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In Europe the soft case seems to be around 350 Euros. Maurizio

Native Instrument just wrote a mail telling that the latest update make all the product current products compatible with Catalina.

Oups, i just saw it; i usually check this forum before the Nord one

Try the Nord User forum: https://www.norduserforum.com/. If somebody knows, it is probably there :-> Maurizio

Just another bit of information: the real problem with porting applications to Catalina is not the 32 to 64 bit by itself. Writing portable code between 32 and 64 bit architecture is something that is part of best programming practices since the beginning of the 90s in C, Objective C and C++, and not an issue at all in higher level languages like Python or Java or Swift. The real problem here is that a number of old frameworks and APIs, declared obsolete a long time ago, but still supported in binaries up to Mojave, have been completely dropped and not ported to 64 bit. So, legacy code do not work anymore, and must be rewritten to use different modern frameworks; for this kind of code, this is vastly more expensive than just adjusting for 64 bits, it may be equivalent to rewrite the affected module. If you happens to have a lot of legacy code in your applications, there may be a lot of work to do to be Catalina compatible. Maurizio

I am sur he is. My problem is not with bashers, you usually reconise them and ignore the text. My problem is more (in general, not with respect to what Dr. Mac says) that sometime a report is built with too little data points and without the context; so it happens that a catastrophic problem is reported, like for exemple "all mails deleted by Catalina upgrade", but without reporting enough technical context to understand what is really going on and what the problem is; sometime the problem just do not exists (or it is bad communication, like the slowness of the first days after an upgrade). Anyway, to be honest, i stopped the rest of family from upgrading to Catalina, better wait a bit :-> Maurizio

I would be very careful on this kind of report, expecially with statements like "To be fair, I"ve also heard from a number of people who say their upgrade went smoothly and they"ve had no major issues with Catalina so far. But I suspect they are in the minority." There are many reports on problems on Catalina, but i really found difficult to dig in and to discover what the fuss is about; there is a very long thread on MacRumor forums, with a lot of complaint and ciritics. But i tried to get a grasp of what is really going on, i discovered that less than 5 posts on 10 pages spoke of first hand problems, and that many of them came from the usual misunderstanding; for exemple, every time Apple make a big update, there reports that the new system is very slow; the point here is that after a major update MacOS rebuild the search indexes, and launch photo analysis daemons, and other tasks, so the machine is usually slow for a couple of days because it is busy. Problems with mail have been reported, but again they seems related to indexes rebuilding, but without any hard evidence in a direction or another. You would expect a ma There is a lot of people that make a business on bashing Apple, so every little piece of noise is amplified and it is very difficult to evaluate reality; this is not to say that there are no problems, of course, just be careful when reading around. By the way, the article pointed by the link was written before the latest update. Anyway, music software incompatibilities give a lot of good reason to wait anyway :-> Maurizio

Arturia just annonced the V Collection 7.1 update, that between other things bring Catalina compatibility. My understanding is that VIs in the other version of the V collection are updated (i am right know updating my version 5). Maurizio

The VCS3 ? I think that strictly speaking may be included in the category, AFAIK, even if the original company do not exists anymore.

I recently to a 18880 (single tier) following suggestions in this forum, am i really, really happy. I live in Paris and use public transportation (metro) to go around; i finally can go to a gig alone, bringing both the NE5HP on my back and the 18880, and i can pass the metro ticket barrier without too many problems. OK, i concede that my use case is pretty unique (outside Paris . Maurizio

From Gearslutz: "RME Ensures Compatibility with New macOS Catalina RME"s drivers are all written in-house and not outsourced to third parties, so customers can use latest operating systems without interruption or delay Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 3, 2019 â RME, German manufacturer of premium interfaces, announced today that its interfaces are already compatible with the latest macOS Catalina 10.15.x which was released this month. Since RME drivers are written in-house and not outsourced to third party developers, RME"s users are able to update their firmware immediately and continue working without interruption or delay." Maurizio

Well, 15 or 18 years can be enough, at least in a Oak Barrel Maurizio

I agree, knobby, innovative digital synths are a really a few; personally, i have an OB-6 that completely fullfil my analogues needs :->. But i look with interest to toys like the Prophet X, or more the Quantum, looking for something different. For exemple, it would be about the time to build an hardware, knobby synth based on radical physical models, something like an hardware implementation of AAS software. May be the problem is that digital innovation is easier and less risky in the software instruments domain ? After all, what justify the existence of an hardware instrument if the exact algorithm can run on a laptop ? Maurizio

