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I guess we've all learnt that even if the musical creation is absolute rubbish, there's someone out there that will love it
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Just now, DeltaJockey said:
If it is talented and creative and I like it, then all well and good.
The music that is!
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I have to confess, I didn't realise making a point of defining it as DAWless was a thing! I don't have any such defiance or rebellion about hardware OR software. If it is talented and creative and I like it, then all well and good. I'm more interested in it being FLAWless
There does seem to be a human condition which argues that if it's easy or enjoyable, it's not good for you. DAW's provide a less cramped interface, so some may feel that is too easy, and you need to work harder for you productivity.
It's like any passion, there were folk who once CD's came on the scene, made a point of hating vinyl, and vice versa
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I think this trend is just harking back to the days of the 70's. I cut my teeth on analog step sequencers and CV's. But I agree with you. I embrace DAW's and in fact all hardware too.
When it comes to those endless loops on those little modules etc. I think it's the workmen, not the tools. It's a bit lazy to churn out a 5 min loop with a bit of a melody and call it a song! I remember spending day upon day perfecting and tweaking. When progressing to computer sequencers in the 80's, the days turned into months. But it was my sound engineering which became more sophisticated not the protracted effort because it was software.
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When I first got my acoustic grand, I was looking at covers. I didn't like the proper made piano covers at all. I could only get black, shiny quilted ones like an old puffer jacket.
In the end I used an old cottage bedspread, which has padding and has now been on the piano for a number of years. I like it because the lighter coloring brightens the room.
You probably weren't looking for that response, but there are some very nice padded bed spreads which are a lot cheaper than piano made covers. Mine is more to keep the dust off, and insulate from temperature and humidity. Being an upright your options are greater as you only have to get a cover that is square in shape.
It is a breathable cover, so I it seems to allowing the heat to escape.
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10 hours ago, Nathanael_I said:
Driving from Canberra to Tumut was my first time driving on the left side of the road. So many roundabouts getting out of Canberra! But all was well. I've now navigate the journey twice without incident. If you've had opportunity to visit the factory and play one of the instruments you are in very rare company, all things considered. The pianos are mostly in private homes, but a few exist at the factory, in school/conservatory concert halls in Australia and one or two studios. Here in the USA, they are much thinner on the ground - I think there's two in private homes? So playing one does take an effort for most. I'm glad you experienced it! In my opinion, Wayne is a national treasure for Australia!
I moved down from the snow country to Canberra, and lived there 26 years, then retired closer to the coast. Most people mention the roundabouts in Canberra
Your driving experience reminds me of the first time I rented a car in the US. Landing in Albuquerque at midnight, and driving out of the airport on the right side of the road in the dark whilst desperately tired after 30 hours in the air! Wayne has picked a nice part of the world to set up shop
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I am positive about the idea, though when a new product does come out, users often post a thread about it pretty rapidly in the guise of asking peoples' opinion of it, so one way or the other, if it's a product worth knowing about, we seem to find out on the grapevine quickly anyway!
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Is this of any use?
It's 16 in and 8 out. With USB and software interface
it says it's in stock and is $588.
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Congratulations on your instrumental journey, I am so envious! The nearest claim I will ever have to this, is that I lived in the mountains near Tumut, my "big smoke" shopping town, and my kids were born in the area. (Long before Wayne moved there though.)
Like you, I am excited about the continued evolution of the acoustic piano, sadly the nearest I could ever come to experiencing a Stuart & Sons piano is to go for a drive and get a factory tour!
best of luck!
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I know my experience is not quite what you're talking about here but,
I've often mentioned surround setups with my rigs in various places. It's usually been responded with deathly silence. For the gigging musician it's not a thing. But for me as a studio only dude, it's bread a butter. I spend a lot of time playing and absorbing myself in my sound fields. All my DAW setup templates are all about surround!
