[NAMM 2023 is in April, right?]

3 hours ago, The Piano Man said:

Roland will release something very underwhelming

"Ninth drawbar add-on kit for Fantom-0" would have made a great April Fool.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[How to get over a bad gig?]

I always tell my fellow musos, students, children etc. "if you haven't messed up, you're not a proper musician".

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Dumbest Thing Ever - Gig/Music Related]

I forgot my smart shoes, and spent the entire evening at a wedding gig in trainers, pretending I was the drummer.

 

Cheers, Mike.

 

 

[stage plot app recommendations?]

1 hour ago, Stokely said:

Stage Plot Designer

No horns?!

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Osmose keyboard]

8 hours ago, uhoh7 said:

Clavilatérale? (It's french, afterall) or Forte-Latérale?

I do like Clavitéral and Fortéral. "Clavier" is masculine so no trailing "e". (Forte is an Italian adjective, so has no intrinsic gender, not sure what to do with that one, but it looks more "real French" without the e)

 

Regard, Mike.

 

 

 

 

[Hammond Tease XK-4]

16 hours ago, Delaware Dave said:

could you assign aftertouch to the CC# that controls rotary speed?

16 hours ago, CEB said:

I had a KS-32 that did that.

Loved that feature on my KS32 as well. Didn't love the weight of the thing.

 

Cheers, Mike

[iPad as a serious musical instrument]

26 minutes ago, Stokely said:

If I was better at guitar that could be my fallback option  

Nah, that's boring. The sound of keys (AP, EP, Organ, synth ...) make any band more interesting. 

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Yamaha YC Operating system update Ver. 1.3]

2 hours ago, AnotherScott said:

So it'd kind of like "We give you six great Yamaha-made pianos! And oh yeah, this one other one, shhhh."

President's mom at her kid's inauguration: "You see that boy up there? His brother is a very successful doctor!"

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Why didn't someone design this gigging keyboard?]

2 hours ago, 16251 said:

The design feature IMHO that is not being exploited enough is having a flattop, so you can have a multikey set up without the need for a separate stand (or no stand if the it has its own legs.) The Viscount Legend would be at the top of my list if I had any need to play multikeys. 

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Online collaborations: Protocols and processes?]

One viewpoint is that they may hand over the raw tracks to a mix engineer (who is not a band member) who may well cut/mute many of the tracks. Yours or others. So give the mixer plenty of material to choose from.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Tom Schuman Interview]

6 hours ago, Steve Nathan said:

He'll keep making music from his new home in Barcelona

That's a lovely place to live. 

 

Cheers, Mike.

[an interesting development]

2 hours ago, JimboKeys said:

Something (no pun intended) i've been wondering about - how does YouTube pick out copyright-violating videos ?  If i post a video with the title "First song second set" instead of "I Saw Her Standing There cover" could it still end up flagged? I guess the question is whether they have some smart pattern recognition that recognizes the song by lyjrics and/or melody (could an instrumental be flagged ?) or is it just the title that gets their attention ?

 

-- Jimbo

Yeah there's an AI audio-matching algorithm. Sometimes it spots something, sometimes it lets a copyright violation through. I uploaded 5 tracks from my band DVD some years back - one was caught and I was offered the denometi[sz]e option - which I accepted. But the other four, not a peep.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Little Things: An Advice Thread]

1 hour ago, TommyRude said:

What if it was Lady Gaga?

 

Or Dwane Johnson?

I reckon Lady Gaga would know better. (No comment either way on Johnson)

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Prominent frontmen that are keyboardists]

7 minutes ago, Al Quinn said:

Annie Lennox

https://www.annielennox.com/royal-academy-music-awards-annie-lennox-honorary-doctorate-university-london/

 

"Annie Lennox studied flute, piano and harpsichord at the [Royal Academy of Music] from 1971". I had to look that up - I knew she was a flautist, and obviously keyboard skills are a part of any music college course, but I didn't know piano/harpsichord were part of her study. There's a sort of lineage from baroque counterpoint to early monophonic synthpop lines, I suppose.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[an interesting development]

16 hours ago, MathOfInsects said:

If you, Joe Nobody, wrote a song, and some other Joe Nobody started to make money off it while you didn't, that would feel wrong

I was going to write a multi-paragraph post that says what Josh manages to convey in a sentence. Again.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[I have finally made it]

18 hours ago, MathOfInsects said:

This one’s Robinson.

Well here's to you Robbie Robinson.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Nord Stage 4 Announced]

20 hours ago, Motif88 said:

I may have GAS…is it time to sell some gear again and try a Nord for the 1st time?

My hesitations include - the hassle of selling my gear, no audio interface and no XLR outs for a very expensive instrument.

 

 

At least the latter two drawbacks are easily rectified with external gear. It would be worse if "my hesitations include - crappy action".

 

We mentioned in another thread that XLRs without DI-style isolation risk damaging your instrument if phantom power is inadvertently applied, so a separate DI box is definitely a good idea.

 

I see a lot of softsynths in your sig, but running on a Mac Studio. Do you need/use softsynths live (and need an audio interface)?

 

Regards, Mike.

[iPad as a serious musical instrument]

1 hour ago, Ibarch said:

Sorry, got a bit rude in my post and was not respectful. The old "Apple only do it good and everyone else has compromised" comments pushes my buttons. I meant to say I politely disagree. And I take back the uninformed comment too. That hat should belong to me. 

This place has definitely changed. For the better.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[iPad as a serious musical instrument]

1 hour ago, D. Gauss said:

I use the newest ipad mini 6.  it's small, super powerful and just seems to work (camelot pro, vb3m, b3-x, korg module pro, ravenscrft piano, etc). HOWEVER, if it only had a damn headphone jack it would be THAT much better. Having to have a rats nest mini hub to just get audio out is asinine. Dumb ass apple bastards!

Precisely why I went for a s/h ipad mini 5.

 

Chees, Mike.

[Stand for Travel]

I can't make sense of that - it hurts my eyes! How does that become a keyboard stand?

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Whatever happened to Ultimate Apex stands?]

@Paul Woodward do you know anyone with a sewing machine? It strikes me as an easy "custom build"

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Little Things: An Advice Thread]

3 hours ago, EB5AGV said:

Don't let the audio guy scratch your gear by carelessly connecting the cables to it.

Find a good audio guy, give them regular repeat business and tip them. (Oh, and it's "sound engineer" if they're listening). 

 

We found a diamond who loves the band (people and music) and is a complete professional and a pleasure to work with. 

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Recommended Nord piano patches for jazz combo]

4 hours ago, obxa said:

The XL version of the Bright Yamaha works well because you can be subtractive and  pull the top end down to taste

This. It's much easier to dull the bright than to bright(en) the dull.

 

Cheers, Mike.

[Little Things: An Advice Thread]

3 hours ago, EricBarker said:

I’m often the most experienced, but not in Klezmer, not in psychedelic rock, not in Indie Art Pop, not in country singer songwriter

Yeah but put them together:

 

"Ladies-un-gennelmen, the undisputed godfather of neo-psycho-art-country-alt-Klezmer... Eric Barker!"

Cheers, Mike.

[Whatever happened to Ultimate Apex stands?]

It's a fan favourite at KC, that stand.

 

Cheers, Mike.