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By GovernorSilver · Posted
Jam Origin Midi Guitar 2/3 - While I'm comfortable using keyboards for MIDI note entry, this software is surprisingly fun to play around with. Quite liberating to be able to use any guitar instead of only guitars with hexaxphonic pickups. Works best with bridge humbucker pickups. A bit unforgiving of sloppy muting technique. The difference between versions 2 and 3 is v3 introduces MPE as well as other new features and UI changes. TEControl USB MIDI Breath and Bite Controller 2 - After watching videos of LofiLeif (Jam Origin team) using a TEControl, I was inspired to pick up one. Doesn't take long to coordinate with plucking guitar strings, though MG 2/3 is very sensitive to hammer-ons. Even a very light hammer-on can trigger a MIDI note. -
I have a MODX-7 which I use for a rehearsal board. I don’t care for the action when playing AP or EP. I find the action too light and don’t care for the slightly narrower keys. I feel I have to play more “carefully” or delicately; a distracting and inhibiting experience. Perhaps somewhat ironically, the action is okay for everything else, narrow keys notwithstanding. Love the sounds and the weight…the latter being the common trade off for deficits in action. -
6 to 12 String Converter.multipreset This is for my Friday, April 26 blog post. I've alerted PreSonus to the fact that it wasn't connected to the text, but until they fix it...here it is. -
I also have one. It’s fine but it’s an adjustment if I don’t play it every week. Soon beds in. I can play piano on it but it never feels enjoyable. For synth stuff it’s fine. Can’t say about the comparison to the boards you mentioned but it’s certainly better than the previous generation MO series. The 61 note versions of those had horrendous keybed. Like a cheap toy. I’d rate the FA07 as having a better keybed tho if that’s any help? Like everything at that level the MODX is a compromise of sorts….great board with montage level sounds, light but something has to be a compromise. In the MODX7 it’s the keybed a little. But then again I prefer weighted keybed so take my comments with a large pinch of salt. -
The band I've started playing with figured out that I can sing... So I just grabbed one of these, used, for 50€ in as new condition. https://www.sontronics.com/solo
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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. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again.
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