Baggypants

Maybe the forum is slowing to a crawl because the offtopics are putting people off.

5 pin din isn't important to me at all any more. My midi leads live in the box with the 9-pin d-sub serial lead, old vga cables and one 25-pin d-sub to centronix printer cable. Either it connects to a computer (pc or rpi) or I just record audio off it and have it on a backing track.

Synth is based on the Roland Gaia, and there's two them. And I bloody love that little looper. You can set it up to trigger a rhythm loop and start the loop record when you hit the keys. People I play to like a little loop action sandwiched in a set. "Only time will tell"? it's been ten years. I think it's proven itself.

"How's your new loudspeaker?" "Really quiet" 😁

There are 120 pages of people saying "What about this, why not that?" It drives me wild when the YC-61 is mentioned, and yet is over twice the price of a VR-09 here (1500 vs 660). There is nothing that matches the VR-09 on features, AT THE SAME PRICE. NOTHING Either the alternatives don't have drawbars, or a looper, or din ports, or a programmable VA synth, or "as good" romples, or they are heavier, or they don't run on AA batteries, or they are more expensive, there is always, always, always, some compromise in the competitors. That's not to say the VR doesn't have it's own set of compromises.

We all play live when we record the tracks that we mime along to during the gig.

Probably meant min to max size.

Now I'm not sure if I think they are too. 🤔

TWO seperate witches! They'd better be proper crones and not just mall goths.

The absolute dirt cheapest method is to see if you can put one of the keyboards outputs into an aux input of another. Then buy a DI box with a link output as you can put the output of the "main" keyboard into the DI. Then take the link output from the DI to the amp, and the main output from the DI to the desk, with the added benefit you'll also have a balanced output for the longer run to the desk. I used it loads, Mininova 1/4" jacks into VR09 stereo aux in, VR09 mono out into DI, DI link to amp an DI out to desk. Easy to transport and bomb proof.

128, otherwiseI feel like I'm not gettting value-for-money from my midi modules.

Yes, I use a pi 4 version, and I'd agree with you about pianoteq. But I've not had issues with layency. The reports are the pi 5 version is much more performant. You can absolutly install other synthesis engines as long as they are available for the pi. I'm not going to get into a discussion with you about the ins and outs of a leslie simulation as I know you hold strong opinions about that. For me the leslie is at least as good as the VR09 which I own. You can here some demos here https://zynthian.org/engines/_engine-list/engine-setbfree Anyway, OP doesn't want the clonewheel aspect of the VR.

What are you after really? A module that does a clonewheel, rompler and VA synth which can also play backing tracks and has a looper thrown in for good measure? Or just one or a combination of those things? If you want to get weird then https://zynthian.org _does_ do all of those things, and also has a sequencer.

People complained about it. They're complaining about the opposite happening here. That was my whole point.

I disagree. I very much doubt Herbie Hancock touring using only a Bontempi 15 4909 would be accepted by the paying fans, or Herbie. (While I don't doubt he could make a good fist of it). He picked those instruments because they were suitable replacements that had the qualities he needed.