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May 22

That's the first AI composition I've heard that "understands" the concept of form, repetition (riffs, motifs) etc.

Cheers, Mike.

May 20

3 hours ago, mcgoo said:

I have the shelf. I don't use it for gigs. I only use it when I do location Audio at a video shoot. I setup my field recorder, mixer and laptop (for log sheets) on it. It's a PITA to put on / off, so no way I want to use it on a Gig.

What do you use the bluetooth keyboard/trackpad on the left for?

Regards, Mike.

May 20

11 hours ago, J_tour said:

Bare minimum. It's easy for me to make a lead sheet with some chord symbols that the reader may or may not know how to voice. Somebody who wants to know? I'll show them....but they got to write it down themselves. As a courtesy? Equivalent of putting the changes on a bar napkin, same as you'd do for anybody curious.

Maximum? If the replacement is chill, then sure. That's assuming I wrote it down, or can remember it. Bear in mind I write anything by hand, in pretty good manuscript writing, with all the right conventions. If they're not chill, then, that's a burned bridge and I can live with that.

I got paid either way.

Nailed it. It's not even a burned bridge - you've done everything that you could reasonably be expected to do. "I hope this is helpful, but I appreciate that everyone has personal preferences on this kind of thing".

Cheers, Mike.

May 20

Kind of the bleak end of Yacht Rock. (And I don't mean that in a pejorative sense).

Cheers, Mike.

May 20

16 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

Was ist los in London? It should be 2.45 pound sterling.

The YC88 is available from a number of places at £2499. YML's £3698 is way off beam, presumably an error.

Cheers, Mike.

May 18

1 hour ago, kenheeter said:

Hi Michael,

The only suggestion I might make would be to turn the pedals around to allow cables to exit through the opening. That way you could place the top cover on without disconnecting. That could come in handy between sets or for changeovers with several acts.

Ken

Or make another cutout at the back of the case for cables. I would personally struggle with a "backwards" expression pedal.

Cheers, Mike.

May 18

56 minutes ago, counterpoint said:

Make the guitarist cover the horn parts...

Cool performance.

Cheers, Mike

May 18

Nice work - I love these kinds of projects.

Cheers, Mike.

May 16

6 hours ago, HammondDave said:

Three words…. weight, weight, weight.

I've weighted long enough!

Cheers, Mike.

May 16

11 hours ago, rugge78 said:

any of you playing with a double piece of gear? For example two fantoms or two Nord Electro?

I used to do Ensoniq SQ1 and KS32. Later Alesis QS7.1 and QS6.2

I "kind of" double-up now: Nord Stage + controller. I have one set of sounds on two playing surfaces.

Cheers, Mike.

May 15

12 hours ago, Anderton said:

That would have been cool, and WAY more appropriate because it would be about how the iPad CREATES cool stuff. That's better messaging, and if done right, would also have been able to get noticed.

I can't take credit for that idea, but it's interesting that it hits home for you, just as it does for me. iPad as "next-gen creator's workstation" is a powerful marketing message, even if the reality is that pro creators need a richer OS/user experience than iPad can currently offer.

Cheers, Mike.

May 14

45 minutes ago, Anderton said:

Well, I think there are perhaps two different reactions. There's the knee-jerk reaction to things being destroyed (not everyone liked Pete Townshend smashing guitars either) and maybe a taste of what you identify as "the fear that many people have about their jobs being replaced by AI."

The second backlash is more like mine - it's WTF marketing from a company normally known for classy marketing. I'm sure they wanted to get talked about, and they are...so give them props for that. But as I said, "it's thin and it does lots of things" is an ad that could apply to any iPad. There could have been other ways to do it, like having someone sitting in front of an older Mac that sucks all the things into it like a vacuum cleaner, and then something crushes the big, old computer and the scraps morph into an iPad. Or have a super-fast time lapse ad of someone using the iPad to take a picture of model, process it, work it into a flyer, create a soundtrack for an event, edit the video behind the presentation, and then capture it with the iPad - one thing that really does it all, but the ad shows that.

I'm not saying those are the two most brilliant ideas in advertising ever. Those are just off the top of my head while sitting in a hospital taking care of someone. I'm just saying that either one of those would have at least gotten the point across to me in a way that would make me say "wow, I could use that" as opposed to something that crushes stuff, which I don't really need.

As to cashing in on social media, I remember when Apple set trends, not followed them. Oh well.

Or have loads of creative things (records, instruments, paint...) leap out of an iPad - Apple's idea, in reverse.

