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Ockeghem

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  1. I used to get together with friends for chess every week...miss those days, but music is helping fill the void.

    In the 90s I could run ChessBase on a Pentium I with a floppy install program...at the time it was enough. But the latest CB versions...not quite!

    Yours should work I guess.

    I was thinking of getting Netflix to watch the Queen 's Gambit chess movie.

    Will probably wait for ð DVD

  2. Then I also think of jazz, rock and prog types who used it (or a Minimoog) mainly for soloing, a la Emerson, Wakeman, Hyman, Hammer, Hancock. None of them physics or engineering majors (correct me if I"m wrong of course) but musical skills in abundance

     

    Herbie Hancock has a degree in electrical engineering.

     

    Didn't know it, thanks!

    I picked up my 22-space dotcom at a diner in the town of Hancock, Maryland as it was midway to the eBay seller! Coincidence?

  3. I got my first synthesizers.com 22 space cabinet full of modules, used.

    It was two grand several years ago!

    So no, not for the faint of heart, but the same amount of eurorack could cost me as much.

    Maybe Doepfer would be less.

    I just want to make good music with it before the wife revolts...

    Markyboard's idea of augmenting the other keyboards by running signals in and out of filters is good.

  4. When I think of modular and 'traditional' musicians, I first think of Carlos, Tomita, Perrey, and the innumerable '(you name it) on the Moog' records. Sequencers or really good musical chops required, often both. Technical skills a must. Live performance rarely or never on the big Moog. Cover songs or transcriptions usual.

    Then I also think of jazz, rock and prog types who used it (or a Minimoog) mainly for soloing, a la Emerson, Wakeman, Hyman, Hammer, Hancock. None of them physics or engineering majors (correct me if I"m wrong of course) but musical skills in abundance, plus enough programming skills to get sounds they are after, or a studio tech to help out as needed. All very capable live performers in their day. Some covers, some originals, or both.

    West Coast Serge/Buchla style is still avant-garde enough to not be 'traditional' in my book. Euro is somewhere in between, closer to the avant-garde. Not typically used for cover songs, although possible. Bloops and bleeps are available in abundance. Industrial weirdness is easily done.

    So now that I have a big large format modular and some polys, I have decisions to make.

    What does the audience want? What style, what format? Covers, originals?

    Simple sequences obviously won"t always cut it.

    But plenty of other options.

    Synthmania is amazing these days IMO. Show me the way Paolo!

  5. He had star power. Charisma. Mojo. That indefinable something that makes an actor or actress a magnet for your attention. When he was on screen, you watched him, no matter what else was happening. It's a rare thing. You either have it or you don't. I don't think it can be learned. It's just there.

     

    He had it.

     

    Grey

     

    Yes.

    That said, some of the Bond girls were a bit distracting at times...

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