Tom Williams

Did I miss the joke? 175 cm == 5 ft 9 in == baby grand as far as I can tell. Don't grands start at 6 or 7 feet length?

I've started to learn my lesson -- when I see these, including on facebook marketplace, I copy the picture and do a reverse image search on it. It's almost always available either on Reverb or on a piano store website. There was a free $20,000 Yamaha short grand up locally a few days ago; couldn't find the picture so I (with grave doubts) responded. Never heard back.... Hmm. Now there's a free "baby" grand, actually a 7' Steinway locally up on FB. Funny, it's also on Ebay (current bid is just over $3K)....

In the early 70s, with a Farfisa Combo Compact, I used a Big Muff for a while to play Smoke-On-the-Water, and then graduated to the more pleasing dirt of the Electro Harmonix LPB-1 -- Linear Power Booster -- once I learned I could increase the organ's preamp drive and turn down the LPB output for a nicer grit than the Big Muff could provide.. Fast Forward a decade or two, and on my other Farfisa -- VIP345 -- I used a Sholtz R&D rack mount distortion unit, that could be set to clean, gritty, or shred, in my relentless pursuit of replacing guitarists. I also used an MXR equalizer to give the Farfisa drawbars a little more midrange bite.

Nowadays, 8 GB RAM is not considered a lot, especially if you're running Windows 10 or 11. I would suggest as an easy next step, launch the Task Manager and see if you can ascertain what portion of RAM and CPU are being used, first without and then with the plugin (and its sandbox) running.

When I run sound in the Pittsburgh area, I work with a Polish assistant. He's not my only assistant -- i have a Czech one, too. Czech one too.

...And arguably David Ogden Stiers's most beautiful acting moment in the entire run of the show. I'm getting weepy remembering it.

Mine's dormant, sort of like chicken pox waiting around to re-manifest as shingles. I figure it will start up again after my PC4-7 is paid off. At that point I'm sure the Osmose will raise me from artistic mediocrity to greatness as soon as I purchase it. Seriously, I don't think I'm likely to buy another 'board unless / until the ones I currently have break down. And that only if I don't break down first. Exception to the rule: I hope to get myself small stuff, like a dumbek or an otamatone.

One of my earliest memories of Contemporary Keyboard magazine (which often included classical piano transcriptions) was a wonderful interview with Mr. Watts, who lamented concert tour nightmares ranging from bad pianos to concert attendees asking him why he played piano instead of guitar. Rest well, sir.

FWIW I always use normally-open switches on Kurzweils, and never had trouble with them recognizing on/off status.

Rats! Sorry, folks. Thanks McG.

Huh -- my text disappeared on me. Looks clean and legit, was posted around noon on July 5. I'm not a Rhodes fan myself. https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/msg/d/pittsburgh-fender-rhodes-piano/7639931486.html

Wow, lots o' WV hate going on here. I need to order some skin-thickener on Amazon....

Seen on Facebook Marketplace in north central WV. I'm quite confused.

Excepting the XLR part (bad idea as discussed above): I've done that with my PX-5S when I had mechanical troubles with the right output jack: split the TRS headphone jack into two TS plugs, and run each of them a short distance to the mixer as line-level inputs, adjusting volume and gain accordingly. Optimum? No. Better than mono? Yup.

Mebbe he thought this was the Roland AX-Edge Forum.

I am amazed at how well the technology, even in the 80s, performed the same tasks as arranger keyboards today -- which generally cost more than flagship workstations. I remember some Lowrey-esque organ where I could play pretty much any inversion I wanted of a chord with my left hand, and the organ would play a quite competent bass line (and jazz drums of course) for me while I noodled a melody with my right hand. That had to be before 1985.

I had a model 102 (I think) in the '80s, picked up for $100 somewhere. I liked its sound much more than that of the Fender Rhodes. Unfortunately, although its action was wonderful, the actual sound engine was extremely fragile -- a .2mm piece of solder that had been filed off for tuning could wreak havoc on the capacitive pickup. The electromechanical innards of the Rhodes and B3, in contrast, can take a lickin' and keep on ticken'. I don't think the Wurlitzer architecture can compete with today's electronics.

I spent the first decade of this millennium doing wireless consulting. I have a maxim: Use fiber when you can. Use copper if you can't. Use radio waves only if you must. Your best bet by far is to go with either a pair of XLR cables (you can daisy chain them for length) or a mini snake. Especially since everything is in a fixed location. That said, if you really want to go wireless, go with one of the current legal VHF bands (somewhere around 600 MHz if I remember right) and, like others have said, never never never use bluetooth nor any other 2.4 GHz radio. There's just too much going on in that band to be able to trust it for high quality audio.

I've found the free Slate V5 kit to be quite good. The high hat variability was particularly impressive, and there are several mic placement options available as well as other tweaks. Caveat #1: If you choke your crash cymbals, don't go with Slate. It doesn't do that. Caveat #2: I was so impressed with the free version that I purchased the full v5.5 version during a sale. For bread-and-butter accompaniment, it didn't really seem to me to be much better than the free version.

On the PC4 (I'll bet on the K2700 too) by default, both pedals 1B and 2A are mapped to sostenuto. That's one of the reasons I have to go into developer mode, so I can set different functions for all four switch pedals in voice mode. I map 2A to soft, 2B to Leslie speed toggle.

Yooooou bastard -- That's now running through my head ... chicken pox ...

Wow -- great minds do think alike don't they? Also yours and mine....

My objection to clickable ads is that the quality of the ads eventually deteriorates into annoying / deceptive / downright harmful clickbait, and/or animated shit (look, a squirrel!) that pulls my perception away from the content I want to read.

I actually prefer option 5 -- subscriber based, or subscriber premium. I pay $6AU per year on a Kurzweil forum, and I'd gladly pay a bit more to help this go. Most day-to-day postings on Mastering VAST are freely readable; there are some tutorials and auxiliary documentation that are subscriber-only. ANd I must emphasize, it's a very low bar financially. I assume this differs from Patreon, where some pay and many benefit. (Edited, as I eventually noticed option 5 was covered)

I grew up with 60's and 70's TV and a near-eidetic memory for music, so here's my data dump: Doc-tor Pepper, so misunderstood (another by Manilow) also, "Woudn'tcha like to be a Pepper too?" It's the Pepsi Generation, comin' atcha, goin' strong You've got a lot to live, and Pepsi's got a lot to give Things go better with Coca-Cola... Edit: I just remembered a couple of other beverages. "The best part of wakin' up is Folger's in your cup" "N E S T L E S, Nestle's makes the very best, Choc-late" Plop-plop.fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is (Alka-Seltzer) You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco Star! Re Band-Aids: They killed the joy when the lawyers got them to change it to " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand 'cause Band-aid's stuck on me" (because Band-aid was becoming a generic term, and they wanted to keep it as a trademark) Similarly, "Sometimes you feel like a nut / sometimes you don't / Al-mond Joy has nuts / Mounds Don't" mutated into the annoying addition of thirty-second notes, thus "PeterPaul AlmondJoy has nuts..." One last: "Won'tcha hurry on down to Hardee's, where the burgers are charco-broiled." Two fun facts: (1) they were sued by McDonald's -- and lost -- because the jingle sounded like "charcoal broiled" when they were fried on a grill like everyone else; and (2) the jingle was sung by Cass Elliot, formerly of the Mamas and the Papas.