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1 hour ago, stoken6 said:
"25 Years and Beyond" doesn't sound promising. It suggests an announcement about the company, not the products.
Cheers, Mike.
That was my gut feeling too!
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9 minutes ago, Ed A. said:
Might also be this, an 88 note hardware version of Arturia Analog Lab V software called AstroLab:
https://device.report/arturia/astrolab-88
The name "AstroLab" would be consistent with the astronaut in Arturia's promo video.
It could be a deliberate tactic to get the speculation hot by deliberately inserting connections to their affairs and product, that will have nothing to do with their news.
I've seen that time and time again.
I guess they would have a lot of fun playing games with the public. Maybe sharpening the impact of the real announcement.
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4 minutes ago, D. Gauss said:
Yup. i.e. years ago, there was a guy, i forget his name, up near the Canadian/NY border who used to play the piano with his penis. Definitely lessens the toll on the fingers, but...
Well, he was a clever dick then wasn't he? 😁
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1 hour ago, stoken6 said:
No 5-pin MIDI on the Liano. Do any other boards share the action?
Cheers, Mike.
I believe it's the same action as the Kronos LS
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Maybe an ios app of their Moog Modular that runs on an Apple watch!
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1 hour ago, J.F.N. said:
Unfortunately not a firmware update for Beatstep Pro, such a great concept but unfortunately seems to have turned into abandonware.
I used to have a couple of those. I was intending to keep them "forever", but the touch sensitive rubber on the knobs went intolerably sticky to touch, and they were too horrible to use. So I sold them. I hate that tacky degrading rubbery feel.
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I suppose it could be anything music related.
I just hope they don't completely discontinue their signature products. I've not purchased much from them recently, but I do have in mind buying a couple of things they still list currently, a bit further down the track....though as naive as that might be.
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Maybe they're moving into lucrative peanut farming...... or subscription hardware which self destructs upon cancellation 😁👍
Whatever it is, they make it sound like a radical new direction. Can we trust them not to over hype the pre-announcement?
I'm hyperventilating just anticipating it!😆
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I notice in Oz, Lianos are selling incredibly cheap at the moment. Like about the equivalent of $300 USD.
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42 minutes ago, Tom Williams said:
Of course, now that you've brought it up, I'll probably be miserable tomorrow.
oops! sorry. 😬
I did think of trying a bit of felt under the "fallboard" edge above the back of the keys, as that's where it sounds like it's hitting. I know you said you had IEM's in, but I could here it with open back 'phones on.
it may also be down to my style of playing too, as playing slow or gentle passages isn't a problem, only faster staccato with quick key release.
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Yes, I would be wary of any immune suppressants like biologics if I had other issues to worry about too. At least biologics have the least side effects and are considered the safest compared to other immunosuppressant drugs. But there's always a risk with any of them. They don't even know what the long term health affects of them are because they haven't been around long enough.
When it comes to joint maintenance, I'm still finding being as active with lots of rest inbetween to help a lot.
Sadly, painkillers are occassionally my go to, for some stamina when playing piano. But the risk is worth it vs not playing!
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4 minutes ago, marino said:
Since about 10 months I've been suffering from an arthritic disease linked, it seems, to my very serious psoriasis, and possibly a couple of other causes as well.
I can relate to this. I've had psoriasis for many years, and wonder if psoriatic arthritis is also in the mix. Thankfully, I got on to it fairly early, and am on an expensive biologic which has been an absolute miracle cure for the skin, but worry about the connective tissue and my joints still.
I have good days where I can play almost any keyboard in comfort, then without warning other days, I last about 10 mins. In retrospect, I have wasted a lot of money changing hardware, only to have the symptoms catch up to me again😕
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3 hours ago, Baldwin Funster said:
I'm not surprised hard piano players develop arthritis and repetitive stress injuries.
Yes in reading what you are saying, I realised my wording was a bit sloppy. I don't exactly slam my keys hard, in fact I keep them in great condition for many years.
For me the point is my technique in the left hand is often over extended for the finer fingers, rather than playing too hard. And I suspect that arthritis is becoming a problem for my playing, not really the cause of it.🤔
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28 minutes ago, Tom Williams said:
I have a little bit of arthritis starting -- certain bend positions on my wrists can be quite painful -- but my problem is mostly wimpy forearm muscles. I get tennis elbow pretty quickly, and have had my thumbs cramp into immobility while driving home from gigs. The villain seems to be my PX-5S, which has a lovely sound but a pretty heavy (for me) action.
