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Floyd Tatum

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  1. Hi, welcome aboard. I don't think anyone else has addressed this part of your post. The ES120 has good piano sounds, but (imho), the Nord does much better in the rhodes department. And I don't the the ES120 has any Hammond sounds at all, whereas that is an area the Nord excels in. Is it mostly the feel of the Nord you're not happy with? Or is it the piano sound?
  2. 👍 I think at one point you said "I'll sell you mine", although you added that you were half-joking. And I may have expressed interest, although in further posts, I added that it really wouldn't work for me for various reasons. So, long story short, I hope I didn't give the impression that I was seriously interested in buying it. And if that wasn't clear before, then I apologize if you went to the effort of finding it based on that impression. I would be interested if some company were to make a modern version of it, using remote usb, or bluetooth, or something like that. I wonder if that will ever happen.
  3. Wow, thanks Analogholic! Never heard of Jim Beard before, and never heard this music - it's really cool. Unusual hardly describes it.
  4. Cool - I just learned a new word - skeuomorphic. Good one!
  5. Absolutely. As soon as they know I'm taken, women line up with mattresses strapped to their backs. 😎
  6. I think maybe I'm starting to get Brad Mehldau.... makes a lot of sense
  7. I don't see that as being much of an improvement over using a mouse. You're just using a knob instead of a mouse. The thing being discussed was the idea of adjusting one parameter at a time, whether it be by a mouse or a knob. The other guy (still can't remember his name - let's call him MG (Mouse Guy 🙂), may know synthesizers so well that he has a map of the whole thing in his mind, so that controlling one thing at a time is not a problem, for him. But I think there are lots of people that don't have that deep an understanding of what they're doing. For beginners, learning is probably superior on a knob-based hardware synth. Then again, there might be a whole new generation of kids growing up on vst-style synths.
  8. Those are aftermarket knob interfaces. The first one is probably too generic to be really useful. The second less so. But, again, knob interfaces, whether built-in or aftermarket, are not what Marinelli was discussing with the other guy (can't remember name right now). They were discussing vst-style softsynths, using a mouse interface. Apples and oranges.
  9. Marinelli was talking about vst (and other computer-based) synths, not hardware digital synths, so, apples and oranges.
  10. Wendy Carlos - the original Caitlin Jenner. It took balls to be the first high-profile change-over person. That is, err....
  11. I wasn't joking - I can see it working. I'm not sure the technology's there yet, but it probably will be before long.
  12. Perhaps the "interface problem" of digital (computer-based) synths is one area where "artificial reality" goggles could be a solution. The AR goggles could be programmed to create an artificial "knobby interface", and the user has only to reach out and turn the AK's (artificial knobs 🙂) - of course, the knobs only exist in his mind, but so what? As long as music comes out the other end, problem solved, maybe....??
  13. I confess that I actually buy and enjoy Marmite (the UK stuff that Vegemite is copied from). I've never had Vegemite, but I'm assuming it's similar to Marmite. Can't explain it, it's just one of the crazy things that happens as part of your UK upbringing, along with mushy peas, blood sausage (yes, it's made from blood! - waste not, want not), and chip butties (a sandwich made with white bread and chips ("french fries" to you Yanks!). P.S. Chip butties are better than they sound. Must be made with fresh, doughey white bread, and hot, fresh-out-of-the-deep-fryer chips (i.e. "french fries"), which are made from fresh potatoes, and deep-fried in fresh lard. Oh, yeah, and lots of butter on that bread - it gets melted by the hot chips. Perhaps a little vinegar on the chips. No ketchup or other condiment required. My mouth is watering thinking about this. Gotta figure out a way to make myself some chip butties. Here's a pretty good how-to video in case you're interested: https://youtu.be/TOkFu3hGXpA?si=99dKYPrzLTGO25-k
  14. Thanks, Dave. Turns out to not be political correctness after all. 👍 I'm glad! I should never have doubted good old Keyboard Corner!
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