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    Any of you have this problem?

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    5 hours ago, TommyS said:

    yes.... this brings back the memories of when Greta Garbo and I  ended our engagement in the late 1950s.... a quite severe backlash absolutely!   A consolation is that today shes doing extremely well singing and playing bass/ keyboards for her band Greta Van Fleet........all's well that ends well.......

    Is your band Tommy McArmada still going?

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Keyboard choices for iPad: am I missing something?

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    1 hour ago, Baldwin Funster said:

    Any KB controller will work but you need a so called Apple camera kit to get USB A. I'm unaware of any midi controller that outputs via USB C. Plus an iPad with USB C needs  a audio adapter so you will need a USB hub and sound adapter.

    If you have a USB-C iPad, and a USB-B controller board, you can use a USB B-to-C cable. 

     

    I notice that Apple produce a USB C-to-A adapter (clonk) allowing you to use a "normal" B-to-A cable, but it shouldn't be necessary.

     

    Cheers, Mike

     

     

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    DRAWBAR HARDWARE MODULE FOR B-3X

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    2 hours ago, Barry Seelen said:

    I own a Hammond xm1. It would be awesome to use the drawbar set to control b3x for iPad. Anyone know if that’s  a possibility?

     

    2 hours ago, Baldwin Funster said:

    I'm pretty sure it's not possible. The xm1 doesn't send midi CC like a normal controller. 

    Presumably some kind of software re-mapper in between could fix that? 

     

    Regards, Mike.

    New Studiologic Numa X Piano

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    On 3/1/2024 at 4:17 PM, lele said:

    Would you recommend a switch to Numa X 88 for piano and organ sounds? Is the Fatar TP110 reasonably better than PHA-4 keybed?

     

    On 3/2/2024 at 1:09 AM, AnotherScott said:

    In hammer action boards for that usage, Yamaha YC73 would be my pick over either the RD88 or Numa PIano X.

    I remember discussion on how the original Nord Stage Hammer Action was better than most hammers for organ - (a large part of that was probably that Nord used high trigger for organ). If you can find a s/h Nord Stage Classic/EX that will provide the AP/EP/Organ that you asked about, plus some VA synth. 

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Fix for Viscount Legend stiff keys?

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    14 hours ago, Mitch Towne said:

    I’m the king of switching springs. Just ask my keyboard tech. He’s put a kid through college thanks to my obsessive nature. 

    Where do you get all those springs? Everyone mentions Syntaur (which is presumably why they're always out of stock...)

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    A.I. "Jazz"

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    10 hours ago, jazzpiano88 said:

    A neat little sound byte:  LLMs (chatGPT) can pass the Bar exam but it can't grasp the concepts of how to load a dishwasher

    Reminds me of something I heard about 10 years ago: computers can trade derivatives but they can't clean a toilet. Whose jobs are at risk?

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    Anthony Marinelli channel

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    4 hours ago, Thethirdapple said:

    Why aren’t there any foot faders as a control surface?

    A USB expression pedal would be a simple starting point for this project, combined with @konaboy Woody's idea. The "gap" is the software that maps it to the on-screen UI element. (If it could emulate a high-resolution mouse wheel, that would be a meaningful start). 

     

    Then we can all start complaining about the "action/feel" of the one pedal.

     

    Cheers, Mike

    How do you play outside?

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    2 hours ago, Baldwin Funster said:

    So here is a weird thing. Do you ever play stuff that used to sound outside but just doesn't anymore?

    It makes me wonder what it sounds like to a listener and if they get normalized to outside sounds too.

    I still remember, as a child, playing C-E-G-B and thinking how discordant it sounds. Now a Maj7 is an essential part of much of my output.

     

    Other examples include microtones/non-equal temperament, odd time signatures, and the aspect of rhythm being off-"true" (swing, Brazilian, Balkan, Viennese Waltz) - is there a good name for that last one?

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Numa Compact 2X through a Leslie

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    20 hours ago, Dave Number Four said:

    maybe I have my answer based on this video

    I expect lots of clones to sound great through a real Leslie. I bet the Yamaha CK61 would be awesome. 

     

    The challenge is if you need a "clone-plus", doing organ duties and other things. I believe the Numa and the CK61 both suffer from not being able to pan individual instruments L/R.

     

    Regards, Mike.

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    I'm not a classical pianist

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    15 hours ago, MathOfInsects said:

    I'm not sure if it's only an American term, but we call it, in the aggregate, European Art Music, or EAM.

    Never heard of that over on this side of the pond. I have heard "Western Art Music" or "Concert Hall Music" as (attempted) terms to describe the wider (four hundred years, not 70 years) corpus/tradition of this art form.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    Where does Hammond oil go?

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    21 minutes ago, Outkaster said:

    I didn't see where this thread got out of hand

    Nor me. Good-natured differences of opinion, based on legitimate experience, do not equal trolling. I feel Grey had made up his mind to check out before he started this thread. 

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    When the forum algorithm censors you......

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    1 hour ago, CyberGene said:

    The only edible food in the UK is the imported cuisine: curry, kebab, Chinese, French, Italian, Fish and Chips (Spanish jews introduced it there). The local stuff is something I only imagine being forced to eat when tortured

    Incorrect. A good roast for Sunday lunch is the stuff of the gods. 

     

    Although arguably everything is imported if you go back far enough. 

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    A.I. "Jazz"

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    I can see AI Jazz (at least a generative pre-trained form of it, incorporating some of the convolution-like feature detection I mentioned earlier) being able to achieve in the future what ChatGPT and the like can do today with natural language. It will be derivative, not innovative, but it will be passable.

     

    We are not there today.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    Numa Compact 2X through a Leslie

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    It's been said before that making a digital recreation of tonewheels is a solved problem. A digital recreation of a Leslie is where the competition is today. (That old Casio XW-P1 or whatever it was called sounded pretty legit through a Vent).

     

    Cheers, Mike.

    A.I. "Jazz"

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    18 minutes ago, CyberGene said:

    I hope this doesn’t get interpreted as disrespectful but IMO jazz is the easiest task for a proper generative model. Jazz is so formalized with all possible devices of improvisation, (re)harmonization, voicing and rhythm structures described and taught to death in any possible online or academia courses, that it’s actually a wonder to me why it hasn’t been done earlier. 

    I see a gulf between "traditional musicians" and AI specialists working on AI music. It seems to me that the AI types haven't got their head round what makes music what it is. I'll give a simple example: Avid (for some reason) introduced AI chord recognition in a recent version of Sibelius. It looks 60 bars back for context. Why 60? (64 would make more sense). 

     

    What's needed to achieve what CyberGene suggested is appropriate convolution/feature engineering that's aligned to musical (say Jazz) features: phrases, 2-5-1, tritone subs, bracketing/enclosures, voicings, choice of extensions, repetition a semitone away etc. An AI should be able to learn that a dominant chord built on a degree other than V often has a #11 - but it has to be presented with data in that form, that makes those features visible. 

     

    Next step after that is for the AI to learn these features itself (deep learning), given just the raw data in say MIDI format. This would be equivalent (in a very abstract way) to some of the convolutional "pre-processing" that's used in front of neural networks. 

     

    The recent example on AI "Jazz" had none of this "feature awareness". I would bet three digits of currency that the AI was trained on 100msec snippets of audio, and it's just shuffling those around, like a LLM (ScatGPT?)

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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    Your Longest Musical Relationship

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    Coming up 30 years with the guitarist/singer and bassist from my current band. Consistently working together.

     

    And close to 22 years (20 of those married) with the cute cellist my musical-theatre friend introduced me to after a difficult breakup.

     

    Cheers, Mike.

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