Frank Montis about the Crumar Mojo 61 | Demo & Talk

[@MarkAdamBennett]

5 years later and this is the video that convinced me this board is for me LOL

[@jazzjeffjazzjeff]

Killer demo! Usually people who demo instruments cannot play at all. You play wonderfully, so we can really hear what the instrument sounds like! Thanks you so much!

[@vanzea]

This puts me over the edge. Gonna buy a Mojo 61. Thanks Frank, finally a good & clear demo of the Rhodes sound

[@frankmontis]

You're welcome!

[@adamandlorraine]

That Rhodes is indeed amazing. Wish I could have it as a vst! Come on Guido, release it! Mr.ray v3

[@marksangster6690]

Amazing instrument. Really captures all the clicks and grunts and mechanical sounds of the Rhodes and Wurli’! Such a great dynamic range of sound! I would love one of these!

[@leonardodutra8787]

One of the best gear demo ever, Frank. Thanks a lot!!

[@davespaulding6978]

Great demo! Great playing too and your English is fine! thanks for taking the time to do this.

[@surge6996]

Your demo simply convinced me to go get this Mojo machine ASAP THANKS !

[@FKL]

I’ve just bought a Mojo because of you! Txs! (Black edition with lower manual)

[@lyncboy]

HEY FRANK, AS ALWAYS A REAL TREAT TO HEAR YOU PLAY,SING & NOW SPEAK IN ENGLISH !!!! ALL THE BEST FROM COLD NYC !!!!

[@frankmontis]

Thanks mate! Here's another one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKKuoGljjt2prM0

[@frankmontis]

with the Mojo 61 and the Seven (AND me talking in english haha)

[@Kalkin11]

Possibly my favorite demo of all time. :-)

[@teashea1]

Frank's YT video of Let's Stay Together is my favorite YT video of all time ---

[@frankmontis]

HA! Thanks Thomas!

[@philfisher8962]

1:55 for a few seconds with that "special" 70s effect was outstanding!!!!!! Well done!!!!

[@patrickdrx]

Thanks again Franck for all you give to us on the web and keep on swinging!

[@frankmontis]

patrickdrx you’re welcome ( didn’t see your comment since this is not my own channel :-))

[@frankvanlamoen167]

Now I'm really tempted to buy one ... great demo!

[@davidcudlip6587]

I have a Hammond XK1, but I'd trade it off in a heart beat for this Crumar. So much more you can do with this.

[@santellavision]

I read a ton about all the current top organs (Hammond, Mojo61, Nord Yamaha, etc) Currently own a Hammond XK1c. After reading and listening to a ton of videos to decide on an upgrade, I went with the Mojo61.

[@TomLamb1]

I'm the same and I think I'm about to do the same.

[@ericpvk]

OMG! Man that is so cool. Funky and all the effects!

[@555ontario]

Though I'm probably not going to pop for another clone wheel organ anytime soon but if I ever do, it'll likely be a MOJO 61. Definitely my fave. That organ has a lot of character. And yes, those EP's as well... really nice. Enjoyed your playing as well. Nice one.

[@stevec.1802]

The EP is spot on and responsive.

[@Bitto69]

aaa finalmente uno che suona con gusto, grazie della demo

[@MarkJPerry]

Excellent review Frank - much appreciated.

[@frankmontis]

you're welcome!

[@oldscoolamps4243]

Excellent review of a great instrument; and I must say your playing is only exceeded by you humility.

[@frankmontis]

Thank you !

[@danielwaeber3309]

Thank you Frank, super helpful !

[@sampace650]

Thanks Frank , love the demo and talk.👍

[@wireguy123]

Great demo...I have a Nord Electro 5D but I never knew this existed.

[@Nodiggy]

Looks like this is the first emulation of a D6 that actually sounds somewhat like the real thing. Well done!

[@JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton]

Fantastic playing! I am about ready to buy the double manual (Classic or Suitcase, have not decided which yet...). Do the double manuals come with ALL the sounds & features of the single manual 61? This is now November, 2024. Thanks!

[@arnokrijger]

well done Frank, thats selling the instrument. Other organ companies (I wont mention any names, just figure it out yourselves), please watch and learn. videowise, soundwise, musicianwise, and so on...

[@frankmontis]

Dank je Arno! Mooi compliment!

[@stonelenny]

I totally agree (as owner and local endorser of other brand).

[@stonelenny]

I´m a Hammond SK2 endorsee and totally agree.

[@BlockExplorerMedia]

awesome demo - thanks Frank!

[@jamesallen5223]

very well made video man!

