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Well, my wife is fully capable of overload a 16Gb max, by opening hundreds of Safari Tabs, Excel and Word documents and so on :). People using big orchestral sample library are always memory hungry, and consider 64Gb the bare minimum; for exemple, before leaving Composer Cloud i tried to run EW Opus Orchestrator on my 16Gb 2018 Intel macbook, and it was very quickly on his knees asking for merci. So, well, memory needs depends very heavily on what you do and how you do things. OS: As usual, last bugs on the latest version are being ironed out; there are still compatibility problems, more with the latest Mac OS (Monterey) than with the Apple Silicon; for exemple, only a part of the NI stuff is supported today on Monterey (even if the guy in the video says that in practice Kontakt works). So, as usual, the prudent user wait a bit before upgrading to the latest and greatest, but when you buy a new machine you get the latest OS, and you cannot go back to the previous one, so this factor should be considered to decide when to update hardware. Maurizio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyGdvIsv78&t=15s Maurizio

Oups, i stand corrected. I got confused by the Nied site, describing the keyboard as three part mulritimbral. I should have checked the details 😳 Thanks, Maurizio

Well, Dave posted this already, but as a local answer on a thread on an other subject. I think this merits its own thread: there is now a way to directly contribute to the Keyboard Corner/Music Player Network financial health, using Patreon. Here is the link: https://www.patreon.com/musicplayernetwork/ While this will not transform MPN in the new multi millions startup, it may helps with web hosting, themes, whatever .... So, i realised this place is one of the reason to have an Internet connection, so I decided to contribute, and to make the possibility more visible ... 😎 Have a nice weekend .. Maurizio

I am looking at the YC61 as a lighter alternative to the NE5HP: i am bringing my keyboard on my shoulder to gigs and rehersals, and i am not getting any younger, so the matter will be important sooner than i would like :). I wonder about a gig bag: the official Yamaha gig bag, other than being expensive, is apparently 3Kg, that for a 7Kg keyboard seems a lot. On paper the Nord 61 softbag have exactly the good size, weight a kg less, and is a lot cheaper; consider that i would you the bag to bring the keyboard around on my back, not on a car or a van or plane with a lot of other stuff. What the lucky YC61 owners use ? Maurizio PS; than there is the subject of moving from a weighted keyboard to a light one; tried the MODX61, and i hated it; the YC61 seems more usable ... but i am afraid to loose my (already scarse) piano chops ...

Just for information: Nord Electro 6 have two split points, the three sounds sources can play together layered or splitted. Nord Electro audio 5 and previous had two split points, and only two sound sources could play together. NE5 could have different midi channel assigned to the two splits, so you can use one split for external sounds, and one for internal sounds, for example; i think this changed or disappeared in the NE6, but i do not exactly (i still have my NE5). Maurizio

My 2022 Xmas list: 1) I just want a keyboard running Kontakt with a .m2 slot to put your SSD in, and enough knobs to have fun. 2) A 11Kg version of the Crumar Seven. Maurizio

Well, may be you made that up but .. i am gigging with a Nord Electro 5 HP, and i use a Nord Stage 2 at rehersals, and i do start to feel Nord/Electro ear fatique. I played around with a YC61, and the sound was refreshing, just because different ... but i usually play EP and pianos, very occasionally organs ... Maurizio

They say: "We were invited to the factory in Leeds, UK to test the new Rhodes and meet the team behind it." Maurizio

And since we are here, i have another question: it is true, you say (write) in the videos, who would want to use a Wavestate just to play simple sample based sound. But on the other side, i do not know any knobby sample based instrument that weight less than 3 kilos, and cost around 550 euros. So yes, i would also make sense (for me) for simpler sound ... so the question is how you find it restricted to sample playing ? Maurizio

Dr Mike, any early impression on the editor ? I found a youtube video, and it seems to solve the biggest wavestate problem for me (i know myself, i would *never* spend hours on the small screen to program anything more than a blip ...) Maurizio

After getting used to the Hyper-Super-Meta-Control modifiers, chord voicing are a piece of cake. Maurizio PS: OB Dave, yes, citing VMS put you in troubled water i am afraid

I cut my teeth on a VAX-11/780 myself. Me too, and a Symbolics 3600. Maurizio

I use APlle Music with good wifi speakers (KEF LSX), connected thru AirPlay; initially i used Qobuz, a French service specialised in lossless and high quality streaming, and moved to the cheaper Apple Music once they introduced lossless. And with this kind of speakers, lossless do make a difference (it took me 5 minutes to convince my wife, and she is not a musicians) Maurizio

My impression on the video is that the sound quality is very good for both, and that the real point is the playing experience (brain-hands-sound connection). Use of modelling and the new keybeds sound promising, but somebody needs really to try it . I asked around in Paris, and for the moment no mayor shop is going to have it, apparently the Numa compact series gave them the image of a low end player here :-< Maurizio

A persona no, but i while ago, looking at some concerts photo, i found myself boring. Wearing the same shirt i ware in the office. So i moved to a personalised look: http://www.barbogio.org/img/barbogio.jpeg The t shirt is home made, my wife made the drawing Maurizio

Ehm, this subject kept also my professional life busy this week (software security, or better, the lack of it, it what pay my salary every month). And finally i discovered that the real threat is the Minecraft server running at home on a Mac Mini, that i manage with my 15 years old son. Maurizio

I use a Novation SK mkIII; i used it with MainStage, Logic and Ableton Live (testing things) in the studio and in rehersal. I cannot say anything about being able to survive in a tour , but i am especially happy about the light scheme, each color correspond to a zone. If you use a consistent color scheme, it helps a lot knowing what you have and where the zone are. I personally use a color scheme for my compositions in Logic Pro (things like: red for the leads; green for pads or pad like sound; blue for piano and tuned percussion instruments, yellow for drums and percussions) so it was natural to adapt it to the SL, so you know where your sound ares. What i wasn't finally happy about is that at the end, controller, laptop, audio interface, laptop power adapter, cables, gig bag all together weight 11.5 Kg, that is a not a lot less then my NE5HP, and i was looking for a lightweight rig; but that is another story. Maurizio

These two; ok, even if they did not spunded so well

In the past i enjoyed working doing some music for videos/films: some short amateur movies, and even a real, professional, screened documentary (having a wife in the production helps getting gigs . I even tried participating to competitions (with mixed results) and making my own. So, point is actually that i am old enough to think it is time to make my own thing, but i am not a video artist; so, the idea should shift to 'making our own', if i find some body to build up a creative collective project. Not a video clip for my music, neither the music for a existing video project, but a common artistic project, built from scratch. Not being Hans Zimmer or Danny Elfman, i should probably look for students, or non-professional; and in the Internet world, no constraint on geographical location. Any suggestion on where to look ? Forums, school, even (god forbid) Facebook groups or other ? Maurizio

Well, i was seduced by the 8DIO black Friday sale; about to live EW Composer Cloud, i needed (ehm, wanted) other choirs and voices, so i bought Requiem Pro and Jennifer with a substantial discount, and got Insolidus as a present; i am happy. Times to write more music. Maurizio

Am i wrong or essentially multiple notes are analogically multiplied, giving essentially a ring modulator builtin the instrument ?

You see the small mountain on the top left, just on the sea ? Follow the coast after the mountain for around 10 Km and you'll find my family house Maurizio

psound.com ??? A.C. Sorry, i should have checked the url; try :THIS. He publish sound libraries, notably accordeons, musette and bandneon and other stuff Maurizio

By the way, the guy talking in the superbooth videos, Paolo Principi, is the guy behind psound.com, that somebody here know well . Maurizio