KorgyPorky

May 27, 2019

Can i add Aphrodites child to that?

Vangellis with Demis Rousos most of their lifespan was a trio..

May 24, 2019

The mac book pro is 32 GB max, you need to ask yourself is that enough for you?

I guess for a live keyboardist mainstage setup, it will be more then enough..

But for a DAW and someon that uses 80 or 90 tracks for film music with large sample libraries? It could be an issue having only 32GB..

But then for a production DAW, i guess people will not use laptops...

For me personally the major issue with apple is their prices for extra memmory and SSDs... thats why i went for the new mac mini, that allows you to upgrade memmory.. combined with an external 2TB SSD...

May 19, 2019

How about a 16 macbook pro with turnable touchscreen?

Untill that time, i will stick to my 2018 mac mini, turned into an all in one with an 18 touchscreen and 2 external drives.. we made a custom box for that... wireless keyboard and touchpad....

Its kind of mainstage in a box..

May 18, 2019

Korg Gadget 2. Also does a lot of other things to tie different apps together, including Korg Module.
Korg typically has 1/2 price sales on IOS apps fairly frequently, but even at full price, not a lot of $$.

I use gadget for many things, but not for uploading a standard midi file, its less suited for this..

If i was the OP, i would start out with gargeband that comes for free with your iphone and ipad.. good sequencer..

May 17, 2019

I'd just go with the Montage 8, if I were you!

As said, there are quite a lot formidable 88 keys that function well as a masterkeyboard..

Montage 8

Kronos

Forte

Are on top of my list..

And if you can live witouth aftertouch, but want superb piano action,

I would add the Roland RD2000 to that list..

And there is a much longer list that qualifies in some Extend but all miss aftertouch

(Modx, fa08, kawai mp7/11,etc etc etc)

If you want a super 88 masterkey, and definately want no sounds, look at the Physis EX4 i believe, it even has aftertouch and anice triplesensor action with real wooden keys).

May 17, 2019

Looked really cool. Tony had one. I think he said it was pretty cool.

I had one around the same time period. It was a very cool piece. I ended up trading it for a Voyager which was far more useful to me at the time.

Sounded great and had a great keyboard. I recall it really had it's own flavor and not the utopia mixture of famous legacy synths. The flip up panel was beautiful to look at but failed miserably in reality. It has to be the top board in a stack and when it was the top board in a stack, you couldn't comfortably reach the controls.

I guess the module version solved all of that?

As I understand it, the Arturia folks are not the biggest fans of the Origin. I guess it was kind of a challenging product for them.

dB

We also know what they didnt like?

in this age where modular is hot, this instrument looks better then ever.

They promised some stuff that never happened. Still, it's a cool piece.

Actually they prommised adding what we now know as the v-colection in modules..

This alone would set the Origin in a class of its own..

In the end it seems the developers at Arturia where allready on other projects the day this released.. and with success, as thesedays Arturia is both successfull in hardware and software..

May 16, 2019

The module was also available without the keyboard.

Yes and it could be mounted in an 18 rack

May 16, 2019

More details/specs of what this keyboard was about, please.

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May 16, 2019

Did anyone ever play/own one of these?

I have only seen them on youtube?

But the design was so prommissing.

Why where these synths not a success?

Maybe in the future Arturia might bring modularrity to the V-collection..

As there is enough proof that they have since the Origin created their synths in modular fashion, allowing them to add these modular things other projects .

Imagine using an arp2600 filter and a comb filter with 2 cs80 and a jupiter 8 oscilator and a whole bunch of modulation. They could even bring the brute and the freak oscilators to the V-collection..

Or just create a new hardware digital/va synth in the fasion of a Macrofreak..with the minifreak oscilators and some of the orrigin/v-collction oscilators filters etc etc..

In my book Arturia is in a perfect position to try another (semi) modular va synth.

May 15, 2019

I would wish i never quit my piano lessons in my puberty

May 15, 2019

Maybe its me, but this seems to still be the most versatile synth out there with a dedicated interface..

Sure there is a lot of analogues and hybrid crossovers, but i dont think anything comes close to the Versatillity and powerfull engine of the Virus ti(2). It can do it all from warm analogue sounds to digitall squeeks

And i keep wondering what would have happened if they would have kept developing this brand any further. The concept is brilliant.. if they would habe just kept adding features, types of oscilators, new dsp, sound improvements.. more processor power.. they would have been in a league of their own by now..but i guess its easier to make a living in the guitar world of things..

May 15, 2019

I dont know, but ispend more money on software then hardware..

And i never see a dime back, where selling unused hardware brings back much of the cost..

Like komplete ultimate, every 2 years a few 100 dollars for an update..

Software solutions are only cheap when you use hacked software

And that does not fit my book..

Where it comes to software, i moved to the ipad, there is enough great synths to keep me busy for years, at acceptable prices... but in general i stick to hardware.. mostly bought used..

The best 88 key controller?

I would say used : kronos, montage, modx, fa08..

all make great controllers and come with great onboard sounds

May 12, 2019

I played the new s3000 series this weekend

The keybed is a step up from the px5s, i liked it quite well

Never liked the sp6 tough...

May 12, 2019

In the last video there's an explanation of some of the design criteria, which I enjoyed.

I don't think this time around the Novation is going to turn many pretty heads, but it's interesting it uses an FPGA and tries to be it's own polysynth.

T.

Based on how well the Peak has sold, and a MAP of $1999.00 it could sell really well. A 5 Octave KB with assignable Split points, and dual 8 voice Peak engines? Lots of sound shaping, two Filters? We'll see how it takes off.

