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Not too interested in a DX-X though.
Cheers, Mike
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11 minutes ago, Moonglow said:
FTW.
Cheers, Mike.
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On 6/22/2022 at 2:34 AM, miden said:
$4k down here
Yep, that's unfortunately how it works.
Cheers, Mike.
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Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together.
Who was it who said “Let’s Stay Together” is the basically same song as “Try A Little Tenderness” - they both represent an orgasm via the medium of music. The difference is that Al Green buys her dinner first…
Cheers, Mike
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1 hour ago, Still VanDerGraaf said:
They were great machines weren't they.
Very interested to see the UK price for this. Hopefully not just the usual straight $ to £ translation.
I'm guessing they'll take the opportunity to price it at a nice round £1999.99.
Cheers, Mike.
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They've got a lot right: aftertouch / sustain, switch and expression pedals / internal PSU / aux outputs / audio inputs - and do the USB type-A sockets operate in host mode, allowing USB devices to connect?
Cheers, Mike
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I wonder if Guido/Crumar are tempted to create a Nord-style stage keyboard with both piano/EP and Organ sections? It doesn’t have to be based on the Gemini.
Cheers, Mike
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1 hour ago, kenheeter said:
I just have to say that the TP100 action on the Seven feels and responds exactly how I want it to. I gigged with a Rhodes Stage 73 for decades and the Seven seems just right to me.
I recall that Crumar announced they selected the TP100 not for reasons of travel weight, but because it was closest to the Rhodes action. Makes sense for the Seven.
If the Seventeen is meant to be more "acoustic piano", and less "Rhodes/Wurly", the justification for the TP100 is not as strong. I write as someone who has never found a TP100 installation I could get on with.
Cheers, Mike.
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4 hours ago, AnotherScott said:
You mean excluding the lid? Unlike the Seven, the lid is not included. I guessed he'd keep the lid, but I think it's fine without it, especially if it helps get the price down.
I was actually assuming that the weight listed excluded the lid AND excluded the lower part of the case. Even half a case is going to add weight.
The quoted weight is very low: competitive with the Electro HP range, and the Electros aren't carrying several feet of (I assume) plywood on their underside.
Cheers, Mike.
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2 hours ago, Garubi said:
12kg/26.5lbs - presumably that's excluding its case?
Cheers, Mike
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I've come to the conclusion that it's actually four questions you have to ask before accepting a gig:
1. Pay
2. Address
3. Dress Code
4. E or Eb for Superstition?
If Eb, chances are I'm playing riff A, and guitar will do a scratch James Brown thing. If E, then inevitably guitar's playing the main riff. I've recently shedded "clav B + horns" to complement, because this situation seems to arise with remarkable regularity.
@CEBEd, give yourself an hour on this, in the woodshed, with the metronome, before deciding you suck. You may be surprised by what that can achieve - I was.
Cheers, Mike.
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19 minutes ago, GianfrixMG said:
I would like not to depend on the MODX, as I'm not always using it and setting everything up takes a lot of time. For this reason I was researching on how to perform the few parts I do on my custom processor. Problem is that I would have to balance the sound myself, considering that I would also have to balance it with the other keyboard player in the band. That could easily get messy. The only other solution would be going mono.
The PM351 sounds very nice actually! I don't know though if I would be able to successfully connect a line signal to the mic input as it seems like the inputs don't have input gain settings.
DI Box? Or connect a line signal to the instrument input.
Cheers, Mike.
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3 hours ago, Stokely said:
My sweet spot is currently around 32" with 2k resolution. 2k is absurdly cheap and looks great to me. I don't like multiple monitors. I have the thing on a relatively cheap arm so I can swing it around, back and forth like I'm in minority report (well, sorta.)
Me again - agreeing again. I have a 4k 32in, running at 150% magnification (so the equivalent of 1440p real estate). Text looks a little smoother, but I don't think I'm really benefiting from 4k. Also on an arm to free up desk real estate.
Cheers, Mike.
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50 minutes ago, Stokely said:
That said, our bass player plays in several bands so he has worked out his no-amp in-ears solution so that it doesn't matter which band, mixer or sound company he uses. As long as they can send him an unpowered monitor feed he is good. He's also using a Rolls to accomplish this, mixing his direct bass sound in with the FOH monitor mix.
This is exactly what I do. "Can you give me a send off the desk?" / "Either, XLR or jack" and I'm good.
@GianfrixMG If you want a solution that's independent of the band: I would potentially plug the vocal processor into the aux input on the MODX. Then get a Rolls PM351, plug the MODX into the instrument input, your vocal mic into the mic input, and a send from the FOH desk into the monitor input. The nice thing about the PM351 is you get "thru" outputs for mic and instrument that you can send onto the desk and PA. You'll have to balance the MODX and the FX processor yourself, as FOH will get a combination of the two.
But that's the best solution I can think of, other than the band investing in a FOH mixer with a monitor send they can dedicate to you.
Cheers, Mike.
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Or use a mic splitter: one side of the split goes to FOH, one to your personal mixer.
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Do I remember a post here that said the TS310s are the sweet spot of the range, beating the 308 and 312?
Cheers, Mike.
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No 5-pin MIDI is a fail. Plenty of other boards make the same mistake.
Cheers, Mike.
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11 hours ago, Stokely said:
On paper that Numa Compact would be great, I personally wish it wasn't 88. Or at the least, it would be great if they offered several sizes of it.
Agree. This board wiould be a natural for a 7x-key form factor.
Cheers, Mike.
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There's demand in the education market for a large-screen value-oriented iPad (so not Pro, not Air) with a headphone jack. Screen size growth may enable that option.
Cheers, Mike.
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2 hours ago, HammondDave said:
I may just have to buy an inexpensive 88 key controller (since 73’s are rare).
It sounds like you're looking for a 73-key unweighted controller to use with your iPad. I didn't think such a thing existed since CME cancelled their one, but I did find this:
https://www.worlde.com.cn/products_44/47.html
I know nothing about it, including: I don't know how much it costs, or where to buy it. But it might be relevant.
Otherwise if you can stretch to a Numa Compact 2X, you've got 88 quality unweighted keys and 9 faders, plus one-cable USB MIDI+USB Audio to your iPad.
Cheers, Mike.
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A 73-hammer with a flat-top should be an immediate sale to me. But weight and action is important.
If you can't remove the underside "case" bit, and the top isn't deep enough to support a second board, then I'm going to fail it for weight and convenience. Crumar should have made the "front panel" more steeply raked vertically - more like the Korg SV1/2, Nord Grand or one of the Kawais - can't remember which.
Cheers, Mike.
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The term "art-pop" was precision-engineered to describe Kate Bush. Her material has aged very well.
Cheers, Mike.
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If the TP110 is as good as the buzz here suggests, and Studiologic release a successor to the SL73 based on it, I might need to take a look.
Cheers, Mike.
Yamaha AN-X trademark registration
in The Keyboard Corner
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Oh yes, I knew that. I was just musing that the "AN-X" trademark suggests "analogue - but more so", which might interest me, while a "DX7 - but more so" synth wouldn't.
VL-X, anyone?
Cheers, Mike.