Baldwin Funster

I go for a good plate verb. Digital of course. Or some clone if a good lexicon tiled room. The Zoom pedal ms70cdr has a great tiled room copy. It never gets muddy or in the way. Good for vocals too.

Synths will die when: 1 The audience is gone. 2 The players are gone. Especially #2. I do wonder if hardware synths will disappear leaving the zenology model to stand. It's suprising how long B3s have stuck around. They were king in the 60s before the guitar plus distortion sound took over. And before that it was saxophone. All of these are still popular for looking back at the music of their heyday. None are making NEW great music in our day. Today's dominant instrument is the Hip Hop producers computer. That takes a different king of chops and it remains to be seen if any of it becomes classic and is covered by ensembles 50 years from now or is discarded like a candy bar wrapper.

I can't find anything anywhere to suggest that any of the many audiokit synth apps support aftertouch.

No AUM is iOS. I have those old vst's but I'm not staying up nights thinking about them. I have dozens of iOS apps too and they are far more better than the windows ones. I wouldn't trade AUM for any other instrument app host or iPad for any other device.

I have used reaper and like it. But the version I used several years ago was awkward to set up the channel controls for midi control. Compared to AUM it's like having 2 hands and 1 foot tied behind my back. Setting up splits and zones and different midi channels for each instrument in a session in AUM is super easy and in reaper I'm not even sure it can do all the settings I use. Like setting the octave range of a zone or midi control of every parameter on any auv3 instrument of effect app. And saving all those assignments. Maybe the 2024 version of reaper can but i doubt it, the 2016 version of reaper for sure couldn't.

Wireless USB and Bluetooth mouses work fine.

My biggest issue was windows, hence my strong move to ipad which I wish I did years earlier. Although NOW is the sweetspot to get in to ipads as the 9th Gen ipad has the power to be extremely reliable.

I don't know how android tech savvy you are but here's a video about enabling ON THE GO which is sort of androids version of camera kit speak.

I actually have at least a few hundred interesting and usable FREE synths for windows I harvested from KVR a number of years ago. Including Organized Trio from GSI. An early form of VB3. I have barely tried the first 20 of them. Problem is they are all 32 bit and getting less stable as windows gets updated, I'm not even sure how many still work in windows 11. And the flow of all the freebies died out about 5 years ago. The culture of homemade synths from the synthedit platform that was going on back in the pre 2016 era ended. It's a shame because I have a couple of really good mellotrons like redtron, that are ridiculously good for free.

Another factor that's a plus for ipad is iOS apps seem to be much less in price than PC vsti's.

If both adapters are usb C why won't the old adapter work with the new phone?

I just watched Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning pt1. I don't want to give THE ENTITY any more power so I avoid all forms of AI.

If I didn't have the organ thing already covered many times over, mostly in software but not totally, I would be tempted more. But I just don't need to bring in another keyboard in the house on a GAS impulse. The synth keys probably are the the tipping point against.

I bought these in the gauges of a full set and still have most of them. But I only change strings if one breaks or I have a crucial gig on guitar. Since I am not currently playing guitar in a band that's like never. I still practice daily cause I like having chops and still find it fun. https://www.guitarcenter.com/Rogue/P10-Bulk-12-Pack-010-Plain-Steel-Electric-Guitar-Strings-1274034494660.gc

Guitar center house brand. Rogue.