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About mauriziodececco
- Birthday 09/04/1959
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http://www.barbogio.org
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Software Engineer
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Jazz, Electronic music of the 70s
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France
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Exactly the conclusion I arrived to after using the MODX for a couple of years in electronic and jazz improvisation based setup. Not being actually able to do any unplanned adjustment in the rehearsal/gig setup ruled out its use in the electronic experimental project; extra financial given by the sale of an OB-6 allowed to switch to a Nord Wave 2 (discussed already in another thread). In this context, I fully use the NW2 interface to tweak the sound while playing; usually I ends up with a very different patch at the end of each piece. Nice way to generate new presets that will be tweaked next time. I continued to use it for my jazz/funk setup, but even if the sound were great (Purgatory Creek Rhodes), and the live tweaking a bit less fundamental (but still important), it was the key bed that I really couldn't adjust to, even after two years. I was happier with the NW2 keyed, so I finally decided I really am a Nord guy, and switched back to a Nord Electro 6D 61, just a bit heavier (and financially affordable with the sale of the MODX, probably we are lucky in Europe). Of course, this is just me, and my specific set of projects and workflows. For studio work, while I liked the MODX sound, I largely prefer a computer only workflow, at least for digital sound sources. Maurizio
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Your Longest Musical Relationship
mauriziodececco replied to Moonglow's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Eh eh, i was about to write the same thing, my brother is also a drummer, and we do the same thing, sometimes in band, sometimes alone just for fun. It just started a few years later (around 75). -
AFAIK, the Mk3 still have some kind of TP100. I searched the NI forums of the subject, and i found something in this sense, but i found no official information, so you should double or triple check before believing me
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Do you see any potential value/interest in the Apple Vision Pro (or similar AR devices ?) ? Like interacting with 3D controls while playing ? Should i resurrect my MIDIBlob application for the Apple Vision Pro (just joking) ? Maurizio
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Well, my dream machine would be a new synth (sort of, probably), a new keyboard instrument that like the B3 or the Rhodes at the time (or like the Mini Moog, or like the Prophets/Oberheim/DX at their respective time) will generate a new set of styles, a new keyboard language, even a new industry sector. Something that will inspire a new generation of musicians, and a new generation of me-too, and later clones or even real copies made by Behringer, with its set of patent and copyright infringements allegations. Something new, something innovative, something fresh. What ? I have no idea, i don't work any more in the music related IT research :). Maurizio
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I have an arrangement similar to what other described: a table fixed to the wall (60 cm depth), 32" with a wall support, monitor fixed too to the wall, and below a keyboard on a K&M 11810. No wheels, i just move it (the floor do not need special attention). A word of caution: initially i used a taller keyboard support, and the table was around 4/5 cm higher. I used this set up as my office for working from home, in the Covid times and i still do three days a week. After a few month, i started develop pain in both shoulders, slowly growing with time. After my doctor was a tendonitis or bursitis. Luckely in the same period i got some training on workplace ergonomic in my job, and i realised what was the problem. I bought a better, higher seat, and changed the keyboard support, lowering the table, and the pain went away. So, if you use the studio many hours a day, take care that it is correctly dimensioned, especially concerning the height of the chair and table. Maurizio
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Do You Buy Added Insurance for Your Keyboards & Equipment?
