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I was legitimately surprised when the dust settled and the Nautilus turned out to be the de facto successor and not just a stopgap release...still wondering what Korg's next big play is. Though they've released a lot of their tech in software, it's still hard to imagine they'd have Nautilus as their hardware flagship swan song. For me, this is technical because it's not discontinued as far as I know, but after getting a PX5S recently, I've gotten really nostalgic about gigging with Casio instruments in the 2010s (my first gigging board was a PX130, which had me thinking every keyboard I was gonna get would be that easy to take around...this was soon shattered when I got a Triton 88 from online, without checking dimensions and weight first...). I'd love to see Casio reignite that stream of portable, affordable, professional keyboard such as the PX5S and 560 that would just totally blow people away with the quality and price vs the competition.

Yeah get your credit bureaus on standby if you've given these scammers your financial info, I was a victim of identity theft two years ago and they are RELENTLESS in spamming your info in as many different avenues as possible as many times as possible in as little time as possible. They were able to drop my credit score by at least 10 points before I was able to lock all of my info and report it to the bureaus.

I have nostalgia for VSTs I used 10 years ago. 😂 What I get the warm fuzzies over was the process of making the music, and that goes beyond what kind of box I used.

There's something about the font that always seems to give them away... I actually messaged one of those dudes in China on WhatsApp, who after a bunch of assurances that he wouldn't be in business on the website if he was dishonest (because he would be downvoted to oblivion on store ratings), agreed to send me pictures of the Nord in his office when went in later that day. I saw them and thought "Wow! This guy's got a whole storehouse of keyboards like he was saying." But I decided to check Reverb anyways...dude took a listing from Armens in NY and just sent those pics. I decided to ask him about it in a very "charitable" manner. His response? "This is why I'm hesitant to show customers pictures, because the overstockers use existing photos sometimes"...he had forgotten his earlier story about going to "the office" to take the pictures. I didn't have the patience to humor the conversation any further, so I just stopped there.

At least my Asian girlfriend that I've been talking to on Facebook is real, she proved it by sharing her cryptocurrency for me to invest in.

I was in a rush when I wrote that comment, I should've also mentioned mic'ing as well. If you're noticing the strong transients in the notes, it might be more close mic'd, where the mics are picking up more of the hammers and where they're hitting the strings.

Should just be standard piano. If it sounds a little different, this recording has the piano audio processed a little differently than "natural".

Was about to comment this! No need to bite any bullets when programs like GP and VST Live offer free (time-limited 😡) trials!

I'm seeing some comments, so I'll make one of my own: if this keybed is the same as the Keylab mk2, then people shouldn't have anything to worry about. That keybed has such a unique feel that I find to be quick, and very expressive. I really can't think of another key action that feels like it.

...8...voices? On a $1,500 machine? Using instrument tech that I've had for years on my computer that I got bundled with the Keylab41 mk2 for 25% of the price, which was explicitly designed and marketed to easily and intelligently link up with those software instruments for expansive real-time control? What am I missing?

Do not recommend 😭

Looks like a really nice launching pad for students! If I was a student and saw this, I'd have a lot of fun tweaking choice parts throughout, such as beginning the opening chord rootless, then a beat later introducing the Db an octave lower than written.

I'm a kid in the city (not NY)--down to not garaging my car due to cost, and it's actually really encouraging to read this, because I've been struggling with this for over a year now and thought it was just a personal failing of mine. I'm still looking for the best solution--probably need to invest in one of those fancy devices called "handcarts" or something--but thank you for sharing!

SoundCanvases are _huge_ in the video game chiptune scene, that nostalgic lo-fi sound where you know you're listening to a trumpet, but would never believe it's the real thing.

Just a heads up, Zzounds ships from Reno too! I always wonder what the shipping time would be if I still lived there....🤔 I'm biased towards Zzounds because AMS blacklisted me for returning too many products, which apparently was on their no-no list that they only deemed worthy of mentioning after I was blacklisted.

Just for use in Logic? 😭

Just to echo kona's point, are you sure it's NA 2 that you have updated to the latest? A month ago I was having a lot of issues with my Kontakt libraries, and it turns out that even though NA1 (which I think you distinguish by the color scheme, 1 is light and 2 is dark) was updated and there was no mention of compatibility issues or obsolescence, turns out I still needed to download NA 2 for my libraries and Kontakt 7 to update.

I was shocked when 4 announced its built-in library designed to take easy advantage of notation, and it can have really impressive results. However, depending on your workflow and needs, using commercial libraries still has its advantages. I _hate_ using notation programs, they've always been so cumbersome to me. I either write music with pen and paper, or when I need to put stuff down electronically, like for a score for example, I go straight into a DAW and piano roll. I didn't investigate it thoroughly, but I don't believe MuseScore is compatible with this. I've also read complaints that sometimes the MuseScore libraries have a "good side", and can have a hard time "following directions" when you're using it in certain scenarios. That said, they've done an overall outstanding job, and I'm happy that people all over the world, if they have the tech specs required to run MS4 libraries, now have free access to responsive and good-quality libraries. It's truly remarkable.

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I saw Herbie play here last fall, and at one point during the show he did a whole monologue using the Kronos vocoder, and it was awesome.

It's been a while since I've gigged with a synth, but before COVID, after trying several synths, I went with the Minilogue XD. It was small, had built-in effects, and the interface was excellent for live tweaks. I've been tempted to use an iPad with Korg Gadget and small controller to take care of synth needs, but if I had the budget I'd probably use the upcoming KingKorg Neo.

Actually that wheel can be used for modulation, but you have to hook up your GO to Roland Cloud and pay for the "GO: PRO" upgrade that includes CC1.

As long they leave us out of their planes!

We're not lonely, we're just really busy!!!! Eh hem. I mean, don't you think you're being far fetched? Last fall a very prominent YouTuber made a very popular and impactful video about plagiarism, after which a floodgate opened up for all kinds of plagiarism claims to come forth. Obviously it's pretty easy usually to ascertain if something is ultimately plagiarized, once you have the "source" to compare to, and when these claims were verified, there was a mass wave of sympathy and support, with some people even asking what they can do to financially support them since they enjoyed their work while unknowingly attributing to the thief. In the afterwave of this, a guy on Twitter tried to raise a huge stink over their AI generated art being plagiarized by someone using a similar AI prompt, obviously trying to create that same wave of support...let's say it completely backfired.