creativeart]

Great video !, great sound and style ! Reminds me of 90's smooth jazz style of music, and you are very humble which makes it even more awesome !

[@tobiasolingdahl7147]

Härligt att höra din Svenska! :D Underbar liten film. Du är bäst!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

du är snäll, tack!

[@ST-ry7lr]

I owned a Kross for a brief period of time, and though I enjoyed it, I couldn't really find a use for it, given the other synths I already own. Watching this video I see that you have found the perfect use case: light and inexpensive, but lots of nice features - perfect for a trip to the beach!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

sure is, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with it as a sound module with a DAW, which is the purpose I actually bought it for.

[@robertfoy5886]

Haha...you are too modest! Nice sounds, Man!

[@starlost1801]

Great Sounds Really Enjoyed The Tracks

[@osliec]

Baltic in the winter sun light, welcome to my neck of the woods ;-) Funny and good to hear Swedes talking in their own "skånska" dialect, even talking to strangers they meet on the beach! ¨Är du berömd?" hehehehe! Welcome back from banjoing around ;-)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yeah, that was a fun ancounter, at first when they approached I was like oh no, they are going to complain about me being on their property, but they were just some curious teachers on their lunch break! well, at least the sun is relatively high in the sky with lots of energy compared to stockholm this time of year, loving it!

[@lundsweden]

Good to see Woody playing a REAL instrument again!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

that's right, plastic and silicon chips!

[@joeblow593]

You are too modest...of course your famous!😃😃

[@ShotecMusic]

Incredible video! Thank You for sharing this experience. Excellent playing! That combination of modern digital instruments with such a natural environment always gets me in the best way.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

so glad to hear that, thx!

[@frankgijselhart]

Thanks for the video! Next time I’m playing with my Kross in Combi-mode I will think of the beautiful landscapes in your video.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

that's cool, i will enjoy knowing that!

[@johannborchersfriends]

It's great to see you back playing keys. This video is really nice. Elegant playing and visuals. It's my third time watching it and there may be a forth. I trying to reverse engineer some of the things you played. And your definitely famous. If music companies send you free keyboards to try you are famous. Q: At 8:20 the last song. The piano is so low. How are you doing that with the rhythm track in the background? Is it just the beat freestyle? Cause normally playing you'd get some kind of accompaniment and it doesn't seem like you have that in the last song.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment. I should make a video how I make the most of these combis, you can enable arp and drums separately, and the two realtime switches do interesting stuff to the layers, finally I use the filter cutoff knob a lot to adjust or cut the intensity of the backing sounds. experiment with that and you'll get similar results or better!

[@godzil42]

Probably the best location to play any synth!

[@FabioBelli73it]

fantastic improvisation, have you ever try to make songs from all this parts? they are all very good!

[@offworldsynths2019]

Lovely playing and gorgeous coastline shots!

[@vorstehbrew2641]

it is fun to hear, i recognize alot of the pads from my old Korg X5-D

[@apreviousseagle836]

Me too, my first Korg was an X5 back in 1995. I didn't get to own an X5D until around circa 2010. By then I have had a Triton Extreme for a few years. It was redundant.

[@fpv4fun20]

@@apreviousseagle836 a super nice guy actually gave me a x5-d for a couple of month ago, it gave a lot of memories. now days a almost only use my Nord Piano 4 and Yamaha Moxf8

[@apreviousseagle836]

@@fpv4fun20 Cool stuff man. My major synth purchase kind of stopped around 2008ish. I got the Yamaha Tyros 4 and the 512mb ROM, to which I loaded all my favorite samples. I don't play live anymore, and I hardly have time to make music as a hobby, so that's where it's stayed.

[@summerlaverdure]

i still want this

[@musicbycandlelightmbc3225]

Heyyyy Woody! Good to see you again. Late response as I have been quite ill. I really enjoyed this video...a lot. The environment always influences our musical ideas and inspirations. Just to sit by the ocean on a sunny day with headphones on and a great little kick ass keyboard to strike the keys with. Awesome! While you play, you zen out and enter into a vast imaginary world while simultaneously living in and surrounded by the living world. A world within a world infused in harmony. What a lovely place and area Woody and just watching you being immersed into your music while showing gorgeous scenery is so appreciated and quickly sets the mood for an enjoyable relaxing video. - At 4:14 the rhythmic pattern is like Chariots of Fire. Part of the scene was on a beach as well...haha.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

mission accomplished then, yeah, good observation on chariots! get well.