So now for piano I have gone with a Nektar Impact GXP88 controller to drive a MIDI channel in my PC4-7. It's semi-weighted, almost identical to the Kurzweil. I seem to be able to go all evening playing piano on it.
How do you find the keybed noise on the GPX88? I have a GPX61 which I purchased originally for portability with piano vst's, before I bought a Keystage. The Nektar does have quite good velocity response, but I find the key slap on it's up return to be quite loud. But then if you're gigging in a loud environment, maybe that's not a problem?
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4 hours ago, MPN21 said:
I used to pound really hard with my left hand playing ragtime type of stuff. It must have taken a toll on my fingers. The arthritis in my left hand pinky got worse. Last year a forum member suggested that I buy a Casiotone when I mentioned I was looking for a 73 key for gigs, travel, and the like. I bought a Casio S1. I began to use it more and my fingers are happier. At the time, I should paid more attention to Anotherscott's posts on the Casio CTS-500. I wanted more of the Casio S1 and just ordered a CTS-500. It sells for $379, but noticed that my favorite store B&H has it for $349. Plus, I used their Payboo card so that they take care of the sales tax for me as long as I pay it off in the first month.
I dropped the idea of getting a 73 key, but instead I am looking at the Korg Liano 88 for its semi-weighted keys due to my arthritis. I have a Numa Compact 2x, but I think the keys are a little too short; uncomfortable to play pianistic pieces on it especially the black keys.
This is a topic I've been thinking more about too.
I was going to post a thread at some stage myself, asking for opinions and strategies, but I know there has been many discussions in the past of this very issue.
I'm starting to feel the effects of ageing fingers, and am trying to assess the best strategy for the future to help slow down the progression. If I was not able to play piano in the future due to this I'd be absolutely devastated!
Your NC2X does have quite a bit of spring resistance, so may not serve you best with arthritic fingers. I can perhaps give you impressions and what I'm feeling that is sort of helping for me. But, I am very much in the, "not really sure what the best course of action will be for me down the track" mode. And I may be asking for advice around here as my individual circumstance changes. I'm not even sure if it's just arthritis I'm dealing with, and suspect soft connective tissue may be involved too, making it tricky to find the right balance of weight and resistance.
I too, have trouble with my left hand more than my right. Mainly because I tend to play bass octaves with thumb and pinky extended a lot. As it is, I've always suffered from a bit of hyper-extension in general, and when I hear some folk complain of not being able to comfortably reach just octaves, though I've got fairly small hands, I find many decades of practice makes it effortless to reach at least 13 whole notes. I also tend to slam the bass with my little fingers a bit more than I should. The down side is the hands are not what they used to be.
In using semi weighted actions, I've found surprisingly, that they not only don't improve the situation, but can make the pain worse. I think it has to do with muscle "follow through" needed because of the lack of momentum it has, that a well balanced weighted action has in order to express a certain note length.
The action behavior that seems to allow my hands the most playing stamina, is still in fact a weighted action, but one that is free moving, with little to no damping, is counterbalanced so that the momentum is kept up with caressing keystrokes.
My acoustic grand gives my hands very little trouble at this stage, and I think for the reasons I've described. I also think the acoustic is less of a problem, because being only piano, the playing style doesn't require longer periods of holding down keys for sustain pads etc.
I own a number of instruments, and value the differences in actions. One of the reasons I keep all of them is because I find playing periodically on different feeling actions seems to help my hands by giving them muscular variety and a bit of a rest from same effort of one action.
It's why my favourite and least tiring actions to play of late are my Montage M8X GEX weighted, and my SL Numa Piano X GT for an uncannily similar feel.
They are both free moving, nimble and quite light weighting wise, mainly because the balance is good, as the keys themselves are quite solid.
Actions which are sluggish, though I have no trouble playing and expressing with them and like the feel of them, my hands just can't cope for too long on them anymore.
I haven't tried the Liano with arthritis in mind, but I did play a Kronos LS when they were first released, and didn't mind the feel, as I believe it's the same action as the Liano.
Not sure whether my ramblings and thoughts are relevant or of any use to you, we all experience these issues differently, but I just wanted to point out that their are so many variations in the feel of weighted actions that could also be potentially better for your fingers than some of the semi weighted 73's or 88's.
I'm indeed starting to wonder also, what I'm going to do in the long term.
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oh good grief! How would I have the time to play with 100 of those?😁
We all talk about Korg's ios synth apps, Yamaha seem I little quieter with theirs. Not crossed paths with it before.
