CountFosco

What's not to dig? He's just doin his thing man. If people are into it, all power to him. Sometime in the future, when FKJ has had as much live experience as Thomas Dolby, a KCer will use a video of him as "old people are better exhibit A".

I don't know about morphing seamlessly - that sounds pretty tricky - but you could use a vocoder for the transition. Track 1 starts with voice 1 clean, then gradually wetten the chosen vocoder effect until it's 100% wet. Track 2 has voice 2 on the same note with the same 100% wet vocoder effect and gradually dial the effect down until voice 2 is clean. I can imagine this resulting in a pretty cool sounding transition, but I don't know if it suits what you're trying to do.

Yeah maybe, but the only person who marketed that as Jazz, or categorised the style of music, was the OP. That got chinese whispered up to The Montreux Jazz Festival posted the OP's vid on their channel with their logo. They also posted this video: with the same amount of the word "jazz" written all over it. The mentioned artists, in order: Janet Jackson, Elton John, Sting, Lauryn Hill, Thom Yorke. I'm sure, by aiming the indignant "you call that jazz?" hysteria at a young upcoming artist, rather than Sting, you weren't trying to come across as envious and resentful, but you know....

He sat down and did a 20 minute piano improv on one of the free stages in front of what sounds like about 20 people, with the side benefit of getting a promo video out of it. His main set was first on a sold out three act bill on the fourth biggest stage at the festival. The kid's a talented multi instrumentalist, trying to make his way in the music business. How is that done other than trying to impress fans with promos? For those of you who pretend to know what Montreux is just because it has jazz in its name, look at the 2019 lineup here: https://www.montreuxjazzfestival.com/2019/MJF_Programme_Flyer.pdf . I hardly think a festival with Sting, Janet Jackson, Tom Jones and the Chemical Brothers on the lineup needs to rely on this guy to get Who's done what wrong here to attract KC's righteous ire? The muso trying to make his way, the festival, the fans?

I don't know about these "disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, check out this hipster w@nker.....corea hancock" threads. What are they for? Jazz has a right and wrong now? The kid plays what he plays, you don't have to listen. (Edit: ZZ Top played at Montreux)

Wes, Electros have pianos (AP+EP), organs (B3, farf, vox) and rompler samples. The current one is the 6, but 2, 3, 4, and 5 are all pretty common. For backline, I'd say don't buy anything earlier than a 5. Stages have all that plus a synth. The Stage 2 was pretty much everywhere for a long time, the Stage 3 is basically the same but with an overhauled synth section (it uses the Nord Lead A1 synth engine). I would say, someone who just wants basic electromechanical emulations and some strings etc would be fine with an Electro - so a 5 or 6. You can give them a little idiot's guide and they'll be away. Someone who's asking for a Stage most likely already knows how to use one, and will probably bring their own sounds to upload onto the backline one. If they are Stage novices, and do want to use the Stage's synth, your idiot's guide will be a bit longer, but it's doable. If you could get a used Stage 2 cheap it would be worthwhile, otherwise I'd say a Stage 3 would be the go. The next question is action. I would say a semi weighted would probably be most versatile - covering organ, EP and synthy stuff nicely, while compromising on AP. That means an Electro 5d or 6d, or a Stage compact model.

Just came across this post while doing a bit of Wurly research. To put your $600 trade in perspective: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wurlitzer-200A-Electronic-Piano-w-Warneck-Research-EP200A-VariVib-Serviced/273819559357?hash=item3fc0eae5bd:g:U5UAAOSw~HJcwlsy

My comparison is between Nord EPs on Nord SW action, and Gemini EPs on DMC122 SW action. I actually preferred the weight of the DMC action to the E5d for EPs - if the Nord is semi weighted, I'd call the DMC two thirds weighted. My main concerns were with the sound, I was never convinced by the modelling. But I'm happy the Gemini has developed a solid user base - I think it's a great product, and I was disappointed it didn't work out for me. The only reason I piped in was to make the observation that the Gemini might not be the magic bullet that an Electro 5 user is expecting.

Without going through the whole saga, but short versioning it to 2 warranty returns before giving up, I bought a Gemini in a DMC122 as a second rig to my SW Nord Electro 5d. I did have a couple of months of playing with it before it went back for the last time. I know it contrasts what many people here say, but I found it difficult to connect with the modelled Rhodes in the Gemini. I prefer the sound and feel of (some of) the sampled Rhodes in my Nord. I liked the Gemini's Wurly better than what I can get out of the Nord, and I'd be interested to see if playing those EPs on the Seven is a different experience.

That article just about sums up Renault's weekend. Suggested rule change - all tracks should be fitted with sprinkler systems set to random timers.

Maybe not lyrically, but musically, how about My Sharona? It starts out with that great bouncy riff - kind of 60s surf slash pre 80s new wave, then peters out into that wishy washy 70s gormless wandering guitar wibble wibble. I just relistened and realise they do come back to the opening riff at the end - maybe I've never made it that far before.

I doubt a younger folk made it three posts into this Statler and Waldorf thread.

I left my nice Yamaha upright AP in Australia when I moved, and picked up a P85 as a replacement. I've been using it as my main house piano for around 10 years, and I found it to be a good compromise between price, action and sound. And my son also plays it, and he has only one dynamic level - the one just above fff, which I think is called beatthelivingcrapoutofitioso, and it's still alive. There are 2 onboard piano sounds, the first one is fine, the second is OK. I've recorded a lot with it, and after adding a bit of reverb in post processing, I think it sounds great. I would say all of the other sounds are virtually unusable. But for a holiday practice piano, I think it would work well.

Sure, Max = team Max. Not saying he was responsible for the release, but I reckon he saw Bottas/Vettel and did his usual Max thing. My gripe there is more with the penalty - that's hardly a deterrent for him doing the same thing next time. Sure he's talented, but when was the last race where he didn't hit another car? Still biased as an Aussie viewer, I have a bit of a Maxistheenemy hangover from last year.

A 5 second penalty for causing an accident in the pit lane, where hundreds of people are working, seems an order of magnitude wrong to me. Compare it with the 10 second penalty for Giovinazzi. Sure he made a mistake and caused an incident on the road, but that's just some race cars touching each other on the track, which happened a bunch of other times in the race (including by Verstappen on Hamilton - has he actually completed a race without touching another car?). Unsafe release is the kind of incident that should have a fixed penalty, not one that the stewards can just make up on the day.

6. On the E5 the external input is only routed to the headphone out. On the E6 it is always routed to the main outs. Both are nice in their way, but it would be even nicer to have both options available.

More pics (and pricing!) here https://www.sound-service.eu/product/nord-grand/

Great shot of the frontwingless Renault.

What an older player should say to a younger player is: "Great gig man, you were smokin". They'll work the rest out themselves.

DMC-122 + Gemini in the mail!

Great concept for a monitoring solution. But only one volume knob means no control of local vs main (thru) out levels?

Take your pants down, and make it happen. (Flashdance)

For my loud band, I got the Westone UM pro 30 (not ambient port version) for the same reason. I get (just) enough ambient bass and drums to follow along, but you really need to take a monitor feed with instruments like guitar and vocals.

I guess the effect listed as phase could be set up to flange, depending on the available parameters. Flanging is modulating phase shift.

Love the look of that DMC-122. You inched me a bit closer to pulling the trigger on the DMC+gemini combo.