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By Lou Gehrig Charles · Posted
I bought an Electro-Harmonix Nano Stone phaser pedal. We have a song that needs a really prominent phaser effect in it and this seems to do it just fine. -
JD-800 is "in" the Fantom, no idea how close it is to the original I was sort of out of the keyboard thing for a long while, skipped that whole generation or three. I have to say the brief time I spent with the Yamaha M8X left me with the impression that it may be the best weighted action I've ever tried. Too short a trial period to really say that however. Too bad that thing is the size and weight of a small Buick. I still hold my old Virus kb up as my favorite synth action. Fatar tp-9 I guess so not unique but perhaps it was also in the patch design. It was so easy to control the sounds with velocity and aftertouch on that keyboard. I regret selling it to this day. I also remember the Korg M3 action as being great. -
The Penix thing doesn't make much sense to me. I obviously do not run an NFL team, those people are paid to. Penix is older, 24--they've signed Cousins for big money for 3 years iirc. If that was JJ McCarthy at 21, it would make more sense as presumably JJ would be 24 when you are ready to let Cousins go. Quarterbacks are always a crapshoot. That's the first one "my" Vikings have drafted in the top 10 of a draft ever I think they said. Fran Tarkington (perhaps the only franchise true quarterback they've ever had) was 3rd round. I don't pay much attention or worry about grading drafts etc. You won't know how good they were for years. My days of being a fan(atic) who lives and dies on what my team does are long past. I just assume they'll never win the big one so if they do it'll be a pleasant bonus
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By MathOfInsects · Posted
I always feel like I shouldn't admit this, but: I'm a good LH bass player as long as you don't also want a great keyboardist. If I'm really paying attention to being an effective bass player, I'm way less of a keyboard player. Sometimes that's a good thing! I've gotten better over the years, but when it comes time to really separate the two hemispheres--say, during a solo--I have to concentrate very hard to keep the bass doing what it's supposed to be doing while my right hand is doing what it wants to be doing. However, I will say that the times I've had to be LH bass for groups that normally have a bass player, my relationship with those songs is way deeper when I'm back to being keys-only on them. -
By GovernorSilver · Posted
I'm good with the Chargers' selection of Joe Alt. They already have a Pro Bowl caliber left tackle in Rashawn Slater. Presumably Alt or Slater will move to right tackle. I'm sure Jim Harbaugh and his staff will have little trouble figuring out the best combination of OL players and who will play on what side. Any combination of Slater+Alt is better than Slater+Pipkins last year. No slight to Pipkins, who has developed into an NFL caliber player - having him him around for depth is a good thing. The 2024 WR class is reportedly deep. No doubt they'll find someone in the 2nd or later rounds for Herbert to throw to.
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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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