Jonathan Hughes

I would try the 3M spray contact adhesive. Spray a thin coat on each surface, let it dry, and then press the two surfaces together.

I'm planning on getting it, but so far have only listened to the demos. I used to own a Microwave II XT, which I very much regret selling, and when I heard the demos of the Microwave 1 VST, I thought "this sounds like a Waldorf", whereas any other wavetable synth I have does not. I don't know if that has to do with the specific wavetables or the AD conversion or what, but it I was very pleased to hear that sound again.

It's down to $199 at the amazon link at the top.

What's the make and model of what he currently has?

Sweetwater has the 8-voice for $2499! Wow! I bought mine from them for $1199 not that many years ago (maybe six or seven). Now's the time to buy a used one, because it looks like the used prices haven't caught up yet.

"I thought it only did that when you first run it as there is an option to ‘reanalyse’ afterwards" No. Many compressors and limiters have a lookahead feature so that they can make adjustments before they need to happen. I assume that the analyzing is just for the overall EQ and compressor settings, but the compressor still needs to be able to look ahead as you're playing the track.

The mastering assistant uses lookahead processing. Using any plugin that uses lookahead processing will give you a delay when playing from a keyboard.

I don't think the chef going around table to table is that common. Manager yes, chef no. Maybe I just don't go to fancy enough restaurants. But unless you know someone, I wouldn't do it. I'd be really uncomfortable and a bit annoyed if someone came to my table and I was forced to0 converse with them instead of whoever I was with.

SD cards are VERY slow. It may work, but it's definitely not the best option, Actual SSD drives are cheap these days, so just move all your samples there. Also, the program CleanMy Mac is great at freeing up space any deleting unused and unnecessary system files.

I don't know if this really sounds any different than any of the other synths currently available, but they definitely get bonus points for cool, interesting chords in the demo song.

It actually is. He also does one where he listens to a song by Animals as Leaders for the first time. Pianote has done a few others with other keyboard players. Their sister site, Drumeo, does a similar series where drummers listen to songs (without the drum track) they've never heard, and then come up with a part for it. It's entertaining and really interesting how they each go about the process. And they're often playing a song that's very outside the genre they're known for, so it's interesting seeing how they approach the song. They all end up coming up with something that would still totally work for the song, but the Jordan Rudess one is just a lot of fast notes with really awful/tacky synth patches.

I've sold the most things on reverb.com (including a bunch of things) and never had any issues with lowball offers, payment, or anything else, and most things have sold fast. Recently, I was surprised that their shipping rate for a fairly heavy rack mount unit was way lower than I expected. I've only sold one thing via the Sweetwater gear exchange, and then also went fine. I knew I was going to buy something from them, so I used the sale to get store credit. I've done craigslist in the past, but the likelihood of finding a buyer locally for a lot of stuff is slim, and it's also not worth having to deal with people in person.

Wow! That's great! Everything is genre-appropriate. I especially like the bossanova.

You've also said "I had two competent people try to help me with software without much luck." I'd like to suggest that these people aren't actually competent or qualified. We're almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century. None of this stuff is new technology. Like Reezekeys, I've been using computer-based instruments for over 20 years. (Whenever some mentions that something happened 20 years ago, it takes me a second to remember that that's the early 2000s and not the 1970s). These companies wouldn't be in business if no one was able to use their software. I don't have Ravenscroft, but the installers for all of these things are always straightforward. You either download the whole thing and then there's a few clicks to install it, or you do a few clicks to install it and then it downloads. You don't need to know "the inner workings of a computer" to install them. You're using a computer right now to post on this forum. You had to set up an account, and then use e-mail to verify your account. You probably do all sorts of other things on your computer every day. Maybe you're worried that you're going to "break" something and you need more confidence, but there are actual experts in this forum who can certainly help you out more than whoever you talked to. You do need an audio interface, though. The fact that you don't is most likely the source of your latency. Audio interfaces are cheap, will probably give you better sound quality than your headphone jack (especially if you're hooking up speakers), and will almost certainly solve your latency issue. It could very well be that you'd be better off sticking with hardware, but if you want to upgrade from the FP10, you certainly don't need to spend anywhere close to $4000.

I remember seeing John Denver on the Tonight Show in the 80s, and his keyboard player had a rack bei=hind him that was six feet tall, and I think it was mostly filled with Yamaha TX816s, so maybe John was slowly easing his way into making technopop.