I usually have things set up with the instrument sound field spread across the front and process it via tailored reverb for the rear. I don't tend to place instruments around 360 though. A flat lifeless 2 dimension stereo field just doesn't cut it for me anymore
I've long been playing around with creating a surround setup with digital piano/controller against a wall, with the gear all mounted with the keyboard. (which is more in line with your example?), I know the techniques are pretty common, but with lots of tweaking, speaker placement and reverb timing/parameters, I now have an immersive sound field using 4 Genelec monitors mounted in the same plane against a wall. It's got to be heard to be believed. To hear it is the only way
Unfortunately I've only been able to achieve this by configuring it through my DAW. I also use the 4 outputs of my Montage8 in the studio, but I've never found and easy way to send the onboard sounds in surround as standalone. Same problem I tried with my Kronos. So I have to send it as external through the DAW and back out the audio outputs.
I've asked on forums if anyone knows how to set up surround on the Montage or Kronos internally, I'd appreciate advice
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Nice features on the Nautilus. I think they are a great instrument if you don't own a Kronos and want to get into it. I wouldn't though, be selling my Kronos for one. I don't really consider it an upgrade, but it seems entirely rational in today's world that Korg have progressed to this type of configuration. At least there are less moving parts to wear out, and still retaining the functionality in some form. 👍
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Thanks David!
I am relatively new to contributing, but have to confess, have been a bit of a lurker for many years, partly because I've not had the opportunity to visit here regularly over the years, but also have finally built up a bit of "courage" to post my thoughts too
As far as Bandcamp is concerned, I like the ability to purchase an artist's entire collection for a discount. If I like their music, it's worth supporting them in further creations. I enjoy it when I get a personal email from the artist, thanking me for buying their whole collection. It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling, and I hope they will remember me when they become rich and famous...ha!
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On 9/19/2022 at 11:04 PM, vonnor said:
Got myself a birthday present...
~ vonnor
Congrats
I picked up one of these a few months ago. It's build quality took me back to the good ol' days. To me it's the best of both worlds....Built like a tank of yestayear, with the all the mod cons of today. IMHO, It sounds as cool as it looks!
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I want one!!
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It's heartening to see that other people are realising music is an "experience" rather than a consumable commodity!
I've never used Spotify or any other streaming service. I have my own historic music collection, spanning way back
My collection has sentimental value, and a life of associating memories.
It's the same as cloud services, I don't trust my data to be saved outside of my own control. I frequently listen to new music put up by artists on Bandcamp etc, and if I like it, I will support artists and purchase it and have my own copy saved locally for as long as it serves me, thank you very much! This music will also then go one to create my own personal life experiences through association with it.
Besides, my musical tastes are too eclectric and non mainstream for these services. I much enjoy supporting the the less known budding artists, like myself,
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I don't gig, but I've been using some Airpod Pros for some time just as noise cancelling/ EQ while playing my acoustic grand. I suffer from ageing ears, and hyperacusis.
They do a really good job of EQing the sound, (something I can only only normally do with my studio gear). The only thing I find, is the dynamic nature of their operation causes them to change sound characteristics if I stop playing for a few seconds, but seem to regain it again after a few seconds. A bit off putting, but worth it for the effect on my ears.
Bluetooth latency is not an issue for me as I don't use them for monitoring any of my other gear. I know better than to use bluetooth I own while playing my keys live.
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I agree with your philosophy in general, however I have a slightly shifted frame of reference as to what is acceptable. I have mentioned in another thread that I enjoy using Sonuscore - The Orchestra, as it has some very clever use of arpeggiators --(You still need to play meaningful keyboard input to produce anything reasonable though).
That being said it just takes performance creativity to another level. It's end purpose for me is not just a composer tool for recording, rather a performance macro, but has many elements allowing composition in prep for a realtime performance also.
I definitely draw the line at pre-composed sound bites though. There's no creativity in using someone else's prerecorded loops. I feel very strongly about that!
I view the plugins that I use just as another tool to automate my own creativity, just like laying tracks in a DAW.
(Once upon a time there were some folk who thought using sequencers, arpeggiators or DAW's was cheating.)
