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Sorry for resurrecting this Zombie thread, but I've not been able to try out a SK Pro.  From reading the above as well as reviews/ discussions on other sites, I already know that the SK Pro's piano sounds are generally not considered to be very good and certainly not as good as the recent offerings by Nord, Yamaha, etc., but can they work in a loud blues or rock band mix for both comping and soling?    For those in the know, how do the SK Pro's AP sounds compare to Kurz's old Triple Strike AP's which I confess that I still find acceptable in loud band mixes? For the record, I play in mono.      FWIW, I already have a SK1 and, given the choice, I wouldn't want to use its piano sounds for solo piano or at a gig no matter how loud the band is.  They sound clanky and thin.  Hopefully the SK Pro's pianos are improved enough over the old SK's that I could use 'em for loud band gigs. 

I got my Phonak Audéo Sphere Infinios today. So far, I'm in the honeymoon stage going "holy sh*t, I can REALLY hear!". Seriously... I walked out of the Audiologist's office and immediately noticed that I could hear my footsteps, walking on a plush carpet. I came home and worked on a corporate video mix. It was all On Camera audio with needle-drop music & a few sound effects to go with graphics. I had the app on my phone open & kept A-B comparing "with" & "without" by muting the Hearing Aids. It sounded in my ears like all I was getting were the high frequencies I've been missing, and they sounded very natural. I didn't know I was hearing them until I muted the aids & then realized just how bad my ears had gotten. I plan to use a lot of reference material to make sure the aids aren't overcompensating (which would skew my mixes as badly as missing frequencies will). So far though, I'm loving them.   I haven't tried to tackle the tinnitus yet. The Audiologist wanted me to just get used to the aids first. I have an appointment in a few weeks where we'll tweak anything needed and then setup the tinnitus masking. (If I understand correctly, the masking is done with some filter-tuned white noise. I'll be able to turn that on & off as needed.)   If you're unfortunate enough to be in the market (and have decent insurance), these are well worth checking out. They appear to have quite the buzz in the industry right now because of their AI integration. The biggest benefit of that is its supposedly superior ability to provide speech clarity in noisy environments (which has been a huge struggle for me). The Mrs. & I are going to go to a restaurant for dinner, so I'll be able to test that then.   greg

There is a big difference between a Qcard PCMCIA and an SRAM PCMCIA. Maybe that wasn’t clear? A Qcard is really an extra read-only bank of samples and programs utilizing those samples. The QCards are not just patch settings. The samples on the QCards were professional, high quality samples that still sound great today. The 8MB on the Qcard is mainly filled by samples. The Vintage Synth card has some samples of classic synths and their signature sounds. Those never will be outdated. When you write a QCard binary image file to a blank card from the PC you are transferring an 8MB image of those samples and settings to the blank card. (You can use a blank card greater than 8MB, but the extra space is ignored. Don’t spend extra for a bigger card.)   Any edits have to be saved to the QS internal User bank or a second PCMCIA SRAM card (256Kbytes or 512Kbytes) inserted in the second slot. I used a 256Kb SRAM card to save my patch edits and keep the extra banks that came bundled with the QCards. One SRAM card shows up as four extra banks, if I remember. So no need to send patch dumps from the computer more than once, if there are four extra onboard banks present via the SRAM card. 

Since there is a bunch of Music biz threads going on I thought this is related seeing how Film/TV composer and related work jobs are going away.   Anne-Kathrin Dern is a composter in LA I've been watching her YT's for years, she has a lot of good videos on music theory,  composing, and gear.      

Sorry for resurrecting this thread and going OT, but I've not been able to get my hands on a YC73 to try out.    How easy and/or difficult is it to do organ chops on the YC73?  I know it's a lightly weighted balanced hammer action.  FWIW I've found that it's easier for me to play piano on a good semi-weighed action (e.g. Kurz SP76, PC4-7) than it is for me to play organ on any weighted hammer action board I've ever played. 

Never in the field of keyboard programming was so much owed by so few to so many.

Yep, I saw.  Just didn’t want to leave this post hanging.   dB

And some awesome Forum community members have been groovy kind enough to validate and try out a few ways of achieving his ask…   MPN rocks!         PEACE _ _ _