Music Bird

I like the points everyone brings up in the discussions. Guitarists and keybaordists both have their struggles.

For me it"s a 9.5 to a 10 out of 10, If talking about skills on weighted keys stuff, probably 5 out of 10 since I prefer not to use piano in that way.

Mine too. I gotta work on one of my neighbors to acquire a real one. Oh Paoloooo.... Mark, we do have another neighbor who already has one! Tom That said, this plugin sounds fantastic... I've played the real one at Tom's studio and perhaps it will not be 100% of course due to the tubes, but I love what I'm hearing on this demo. Plugins really have gone a long way since the late '90s when one could immediately tell a soft synth from a real one. Today I don't think many people would be able to tell the difference Wow I"m also local from around the same area (Alexandria Virginia) but I"ve never had experience with synths like that.

Yeah, I don"t usually play songs with the exact sounds, I usually try to go for the closest tone on my MX49. It sounds like a Roland synth layered with maybe a DX7.

Could you post a song or 2 that has this sound? Is it a song from another country this is used in?

I personally would want to spend up to $250 on a Kronos or Montage, I don"t understand how it doesn"t work that way.

If it"s anything, it"s a patch on Omnisphere or Nexus.

What about a 75-90% price reduction? I know it sounds like a lot, but it makes sense to me.

I use a Yamaha MX49, it"s very light, maybe the MX61 is a bit high priced, but it"s light. I also have a Minilogue for analog stuff. My lightest solution would be a Yamaha MX49 and an old Yamaha PSS or CasioTone of some sort on the top. Maybe a PSS-480 or PSS-470 or Casio MT-65/68 or HT-700.

I think I would bring an old Korg Triton or X5. I think the latter is a metal standard. I use an MX49, but I"ve remembered trying an old Triton in a music store back when I was a kid and it sounded good. Some good keyboards for general rock would be any old ROMpler at least even a Korg X5D or Korg M1, which is what all the black metal bands used to use. Anything that has good organ, strings, brass, piano, Rhodes or Wurlitzer, and a few classic synth sounds like the Jump, Final Countdown, or other similar synth brass or 80"s sounds,

I feel like Kronos and those high end gear would be better off at 75-90% of the original price. Now that"s a deal I wouldn"t turn down! I think stuff like Kronos, Nord Stage, and Montage are way overpriced, and same with arranger keyboards with any sort of good programmability like the PSR-s series or Genos.

Happy birbthday!

Do you have a video? What genres were you doing? How are you enjoying the MODX?

Yeah the songs they used it on were Because (synth leads) Maxwell"s Silver Hammer (solo near end) She"s So Heavy (noise) Here Comes The Sun (lead synth) And The Monkees, The Byrd"s, Simon & Garfunkel, and many others experimented with the Moog including the Temptations and other Motown groups (the Motown studios were among the first Moog Modular owners).

Unfortunately my church just has an organist, and for one mass, a few guitars, a clarinet, and they also have a Yamaha DGX something for keys but sadly they don"t mess with the accompaniment or non-piano voices.

I know Keith was a Korg sponsor at the time. So he used the Korg PS-3300 and 3100 models for synth stuff.

I am a bit on the unique side of toys sitting in my bedroom studio, I have a bunch of stuffed animals, rubber chickens and ducks, rubber animal figures, and some vintage squeeze toys from the 60"s and 70"s and one or two from the 90"s. But then my music studio has some toy or childish instruments like toy percussion and 2 recorders, a slide whistle, and a Melodica.

That reminded me of Wendy Carlos" work on Switched-On Bach.

Sadly, in my area (Northern Virginia) there aren"t any synth specific shops other than Guitar Center, a few pawn shops (like one called Royal Pawn), and some thrift shops. I barely have found anything other than a Motif 6 but someone bought it before I could, and I already have an MX49 anyways. I have known my music teacher from high school since I was in high school and he helped me get my MX49 and my Minilogue!

If it wanted to be like 1969 in terms of manufacturing, much more would be made in Japan instead of China.

I can agree 1 million percent on that we need to stop racism and injustice. And I agree that the COVID is making bad stuff happen more often. We need a global anthem on the level of 'Ain"t No Mountain High Enough" or 'We Shall Overcome" for the young generation. I agree that it"s like 1969. First off, 1969 was the beginning of rights for many blacks and other minorities since the Civil Rights Act had just come out 1964-1965. Second off, we had technological advancements, like the Minotaur being a hit in the radio, much like 40-50 years before jazz coming into existence. I wonder if past all these problems, there will be a whole new genre, as it"s been 100 years since the first jazz record came out, and around 65 since rock first charted. Not saying it"ll happen, but it"ll be pretty cool if it does. Probably will be based off of live instruments mixed with synthesizers and drum machines. Like a new generation"s equivalent of jazz and rock. The only thing I"m ticked off about is that the synthesizers subreddit got locked up for 5 days.

Well if you"re making a synth lead for an 80"s cartoon, I"d say it would be something like a square or saw wave with a highly resonant filter envelope. For brass people would be using 2 sawtooth waves with a filter and/or pitch envelope. For a cotton ear harpsichord you could take a harpsichord patch and filter it a little.

When will the next one be? I want to join the next one, you all seem like pretty cool people (from seeing this forum).

Wow that"s actually pretty cool!

I can"t wait to do this again even though I didn"t make it, I"d want to do this again sometime.