CHarrell

As a consumer, I'm definitely guilty of this. One major benefit that these online retailers such as Zzounds etc offer are very generous, interest-free payment plans that I've never seen a brick and mortar store be able to compete with.

Frankly, it's precisely this last part that makes me think there's a strong xenophobic element at play here, because lord knows we've practically all already signed away so much to these big tech conglomerates no matter what part of the globe we're in. I don't even have voice mode or whatever installed on my phone and after speaking or texting Spanish for a half hour or so, I suddenly start getting YT ads in Spanish. If any legislation was to be passed for the sake of citizens' privacy, you'd have to have something waaaaaay more extensive in its scope than an app that pissed off certain politicians a few years ago.

It's a classic video! The beat is added by the person who uploaded this specific video, but OP's vamp goes hard so it's not a big stretch of imagination to add.

I hereby call for the immediate and total ban of Hal Leonard Real Books, with reparatory compensation paid to all.

Right, that's what the technician told me when I asked for a quote and estimate. However, there aren't too many repair shops here so they have a huge backlog. Sounds like I would be waiting for at least 3 weeks for the repair.

As I expected (and desperately hoped), the FedEx driver probably didn't want to deal with having to move that package anymore than they needed to, so they just left it at my place. First impressions: this was definitely a well loved and much used board! Several scuffs, nothing major. Before I purchased it, I knew there would be a couple bum keys: they work, but they feel like they're offset or something, loose and very clacky. There are also a few that just feel clacky from a lot of use. Initially this was very offputting, I wasn't expecting it to psychologically affect me as much it did (walking on dandelions trying to avoid undue emphasis on some of these keys, as if I was playing a crusty house upright), but after a while, I began to acclimate and just start having fun. The EPs I'm struggling to make sound full-bodied, especially in the mid to upper registers, and I notice some of the acoustic piano voices weakening in that treble range too, but overall it sounds better than I remembered. I'd be very curious to see how I feel after this board gets its repair work done, but I have a gig in a couple of weeks and don't have a board to use in the meantime, so I think I'm just gonna rough it for a bit.

Damn. 😢 I'm mostly familiar with him from his time with Wayne Shorter in the 80s and 90s.

What's the context you're posting this in? You made this comment hours after a mod gave the reason why this word was censored. Also, this forum isn't America.

How funny you say that as I typed out the opposite! 😂

Any AI algorithm trying to reproduce an improvisation like on a solo, would have to have enough randomization and variation to respond to the countless stimuli that can influence a musician's playing, such as a drummer responding to a pianist's phrase by mimicking it in a call-and-response fashion, and the pianist potentially continuing that in kind, a pianist playing a certain kind of harmony while comping, inspiring the horn player to play some different notes (or vice versa, maybe a horn player plays an outside line or note inspiring the comping pianist to change up their harmonies to lean into it), or a certain phrase from a player inspiring the dynamics of the group to shift...these are some very small, linear examples of that kind of real-time thinking and adapting. Which of course, as we know from scary self-driving car footage, seems to be one of AI's greatest weaknesses.

My CP4 is arriving today, I'm so excited!!! ...I just hope FedEx drops it off and doesn't miss the delivery because I'm not at home to sign for it. It's an 80something lb package so I do NOT want to pick it up from a FedEx location! 😅 The shipper sold it in a Road Runner hard case because he didn't feel comfortable shipping it otherwise--I've never seen more restrictive shipping on a "gigging" instrument. So many people selling a CP4 right now either refuse to ship it outright, or place limitations on where they'll ship it to. For example, there's a CP4 in great condition being sold online right now, and for a great price, but the catch: they won't ship it to Pacific time zone! This makes me a little nervous about the CP4's build quality, but I've been consoling myself by reminding myself that some of y'all have been gigging or had gigged with the CP4 for years without apparent issue.

Not sure on the timings of these, but I'm seeing a bunch of sold listings of $500+ USD. https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=k2500r&show_only_sold=true

I tried arranging some fun playdates with some other jazz musicians, but it got boring because they just wanted to swing.

I can't count how many times I've said about a musician: "I'm not a fan/I don't connect with their stuff, but they're an excellent composer/saxophonist/etc." Hell, to throw myself into a current related topic on here, I've never listened to anything that Brad Meldhau that's really resonated with me, but he's a master pianist.

Or you could just call out specific people and individuals for the over-the-line behavior.

A lot of them have been screwed out of royalties for ages already, especially with the increasing pressures and time crunches that have led to more and more of these studio teams. Sad stories abound of those team head honchos stamping their names on cue lists regardless of whether they actually did any work. On a related tangent: I did a movie about a year ago that played some festivals in Greece. I told my Mom, "Now your son's name will be glazed over and ignored by people across the world!" She responded, "Well I pay attention." "Who's the composer for the last movie you saw, Mom?" "I don't remember." "I rest my case." With more behind the scenes roles that take a certain anonymity, those are gonna be the ones most easy to replace and have to be the most diligently protected: I believe in the 60s there was a law or some kind of order passed that mandated that every television show had to have at least a certain percentage of original music as opposed to library music. Like the recent WGA and actor's guild movements, it seems that now would be a very opportune time to revisit and update those kinds of protections.

In composer production studios, I can absolutely see that being a more common procedure, and in our economic system, a way to stifle work and payments for the "underlings"--that's one of the main reasons many are scared of these technological developments, because our material livelihood and ability to secure the basics is dependent on our ability to produce.

I gigged with that one for about a year and half. It was a decent sound, and the built-in effects actually sounded surprisingly good, but there would be times where I would be plugged in, and it would just make a piercing, short flatline burst of noise, and stop working. I'd have to turn it off then turn it on again. I thought I had a bad unit until I was in a pro audio store a couple years ago and became friends with the keyboard department rep there and one day, apropos a general conversation about amps, he mentioned the same thing I experienced happening to a KDX.

As a general comment, I started making music electronically 10 years ago. The amount of quality tools and resources now compared to then is absolutely mindblowing, I love to see it!

As a left hander, I do feel a little privileged in having a stronger hand for stride, but it's been a while since I've had to play anything like that, and it's definitely a skill that atrophies! I've been embarrassed with how much I've been neglecting my left hand this past year, after determining when I was 17 to never succumb to "comp with the left hand, solo with the right hand" dogma. Those are great practice suggestions, Dave. For video game fans, there are also some really fun ragtime tunes written for the Super Mario series out there too! http://www.keeper1st.com/music/yoshiath.pdf

Yeah that's the number one flag that immediately pops up when I use TurboTax every year.

Sorry, I should have clarified: for performance royalties, it's a very simple--if tedious--process for me at this point in my career to gather info to report to ASCAP, but I wouldn't know what to do to report anything to a mechanical royalty publisher.

Mechanical royalties confuse me to no end, I gave up 15% of some of my tunes to have Songtrust administer all of that.

This has been such a great thread, I've read multiple articles on MIDI 2.0 but never grasped it as well as I have reading this thread. I also sweat when remembering Roland SE-01's filter stepping because of the limitations of MIDI and buying a big dumb CV knob dongle just to get smooth filter movement.

Thank you for sharing this insight and guidance. I would definitely seek representation if it ever came down to it--for anything--but I haven't gussied anything up, I haven't exaggerated anything, I've only presented the truth, which feels like the best backbone for a case that I could have.