mmartinez

Anybody using one of the KPs (408, 612) in a typical loud rock band? How does it hold up there? Where do you guys position yours - in back of you like the guitarists and bassists (backline)?

I use a Nord Stage 3 at every gig. I've even got a beer holder that I clamp onto the keyboard stand just off to the side of the Stage 3. Would it suck if my Stage-3 got damaged at a gig? Yeah, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.

sorry I'm going to have to be brutal about iGigBook, it's not a good piece of software. It's not intuitive to use, it freezes a lot on my iPad, and trying to do simple things with it is a pain. iRealPro is way better, its easy to use, it's stable, it easy to read, and you go onto their website and can click on any of the songs people have uploaded and it'll prompt you to load them automatically into the playlist on your iPad. The only drawback is that you can't import arbitrary files like PDFs.

Rod S - Thanks for that tip. I haven't heard of Narfsounds (Francis Capistrano) - let me see if I can find him. Adan - yeah, agreed. It mostly doesn't matter but I would like to get reasonably close on some of these. I would say I'm a mediocre synth programmer, I'm neither lousy nor good. Mostly I get bored and annoyed scrolling through zillion tones trying to find a good match. Then once you have it you still have to tweak the filters and attacks and this-and-that ... It's exhausting. GotKeys - it's too bad you don't have an FA cuz I'd take you up on it.

One of songs we'll do is Yaz Situation. Non sequenced so I'm going to pick one or two of the synth parts that capture the most essence of the song. The bass can play the synth bass part. The guitar can play one of the other synth parts. And that ought to be good enough for people to recognize that we're doing Yaz Situation. For a few songs, like Separate Ways, I feel it's crucial to the get the synth patch dialed in because when you hear that opening couple of notes everybody in the world recognizes it precisely because of that synth sound. But for other songs, like The HEat is On it doesn't really matter what I choose for the backing pad.

Following up on this, I ended up making most of the patches myself. Some of them ended up pretty close; others not so much. But all together it was good enough to get the gig. Now I've got a whole bunch more of new songs to put together the patches for. Like 40 to 50 more songs. It's gonna take time. The more of these I can find where someone's already done it, the better!

there's this: https://audora.ca/product/billy-idol-rebel-yell/ $9. Great price. Of course, you gotta buy a Kronos to play it. Lol But there is something, though, listening to the demos they've got everything is nice and clear, this will make it a little easier. Still, I'd rather pay someone to do it for me

posted on this and a couple other sites. No takers, so I started putting them together myself. Not real satisfied with the results but hopefully it will be good enough for the group. Ideally should get as close as possible to the original sounds, so offer's still open

yeah, I've already visited Roland clan. (thanks for the people who mentioned it.) Found the excellent FA Editor there a couple months ago with all it's great patches. Doesn't include these songs though. MightyMotifMax: Thanks for coming to my defense, dude. Yeah, part of the reason I made the cash offer is because I do have that ability and I'd like to give back to the community when I can. But the main reason is I don't want to spend the time programming the patches. The way I learn these songs is I listen to them and I figure out the keyboard parts with a piano or EP patch first. At the same time I'm mentally noting the sound they're using with the idea to come back later and put that in. But yeah like you said learning the part first that's how I prefer to do it. Then if push comes to shove I can use a basic string or a basic piano and it might not match but at least it's something. Ideally though I'd like to get a good match because this is a 80s cover band after all. Yeah "jumping at the chance" wasn't the right phrasing but you know what I mean. It's a no brainer for someone with an FA who already happens to have these songs loaded up (that's what I was hoping for). Basically Free Money - give me what you got and I give you cash, takes all of two seconds!

the only dedicated site I've found is on roland clan, and there's a software called FA Editor, which the guy who created it includes patches for a whole bunch of songs, many of them 80s, and they sound good. But these particular songs aren't included. And the guy who sold me the keyboard included a few of his presets (Thriller and so on). Again, good stuff but not these. No I don't need the tabs, I just need the patches.

wow ... people coming up with reasons *not* to get paid? Ok. i would have thought anyone with a FA-0x would be jumping at the chance. Nobody cares where you get the sounds from, they just care that you can play and your personality blends with the group. yeah it could be argued that you need to know synths and know your instrument, and on the first point yeah I do and on the second point the FA is a new purchase for me I've learned a decent amount about the sound sets but someone else who's intimate with it will know exactly how to create these sounds and spend much less time than I would. I really wasn't expecting the first two replies to be, like, condescending and doubtful. I was expecting someone with an FA-xx to jump in and say, yeah dude I already have half these and I can put together the other half for you let's agree on a price.

Sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Anyone with a Roland FA-06 wanna make some cash? I'm trying out for a 80s cover band and I need studio sets / user tones for the keyboard parts for the following songs. I don't have time to spend finding the right sounds, so you can put them together and give them to me in sys-ex format (.syx). Flock of Seagulls - I Ran Modern English - I Melt With You INXS - Need You Tonight Devo - Whip It David Bowie - Let's Dance Kenny Loggis - Footloose Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive Billy Idol - White Wedding The FA-06 uses the Roland integra sound engine, so if you have a similar synth that might work. I only need the keyboard sounds similar to what's played on the original recordings for the synth parts on those recordings. (I'm not playing the guitar parts or anything like that so I don't need to simulate the other instruments). It doesn't have to match "identically", just a decent approximation. We'd be playing these in medium sized venus (bars, casinos). Paypal is easiest. Reply here or DM me.

Anyone know how to reproduce the opening motorcyle-type effect of Everybody Wants You (Billy Squier) on the FA-06? To my ears it almost sounds like they recorded two different things - an oscillator thing in the left channel, and a sweeping thing in the right channel. But maybe it's one patch, I dunno. I'm not sure the FA-06 can even get close to it.