[Introducing UB-Xa]

On 2/20/2024 at 9:08 PM, David Emm said:

After years at this, I do tend to wonder what personal issues underly someone foaming at the mouth over a synth. Last time I looked, its already so esoteric that the argument comes off like a junior high fist fight.

Objectively, the Triceratops is the best of all the dinosaurs.

[Turning soft instruments into hardware, it's happening]

2 hours ago, humannoyed said:

A bump for a three yr old Aprils Fools post on another April 1. I still think the  idea presented in my first post could be viable, but the wish here by Stefan011 is something that is probably most viable.  Didn’t get around to writing it today, but this years April Fools was going to be about Arturia beating NI to this very thing by putting some silicon into their latest controller, and be able to run their entire software collection stand alone. Takers?

 

Hey, be glad I pull your leg only one day a year and not 365 like some folks!

 

[The Linux development]

4 hours ago, jazzpiano88 said:

Give me a box.   Just one example.

 

Seems irrelivent in a Linux thread, but it's good you've found your workflow. Different things work for different people, and their budgets.

[The Linux development]

If your running Fedora it's worth adding the Audinux repository if you haven't already.

[OT: Alternatives to You-Tube]

2 hours ago, JamPro said:

 

I guess I should re-phrase the question.  I would like to explore some alternatives to You-Tube that do not involve a large corporation geared towards web monopoly and homogenization - i.e not You-Tube, Facebook, Tik-Tok, or Instagram, and the like.  Open-source would be a plus.

Peertube

[OT: Alternatives to You-Tube]

2 hours ago, Franz Schiller said:

Vimeo

Pretty sure Vimeo went b2b only.

 

Edit, they still have a free plan. Good luck finding out what it offers!

[Korg Forum???]

On 3/13/2024 at 5:37 PM, Radagast said:

Maybe the people running it are just fed up with Korg doing nothing more than create products from the raspberry pi.

Oh wow. People do get riled up about the oddest things. I can understand getting fixated on the type of analogue filter chip used in a board, but the cpu? Wild. It would be like getting worked up because a softsynth was complied with Clang instead of MSBuild.

[Do any of you regularly gig with an expensive keyboard?]

On 2/14/2024 at 4:33 PM, Stokely said:

I can vouch for that.  When my son was on his way to becoming a "band nerd" (and very glad I was!), he picked trumpet.  Now, a good trumpet is expensive.  A good french horn or tuba is EXPENSIVE.

I had a friend who played cello for the Liverpool Phil. He had one of the most expensive instruments in the orchestra but he shut down inquiring people with "It's worth more than my house, but I live in a tent anyway"

[A brilliant keytar performance]

None of those guys have a skullett.

 

 

[probs a bit OT, but keytar player -v- guitar player as a solo with trax/drm machine...]

Maybe take some tips from this guy

 

 

Specifically, the skullett.

[Introducing UB-Xa]

19 hours ago, The Real MC said:

B******'s long established history of plagiarism is an indisputable fact, their record of suing online critics is an indisputable fact.

 

These are indisputable facts.

 

I can choose to buy from the company, even though these facts are true. I, personally, don't think they are that relevent when I'm picking a musical instrument.

 

You've made your point. Three times. Thank you for saying that you are stopping, even though you chose to do it in the most ostentatious and self aggrandising manner.

[Introducing UB-Xa]

4 hours ago, The Real MC said:

 

Yawn, another b****** troll using typical Alinsky deflection tactics to draw focus away from Uli's well established history of plagiarism and lawsuits against critics.  Trolls have been using that tired manipulation for over twenty years on other discussion forums.  That does not belong here, keep that garbage on Gearspace.

Give it a rest, you've made your

point and for some reason I can't put you on my ignore list. So I'm having to ask you to stop.

[To Hardware or Software or Both--Which to Play?]

Put the software in hardware like https://zynthian.org

[OT - Rant : The guitar player and his view on keyboard amps]

I once told a guitar player I thought his signal was clipping quite a bit and he should back off his preamp to get a cleaner tone.

 

He didn't appreciate it.

[Let's see your 70's rig]

I don't have any pics of my rig from the 70s, so you are just going to have to imagine a 4yo with a bowl haircut playing a melodica.

[Introducing UB-Xa]

On 11/27/2023 at 5:59 AM, TomKittel said:

We are all spoiled by cheap overseas throwaway goods we are flooded with these days.

Deepmind was designed mostly by a team in the UK. 

[Introducing UB-Xa]

A DX7? But why?

[Introducing UB-Xa]

 

 

5 hours ago, Jim Alfredson said:

As I and others have said, if they didn't try to sell this as an Oberheim, it would actually be an more intriguing product.

 

Clonewheel Jim has spoken!

[Roland V-Combo VR-09]

Volume pedal issue

 

https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/damperexpression-pedal-guide

[I bought a niche wierdo keyboard!]

10 hours ago, Dave Weiser said:

My 8-yr old and I both just peed ourselves while watching this video. 

Show them this then.

 

 

[I bought a niche wierdo keyboard!]

I do have a theory that a Japanese music exec went to the USA for a holiday in the 60's and his wife saw the Alvin and the Chipmunks on TV and said it was cute. And that's why JPop sounds the way it does.

[I bought a niche wierdo keyboard!]

4 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

I get how vocaloid works.   But how does the keyboard get the words and syllables right?  Are the syllables offset if you improvise on the melody?

 

There's a couple of things you can do. There's a loop button which will either lock and play the next phonic sound over and over, or you can set a short start and end in the existing phrase and loop over that. Or you can switch to a hum sound.

 

You also have buttons to reset you back to the start of a phrase, or shift you to the start of the next one.

[I bought a niche wierdo keyboard!]

I am the very proud owner of the Yamaha VKB-100 VOCALOID.

 

If you're thinking of buying one, it's not for you. The midi out is usb only and you need to turn the setting back on after every powercycle using an app you can only get from the Google Japanese store. The 13 (Thirteen!) built in instruments sound like they're taken from a PSR series and you can only have one effect in action at a time, from a list of reverb, trem, chorus and distortion.

 

However, I love it. It sings* in Japanese, which is why I wanted it.

 

*The singing is a bit jerky

[Bands using backing tracks (esp. keys) for live gigs on a laptop.........thoughts?]

Don't get me started on keyboard players playing godaweful brass patches. Hire some musicians and record a backing track!

[Yamaha Montage M - power switch physically flips "off" on its own!!!]

8 hours ago, Julius D Majestic Studios said:

Hey guys.... I talked to a Yamaha Customer Support rep today and I sent them a link to my video.  They didn't think it was supposed to behave the way mine is.  But they escalated it to get the answer... This is the email that I got back.  

 

It's working properly.  So for the guys who don't experience this... I'm not sure what to say now. 

The obvious answer is their auto-off is broken.

 

Or they're just so dull they've never noticed the switch flick over. Maybe they're a bit deaf and forgetful. Maybe they always run away from the room before the auto-off triggers? Who can fathom these strange inscrutable people.