mauriziodececco replied to Old No7's topic in The Keyboard Corner
A few years ago, we had a concert with my jazz/funk group; we invited a friend band to do a couple of songs during the break; the singer put a one pint glass of beer on my then shine new Nord Electro. The morning after i subscribed an insurance for all my instruments, covering accidents and theft in concerts and rehearsals 😎 -
OT? Perfect pitch: Sorry, it ain't perfect
mauriziodececco replied to Floyd Tatum's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Well, if you look around internet you’ll find many slightly different definition of the terms; on a nice answer on Quora, for example, a guy define the note as a kind of event or object, that have two attributes, pitch and length. And then go on saying that pitch id the perceived highness of a note, and can be defined as a frequency or a name. In the context where i was working, pitch was intended as a continuous value, corresponding to semitones/cents away from a more or less arbitrarily reference note (a C0 of some sort). This value is continuous, like frequency, and correspond to a specific note when close enough in the specific scale you are using. Ok, this is a very physical/mathematical and arbitrary definition of the concept, but since it was used in writing software, it had to be. But outside the terms and their definition, the point i was making is that the human hear/brain is not sensible to frequency or more precisely to differences between frequencies, but to the logarithm of frequency, or more precisely to ratios between frequencies. Maurizio -
OT? Perfect pitch: Sorry, it ain't perfect
mauriziodececco replied to Floyd Tatum's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Yes, i worked with Miller Puckette for a few years (before he left Paris for San Diego) and Eric Lindemann; i met David Ziccarelli a couple of times. First on Max/Fts on the ISPW, later on the software only project that became finally jMax. Great time. About the cepstrum, i probably lost a couple of details since the time 😉; actually i worked on the software infrastrutture (Max itself) and not on the application. I miss those time quote a lot 😜 Maurizio -
OT? Perfect pitch: Sorry, it ain't perfect
mauriziodececco replied to Floyd Tatum's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Well, i know that the discussion moved on, but a bit of technical information can be interesting, so i'll add it, feel free to ignore :). A long time ago, i was working a Ircam, on the Max family of software; one of the things Max was user for were interactive algorithmic compositions; essentially, a Max program reacted to what the musicians were doing, trying to follow them on the score, and adding sound or effects or lights or whatever. Pitch recognition was an important part of the process. I am sure that there have been many progress since then (almost 30 years ago :), but at the time the algorithm (called cepstrum if i rember well) used was not based on the above definition, but on the analysis of the harmonics structure; the algorithm applied an FFT to the FFT of the signal; if the spectrum of the original signal jave a periodic content it means that the original signal have a regular harmonic content, and probably something that can be perceived as a pitch; so, by taking the spectrum of the spectrum, the fundamental of this spectrum tell you the regular distance between the harmonics in the original signal spectrum, and so the pitch. Sorry if it sound complicated, it actually is :). In other words, instead of looking to the fundamental, that may even not be there at all, you look at the harmonics, and see if they are organized as if harmonics of a given fundamental. It worked well for monophonic instruments, woodwinds and brass, usually. I think it should more of less work also with instruments like a piano where you actually have three (very close) fundamentals and three set of harmonics. What the actual ear/brain does i have no idea, i am computer scientist :). Maurizio PS: final point, not especially important: pitch is not frequency, pitch is the base 2 logarithm of frequency; hopefully, because the fact that the harmonic structure is linear with frequency and the the pitch perception is logarithmic is what "allows" complex harmonic structures. -
Either commuting, on earplugs or Bose headphones with my phone, or at home usually cooking, using KEF LSX. Or when studying music in my super-small home studio/office (4m2), using Mac on Genelec monitors. Source is usually Apple Music. Maurizio
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OT? Perfect pitch: Sorry, it ain't perfect
mauriziodececco replied to Floyd Tatum's topic in The Keyboard Corner
I do not have perfect pitch; i cannot give a name to a note; but i cannot improvise on a transposed keyboard; my hand fell in the wrong place, somehow my brain connect 'pitch as perception' to the physical reality of a key (more that visual, i play melodica with closed eyes usually :). This make me think that the perception behind pitches is a very complex and articulated phenomena. And by the way, just to make things more complex: even if you stick to physical definition, pitch is not strictly frequency of oscillation; it is, if you have a sine wave; if you have a piano, with three strings generating a lot of almost but not completely harmonic partials, it is something a lot more complex to define, mathematically speaking. Maurizio -
At the time, not enough money to buy a DX7, or anything else. I finished my studies, got the first salary in january 1986, and a year (or soà later i bought a TX802, together with a Matrix 1000 and a TX16W sampler, and a master keyboard. Yes, and an Atari :). Maurizio
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Three years after: any love for the Nord Wave 2
mauriziodececco replied to mauriziodececco's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Sure, a lot of options around the analogue/VA/wavetable word. I wanted something that added samples to the pictures, so i looked at the Wavestate (that was in the short list), and Iridium/Quantum (that was problematic from the physical weight point of view, i walk to rehearsal and gigs :). Maurizio