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Got my first keyboard - a Whitehall Grand Prix Duo organ - at the Sam Ash in White Plains, NY. It was a bar mitzvah present from my grandma so that would make it 1969. 55 years ago. I guess I am old! Not only onine ordering but free shipping and easy returns have to have spelled the end of b&m music stores. The idea that one might prefer having a place to try a keyboard in person before buying probably bit the dust when you showed up to a space with barely any stock, keyboards not plugged in, and $10/hr salespersons who knew less about the boards than you did. In that sense they kind of did it to themselves, but imo there's plenty of blame to go around - including the reality that today's younger music makers don't really use musical instruments. Still, I'll be forever grateful to the White Plains store for selling me a pristine Yamaha KX88 - the battleship of early weighted-action midi controllers - to replace my original which was lost in a fire. In this case the salesperson's ignorance truly worked to my benefit: I got it for $99! -
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I ended up getting a second tier for my Onstage KS7350 Z stand, it connected well but I had a hard time for now getting use to playing a keyboard higher up. I am likely going to keep the tier anyway , as I believe I would have to pay shipping both ways back from Sweetwater, and perhaps I will change my mind in the future. I put the P125 on my stand and it seemed to have moved more, based on the design of the keyboard compared to my normal X stand. That being said, I am almost considering getting the 88 key MKII, and then when I play B3 sounds could use both manuals. Studiologic doesn't allow discounts from MF/GC so I am still considering. Since I don't play the P125 much, the action felt heavier as I normally just play the MKII 61 or Kawai ES8- so I might end up trading the P125 in. My first weighted controller back in 1997 was in fact a Fatar Studio 900 that held me well for 13 years until I sold it, so I might go that route again. -
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Waaaay back when....I bought a white face ARP Odyssey off a friend of our drummer. Never had my eye on one, but it was a great deal and I needed one more synth for my rig. Probably did 200 gigs with it. I used it a ton, and it never let me down. I eventually sold it to help pay for a brand new DX7 when they first hit the streets. (Ya, it was that long ago) I honestly have never missed it - not even once, and would not buy another one, regardless of who makes it or how inexpensive they are. Too many better options out there these days. Odysseys always sounded a little too "thin" for my tastes. I much prefer a synth that can do "fat".....and any 37 note keyboards are generally an automatic pass for me now. -
By charliepersol · Posted
I just bought one used two days ago. I had in the past (a very past) the original ARP Odissey and an Avatar (the guitar version of the Odissey). They sounded quite differenti, and now I understand why: two different version of the filter. A friend of mine still have the all black one with coloured sliders, which Is again different, maybe two poles filter? Anyway the Behringer sounds good but a bit differenti too. My ARP had a ring modulator I used to build fabolous bell like sounds: metallic, full of harmonics. The kind of sound you can hear on Japan Tin Drum or Oil on Canvas albums. Until now I couldn't recreate this sound. Neither the Avatar did. Just my ARP Odissey I sold for little Money :( -
In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps.
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