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Dave, I'm so sorry for your loss. May you and your family be comforted.
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2 hours ago, HammondDave said:
My next question... Who makes a good soft case for this? I ordered a Rockville 73 key slim case but it arrived with a broken wheel. OY. Any suggestions?
Not sure if Yamaha makes a soft case for the CP/YC88 but something like that would probably work well. Another option is the Nord case but those are not cheap.
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11 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:
I have mobile sheets installed on an HP EliteBook. Neither it or a Surface Pro are inexpensive solutions as readers.
pros - I already have it for work.
It runs Windows and Windows apps.
It has a lot of ram and storage for sampled instruments and applications that need it.
Windows music apps/desktop versions are full versions as opposed to adaptations or slimmed down for mobile.
cons - The design runs hot, does require a fan and produces fan noise.
HP’s screen is cut for 16:9 so you can’t get a sheet of paper to fit properly in portrait mode.
Windows music apps are fully featured but are priced higher than iOS versions.
iOS apps are all designed for touch screen interface, Windows apps are not.
The iPads are slimmer and lighter.
The iOS ecosystem has tons of solutions for everything, especially mounting and placement.Although the iPad is quite powerful, the EliteBook, Surface, or any other Windows-based solution gives you the ability to use it to run VSTs as well, and there are many more hosts and VSTs available for Windows than for iOS.
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24 minutes ago, Old No7 said:
"Pedalmania", I've called it...
I gotta see that. 😂
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6 minutes ago, Dave Ferris said:
I've heard Luke pretty much runs it as a dictatorship, his way or the highway.
Considering that he is the manager of the band, it doesn't shock me that this is the case. He and Steve Porcaro have been friends since the second day of high school and because of the last tour are no longer on speaking terms, its just sad.
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36 minutes ago, Dave Ferris said:
It's too bad they gave my friend Shem von Schroeck the ax, unless it was a mutual parting. Besides being a great bass player, he sings as good, or better then anyone they've ever had.
Based on what I've heard, Shem and Luke did not exactly get along well on tour, so Luke did not want to have him back on. He is a great singer, but luckily they've got Maggiora to replace him in that department.
38 minutes ago, Dave Ferris said:Too bad they don't let him sing a tune, he's Great !
He is a great singer, and on dates when Paich isn't there, he sings the low part on Home of the Brave.
39 minutes ago, Dave Ferris said:I've known and played gigs with Warren for probably 30 years or more. I remember when he was new in town.
The craziest thing is that he has been in and out of Toto since the mid 80s, he was on tour with them for the Fahrenheit (1986-87) and Seventh One (1988) tours as a backing singer (along with Paulette Brown) and as a winds player (on some dates he also played rhythm guitar on the Fahrenheit tour).
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I saw both bands at the Prudential Center on 2/28, so here's my take:
I am an average Journey fan, I know many of their songs, including some of their deeper cuts, but I do not know every single song they've ever released in all 12 keys. On the other hand, I consider myself a Toto super-fan; I own all of their albums except 1 (it's not on iTunes, and the CD version is quite expensive used), and I've seen all of their live DVDs. I know the history of the band pretty in depth and I listen to their music all the time. With that out of the way, here is my review:
Toto was great. They sounded tight and clean and I had few complaints with their show, namely the sax solo in Rosanna (as someone who loves playing that solo on keys, it saddens me that they have replaced it, although Warren Ham is great). The setlist when I saw them was a little different than it is now, at that time they were playing a Georgy Porgy arrangement that was closer to the original (I've heard the new one and I like it too), and the opening song was Till The End, rather than Orphan. Paich did not stop in for that show either.
2 hours ago, ksoper said:Lots of red keyboards on their stage. Taplin played a Nord Wave 2 on top of a Stage 3. Maggiora had a Fantom 06 on top of a Jupiter 80 and an Electro 4 to his right in an L configuration. Ultimate Support Apex stands. Paich sat behind an 88-key Nord something or other on an X-brace stand. The back of it was taped so I have no idea which model it was.
Paich's 88 key Nord is a Stage 3, he's been using it taped up on Toto tours since 2018 (for the 40 Tours Around the Sun tour). At the beginning he was using it with even more tape on it and it was inside his grand piano shell with a Montage 6 above it, both were controlling Mainstage. (When Xavier took over in 2019 for the US leg of the 40 Tours tour they ditched the shell but the rig was otherwise the same) Now it seems like Paich is using the internal sounds on it.
