konaboy

analog lab is basically all the v collection instruments with a dumbed down user interface. same sounds, minimal editing.

spot on woody!

i'm thinking keyboard with v-collection built in. what a tremendous success that would be! can't imagine it being too hard to run their vsts natively on an embedded hardware OS.

NA "2" has a lot of nice enhancements, like filtering content by type, ie. kontakt libraries, expansions, synths, effects etc. and yes, you will need Kontakt 7 for the direct integration features with the controller.

not an expert but I have one, and it was a battle for me too, although mine was a pre-prod prototype unit. these days it should "just work", plug and play the pretty graphics will show up even if you just use Kontakt, you don't need the KK wrapper any more. Use that if you want 3rd party plugins and NKS integration. Give it a try. but you MUST have the latest or very recent Kontakt version, and to get that you MUST have the latest Native Access installed. They released a major new version of NA and that needs to be downloaded and installed manually. good luck!

...and reads the youtube live chat and talks to viewers at the same time as all his hands and feet are flying!

claudio is a fantastic musician and a hugely respectful and humble guy, there is no way he is going to break anything and unfair to compare him with a 200lb dog. yes, he has adopted an enthusiastic demeanor on his videos which has proved to be incredibly successful. 750k subscribers can't all be wrong. I can think of only one music tech channel that is bigger.

tony monaco without a doubt is the best. his school gives you access to his group class recordings, with two new long videos added every week and literally hundreds of lessons in the archive. lessons cover blues, jazz, pop and funk. you can try it free or for very small amount for 3 days so don't waste time here, what are you waiting for? the Joey lessons are good to, but not as helpful as Tony's format.

i never click on threads with deliberately vague titles.

Indeed, the mousewheel never works great in my experience for plugin control. for some synths the knob moves too much for each wheel increment, and for others it's painfully slow so you have to spin the mousewheel for ages just to get a small parameter change. and the software vendors of the plugins have yet to make that a preference setting. and let's be honest, rolling a mouse wheel is not the same satisfying experience as turning a quality knob. That's how we are used to editing synths, hence my original proposal for the Woody "Hover Knob" .

because pointing, clicking and then dragging the mouse up and dow with wrist is fatiguing, inaccurate and tedious compared with pointing and turning a knob.

you are probably right. but in my case, they have failed. I would have bought Msolo, but instead I will just continue to use my Electro.

strange to read posts from people trying to justify to themselves that this can somehow be made into a decent dual manual organ rig. much better and more sensible options are available! basically every other clonewheel provides midi control for lower manual. what were hammond-suzuki thinking...?

nobody doing virtuoso performance on device like this. users just banging in some beats into the sequencer. think of it as a welcome improvement over the grid of pads that you normally are stuck with on mpcs and grooveboxes that are useless for keyboard players. in other words, any action will do.