Bill W

My live rig is a single Kronos 61. There's no MIDI, but I use a Logidy UMI3 to trigger samples and that's connected via USB to the Kronos.

I play guitar and keys and I use those two switches to trigger samples with my foot when I'm doing things that tie up my hands, such as the vibraslap at the beginning of Crazy Train, the clapping in More Than a Feeling choruses, and that fast chromatic synth run in Take on Me as it heads back into a verse after the middle section. The Logidy comes with software that lets you set each of the 3 switches to notes or CC messages.

I use a single Kronos 61 and don't really touch most of the on-board controls outside of the pitch bend/mod lever. I use two foot switches - one for sustain and one to advance the set list slots. I have an expression pedal that controls overall volume so I can fade a couple of intros/endings in or out. I also have a 3 button Logidy UMI3 with the first two buttons set to C1 and D1 to trigger notes that are out of the range of the keyboard and the 3rd button controls Leslie speed for organ patches (the Logidy plugs into the back of the Kronos with a USB cable).

My main gig is a rock band focused in the 80s, but we also cover some 70s and 90s-now. I use a single Kronos 61 with lots of splits and layers.

I don't know whether your mini has an XD card slot, but I've relocated my Apple library to an XD card plugged into the side of my 2015 MBP and it works well.

I also had it done in both eyes. I had reading glasses for a few years before and my vision quickly got worse over the course of about a year due to the cataracts. I had Vivity lenses put in both eyes about two weeks apart and my vision is 20/20 again. I haven't needed the reading glasses since the surgery and should never need them again. Best of luck!

Most innovative recreation of a legendary hardware synth in software - Cherry Audio's Pro Soloist

I'm really hoping for a Pro Soloist too.

Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold on an Intel 286 PC.

Yeah, I've always left mine on too.

Yeah, I was going to say Dave Weiser is the authority on Kurzweil stuff. Kurzweil doesn't exactly support seamless switching between sounds and I don't think they claim to. It seems to work well enough with individual programs, but not in multis and not at all if you use the KB3 engine. AFAIK, only the Korg Kronos, Korg Nautilus, a couple of the Roland Fantoms, Yamaha Montage, and some Nords support that (and if you use the Fantom's organ engine, all bets are off).

This is sad - he was a monster talent. RIP.

Was Spectrasonics on-hand to sample it?

Same thing happened to mine. I found replacements on the Gator website but haven't ordered one yet.

Sowing the seeds of love is a masterpiece...definitely Beatles inspired. There is so much going on in this song. We just did a quarantine cover of it (in shameless plugs) and it took a lot of work...lol.