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I now use MuseScore for everything. For me, it's faster and more intuitive than Finale (I'm really slow doing them by hand). I have over 100 old Finale charts, mainly lead sheets. If I need to edit and create a new pdf, they convert to MuseScore without much trouble. Some touchup required.
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On 7/17/2022 at 11:30 AM, Dave E said:
My wife jokes that my obit will read: HAMMOND ORGANS FOR SALE! btw: Dave died.
Mine said that from now on, the only organ I am allowed to buy would be for a transplant. 😁
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I'd suggest not worrying about picking the right language and build environment at this point, because as your skills and the project complexity develop, you will be rewriting it anyway. Take a look at PySimpleGUI. The PySimpleGUI Cookbook has many examples. It might be what you need at this point and could get you quickly started on Python and Python GUI development.
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This part is a microcontroller and needs to be programmed before use. That said, I wonder if the one you removed could be reprogrammed?
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Something like an FC-7 or similar?
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1. Horn players that practice during someone's solo.
2. Guitar players whose approach to comping is scrubbing the strings while gripping a chord rather than playing a rhythmic figure.
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13 hours ago, Doerfler said:
this is good news, now I just need the schematics. Thanks for posting
If you get this information, please post it here. It would be good to have, just in case...
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The short answer is that the "throw" of the horn depends on the geometry of the horn that is loading the driver. Whether of a constant-directivity type, exponential, conical, or some computer designed thing in between, they all take the total acoustical power of the driver and disperse it in some defined pattern. I once bought a Renkus-Heinz constant directivity horn, bolted it up to a driver and measured its on-axis response. Because the response of the driver was flat, I was expecting the response of the horn & driver to be flat with frequency. It was not. In fact, the response reduced as the frequency increased. I thought something was dreadfully wrong until I realized that because it was a constant-directivity type, the acoustical power was distributed to create the constant-directivity pattern. There was a fall off in response, but the fall off was the same off-axis as on. An exponential horn response would have been flat on-axis but would have fallen quickly off-axis. BTW, the fall-off in response with frequency was easily compensated by EQ.
I guess that wasn't a short answer after all. 😜
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3 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:
Anyone able to plop the wav of the Pinwheel here without dropbox? I haven't an account.
How's it sound? Vent comparable?
This pedal has been floating around for 2, 3 years, no?
Try this - converted to mp3.
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Mine.
Oops. Missed the “well known” part.
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On 5/28/2022 at 1:40 PM, Docbop said:
LOL seeing the title I flashed back to a friends band a Rock-Country band and the one guitarist doubled on pedal steel. For his seat on pedal steel he had an actual racing mag wheel and tire.
I had a 50s era drummer tell me he used a John Deere tractor seat. Big fella.
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A latency measurement to your ISP will be the minimum. It will go up as it is routed to the ultimate destination. For example, I ran a speed test using Ookla which also reports the ping time and checked against a few different servers, all in my state. Though all had nearly the same throughput (limited by my I$P), the ping time varied from 18 to 46 ms.
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That's the number by logging in to my asus router and using it's network tools.
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I saw Joey DeFrancsco with Byron Landham, Jake Langley as the only performers for an event sponsored by a regional jazz society. This was in Ft. Pierce, FL and there were about 15 people there. Joey came out and said something like "Kind of a smallish crowd, but we're going to play like there are 10,000 of you." They all played great.
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Nice idea but good luck with the 10 ms latency. My ping today is 18 ms to my ISP's first router. I was hoping Starlink would help in this area but AFAICT, it is claiming 30 ms maximum.
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1 hour ago, ProfD said:
@Reezekeys, you're correct that Smooth Jazz as a radio format started in the 1980s.
However, the aforementioned songs that were recorded in the mid-1970's gave birth to Smooth Jazz.
Kenny G was the first superstar of Smooth Jazz. 😎
Agree with the mid-70s, to which I would add Ronnie Laws album "Fever". Kenny Gorelick's first solo album didn't hit until 1982, Jeff Lorber producing.
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17 hours ago, nadroj said:
Anyone able to empathise or offer a word of advice?
Yes, I empathize.
