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AnalogGuy1

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  1. I thought her cover was very beautiful, although could have been a bit more sparse. But I can't comment on her music at all.
  2. Are Kontakt, Massive, and FM8 finally fully scalable? There's no point in me looking at the offerings if I can't see the offerings...
  3. I hear you. I never played an instrument before I turned 40. Then I began lessons, and did not make the progress that I envisioned I would...I was learning too slowly, had trouble memorizing, my dynamics were uneven, my finger motion jerky, and I kept making mistakes randomly, so focused practice on a few sections wasn't possible. 1.5 years after beginning I began practicing with a guitarist. 6 months later s we added another guitarist and a drummer and (after having the first guitarist become a bassist) after 2 years I played my first gig. I was so nervous that at the end of the gig there were puddles of sweat on every key that I touched. I was the worst player of the group, but that was OK - they once were new too, so they chose songs that let me support them, with a few simple keyboard solos (e.g. "Just What I Needed" by The Cars") so I could safely shine. It took 10 gigs before I stopped feeling crazy nervous before the beginning of each gig. By the 20th gig, I started to really look forward to them. And by a hundred I had a good feeling of what I could and couldn't do; knowing both those boundaries helps. It sounds like you are doing fine. You have accepted that you'll make mistakes, you understand that in your band context that you can duck out as needed, and that you can be present when you want, and that you'll slowly improve with more experience. My suggestions: 1. Get a good recording of the band's performance from the audience's perspective. I bet that, when you listen to it, you'll find that you (as an individual) sounded a whole lot better than you thought you sounded, and that you look like you "belong" with the rest of more experienced musicians a whole lot more than you think you did when you're up on stage. After a dozen or so times of reviewing your performance, you'll accept that you sound and look as good as you actually do, and then you can start really having fun up there! 2. Keep a record of the date, place, setlist, and a couple of performance notes for each gig starting with your first. You'll appreciate that in many different ways in the future. 3. Some pregame jitters are normal. After 100 playouts, I still get them. It's part of what makes the experience thrilling, knowing that a trainwreck is always possible. I was lucky enough to experience a trainwreck around gig #10, and I thought it was my fault...until the most experienced member of the group apologized, our drummer, said it was his (and on reviewing the recording, it was.) If a guy with a literal Ph.D. in music theory & performance (albeit on a different instrument) can space out and screwup, that gave me permission that it was OK for me not to be perfect too. That came in just in time for me to royally screw up a bare solo around gig #20 (the ending of ELO's Lucky Man) and realize that very few people in drunk audience noticed or cared. It's OK if you do. At some point, everyone will. (FWIW, although I did not find pre-gig alcohol helped me personally, one of our guitarists definitely did, so that seems to be a personal thing. I found schlepping my heavy rig around during setup was enough of a workout to burn off some of that adrenaline.) Good luck and post back to let us know how it goes!
  4. Sounds amazing. Mind sharing what rackmount audio / midi / XLR interface you use?
  5. I've owned an SL-73. I found the action too heavy for my liking; replaced it with a Roland RD800. Pros of the Roland: * I love the action feel and the key feel * It has your MIDI 5 pin DIN connectors * It has a decent EP as well as AP sounds baked in, in case of catastrophic failure of your outboard gear * it's about as physically compact as you can make an 88, other than the A-88 Cons of the Roland: * Its MIDI-over-usb drivers are...problematic, at least on Windows. The installer hangs, it only recognizes the USB port that it was connected to when the drivers were installed...but for plain 5 pin DIN connectors, works a treat. * The slab itself weighs about 50lb, which gets old fast.
  6. I'm an electrical engineer, and I use gold solder because it is more thermally conductive than cheaper silver solder. Oh wait, no, it is a worse thermal conductor. Well, I use it because it is more electrically conductive than cheaper silver solder. Oh wait, no, it's way poorer at that too - worse than even copper. OK, well I use it because it doesn't oxidize! True, but that difference is only important for connectors that are exposed where they connect; why would it make a difference inside a soldered connection? Must be that the oxidation can deeply penetrate the joint. No, wait, that's not true either; oxidation of copper or silver is only a few microns thick before the patina sets up a barrier to further oxidation. But maybe a few percent difference in eventual electrical resistance increase matters? Well, no, because gold is only about 75% as good an electrical conductor as plain old copper, so electrical resistance is the reason for gold's use, it doesn't make sense at all. Maybe it's because the few percent of outer oxidation would mechanically reduce the joint strength? Umm...but gold's mechanical strength is terrible. So why would using gold, whose price is artificially high because of its history as a fungible money substitute (e.g. much higher than rarer metals such as palladium and rhodium) be important? Maybe because someone in marketing thought using a precious metal would make the product appear better than its bourgeoisie competitors that use materials actually suited to the design. I'm sure though that the rest of the design choices, like higher current digital supplies make perfect sense, because every bit more current you can supply to those digital system, the bit better they perform, right?
