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Who Says You Can't Go Home - Bon Jovi, Jennifer Nettles Rock Steady - Bonnie Raitt, Bryan Adams Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss When You're Gone - Bryan Adams, Pamela Anderson It's Only Love - Bryan Adams, Tina Turner This Is What You Came For - Calvin Harris, Rihanna I Will Love You Still - Darius Rucker, Mallary Hope Love Without You - Darius Rucker, Sheryl Crow Tonight - David Bowie, Tina Turner When You Gonna Come Around - Dierks Bentley, Karen Fairchild That Old Flame - Don Henley, Martina McBride Bring it on Home to Me - Gavin DeGraw, Martina McBride Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson Lucky - Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat Happy Ending - Joe Jackson, Elaine Caswell Another Try - Josh Turner, Trisha Yearwood The Fighter - Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville Dress of Laces - Lyle Lovett, Jewel My Heart Is Open - Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani Diamond - Martina McBride, Keith Urban Run - Matt Nathanson, Jennifer Nettles Like I'm Gonna Lose You - Meghan Trainor, John Legend On My Own - Patti LaBelle, Michael McDonald This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) - Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush Photographs - Rihanna, will.i.am Please Read the Letter - Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Leather and Lace - Stevie Nicks, Don Henley Everything Has Changed - Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran Trying to Drive - Zac Brown, Aslyn

Nord Stage 2 used strictly as a MIDI controller... sheesh.

I try to practice as J Dan preaches, but on the rare occasion where I need something to learn from that might not be available via other means, I use Audacity. I got tired of the popups, ads, and malware risk with the dedicated utilities. Audacity can capture any audio that runs through your system, including YouTube audio.

I can't hold back any longer... mynameisdanno Bert the geologist

More cowbell!

I did a similar thing a couple of years ago-- bought a 2012 Mac Mini. These were the last models that were upgradable. Came with an i7 processor... I swapped in an SSD drive and replaced the stock 4GB with 16GB. Runs blazingly fast now for anything music-related I throw at it (actually, -anything- I throw at it).

This is really a clever design. They also have a pop-up line array model which looks potentially even more interesting. However, in digging deeper on their web site, their products -seem- more designed for voice amplification rather than music. Would love to be shown wrong about that.

Which begs the question... is this significantly different than how music was mixed for AM radio back in the day?

Didn't seem any worse than 90% of the pop music being generated these days. Sadly.

Just want to take the opportunity from a daily reader and occasional poster to thank Dave and crew for all the fantastic upgrades taking place. I've never enjoyed my visits to the forum as much as I have in the past month or so.

I echo the Motif suggestions... I've found pretty workable horn sections and stabs on my S90ES (which has the Motif sound set). Again, echoing a previous comment, I think a key aspect is pre-gig setup of splits. The Motif series has horns sampled with various articulations-- stabs and falls and such-- so you have to figure out ahead of time which songs use which and get everything set up on keyboard splits to you can hit what's needed for that particular song. I've also heard pretty good brass coming form the Kurzweils-- no first hand experience with them though. Also agree with the suggestion about not bothering with a breath controller. I have one and use one-- for solo brass lines where you want subtle articulation. When doing punchy stabs-- Motown stuff like the OP described-- I find it much less useful. As for whether to even attempt this in the first place-- I agree with those who said you absolutely should. As long as your expectations are realistic-- don't expect to do Tower of Power, Chicago, etc. where the horns are front and center in the song-- but for doing background stabs and fills I think it can work. Musicians (with their higher standards) may cringe at times, but your audience is probably going to love it.

I say that took some cojones... both for playing that piano in the first place and for the song selections.

If you decide to stick with traditional hardware, the various Motif racks are worth a look...

Stairway to Heaven is gonna kill at the end of that set... (IMHO of course)

In fitting with your retro-Yamaha rig, why an SPX-90 of course.

For me (Win 10, Chrome), if I'm reading a thread and click the Chrome bookmark to get back to the main forum page, all thread are then marked as read. Didn't work that way on the old forum... all thread remained marked unread until I actually read them.

Because they want to sell the CP88? Yes, of course you are right. I keep forgetting about the CP88 because it's got such a more complicated control surface than previous Yammy stage pianos.

I'm still baffled as to why Yamaha discontinued the CP4.

I'm very interested in these boards, but just became aware neither have 5-pin MIDI jacks. Is this correct? I've never owned a keyboard without'em... am I being too old-school thinking this is a serious omission for anything other than home use?

Shout out to ABC/ESPN for playing some Dr. John music in leadouts into commercials in last night's game. Well done.

5-string banjo tuning is an open G chord, and some people don't realize, unlike all other stringed instruments I'm aware of, the top string is the highest pitch-- G (above middle C). Tuning from top string down is: G (above middle C) D (below) G (below) B (below) D (above) The top string G is the characteristic banjo "drone" note which is usually not fretted during playing, so try to keep playing that no matter what other notes you play. To play in other keys, banjos are commonly capo'd, so adjust the drone note accordingly. Banjo rolls aren't too hard to get the hang of using two hands. Here's a common one (LH is below middle C, RH above): (LH) G B (RH) G D (LH) D B (RH) G D Then "fret" to a C chord: (LH) G C (RH) G E (LH) E C (RH) G E Good luck!

Two things: The iTunes you have isn't being taken away as far as I know. For the use you described, you should be able to continue to use it indefinitely (as will I). Or does iTunes have some tie into Apple HQ-- i.e. phoning home-- whereby Apple could choose to make it non-functional as a stand-alone application? There are numerous competitors that offer more or less the same set of features. I haven't look at them in some time, but they're out there. In addition, with the demise of iTunes, more are likely to enter the market.

I like iTunes as well. No, it's not perfect. And, a caveat, I use it strictly as a storage medium for CD's I've ripped in- I have purchased less than a handful of songs through the Apple store. But: It allows me to have all my music stored in one central location on my PC. It allows me to hook up my PC, via ethernet, to my main stereo system in my living room via an Apple Airport Express. It allows me to call up any song or playlist via my Android phone running a remote app to play back through said stereo. It allows me to seamlessly sync with an iPod Touch, automatically reducing the bit rate as it does, to carry most all of my tunes into the car or to the gym or wherever. Yes, I know Spotify and the like offers most of the same, but I have a system centered around iTunes that works for me and I'm comfortable with.

I got one just for the free iPad Pro...

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