marczellm

You have to try the organs, see if you like them better than the reviewer did.

A well known Hungarian singer (with meaningful lyrics indeed, some religious references) told this story. "Guy comes up to me while I'm signing CDs and says: - Man I love your lyrics! They are full of meaning! It is so heartwarming to me that you believe in UFOs too!"

Another JP in the background? Two keyboardists? Tell me more!

This is where you can download a few user sounds for FA, and a user-made software to export single sounds. http://jp-80.com/fa/fa.html Regarding Axial sounds, there are the EXP sounds in the FA section that are basically the SRX cards - you can load two of those at a time, and then there are synth sounds in the Integra section, here's how to install them on the FA: http://lib.roland.co.jp/support/en/manuals/res/63079118/FA-06_08_Import_e01.pdf you can load several of them I think.

Thread's supposed to be about mediocrity, what makes it and how to escape. Toto and Kimball only an example.

1. The setting in which the videos were recorded is indeed very different. But I've seen Toto live on the same tour and it wasn't any worse than the DVD, their playing and energy is brilliant, and the FOH mix was better than anything I've heard. 2. I'm considering escaping mediocrity, that's why I started the thread

Other examples of can't-quite-put-my-finger-on-why mediocrity are the recent bunch of endorser videos on the Nord website. I intended to post this in a separate thread with the title "Mediocre musicians play Nord". Keyboardist playing a pad (and lead that is not discernible in the sequenced mix) but making a heavily concentrating face, while the camera is carefully positioned so that the drummer is not visible behind the singer: [video:youtube] And another band that doesn't know how to look (clothes, faces etc.), with the bassist hiding behind the horns: [video:youtube]

Which is funny given that he recorded it originally.

What makes musicians mediocre? What makes us immediately recognize mediocrity? See for example the difference between Toto's Rosanna live: [video:youtube] and the same song by Bobby Kimball and his band (from 1 minute onwards): [video:youtube] No one would say the guys in Kimball's band can't play the song, only they play it a little... different. Even if we generously ignore the keyboard solo. Why can we clearly see and hear after a few measures that this band is mediocre? Is their playing that bad? Or is their playing bad only when compared to Toto's playing which we are accustomed to? Is it the lack of a stylist? Tommy Denander (the main guitarist) being ridiculously fat for a frontman? Amplified by his clothing that makes him look almost like a hobo? Is it the facial expressions - or lack thereof - of the supporting musicians, clearly suggesting a gig for money with no soul? Is it the background curtain creating a wedding gig atmosphere? BTW Tommy Denander's Wikipedia article is so obviously self-written, you don't even have to look at the edit history. (Which assures you that it was.)

The one under the Casio CZ is a Roland JV, but what's the one under the JV? Also I would be greatly interested in the music you make with these!

These guys are freaking revolutionizing jazz and rock'n'roll.

"You Can Keep Your Head On" by Joe Cocker

Would you share the sheet music for those excerpts in some editable/importable format? MusicXML for example.

Oh damn, it seems that photos uploaded to Google Plus don't keep their URL. So here it is again, for posterity (I hate it when I browse older threads and the pics are not there): http://i.imgur.com/9tasgATl.jpg

I'm in the category of keyboardists you'd call "aspiring". This is me and my rig at a worship event:

Does anyone have audio examples of the Sounds of Summer 2014 Axial collection? Also, does anyone succeeded in tweaking the Leslie + overdrive effects so that it doesn't cut off the characteristic high scream that would be so necessary for rock organ playing?

What are the opinions on Peavey KB amps? I have the KB2. I don't have enough experience to judge their sound quality.

My name is Márton Marczell, I am 21 years old. I live in Hungary and study software engineering; this is the final semester of my BSc, but I'm planning to continue to MSc (however, that would mean an additional two year delay before I start any kind of serious music education, album recording and/or band founding, and I don't know if I can stand that.) My favourites are Beatles, ELP, Első Emelet* (80s Hungarian synthpop), After Crying (90s to now, Hungarian contemporary-progressive-symphonic-chamber-rock), Toto, recently Snarky Puppy... I'm currently playing in a jazz sextet and various local (mostly amateur) worship groups. Current gear: - Roland JUNO-G: main board for everything so far, still planning the upgrade... - Roland FP-5: this stays at home mostly - Roland PC-200mkII controller: when 61 keys are not enough - Roland E-36: sometimes I need built-in speakers - Walther melodica: mostly a toy - Peavey KB2 amp - Two old Proel stands: the 2-tier one is skewed Dream rig A: - Acoustic piano - Hammond B3 with Leslie - Fender Rhodes - Wurlitzer - Hohner Clavinet - Minimoog Voyager - Vintage analog polysynth such as Roland JX-10 or a modern one such as Prophet 08 - VA, for example KingKORG - Korg Kronos - Maybe a Roland FA-08 Dream rig B ("Prog Rig"): - Korg SV-1 - Hammond XK-3c - KingKORG - Kronos or FA-08 for rompled and layered sounds Dream rig C ("Synthpop Rig"): - Roland FA-08 - KingKORG Dream rig D: - Okay, I could probably put up with not having multiple keyboards on stage just for the visuals and do all of that on a Kronos Not-so-dream rig E ("Play old hits for money rig", should I ever): - Roland FA-08 * Any administrator here willing to fix handling of Hungarian accents?