  7. Free Bird, Call Me the Breeze, Tuesday's Gone - Transcribed by Elmo Peeler Sweet Home Alabama - Shinko Music, Japan - Band Score Legendary American Rock Best
  8. My 2c: I see multiple problems: 1) The alignment of the hinge or squareness of the body or rigidity of the body is suspect. The halves don't seem to align well when the case is closed without the latches locked. 2) The chosen latch hardware appears poor. It looks like relatively inexpensive pressed sheet metal, which will only work well when everything aligns well - that's not likely the case with a lightweight case surrounding a heavy keyboard. It does have two short interlocking tongues, which will help if you pre-align things well, but it doesn't look as if they could take much lateral force when the case is being transported, even if you do get things to initially latch. It would be better with a system that pulls the sides together actively, rather than just maintains them together. 3) The screws used to attach the latch are definitely not what engineering specified. They're not the same as were used in the pictures that customer service shared with you. It's not clear from the photos that this is the only problem, but it is certain a problem. It makes me concerned what other deviances from the engineering drawings were made by manufacturing. My background is engineering prof, MIT doctorate, three startups. That gives me the experience to say I trust Jr. Deluxe's opinion 100x more than my own since he has the background to answer the questions you've asked as well as the questions you haven't. I wonder if the company needed to hire inexperienced workers to fill orders - it's crazy hard to hire in manufacturing right now.
  9. OMG - my department (at least in a split vote) decided to create mandatory elective courses too! I'm so glad it isn't just us. Misery loves company.
  10. I use Cantabile now; in general I've figured out how to use it well, but yes, many of those features have steep learning curves, and GP seems to have a simpler/faster workflow. Brad has been amazing about introducing powerful new features, but his architecture I really like GP's ability to design your own instrument/rack face, Two things I use in Cantabile all the time that would keep me from switching: 1) a built-in mp3 player that can a) save triggerable looped sections b) pitch-independent speed control (for practicing alone and rehearsals) 2) a built-in midi player that can do the above Does GP offer the same? If so, I'm going to seriously check it out.
  11. One other thought, if you are really new to using electronic keyboards vs. using a church's pipe organ and acoustic piano: do you have your speaker system sussed? Are you plugging into an existing church or hall acoustic system? Or are you assuming that any reasonable $2.5k keyboard would obviously include speakers?
  12. FWIW, I had the second vaccine a couple of weeks ago (I volunteer as an EMT...I'm up anyway). Yes, they tell you what vaccine you get - you get a little cardboard card. Mine was Moderna. No after effects from the first one. Second one felt fine during that day, next morning was up at 4AM with aches and went into work. Felt like crap until noon, then felt great. Until 5PM. Then achy again, chills, ran a 100F fever. Went to sleep early and woke up feeling 100%. I'm in my early 50's. My undergrad students who received their second shot all tell me they felt sleepy the second day, slept for 15 hours and woke up feeling great. To be young.
  13. 3 midi-over-usb powered inputs for up to 3 keyboards 1 usb connection for audio interface connection to your computer 2 sets of 1/4" stereo output jacks plus monitor send, each with independent volume control. I've used it for many years reliably; 2 controller keyboards go into it, my laptop communicates with it (it sends the midi to the laptop, and the laptop sends the digital audio data to it over just one USB cable), monitor speakers to the headphone jack, FOH connectors to the stereo output #1, and I don't touch the #2 jack. (Oh, and everything is mixed to mono in my computer )
  14. Sadly, the FB video is protected. I do not have the cojónes to attempt the Foreplay solo live. (Please, no TWSS anyone). Did you do the talkbox intro to Sweet Emotion? I've tried, and failed hard at that.
  15. Dan - respect with Foreplay/Longtime!
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