Journey was also quite good, but they sounded a little more loose than Toto did. The mix going to the house was also not as good as Toto's, Arnel's vocals were too quiet and Jason Derlatka's keyboards (a Fantom 6 and a Kronos 2 61) were inaudible.
2 hours ago, ksoper said:Cain had a Jupiter 80 on top of the red piano shell loaded with a V Piano.
I believe the V-Piano is not a shell, rather the V-Piano Grand, so it is a full on Roland factory product that has been painted to be red, most likely to pay homage to his older rigs.
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2 hours ago, Docbop said:
Sadly none sound as good as with headphones which I use for late night practice.
Some of that might have to do with the room you are playing in, since headphones take the reflections and resonant frequencies of your room out of the space between your ears and the drivers.
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4 minutes ago, Morrissey said:
That makes sense. All the 73/76 boards I know with pitch/mod above the keys have weighted action.
There are a few exceptions I can think of. The Yamaha S70XS, Ensoniq KS-32/TS12/MR-76/ZR-76/KT-76, and Korg Kronos 73 are all weighted action 73/76 key boards with the pitch bend and mod wheels/sticks/paddles beside the keys. The Kurzweil PC4-7, Yamaha MODX7, Nord Stage Compact (all of them) and some older Studiologic controllers (SL-760) have semi-weighted keys and have the pitch bend and mod wheels/sticks/paddles above the keys.
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For live, I have used the free Windows application LivePrompter on occasion. The editing is a little rudimentary, but it works for me when all I need is chords and lyrics, but I am considering switching to conventional charts on a cheap android tablet and a page turner pedal as the songs I am playing (and they keyboard setups for them) begin to become more complicated.
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22 minutes ago, Mills Dude said:
I'd love to catch Billy Joel one last time at MSG but to get a decent seat for a couple you're looking at a mortgage payment. I'd rather watch on youtube.
Yeah it is nuts as far as prices go for his shows, but people are willing to pay for it. The only time I saw him live (at the Garden) I waited until a few hours before showtime to buy tickets (the prices drop dramatically at this time), and after a screw-up on ticketmaster's part I ended up getting seats behind the lighting booth and got to hang out with the show's producer, Steve Cohen. My brother also got invited into the booth and got to control the lights during River of Dreams, which was very cool.
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2 hours ago, Mills Dude said:
I stop at the GC on 17 a few times a year, since I frequently travel up and down that corridor. I was just in there a month or so ago, and the selection of usable KBs was weak.
I have family in Rockland county, so I frequently pass by, but I rarely stop in. The selection has been pretty terrible recently, usually just a Juno DS and maybe a Yamaha MX. Occasionally they will have a decent used board in there, one time there was a Nord Lead 3.
2 hours ago, Mills Dude said:I've never been to Three Wave, have seen them online. Tried contacting them via email a few years ago to see if they were interested in some of my old gear I was looking to dump. They never got back to me. I think visits to their showroom are by appointment only.
I've never been to Three Wave either, they have good reviews but they seem kind of difficult to work with. I once called them up to get a quote on a repair on a keyboard I was looking at buying but they couldn't give me a solid number, they just said that you have to bring it in and pay their deposit for them to even look at it, and then they would charge you after that for a diagnosis.
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14 minutes ago, Delaware Dave said:
It's amazing to look at that list and see that a bunch of those acts (or derivatives of those acts) are still playing 45 years later
Yeah, it's nuts! I have my doubts that in 45 years from now Billie Eilish will still be selling out MSG...
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16 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:
Not ZEN-Core... though there is some overlap between its plug-outs and some of the cloud stuff (even though that particular cloud stuff does not go into any of the ZEN-Core boards).
That is what I meant, all those boards have overlap in their sound creation engines.
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Kinda reminds me of GM in the 90s, to be honest. They literally sold the same car under 5 different brand names with a slightly different fascia.
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18 minutes ago, vonnor said:
I still do that today, but through Cantabile on the laptop.
How do you find the reliability of Cantabile compared to hardware rigs? I've been looking into it but am still skeptical, especially since it seems like you need a pretty powerful laptop.
