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If anyone has the time to check this out I'd be v grateful. Cheers (:

Tjader is so deep. He gets endlessly sampled by hip-hop heads. His recordings are just immense. Back to Guaraldi but keeping with the Latin theme him and Tjader were fond of, I recently got this one in my head and couldn't stop listening to it to the point where I had to learn my first bit of Portuguese to sing along to Dick Farney's version. [video:youtube] Fun to play along to on my secret santa gifted melodica too!

UDO Super 6 Binaural Polysynth [video:youtube] Like a spiritual successor to the Jupiter/Juno but with SSMs and some very interesting FPGA & Binaural tech. It sounds amazing over my laptop speakers and the design layout looks very inviting. We're really spoilt for choice for synths in 2019. This one looks like the bees knees for me.

I've got the manual open at the moment, just referencing the 'organ key trigger' system setting for shallow triggering. I'm guessing it won't but can anyone test if when set to shallow triggering the MIDI out note ons follow as well ? I'm considering the 73 key Continental as a master MIDI keyboard and I really like that shallow trigger option on synth sounds where I don't need velocity. Would be amazing if it did but I'm not holding out too much hope. Cheers

Gosh I can't remember but I don't like to play with more than 128 samples for latency. What the system was racking up in total latency would be another thing. More than anything the purpose of my post was to just share that indeed it can run on some modest Intel Atom Win 8 (mine was not Win RT) tablets. edit/ Controller was a Studiologic VMK-161 Org

I had it going on a $150 Linx Windows 8 tablet at very acceptable latencies. Think I went straight from my controller usb midi out to the tablet USB A in. The only issue was high polyphony settings but Pianoteq gives you the option to cap them anyhow. I went straight from the headphone jack to my stage monitor. I can't remember what processor or RAM the tablet had sorry but I should hope that some of the newer ones would handle it capably. That would be the route I'd explore if I wanted to take Pianoteq live. I should mention that my tests were done from the comfort of my dining room and not on location with all the heat, beer and sweat associated with a live venue

Aww man I'm keen to try this one out again. I bought the MK2 but ultimately sent it back. It did indeed sound massive but it messed with various stereo patches on my Fantom XR. Mainly reverbs that could sound like they were in giant hallways. It would've meant re-programming them and any other potential new stuff that I played through it could sound too much. However, some time after I sent it back it I bought Pianoteq modelling VST which has user positional microphones for the sound and it led me to think if you actually adjusted the sound to the speaker you could really start to get closer to the dispersion a real piano has, anyone who has the MK3 and Pianoteq I'd be very interested to hear some experimentation! Currently I'm not using imitative sounds anymore and I'm again interested in the centre point idea. There seems to be a lot of improvements in this new one. My biggest quibble with the MK2 was that ultimately it sounded boxy. I spent some time running my main two piano sounds through an Aphex eq to tweak out the boxiness but when it came to raising the volume it would still show itself. However, I reckon with a speaker like this one needs to readjust how they think about the sounds they use. I get it that some sounds require that punchy mono spot but then again, how lovely it is to bathe in swirling harmonics when you've got a more wide open patch. Actually, I'm fairly keen to get a TC Electronic Corona chorus which is meant to have a stellar if not improved Dimension C effect & a tri-chorus. Putting some patches through that first before hitting the MK3 could lead to dangerous stereo vortex effect that might just swallow up the rest of your band members