Franz Schiller
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I love StaffPad. On the Facebook user group, I feel like people complain excessively; don't know why.
These new features are pretty kick butt. I haven't tried them, so don't know if they're glitchy or not, but the vision of this program is really great.
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With Yamaha, it's always the option that is most boring.
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16 minutes ago, ABECK said:
Maybe a $1500 price point would have generated more sales.
Agreed, I'd be interested if it was a bit cheaper. Same with Jupiter-X. Seems a bit expensive compared to say, a Novation Summit or Kurzweil PC4-7.
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I agree. I think Yamaha workstations sound great, but -when demoing at GC or whatever- as soon as I start digging into the menus, I feel lost. I'm a Kurzweil guy, so I'm not afraid of some deep menu diving, but Yamaha instruments are like using a Windows PC from 1997.
I've been curious about their CK and CP keyboards since they seem to be simplified.
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20 hours ago, BluMunk said:
... which reveals the truth behind any products' claims of being "industry standard". Changing products is expensive, requires new training and skills acquisition, can break backwards compatibility and access to legacy files, and can hinder interoperability with other professionals and shops.
Being an industry standard generally means you were there first, and/or won a marketing (or feature/reliability/quality) war at a time when there were no or few other competitors. It means the cost of changing outweighs potential benefits of using a new product (and those costs increase the longer something is the standard).
In my last job one of my responsibilities was to do very basic video editing for software demos. I was the only person doing this task, and there was never any need to go into old projects. I used Premiere for a long time, but on my (admittedly under-powered) laptop, I would have to deal with crashes a lot. I tried Resolve and didn't have those stability issues, and was able to switch on a dime. If I was in an even slightly more official department with multiple users, I probably could not have done so.To elaborate, back then we were using Final Cut Pro 7. Apple then came out with Final Cut Pro X, and it was a total redesign, that didn't make any sense to the way that NLE software had been, and I don't think it was even backward compatible. Apple's redesign was a total punch in the face to all devoted users, and so we all looked to jump ship.
Adobe, meanwhile, had adopted Premiere to be virtually identical to FCP. You could even use the same keyboard shortcuts. Adobe saw an opening in this event and went after it hard. And it worked! For us, the transition to Premiere was very seamless; we jokingly called it Final Cut Pro 8. And in fact, it was better in many ways. So switch to Premiere was a wise move for a lot of us editors.
Flash forward 10+ years, and Adobe has been resting on their laurels. Development these days is slow, and they are lackadaisical to improve performance. And yes, since it's bundled with our enterprise Adobe Cloud package, it's hard to sell the beancounters on buying a separate program.
This is the point where Blackmagic sees an opening and is now courting disaffected Premiere users with Resolve. And if I didn't have a huge legacy of projects to service, that would definitely be on the table for me as well.
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20 hours ago, Anderton said:
Interesting. Despite all the talk about Resolve, do you think Premiere is the "industry standard" for video editing?
In the world of corporate video, yes.
I say that because I exchange projects with many other agencies on a regular basis, and 95% of the time, it's Adobe Premiere. As mentioned, I've used a lot of freelancers, and they all use Premiere.
I've never yet encountered a project that was edited in Resolve, although it used to be that some folks used it for color correction, because it excels in that area. I know a lot of editors experiment with it, and use it for personal stuff, but I haven't seen serious adoption yet....although it's certainly possible that will happen in the future.
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13 hours ago, Nathanael_I said:
I switched to BlackMagic Resolve - brilliant software and so much faster. It makes much better use of graphics cards and CPU than Premiere. I find it far more intuitive. That said, you can do the same things in both. But I find color grading so much nicer in Resolve. The free version is amazing. I use the paid version to work with the Nikon RAW video up to 8k/60p.
Yeah I've tried Resolve out lately and it's very cool. Though 10 years ago, when we had to pick a platform, IIRC, Resolve was primarily a graphics only program, and it was not free.
Currently, I am the head of that video post production department. Switching away from Adobe Premiere would cause more problems than it solves. Firstly, we now have 10+ years of legacy projects all in Premiere; we go into archives a lot. Secondly, I frequently employ freelancers, all of whom use the Adobe suite. Thirdly, my agency regularly receives Premiere projects from other agencies, and we also share projects with other agencies. Since Premiere is ubiquitous, we can readily dive in. Finally, I'd probably have to actually purchase a commercial license, so I'd have to make a business case for purchasing Resolve for the guys on my team, and potentially other licenses for freelancers. It's kind of a can of worms.
Hypothetically, I could start using Resolve alongside Premiere, but since I share and delegate projects with editors and motion graphics artists on my team, all of them would also have to learn Resolve.
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58 minutes ago, Stokely said:
Way less than $300, 3 of the 4 singers in our band use Sennheiser e935s. These are great mics. The e835 isn't bad, these add more "air" and clarity to the sound. I noticed the difference right away when I upgraded.
I dislike the big proximity effect of the SM58, you won't get that with the e935 fair warning.
