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Sweetwater is cool, they’ll let me exchange the DS76 for the Fantom 07 when I get back. Pre-ordered.

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Of course they’d announce this a month after I bought a Juno DS76.... Anybody wanna buy it? Never gigged, just unpacked it and played it for a few minutes before I had to travel.

I ditched my NordPiano for a MODX8. Not loving the latter, not missing the former. I liked the Nord but it was just too limited.

They said the Ultra is the last of the M1's, so that would suggest the next Mac Pro will have an M2 or something. And yes, they did say another Mac Pro is coming, so...

Yes, that's what has kept me from going full on dual display. I figure you'd have to go to midfield monitoring, and that just won't work in my little room. With the way I'm set up now, anything larger than 28" would require a major rethink of my listening position.

Apple QWERTY+numpad = $199, I can't see any justification for that price. Apple trackpad is also insanely expensive at $149, but at least there you could say nothing else is as good.

I’m gonna want the M1Ultra, so $3999 is my point of entry. With 4TB we’re looking at $4999 (+tax). I want it, but I’ve been traveling so much I figure a MBP might be a more sensible option... But it’s gonna be one of those two when I get home.

There is a “lite” version, but it’s not sold separately, just a space saving option of the full version for people who don’t need all the toy stuff. That’s what I have on my laptop, just the core library (full version resides on my desktop). it’s not cheap, but I don’t think it’s overpriced for what it is. And it sounds like it is exactly what you need: piano, rhodes, wurly, clav and assorted vintage digital keys. I really love the MKS-20 in there. Here's a list of all the models they included: https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/keyscape/keyscape-models.php

Scarbee used to be my go-to, but its age shows. It sounds smaller and less detailed than Keyscape, which has not only the "LA" Rhodes but also classic and VV models. I mean, I still love Scarbee just as I love VILabs Ravenscroft, but sonically Keyscape is on another level, IMO.

Hmm, I assumed NI was a bigger company than Kawai, but I just learned they were bought last year, so I guess I was wrong.

Have had it for about a week now, not much time to really go in deep, but first impression is that the presets are a bit weak. You definitely need to tweak the knobs for this thing to come to life. I remember something similar from the original Nord Lead, the presets were kinda meh, but then a buddy programmer dialed in some sounds and baaam, it was killer. I like the build quality and layout, not hard to get around on, and thank God there is aftertouch. But I don't know if I'm enough of a synthesist for this.

Which Rhodes is that?

Rogue Amoeba also makes Loopback: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ Kind of like what Soundflower used to be, imo

Gracias, señor!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/raisin-bread/1552327686?i=1552327687 https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-my-dreams/1552327686?i=1552327689

Oh yeah, I'm sure they had good reasons to use it. Freddie said DSP can't be bypassed and adds ~6ms latency without phase correction. With the Linearizer engaged that would be between 10-18 ms depending on the model. Of course, you'd engage phase correction mostly during mixdown/mastering, when latency is not an issue. But you still have your Amphions which are all-analog, correct? So that would be a killer combination, classic and high tech. I have tried the computer-based Linearizer on my classic 05's and it makes a difference, it "dries up" the sound, but with noticeable latency on my system.

I have the HEDD Type 05's, first-gen, pretty happy with them, surprising LF extension for the size. The 7's were too big for my room. One thing I like about the first-gen is the all-analog signal path, I believe the Mk2's have DSP that can not be bypassed. Not to say that's bad, of course, just different.

Thanks! Of course, this happens the day after I deleted 16+ years of correspondence in order to send a direct message...

Like Eric, I loved being able to do stealth edits. But one thing that bugs me more is you can't jump to the last post in a thread from the main forum page without being logged in. Clicking it just brings you to the first post/page of the thread. Some other forums do this as well and it's a little irritating.

Really dig the tune and playing, but that underwater piano sound isn't doing it for me.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/individuality-can-i-be-me/725837852 I can't believe I missed this album when it first came out BITD, I can't stop listening to it. She's amazing, and this is easily her best work. First song of the album on her youtube, the rest is available there, too:

What, Carlo made a soundset for it? I'm gonna have to find out about that, is he still around here? I'll check out those Metlay vids. I've never been much of an analog-first guy, so that is not an issue at all. Thanks for your report, Dave!

How has it been for you? Strengths/weaknesses?

Took the plunge and ordered a Deluxe without ever having seen or played one, fingers crossed. Should arrive next Thursday.