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xp50player

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  1. Top of the Pops had a requirement to obscure brand names. Guitar headstock shapes are trademarks themselves, and what makes them identifiable, not to mention the labels are too small to be generally legible on a broadcast.
  2. No F# major key signature necessary when Gb works just fine. F# can be used in a flat key, if the function make sense. I would not destroy the functional notation of a scale run or altered chord to force all flats in a flat key.
  3. https://yamahasynth.com/learn/montage-m/blakes-take-expanded-softsynth-plugin-for-montage-m/
  4. Mine is a 49” 32:9. It’s basically half a 4k monittor and 2x 27”. If the OP already uses 2x 26” for work, this is that with no center line. I like it, because I don’t want to wreck my neck looking up at anything taller than eye level.
  5. I think the GrandStage has a better variety of pianos, like 32 Gb worth if I remember correctly. Then you have the CX-3 tonewheel engine from the Kronos and the transistor organ engine, presumably from the Vox Continental. I like the favorites storage on it. The RD-88 has a shorter pivot point action, although if you prefer it, it’s a personal choice. I like my PHA-4 Concert action over the RH3 , but the RH3 over the PHA-4 Standard.
  6. Do guitar players cover the brands on their guitars or amps? To me, fans are interested in the gear you use and it enhances their enthusiasm for the band, so why make it difficult, just to stick it to The Man, which probably makes no difference at all?
  7. We aren’t on the FA series anymore. The Fantom O series has the full tonewheel engine from the 2019 Fantom, which has onscreen drawbars and controls. The O is also compatible with Roland’s ABM Model expansions.
  8. A Nord Stage 3 costs more than this OBX8 and will never be worth more than it is now. The OBX8 looks like a solid investment and may go up quite a bit in value, depending on how many are produced.
  9. I still prefer the CX-3 engine in my Kronos. You also only get 1 instance in the Fantom, only on Zone 2, and seamless sound switching does not work.
  10. Phonograph, JD Multi and Exciter
  11. Online references point to Oberheim 4/8 voice synths in that era.
  12. It"s a shell. http://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2284275/Re:_Michael_McDonald_stage_key.html
  13. Drums/percussion primary, keyboard secondary. Started out on snare-only lessons for about five months, then moved to full kit. That was a relatively easy transition. Where e-drums get expensive is if you want to reproduce the acoustic nuances and playing techniques. Currently rocking a TD30-KV here, but I could make do with a TD-17 series or a TrapKAT as a minimum. If you"re kicking organ bass, I can see how that limb independence from drums might carry over.
  14. It never needed to be done from a CD drive, only if you had to reload all the DVD content to a new drive for some reason. For the 1st gen Kronos, there has also been a firmware update, which is done from the computer over USB.
  15. The JV-1080 is not a complete superset of the JV-90. Some of the waveforms are gone like '90"s Snare" and some of the other drums. I believe I was able to import JV-80 banks into my XP-50 at the time, but those did not use the missing drum waves. JV-1080 has many similar patches to the JV80/90/1000, and you can certainly remake most of it. If you want the closest thing to a JV-90, get the JV-1080 VST(includes all 1083 PCM waves and effects from the XV-5080 VST) or the XV-5080 VST(includes all of the JV-1080 content as well as the XV-5080 additional patches). These both have the Reverb and Chorus processors in addition to the MFX, so the patches sound pretty much the same as original, except for the absent 'Multi' 4-7 stage chain effects from the XV-5080. Zenology has the 1080/5080 patches, but in Zencore form, which does not have reverb/chorus processors at the patch level. Rev/Cho are at the Scene(multi) level in the new ZenCore hardware hierarchy and Zenology has no Scene mode (yet) One exception is the new JD-800 expansion for Zenology, which has all the effects processors from the original synth.
  16. I agree with the above, having had an XP-50, XP-30, Integra-7 and the new Fantom. An FA or the Integra-7 do have the 1080 patches in the same order, but there are cheaper options if that"s all you want. Other compatible modules, beside the JV-1010 include the JV-2080, XV-5080(best), XV-3080, XV-2020, and XV-5050(newest). The XR module contains other patches from the Fantom X series. If you use any SR-JV80 expansion boards, the XV-5050 and XV-2020 fo not use those, only SRX. The Integra-7 is completely worth having though, as it contains all of the SRX expansion boards, loadable into 4 software slots at a time. It"s limited 64 multi locations won"t be a problem if you are used to only 32 multis in the JV-1080. It has an ipad patch assigning app, and a full 64bit VST editor. The JV-1080 sounds are also found in every Roland Zencore device(Fantoms, Jupiter X/Xm, RD-88, MC-707, MC101 and AX-Edge. The ZenBeats app also has the ZC1 ZenCore engine, so you can have JV-1080 sounds on an iPhone. The JV-1080 VST does not have any expansions with it. Roland does not offer any SR-JV80 expansions for it, only SRX as separate plugins, and those are regurgitated in different lumps of content. The JV-1080 plugin was always kind of a hybrid since it came out, containing all the 1083 waveforms from the later XV series, and and more of the later effects than the original 40 in the JV-1080. Zenology VST also features these sounds and the SRX expansions as options, but there are no master Reverb/Chorus, and the patch structures are differen. The JV-1080 and XV-5080 plugins are most like the originals in that regard.
  17. They dumped the original Japanese, German and Berlin grands in favor of some of the newer ones from the GrandStage. The patches are still there, but not the EXS files. The old libraries will be optional(paid?) Too bad they did not enhance the OS to allow for more RAM. One thing we don"t know is, if the sample storage is still streaming from an SSD, or some kind of flash RAM, or whatever is in the GrandStage. Hopefully it will have an improved boot time. The Nautilus 88 price on em-Nordic was 17% less than the Kronos 88, so it puts possibly @ $3000-$3200. I really like the new wood ends, much better than the New Kronos. The rear profile of the 61/73 models looks pretty skinny on the bottom. I doubt they have the heavy particle board construction. Anxious to see the new GUI, with the claimed dark mode. It may be totally different from the Kronos, working with the different aspect ratio of the Krome display. They also seem to claim an improved workflow, but the specs indicate Kronos OS 3.0, and the current Kronos OS is 3.1.3(???). I don"t entirely expect the Nautilus firmware and OS to be retro compatible with the Kronos. Also unanswered is if the Nautilus may now have a piano-roll sequencer, if is indeed running an evolved new Kronos OS.
  18. Well, damn... https://www.emnordic.dk/produkter/keyboard/synther/korg-opsix-altered-fm-synth
  19. https://www.emnordic.no/produkter/tangenter/synther/korg-nautilus-88-workstat Looks like pretty much a standard Kronos spec with the same RH3 keybed, RAM and polyphony. A lot of new content included. Build-in Expansion PCM Libraries: EXs301: German2 D Piano EXs302: Italian F Piano EXs303: Japanese Upright U Piano EXs304: Prepared Piano EXs305: Historical Keyboards EXs306: Vintage Keyboards 2 EXs307: Strings & Synths EXs308: Guitar Collection EXs309: Bass Collection EXs310: World Essence EXs311: Background Loops EXs312: SFX & Hits EXs313: Found Percussions EXs314: Expansion Drums
  20. Holding Back the Years Do You Remember(with CP-70) No One is to Blame(with CP-70) How Am I Supposed to Live Without You(Bolton version)
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