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    Yamaha MX61 V2 still worth it?

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    21 hours ago, Yes the Yamaha MX is worth said:

    Yep! It was absolutely worth it. I have the MX88 but the 61 is just without the weighted keyboard and extra keys.

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    I appreciate and respect that you're so passionate about this that you created a profile specifically to answer this question.  😂

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    Dave Grusin GRP All Stars - 80s LA Studio Jazz appreciation - DX7 et al

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    3 hours ago, HammondDave said:

    For people to badmouth this or any type of music, or the quality of the players, seems to me a sign of a very insecure person. You should badmouth nobody, and as a previous poster said, what record company did you create? and how many Grammys have you won?

     

    I don't agree with the idea that we can't criticize something if we don't have the similar accomplishments or skillset--otherwise most of us could never say anything about a restaurant--but one thing I've really understood with my life these past couple years is that when I express distaste towards other people, whether it's music related or not, that's a good indicator that I need to channel my energies onto winning over myself and stop using my criticisms as a shield to avoid making myself better.

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    The Anti-Keyboardists

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    21 minutes ago, Moonglow said:

    A while back I asked this guitar player why he didn’t have any keys in his band, as they did a lot of Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Cars, Top Petty…that’s all I can think of at the moment. His answer was that he didn’t want to sound like a wedding band. I recall rather quickly terminating our little chat.

     

    You terminated the "chat", of course.   ....we won't tell if you don't.

    Shigeru Kawai EX (SK-EX) "Legend" library in Kontakt format (works with player) from Premiere Sound Factory

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    41 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:

    I read that and it seems like it is possible to measure impact on the touch strip if your 88 key controller has aftertouch?   I don’t own a native instruments controller with aftertouch, but I do have aftertouch on my S90ES to see if it is worth fussing with.   
     

    I would imagine with Midi 2.0 there has probably been a resolution increase in velocity and other CCs.  
     

    Regardless, this library looks promising if you haven’t a kawai already to see how it compares with C7 or CFX that many already have from key scape and Garritan CFX. 

     

    Kawai's been pretty cagey about letting their stuff be sampled outside of their own digital lines, so it's really cool to see something beyond the Yamahas and Steinways. I've also discovered the hard way last year what I've seen many of you say for years, aftertouch and pianistic action are NOT usually good friends, so I've been staying away from aftertouch. So ironically, if I wanted to take advantage of this Velocity+, I'd have to use my Keylab 49.

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    Did you ever see a video of your band performing?

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    10 minutes ago, Bobadohshe said:

    It's always incredibly educational to see videos of yourself in action. It often stings! But you can learn what are good ways and bad ways to move your body on stage. What translates and what is actually distractingly bad. I'm still figuring it out to be honest.

     

    Very true, but it's always important to also consider that single-angle footage--from phones usually, let's be real--can be a poor way to capture a live event. When we're there live, whether it's a concert, stage play, sports game, etc., there are so many dimensions we can instantaneously and simultaneously register, but when translated to video, so many of those dimensions are either nerfed, or completely lost. Imagine if ESPN just had a stationary camera for NBA for the court, no hoop angles, no swoops, tracking, nothin!

     

    Honestly, the most valuable info I've usually gotten is that my emotional state can greatly influence how I feel about any given performance, and especially in the past, that would be a negative influence. 😂 I resist watching the video, expecting to cringe at my awful performance, but then I see it, divorced from the emotions I had at the time while playing, and think, "Huh, that was actually pretty good!" 

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    Dave Grusin GRP All Stars - 80s LA Studio Jazz appreciation - DX7 et al

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    4 hours ago, Reezekeys said:

    The writing. A movie soundtrack, instrumentation: a piano. 
     

     


    How’s that for “sellout”? 🙂 

     

    It's funny, I mentioned how John Williams ripped him off in a score, and here Grusin returns the favor

     

     

     

    I don't say this to denigrate either of them, this is very common in the industry, a practice pushed on composers by director, producer, etc. Both men are imaginative enough to take the mandated template and transform it into something unique. 

    Dave Grusin GRP All Stars - 80s LA Studio Jazz appreciation - DX7 et al

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    Say what you will about Grusin's aesthetics of the time (John Williams even wrote a knockoff of "Mountain Dance" for the 1991 film Hook, titled "Yuppie Sounds"), the man had/s a really unique compositional voice with a great flair for harmony.

     

    He'll always have my respect for his excellent "Tribute to Duke" album, featuring some absolutely killer arrangements of his--including a woodwind heavy Take the A Train that interprets as the ballad Strayhorn originally intended it to be.

