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Methinks even more fun to shape the sound. I've never owned Pianoteq, but I remember trying out the demo a few years ago. I found the ability to alter/mangle/manipulate the sound really inspiring. It would certainly be my go to for any "hyper real" piano sounds. Otherwise a little hard to justify since I have several other high quality sampled pianos.

I have that (along with their German and Italian pianos, but American is my favorite). I'd love to add Pianoteq or Ravencroft, but it's kinda hard to justify because I really like True Keys American.

Those (ext CC) are global settings, set in the global menu, not combi settings.

Happy birthday Joe!

Drool. The VFX had the best french horns of any keyboard that I have ever played, including Kurzweil. I would caution that the VFX had an extremely high failure rate. When I worked music retail back in its day, I used to joke with the service tech that he should send Ensoniq a Christmas card for providing him so much work.

It's significantly better (but still not on par with today's offerings).

Truth. I used to have 2 Multimoogs and would pride myself at being able to play one while setting up the next sound on the other.

Multimoog. My first synth which I bought in 1979 and still have and use. Changed my life. I took it with me when I auditioned for my first road band. Wouldn't have gotten the gig without it. They wanted a keyboard player that could sing. I couldn't sing, but I knew they lacked a strong soloist, so I brought the Moog and wailed a bit. It's definitely showing its age but I still love that thing. Tom Rhea

Vintage synths, keys of 60s/70s, World, Asia, Session & both orchestral boards are all great.

I think it all boils down to love versus lust. If you love the craft of making music, you have a good shot of being happy. If you constantly lust after gear, you'll never be satisfied.

The one in Keyscape is very good, but it's a bit too compressed for me (as are most emulsions I've heard). I gigged with a CP-70B 6 nights a week in the early 80' s and mine never sounded like that.

I'm sure there are piles of cringeworthy stories behind that sentiment. And I'm also sure the rest of us would find them quite entertaining...

You have a 2600 in storage? Shame on you! Dust that puppy off and make some music with it already!

Over / under is pro standard I'm used to. Keeps the cables from getting kinked. Done right you can drop one end and the whole cable comes out untangled.

One unintended consequence that I'm sure Sweetwater has had to consider is that their return ratio is likely to increase, since noone except locals will be able to check out their gear before purchasing. Good for us, since they'll likely always have open box / b stock items available, but if SW ends up losing their butt because of it, then the relationship may not last.

The production studio I used to work for had 3 of those DM-80's when I started there in the late 90's. And a S-770 (with monitor). I brought in my maxed out ASR-10 rack, so between the 2 samplers I had 32 MB (NOT GB) of RAM!!! I hated those DM-80's. I had a VS-880 and thought it was much more intuitive. We couldn't move to a computer based DAW fast enough for me! I remember it taking about 7-8 seconds for the DM-80's, my Cakewalk computer (MIDI only) and the video deck to sync up with SMPTE. I don't miss those days, although I miss how often I got to write & produce jingles back then. Those boogers are much rarer these days (at least in my world).

I found that was happening to me when our kids were very young (they're grown and out of the house now). I started forcing myself to get up an hour or more before anyone else everyday. Still do it some 30 years later. If you can't find time, make time!

I think the fun factor and endless discovery of a monophonic, non-programmable analog synth can't be over-estimated. Case in point, a current thread by a veteran synth geek & fellow forumite posting about making fart noises with a minimoog.

I'm going to spring for a license for the macprovideo.com library. They have a special that's $72 until 1/7 that's hard to pass up. I'm also going to pickup 1, possibly 2 Kenton MIDI to CV converters for my Moogs. After that, I'm about 95% sure I'm going to have to have the Behringer 2600. I think I can foresee a lot of "Stranger Things" inspired tracks coming out of my studio in 2021, LOL.

I don't recall ever seeing him use one, although he used to have 2 minimoogs in his live rig. Tony Banks used one (replaced his Pro Soloist with one). I think he also used some type of basic programmer with it.

Funny... after I (jokingly) was horrified at your opinion of CTTE, I'm right there with you about Drama. I thought it was brilliant. Tormato, on the other hand, IMNSHO was a dreadful piece of crap. I really tried to like it because I was such a fan back then, but I failed miserably. Drama never got a fair shake in my view, probably because of Trevor Horn not being Anderson. I think he did a nice enough job of covering Anderson live, but unlike the later non Anderson Yes singers, he brought his own style to the band.... and I like what he & Downes brought to the band. I prefer stylists over cover artists.

I saw that on their site last night. I'm about ready to pull the trigger, but I'll reach out to my contact there first to see if he has an idea as to when they'll have them.

BLASPHEMY! Stone him, I say! Ban him from the forum and break the keys off his QWERTY keyboard!

There. Fixed it for ya. Okay, Relayer has its moments, but just as a single album, I would take sides 1 and 2 of Topographic over the 2 sides of Relayer. Minority opinion I suppose. Well, truth be told, I was just trying to be funny with my comment above. I do quite like sides 1&2 of Tales (especially side 1). I just can't get thru sides 3 or 4 without scratching my head and thinking "Really??? Dudes, wtf is this?"

There. Fixed it for ya.