Mark_OA

I have seen him then he was a young trumpeter with the band Relax, before he was on stage as Kyteman. Was pretty surprised to see him go into electronic music. He has been doing a daily modular broadcast ever since the lockdown here in The Netherlands. Although not always my taste personally, I watched a few of these on YouTube and have to say that he does master the craft and art, as every time bro ga something different within the genre he plays (from techno to ambient). Much respect for him as he invests much of his time and money in helping other musicians moving forward.

The Roland C-30 is still available but is pretty pricy for what it is (a digital harpsichord). I saw them go for $10k locally.

So that's where dreams are made!

Serious envy at all of you guys who have a grand at your deposal.

Wow... 3 of the same board. You're not kidding that you really like it!

I don't want to miss any of them, but if I had to choose, it would be the Kawai. That instrument is such a joy to play. I sometimes even play it without turning it on because of the feel of the keybed. I know, it's weird, I don't care. I never want to be without it. My boards: Kawai MP11SE Viscount Legend Solo Dave Smith Prophet Rev2

I agree that it doesn't have soul. It's too polished and sounds plasticy because of it. Like so many other electronic music, she tried too hard to give every instrument/voice it's place in the mix, which you can hear because there is a audible "gap" between them. That makes it sound unnatural and plasticy to me. Seeing her perform makes me nervous because she's dabbling 500 things at once, which is admirable, but it doesn't make for an easy watch. Her voice sounds forced. Way too much make-up. But in the end, all of this is down to taste. I give her credit for doing it and following her passion the way she wants to.

Just got an e-mail by Samples on about a collab they did for a free B3 VST. Probably not what most of us are looking for, but you never know. https://sampleson.com/collab3-free-tonewheel-organ.html

Try touching it up with a permanent marker. It won't stick out as much afterwards.

I've just tested it on my Viscount Legend Solo as controller for VB3 and can confirm the Legend line does send midi on high trigger.

Could very well be, as it comes free with your Sonar installation.

He has no need for that, as Sonar X3 should support Bitbridge, a feature that supports 32-bits VSTs on 64-bits Sonar installations...

I have some Sampleson instruments. They tend to prolong their sales, sometimes indefinitely ð And I agree the Rhodes isn't great. I have the 1959 and didn't find it very useful in the end. The raw tone has its. I also own Brushify and use it for a cheap brush drumkit, as my main drumkit doesn't have brushes yet. The logo is terrible though...

Agreed. That crazyness did make the performance come alive.

NPR does it again! This time with a Mellotron ensemble! [video:youtube]

Which VST synth were you using? Something from U-he perhaps? They are pretty CPU intensive and it helped me turning off HQ quality.

Do you actually experience any problems like clicks, pops, jitter, lag, latency and/or non-responsive apps/processes? Furthermore, you mentioned you measured CPU utilization with Windows monitoring tools. Did you actually measured it over a period of time, or just observe high CPU utilization though the Task Managers Performance tab while you were playing? I don't want to appear rude, but a lot of people say the measured performance, but didn't actually measure anything, just looked a some random CPU utilization graph which spiked and conclude the CPU is slow, which most of the time isn't the issue. I did a lot of performance measurements for work on Windows machines and 8 out of 10 times, a combination of bad hardware, drivers, configuration, coding and user error lead to complaints of bad performance. To really, decisively conclude your CPU is the issue, you need to take measurements of a variety of performance counters to really know what the issue is. There are a lot of things you can do prior to all this: - Update Windows - Update all drivers, especially your audio interface and core system drivers like chipset, USB. Don't use Windows update or the Lenovo drivers, go to the driver manufacturers website (i.e. Intel, NVidia) and download the latest drivers there. They are always more up to date than OEMs or Microsofts versions. - Update all your software/VSTs if you can - Update all firmware for your devices, especially the Lenovo firmware, harddisk firmware, Thunderbolt firmware (if applicable) - Disable power saving configurations so that Windows or the Lenovo firmware can't control your systems performance. Look into the Lenovo firmware (UEFI/BIOS) too for relevant options If these suggestions don't improve things, try the following steps. Do note that I don't recommend disabling any Windows security features. These should be left enabled at all times. These steps are for troubleshooting purposes only. - disabling devices, such as Wi-fi, bluetooth, etc. - security related functions like Windows Defender - uninstalling other, non-audio related applications Let us know what you find. Mark

Apologies if this looks like an ad, it is not. Just wanted to share I saw the B-3X for sale ($100 off) @ IK Multimedia just now. Link

It's a great instrument, great action and ditto piano sound. I was going back and forth between it and the MP11SE and went for the latter, because the key action was more to my taste. Your student won't regret using the P515.

Same here, but I'm a trumpet player. I have been playing on a simple student instrument for 30 years now and every section I played in had the same kind of people: the jocks. They all look down on my instrument, until I play. Never had a complaint in my life. Yes, the instrument is no looker and if not cared for daily the valves can be sluggish, but it is what I have and what suits me best. I tried more expansive, "pro" horns and sold them all, always got back to my first horn. I do use a more expensive mouthpiece, but got over the mouthpiece safari rather quickly.

I watch my levels and try to record to about -18 dB, riding the faders in my DAW to compensate and accentuate when needed afterwards.

Lachy Doley Just posted a clip of a solo he did on a blues festival. Great, fat tone on that Hammond. [video:youtube]

Don't these guys get tired of themselves, wasting countless hours posting junk? I just don't get what they gain from this.

I don't have the app and neither can find a manual, but I am sure the Legend won't send the data on one channel and even if it did, both lower and upper drawbars use the same CC's. So if the app doesn't support it, this won't work. The only thing you could do is put assigning different channels and CCs to the drawbars of the app in the wishlist thread on IK Multimedia's forums. They will listen to things put in there by their users. You can find it here.

Note that this only applies on DIN midi out 1. For midi out 2 it's upper ch 4, lower ch 5 and pedal ch 6. Now, to make this even more confusing, you can configure USB to behave like Midi out 1 OR Midi out 2. So, if USB is configured to the configuration of Midi out 2, your drawbars are using channels 4 and 5. To change this: Also, check if your Solo is configured to be a Master keyboard: And last but not least: I wouldn't be surprised if you can only use both drawbars when using Double mode, not single mode or split, as the Solo only received midi for both drawbars in double mode, maybe it only sends midi for both in double mode too. I like the Visount Legends for their sound, but the interface and manual are a PITA! Configure once and never touch again...