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Glad I use a PC.

Good to know about Local On/Off. Old dog learns new tricks. Always used it for Harmonies/Vocoding. I found Korg WaveState"s keybed insulting so I just hacked the sucker off and have a nice module now. I bet your keyboard could be hacked easily too. Then get an ES88 for 50 bucks, or a multi zone controller/ROMPler and use FA as a module you can actually control. Or keep the keybed for a Hammond controller since 127 is a constant on Organs. Have a multi zone controller play the internal sounds.

They make great well focused products, I have several of their units and a Rackmounted T8. Your idea is a noble effort but I don"t think Local Off allows you to send out and back in using the same MIDI Protocol. I thought Local OFF was for an external Vocoder or harmonizer where held keys trigger selected harmonies I could be wrong though, newer keybeds might have expanded capabilities I"m unaware of. But maybe a MIDI Out USB back in solution might work, but it"s a very unique MIDI hardware pedal called Bome Box. It loads custom made projects by you, from a Mac/PC. So you could create some really specific chores and maybe re route as you mentioned. Read up on it. Translator Pro is the app used for the Bome Box. This killer little box even has WiFi MIDI. I bought one and was learning it, then the Physis K4 came out so it"s in a case with all of my MIDI Solutions stuff. Hope you can fix this with a custom Velocity Table. You can even decide which notes and how much of a curve you need.

I"ve always bought 40-60 dollar gig bags for my 88"s. Only grab the handle when unloading/loading. Shoulder straps allow me to wheel and carry, so if no shoulder strap, no sale for me. NKTM is as cheap as they get. Had a Gator before that and the zipper broke. They"re actually all cheap pieces of crap compared to a gun case or ATA. Pelican Gun Cases are great because the spungy stuff can be shaped as a perfect fit. You don"t need those unless you"re flying to a gig. But after Gulf War 2 the surplus of high end used cases were everywhere and cheap. Now that we"re splitting Afghanistan keep your eyes out for really cheap high end used gun cases and racked gear.

It"s easy. A hand held Jig or a SawzAll with BiMetal blade. One ribbon cable to connect to the worthless keybed and voila⦠MP5 Assault Weapon case is a perfect fit and great gig bag too..

Nice jams. Wish PRush used a real Rhodes though. The panned EPiano on samples always dogs out on upper registers. Great solo none the less.

I use a Casio WK7600 for family gatherings. Hours of fun, battery operated and 225 bucks from Craigslist. The Piano actually sounds decent. I hate piano samples that decay according to price. This one is close to my PX-3S.

I get great Reverbs from my Timeline. NightSky would be even more Robust. I use the A16U converter with dip switches so the Strymons become AUXs on my Audio interfaces automated mixer. Keep in mind Strymons are already to use with Nords, Korgs or an audio interface by switching the settings on the I/O panel. These were meant for keyboards..

I thinks it"s great to have a Grand Piano from each Country. I"ve got strings from each city, so why not pianos too. Recently bought Tokyo to bolster my Hollywood, Berlin, London, New York, etc. Somebody told me they all sound different but my ears aren"t that good I guessâ¦

First rule of government spending. Why have just one when you can have both for twice the price.

Vegas properties had just begun opening and gigs were starting back up. For the last couple weeks mask rules changed back and I"m glad people comply. Unlike drunkards on planes, drunkards here know you can get your ass whooped or escorted from the property. As far as the future is concerned talk of Thursday through Sunday, Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday dark will probably be around for a while. The money just isn"t there lately. There"s bands taking huge cuts just to work as the lounges are non Union, showrooms are Union. Sure beats other cities but afraid the days of taking home a grand a week doing 6 nights might not ever return. You can do okay if you want to travel, but those days are gone for me. In casinos around the country, everybody wants a 'Vegas' band, in Vegas, everybody wants a Nashville act. The upside is rehearsal studios are cheap and plentiful. Got my eyes on a club where a Live Kareoke (play over drums/808 bass) using numerous local singers looks promising. Thinking of dressing up like Gator from the movie The Other Guys, call myself Gator and The Ho"s. May as well have fun and do weekends for dancing HipHop rooms. Good Luck All. Feast or famine, time to feast again.

I like how my Spacestation + Sub sounded, just wanted it louder and it"s more of a solo/rehearsal rig. Mono Maker is just an added feature in Brainrox Digital for Scope DSP from 2003, now a famous VST guy. It"s really nice having time to really learn your software, and how it can enhance your hardware. Radio Shack was really fun back in the day. I did a few DIYs and had lights from the catalog called Edmund Scientific Company. Grade school band. Movie projector, through a colored Christmas tree wheel, to the front surface round mirrors bouncing from our guitar amp speakers. Much cheaper than the MAC/LED stuff on stage today⦠Cheerz

Had lots of time to tweak my stage monitors last year and while not having any issues w/ hardware analog and digital synths, my VSTi"s just weren"t in my face as much when I used my Spacestation 3. But then the Spacestation wasn"t powerful enough for bigger rooms. Spacestation 3 w/ a Sub worked great because I suppose the design was 3D. But using RCF TT08A"s or K8.2"s, the VSTi"s like Kontakt, Keyscape, PTeq and Omni, the width of the stereo field seemed to lose focus with 2 powered cabs. I finally fixed the focus using Brainrox Mono Maker. It will take your signal and make it Mono below whatever frequency you hear that works the best. Really shaped the focus for a 2.1 rig. Sub was round tight and deep, somehow allowing my 8"s to be more in your face. I thought it might be because I used a tree set up with only a couple feet between the 8"s. But even changing the cabinets to separate stands wasn"t focused enough, just too much width in the stereo field. Night and Day difference. HX-3.5 Rotary emulation w/ proper Horn/woofer ratio/ramp sounds fantastic too. I slide my over the Sub to keep a smaller footprint on stage. Usually have 8-10 feet space between me and the tree. Shared in case others do a PC and 2.1 rig. take a screenshot

Who knows, but odd that every article I ever read on Oberheim trademark skipped the Viscount era as well. It"s like it never happened because nobody talks about who bought it after the Gibson days. Gibson era was odd to me because the OBMx was really disappointing, but the Oberheim Echoplex was fantastic and it wasn"t a synth. Great though the Trademark made it back home.