[@timerunner9844]

Looks like you've got yourself an actual piano shack! I can never quite place your accent, it sounds like a very soft Irish accent. Also nice to see Korg are still rockin the early 90s sounds for their presets! Awesome video as always.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

it's a mix of welsh and dorset, so I can understand the confusion. yes, korg combis are most definitely taking a lot of inspiration from their legacy.

[@timerunner9844]

@@WoodyPianoShack Dorset!!! That's the badger. I can sleep easy tonight now :)

[@PhilW222]

Some beautiful images - and beautiful music - in this!

[@midinotes]

I do miss my Kross, the new models must be even better. Very inspiration video and wonderful to see you back on the keys! This highlights how great it is to have a portable synth, did laugh when you were tapping your feet and keyboard was moving on your lap! Looks a beautiful place, probably chilly like here in the UK but that first sign of spring.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

pretty similar weather to UK at the moment, but better than where I used to be!

[@johannborchersfriends]

I really like 3:20 and 8:43.

[@area49g12]

Great music and ambience, ;-)

[@erizwa69]

It sounds not bad at all. 🙂 It supports the nice scenery very well.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i had to keep reminding myself to take inspiration from the scenery for my melodies, but I think that also takes some practise, so resorting to my usual riffs and chords :)

[@johnbudi8365]

Nice rich solid sounds Woody! Wish I could visit Sweden

[@entropybentwhistle]

Crackerjack studio, Woodman! The reverb bounce points may be set a bit extreme in the distance but you certainly can’t complain about the ambience.

[@ramseysounds2086]

Looks stunning. 👍

[@apreviousseagle836]

Cheap synth huh? That thing sounds better than my first Korg, which was the X5. My previous synth to that was the PSR-800. My next synth was the Korg 01/W.

[@aceedmond8053]

Thanks Woody.... Great stuff.

[@sergioramirezvega]

Love you man! I always wanted to do the same. Good melodies by the way!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

really glad to hear that, the only thing lacking in this video I felt was my improvisation ideas!

[@Nervejam]

This is seriously cool. Any more chilled and there would be frostbite.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

well it was 5C out!

[@dykodesigns]

The Kross sounds pretty good. It has some nice 909 sounds in it.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

it's got quite a chunky lo-fi vibe to it, I can hear traces of electribe which I dig.

[@freyjulundr]

its nice to see you back at it again and this cheaper alternative is a great way to get inspiration .. by the way hows southern sweden are you comfy ??? and those songs you should keep those as they are but make extended version as like album of just random jamming songs !

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi, loving the climate down here, thanks! i actually played for an hour, these snippets you see on the video are just highlight moments (the brief periods when i didn't play bum notes)

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Nice vista. I’d like to try some shore scuba diving if I was there. Just looked it up and apparently there are some good sites. Some diving, and some music, wouldn’t be a bad combo.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i was surprised to observe from the jetties that the water can be remarkably clear on some days, so visibility can be pretty decent. not much interesting here for marine life tho, sadly.

[@redlines2535]

Good idea

[@onesixtyofficial]

Epic video

[@DarkSideofSynth]

New title: Famous British KZbinr sells himself short to random strangers as he jams on Swedish beach There. Fixed! 😃

[@WoodyPianoShack]

catchy!

[@DarkSideofSynth]

@@WoodyPianoShack Anytime, Woody, anytime... ;)

[@saulcross9690]

You’re sort of famous in a niche 😎. Lovely video.

[@dejan.stankovic]

This is simply great 😁. I am surprised to hear that little K.Kross sounds quite decent! Actually, better than decent 😁 Does it use Triton sound engine, or something newer? I ask because I have Korg Triton TR61. I was thinking to buy soon K.Krome 61, is it worth the dough? (Around 700€ new). Though, I am looking at Yam.MODX, but here its lot more expensive.. I always wanted to get that great Yamaha Grand Piano sound.. Anyway, as someone who grew up on music of 80-ies (I am 56), I enjoy so much watching your videos and listening your playing. Keep up the good work, mate!!! 👍👍👍

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thanks, yeah the architecture is very close to triton, but lacks the lush effects and rich sounds to some extent.