Mike T.

Direct competition for DSI rev2 and the DSI prophet 12..

Same price range, what do you ears tell you?

May 12, 2019

I am looking for new studio monitors to use at home in my studio room with my keyboards and my DAW.. in generally most recordings i do are meant for my own backings..

I have been looking at this short list..
I have a 15% rabbat coupon.. so prices are 15% lower..

-Kali LP6 (188)
-KRK Rokit kr5 G4(199)

At the low end, where espescially the Kali gets some incredible reviews, but how do they compare to my other options at the high end of my set price range?

- Hedd Type 05 (444)
- Adam AX5 (378)
- Eve SC205 (399)

All these 3 have a ribbon tweeter, from which i like the sound..
Now, i have heared all of these except for the Rokits..
But all in other places, so not in a direct comparisson..
I was not be able to find a shop where i can compare several of them..
I did read/watch some reviews, but dont know how tainted they are with commercial influence.

So i am looking for user experiences here

I´m searching small ones for a small room and came across Adam T5V/T7V and Fluid Audio F5.

A.C.

Those are comparable size.

All 5 cones

I compared the Adam T5 to the Adam A5x, there was a huge difference in sound and clarrity, the A5x performed considerably better, according to my ears. There was much more dttail in the mids and highs, and a lot more Base..

May 12, 2019

Actually its simple...

If you dont have a mac, you use cubase..

If you have a Mac, there is no reason to choose Cubase over Logic..

In my opinion these 2 giants suit the same crowd

Both are old fashioned linear daws..

Logic in my opinion does almost evrything a little better at a much lower price..

May 12, 2019

I am looking for new studio monitors to use at home in my studio room with my keyboards and my DAW.. in generally most recordings i do are meant for my own backings..

I have been looking at this short list..

I have a 15% rabbat coupon.. so prices are 15% lower..

-Kali LP6 (188)

-KRK Rokit kr5 G4(199)

At the low end, where espescially the Kali gets some incredible reviews, but how do they compare to my other options at the high end of my set price range?

- Hedd Type 05 (444)

- Adam AX5 (378)

- Eve SC205 (399)

All these 3 have a ribbon tweeter, from which i like the sound..

Now, i have heared all of these except for the Rokits..

But all in other places, so not in a direct comparisson..

I was not be able to find a shop where i can compare several of them..

I did read/watch some reviews, but dont know how tainted they are with commercial influence.

So i am looking for user experiences here

April 28, 2019

There is one thing that allways bogs me and that is polyphony calculations..

So does every layer take 1 voice of polyphony/key struck/activation?

Even if the layer does not get triggered?

Or if the layer is added in cascade mode?

April 16, 2019

I am aesthetically OCD, so having the bottom tier board be less wide than the top-tier board would bug me to no end.

Maybe it just requires a change of mindset...

Or just step back to how Yamaha used to do small keybeds, same width less depth.

April 14, 2019

China, the 1,000 GP.
Bottas on pole, Hamilton, Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault, Haas make up the top 10. With the exception of Mercedes, in driver order.

Maybe a good race, amongst the 2nd tier teams, Ricciardo was only 0.028 of a second slower than Gasly.

But only because Gasly is under performing.

He needs to get his act together fast, or will be replaced

April 7, 2019

Could someone who knows both VAST and MODX explain to me what Superknob does? On any of my Kurzweils I can have a single controller modify 8-10 parameters per layer, including oscillator DSP (though not the base waveform), pitches, filters, LFOs, envelopes, FUNs, and most effects parameters. So what am I missing by not having a superknob?

The above is not a criticism of Yamaha -- it's just an expression of my personal ignorance.

The superknob allows you to assign up to 128 parameters to a single knob

All other knobs, pedals, sliders.. only 1 parameter..

April 5, 2019

Hmmm...yes...I know they are used there....but are these unseen Kurzweils going to help Kurzweil to sell a lot of units?

I constantly see all kinds of versions of the basically same synth....
Wouldn't´t it better to do something new? Something innovative?

If Kurzweil wants to sell more, the answer is Yamaha..

If they figure why Yamaha products of equall quallity sell so much better

Then they might have an answer

Sadly sales figures are not a direct reflection of a products quallity

Innovation is one thing..

But since most people prefer to buy what they allready know..

I fully innovative new product might chase away most of the customers..

If you want to innovate smart, build a new instrument based on what people know

And add innovation on top of that..

For example integrating software and hardware?

If kurzweil created a VST host like Akais VIP

With full controll from the Forte2 which also would function as an audio interface..

Now that would give people everything they love from 2 worlds..

April 5, 2019

Something the Nord has over a CP88 or MP11SE is diversity... it has the widest range of different piano sample sets, and the widest range of non-piano sounds.

Well, the diversity on the Kawais (both mp7 as well as mp11) comes from the fact that they are very very versatile master controllers (much more then the cp88)

I know its not everyones cup of Tea, but for me the future is in combining hardware with software sounds on my macbook and ipad. And thats where the Nord stage is far from diverse...

April 4, 2019

Now they have me wondering,

Will there ever be a grand-stage?

Seems many people love the formfactor for an 88 key, withcontrolls on the front, espescially when used as a lower key.. or just as a controller for a DAW...

I personally think the action might be a GF-C from the description..

April 4, 2019

Just wondering, are those (drum)pads on the left?

Or just look alike push buttons?

If they would be real touch and pressure sensitive pads, it would open some really nice options for the future...

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