Mr -G-

Looks like a very impressive app. I wished the visualisation of the chords on the piano keyboard were better (e.g. alternative colour options with more contrast). In that video, the colour to represent the chord notes is poor (creamy yellow next to white?! ) plus the aspect ratio of the piano keys (too thin and tall) make it quite difficult to read. In chart mode, the current chord appears rendered using a white font on a bright grey background which has much less contrast than the rest of the chords (shouldn't the current chord be easier to read than the rest?). Hope these comments are useful to improve the UI.

Sorry, I misunderstood the post. I can see the fluid mode in the main page.

Hi Dave, I can see the two buttons, but one sets the forum in condensed mode (the one of the left) and the other in expanded mode. I cannot see a way of setting a "fluid" mode.

No doubt there are some instruments in a BT. I guess the bass and the shaker sounding throughout the song that nobody is playing. Although I cannot tell from the video, there is a little keyboard riff at the start (which is then repeated later) that I would bet it is sequenced or recorded as well. Despite that, the performance is great.

Hi dB, do you mean that the messages text appears light and the background dark? (do not see that, I see dark text on white background) or are you referring just to the header in the main forum page?

I have not been able to download anything at all from soundmondo. I tried with two different windows machines running Win 8 and Win 10, also unsuccessful under linux and android. The best I could achieve on Win 10 and my MODX 8 is for the browser to report as being connected (green circle) but nothing happens after that. I know I am not the only one and wonder how others are able to download patches.

Having the pattern happening in the same place in all octaves could be due to something wrong in the key matrix scanning. Maybe a damaged diode in the key circuit? Have a look how the key scanning is implemented: http://www.openmusiclabs.com/learning/digital/input-matrix-scanning/keyboard/index.html https://www.pcbheaven.com/wikipages/How_Key_Matrices_Works/

Craig, your signature link to youtube seems to have an extra ".com" at the end.

In case it helps: in Firefox under linux I have to allow youtube cookies to be able to see the embedded video frame.

OPA, with brothers Hugo and Osvaldo Fattoruso. Never never heard OPA? Give it a try...

If it is more affordable, I hope it is not at the expense of removing the aftertouch...

Hi dB, Yes I should have said MPN front door: https://forums.musicplayer.com/ Today I logged in without an issue, but sometimes it fails and the 2nd time lets me in. It is not an issue for me, but it seems that others experience it sometimes.

Yes, I am seeing the same, but not every time. The link I use to log in points to the KC main page. 🤔

It sounds indeed like an LFO effect. To me it is more pronounced in the last chord played in that recording. I wonder if it is the original sound that when looped for sustain has a variation in harmonic contents that becomes noticeable? You said it happens with all sounds. Is there a pure sound (sinewave or similar) available?

Can you share a short recording?

Yes cache is cleared when I close the browser. I need to sign in when starting the browser for the first time. Then that is fine. I think I misunderstood what others meant. Cheers!

Thank you dB, yes using the 'front door' seems to work better than coming through the bathroom window (specially if not protected by a silver spoon). I noticed that have to sign in every time, but perhaps this has to do with persistent cookies or something like that (to be fair, I do not mind logging in every time).

I am also not able to log in through the "sign in" by going directly to https://forums.musicplayer.com/forum/28-the-keyboard-corner/ Is this the problem others are seeing?

I had both the DX7 and the DX7IID. I would buy it for $200 or so if in working order, but you should ask yourself if you are willing to dedicate time to learn FM programming. As mentioned above, FM is very unintuitive (no filter!), yet it can produce outstanding results, specially plucked instruments can be emulated way better than most analog synths. You will also need an editor to keep most parameters visible at the same time. Programming via the LCD is just too painful (you'll need to keep the whole architecture of the synth in your head to remember what you are doing!). Cheesy sounds and all, the DX7 sounded very different to everything else at the time. Never got out of tune, had more polyphony than many other poly synths. On the other hand, the 4 operator relatives (to me) never sounded that good. You also will find literally thousands of presets (although many are annoyingly repeated across banks). It might be worth getting the E! Grey Matter board if you can find one and a multi effects pedal.

Answering myself here in case it is useful: I just realised that the missing fonts in the Dynamic theme are provided by an external site (fontawesome.com). If running NoScript in the browser, the site might be blocked, and that prevents showing those fonts.

The Bravo 6 dark theme is nice. The Dyamic Theme is good too, but it misses some icons in firefox. For example the arrow pointing down in the Themes box at the bottom of the page is missing and a box with an hexa number FD 01 appears instead. The icons in the main forum page indicating new posts are also missing. I wonder if it is only me who has a missing font (I am on linux):

I only see the icon at the top, but it does not do anything (changes from a sun to a crescent moon when I click, but that is all).

Just to spice up the discussion, Top Ten in which sense? Revolutionary? Influential? Commercially available? Affordable to studios/gigging? Most loved? Most sold? I can think of several that could be in a list of top ten influential synths: RCA Synthesizer, Moog Modular, ANS synthesizer, Synclavier II...

I can see the large font in "AvantGrand..."

I guess that this is a 'paragraph space' that gets added when you press return. It should be smaller because (to me) it makes the posts too tall, vertically (I guess that it is a 'feature' of the board template being used). I agree in general it looks nice (thanks guys!), and I do not want to sound ungrateful, but for me it is more difficult to read. So I also look forward for the dark mode, if available, specially because the grey font (!) in combination with the bright background is not the best combination in terms of contrast.