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1 hour ago, EricBarker said:
there's a decent chance that Nord is going to bump up the line this year, and I'm just gonna fall apart if I've just bought a Stage3C
Not a snark but: why? Any keyboard is just as capable the day after its successor is announced as it was the day before the announcement. If the Stage 3 works for you (and - more to the point - you can afford it), then who cares what else is announced?
Cheers, Mike.
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29 minutes ago, Stokely said:
Now I'll need a hub I guess to get Setlist maker to be able to talk to two keyboards. Getting more "fiddly". But it's definitely going to be nice to send program changes from one spot, all in order to match the set list for the night.
Do either of your keyboards have a "THRU merge" function - where anything appearing at the MIDI in is merged to the MIDI out alongside anything played on the keyboard? That would save you the need for a hub.
Cheers, Mike.
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10 hours ago, Stokely said:
I'm considering getting a tabletop synth for instance (with the additional hassle that implies for live), while I could just use some very nice synths from my ipad. I mean, what the hell is the real difference? I reckon in a blind sound test I might not be able to tell a quality difference between (for example) a prophet rev 2 and Zeeon (my best ios poly synth). In fact, my drummer was oohing and aahing over my Zeeon subdivisions patch, he couldn't believe that sound was coming from an ipad! Do I need a knob with "cutoff" written on it so badly, vs one that I have to map from my hardware keyboard? Really wrestling with this lately.
If you have an iPad, and a softsynth you like, and a board that integrates really well with iPad, why not give the combinatin an airing at a couple of gigs? You'll quickly know if you need to change course and spend additional $$$ on a hardware module.
Cheers, Mike.
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All-Casio rig - and how good does that Privia look in blue!
Cheers, Mike.
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13 hours ago, Stokely said:
Very impressed with the app so far.
Yes it's a solid piece of software - reliable and versatile. Support from Arlo is good too. I'm happy to pass him $12 or whatever per year for the basic edition.
Cheers, Mike.
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15 hours ago, Paul Woodward said:
Pretty much what a modern iPad can do, without all the outputs of course.
I think there's still a degree of complexity with the software ecosystem around iPad - for this particular situation. As I posted a couple of years ago, MainStage for iPad would be a great offer from Apple. Plus if they want to subcontract/co-brand an audio/MIDI interface with USBC power delivery, they could charge a tidy markup on that.
Cheers, Mike.
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18 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:
I would expect the guitarist (assuming there is one) to play "Gilmour-ish", melodic and open, making good use of the notes and not going "outside". If they start shredding, they've blown it.
If you play more or less the first five notes of the solo you've got it well under control.
+1. If it's in the style of "Gilmour improvising" it's good. Same concept applies for many other iconic solos (Sultans of Swing, Peg...)
Cheers, Mike.
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Lovely instrument, but do try and lift it before you commit. I'm gigging a 36lb board and I would not want it a scintilla heavier.
Cheers, Mike.
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I can accept both sides. I love the excitement of an "of-the-moment" improvised solo, but also accept that a well-crafted line can be played as written. Case in point is Allan Holdsworth's guitar "feature" (written solo?) from Level 42's Lessons In Love.
Cheers, Mike.
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4 hours ago, Baggypants said:
Sounds like a chip sourcing or costing issue. Everyone and their cat needs a midi-usb chip, audio ones, not so much. Revise the board, save cost-per-unit.
+1. I would guess it's not a cost issue, but more about availability.
Cheers, Mike.
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5 hours ago, Baggypants said:
With the tea kettle if I was going stateside
A slow-Joe 110v type? Or did you get fancy and plug into the 220v tumble-dryer socket?
Cheers, Mike.
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3 hours ago, Tusker said:
For me, it goes to show that a single 88 with multi-zoning can enlarge a band mightily.
Props to you if you can do it - I could never pull that off. "Where's the split point again?" So I gig with a 149-key split-level rig, and for a simple two-sound split, I never forget where the split point is.
Cheers, Mike.
