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  1. mate stubb
    My Chroma + Expander rig dripped special sauce all over the floor.
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    From the GSI web page: "User defined Velocity Curves"
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    I've got a used JDI available in the Garage Sale...
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    I love the Nord uprights. For my last gig (60's and roots music) I found grand pianos mostly inappropriate - nobody was packing huge sounding grands back in the day. I kept 2 grands and 2 uprights in my Nord which were layered to loosen the unison tunings and make them cut better without having to EQ them into brittleness.
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    I wouldn't necessarily call Jan Hammer's Miami Vice work Prog, but it sure was cool.
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    But the thing was, we were all gigging regularly and still getting about $50 or more a job. I was 15 years old with no other expenses, so that was a few month's gig money.
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    The VCOs are different but similar, and both were discrete designs. As for a possible upcoming software Chroma, I can say no more.
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    Handel. He was the Who of the Baroque - never met a I-IV-V he didn't love. I'll take some lovely JSB modulations, please!
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    Unfortunately, Spock was not a keyboard man. Then again...
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    Several times I have set up my pair of TT08a wedges onstage right next to each other, splayed out slightly like a Motion Sound amp. Sounded fine to me!
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    I'm thinking a dedicated sample player might make sense instead of dedicating a Disting EX to the task. Anyone try the Squarp Rample?
  12. mate stubb
    We called them pump organs or reed organs, but harmonium is the correct name. They were in the parlors of many well to do households in the 1800s.
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    Jan Hammer had a super compressed dirty Rhodes sound with little bell that I really loved on this track.
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    I don't know if it was sanctioned by Peter, but I had an opportunity to mix "Big Time" once. There was an audio society event at Ohio State when I was a student, and a vendor (Harrison?) had a huge console there with all the tracks to the song, letting anybody do a mix who wanted to try.
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    Man, I have a real HP15C sitting in my desk. I bought it 40 years ago when I went to university. It still works, and the battery has never been changed. The tactile feel of the keys is nice and crisp. HP used to make some of the finest electronic hardware in the world. I mourned when the founders sold the company.
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    Gleeman Pentaphonic Clear (but it was 5 voices.)
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    https://www.engadget.com/arturias-minifreak-synthesizer-gets-a-firmware-update-with-new-engine-and-effects-185416143.html
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    ...and now the kids grow up with writing code in their dna, so that when they want to take a little time off from work, they write code for some personal project. And software devs are expected to learn a new language, api, and dev toolkit for each and every job. I was so glad to leap off the developer treadmill 7 years ago, and I can't imagine it has gotten any less stressful since.
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    Well, if you inspected the PA setup yourself and it was hooked up as described, that changes things. If the mixer had pan control and left and right outputs, it is stereo. If each output goes directly to its own powered speaker, then the system is stereo. However, the sound guy said it's mono. Something is missing - either the sound guy is wrong, or there is something plugged in between that makes it mono. Graphic EQ for the room or external limiters perhaps? Do you know the model mixer being used?
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    Short answer: No. While the mixer may be stereo capable, the entire rest of the PA must also have a stereo path in order to achieve it. Somewhere in the system, it's either getting summed to mono, or everything panned hard to one side is getting lost entirely. So your 2 piano signals were either summed to mono and fortunately did not get a bunch of phase cancellation OR you were hearing only one side. Fortunately it worked out. Since you are likely to encounter this again, it would be good to figure out exactly how things were set up.
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    Agreed. I used to be able to name pitches accurately on well tuned American instruments. But a neglected instrument whose tuning had slipped could mess me up. Now that I am semi retired and not playing music much, I find my pitch sense is slipping. I'm sometimes a half step off if I test myself.
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    I worked in a music store in Cinci in the early 80s and ran their synth/keys room, but I'm blasted if I can remember the name of it. This was in Northside, and they had a store on the west side too.
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