[@patrickdrx]

Hello from France, i' m also an organ player and following you on youtube being really entousiast and admirative on your playing. So I want to thank you for all that précisions about the Mojo witch is really an impressive hammond clone...I last year change from my Nordstage and was expecting to switch to the Mojo. I had the opportunity of playing and testing the Mojo 61 in Bordeaux, but I had a deception not about the sounds ,truelly about the touch of the keyboard especcially when you try to express an electric piano sound or accoustic piano sound,because the response of the keyboard compared to the Nord Electro for example is very "flat"... So i bought an Nord Electro 5D 73, and there is another reason to my point of vue;when you play an electric piano, you need more than 61 keys, and the octaver is not something you can easyly use on stage... When will we get a 73 Keys Mojo, with a better keyboard felling for piano sounds? I know you are in contact with the Crumar staff, so that you could ask them the possibility of that fabulous Mojo 73 !!

[@calcairecamhi]

Crumar seven or seventeen ?

[@steveraschella1878]

Frank great work you did for Crumar! You gave your set up for the Rhodes would you post a video with your VB3 settings...get us in the ballpark!

[@SergioCeccherini]

What great sounds. Is there a bank of organ presets, like on the desktop version?

[@huli8557]

A really complete keyboard! The only sound missing is a String sound (like those of old Crumar stingers).

[@JohnnyTubing]

Hey Frank! Thanks for the video! Are you planning to demonstrate the Farfisa and Vox combo organ sounds of Mojo 61 as well?

[@frankmontis]

Hi John, probably not, but Guido (the programmer) just released 2 videos of the Farfisa and the Vox, check out his channel! (I'll post it in a new comment)

[@JohnnyTubing]

@@frankmontis thanks for your reply Frank! I know about Guido's videos cos he posted them only a few hours after my request in the Crumar FB group! My comment here was written before that. Thanks anyway :)

[@thedancinglawn]

That Rhodes is bonkers good

[@richnewman]

Damn that sounds great. Does it have a vibraphone or celeste type sound? If those are onboard, it does everything I want. At the moment I'm looking at the Vox Continental.

[@no-ee]

Absolute Big boy sound!

[@staceycarras3815]

Best vid on the Mojo, great playing as well, question please, where did you download the mobile phone app ?, is it available from the App Store ? what's it called ?

[@playonkorg]

Frank,wat een demo, daardoor twijfel ik.... een Hammond xh1c of een Mojo 61? ( Voor jazz/fusion/gospel )

[@blueeyedsoulman]

I wish it could do custom tonewheel volumes like the Mojo. On the Mojo dual manual I was not happy with the internal ones so I made one that worked with my Leslie setup.

[@Keyboardman88]

Excellent demo. Too mnay people spend too much time talking ( i guess they like to hear themselves talk). This demo was great. I'm not a big fan of using an organ feel keyboard for pianos, i believe that the 61 controlled from my Yamaha MX88 via midi is gong to be a winner. Thanks again for the great demo.

[@adamjacksonmedia]

What's the difference between the Hammond sound in the $2000 Mojo vs the $100 VB3 app?

[@tysonrichards2011]

As good as HX6? Does the desktop version get the same sounds as the 61 key version including electric pianos? Good demo

[@jugglerjoe]

This mojo sounds pretty

[@mawortman72]

I wouldn't play this through Leslie, but does it have the artificial Leslie effect in this?

[@organgrinder55]

How do you get to the acoustic piano and clarinet on the mojo 61?

[@tylerthompson1842]

IMO Crumar blows Nord out of the water in terms of their organs and eps they still have a ways to go with their acoustic pianos though Nord is still the best in that department

[@Zebielie]

Does the double manual mojo also have these features like wah on the clavinet and acoustic pianos, etcetera?

[@lamanorbu]

not the new models (Classic and Suitcase), the old ones have the Rhodes but I'm unsure about the rest

[@WayneMusicianUK]

How’s this Mojo compare to a Hammond XK1-C???

[@edunabie]

Are the non-organ sounds (tines, reeds etc) exactly the same the mojo duel manual? thanks

[@themusicalliance]

No they are not. In the dual manual they are mostly bonus sounds and older versions of the ones that are in the Mojo 61 (which has different hardware).

[@sweetfoampunishment3286]

I'm wondering if the mojo has an acoustic piano, as well.. I just found the information that it has a "hybrid acoustic piano" (whatever that means). And I found a thread in a forum where someone writes that there is an acoustic piano "hidden" in the mojo which you can only access through the editing software. Any ideas? I really love the mojo for its rhodes and Hammond but I don't want to miss a "real" piano...

[@kevinbirge2130]

I was contemplating the new Vox Continental but sounds better.

[@francoissarti9328]

Bonjour, Est il possible grâce à cet engin fabuleux de reproduire des sons d 'orgues 60,'s ,tels the Doors ( soul kitchen), animals (house of the rising Sun),etc ? Merci pour votre réponse. F-S

[@francoissarti9328]

Et un immense bravo pour votre talent de claviériste!

[@sandalero]

whats the registration on the split ON setting?

[@heinrichkoop9189]

If you add the lower manual that is available, can you split the sounds and play the organ in the upper manual and, let's say the Rhxdes in the lower manual?

[@FKL]

No…

[@TROGULAR10000]

Is it also optimized for mono playing through an external mono effect chain?

