GovernorSilver

Somebody else on the thread seems to think such a Roland workstation exists. I just assumed he was correct. I don't mind taking the heat from you over that, can't be worse than the heat outdoors right now.

There's always been some confusion over whether the Yamaha MODX series are true workstations or not. Do you want to be able to edit MIDI notes? Do you want to be able to loop a couple of bars of so that it will be easier to sequence drum parts? Do you want to be able to copy/paste data from track to track? If any of the above questions make sense to you, you should read this thread before buying a MODX, thinking it's a workstation. https://yamahamusicians.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11682

Next up, a reissue of the Casio pocket calculators http://www.openculture.com/2019/06/when-kraftwerk-issued-their-own-pocket-calculator-synthesizer.html [video:youtube]

I'm looking at this for my next iPad MIDI interface: https://www.esi-audio.com/products/m4uex/ A combined audio+MIDI interface is convenient for a lot of folks but I also want to get a Roland Go Mixer Pro for simultaneous video and audio recording, and there's no audio interface aggregation in IOS.

Dang, I didn't realize the Integra-7 is that slow at patch changes. I like the idea of selling the Integra-7 and using the money towards replacing it with the equivalent Roland workstation keyboard, unless the workstation is also slow as hell on patch changes.

Ooh I was there a couple of years ago. I had a Macbook Pro that lasted about 7 years. Towards the end the fan stopped working, then the headphone output, then finally a board failure. The idea of getting a Korg Kross workstation as a starter workstation sounds good to me. Looks like it has both a linear sequencer (210,000 MIDI events max) and a pattern sequencer (aka "step sequencer") so you can get a feel for both types. I'd have suggested a Squarp Pyramid as a contender for sequencing workhorse, but it seems like you need a keyboard? Pyramid supports both linear and pattern sequencing.

Bought a manual coffee grinder and InstantPot. That's pretty much it. Some of it will go to Noah's Ark animal sanctuary via the Amazon Smile program. There are indeed tons of music downloadable/streamable for free on Amazon Prime. Downloaded stuff by Charlie Parker, The Meters, Cornelius, Earth Wind & Fire, etc.

I agree. My current iPad MIDI interface is a Roland Duo Capture EX... which does not have MIDI Thru. Yet another reason to get an iRig MIDI 2. Then I can use my trusty Korg Monologue as both controller and sound source for sequencing, with the Thru jack on the iRig MIDI 2 controlling my Empress Zoia. The Zoia is marketed as a modular FX unit in a pedal, but one of its secrets is that it can also run up to 4-voice polyphonic synth patches, preferably controlled by MIDI, though its possible to set up the onboard buttons like a "keyboard" of sorts.

Looks like a fun movie to watch! I've seen the original Three Men and a Baby (Trois hommes et un couffin) - way funnier than the American remake btw - and Les Visiteurs (Jean Reno as a medieval knight transported to modern times). Could use more French comedies in my life [video:youtube]

They Live had some great lines. A favorite [video:youtube]

Hard to say. I used to think Blazing Saddles, Monty Python films, etc. set standards never to be equaled... until I saw Big Lebowski. The first half of Office Space is brilliant.

My Roland Duo Capture EX has served well as a combo audio interface + MIDI interface, but I've been thinking of getting a Roland Go Mixer Pro, which allows simultaneous video and audio recording when used with an iOS device. Thus I might get an iRig MIDI 2 myself, for MIDI duties. IOS apparently does not allow more than one audio interface to be used at a time - ie no aggregation like on desktop Macs and Macbooks.

I started learning how to use Xequence 2, one of the few linear sequencers available for IOS. Most IOS sequencers are pattern-oriented, and so don't work well with the "just record whatever I play until I press stop" workflow. UI and workflow looks quite nice so far. It has a resolution of 16384 PPQ. http://seven.systems/xequence2/en/why/

AUM is great. I found it easy to learn how to use.

Yes was the first band I thought of when I started reading this thread. I also just thought of Sun Ra Arkestra, which has been led by Marshall Allen since the passing of Sun Ra.

If you don't want a keyboard workstation like a Korg Kross, Kronos or whatever, then Pyramid might be worth a look. https://squarp.net/pyramid On the lower end of production units there's the Novation Circuit. Then there's the used market.

