Ed A.

I read somewhere that Arturia Piano V3 is actually based on earlier Modartt code used in Pianoteq. Arturia may have licensed it from Modartt.

Well, I guess I'm keeping my NI Kontrol S61 MK3 for a while. AstroLab has no polyAT and I assume not a Fatar keybed, and has only a tiny, fidgety display/control. The NI S61 MK3 has a beautifully large color display, eight touch-sensitive knobs, plus it has a powerful built-in processor that NI plans to use to expand its capabilities with future updates, and is already MIDI 2.0 capable. The other thing I don't like about the AstroLab is it's even bulkier and heavier than the already large NI S61 MK3. List price is $1,999, I see it on B&H for $1,599. Too much money for what it is.

Might also be this, an 88 note hardware version of Arturia Analog Lab V software called AstroLab: https://device.report/arturia/astrolab-88 There also appears to be a 61 note and mini version: https://device.report/arturia/astrolab-61 https://device.report/arturia/astrolab-mini The name "AstroLab" would be consistent with the astronaut in Arturia's promo video.

Maybe by inMusic like Moog was? Notice the use of the phrase "A New Chapter" in the headline: https://www.moogmusic.com/news/moog-and-inmusic-new-chapter-innovation-and-collaboration-begins

They’re closing the New Haven, Connecticut store, the only Sam Ash in Connecticut. I would have thought that because New Haven is a big college town(Yale, UNH, Quinnipiac) that a music store would do well there. Could be because many college students are broke and don’t have much disposable income for music gear, or they buy online.

Got an email from Arturia that says: “A new chapter awaits… We are grateful to continue making the instruments we love, but it is the ingenuity and passion of you, our fellow sound explorers, that drives us forward. Thank you for being with us every step of the way. Join us on Tuesday April 9th at 6PM CEST as we set the stage for what's coming next…“ There’s much speculation in the live chat as to what they refer to. People are thinking everything from a subscription model, or they’ve been acquired (boo!!), to some new instrument or controller (yay!!). https://r.info.arturia.com/mk/cl/f/sh/WCPzyXJTZ7AVlvPf0vdetInwMOKTUdTq/ydokrZqNcLfH

You don’t need to do anything to your Mac. There is no BIOS on a Mac anyway. Do you have the NI Hardware Connection Service app installed? If you do (I’m guessing you don’t, from your description),then open either Kontakt or Komplete Kontrol plugins in a MainStage or Logic Pro channel strip (or your choice of other DAW). If either of these NI plugins are active in the channel strip, select an instrument from either of those plugins. That instrument should automatically load into the Kontrol S49 MK3 and show its artwork and controls on the keyboard screen. It could also be that since you have a demo unit, it might be possible that the unit was already previously registered to someone (at Sweetwater). Or maybe they never actually registered the unit, and you need to do that. Here’s the setup procedure: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/komplete/kontrol-setup/ Did you input the unit’s serial number, and update the unit’s firmware as mentioned in the link above?

I recently bought a Native Instruments Kontrol S61 Mk3 for the polyAT and find that I almost never use polyAT. 😄

I'm a physical modeling enthusiast and out of the many physical modeling synths I have, Sculpture is still my favorite. It's more experimental instead of emulative which is why I like it.

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Me too. I don’t hear the similarity at all.

Korg has economy of scale that Schmidt doesn't have. They could make something more complex at a fraction of the price.

Korg’s big enough to sue the crap out of them.

Probably because the Synclavier cost $15k on the low end (typically much more) compared to a Fender guitar that sold for maybe $500 back in the day.

Thanks, but I’ll pass. I already have Arturia’s Synclavier V that was developed by Cameron Jones who designed the original that uses the original code. Plus it has 12 partials, compared to the hardware’s 4 partials, and each partial has two operators both with additive and sample capability. The hardware only has a sine operator and an additive operator per partial. I can also run the software version on my 16” M1 MacBook Pro compared to the original that needs a proprietary mini computer with noisy cooling fans. But maybe the pedigree is important enough to someone to pay $62k.

I decided to take delivery from FedEx of my Kontrol S61 MK3 today (instead of sending it back for something else) and everything seems to be good so far. The action is very nice, excellent feel, no velocity response problems at all. Software integration is pretty amazing, loads all my Arturia and NI instruments seamlessly. Guess I got lucky. 😌

I did get the Seaboard Rise 2 a couple months ago. It’s a really nicely built instrument, looks and performs very good, but I ended up sending it back. I’ve tried a variety of MPE controllers and I’ve concluded they aren’t for me. I’m more comfortable with a regular keyboard.

Thanks for the info. I’ll see about canceling the order and wait to see what Arturia does with a KeyLab MKIII, or reconsider the Korg Keystage 61.

I just ordered this:

I'd get a piano teacher that was more into teaching playing by ear rather than the classical teacher I had that stressed reading music.

Country music, more specifically, contemporary country music. I can appreciate Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, but I can’t stand pretty much all modern country music. An old story about drummer Buddy Rich: Jazz and big band drummer Buddy Rich died after surgery in 1987. As he was being prepped for surgery, a nurse asked him, “Is there anything you can't take?” Rich replied, “Yeah, country music.”

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