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Serious question: is there a word, not for sound rage, but for sound anxiety? I've posted before that I can get stressed by lots of simultaneous sounds at too-high volumes - guitar amps and drum kits, to take a couple of hypothetical examples. Which is why IEMs are so valuable to me.
Cheers, Mike.
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Check out Theo's earlier "You Could Be President" for some more intelligent, catchy songwriting:
Cheers, Mike.
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I would go K&M Spider stand. What's the controller keyboard?
Cheers, Mike.
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Great song, wonderful falsetto, and I love how the tag drops two beats at the end
But the piano keeps going when he stops playing at the start of verse 2 (1:28)?
Oh yeah, that was probably the dog.
Cheers, Mike.
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That's about right. He is fundamentally rock (70s classic, and 90s alternative), but has broad tastes, including classical and jazz. And his mission is to educate: theory, virtuosi, songwriting, etc.
Cheers, Mike.
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13 minutes ago, CyberGene said:
I guess his audience is non-classical oriented then?
Yup. He mentions this in his vid.
Cheers, Mike.
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I have travelled with a Yamaha CBX-K1XG in the past. 37 horrible mini-keys, full XG soundset, on-board 1w speakers (!), 5-pin MIDI (!).
I also took that to "domestic" rehearsals and jams, as well as acting as a backup "module" if my main keyboard failed but my controller survived.
Cheers, Mike
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6 hours ago, bill5 said:
I confess the first time I saw a Rick Beato video I hated the guy. He had some "best ever" list and it was IMO weak, in some ways absurdly so.
I since have changed my tune, even if I still think some of his "best" lists are off. The guy is extremely knowledgeable, talented, and as far as I can tell in his videos, personable. This of course has given him the opportunity to interview and hob-nob with many of the greats. Say maybe THAT'S why I hated him - pure petty jealousy!
Re the girl, eh, pfft, I am better than her. oops I mean I was until oh I'd guess she was about 3 months old.
I don't agree with Rick on several things - he has a habit of over-analysing things (no, the bassline in the verse of Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic is not "Lydian"). But the fact that a guitar player gets excited about theory AND classical music AND acknowledges the existence of keyboards is a plus. (Shout-out also to brother @KuruPrionz on this board, and others I've forgotten).
Cheers, Mike.
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4 hours ago, AnotherScott said:
or the Beatles "In My Life", you'd want a harpsi sound to play the sped-up piano break which sounds like a harpsi.
OT tangent but: any source of double-speed piano samples in case I need to cover that song?
Cheers, Mike
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10 hours ago, Synthaholic said:
That "Sweet" place just dropped $150 off of the DS76. It's now $999.00, and will probably do everything he wants.
Nice board, but actually more expensive than I had expected (I haven't been tracking prices on that board).
Thinking about it: for 90s sounds, why not buy a 90s keyboard? My default recommendation is Alesis QS x.1 or x.2 - sounds good, well-built, nice action, and they integrate well into a bigger rig. (I gigged a QS6.2 + weighted controller for many years).
Regards, Mike
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32 minutes ago, CowboyNQ said:
The Harpsichord calls -
Passions rise, plectrums brandished
The faithful respond.
This thread: meeting of
irresistable force and
immobile object
Cheers, Mike.
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3 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:
Good point. They've had it on XW-P1, WK-7600, MZX-500, so it's not like they have no foundation for it. They aren't first-rate organs, but they're better than nothing (and the somewhat competitive Juno DS88 and Kross 88 and MX88 have nothing), and as long as the 9 sliders can send MIDI cc, you always have the option of controlling VB3m or whatever.
Plus, as we've discussed in the past, it's not the organ, it's the leslie. And the PX5 can pan sounds L/R if I remember, which adds flexibility.
Cheers, Mike.
Thinking about using an iPad...
in The Keyboard Corner
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Just make sure you keep the original box, and it's easy to ship. Frankly Nord commands ridiculous secondhand prices, so you won't lose much.
Cheers, Mike.