[@spencergellsworth]

Is there clav pickup modeling on the keyboard itself, or do you have to go into the editor?

[@JapaneseNathan]

Are you able to combine sounds?

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Is a bass pedal sound available when playing the pianos and clav?

[@peppermintpasta]

Frank Montis website is down

[@lahoz6]

Woah! You are the secret brother of Bill Evans!! :-)

[@frankmontis]

Omar Lahoz ha! Thank you!

[@Marcus-ym2kg]

That thing sounds só wicked...

[@JeanSuki]

are all the Rhodes sound also in the Mojo XT?

[@frankmontis]

Jannis de Reu they are not. There is an old version in the XT but the same version is not possible unfortunately.

[@totaltwit]

I have a Mojo61 but it's going back to the shop. It's terrible. The acoustic piano is awful, the top keys seem to have sustain engaged, some notes seem to distort, there are no parameters to edit. One EP has the same problem and the Wi-Fi/editor doesn't work properly! The keybed feels like it has treacle on it. What a disappointment. The overall sound wasn't that good, sounds like a cheap digital synth, I couldn't fix it with the EQ either. I tried the "leakage" and that just didn't sound right. I thought the Combo-F (Farfisa) wasn't as buzzy as it should be, the Combo-V was ok. The EPs needed adjusting to match the keybed but as the editor didn't work. The (drain?) pipe organ sounds terrible. I was getting frustrated with the thing, I can only think the one I got is faulty in some way. My comparison is based on I have the original organs C3, Conti, Farfisa and Rhodes 73.

[@LuisFlores-xr5bu]

Can you give us your personal opinion on nord?

[@MatthewTomich]

There's an app to edit nearly anything and they replaced the piano sound.

[@totaltwit]

@@MatthewTomich All is pointless until Crumar make the wi-fi connection work. Crumar - forget wi-fi just give us a cable connection! Yes I tried for hours trying to get the editor to work for more than 1 second, reject. So I asked Crumar if there were and editable parameters on the A.Piano - they said no. Pointless. I got a SK2, it too has it's faults, dumb Suzuki. But it does have a number of options of raw piano samples and there's a number of editable parameters to which I can just about get something useful. And I so wanted an Italian made Crumar organ and not a Suzuki who should stay with making motorcycles which I like very much.

[@louiscornale5667]

Great job but how about wooly bully watch it now 😮

[@sweetfoampunishment3286]

I rrreally like it but what is that squeaking/ clanking sound when you play the "rhodes"... It's really very ugly... these sounds don't seem to come from the keys/ mechanism (cause the other sounds don't have it) so it seems to be a part of the rhodes sound??

[@phatsmitty]

If you have ever played a real Rhodes, it is the sound of the wires being hit by the hammers.

[@sweetfoampunishment3286]

@@phatsmitty I've not played but heard many rhodes... But I've never recognized this noise to be so very loud. I'm wondering if the intensity (loudness) is adjustable with the crumar...

[@phatsmitty]

@@sweetfoampunishment3286 I have a Mojo, have yet to read the manual or use the editor.... that might be adjustable

[@phatsmitty]

@@sweetfoampunishment3286 Look up (author) rusnakaa Crumar Mojo 61 Electric Piano Demo then pause it around 0:14, you can see the editor, and it appears the metallic sound is adjustable. Hope this helps.

[@sweetfoampunishment3286]

@@phatsmitty thx, guys!!

[@corneliusyoung9699]

They could have edited the video. They see Frank hot frustrated.

[@jazzlives]

Fatar keybeds are total junk. The action is terrible, there are what 2 velocity contacts per key trying to do the work of 9, which cannot possibly replace the 9 contacts in the real Hammond organ, with long leverage lengths and so on. Hammond has gone back to a hybrid mechanical/ digital key contact system using some real contacts in the XK-5. Pedals are not included with any clone. If you have $2500 US dollars burning a hole in your pocket for a hammond style organ, why would you get a fake? Why not just buy two A100s for that money? Clones are junk compared to the real organ. I hear Hammonds are rare in Europe, but in the US there's no good reason to buy a clone.

[@themusicalliance]

Hi Gabe, of course Hammond organs are great, there's no discussion about that. But have you ever tried one of the Crumars yourself? A lot of really great musicians use it for studio and live performing. Frank Montis works with a few of the best jazz musicians in the Netherlands and also uses Crumar a lot. I hope if you ever have the possibility to try one, you'll be as enthousiastic as we are about the Crumar organs. If not, you still have your beloved Hammond organ😉.

[@tylerthompson1842]

300lb vs 20lb pretty good reason no?

[@margix1172]

the original is alway better but this clone is amazing

[@totaltwit]

@@themusicalliance I found the keybed on the Mojo61 like it had treacle poured over it. I have a C3 and it's not the same and a Viscount DB5 which as a "loose" feel to it, maybe too loose but it's better than the sluggy one the Mojo61 has.

[@Rwtheking]

Did you just call Fatar Keybeds bad? Did hell just freeze over or something without me knowing?