My then-roommate (now bandmate) turned me on to Fever Ray, and pointed out who sang the Vikings TV theme ("If I had a heart"). She also told me about Fever Ray's eccentric, to say the least, award acceptance speech. BTW, I had no idea Carrie Brownstein was contributing to NPR. Then again, I thought she was just a comedian on "Portlandia" - no idea of her place in rock history either: https://www.npr.org/sections/monitormix/2010/01/fever_rays_amazing_acceptance.html Youtube's algorithms for ads and recommendations are interesting. Apparently, it was a recommendation algorithm that turned "Plastic Love", an 80's "city pop" Japanese single, into a worldwide hit last year. When I first saw it on my Youtube feed, I thought it was because one of my J-pop loving friends did something. The singer, Mariya Takeuchi had never thought of marketing her music outside of Japan. For those who haven't already heard that tune, here it is. [video:youtube]

No wonder we get along whenever we see each other at MAKCH A lot of Police songs have multi-tracked guitars, so you guys could def. do 3-part guitar arrangements of those songs. Talking Heads of course had their expanded live lineup (Adrian Belew on 3rd guitar, Bernie Worrell on extra keys). Never could figure out what The Cars' Rick Ocasek was doing on rhythm guitar other than the clicking thing. If I was one of the 3 guitarists (and somehow forgot how to play keyboard) I'd be the one volunteering to reproduce synth/keyboard parts via effects pedals such as the EHX Mel9, EHX B9, etc.

I don't think Ellish's videos are any weirder than what I have seen from Animal Collective or Fever Ray. I've been to two Animal Collective shows and both concerts were packed with a mostly 20-something year old crowd. Particularly weird is as the band ages, the audience doesn't seem to age with them - more kids just join the ranks. Fever Ray is best known for the Vikings TV show opening theme. Both acts have been around for years before Billie Ellish

I'm digging the stuff so far. Today I was told by a grumpy older person that I'm wasting my time and should be spending all of it transcribing Bird instead. I laughed instead of giving him "the Bird" and went back to work

Talented player! Kind of reminds me of Preston Reed, who might have been the first acoustic guitarist to put out an instructional video on how to play simultaneous drum parts and guitar parts by a combo of tapping on the fingerboard and slapping the guitar body. Andy McKee is open about having studied Reed's video and of course developed his own excellent acoustic guitar technique and repertoire. Apparently the octave effect in my Boss Katana amp has 4 Range settings to achieve a similar polyphonic effect, Range 1 being "octave everywhere" up to Range 4 "limit as much as possible to E and A strings only".

I just heard that students either pay a $40/year membership or $10 per class to attend Barry's class. That is an insane deal to study this stuff with the man himself. I wonder if anyone here has done the class. Peeps who live in NYC are lucky. I'm nowhere near the level of you guys, so I'm contentedly plugging away at just playing his basic blues changes and rhythm changes exercise in time.

We've been discussing the "Things I learned from Barry Harris" channel on another forum, and somebody asked this: One of the answers invoked a Greek name. Anyway, I did some Googling as a result of his question and found this article: https://blog.uvm.edu/tgcleary/2014/04/14/what-is-this-scale-called-charlie-parker-barry-harris-and-the-minor-ii-v-progression/ Excerpt: The author is pianist Tom Cleary. As for me, I'm still working on executing Barry's blues scale exercise with good time, heh.

Thanks to this thread - and thank you btw to participants other than myself, heh - I did some searching around and found this video series, started by a student who began attending Barry's weekly class in 1993. I've found it very useful. Perhaps somebody else here may as well. If not, thats ok too. Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdKVro-7hS8cMjBrcqaAMQ Link to first episode: [video:youtube] Video that I found while searching for 5432: [video:youtube]

That would explain why he prefers to name certain scales "G7" and "C7" instead of "G Mixolydian" and "C Mixolydian". He seems focused on bebop era jazz and not so much into the modal jazz that came later. In any case, I'm trying out his stuff and seeing where it takes me. But why complicate a simple G7 with 1000+ year old Greek modes that in reality have little to do with be bop? Why do teachers do this... generation after generation? As far as going beyond mid 1950's.... Crawl, walk, jog, run, sprint. Are youa already a jogger? Can you play be bop like Barry? No, that's why I'm looking into his teachings. I wouldn't dream of telling Barry or anybody else sharing his method to switch to using Greek names - in case that wasn't made clear in my previous posts.