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By wineandkeyz · Posted
My main band uses IEMs, which I love. However, I still have a (now discontinued) Traynor K4 keyboard amp that I use for fill-in gigs, etc. To me, it's a good-sounding, convenient all-in-one package: three stereo input channels, one with a tube preamp and one that can actually accept two inputs; a fourth monitor input; stereo XLR outs with ground lift; and a "sorta stereo" cabinet with a mono 12" woofer and left-right mid and high drivers. And the cabinet can be placed in forward-facing or kickback orientation. I'm on my second K4: I bought my first one back in 2006 and used it up until a few years ago. A friend of mine joined a new band and needed an amp so I sold him the K4 for peanuts. Within a few months, I wished I had it back, so I found another used one online. -
Noble of the head tech to take responsibility for the failures. Yet another example, regardless of advanced planning, meetings, rehearsals and soundchecks, etc., Murphy can show up like Waldo. 😁😎 -
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Exactly VOCE and the S90 Series. I thought they would have come out with an S-90 XF. I had the XS and that was the last one. The VOCE stuff still sounds great tone wise. -
Don't worry about Sample Mem size: as mentioned, I have enough on another machine. I was working on something else these past few days but last night I set up a quick one like I described above in 8 octave bands, and manually changed the Keymaps among 2 different ones first - Strings and Voices, then I also did a set of 8 with 3 Keymaps: a mix of two Synth Strings and Sawtooth. Slapped a Chorus, Delay and beautiful Hall Reverb on the last one. Instant Pad Machine and Jarre from the Oxygène - Equinoxe - Les Chants Magnétiques era. Would need some additional work on Layers and Control to make it work completely like what you're doing but doable. The advantage with the implementation on the Kurzweil, as I mentioned, is that I am doing the bands in real-time and in-the-box: no need to preprocess the Samples externally. If I did though, that would liberate some DSP Blocks for building other chains although I can still add some further processing as is or via some clever tricks that I know about on the K2500. I did notice that with acoustic Keymaps, you'd need to tailor amplitude of the higher harmonics somewhat higher than normal for the sustain parts if you want to move the acoustic sources into Synthesis-land and not acoustic-land anymore. BTW, I used to be a huge DM fan. Can't say I like the direction where the last 2 or 3 albums went nor how Gahan sings Live these days. Although Ultra was really good, the band does seem to miss Alan Wilder's seminal contributions in the Studio. I'd rather listen to Speak & Spell, Some Great Reward and Black Celebration than the more recent three albums. I wasn't a big fan of the turn that they took with Violator either although that one brought a lot of new people to the band's work.
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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.
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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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