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I thought that was the Japanese alphabet. 🙃

Cubasis has it (I own V2). It's on V3 now, but from screenshots the piano roll is there and it looks like it's better. You can export project to the desktop Cubase. I used it sporadically. There were bug reports when V3 came out, but the reviews are much better now. Steinberg seems to be active on user feedback.

Had about 12-18 months of lessons in those home organs from the 80s (my aunt had one). I followed the lesson plans (group lessons of 3 people so it wasn't particularly challenging). The two teachers I had were pretty cool and I wish I had put more energy into it. I think I was 13-14 at the time. After that, learned on my own when I got my first synth. The guitar player in the band had learned piano as a kid and actually helped me with a lot of the synth parts, as well as a friend who was classically trained (with whom I did a Jean Michel Jarre cover for a few months....) I wish I had videos of us playing. Started lessons again at 29, only did for six months as I got laid off and left the US, then started again at 30, and continued for 2 years until I relocated for a job.

Wow.. and I complain about the notation differences in Portuguese. This was interesting - thanks for the thorough explanation.

Great band! Got to see them in the late 80s, but not in the original formation unfortunately. Still amazing concert. In my teens it was one of my references of what keys could be in a rock band. A few years ago saw they re-released the live in Paris (1979) concert in Blu-ray and it sounds amazing, the band at its prime.

Had a similar problem with Soccer: When I lived in the US. I am a terrible player. People kept calling me to play thinking 'he's Brazilian, he's good at soccer'. Brazilians love to chit chat about soccer - I just don't care. People look at me suspiciously, like I root for a team that is doing terribly, or I'm just antisocial. I'm a pretty good ice skater - a very typical Brazilian, tropical place sport.

Excellent pictures guys. These would all like look great in the next vintage synth history book.

Is he the one playing on Last train to London? I like the keys on the track, the doubling of the bass and the solo on the CS80 (at least on the video...).

Was the rig in Mars? interesting looking location.

Wish I had more pics... A lot of my old photos are still are in my parents house and I'm long overdue to do organize and scan. 1st pic (B&W) - Freshman year in HS (1986). Korg Poly800. From the school's yearbook 2nd pic - Sophomore Year. Korg DS8 (1987). Check out the cool VanHalenesque logo. Found a pic from another concert had that had my super korg setup - Poly 800 / DW6000 / DW8000 (both not mine), but pic doesn't show much. Rest of HS wasn't playing in bands (studying my ass off in advanced programs to get a scholarship in the US - which worked), and then had pretty much a music hiatus through college, grad school, and first few years working.

Never owned but remembering playing one in the early 90s. I remember it was a huge bang for the buck, but the build quality seemed inferior to other offerings at the time. I do remember it sounding great and having features that only more expensive synths had.

A cool childhood memory is my older cousin (which is more a sister since we've always been so close) playing the Grease sound track over and over in her living room and dancing away so radiantly happy. RIP ONJ. Thanks for the memories.

I'm almost asking a friend in the US to get one and I'll pick it up in my next US trip.

This resonated a lot to me. I don't have the experience, knowledge, and energy at this point to really commit (Although I find sound creation fascinating) to learn anything new. My odyssey, which I bought as a challenge to learn and use a preset-less synth, gets less use that I would like. I was surprised with the review of the Behringer MonoPoly where the reviewer had to tweak a trimmer at the back of the synth to adjust the maximum filter cutoff, which made the synth sound much better. I wonder how many folks actually took the time to understand this, and if Behringer started shipping them adjusted differently.

Thank you! Interesting and useful summary. Although they only did two examples, it was interesting to see the much cheaper tools performing very well. I vaguely remember some kind of walkman like device in the 80s that claimed to separate different instruments, which had some physical sliders, but couldn't find anything in my google search. I'm probably getting different devices mixed up in my memory.

I don't think it's your case, since you mentioned the only other player with you will be the girl on violin on the classical piece (where there will be no accompaniment),but if you will have someone singing or playing another instrument, backing tracks may not work. My experience with most young string players is the timing is off, and I've had it both ways - better to just be fluid and do minor tempo changes, or have the track which forced them to stay in tempo, or they would be all over the place. Amateur singers will do all sorts of random things and you need to be ready. Oh, and I love the word quinceañera, we have this tradition here in Brazil but no word like this (some still call it debutant party, but most just say '15 year party' . My Spanish is very good for business and technical speak, but I am always learning something new in colloquial language. I manage folks in 5 different Spanish speaking countries in LA, and the regional differences throw a curve ball sometimes, often with hilarious or embarrassing results.

I find that there is space for minimalistic music, and I use that term pretty broadly. Whether it is background, 'focus music' (which people like studying too), ambient, soundtrack. While I don't care for a lot of his work, I've noticed it moves a lot of folks A LOT, it has gotten people to learn piano, and I think that is very cool. I dig artists that folks here in this forum have said 'they hate them with a passion'. I walked out of a Philip Glass concert in the 80s. Jazz festival in Rio in the 80s, had another artist that I wanted to see the same evening, but walked out in that segment and waited in the lobby. I'm currently in Rio-Brazil, and my 15 year old niece only listens to 'trap funk'. I can't stand it personally, and I find it extremely unmusical and annoying. But is is a predominant genre in this age group in Rio.

That's odd, my midi4+ is on the back (which apparently has been discontinued). The MOTUs only have DIN from what I remember. Iconnect is the only way I know of that uses these hybrid ones.

I was curious as well on the differences, I thought this summarized it well, other than the fact that the panel is much more streamlined in the Nautilus (less physical controls), but the synth engine seems to be exactly the same, which may be compensated partially by the better interface. Source - https://www.kronoshaven.com/featured/korg-kronos-repair-2/ Fully agree on the strange design.

Missed your show here in Sao Paulo some years back! Glad to see you're back here in August with Dream Theater, hope you come back with the solo show.

Thanks.. I was just going to post that. Did some digging, apparently it was the 'banjo' sound in that keyboard. How interesting! Apparently this keyboard made its way into reggae as well in the 80s with quite an impact. https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/628058-cyndi-lauper-shes-so-unusual-synths.html

Thank you! I still have a working MT-65, (which is also white), but couldn't find it in the search I did for MTs. Didn't recognize those buttons on the left, and remembered a yamaha from the same time having something like that That and The VL-1 are the most vintage pieces of gear I still own. Odd choice for a concert gear.

Had a nostalgia moment where I was looking for live videos of Cyndi Lauper's "Money Changes Everything" - I have a cool concert on DVD that I want to watch this weekend (which has a better live version than this one with David Rosenthal on keys). Keyboard on top of the Oberheim, reminds of the Casio MT's from the 80s, what is it? I did a print screen (3:49), but you can see it different points in the video as well, specially during the harmonica solo.

Are you still in Brazil? Korg support is abismal with Pride Music (Korg Representative). Roland is present here (no rep) and offers much better tech support from my experience.

Really sorry for your loss. My reaction to these situations is to try to honor the person in some way, reach out to those important to him in some way. I lost a old coworker last year (car accident) - found out through facebook. I went over and over on my head, and finally sent a message to his wife (which I hadn't met, we worked in different countries, but he came to Brazil several times). She was very thankful for my message, and mentioned a few things that made it clear that he had talked to her about me. I asked her permission to send pictures of us together to her daughter (6, another reason why it hit me as hard as it did) from one of his visits , she agreed, and her daughter sent me a really sweet note after that.