We really have so many options these days. It's time to take stock and consciously only focus on what really floats our boat.
Nice to check out the newest offerings, but not necessarily take everything onboard. This MS5 is one example for me to take an interest in but not add to my already bloated collection!
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12 minutes ago, J.F.N. said:
Today, replaced by mobile phone camera 🤣
Yes, but then you'd have to have a mobile phone for every patch. A paper book is much more compact than say, 100 mobile phones😁
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3 hours ago, AnotherScott said:
Well, there was one solution I saw (I wish I remember where!), a set of mechanical arms that physically moved the knobs and sliders into the desired positions when you recalled a preset.
Roland did have a solution for this. I remember getting a book of printed SH5 templates with the synth. When you set up a sound you wanted to keep, you'd pencil the knob positions on the front panel template. Each filled-in page was a patch!
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OMG, I can't believe it's been resurrected. I used to own an SH5 but my memories of it aren't so romantic. This revision sounds like it has modern circuit stabilization, as it sounds a lot more rock solid than the original. Is that onboard reverb I hear in the demo? Maybe not so authentic.
The SH5's diagonally cut box lid always reminded me of a sewing machine, and it was quite weighty of course. I found it to be more of a one trick pony. Potentially great signature sounds, but not a synth to own as your only keyboard, even back then. It was difficult to keep tuned for long and you were constantly fiddling the knobs.
A shocking thought for some folk, but I never sold it, I disassembled it for parts, and threw the case away. It had very nice shielded coaxial audio cable between the modules, and fully solder dipped circuit board tracks, built to last even in the tropics. I ended up making a rack mount MIDI switch box with all that nice shielded cable.
Feel free to chastise me over it.😬
Sorry for the reminiscing😁
The MS5, probably not a synth for me either
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I'm trying to understand the differences for choosing the CS12 over the P1. The mix of physical controls is different, you get the motorized master fader and the CS12 is aimed at Logic only?
But the P1 will do Logic along with the other DAW's. If you want channel faders, is the P1 still an option?
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On a different different note.
I wonder if I have found a new bug in the latest firmware update? Or was it there before, and I didn't notice?
I have a Korg DS1H damper plugged in, and I noticed when I sustain, say a few piano notes while doing an octave transpose, letting off the damper doesn't release the existing notes, even if they are notes around C4 which doesn't scale off the end of the keyboard. Perhaps other short actions do this? I've not had occasion to notice. I generally have no reason to do this on my 88 weighted actions, so have nothing to compare to.
...maybe they have inadvertently introduced the sostenuto function into the firmware update🤔
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18 hours ago, Paul Woodward said:
On a different note, I read somewhere that the end cheeks were a cheap laminate. Probably just someone being negative, but they are solid wood.
Could have fooled me. I thought they were wood with the convincing grain, then I touched them and they felt like good quality plastic, and now they seem to be wood. In any case, they are nicely finished. The wood must be very highly polished and have a polyester finish.
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3 minutes ago, marino said:
Phew. I had 'started' this thread with the plea of not turning it into a pots vs. encoders debate
Sorry, I won't mention it again🤐
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40 minutes ago, marino said:
Speaking of encoders... yes, there are encoders on the Summit: exactly one, beside the display. All other are pots. I don't think I have to repeat how much I dislike this arrangement.
I know you say.. but they have pots. I find it curious how so many people decry the use of pots nowadays, but at the same time want to recreate the authentic analog hardware.
Most analog synths back in the 70's didn't have rotary encoders, so I guess we are only wanting to acknowledge the best bits of them, and what we really want is a hybrid analog synth full of today's tech?
Arturia: A new chapter awaits…
in The Keyboard Corner
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As a Logic Pro user I feel that possibility may be of benefit to me financially, though I'd say very unlikely. Maybe if they were a software company only, I could see it conceivable, unless they continued trading under the Arturia name.
I originally purchased Camel Audio's Alchemy and all the extra libraries when they were their own company. Then it was consumed by Apple and incorporated into Logic. Luckily, I still have installed all the extra libraries not included with Logic version, which continued to work. So I guess I gained from that acquisition.
I use a number of included plugins in Logic which were all independent companies at some stage. But I don't go back far enough with Macs to have used Logic before it was independently not called that. I'd say I have benefited from some of these very expensive quality plugins being sucked into Logic.
My gut feeling though, is that there is some sort of merge/takeover with some other company, likely Europe based?
It's already into the evening of the 9th here in Oz, so I'll have to wake to the news in the morning🤔