Ed A.

Shark Tank, 25 Words or Less, Chopped, most things on HGTV, Forged in Fire, Pawn Stars.

I just downloaded NI Komplete 14 Standard and got the Holiday price of 50% off.

Almost anything I stream on Apple Music is something new, and I hardly ever listen to old music I had on CDs, so I don't mind paying an annual fee for it to find interesting new music I've never heard before. The advantage of streaming is also that it's lossless 24 bit, 48K+ sample rates compared to lossy 16 bit MP3s. It noticeably sounds better IMO.

At home, Apple Music streaming and my ripped library through a Zoom AMS-44 audio interface connected to Kali LP-6 v2 powered monitors or MDR-7506 headphones. Occasionally, I'll use a stereo pair of HomePod minis. In my car, wireless Apple Car Play. I haven't played a CD or listened to the radio in years, and I had enough of vinyl and tape back in the seventies when I was an "audiophile". Still have CDs on spindles just so I can say my ripped music is legal.

I’ve been called a musician before. 😀

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Yeah, but Ensoniq’s polyAT keyboards were the clackiest keyboards I’ve ever played.

I stopped drinking beer like 25 years ago. That's how I kept my svelte physique. 😁

UPS just dropped it off. Shipped quicker than I thought, I was expecting it next week.

I always clean anything I sell so it looks mint.

I can’t play a LinnStrument because it’s set up like a fretboard, and I’m not a guitarist. The Osmose is interesting, but it can’t do glide gestures like the Seaboard can. I also don’t like the Osmose synth engine, sounds thin and cheap to me and is the absolute worst to program. I’d rather use a Seaboard with Equator2 instead. Also, the Seaboard has been around for a while and I know it’s been pretty reliable and the Seaboard RISE 2 has been improved with much higher resolution and better, more tactile keywaves. I don’t know how that complex multi-directional key mechanism in the Osmose will hold up in the future.

I just ordered a Seaboard RISE 2, should be here next week. I have some experience playing Roli Seaboards, so I decided to go with that instead of an Osmose or LinnStrument.

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IMO, a CD is a relic of the past, like 8 track, cassette, and LP’s. Even though I still have spindles of old CD’s in storage, I don’t even own a CD player anymore, not even in my car. I have a USB CD burner only for ripping old CD’s on my computer. For streaming, I use Apple Music with 24bit 48k lossless that exceeds CD specs. I could stream greater than 96k if I wanted to, but I honestly don’t notice a difference. Even my own music with DistroKid is 24bit 48k lossless. I did sell my CD’s on CD Baby, but I don’t anymore. Anything I release in the future will be strictly streaming or download.

EML synths were made in Connecticut and the company was subsidized in the early seventies by Fred Locke Stereo, a high-end Connecticut stereo shop chain. Fred Locke was an audio engineer who designed EML synths. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Music_Laboratories

I like the opsix SE better than the Wavestate SE, platinum is nice, but I still don't know why they didn't go with their original opsix SE design: Though I am getting used to the new panel layout.

I think it's more that Korg would have had to spend the money to re-design and re-machine the panel layout if they changed it from the original. Because they didn't, the end result is all that awkward space on both sides. It would have looked better if they moved the control panel left, like in an Access Virus or Clavia Nord Lead. Reminds me of when I was a videographer, don't shoot your interview subject dead center, offset them to the left or right (rule of thirds). It looks better to the eye.

“A man’s got to know his limitations” - Dirty Harry 😉