Southern_Git

The Yamaha GT20 digital piano has MIDI in and out so it can be used to drive other (rack)synths. I'm sure I saw a bunch of Nord synths offstage when they played Holland a couple of years ago but I wouldn't be surprised if Coldplay also use prerecorded backing track on some of their songs.

What can I say? I'm a gear-slut ;) http://www.xs4all.nl/~mdonne/HQ/resize.JPG

I suppose you're right. Some of the arrangements have some pretty complex layers of synth pads in them that simpy don't gel with what he's playing on the piano, unless a "Brain2MIDI" interface exists that I'm not aware of ;) From looking at the Live 2003 DVD (the Hollywood Bowl part in the diary section), there's a shot of the GT20 with a Memorymoog hooked up to it, so I'm pretty sure he's driving some synth or other when playing live, and use a backing track on some of the other songs they play. Either way, it works very well :)

The GT20 only has one sound onboard i.e. piano, but it also has MIDI which is used to control other synths/keyboards. This would explain the organ sound as well as the many pads that are playing in the background in different songs.