Frank Montis talks about and shows his favourite sounds and use of Crumar's Mojo 61. www.crumar.it distribution in Europe: tma-benelux.com www.frankmontis.com
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 !!
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...
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)
@@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 :)
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...
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 ?
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).
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.
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?
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
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
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.
@@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.
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 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...
@@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.
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.
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😉.
@@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.
