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17 hours ago, jazzpiano88 said:
Can you guys provide some color as to the negative implications of this difference? I've got both the M8X and M8 side by side here and don't detect the difference in the power supply,
I just dislike jimmy-rigged solutions like that, especially in a $4K flagship model.
I remember a long time ago I bought an audio PC for a studio I freelanced for, and opened it up only to find the builder had secured a hard drive to the chassis with gaffer tape because the bracket hadn't come in on time or something. It was perfectly secure as he pointed out when I called him out on it, but it shouldn't have happened.
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On 5/1/2024 at 6:04 AM, DmitryKo said:
Curiously, in place of an industrial PSU that was on the original Montage (CoSel LDC30F), this time they installed the Yamaha PA-500 - a brick-type external 24 V PSU for P-series digital pianos and PSR-E series home keyboards, complete with IEC C7 connector and IEC C8 plug on the cord. It's wrapped in a strip of protective foam material and held to the chassis with metal brackes.
The power switch has a built-in solenoid that can be engaged from the main board; this is part of EU regulations that mandate auto power-off, and the time of inactivity can be set on the Utility / Advanced screen.
Wow…just…wow…
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Thanks for sharing all this, DmitryKo. You’re awesome!
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51 minutes ago, Paul Woodward said:
My cynical self wonders if they will offer a Poly AT upgrade next like the Nautlius….
Except on the Nautilus 73. AT would make mine just about perfect! I can’t believe Korg decided to upgrade only the 61 and 88…
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24 minutes ago, JoJoB3 said:
Why are you not considering a well maintained vintage rhodes found anywhere from free to $6k? Location?
For the short time I had it, I absolutely loved my vintage 1977 Mk1 Stage, and I do miss it. Sold it because owning a 45-year old instrument requires the sort of maintenance and care that I just can’t commit to. Nir said it best: it’s like owning a classic car.
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Boils down to what you find more important: the extra octave or the extra sample memory.
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Not good...
From the way our local branch looks, I bet Guitar Center is on life support too...
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Freddy Mercury
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On the Gearslutz thread someone posted screenshots of a retailer’s site that had since been taken down, it was Fantom EX indeed.
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It’s all but guaranteed, since I just bought a Nautilus last week.
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Yeah, I was looking at that as a possible alternative to GP.
But I have little love for Steinberg.
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2 minutes ago, ProfD said:
Right. If that synth is a musician's instrumental voice, it's harder to replace.
Exactly.
In a weird way, I've been out of sorts ever since I retired my Fantom X7. I keep looking to get that vibe and sound back (not to mention aftertouch), never really succeeding. All subsequent keyboards have failed to give me that connection, including Roland's own.
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3 hours ago, ProfD said:
If you have 1 or more modern KBs, you have every synth sound covered. If you don’t believe it…look at your gig set-list. Put an asterisk beside every song that either none of your KBs will cover and/or that only a dedicated synth will do.
Agreed. Or at least it's close enough where it doesn't matter for anybody except the most discerning of purists.
Still, the same way no rompler plays and feels quite like an acoustic piano, Rhodes or B3, I can imagine that people intimately familiar with their classic synth are never going to be satisfied with any emulation.
For most gigs I don't really care, my romplers serve me just fine. But I do not like to play solos with their AP sounds.
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YouTube Premium does not have ads, which is great on iDevices or Roku. If you use a browser on your computer you can just use an ad blocker.
I got one year of Premium for free with my Google Fi plan. It's nice because now I can watch concerts on TV without having a loud-ass commercial interrupt the music at the most inopportune time.
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IME, mostly Youtube playlists these days. Makes sense, some folks on Spotify, others on Apple Music or Amazon, but everybody has Youtube.
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ForScore - on iPad, best for charts
iRealPro - on all platforms, 21st-century Jamie Aebershold, and convenient for quickly scratching out chord charts in a pinch
Metronome - both Phone and iPad, indispensable
LiveBPM - measures BPM's of whatever the phone mic picks up
MiniPianoLite - when you don't have a keyboard but quickly need to find a key of something that's playing on the radio or for a singer
VocalEase4U - awesome vocal coaching app by the great Arnold McCuller
I have many more, but those are the ones that see the most use.
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Total non-event in LA.
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If I could afford it, I would pay more for the VV over a classic Rhodes just to avoid the headache of owning a vintage instrument and all the maintenance and reliability issues that come with it.
But -$200 isn’t gonna make the difference for me, unfortunately.
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15 hours ago, Reezekeys said:
In theory... piano samples recorded in stereo using the "mid/side" technique should sound great in mono. There must be a reason that sample library producers don't use that method - maybe it doesn't work for close miking?
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For a while now I’ve felt Roland needed to fill the gap between the RD-88 and RD-2000. I didn’t think they’d need this, but I’m sure their market research told them otherwise.
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There is no limit to Rhodes emulations out there, no doubt. Ranging from serviceable to pretty great, and I use them all the time.
But in the short time I had a real Rhodes here, I came to understand that all the others are just that, emulations.
Something about the way it fills up the speaker, even in mono with no processing, it’s just super thick.
I don’t know if the VV does the same, though, but one can hope.
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Seems to me these two libraries are the same:
https://www.sampletekk.com/grand-pianos?product_id=256&sort=p.price&order=DESC
https://www.steinberg.net/vst-instruments/tbo-mkII/
But the Steinberg one is less than half the price. And I prefer the HalionSonic interface over Kontakt.
I'm actually somewhat interested in White Grand, if it's the same one that is in the Nords.
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Steinberg announced a new Halion piano by Sampletekk, which got me curious about their other offerings and turns out they have a ton.
If memory serves, they also do the Nord libraries, right?
Anybody here use one or more of their pianos? How would you rate them?
Rhodes Mk8 vs. Vintage Vibe Marquis: Roadtrip Edition
in The Keyboard Corner
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Do you have one?