[@dejan.stankovic]

@@WoodyPianoShack Thanks Woody!!! You surprised me a bit. Before I bought Korg TR61 I purchased Korg PA5Osd - though it is an arranger keyboard it has exactly the same editing capabilities and copy/pasted categories and pages as in edit area, one can simply copy parameters from one instrument to the other, and it will sound the same. But, there is a small but important detail. Piano, el.pianos, sax, harmonica and some other samples are very similar but on PA50sd quality of the sample is noticeably better, I'd even say that whole sound is somehow wider. Probably, newer instrument (PA50SD) got a bit better samples under the armor. I was thinking that in Krome I'd get even better sounds (borrowed from Kronos..) but it seems that I was quite wrong, if instrument from Triton series sounds better to you. Thank you so much for this info!!! 👍👍👍

[@musicaldracula2017]

We all know you very well Woody, have fun :)

[@FrankygoestoHobbywood]

it's Woody's fault... that i had to grab a Korg Kross for myself after his latest video "Tackling the Hard-To-Demo Synth Lead Category" ... this one is also a good one, btw..! :-)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hey franky, congrats on that and have fun! you can tell me how to use it properly once you figured it out

[@jsaldert]

I have a summerhouse close to Gärsnäs. I really miss the spring and summer now. Do you know what keyboard is on the Kross 88? This sounds just as good as I remember my Krome 88 did.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

sorry I'm not familiar with the 88 keybed, wouldn't have any super high expectations tbh, the 61 is fine for the basics but tough to play expressively in some situations.

[@banterbanter]

I want to live in Sweden now :) I have a synth too - what else do I need?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

plane ticket.

[@Naotaku]

Cheap Korg still sounds better than expensive Casio 😇 Took out mine from the box too the other day :) I have the white edition, and I’m kind of afraid to play it because… well, it’s white! 😂 Nice video

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yeah that white rubbery texture might look a bit grubby after some beach use!

[@KoziahMusic]

It sounds quite nice, actually.

[@sublibrarian]

Nice playing and nice neighbours! Anyway I guess the Kross 2 is (comparatively) unexpensive but not at all "cheap".

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi carlos, yes, you can definitely say that. i don't think their is a cheaper general-purpose workstation style synthesizer. i paid $400 for mine, but it was used!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Good onya Woody

[@haroldland5834]

The piano combi sounds seem far better than the ones on my Triton and there’s more of them, or is it how you record them ,or is it just your a far better player than me!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

the pianos are way better, iirc they were really bad on the triton, but good enough at the time I guess. so nothing to do with how i record or play, tech has come a long way in 25 years!

[@Lunolux]

nice

[@skullhqx]

Hey Woody! Is the winter less depressing, dark and cold at your new area? Is it like you expected?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

much less depressing, in fact, not depressing at all, the sun is higher and even has some warmth this time of year, whereas in stockholm the feeble sun barely got over the horizon. so over expectations, thx for asking.

[@skullhqx]

@@WoodyPianoShack Good to hear! It’s amazing what a ±500km change in latitude makes.

[@matszh]

Inspirerande. Vädret i Skåne ser dock bättre ut än här :) Did you actually record all the audio live at site? Then I’m even more impressed, both by you and the ”Kross”.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi, much better down here! yeah, of course, this was all recorded on location. one take, removed all the bad bits in post.

[@retro-dademusic6403]

All this time us dummies been playing expensive synths indoors 😀

[@WoodyPianoShack]

haha, that's so 2021!

[@tukler2]

You're famous to me :-)

[@mikaelphjohansson]

Engelska bryggan, så passande 😉

[@WoodyPianoShack]

verkligen!

[@EduardoRohdeEras]

Cheap synth!? Yeah... I know... My country really sucks.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

too bad, relatively cheap compared to other synths i mean.

[@nihonam]

ну вот, другое дело

[@irt1971]

Was he in jail?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yes, got 5 months for synth possession and dealing.

[@mrgriffton9935]

I don’t know Swedish law but it’s possible.

[@jacobrosen]

@@WoodyPianoShack am Swede, can confirm. After the ABBA riots in the 80s all unsupervised synth playing was outlawed. This law has not been very hardly enforced until ABBA announced their new LP last year. When this happened the Swedish police made a raid on all known syntheses, putting them in jail until the whole thing blew over

[@kingrs]

I Presume this is a joke. Jailed for possession of a class 'A' synth. So life in prison for a Yamaha CS-80. Lol