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Byrdman

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  1. I really thought I was going to miss my gig last night. I had to fly back into town earlier in the day. When I arrived at the airport, two and a half hours before my flight like a Good Citizen I found the airport totally closed down and everybody milling around in the road outside the terminal. There was a security scare on. Seems TSA had found a bag of fresh spinach on a conveyor.
  2. You must have been unlucky on that. I would like the analog outs on my QS8 to be quieter but they are not too noisy to use at all. The fact that they are unbalanced limits your noise floor in any case. I do use the light pipe for recording though and the synth sounds clearly better when recorded like that. For "serious" recording digital is the way to go. I think this is true of any synth,
  3. The sounds are a little dated but the state of the art has not advanced hugely and you won't find any board out there that is consistently better in all departments, and certainly not for the price. Any board you listen to you are going to hear sounds that sound good and others that suck. Most boards around this price have zero expandibility. The expandibility of the QS series is limited but at least it exists. Of the units mentioned above, I am not familiar with the new Emus, the standard pianos on the Tritons are, in my opinion, really dreadful (I am told an expansion card is available to fix that but now your up to three times the price at least) and the action really sucks. The Motif is a really nice synth but once again three times the price (the 88 is $2500). The pianos in the S80 are weak and you don't get the wide range of voices you get in the QS6. Its a real weighted action though so you should consider it as well as the Roland equivalent which sounds better but has a less nice action. The Yamaha equivalent at the price point is the S03 (about 450 steet) which is a good deal for the price but is no comparison to the QS6 in sound quality or programmability. The Roland equivalent is probably the RS9 which I think is quite a nice synth, but its getting up round the $1000.
  4. I am a 49 year old (hits the front in the geezer stakes) Software Engineer who emigrated to the US from Australia about 12 years ago. I've been playing piano on and off since I was six. Since I moved to the US I've been working on improvisational styles of music (Blues, especially New Orleans, getting into Jazz and Gospel). Only got back into it about 4 or 5 years ago and only really got focused on improving for last two years. Also play Sax/Flute and some Clarinet. Currently rehearsing with a band - I would say we will be ready to play out early in the year. I have also sung in Church Choirs, played in pits (one show did Bari Sax, flute, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet - had to be dug out from under the collapsed pile of instruments after every show). I am also busy relearning music theory, both Jazz and Classical - I never went past high school in music theory and only now have I come to understand how woefully bogus the theory they taught us at that level was - not only incomplete (as you would expect) but also quite misleading, even when it came to the harmony of JS Bach - one of the problems with growing up in Australia in those days was lack of access to a wide range of books - you were pretty much a hostage of the educational establishment. Gear: QS8 main board, top board is a Yamaha S03 which I use mainly as a midi controller to a Technics WSA1R for Hammond sounds.
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