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Rustar

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About Rustar

  • Birthday 11/10/1956

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    Atlanta, Georgia

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  1. I've got reservations at a restaurant tonight.
  2. I recently purchased this stand second hand for my Yamaha P515 because I wanted to replace my x stand. Turns out this stand is rock solid. It’s like the keyboard is sitting on a concrete table. It’s rated up to 250 lbs. You have maximum leg room. The second tier is too tall for me but I won’t be using it anyway. I’ve never heard of this brand, but highly recommend it.
  3. I'm as misery averse as the next guy, but I don't find it onerous. My keyboard case fits into the space between the legs when loading up. I put mine into my gig mobile, a '98 Ford Exploder, I mean Explorer. It definitely wouldn't fit into a car.
  4. I'm sure that presents a problem for some, but I'm good with folding in the front legs and carrying it to the van. For me, the pluses of stability, ease of setup, and the ability for perfectly position the upper tier make up for the back legs issue. I don't disassemble mine for transport.
  5. The perfect stand is a "Golden Fleece" for keyboardists. I've been using a heavy duty X stand for about 20 years, and it works fine, the only hitch being the placement of my volume and sustain pedals around the feet of the stand. I heard about this stand in the "Keyboardist's for Cover Bands" forum on FB. I took a chance on it and it has turned out to be perfect for me. The bottom tier is super stable, and the top tier is adjustable for how much you want your top keyboard to overhang your lower. There is limitless room for feet and pedals. I leave mine assembled for transport, so that's easy. I haven't used it for standup gigs, but the legs are adjustable. It's called the "Griffin Double Piano Keyboard & Laptop Stand 2 Tier/Dual Portable Studio Mixer Rack for Turntables, DJ Coffins, Speakers, Digital Audio Gear & Music Equipment | Folding Stage Mount Multi Platform", and it's $95 on Amazon.
  6. As to bidets, they don't really target the husband replacing zone. Squeaky cleanness is it's own reward.
  7. Seriously, if you want to cut down on your paper usage, particularly toilet paper, install bidets in all of your bathrooms. It's a game changer. You'll only use enough to pat dry, and you get that squeaky clean feeling. My son had one and after using it, I was sold. Think globally, act locally.
  8. The answer isn't to return us to the stone age, where there is no electricity to power our keyboards, the answer is discovery and innovation, which gave us electricity and synthesizers. Innovation in making fossils cleaner and engines more efficient and renewable energy that is cost effective, which we currently don't have. Bjorn Lomborg provides a way to understand and address the problems in a rational, science and truth based way.
  9. Sounds like you’ll need to replace your contact strips. I’ve done that on my SK1, and the disassembly is not difficult. There is a video of a guy doing this on a Nord, and the process of replacing the contact strip is the same as the SK1.
  10. I feel your sorrow. We lost our friend and lead singer to a drowning accident a little over a year ago. It was devastating. We gave ourselves about eight or nine months to ponder, and we decided to continue. We found a female singer with an entirely different musical skill set, and reformed the band without the second guitar player, who left due to business demands, plus, he was closest to the singer who died, and no doubt that influenced him as well. We have retooled the band and has our first successful gig, and have another on the books.
  11. To build overall strength I recommend Hanon Book III. Like it says on the last page, this book should be played at least once each day to build chops for the most demanding classical works. I began this about 7-8 years ago and it produced chops I'd never dreamed I'd have. Combine this diligently with some other recommendations and you'll have plenty of growth in your chops.
  12. How do you get simultaneous midi in and sound out from your iPad USB port? I have a Plugkey that quit working and I'm looking for another device with the same functionality.
  13. I was in Asheville at a restaurant eating breakfast about ten years ago when I saw an ad on the paper placemat for the Moog factory. It said "Come and see us", so I told my wife: "we have somewhere to go today". So I get directions and we go to the location, which is in an industrial park. We just walk in and I tell the receptionist that we're here to visit. They're very nice and someone gives us a tour. I saw the techs assembling Voyagers at their workbenches. I asked if they had a modular beast around, but they didn't. I said that I knew Bob has passed away a few months earlier, and she told me that if I had been here before that then I could have met him, since, since he was always hanging around the shop. I agree this was a visit to the birthplace of synthesis (I know it's not their original factory).
  14. First off, thank you all for your responses. Today I went to use them to solve my problem, and when I fired up the rig and played on the SK1, I found that is was playing with touch sensitivity. I find that when I set the midi to Ex Zone, the module doesn’t sound. I’ll have to figure that out later, but my SK1 is a petulant brat and doesn’t retain settings, and occasionally has strange characters in the display, necessitating a restart. After reading your responses, I looked at the Sounding point and it was set to “Deep”, thus I had touch sensitivity. When I set it to “Auto”, it was no longer touch sensitive. So apparently, last night it was set to Auto and when I turned it off it reset to Deep. So Konnector, you get the prize for submitting the correct solution. Thanks again for all of your help.
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