[Binge sharing - what are you watching?]

I just finished binge-watching Netflix in its entirety. From Aaron Hernandez to ZZ Top.

Did not care for the ending. Writing & acting very spotty - from horrible to excellent.

 

 

 

 

 

Joking, of course.

I, too, enjoy British TV. A lot of episodic murder mysteries with unlikely detectives - a clergyman/doctor/professor/etc.

[Arturia OB-Xa V]

Please forgive my naïveté about synths but I've never been a big synth guy as far as playing them. Was the Oberheim really used on all those tunes demoed in this video?

 

Absolutely not. They"re trying to show how well it can cop some famous sounds.

Take 'On The Run' for example. The sound is close, but the arp is not. It"s actually a sequence with a couple little turns in it. Did the OB even exist when Pink Floyd recorded that?

[Let's hear it!!! Post your music here!]

Mike - Very cool. Loved it.

[Small satisfactions]

Yeah!!!

Pretty cool!

[Roli Seaboard Block vs Seaboard Rise]

Thank you, Samuel & Maurizio!

[Roli Seaboard Block vs Seaboard Rise]

I"ve been on the fence about purchasing a Roli for a while. I was gonna start a thread looking for opinions/reviews since I know there"s a least a few players here that own one. Maybe you guys could answer some questions?

 

Is the software/synth a usable/unique-sounding sound source?

Is the board a usable controller for other things? You ever use a standard keyboard sound with it? Ever map out another synth (Omnisphere?) to work with Roli"s MPE capabilities?

Are you glad you bought it?

Do you wish you got the 49-key instead?

 

Thanks.

[Antoine Baril - One Man Yes]

Antoine is one talented MoFo. Really enjoyed that video - awe inspiring. Love his (and Trevor"s) guitar tone over Steve"s. All monster players, but Mr. Howe can crack your eyeballs sometimes. Treble galore.

'Talk' is almost the forgotten Yes album. I like it a lot. When I joined Spotify, they didn"t even it in the Yes catalog. A bazillion live albums, but no Talk.

[OT: Find a Silver Lining [Music from 1919]]

The canals in Venice have the cleanest water in decades - almost clear, almost like...... water!

[OT: Find a Silver Lining [Music from 1919]]

I heard that Miami has had zero murders in seven weeks. Has not happened since 1957.

[OT: Lexophillia-you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna...]

I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in there, I"ll never know.

[Happy Birthday Markyboard]

Happy Birthday!

[OT: Lexophillia-you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna...]

Thank you - needed that.

[OT: Captain Tom Moore]

Yeah- maybe should be marked OT, but I"m glad you posted it.

Even keyboard players could use good news nowadays.

[Help me spend my money]

If you are using a PX5s to play the Electro"s pianos - excellent choice.

However, the PX has AP of its own that is kind of dated. And no usable organs (except Farfisa). Nice Rhodes and Wurlies. Alright Clavs. An unusual sounding synth. Not very good rompler stuff (guitars,strings,orch.instr.,etc)

I"m not really raggin on the PX5 - I used one for gigging from 2013 til late last year when I quit gigging. But the last couple years it was a controller for my Nord stage 90% of the time. Great piano-feeling board. 24 lbs! Still have it setup in my 'studio'.

 

I"d say it depends what sounds your looking to get out of your second board, and what sounds you"re looking to control out of your Electro (ifany).

Maybe a newer Casio? Can"t go wrong with a used Yamaha, depending on model/price/keybed. Ixnay on the omekray.

[Recording software recommendations]

Agree w/Samuel

I think any of the big names - Logic Cubase DP ProTools etc. - will take you very deep with excellent results.

I would recommend you watch some how-to videos just to see what GUI strikes your fancy. Visit some forums to see what people are bitching about - keeping in mind that bitching on forums probably represents a small fraction of users.

Are you on Catalina? Even Apple"s own Logic has problems with Catalina.

In the 90s I was using Vision software. Loved it. Gibson killed it. I went with Emagic/Logic cause I liked the way it looked! Never sorry.

[George Winston]

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes-

 

'You must be a talented person, because it takes talent to recognize genius.'

 

I don"t know how this fits in this conversation. My avatar told me to post it.

[DP�s that have stood the test of time]

Any of the S90 series. I had the S80, S90, and S90 XS. I loved every one of them.

 

 

Had an S80 and an S90XS.

The S80 was one of my all time favorite boards.

[Happy birthday, dB!]

HB,dB!

[Help with 1 preset of Omnisphere 2 "Wet worm"]

Omni2 shows that parts A,C,&D are active - although D has zero volume.

LFO #2 in both A&C is producing that woo woo effect, prolly routed to the filter, but I didn"t look very deeply at all.

[Let's hear it!!! Post your music here!]

Wow, Bobby! Great job all around.

Your vocalist is superb!

Are the strings a permanent part of the band, or just used for this session?

[Behringer Synths, has anyone bought one?]

Bought a DM12 a couple years ago. The USB connector stopped working after a few days. Got a replacement and that had sticking keys, once in a while. Tried to live it for a bit, but sold it off. I did get most of money back - best thing I can say about it.

[Martinic's Kee Bass for free!]

I might be lying, but wasn"t Rheem the company that bought Roberts tape recorders? There was a model of Roberts (77x?) that could record its stereo tracks (left&right on 1/4' tape) independently - one of the first affordable machines you could do overdubbing.

[OT - What are you listening to right now?]

Giorgi Mikadze: Georgian Microjamz, newly out on RareNoise. Imagine Mahavishnu Orchestra jamming with the Bulgarian Women's Choir. The microtonal tunings seem really shocking on first listen, but by the end of the album seem almost normal. About half of my muso friends that I've played this for have absolutely hated it, so I'm not expecting a much better response here, but I'm loving this.

 

[video:youtube]

 

I"m not sure if my ears would ever get used to this.

Not gonna say I hated it, but maybe I should just leave it alone.

Thanks for something different, tho.

 

[More USB]

+ 1 for OWC.

 

Purchased RAM, external drives, hubs, mice, etc. from them - all top-notch and reasonably priced.

[Roland Patch Names - Caret?]

Strictly a guess - octave up?