I can't speak for all of these automation plugins, but I can tell you the ones I use are all about laying down my own "articulated sequences" for each orchestral section, just as you would compose a rhythm track in a drum machine, or traditional sequencer. You could also think of it a a very specialised mini DAW with sequencer articulations crafted for orchestral instruments.
Certainly the ones I use only appear when looking on the surface that they are nothing more than one finger regurgitations if you just use the preloaded templates, and even then they require some musical creativity to get a meaningful piece of music out without sounding like rubbish, or the cliche'd movie riffs. But if you dive deeper, you have the same opportunity as any other composition automating tool to create your individual sound.
I too have a miriad of other non orchestral plugins which contain automation, that I never use, as I just focus on the individual instrument value.
Having said all that, I spend more time just composing purely with piano, and no other tools.
I could go into more details, as there's always more to explain, but I'll stop it there for now
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I'm torn between keeping gear for the long term investment, and the psychological burden of having to keep it in serviceable condition. A lot of stuff I've bought and sold over the past few years is a product of our online culture now, where you can't just go into a music store and try things out before you decide to purchase. You are restricted to reviews and opinions, including your own and hopefully make the right decision. Unfortunately where I live, the option to try and return is too costly because of my remote location and the cost of freighting.
On the up side, I'm a lot more immune to some of my general living cost increases. I don't use gas for heating and have recently upgraded my solar with battery storage, so can run my studio with my own energy without fear of electricity costs. I never use grid power now, and have my own water supply too, so wouldn't notice the world coming to a stop until my food ran out
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I've always been puzzled how the US has had such cheap prices for gear. Living in Australia, prices have always been a bit more, partly due to exchange rate, and partly market size. It surely couldn't be due to shipping, as much of the gear is produced geographically closer to us here than US or Europe. As they say...go figure🤔
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2 hours ago, AUSSIEKEYS said:
Anyone else sell an instrument and get to gig on it at its new location.
I did give my granddaughter my Casio PX560 to learn on, so I get to play it when I visit her and my grandson in Melbourne
Probably doesn't count, but I could have sold it and bought her something a little bit more economic, but then I would never have seen it again.
I dread the thought of ever moving from the house I have retired in, as the day will come that I have to downsize, so sadly my piano will probably go then too
ps. I did see your ad online, it must have had a spectacular finish when new, mine is the traditional ebony, but I did ponder getting a rosewood kind of finish myself
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Congratulations on your sale! And a nice finalisation and twist to its fate for you on this long weekend!
I don't know if you ever used to get a piano tuner in.
I have mine done once a year as a condition of it's warranty, and I use a very good tuner from over your way who comes to our town from Inverloch, and goes around for the week tuning everyone's piano including the schools.
Hopefully you won't miss it too much, and have some good memories, and recordings of it?
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1 minute ago, bill5 said:
? Like? The Spitfire orchestral mention was one I missed, but some of this stuff I'm not familiar with, so curious.
I also like ob-xD for a very nice (and free) Oberheim thing.
I didn't list Spitfire, which I also have, as it's not a synth, but gosh it has some fine orchestral stuff! That goes too for the Project SAM free orchestra.
My favourite though is the Sonuscore Orchestra Complete 2. Very clever use of arpeggiator engines I spend more time noodling and composing with that than anything else. It's a lot of fun.
My most used Logic template has Sonuscore, and Ominsiphere loaded by default.
Sorry! ............Now back to the synth topic
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6 hours ago, bill5 said:
Me:
- Vital (free too!)
- Absynth
- Hive
- Dune
- Diva
- Zebra/Zebralette
- Full Bucket and Messiah synths for retro (also free)
I may be stating the obvious here, but these type of "confessions", I always find very interesting. As it's a way to discover worthy software which you might otherwise never have the fortune to cross paths with. I've ventured into new software, (and hardware) purely from reading about what others talk about
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22 minutes ago, EB5AGV said:
It would need a "retrospective capture" just in case you forgot to press the record button!
I'd like a retrospective button that captures everything I've done before this latest Spectrasonic update
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Dawless a thing?
in The Keyboard Corner
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I love these rambling wastes of time 😄......What was the question again?🤭