Thanks, it"s because under dim to bright lighting the colors, associated with sections, are easier to grab as they are soft rubber. Plus I couldn"t go right to filter cutoff or saturation after an LED light blast. My eyes recover quicker with Neon. Even my Controllers use them. Once sections get memorized I can concentrate more on what comes next. DJTT / DJ Tech Tools

I"ve got the Live, the Akai has those hot ass outputs like the S4/5000"s did back when we got mere MB"s to get our work done. Workflow would be so much faster and easier by setting up samples across the keys and unlimited RAM. I would buy an 88 immediately. Have way too many VSTs and synths, don"t need more of anything but samples..

Thanks. But once again while reading the link, I wonder why in the history of the Travelling Trademark articles, nobody mentions that Viscount had the name and made a decent synth, a decent B3 module and some great Master Controllers? Got a kick out of musicians not in the know telling me my Oberheim (MC3000) synth sounded great, even though it was a controller with a rack of SE synths and a D550..

I was fortunate to walk amongst the Gods briefly at the Solaris Booth. TOberheim as well as every synth maker made the world great for most of us.

There are discontinued I believe except the K5. I bought a 2nd unit and enough spare parts for a 3rd. Used the Triple Wheel assembly, and the fader/knob/button board. It is the very best controller for PCs and VSTs or a rack of hardware, even lighting automations, etc. One model is nicked up from 7 years of toting it around. But it"s really well built and is the last series of boards I"ll ever use. The dream ROMPler I always hoped would be built has never materialized so I"m all in on the Physis K4. Can"t believe Physis has been my choice for 25 years, and Scope DSP for 17 years. A Legend w/ a Scope system for live work using Kontakt for authentic Horn Sections would be a great fallback for me. Doubt that will happen though. Cheerz.

That was my point. I have no troubles bypassing purely political copy/pastes and researching on topics myself. With 2 nurses in my family I totally understand what we faced and are facing. Talk in Vegas for those of us lucky to be working, is valid proof of Vaccination, which I don"t mind, and masking. Casinos don"t want a lawsuit so some precautions will be around for the near future. Wish I had the answers, but we learn as we live through this. Politicizing this serves those employing said tactics, I wont carry either teams water. I might have to go study and practice again if the Strip shuts down. Saw flights cancelled from 911, conventions close from CEOs vrs the Presidents public battle, but never saw the strip go dark. Guess I"ve been here too long, but it"s where the money is (was) for guys who love to perform live. Didn"t mean to ruffle any feathers.

I personally hold NIH and military scientists from the USA and China accountable. They"re smart people. They know by politicizing the science worshippers of the DNC and GOP will fall in line and do their dirty work. In China there"s no opposition, mostly because they disappear. So they sit back and watch the Sheepfights. Let people take their sides since they"re easily distracted from the real issues, no sense trying to persuade those suffering from displaced aggression. They have newspapers, politicians and 'experts' they can quote to appear informed. Carrying their water gives a sense of purpose. I"ll continue practicing safety even though I"m Moderna-ized Too bad for hours wasted carrying politicians water there"s no reward, even when your team wins. Good Luck To All.

I boot up with 48k in the Scope DSP/XITE-1 Interface, then everything else in software, reflects the rate. Don"t do film but have a hardware Solaris synth w/ AES/EBU / Toslink as an option which requires the Converters also boot @ 48k. When I boot with 44.1k on my interface and converters, Solaris and all software will not be audible.

Dreaming out loud since they already have sounds, hence the K5. K5 has some decent sounds but crappier demos, so it"s hard to tell if they"re the same. But Legends 70 sounds really good, just needs more memory and more of the K4/K5 MIDI Controls. They"ve really made decent kit for over 25 years now, going back to the MC3000/2000 era.

I read the implementation chart and manual, thought I could help, but way too much proprietary jargon for me. Beaming presets, Hit Control, etc. I"m use to simpler MIDI Prgm Chng for presets, and CC#"s for level adjustments, pitch algo selection, etc. If you get too frustrated get the Voice Plus, sounds as good as the VoiceRack, much easier to automate, fits on a mic stand too. But do hope you get this to work for you. TC algos are really nice. LoFi parts are so nice to kick in and out. Great delay and a pretty editable reverb too. Sorry I can"t help more.

You can create presets to recall the desired harmonies and effects via MIDI Prgm Chng messages, or use MIDI CC#"s to activate/bypass effects. Personally I use the MP75 TC Helicon programmable mic for total bypass in between songs, then use presets per necessary part. Does your unit have presets? I use the TC VoiceRack since it"s made for performance, and it"s totally automated, with the mic allowing vocalists to communicate with audience free from any effect.