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dglcomp

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  1. Well here is a Spirio owner/user that is a piano player,
  2. Of course Rick Wakeman is also a great keytar player, uses it on merlin the magician.
  3. Filmed at her wedding of all places, still waiting on a live version. A song to her Daughter who is in the video (interestingly Sven and Torbjorn fro Royksopp also make cameos)
  4. I know my Aunties square piano was anything but loud and if you did play it in order to get a decent amount of sound out of it you risked it going out of tune!, certainly quite the volume difference between the square piano an her baby grand (which was also fairly old).
  5. Arguably it was eclipsed by it's predecessor rack units that had the monitor output, love using my S330 with a monitor and mouse, plus as they'll output a SCART compatible output with a passive adaptor lead the colour output can easily be fed into a modern screen/TV. I use a cheap 22" LED LCD TV I got ages ago from the local supermarket or an RGB SCART to HDMI adaptor. The GEM S2 is my secret sauce instrument, the amazing keybed and good sound engine plus it's an excellent MIDI controller.
  6. Something a bit interesting as they had their own custom instrument that became a big part of their live set, made so that the four of them could tour without extra musicians. Made by their lead singer/founder and supposedly consisted of back to back pianos, a glockenspiel type device played with doorbell mechanisms, organ and synth (there's a chopped Odyssey and 2600 in the videos) all controlled by the piano keyboard plus an extra keyboard on the "bass" side.
  7. I believe the piece of music used for the Grammy's event was recorded in Stevie Wonder's studio and Howard got to have a jam with Stevie. Also Howard supposedly had quite a few KX5's over the years and only stopped using them when failures became an issue and he switched to the new Korg one, he liked the smaller keys as he felt they worked better for a keytar.
  8. Susanne Sundfør - Mountaineers, What's up with Scandinavians and talent just not fair!
  9. The atrophy modes sure look interesting and appear to be customisable unlike the Sequential vintage knob.
  10. Theres a few for me, starting with the Generalmusic Promega 3, the slanted front panel just makes it look classy. GEM/Generalmusic S Series, love my S2 and the "flush" front panel is a great design decision, difficult to break off a knob or slider, and the unique pitch/mod wheels. The Technics PX-1, one of the first sampled digital pianos Roland RD-1000, a fairly common early digital piano, one of the first good ones, looks so sleek with it's stand and pedal power supply. The Hohner ADAM looks pretty interesting, Something I own, the Motif XS line with it's beautiful duck egg blue colour scheme rather than the more common silver or black, and naturally the DX1 with it's displays.
  11. Behringer have another tiny mixer which is powered over USB the 302USB https://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_xenyx_302_usb.htm. The Flow8's use of standard USB does mean, however, that it has a separate USB connections for power and for the audio interface, so no one lead power/audio. It's probably because it's current draw is more than what most computer USB ports can supply.
  12. And, of course, Poly AT's big advantage is it can still be fully used on split keyboard setup, whereas mono AT has no idea which part of the keyboard is activating the aftertouch so even if you only wanted it to affect the top section of they keyboard and have it turned off on the bottom section if you inadvertently activate the aftertouch when playing the bottom section it will still affect the top section. Handy on keyboards like the S2 where you can have up to 16 keyboard zones.
  13. Well think about the length of cable that light is attached to,, you're seriously not going to use an unbalanced line for that length I suppose if it was a 240V bulb on an American 240V outlet then it sort of would be balanced (180° phase difference like balanced audio), you could even use an XLR-LNE connector so it would still be connected with an "XLR"! You're needlessly complicating the patch, you horrid little man. Santa will be leaving you only QuickDisks for Christmas. Well when life gives you quick disks looks like either a roland S10/20 or Amstrad computer is on the cards. Then again QD's aren't cheap so could be sitting on a goldmine. I will say vintage bulbs are a lot warmer than LED's and I have proof, I can touch an 800lm LED bulb when it's on I wouldn't do that with an old style filament bulb!
  14. One thing that did surprise me was that the ASM Hydrasynth only has 49 keys given the fact that it's the first full size poly AT keyboard in a while. Of course we now have Behringer having a stab at making their own poly AT keyboard that will at minimum be fitted to the DS-80 and hopefully to the Ub-Xa too, and it will be 61 keys! Adding to the list of keyboards with poly AT don't forget Elka with their MK55/88 controllers which I would assume have the same mechanism as the S2/3 given (as I understand) the S series development was started by Elka before Generalmusic acquired the company
  15. For me any professional synth over a cheap and simple mono-synth or a clone that never had aftertouch in the first place and has no real need for it should have aftertouch. Then again the opsix has slim keys and to me that immediately stops me counting it as professional. For what it offers and given it does have 32 voices, to me that needs a full size keybed of a minimum of 49 keys, plus aftertouch would probably be very useful on a digital synth like this.. If full size keys take up to much space then make it a module. Though I do have a GEM S2 so naturally I am used to high quality aftertouch and what it can offer the player.
  16. Well think about the length of cable that light is attached to,, you're seriously not going to use an unbalanced line for that length I suppose if it was a 240V bulb on an American 240V outlet then it sort of would be balanced (180° phase difference like balanced audio), you could even use an XLR-LNE connector so it would still be connected with an "XLR"!
  17. QSG for the 2600 has low been uploaded, and contains something quite interesting in the reverb section. https://mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/docs/P0DNJ/2600_QSG_EN.pdf Looks like there will be another version of the 2600 with a real spring!, I would guess it has the blue Marvin paint job too.
  18. To me that looks like most 90's upright digital pianos, appears to have been chopped i.e. the stand part has been removed and the pedals separated from that. Haven't seen any matches online yet though. Probably primarily sold under the Suzuki brand which might bring up more search results.
  19. I have one of the K+M 18880 with the extra tiers and it works well as a sit down stand, good selection of angles on the extra tiers (18881 for the topmost tier and 18882 for an intermediate tier). Probably not the cheapest solution (my original cheapo 3 tier X stand was £30) but it's light and solid, i.e. usual K+M quality. 50Kg for the bottom and 25Kg for each additional tier, it may be that 50Kg is the total weight of all tiers but I don't know. https://www.thomann.de/gb/km_18880.htm https://www.thomann.de/gb/km_18881.htm https://www.thomann.de/gb/km_18882.htm
  20. According to Behringer FB, Hermann Seib is now fully on board and he knows the ins/outs of the PPG Wave series very well.
  21. An old Thinkpad A21m, 550Mhz PIII, 128MB RAM, WinXP. The main reason for buying it was it's built in FDD, great in combination with OmniFlop for creating disks for my S2, esp. with the disk images available online. Being able to import samples is interesting.
  22. I've posted this in other places but it looks like they might have the PPG master Hermann Seib on board! From the Facebook comments under the beta testers wanted post,
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