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Steve in KS

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About Steve in KS

  • Birthday 03/06/1955

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  • occupation
    Video Producer/Editor
  • hobbies
    Music, Movies, HDTV
  • Location
    Wichita, Kansas
  1. This Search engine is totally frustrating. I tried to look up "Midi Recording" and all I got was ahuge list of recording vocal stuff !? If you are searching for key words in a subject heading, shouldn't they BE in the subject headings that are found?? So I thought I would start a new topic, but now I can't even find a link for starting a new topic! While I'm bitching, I'll add that for a person with low vision such as myself, this new format is terrible. Having the threads undelined makes them harder to read and also makes it more difficult to use an important function of my computer which reads text to me when I highlight it. -grumpy
  2. uh-oh Having been in video production for more than 30 years, I understand the need for music that is "wallpaper." I know a lot of musicians hate doing this kind of thing, but it's really needed. It's also not something everyone can do. You have to hold back on your desire to 'take it somewhere.' A lot of times this music has to be mixed with voice overs that go in and out or crossfade into music of a dfferent mood altogether. We have tons of production music that is totally useless because it is too dynamic. The composers just couldn't hold back from having strong accents, solos or extreme dynamics. A healthy way to look at it is that production music is to 'real' music like commercial graphic design is to 'real' art. It requires talent to make it, but isn't something that can really stand on it's own or be looked at too intensely. This is a nice and very useable piece. It also sounds real. A lot of production music uses fakey synthetic orchestral sounds that always sound cheesey.
  3. I liked the second one. I was unable to hear the first one as I got a broken quicktime icon when I clicked on the link.
  4. BUMP I almost feel guilty for starting this up again, but, oh well. Its taken me a week to get through this thread and its been an amazing trip! I only found this forum last month after 20 years of figuring there were very few people out there with any similar experiences. Ive never even KNOWN any other keyboard players, so finding this forum has been an overwhelming experience. My name is Steve Worley and Im 48 (yikes!) years old. Seems impossible to me since I dont feel any different from when I was 20. Cant explain it, youll understand when you get here. I took a few years of piano when I was very young but didnt take to it very well.. Im told that I had a good teacher, so I guess its my fault. I switched to trumpet which I played until high school when I switched to French Horn in order to get into Orchestra. (Ill take a string section over a horde of clarinets any day of the week) plus I was too lazy to march in band. During my high school years (1971 1973, the Pleistocene era,) a friend of mine played an album for me of this new group called YES. The Yes Album, actually their 3rd album I think, and I loved it! I was also listening to ELP, Pink Floyd and Genesis mostly. When Fragile came out and Wakeman was added to Yes, something clicked in me and I went back to the keyboard. Back then I think the incredibly powerful (and new) sound of the Hammond combined with a Moog, not to mention a veritable string section and choir at your fingertips (Mellotron) amazed the hell out of me. The first time I heard a synthesizer was when Switched-On Bach came out. I was 13 years old and I remember being fascinated with all of these new sounds. I didnt have a clue about the technology though. I thought the Moog was some computer that you fed music into and then it somehow created all of the music. I didnt think anyone actually had to play it! (I was a stupid kid.) So I bought a cheap organ from a friend to learn on, a Lowrey T1. I later added a Leslie 825 to it. Its amazing what a Leslie will do for an organ, even a Lowrey! Later I traded it in for a Hammond M3 and then took out a loan for a Mini-Moog and experienced debt for the first time. Several years later I made a friend, Roger, who was a drummer. He had some band experience and was looking to put one together, heard me play, and fortunately for me had more faith in me than I had in myself which got me started with a band. We were primarily a progressive cover band, but did get the opportunity to record a couple of originals in 1982 at a real studio in Kansas City after placing in a local rock radios battle of the bands. We eventually broke up and I later played with an 80s pop cover band until 1988. I then just played for (with?) myself at home for a couple more years largely due to the fortune of being given a baby grand (1939 Kimball) to watch over for a couple of years when a friend of mine moved to New York and didnt have any where to put it. Having a real piano moved me in a new direction and I began learning some classical pieces. Alas, she wanted the piano back after about 2 years. For a variety of reasons not worth boring you with here, I barely touched a keyboard for almost 10 years. Early last year after a conversation with Roger who now lives in Houston, it occurred to me how much I missed playing so I decided to get back in gear. I bought a Yamaha CLP130 digital piano over the summer and have been having a great time getting back up to speed. It would be great to get out and play with some other musicians again, but Im enjoying myself in the meantime. Well see . . . . Equpment through the ages: (*-still have) Lowrey T-1 Leslie 825 Crumar Roto-Phaser Hammond M3 Mini-Moog ARP Quartet Roland Jupiter-4 Helpinstill Piano Roland Juno 106 * Roland Juno 106 (yeah 2 at once) Memorymoog * Roland S-10 * Yamaha CLP130 * Well, thats more than enough from me. In the unlikely event that youd like to know more or just chat, drop me a line: Im learning an awful lot here, but after being out of circulation for more than 10 years, there are too many god****ed model numbers to catch up on. I cant tell when someone is talking about a keyboard, a synthesizer module, a sampler module, software, a computer or a new car! Why, back in my day . . . dont get me started. Thanks for the great forum !!!
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