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orangefunk

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  • Birthday 11/30/1999
  1. Found a link to the soundpages here. https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=253628
  2. Late posting on this as I rarely visit forums these days. But yep RIP Chick. Been listening to loads of his stuff non-stop for the last week or so. Really diverse output... hard to pick a favourite as there are so many but I would go with the following (in no particular order) as having stayed with me: 1. Mad Hatter 2. Light As A Feather 3. Live At the Blue Note Tokyo 4. Outback (Joe Farrell LP) 5. Love Connection (Freddie Hubbard) 6. Where Have I Know You Before 7. Leprechaun 8. Now He Sing Now He Sobs 9. Tap Step 10. Return to Forever I will say though that it was Keyboard magazine that hipped me to Chick Corea many years ago. On that thought I remember a flexi disc called Catapult which IIRC was a tune Chick had written especially for Herbie Hancock but Herbie did not turn up to Mad Hatter so he recorded it himself. Was early 90s... anyway think that might have been the first time I was exposed to Chick. Just googled for it..
  3. Just to add to the confusion the Arp String Ensemble was a rebadged (literally just a sticker!)Solina String Ensemble made by the Eminent company.
  4. I was sure the keyboard in this story was identified as an ARP ProSoloist/Soloist years back but interesting to hear its an Odyssey
  5. Just to verify... do these boards have individual aftertouch per key, or are they zone based?
  6. Wish I had known that. I struggled to sell my SRX7 here in Norway. I eventually sold it to a guy who was not happy that I had "used it" (what do you expect when you advertise stuff on a second hand site?) and that the sticker was missing :idk
  7. A lot of keyboard players want, and pay a high price for, vintage gear in pretty much identical fashion to guitarists.
  8. I know this has been discussed before, but I'm curious - what kind of music do you and others who are so adamant about this, play? And what are the uses that you like to have it for? Because I've always felt that while it's "nice to have", it's certainly not an omission that's holding me back from buying a board. Or holding me back from playing, being creative on or enjoying one in the first place. Actually, I even prefer using a wheel or a joystick for modulation needs on a keyboard that has AT, so maybe it's a habit, a preference. I can work without aftertouch, but prefer to have it. There are Live Sets on my JP50 in which I miss having that form of expression - some of the lead synth patches, and especially electric violin. For that patch I catch myself leaning into the keys trying to induce string vibrato; it just feels natural. The JP80 is too much instrument for what I need of the JP architecture; more weight, real estate, and $$$$ than is practical for my rig. So I was hoping that there would be a new SN / Behavior Modeling, 76 key performance keyboard from Roland; i.e. - a JP60/70, with aftertouch, and a set of practical, front panel controllers (especially drawsliders). Maybe next year.... Hopefully when and if that happens, it will be patch compatible with the JP50/JP80. The JP line was a great start, but I'd like to see it developed further. From my perspective I've typically had keyboards (I can't believe next year will mark 30 years since I got into keyboards!) that have had aftertouch so its ingrained in me. One aspect of keyboard playing that has been somewhat talked about a lot is one of means of expression... Many players are happy to go to a keyboard and approach it like a piano/organ because they are using similar sounds anyway but for others having as many ways to affect sound in realtime is really important. I still have happy memories of even playing a flugelhorn solo on a first generation Motif which made everyone smile because I had programed in some realistic modulations via aftertouch... as well as somethings on pedals all while comping 4/5 note chords left hand on my Rhodes. I found that I prefer it to using a mod wheel and I have the bonus of just using one hand to do it. Similarly, I was a big fan of the VL7 synth for its expression via breath controller but I always found it a bit unhygenic. I even have an Arp Pro Soloist (mine is from 1975) and that still is an amazing keyboard to play. To be honest one thing I have never been that bothered about for synth sounds is velocity dynamics! I actually go through synth patches and remove all those settings... certainly makes things sound more vintage for obvious reasons. Note. I am not for one minute suggesting this gets removed from keyboards in favour of aftertouch.. just a preference I have had for a long time.
  9. FWIW I don't think its an over reaction like another has said. I know there are keyboards even in the sub $1000 range that had superb key beds and aftertouch.. (Novation KS4 was about 349 pounds in the UK and is among the best I have ever played) but maybe the general punter just doesn't care like others have said For me I would think having more control is ever more important as bands get smaller and keyboard players have more on their plate to cover more roles comping with the left hand and spinning out horn lines with suitable amounts of aftertouch has always been a lot of fun and playing piano/bass splits and having vibrato available for the bass was always a crowd pleaser in the past Anyway I have done my share of "aftertouch" posts for the year
  10. Ahh that makes more sense I suppose. So sub £1000 for the 61 I presume.
  11. Jupiter 80/50 = SuperNatural acoustic and SuperNatural synth. Integra 7 = same as above, plus some new additional SN acoustic tones, plus those (PCM) from the XV-5080 and all 12 SRX cards. Also a high quality PCM GM2 soundset, though I don't know if those sounds are unique or are drawn from the other PCM libraries already resident. (The effects structure of the I7 is different from the Jupiters, so even though it has all the individual SN tones of the Jupiters, you can't necessarily duplicate all the Jupiter sounds as programmed.) It sounds like the FA contains the SN synth tones, the XV-5080 PCM tones, and a subset of the SN acoustic tones. Thanks for that! Seems that this new FA series has a whole plethora of features which would be welcome in a high end flagship product. Maybe the sales of such high end products from Roland has diminished in recent years though. I am not sure how many G8s were sold I never saw anyone play those live for sure same story with the Motif XF though I have seen a few Kronos' though not many 88 keys all told. Btw, Aidan, I understood from another forum that the street price was £1,299 pounds which would mean the MSRP would be somewhat higher perhaps that is wrong though £1,299 is a high price for a product.. but maybe this is the sign of the market.
  12. So maybe we have seen the last of workstations as flagship products. For sure the spec of this is somewhat higher than the old G8. How does this compare with the JP80 in terms of the sound engine? I have never really fully understood the difference between that and the Integra. As for aftertouch, if my old cheapo Emu USB controller has it and my old Novation KS4 (which actually was one of the best key beds ever for me) then I think lack of aftertouch is more a product differentiation exercise than pure cost cutting.
  13. It just seems such an odd omission on a new flagship product. unless it isn't a flagship product of course...
  14. No aftertouch on the FA06 at least... :idk
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