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Same here…pianos in churches in Ireland are a rarity. Organs yes but pianos no. You’ll find the odd digital piano but I wouldn’t turn up at a church gig hoping there’s a piano there. -
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Late 80's = Matrix 6 - first, longest owned, most explored, and most fun. Now - Kurzweil PC4-7. I've forgotten most of what was between those. -
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Here in Spain the unusual is to find a piano in a church, at least on the predominant Catholic ones. You can find tube organs in some larger ones, and electronic organs in others. But acoustic pianos are not usually found. In fact, I am trying to remember any church around this area with a piano, and can't remember any. So, yes, it seems a cultural thing 🤔 -
That's correct. The combination of these partials make an endless journey in sound design without entering into any subtractive lfos/filterings/effects etc... You can enter into it, since it is a wonderful thing, when a sound dynamically changes its physical parameters in a time scale, but when you enter there you've already have your SOUND, stored on your machine with you! From now I can not imagine another way to design a new sound other than that. Yes, you can do it with this method too: you can add or replace non overlapping or overlapping layers/elements in frequency at your choice. But with these instruments, you will replace, or "enrich" a frequency, or a range of frequency only, not a complete spectrum. P.s.: I think you are a clever man, (as people in this forum in general there are). It's a great thing to be a part of this forum.
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In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again. -
How is the Canadian Distribution looking in 2024? What's the alternative if there's still no distribution? Sweetwater? Thomann?
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