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Mighty Motif Max

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    Minnesota, U.S.
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  1. New board from Roland - seems to be a stripped-down RD-88. Additional abilities including USB audio are purchasable via Roland Cloud. https://www.roland.com/global/products/rd-08/
  2. I swear by the Etymotic Research ETY Plugs - I've used these guys for the past three years and, so long as you wash them and keep them clear from earwax blockages, I don't notice too much high-end cutoff. I have also used the Hearos plugs previously mentioned here, and don't find them to be quite as good as the ETY Plugs. You should be able to get around a year out of a pair if you take good care of them. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EarPlugPro--etymotic-research-ety-plugs-high-fidelity-earplugs-large-fit
  3. Electro-Voice just released the next generation of their ZLX line - the ZLX G2. 8", 12", and 15" options, passive and active versions. Weights are 23.46 lbs, 32.67lbs, and 37 lbs, respectively. I actually ran into one of these (the active 12" version) today at Guitar Center and played some recorded keys tracks I've made through it. Coming off of a week of gigs using my ELX200-10p model, these new models are not quite there IMO, but they're a perfectly reasonable speaker. Of course, I only tried it in mono with recorded tracks and it was on a shelf, so not exactly ideal conditions. Might be worth checking out. https://products.electrovoice.com/na/en/zlx-g2-powered-loudspeaker/ https://products.electrovoice.com/na/en/zlx-g2-passive-loudspeaker/ I will say - my experience with my ELX200-10p, the next model series in the lineup, has been that it's a good general-purpose speaker but is lacking in the low end compared to even my old Yamaha MSR100, which was a mere 8". I notice it mostly when playing left-hand bass with my SK Pro - the low end drops off fast. It's also not a fan of Minnesota temperatures and needs significant time to warm up enough for the DSP to turn on - not a great fit for unheated storage in winter.
  4. I love my MODX for gigs as a do-it all (well, other than organs, though the Organimation patches work in a pinch). However, it's absolutely something that you don't tweak on the go much. I've gotten reasonably good at building Performances fairly quickly on the fly, but that's for more general things like patches, splits/layers, levels, some basic Scene settings (levels and parts on/off), reverb sends, controller filtering, and eq's. Anything further isn't going to happen in that environment. For actually dialing in stuff while playing, my Fantom 7 is superior in many regards (mainly because you can see more stuff for different parts simultaneously). However, for actually creating patches when I have time, the MODX is easier to use than the Fantom for me. But it's nowhere near as quick. That's why I actually (heresy alert) programmed a synth lead on my SKpro 73 for one of the songs in our set...it was way faster to get a patch that was in the ballpark using that, even though it's literally a monosynth added on to a clonewheel.
  5. The Motif XF with its full sequencer had a max of 64 songs, and another 64 patterns if you used that mode. So I wouldn’t be surprised… The nice thing is that the Montage doesn’t require you to use songs to have multitimbral setups, unlike the Motif (Mixing mode was how you got up to 16 sounds available). That 64-count limit was a pain then.
  6. I'm surprised that they would have effects controllable via hardware but not EQ...I mean, analog consoles without effects were the norm for a long time, so not having EQ controllable without the app seems unusual to me.
  7. Um, so plenty of indigenous people call the land allotted to them by the government (regardless of the injustice of that situation to begin with) by that name...well, some of my friends refer to it as "the rez", but that's about it. Maybe this varies by the state.
  8. @Julius D Majestic Studios
  9. I love that you are using that kind of a rig for what appears to be a church event. I’ve done 4 boards once or twice (well, 3 plus a grand piano), but it’s never been that synth heavy. Very cool.
  10. Ya know, this is getting insane. Here's my take that no one asked for - I'm not a big fan of Beato's, but that's not through any fault of his own. He's just focused on a different lane than generally attracts my interest musically - and that's okay. Thank God for diversity - I'm sure plenty of his viewers wouldn't like some of the stuff I like, and so forth. And I think it's awesome that he's getting in the mainstream news. We need more positive musician coverage. Go Rick! Even if I don't watch his stuff much. Y'all do realize you don't have to like someone's music all that much to support them as a fellow musician, right? Same as any other field/topic.
  11. The KurzweilK250 email list group is still active over at Groups.io (we migrated from Yahoo a few years ago). https://groups.io/g/KurzweilK250/
  12. I was going to recommend the MG10X/XU but you said that was a bit too deep. That’s my gig mixer, and I use a mic stand adapter to mount it to a mic stand base. Easy, small footprint.
  13. I used to run a basic Hauptwerk setup (back when they had the free edition in Version 4), but I now have a digital Baldwin D421A that is sufficiently nice-sounding for my needs. On the other hand, it does have full midi capability, so the option is always there. I just don't feel like shelling out the $$ for the current versions of Hauptwerk and some additional sample sets (and the laptop that I ran V4 Free on is long gone). Once they removed the more affordable options, it became too much of a specialty item for me to invest in.
  14. CDBaby did change their distribution model however - their old "Pro Publishing" package no longer exists, and they now have something called "CDB Boost" you can add on instead. It's more expensive now. One of the larger changes in that changeover is that they no longer register or collect performance royalties through ASCAP or BMI, etc. One of the big perks (IMO) in the past was that option, because it's not super straightforward working with the PRO's directly IMO. CDBaby apparently wanted to move more to an emphasis on the streaming royalty side. But until someone else does a one-time fee to keep music up forever, that's who I'm sticking with, despite the cost increases.
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