Advice: Have you read "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner? Good music has little to do with chops or jazz.
I once heard a story that Miles told Scofield, who was playing with him at the time, "When you get through playing what you know, play something."
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2 hours ago, o0Ampy0o said:
Adjust the copy, never alter the original.
Photoshop does non-destructive editing. As for Gimp, non-destructive editing is planned to be introduced in version 3.2, currently at version 2.10. If you use Gimp, use "save as".
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Rather than 8 more contacts, a selling point for me would be a keybed duplicating the Hammond's key geometry and physics, i.e. longer keys, felt stops and the right tension as the key is depressed.
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These belong in your gig bag:
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24 minutes ago, cedar said:
Do I understand correctly that a reasonable approach would be for me just to use my iphone 12 to take photos of each pic? This would certainly seem faster than using my scanner.
What's the downside?
As long as the photos aren’t curved like potato chips, have at it!
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I bought a Behringer X32 from Thomann, shipped to the US at a nice discount over a US price. The downside was that the warranty was not covered by Behringer but by Thomann.
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I'm sure others will have better methods but I can tell you how I did it. In 2018 I scanned the family image collection (about 500) using a flatbed scanner (Epson V600). These included developed photographs, 35 mm mounted slide positives and negative strips, and old roll film negatives. The scanner came with film holders for the 35 mm and 120 roll film. I also had some 116 roll film negatives. For those, I bought a 3D printed negative holder that fit the scanner bed.
The Epson was not the first scanner I tried.
I viewed the scanning process as an archival activity only with no thought to organization of the content. However, it was important to be able to correlate a scanned object with its image. I named each image filename YYYY_JDT-XXX.ext. For photographs, I also wrote the file name on the back (no ext). The purpose in this was to be able to make notes for an image in an external document and to be able to reference the image by a unique but consistently named indentifier. (I have never actually done this).
- YYYY year
- JDT the current Julian date
- XXX Index starting at 000 at each new julian date
- ext (png in my case)
Many of the photographs had text on the back, who, where, when, etc. It is possible to capture this information as metadata in the image file using a tool like Gimp. Or it can be captured in an external document referencing the image ID, or you could just scan the back of the photo.
I took a look at the scanned images and the DPI varied from 600 to 2400. I'm sure I selected it but I have no idea why. Most of these photos were pretty poor in resolution.
I generally scanned 30-40 photos per day over a six month period. The 500 photos use about 3 GB of storage space.
Do you get annoyed by sampled Hammond?
in The Keyboard Corner
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The subject of harmonic beating came up on the Hammond Mailing list in 1994. I had a Voce Micro-B that did it. Keyboard Magazine identified the Hammond XB2 and the Roland VK-1000 also. Those clonewheels used equal-ish temperament tuning for the fundamental tones but derived their associated drawbar frequencies using the natural harmonics of each fundamental. Later simulations that use 91 seperate tone generators for all frequencies will not have harmonic beating.
For those that aren't familiar with it, play two notes a fifth apart at this drawbar setting: 088000000. Here's an example of the resulting frequencies generated when playing A2 and E3 on a clonewheel with equal temperament fundamentals and natural harmonic drawbar frequencies:
A2-DB3 = 440 Hz
A2-DB2 = 660 Hz
E3-DB3 = 659.255 Hz
E3-DB2 = 987.767 Hz
The A2-DB2 and E3-DB3 have a 0.745 Hz difference. Under the right conditions, this can be audible.
Here's a wrinkle though -- even with a Hammond or 91 generator clonewheel, harmonic beating is theoretically possible when the output is distorted. Distortion generates natural harmonics! However, I doubt it could be heard through the din and roar of a Hammond and Leslie at full song.
I think the fact that Keyboard Magazine reported it as an issue shows that there was an awareness about it in the clonewheel playing public. The clonewheel makers may have taken notice and changed the generator architecture to eliminate the artifact. Whether or not it was even audible, it could have been viewed as a deficiency when compared against a competitor's product that did not exhibit the beating.
Re. the OP: I'm annoyed if it sounds like a thing trying to sound like a Hammond/Leslie but failing.