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Kathleen

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  • Birthday 01/01/1960

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    Retired from 42 years in I.T.
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    Piano, music, sewing, sketching, painting, writing
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    The Ozarks

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  1. Hello, hello, hello.. Long time no C. SO....... Messing around with my RD-88, Sibelius, and Garageband all at the same time, I would get the "No Media" blurb. It seemed this was so bogus. But....Now I think it is the Roland RD-88 communicating with me. As in, I would play something (grand staff) back from Sibelius, the RD-88 displaying "no media" It would play back and record nicely into GB as a piano But I wanted more. (Don't we all?) I wanted to play back from Sibelius into my RD-88 (and therefore record into GB) as a sax, or guitar, or flute. I would select via the RD-88 options a scene with sax, guitar, or flute. I would play from Sibelius, get "no media", and hear the nice piano, the Grand Piano default, which would record into GB. GRRRRR Then I accidentally pressed a tone/scene/favorite on the Roland and - WALL-AH ! The playback and recording into GB was indeed that tone/scene/favorite. It was magic. Or good engineering among all parties, I'm not sure. The lesson is you have to select a scene a 2nd time to get it to stick if you want to playback or record other than the original staff, staves that are written within Sibelius. It could be that everyone else has figured this out by now, or just don't care, but I'm excited. I now have my version of Dixieland in a chorus of flutes. Glorious. All the best!
  2. Wow, that's a lot of info. Thanks! I'll have to get back to it tomorrow or the day after with the suggestions. I'll post again when I've done something.....good or bad!
  3. From time to time, mostly with Sibelius or GarageBand open, the back of my Roland RD-88 Keyboard will open up and all the tones will fall out. After awhile, with some finagling, they will crawl back up the stand and back into my keyboard, but it is very annoying. So, hopefully the two files I have attached are viewable. If not, I will say that: ...I'm going along, whatever, the the displayed scene will show an asterisk, and say "no media", where it should be displaying the current tone. ...When I arrow down into the tone, I get a big, fat, all caps "EMPTY". I toggle back and forth between the two, ...After pressing other square buttons, and then back to "one touch piano", I finally get a tone back into the display, but then it happens right away again. Does anybody know why this happens or how I can stop it? It just started a few days ago. I had used both Sibelius and GB separately and concurrently, but this just started. Help! I need Somebody!! Kathleen
  4. Has anyone else seen this? I don't even know how I stumbled upon it. A tidbit about importing tones, but may be so similar to other keyboards that it isn't so useful to many here: https://www.kraftmusic.com/media/ownersmanual/Roland_RD-88_Supplementary_Manual.pdf
  5. "It definitely will save the RD's cursor buttons from wearing out." Hahahaha! Yes, indeed! Hi Allan! Thanks for the feedback. I was in IT for 42 years and wrote a lot of technical documentation and I like writing the details, once I understand them. You - and others - are w-a-a-ay beyond me on all the other points of this mega keyboard. I don't even know the definitions of those components (like you mentioned), let alone how to use them!!! As it turns out, I'm going back to where I purchased this on Monday for a 2 hour session. This young man seems very knowledgeable on this keyboard. I hope to learn enough on my own before then so I can ask some intelligent questions. If you - or someone reading this - has a couple of specific questions, I can ask him about them and see if he knows. Thanks again for the feedback, and yes, it will be terrific when the Roland peeps chime in!
  6. Thanks. That's the goal, to impart some measure of how to get started. Thanks for the comment.
  7. Thank you very much! I appreciate the feedback.
  8. FYI's, I made a new thread: Roland RD-88 Articles. Let me know if you find errors or corrections, or if you found them useful. (2 articles)
  9. Hello! As a new owner of the RD-88 I had some struggles with the delivered documentation. As I learned about certain processes I wanted to write them up and share with others. This bloggy place, HubPages, puts several ads of their choosing all along the article, which I cannot control. That said, I have included many photos within thumbnails (to save space) so please view the thumbnails even if you try to skip around the ads. Go ahead and link to my articles if you like, but please note they have a copyright, for all the good it does. Enjoy! https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/Understanding-Scenes-Tones-and-Parameters-on-the-Roland-RD-88-Digital-Piano https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/Understanding-the-Sound-List-for-the-Roland-RD-88-Digital-Keyboard-How-to-Move-Between-Scenes-Tones-and-Banks (I created a CATEGORY TABLE in this one) P.S. From an article, you can click on "THE SAMPSONS" to see other articles on different subjects, mainly sewing if you're into that, but also what to expect from a professional piano tuning. I'm Loretta there, Kathleen here - just trying to confuse Big Tech. :-)
  10. Hey - Im making another write up about that very thing. I will post in a new thread with an appropriate name. Later today, I hope.
  11. Hi LX88. That was exactly my struggle. I finally figured it out and Allan concurred that is his tactic as well. I wrote a little overview blurb on a bloggy site (see above link) and I intend to make a detailed Sound List blurb this week. My local GC did not have it, but a local shop did. I know GC is struggling, but I was happy to support a local store.
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