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    What is the next ‘big thing’ in keyboards?

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    20 hours ago, JamieT said:

    The Fatar TP/110 action gets some of the best reviews (a great balance of responsive hammer action without requiring too much weight), and yet it still isn't available in a single MIDI keyboard controller

    I'm hoping that StudioLogic will put it in a controller, to replace the SL Studio range. I'm also hopeful that Fatar will offer it to other manufacturers (Nord, Dexibell, Kurzweil possibly) to replace the TP/100 in those line-ups.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    PolyTonal/PolyHarmonic Magic Chord

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    I saw G-F-B/Ab-Bb-Eb and thought "that's classic altered dominant". But the additional E adds an extra colo(u)r. (If we're going to analyse, it implies #5 and nat13, rather than b13).

     

    2 hours ago, CyberGene said:

    the most common scale for 7b9 chords is the diminished (half-step-whole-step) scale:

     

    G Ab Bb B C# D E F

    Yes, and similarly the most common scale for 7b9b13 (and #11 and #9, etc.) chords is the altered scale (melodic minor starting a half-step above, in this case Ab melodic minor):

    G Ab Bb B* Db Eb F (*Cb I know)

     

    This chord kind of straddles both tonalities.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

     

     

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    What is the next ‘big thing’ in keyboards?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    1 hour ago, Paul Woodward said:

    Pretty sure they could get a 73 near to 10 kilos.

    I'd love that, but I don't think the RH3 goes "that light". While Casio, Yamaha and Kawai all have 12kg-ish hammer 88s in their portfolio, Korg have always been in the 18-20kg range. Even their 73-key SV1/2 and Grandstage are 17kg. 

     

    But in principle, I agree - more competition for Yamaha CP73/YC73 and Studiologic Numa X. (I'm excluding TP/100-based boards like the Electro HP because I detest that action). 

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    What is the next ‘big thing’ in keyboards?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    5 hours ago, CyberGene said:

    I wish Apple made a workstation 😀 Like: integrate Logic Pro, MainStage, iPad, Mac, AppStore and their expertise in making intuitive and usable products into a sleek keyboard with great touch and feel and some revolutionary stuff only Apple can do. 

    I kind of half agree. They should create MainStage for iPad, and partner with an established manufacturer like M-Audio to build controllers with a slot to hold the iPad, built-in USB audio interface (I notice that Korg has got the memo!), USB MIDI interface or USB hub for adding additional controller tiers, and power delivery to the iPad through the controller keyboard (as I've banged on about in the past). That kind of streamlined setup would make an iPad-based rig much more appealing in my opinion.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

     

     

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    Kronos 3 in November ?

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    20 hours ago, AnotherScott said:

    Meanwhile, I'd love to see them revisit and update what they did with the VL1

    Cannot. Upvote. Enough. This would work really well with poly-aftertouch and the kind of expressive keybeds we see on the Osmose.

     

    We've got enough sampling, VA and FM synthesis to see us through to the next millennium.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    Why Does This Smell like BS?

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    3 hours ago, ProfD said:

    Hopefully, it won't go down the drain as the younger generation of musicians are learning how to arrange using DAWs and watching YouTube tutorials.😎

    I suspect that arranging will play second fiddle to sound re-design or re-creation. After all the arrangement of many modern pop songs boils down to vi-IV-I-V and/or Reggaeton. But how to get that snarly swept-formant pad after the drop - we'll spend the next semester on that.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    alesis QS series

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    49 minutes ago, Bosendorphen said:

    I've been playing piano for almost 60 years and all kinds of sampled pianos and the QS pianos (in all their variations) sound remarkably good for being just 8 MB and 26 or so years old. They can be warm or bright depending on the patch (or mod wheel setting) and cut through the band and sit in a mix quite well. I preferred the QS piano to my old Kurzweil SP76 (which I've sold to our guitarist).  

    OT but the 1MB Ensoniq piano in the KS32 is remarkable.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Hammond M-Solo

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    15 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:

    Right... or failing that, if your board insists on responding to channel 6 with a sound, you could put a "silent" or muted sound there, on patches where you don't want the Hammond to trigger anything.

    Agree with everything you say. The MSolo can't transmit a program change, can it? You'd need to select the "silent"/muted patch separately on your host board.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Hammond M-Solo

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    +1 @Adan and @AnotherScott. There's a niche here, but it's priced at $999, not $1300. This is made for sitting on top of a stage piano at a blues gig or similar. If you want dual manuals, you'll buy a SK2/X or XK5 with XLK5. Or a Mojo, Viscount...

     

    Conversely, I think it's a shame that the MSolo can't act as a *controller*, to play a second voice of the stage piano it's currently sitting on. The kind of player who wants to add a Hammond to their single-board rig probably also wants two non-organ sounds simultaneously. Hammond have a good track record of building controller features into their clonewheels. Again, perhaps it's omitted here to differentiate their higher-end offerings - but it makes that niche look narrower and narrower.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Kronos 3 in November ?

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    It would be easy for Korg to put a newer processor and larger SSD in the Kronos, make some tweaks to the OS and launch it as the Kronos 3. But as Scott posted above, it's clear that they have abandoned that line for an alternative without  faders for an organ model.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    Leaked - new Korg controller with poly AT, MPE. MIDI 2.0 and audio interface

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    58 minutes ago, miden said:

    73 key option would have been nice.

    Yeah, no-one outside real musicians seems to want 73s. Controllers are marketed at the bedroom beatz kidz - hence lots of pads and lights, and DAW integration. I think only Studiologic make a 73 controller.

     

    However... keyboards with onboard sounds and 73 keys seem to be on the up. Of all the major manufacturers, only Casio* and Kawai don't have 73s/76s in their portfolio. That's a vast improvement on 10 years ago. Roland FA07, Yamaha MODX7, Korg Grandstage/SV2/Vox, Kurzweil PC4 and others, Hammond SK1/Pro... and many others.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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