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Devnor

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  • Birthday 11/29/1964
  1. I've held on to my 3 old Korg DSM samplers hoping that might happen Many years ago I saw an ad in the newspaper for Moog taurus 1 pedals $600. Older lady, her husband passed away and just so happens to have a pristine CS80. She wanted $1000 for that. I just barely scrounged up the scratch for the Taurus and I've already got these digital keyboards, who needs that thing? Oh boy was I wrong.
  2. I'm thinking about building one. I have 3 A-frame stands in my attic. Is Jaspers hardware compatible with these tubes?
  3. Perhaps the coolest feature of the TW organ is the quick trigger key action. The organ triggers sound at a much shallower key depth than any other sound engine in Fantom. It also works over USB MIDI but only when zone 2 is selected.
  4. Right. Because nothing is going to create more buzz around a new product than adding organs & EPs. In the end, what difference does it make? It' was the right move indeed!
  5. Roland understands this more than anyone else. That's why Fantom got model synths first instead of drawbar organs. The shift from all in one workstations wasn't all about plugins, hosts and laptops. I've always run a old school midi rig but with modern workstations and other synths under control of the DAW and/or their internal sequencers. Everything is distributed and I can focus on the best parts of the instrument and with enough gear, I rarely use plugins on my tracks. I could replace my Kronos with a Nautilus and probably not miss much at all. It would simply be a different way of working. I'm guessing the younger players aren't constrained by the past so the need for all the functions in 10 year old workstations isn't all that important. Kronos is definitely at it's end of life for many reasons. Nautilus gives Korg a new case design and something to offer until they can fill it with their next gen synth.
  6. Lola Astanova is fantastic. I'd love to attend one of her concerts.
  7. My HS ran an elective course "music theory" for years until the teacher transferred elsewhere. We had a few band geeks and some of my parents piano students, but most everyone playing in garage bands took the course. My teacher, Mrs Graham was just fantastic. Interval training, 4 part harmony, scales and writing all this stuff out. Graham busted me on an assignment to create an original composition. I pulled some sheet music from the very back of my Dad's music file that looked obscure and simple enough. My Dad was THE piano teacher in town so she was excited to see what I created. She gets about 8 bars in, says I know this then proceeds to play the rest of the piece - filling it with flourishes. Then she told my Mom. Skills learned were used in all our little cover bands as worked out the tunes, vocal harmony and originals. When we got stuck someone might ask "what would Ms Graham do?" These days things are much different you just sing what's on the record, youtube or if it's an original, whatever sounds cool. I've been pretty fortunate many of my fellow musicians have a pretty good grasp on this stuff or at least, enough to get then thru figuring out their backing vox to working for the weekend.
  8. F7 action is fantastic. I like it more than Fantom G7/V Synth GT actions. AT is quite useless...
  9. Trying to sell a nice piano takes the patience of a saint. We tried to sell father's Yamaha C7. A gorgeous grand piano that was meticulously maintained and tuned since the late 70s. Nothing but crazy low ball offers because everyone knows, nobody wants pianos anymore. BS. We ended up donating it to Orchestra Hall and it sits on their main stage. Still have a C6 left. I'm moving the Steinway in my house in the spring. I just know that piano is going to be loud AF in my home. You'll be able to hear it from the street. But I'm ready. All the great piano samples I have in my Kronos & Mac just don't compare to playing the real thing.
  10. The question I'm often asked is why do you have so many synths you don't use? All those, in storage! My standard reply is old romplers & floppy drive samplers will come back into vogue but I think I'll start using AnotherScott reply instead.
  11. It's no different than when apple updates the OS. We have to wait for drivers and apps to catch up.
  12. I've been with Clarion for at least a decade. Never had a claim but I'm happy with their service thus far. It's easy to add & remove covered instruments. When I had State Farm any changes went thru my agent which was a bit of a pain. This may have changed now.
  13. Not currently Yes but the crappiness factor yet TBD...editor has yet to be released No Yes, if it's a zen core sound pack
  14. I agree but FB is where the Roland guys are. Ed Diaz & Scott Berry posts videos there and all the realtime chats...if you follow the group long enough you'll start to see comments from Roland guys all over the world. So they are engaged with users - its truly a first for Roland. I had USB issues at launch. After a couple hours trouble shooting I posted my question. Within 10 minutes Scott had the answer. That's fantastic support. Hope the Clan returns. I spent many years on that forum helping folks with their Jupiter 80.
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