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5 hours ago, Mighty Motif Max said:
I really don't get the appeal (but I also don't care for the aesthetics of the original 106). More hands-on I guess, but when I listened to the demo all I heard were sounds I could get out of the Fantom engines. So now we have the Fantom, Fantom-0, Jupiter X/Xm, Juno X, RD-88, MC boxes, AX-Edge, Aerophones, and the Verselab thing, all basically with the same underlying tech as the primary sound source (some have more specialized additions).
You could add the System 8 to that list too...
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7 minutes ago, MathOfInsects said:
Roland produces more sequels than Fast & Furious.
At least Roland's sequels don't cost the same as the previous 7.
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27 minutes ago, Mills Dude said:
I grew up in Rockland Cty NY, just over the border from NJ. Lots of good choices back in the day, Alto Music (even before Jon Haber owned it), Sam Ash down on Rt 4 in Bergen, Bronen's on 17, Robbies Music Barn, Victors house of music. Also reasonable to make a trip to 48th St in Manhattan. Going to Eastcoast was a hike, but they did have some good deals, so worth the trip for that.
I live near Bergen county now, the only decent music stores in the area are the aforementioned Sam Ash on Route 4 (I pass it every once in a while, though I've yet to stop in), O'dibella Music in Teaneck, the Guitar Center on Route 17 (right before the entrance to the Garden State Parkway), and Three Wave Music in Hawthorne, NJ. Alto Music is a bit of hike for me, both locations are about an hour away, if not more.
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My best guess is that this will have a similar architecture to the Jupiter-X, so will probably be based upon the Roland Cloud/ZenCore expansions
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9 hours ago, bjosko said:
I did some researching about it some time ago, since a guy here or over at the Nord user forums recommended a specific model series of the Pelikan case as a cheap alternative flightcase.
It was probably Heart keyboardist and fellow forumite Dan Walker (mynameisdanno)
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Just now, AnotherScott said:
And I'd pay $100+ more for aftertouch on the Fantom-0! But to paraphrase Mick, we can't always get what we want...
Who knows what the price premium is, though. Maybe if you took the metal build, internal power supply, and (presumably) better keys with AT out of the Juno-X and gave it what the Fantom-06 has instead, it could have been, say, $1400 instead of $2000.
But also, maybe the Fantom-0 wouldn't sell as well, if putting that stuff in meant, not just a higher price, but also that it would weigh nearly twice as much.
It's interesting that they took one approach with the Fantom-0 derivative from the Fantom (going with lightest weight and biggest percentage price differential, about 55% cheaper 61-to-61) and an opposite approach with the Juno-X derivative from the Jupiter X (going with highest build quality and a much smaller price differential of about 30% savings). It's also interesting that they decided to make a "lower end Jupiter X" that is still more expensive and heavier than the Jupiter Xm, an "extra form factor" in the line that doesn't exist on the Fantom side.
I don't mind the plastic build of the Fantom-0, I just wish it had an internal power supply. A wall wart is a big no-no for me on a gigging board, I never want to be in the position where I forget it at home or it breaks because companies can only seem to make wall wart power supplies with the worst plastic and flimsiest cables and connectors that are small and fragile. With a regular IEC connection, I feel much more comfortable that it will not break and I can find a replacement anywhere in the US.
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So if Roland can make this for $2k and with (presumably) a metal build (judging by the weight) and an internal power supply, why can't they give us an internal power supply on the Fantom-0? I'd pay a $100 extra to know I have a power cable that can be replaced in any Walmart in the US.
All in all, it's a nice looking keyboard, and I have a feeling we might see it on the next A-ha tour if Magne's past rigs are anything to go buy.
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9 minutes ago, Stokely said:
One bit I liked about the Fantom is that at least the expansion patches (Jx8, Jupiter etc) can be edited in software and then loaded into the Fantom; not sure about the stock non-expansion tones though.
I don't think the non-expansion sounds can be edited in the same way, but with the touchscreen (and front panel synth controls in Roland's case) on the Fantom/Montage/Kronos, editing sounds in general is much easier than on older keyboards. I still have nightmares of editing ADSR parameters on a Korg X5.
Transferring legacy SCSI to modern drives?
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Why not use a K2xxxS that has the SCSI port and auto-sample the sounds into soundfont or EXS format? It won't give you the raw waveforms but will give you the presets as they are heard straight off the originals, especially if you use a really clean un-colored preamp/converter or a synth with a digital output of some kind.