CyberGene

I realize I'm not as old as I sometimes think I am, since when I read the title of this (old) thread, my first thought was Seal 😀 As a matter of fact, I've been listening to a Seal playlist for the last 30 minutes (I used to like him a lot in the past) based on reading the title of this thread and not actually opening it. I think I may have known that he only covered it but I forgot. Shame on me, but I have never heard the original. Just did now. Well, crucify me but actually not very different than Seal's one except for slightly more "obtrusive" Hammond and some dubious synth outro 😛

For me and the type of music I play live the perfect keyboard is a mix between Nord Stage, Yamaha YC and Numa X Piano. I like the direct interface of the YC with drawbar sliders and LED-s, encoder LED rings for many other functions. I also think the Yamaha sounds are the best: pianos, electric pianos, strings, pads, FM-sounds. But it would be great if it had a synth engine like the Nord Stage. And while it has a really good external 4-zone control, the flexibility and ease of use of the external MIDI zones on the Numa X is better.

@guzman yeah, exactly how I do too. But I’ve internalized them so much I don’t even think them anymore, I just play the proper scale.

It’s for the first time I learn that one of the most used (by me) scales is actually called “super locrian” 🤦🏻‍♂️ I always thought about it as the melodic minor that starts a semitone above the root of the corresponding 7alt chord…

I think I can play the intro to Nothing Else Matters, so I can also be called a guitarist, if nothing else matters 😀

You can’t go wrong with the Summit. I often regret selling my Peak. I was in a period when I thought it was wrong to buy equipment and I forced myself to sell it. But I miss it. However if I’m buying again I would definitely get a Summit instead for being two-part and having a keyboard.

He’s very honest and I’ve seen him also mentioning competing brands and models (to Kawai). And he himself uses a Nord Electro. I think many people will choose a good acoustic grand piano over any digital piano. And Yamaha may not be everyone’s dream pianos but I believe many people would agree they are at least good. Good enough to be better than a Kawai digital piano 🙂 BTW, that’s not a Kawai bashing. I’d prefer a modern Kawai acoustic piano over any Clavinova too.

No digital piano beats any semi-decent new acoustic piano, especially a Yamaha that provides a very consistent and expectable quality across their entire range. Stating otherwise really puts your credibility at doubt, at least in my eyes.

All digital pianos feel the same. There are slight differences to the touch and the piano sound but they are all too close to be worth it to upgrade from a P121. The only significant step is moving up to a hybrid digital piano. The NU1X is the cheapest possible option, although still a bit expensive. But once you play one, you will see why.

Sounds rather synthetic for solo piano but how about cutting through a band?

Yeah, sounds nasty, nasal and synthetic. I’m wondering if that’s a sample from Yamaha CP70 mixed with some acoustic piano sample or the guy just doesn’t know how to apply proper EQ and messed it up so badly.

Queen Love: Bohemian Rhapsody Like: Radio Ga Ga Hate: Bicycle Race

The one by @Al Quinn to me sounds like the most inventive one given the limitations 👏🏻 That being said, none is something I would want to listen again 😀

Indeed, I wrote about that in my review on another piano forum. The Numa X Piano 73 is probably the most compact 73-key hammer action piano there is. It's exactly the reason why I bought it since it fits EXACTLY in my car trunk and even 1cm longer would have been too much already! But I also re-discovered it for its excellent MIDI capabilities. I really think there's no better 73-key stage piano for price/performance ratio right now.

It runs on an iPad with a CPU that is a few light years ahead of what’s in that pedal and I don’t even know what that pedal is. Of course the iPad will be better sounding if the app developer took advantage of the powerful CPU.

It supports it for sure with their own optional triple pedal. So, the functionality is there. Whether it supports half-damper with any other regular half-damper pedal needs to be confirmed since there are many different specs and types, some use potentiometers, others need to be powered through the connector and use electronics inside.

Well, that’s Gerald Albright who’s one of the baddest badass sax players 😎 I also think starting off with him is a bit nerve inducing for the other soloists and no disrespect for them, they all do great but he’s just so uncompromising!

I’ve always wondered about treasures being sold by some clueless people for ridiculously low prices. Stolen items? Or a widow finally gets rid of her deceased husband’s “gadgets” 😀 P.S. This deserves a separate thread or can just be moved to a thread with humor and jokes but in February 2021 when I got Covid and since we were all too scared I made a list with all my music equipment and approximate price that I was ready to text to my wife in case I got worse 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ Luckily I got through Covid as a rather mild flu for a few days. And luckily I kept that list on my phone and never sent it or otherwise she would have seen the actual price of all that stuff at home she hates kicking around! 😬 I just noticed the list is so much out of date with many synths already sold and new keyboards added in the meanwhile… 😳

As a matter of fact hers is among the first I’ve heard although not the very first 😎 She’s a cool lady and I think her looks make some people underestimate her actual abilities. I’m pretty sure my first encounter with Pick up the Pieces is this one:

I can’t be useful here as a performer but I’ve listened to so many different versions by many talented bands and musicians (and I’m pretty sure it was pretty late when I discovered the original by AWB), so I really don’t care if it’s close to the authentic version. I only care if it’s funky enough 😎

I'm not sure if you mean the same thing but when I had a MODX, due to its rounded cross section (hence a lack of rectangular lower lip) it couldn't be used as a tilted upper keyboard because it would slide towards me and fall and I hated it immensely for that reason.

As previously opined by @ProfD in this or another thread, musicians are shifting towards Nord Stage or Yamaha YC/CP/CK types of instruments for live playing and DAW/plugins in the studio. How many people still buy complicated workstations?

It’s all part of the D7b9#9 chord. I’m intentionally not writing it as D7alt since the jazz version implies b13 (and lacks the pure 5th). If you write all the tones bass to treble: D F# A C Eb E# So, you already have the F# dim inside (enharmonic to D# dim you hear) To me it’s just a D7#9 chord with a voice leading from E# to Eb (#9 to b9). That’s a very jazzy stuff usually resolving to Gm7 but what’s really great here is it goes back to Em7. Aren’t Pink Floyd great!

Hmm, are you sure about that? The Eb to me is only a melody note above the D7#9 chord and it’s the b9 to that D7alt chord (as it is called in jazz).

For some weird reason (including not being a native English speaker myself), I've always read your name as "jeffingpa" skipping on a lot of letters and somehow internally interpreting it as two words "jeffing pa", or the papa of someone called Jeffing, or some slang that I don't understand, like Golfing Pa, but you're jeffing instead of golfing 🤣 It's only now that I realize there's been so many letters in your original nickname that I missed 😲 What a mind trick! I consider myself pretty good in finding typos since I am a software developer and sometimes support our product and am pretty used to spotting typos in usernames/URL-s that our users type. But I guess I was subconsciously trying to read your nickname as something humanly readable. On another news, the good news is even if you change your location again, it won't be another 8 years until you decide to reflect that in your nickname by swapping it with yet another unreadable cryptogram, so all is good 😀