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    who's playing a new years show ....

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    1 hour ago, Dave Ferris said:

    So glad I'm not coming up in these times, so bleak.

     

    Thanks. 😭

     

    I didn't play a NYE show--probably been 4 or 5 years since I have--but I did play New Years morning. It was an 11 AM thing, the roads were quiet to and from, deeply appreciative people, great experience all around!

    Lightweight weighted keyboard controller

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    For that weight and controller functionality, the two that come to mind that haven't been mentioned are a Roland such as the RD88, or the Casio PX5S. There's also the Numa X 88, all of these are around or below 30 lbs.

     

    If you were open to supplementing the keyboard with an additional control surface, that would open up some more options, such as the Kawai ES120.

    Casio PX5S "No Media" Issue Question.....

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    36 minutes ago, Mike Martin said:

    Clearly I need to set the record straight about a few things. First, I've never this this occur on any other Casio model.

     

    The first time I recall seeing this issue was during the 1.12 firmware. As 1.13 was addressed released shortly after, I simply asked customers to make sure they had the latest update installed as the logical path with something like this arises. It was a surprise to me when some users reported this after the 1.13 firmware update so that is when I personally started trying to get to the source of the issue.

     

     

    There was never any kind of PR campaign. I have been the only Casio employee ever publicly addressed this and I've simply done my best find a solution. In all of these years, I have personally only encountered the bug one time and have never been able to come up with any way to duplicate the issue. We (Casio America Service department) have taken the opportunity to return / replace units thoroughly check them and try to find the issue and replicate the bug without success.

     

    I went as far as to do a user survey to try to find out how wide-spread the issue is, track serial numbers and come up with other common situations when this has occurred. Globally I think there were less than 50 reports and for the majority of those, the problem never reoccured. @Rodan88 if this is in fact reoccurring on yours, please send me a PM and I'll see what I can do.


    My only guess after all of this is that it is somehow tied to the flash memory or something more random such as static electricity. In many of the cases it was when the keyboard had not been used for an extended period of time.

     

    I've been completely transparent about everything written above in this thread on both the PX-5S Facebook group and CasioMusicForums.com as I am here.
     

    So while I don't like it, the solution is simple. Keep the latest firmware on a USB drive. If the problem were to occur, it would take about 9 minutes - barely longer than it takes some high end workstations to boot. The chances of it happening seem to be quite rare. 

     

     

     

    Thanks Mike! I just bought a PX5S yesterday, this is reassuring to read.

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    NUMA X PIANO WEIRD USB MIDI FEEDBACK LOOP

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    1 hour ago, earmanuk said:

    I have a Studiologic NUMA X PIANO and I am trying to use it with Camelot Pro but I am having real problems with what appears to be a MIDI feedback loop whenever I touch the sustain pedal, modwheel etc. I have local control off and if I just play the keyboard it works fine but everything goes crazy as soon as I press the pedal. I also tried using this with Logic Pro for iPad and had exactly the same problem. Does anyone have a similar setup who can offer any advice please? I have latest OS in Piano 2.20 I think?

     

     

    I had a similar issue when I had a Numa X, but updating to what was then the latest OS (2.0?) fixed it for me. Have you tried local control on but deactivating any zone that's not the software?

    Casio Privia PX-5S.... Hello Again

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    2 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

    😂 I read your whole post, Dave and the entire time I am wondering if this one is going to get a paint job.  
     

    Casio had/has a winner there for light weight, good sounding 88k weighted action that translates piano playing pretty well.  I wish they’d revisit this type of instrument again.  Price has been cut recently - back down to $899.99.  Very affordable!  
     

    Sweetwater says the PX560 isn’t available any longer.  That’s a shame.  The touch screen interface is preferable to navigating the PXS models.  

     

    Didn't Mike hint on here some time ago about a sequel?

    Morning uplift

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    16 minutes ago, AROIOS said:


    A sine lead. It's was hip in R&B/Urban 20 years ago.

     

    One of the reasons why I think Bernie Worrell is one of the greatest influences of modern music! So many of those peeps were deeply inspired by P-Funk, and Worrell's synth work in them, and if they weren't directly sampling it, they were using it as the basis for their sounds in their tracks. Those tracks and artists  (Snoop Dogg, Dre, Public Enemy, Digital Underground, you name it) then became so deeply popular throughout the world, you can hear that influence to this day in so many modern tracks.

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