Well let make it simple: i'll leave up to the first forumer to pass in Paris to check if i can cook. Just write me a week before or so. And i hope you like italian food :-> Maurizio

I propose to start a thread on the Mac OS Catalina compatibility of various music software. The Catalina version of Mac OS seems very disruptive for the music software; as of today i received alerts from Ableton, Steinberg, Native Instruments, Presonus and Roli asking to staying on Mojave, clearly more alerts of what i got for Mojave. And then i know other software today is not yet compatible, like Sibelius (my old version 7), Nord software, and various other non musical things. I may be worth to track the evolution of the subject in a dedicated thread. What do you think ? Maurizio

Nice! How did you choose this Suzuki? I've got the Yamaha Pianica 37, and have been curious about other melodicas for a difference in tone and playability. I can play chords without running out of breath immediately, so it makes good use of my breath power, but its not the best keybed, it gets harder to play towards the fallboard. Tone wise I don't have anything to compare it to, I enjoy the sound thru a fair amount of reverb but not too much without it. Have considered getting one of the Hammonds that plug in to an amp. Mostly by reading all the available discussions on melodicaworld.com and listening Youtube recordings. I tried to find people really playing the instrument and not demoing it. I was initially oriented toward a Honer; being my first melodica, i wasn't even sure i was going to like playing it, so i first considered a reduce budget melodica; in demos i find the sound nice; but listening real music pieces, it is clear that phrasing is not as fluid as the Suzuki and Yamaha ones, more breath is needed to move from one note to another. The short list included the Pianica 37 and the Suzuki; i heard the songs i could find, Jazz and Tango oriented, and i finally decided on the Suzuki on the sound, more accordeon like; i find the Yamaha sound a bit too bright, like their upright pianos; but i know youtube recording could not correspond to reality. I am very happy with the Suzuki sound and playbility: i start to practice Jazz standards using iRealBook or play-alongs, and i was surprised by the realitive easyness of the transition from the piano to the melodica; ok, after the first half an hour i needed time to recover my breath, but the second time was easier. I mostly do solos or rythms patterns not many chords; keyboard seems fine, good response but fast. But again, this is my first melodica, i cannot really compare to others . Following some discussions on melodicaworld i bought a piezo K&K Big Shot mike; it is nice because not very sensible to feedback/larsen. I had different results with my AR8 home studio mixer (very *very* clunky, pickup the key noise very well), and with my live setup iRig Pro Duo, that for unknown reasons (input impedence ?) it a lot more forgiving and give a usable sound; i then use MainStage to put it thru a Replica XT delay and a ChromaVerb. Maurizio

A Suzuki M37C melodica. Gigged yesterday, with my Nord electro and a Roli seaboard block. It is great to play something so "physic". Learning to breath, forgotting the chords and just focus on the solo lines. Used a Mac for effects (delay, reverb). Maurizio

Spanish inquisition ?

Nord Lead. No, seriously, Clavia introduced new models for all the products but the NL4/NL A1; it is not clear if they want to continue the game, but if they do, it may happens this time (if they had time from all the bug fixing in the NS3). Maurizio

I am integrating a (or moving to) a MacBook Pro in my studio, and i decided to add Logic Pro X to my setup. I am *not* proposing to discuss if and why move to Logic from Cubase (the subject is a ), but i am asking, for those that either migrated already or use both Cubase and Logic, what are the important thing to keep in account for a Cubase old user when moving to Logic Pro. Suggestions ? Maurizio PS: just because somebody will want to know: i'll use the laptop in the studio but also travalling and commuting; i cannot afford to loose the eLicenser key in the Parisian metro, so this pushed me to explore Logic. Use of touchbar, better efficiency, better integration with mission control, the Cubase update costs, and plain curiosity are the other factor. I do not know if i'll quit Cubase yet.

Just a short message to say welcome to the new forum. I am a professional software guy, with a good background in computer science and computer architecture, and a past in computer music. Why this do not actually help you to know which f**g cable need to go in which connector, or exactly on which button you should click, it may be very helpful to have long useless conversation on the philosophy of technology and market evolutions :->. I'll stick around. Maurizio

I would say that is a step sideways, not a step forward. Better in some ways, not in others. On the down side, the move to USB means you lose the advantage of being able to plug any MIDI device directly into any other MIDI device you'd want it to communicate with (i.e. you now need a computer or similar mediating device in between). There is greater susceptibility to noise. The connections are less rugged/secure. I understand; i just wanted to say that once you have MIDI on USB and Audio in USB it would be natural to have also charging over USB, and an hub; i didn't wanted to advocate the use of USB in absolute terms