Cheers, Mike.

May 14

11 hours ago, MathOfInsects said:

There is also another thread about Nothing. Now you have to undo the undone thread, which will create a black hole into which the rest of the board will collapse, leaving, you guessed it, _________ .

I'd like to buy an O please Chuck.

Cheers, Mike.

May 14

10 hours ago, MathOfInsects said:

By the way, completely OT but Luther Vandross sings BV's on that tune.

Did not know about either star on the Bowie track, so thank you (I knew Luther's work with Chic and others).

Cheers, Mike.

May 14

11 hours ago, lsj said:

it is an adapter that goes left and right out of the mixer to one input on the bose. this is just for home use as I quit playing out. two female out of the mixer, left and right, to one male into the bose.

Ok. Try just one connection in the mixer-right only, then left only. You might well find an improvement in what you’re hearing.

Regards Mike

May 13

So it's a V-Im movement, and your scale degrees "1-2-3-4-5-b6-b7-1" refer to the V chord? So it's a kind of V mixolydian b6, which is the 5th mode of the melodic minor of your IV chord. And of course the IVm-I movement is a classic (the "Christmas cadence" - it's all over that Mariah song).

OR

your scale degrees "1-2-3-4-5-b6-b7-1" refer to the I chord? The b6 and b7 here would be the b9 and #9 of the V, which hints at the dominant-diminished or altered-dominant scale, both of which are often used over dominant chords. (But the rest of the scale would be the regular old Mixolydian).

Cheers, Mike.

May 13

1 hour ago, lsj said:

out of my mixer with an adapter to the one input on the bose

What is this adapter? Are you connecting two outputs from the mixer to one input?

Cheers, Mike

May 12

I'm with @Mr -G- on this. The annoying aspects of a wallwart are:

1. Build quality. Low-voltage cables, plastic cases and barrel connectors are easily damaged - even with the strain relief things fitted to some keyboards. My early gigging career was characterised by regular failure/damage to external PSUs

2. Proprietariness (is that a word?) - each board needs a different PSU, so you need a spare of all of them. None of my gigging boards require a proprietary PSU, so I carry a single IEC spare cable. Much simpler.

3. Fixed cable length - difficult to extend. Some external PSUs have "lump-in-the-middle with a detachable high-voltage cable" design which alleviates this somewhat. I've velcro'ed such a PSU with a IEC connector to my Rolls PM351, which is not a million miles from what G is trying to achieve.

Cheers, Mike.

May 9

37 minutes ago, ProfD said:

It's been very common in Jazz.

Miles Davis cycled through many of the greatest musicians to ever play instruments.

Herbie Hancock still cycles through musicians.😎

Steely Dan famously cycled through musicians on a single album.

Cheers, Mike.

May 8

You need a scripting framework that allows you to persist ("remember") the note-on velocity, and apply it to the corresponding note-off. I don't know squat about these scripting tools, but that's your challenge right there.

Cheers, Mike

May 7

4 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

machine learning based reverb

What does this do that convolution doesn't? Does it learn the reverb by being trained on "real sounds with reverb on them" - kind of a like a deepfake reverb?

4 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

Standard 10th Gen iPad gets repriced at $349.

That's the right price for an entry-level iPad.

Cheers, Mike.

May 6

7 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:

This is why God created Velcro. 2 small squares, one in a convenient spot and the other on the egg. Easy, quick, cheap.

Yeah, something is stopping me sticking velcro to the eggs. I think it's because I can't get over the fact that a surface with positive curvature cannot align over a (greater-than-zero) area with a surface of zero curvature.

3 hours ago, Adam Burgess said:

Between the black keys of the bottom octave 😇

Until I need a thundering octave-Bb tremolando for Thunder Road!

Cheers, Mike.

May 6

I think Fractal’s products create a representation of circuit components in this way for their guitar modelling technology. But the idea of doing it by graphical analysis of a circuit diagram (“optical circuit recognition”) is innovative.

Cheers, Mike

May 6

On 5/4/2024 at 11:10 PM, Floyd Tatum said:

He should do a double career: one as a pop singer, the other as a jazz player. He seems to enjoy both, and he could make more money as a pop singer, probably. 🙂 I don't think anyone else has ever done that. Nat King Cole sort of did it, so did Ray Charles, but they were sort of jazz-pop singers

Patrice Rushen springs to mind.

Cheers, Mike

May 4

See the above thread for my latest purchase.

Cheers, Mike.

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