I've thought about getting a home studio mic, but my room needs treatment before I got say some really sensitive condenser, and my non-pro recordings sound more than fine with my gigging e935. If there is fault with the vocal track, it's far more the vocalist and not the mic
I totally agree about e935, I love that mic and have used it for a zillion different things; they sound great and have a nice open top end.
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FWIW, in my day job, I am a professional video editor and producer. I can testify that Avid editing systems were once dominant and have been declining for 20 years.
Back around 2012, the agency I work for decided to drop Final Cut Pro. I was tasked with trying out different non-linear editing platforms, and advising on the next one. I tried out Avid and I found it to be literally the worst. It was horrifically unintuitive; it didn't make any sense, and was very inflexible. I advised we adopt Adobe Premiere, which we did, like most of the post production houses in my arm of the industry.
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3 hours ago, Lou_NC said:
I see a few keyboards listed for sale on Reverb from a place called "Armen's Music Shop". From the pictures they appear to have quite an extensive inventory of used keyboards, not sure about new. If I were in NYC I would check them out myself. They're listed at 347 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018.
Lou
Last time I was at Armen's, there weren't really keyboards that you could...uh, actually play. They're mostly just in giant menacing stacks.
That said, I didn't ask if I could play any, mostly because it seems kind of impolite to ask to play a synth if you're not actually serious about really playing it. Moreover, I've always been reluctant about the instruments at Armen's because he keeps them all in giant menacing stacks and how is that to treat a valuable piece of gear!
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Maybe the new MPN store could sell dust covers? @Dave Bryce
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Hey there gang!
I'm also considering picking up a Key Largo to use with my iPad. Ideally, I'd like to use the KL as the interface for my iPad. I've read here in the threads that in works with a powered USB hub because it supplies the power –whereas the KL does not supply power.
So I'm wondering, what if it's used with the Apple Camera Connection kit, which would provide one port for USB, and the other lightning port for power?
Have any of you ever tried or had success with that?
Thanks!
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What's the "Video" output for???
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On 6/24/2023 at 5:40 PM, JimboKeys said:
You can also get ready-to-go Rubbermaid wooden shelves in black in 2ft, 3ft or 4ft lengths from Lowe's. No cutting (or painting !) needed if that size works for you.
I have used this solution too! They come in black and are ready to go.
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If the price is reasonable, I'm definitely interested. I love my original Wavestate.
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Moog was doing interesting things earlier on, like the guitar synth, and the Animoog app. But I think they missed an opportunity to make hybrids; so it would have been cool to have a hardware 5 voice Animoog with analog filters. Or even just regular digital oscillators with analog filters; could have been an affordable poly.
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Not sure if this is helpful, but I got this "pedalboard" case that fits my Korg WaveState great.
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That's the most amazing movie I have ever seen in my entire life. It's almost unwatchably good.
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22 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:
Whoa! Thanks a bunch ElmerJFudd! Much appreciated!
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Yeah that blows. Though like a lot of you fellas, I only use 2, but they're pretty unique. If I can replace them, I can go totally Waves free.
Do any of you gents know of a non-Waves plugin that's similar to Vocal Rider?
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I have both of those boxes plus the NanoBass, the NanoVerb, and even a PicoVerb (in storage currently). I sort of weirdly collected them. Of all of them, I think the NanoBass is the coolest and most useful and used it for many years.
These Alesis units have a certain "sound" to them; if you're into that aesthetic, then they're great. But-as you may know already- they're not readily programmable. So you really can't tweak them. You have to love them as they are.
If you end up going the iPad route, that will be far more flexible in terms of programming.
Fun fact about the Alesis Nano modules, the manuals were written by Freff.
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For folks that use the iPad with AUM or other "master" apps, how does it work when switching between songs? It seems like a drum machine app and everything would require going into a "files" pop up in several apps to change songs. Seems laborious, and time consuming between songs?
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I LOVE my WaveState. Before the WaveState, I had a Wavestation SR unit, the software, and the iOS. And they were all kind of nightmares to use. The Wavestate was a huge improvement in every capacity...filters, effects, interface, source sounds.
I think the Wavestate 61 was announced just before the pandemic in 2020, so I wonder if it's vaporware at this point?
However, if it's released I would probably be interested as long as the Wavestate 61 could do split easily.
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I used to play my organ through a Fender Custom Twin 15, which has a single 15 inch speaker in it. Sounded great, but yeah heavy as hell. I've also played synths through tube Fender guitar amps and –although it's lacks the full range of frequencies– still sounds pretty good, and it weirdly does seem to cut through in a rock band.
One option to try is the Tech21 Blonde pedal, which is an ANALOG model of Fender amps. Imperfect but sounds pretty darn good. I like the Blonde a lot.
In fact, it might be a better option, because you can have some bottom end you would lack in a real amp, and you can also turn it off if you need switch to a piano model.
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Options for bitimbral dual manual clonewheel?
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There's the Nord C1, Nord C2, and Nord C2d.
Those are all capable of 3 zones, the upper, lower, and lower bass (low 2 octaves). I have EXTENSIVE experience with this; I used to control a weird synth rig with a Nord C1 and then a C2.
The midi implementation isn't amazing, but it works.