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  1. You should check out the custom sections of Chris Hein Horns, I think you;ll change your mind. Articulations totally customized to taste and unlike most sections, it"s in your face. No fluffy fu fu sounds. Must admit their demos aren"t the best but the guy is German. Probably never heard Maynard or Bill Chase, even though those sounds are sampled well. I do lots of Synths or Hammond w/ Sections lately and it"s too much fun.
  2. Bidule is as lean as they come. MIDI PrgmChng messages or any MIDI CC calls up select GUIs, very easy as a host. It"s the extra stuff that most don"t need that requires more in depth thinking. I"ve used it 15 years, support is immediate, if you even need it, and never crashed once. Not pretty or fancy, just the meat & potatoes. Works so well once I"ve booted up I never need the mouse or QWERTY. Prefer playing without interruption or menu diving this works great.
  3. Pretty happy with what I heard, especially the Unclean Channel and other FX. Omnisphere FX are the best in any synth out there, actually their MXR Phaser is so damn good it beats the Strymon Zelzah for that particular sound. I just wish we could pump our other virtual instruments through Omni"s FX rack.
  4. Eventide H9 or if you use a mixer and AUXs some Strymons. Any external FX will really add to your sound, especially if you can use MIDI PrgmChng and CC#"s per keyboard preset. I cured my lust with the Strymon TriFecta. MOBIUS, TimeLine and Big Sky.
  5. A really nice rig. Just hope they have stocked up on parts. A friend of mine bought a 2021 Ford Sedan and it took 6 months to fix the AC. Mavericks should sell like hot cakes though because it"s size is perfect for suburban moms, band gear, Mobile BBQ, etc. Plus it"s EV actually looks good and is priced right.
  6. I loved the D70 as a 4 zone controller w/ decent Rock Piano sound, considering it was 1993. I would try and restore just for controller functions. It was my first rig using a single keyboard. I"d go for fixing it.
  7. You could always get the 8 x EXP from MIDI Solutions. I had the Oberheim MC3000 and MC3000D back in '96. Then used the MS F8 with various 4 zone keyboards. Now use a Physis K4 which is 8 x EXP per scene x 4, giving me 32 assignable pedals per performance, which there are 128 of. There are devices for 4 x EXP out there too. I line up 4 x FC7"s, 1 x FC4 for portamento/rotary speed, 1 x sustain for CC64 or CC31 upper C3 vibrato and Trumpet Section Shakes.
  8. Had the pleasure when I was a kid of seeing Sancious play. It was a unique band as Alan Holdsworth, Jack Bruce, and Billy Cobham also filled out the Quartet. Funny thing it was just weeks before we saw this new trio called the Police. We used fake IDs to get into Illinois clubs as the drinking age was 19 to drink. East St.Louis had all of the best clubs back then. St.Louis was 21 years old to drink, and had no 3500 seat clubs. In Illinois they converted old Granary"s, Tractor favorites, you name it, they made a club out of it. Nice Share..
  9. I certainly hear the influence of brass and Reed players Herbie worked with. Especially this solo that sounded like Dr. Bennie Maupin from the Thrust Album.
  10. Leap Motion w/ Gekko MIDI is best used for really fast double bowing really fast Jean Luc Ponty style licks. Trill your fingers up against each other and the tracking is really precise. But PBend and Touch VCF stuff is not that accurate but usable sometimes. The Ring seems to have accurate VCF and the PBend twists are pretty nifty. Bought Leap Motion when it was 60 bucks, gekko MIDI was 10. I"m sure they"re more expensive now. For 352 There better be a Diamond in the Ring.
  11. Google Translate Helps me out when joining User Groups for custom hardware on FakeBook.
  12. Slightly OT but my latest AMD 5600/5700G builds are twice as powerful as my i7 4790k rigs. They run cool @ 65 watts/72C. I stack and layer like crazy. I don"t need the DSP FX, but still can"t find a Native automated mixer I like. But Omnisphere/Keyscape FX are on every preset now. As are ReLabs, Brainrox and Polyverse. Couldn"t run those with my stacks/layers on the i7. Funny thing, they made my DSP plug ins before they went Native. AMD 5600/5700G"s are incredible audio chips w/ built in GFX. Just don"t need the DSP processing anymore with these bad ass 6/8 core models out there.
  13. With the i7 CPUs Native Processing and their apps finally caught up to Analog Devices DSP Chips. I had a Gigastudio Scope DSP rig 18 years ago that was so far ahead on Hammond and Synth clones, mixing and processing power. I upgraded to their XITE-1 in 2009 which is a 1U packed with 18 x SHARC DSPs, 12 of them the ADSP-21369 you see in Strymons, Neo Vent and UAD gear. Only reason I even use the XITE-1 is it"s Mixers are just so customizable and every feature including routing can be automated via MIDI CC#"s. And it routes external hardware into the project with VSTi"s w/ zero latency. Cubase, Logic and other DAWs couldn"t do that until a few years back. Would love to retire this beast and even get a new UAD as the specs look impressive considering the costs. But finding a custom design mixer that can be automated for live work is still unavailable. And since I can have one of the many developers that have the SDK build me what I need, I guess I"ll wait for Native apps to catch up for a Mixing/FX solution. I wanted to buy UAD but after begging them in the forum for an automated mixer I gave up. I hope they get around to that someday. I could shrink my stage rig down by 2U.
  14. I haven"t been handcuffed for a long time. IEMs have made the one size fits all curly cabled headphones very cheap. Think I"ll use my Amazon coupons and get me some. Good Thread
  15. I bought their Module 4 years ago in hopes of using an all hardware/no PC rig. The sounds were naturally nowhere as good as VSTi"s on a PC/Mac, but recalling sounds using MIDI Prgm Chng messages was a process of just hitting a Bank 00 then Prgm Chng # to see what loaded and write it down. It was as bad as it gets with no explanation in the manual, or a MIDI Implementation chart. Also tried the Integra 7 and it was weak compared to PC/Mac. Thanks to Dexibell and Roland I will never try to use hardware only again. Maybe over the last 4 years their product line has evolved. It"s hard going to ROMPlers or Sample Playback modules after using VSTi/AU"s. Especially when it comes to Horn Sections and Strings. Articulations and KSwitched samples are light years ahead.
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