So it's kind of like wall warts, dedicate each one for its host, except worse because unlike most wall warts, all the USB-C implementations will properly fit if you try to use them in the wrong place! Also, what if you want to connect two devices that each came with their own USB-C cables. Do you use the one that came with device A or the one that came with device B? What about a device that has two USB-C ports, where something that functions on one of them doesn't function on the other? Then using the one that came with device A doesn't tell you which of the ports it has to plug into on device B. I admit, that's all devil's advocating, and it's not really so unworkable, but it does seem not quite as simple as "stick to the cable that came with your hardware." But I still wonder how much value there is to the added expense and *any* possible additional complication of using the wrong cable or the wrong port, just to save having to plug your laptop into AC, keeping in mind there still has to be AC nearby (since you still have to plug the keyboard in) and that, if need be, at least in some circumstances, there's still a fallback option of running the laptop off battery anyway. It could be an imperfect solution in search of an almost non-existent problem? OK; i admit, i was oversimplifying :->. Let's add this other rule: if the basic simple rule do not works, you need to know what you are doing :->. USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 cables are marked differently, so that is not a problem. But it is true that there are USB-C charging cable that are not good for data, or data cables that are not good for videos; and there are cable that can charge, but may be not at the power you require (a cable made for a phone may not be good for your laptop). But it is also true that there are cables that charge at 100W, and bring data and video; these cables are logically complete, and suitable for all the cases (AFAIK). So, there are not infinite combinations, and there are elegant solutions (that are a bit more expensive). Take one point in account: if you are already in a USB-C ecosystem, you know how to handle all this; as before you knew how to handle USB 1, 2 and 3, mini USB, micro USB and miniUSB 3, kind A and B. I also admit that we are not discussing a fundamental problem; just a nice to have (at least, for somebody). It seems the natural next step; first we dropped MIDI interface, and used USB. Then dropped the audio interface, and used the keyboard one using USB. It is logic to think to drop the charger, and use the keyboard powersupply, and to drop external USB hubs and bring it in the keyboard. A final rant (absolute not agasint you !!): i am pissed off about the bad press USB-C got: thanks to this bad press, i am forced to have (for example) two cables for my iPhone, one with USB-A and the other with USB-C, because i cannot buy a USB-C to USB-C hub; instead of embracing USB-C, the industry produced a number of tools and accessories to hide it, creating in the fact the problem that the press pretended that was there. In my opinion, good old USB is a lot more complex than USB-C; i have a whole drawer of all possible USB cables, to cope with all the possible situations; in the USB-C side, i need just a cable, or two. Maurizio

Frankly, bad exemple of FUD, only showing, in the best case, the incompetence of the author and its confusion. I have been using USB-C since the original MacBook 2015 came out, and it is not difficult: the rule is simple: stick to the cable that came with your hardware. To have a more complete knowledge: Basic rule 1: Thunderbolt and USB-C are *not* the same thing. This will change in the future. Basic rule 2: USB-C is USB. Anything you can connect to a USB-2 o USB-3 connector can be connected (with the proper cable/adapter) to a USB-C; no confusion here. Basic rule 3: there a number of things that you can do with USB-C that you cannot do with USB: charging a laptop, connecting a screen, or both. For things you cannot do with standard USB, an appropriate cable is needed. Basic rule 4: Thunderlbot 3 connectors (and only 3) are *also* USB-C connector, so rules 1, 2 and 3 apply. Basic rule 5: if you want to do things with Thunderbolt 3 that cannot be done with USB-C or USB, you need an appropriate cable. More synthetically: you have a backward compatible chain: Thunderbolt 3 => USB-C => USB. Old things works exactly in the way, no need to worry. New hardware needing new features come with the appropriate cable, so just stick to it to avoid problems. Maurizio

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. What cables are eliminated by adding USB-C to a keyboard? I'll make you an exemple: using USB-C power delivery USB-C displays with USB-C connection are able to charge your laptop (usually up to 60W, sometimes more), and provide between two and four USB-3 connectors, to use with keyboard/mouse and other stuff. Imagine a Yamaha MODX 8 with USB-C/PD and a couple of USB-A connected to the laptop: you do not need the power supply for the laptop (ok, you can trust the battery, but you know ...), and if you have additional accessories (like a second controller keyboard, or a Novation LaunchPad or some knob box) you can connect them directly to the keyboard; smaller cables, simple setup. Display manifacturer put this kind of add-on on 400/500$ products; while the economy is not at all the same, i imagine it should be possible within a reasonable cost. Maurizio