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  1. zephonic
    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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    I think they almost always use more than just two mics.
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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?
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    Yeah, maybe. For a guy like me, though, a brand new VV73 under $5K would be a better bet than a fifty-year old beater that has been God knows where. I loved my Rhodes when I had it and I still miss it, but I could tell maintaining it would be a continuous expense. I sunk $1500 in refurbing it, and still little quirks popped up here and there.
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    If they manage to get a 73 in under $5K, it’s gonna crush the used market.
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    RIP Maestro
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    My buddy Norman has flown with the MODX6. In a bag, it’s about the size of a guitar, and I’m sure you have seen plenty of those being stowed on top of other bags in the overhead compartments. IME, flight attendants are usually helpful when it comes to musical instruments.
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    idk, I think pianos sound just fine on my 8030C’s.
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    IDK, that seems steep. I’d say at $399 a no-brainer, at $499 or $599 still an instant buy. Above that, I’m gonna have to think about it a bit more. I already have the MODX which is sonically identical to 1st-gen Montage. But I’m still doubtful there will be a stand-alone plugin. And if there is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they make it subscription-only.
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    idk, I have Gadget 2 and Triton (Extreme). Happy with them, but there’s nothing Kronos in there AFAICT
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    I don’t think Kronos has been virtualized yet? I wish!
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    I’m in a hotel in Europe and it looks like Roland has found a new growth market for their Zenology sub brand:
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    I have a Presonus set for the tv, two Eris 5’s with the Sub 8. When I move my home studio to a bigger room, I will get the Genelec 7350 sub to pair with my 8030’s. You miss a lot when you don’t have one, although I don’t feel it compromises mix decisions.
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    https://www.genelec.com You will know where that money went. My opinion here
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    Yeah, the D1 sounds are terrible, but frankly, it is more of a controller with some sounds thrown in as a bonus. I only use the internal sounds when -for example- I'm recording a singer and quickly need to give them the correct pitch for a note or something. It comes in handy for that. But trying to play it as an instrument is excruciating. But it is the nicest weighted action for $700 that I have come across.
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    I don’t get it, a Nautilus 88 is cheaper, has the same sounds and action, and waaay more. What is the added value here? The tube?
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    Hey Dave! I'm super-interested in Pianoverse, on the strength of the demos on their site, especially the ones by Montesanti. The YF sounds pretty amazing, but there is only one way to find out for real, of course. How does it compare to your other libraries?
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    I bought Pianoteq 8 Stage around Thanksgiving on the strength of the recommendations here (and elsewhere), but so far it’s not doing it for me. I love the customizability, though, and the UI is great. I’m not writing it off yet, and fire it up once in a while to see if anything has changed. After some wandering, I keep coming back to Keyscape. It’s not the easiest to play (from my D1 controller), you have to kind of adjust your playing to it, but in terms of sound quality I find it bigger and warmer than anything else.
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