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    DP with a really light action?

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    1 hour ago, Sean M. H. said:

     

     

    Agree... wonder if maybe CH was thinking "lightweight boards" as opposed to light actions...

     

    The PXS actions feel really really light to me...probably too light actually, but again they're smooth and the key dips easily.

    DP with a really light action?

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    If you're okay with barebones options, I always think of the Kawai ES (not 920) and the Casio PXS x000 (preferably 5/6/7) when it comes to lightweight actions. I give points to the PXS for being really smooth, and the ES points for feeling more solid and put-together (with the PXS, I feel a noticeable difference between the white and black keys).

    Programming vibrato on Novation Summit

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    Alternatively, if you wanted to set one LFO to control all oscillators' vibrato simultaneously (the above solution I gave is per individual oscillator), you'd probably want to assign an LFO--I'm not super familiar with the Summit, but 3 or 4 are most likely "free" LFOs with no-hardwired function-- to the pitch of all three oscillators in the mod matrix:

     

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    Programming vibrato on Novation Summit

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    19 minutes ago, MAJUSCULE said:

    Having a hell of a time figuring out how to program vibrato on my Summit. I know I have to use the mod matrix to program an LFO but I can't figure it out and I've got a gig tomorrow.

     

    Yes I've read the manual and googled and youtubed, I know it's a relatively simple thing, I'm on a time crunch so please just help me out and leave any comments at the door, thanks.

     

    Hi Eric! It looks like the Summit has a hard-wired vibrato effect built in with LFO 2. Theoretically, it should be a simple matter of turning up the LFO2 knob in the oscillator section to control how much vibrato you want, and using the rate knob in the LFO2 section to control how fast/slow you want it (or what kind of pitch modulation you want by changing the LFO waveform).

     

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    Korg GrandStage X

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    3 minutes ago, Paul Woodward said:

    The RH3 is a great keybed and, as noted in several threads, plays slightly differently on different boards

     

    And sometimes the same boards! I was at a store a few weeks ago with two SV2-88's vertically stacked: one felt very rigid and clunky, which I've also experienced in some other RH3 boards, but the one above it felt really smooth and pleasant to play! I could only assume one was "played in" more?

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    Roland Cloud Subscribers - Galaxias?

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    2 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:

    Not as a software workstation, you've got to piece it together from Korg Collection (which doesn't have much of the Kronos sampling work, especially pianos) in a host to get it working together.  

     

    And even then, the hodgepodge of instruments gone by isn't a true substitute for the relatively modern engines Korg has had with the Kronos.

    Roland Cloud Subscribers - Galaxias?

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    36 minutes ago, ElmerJFudd said:

    That hasn’t been their approach thus far, but Korg was far and away the first to get into the software game of the big 3.    If you have their Korg Collection 4, you really need a host like Gig Performer or MainStage etc. to build something Kronos-like. 

     

    First and the best! Korg's software offerings are second to none, and the fact they release their newest big synths in software is awesome (though maybe not for your CPU). 

     

    Still, especially with the Oasys infrastructure being almost 20 years old now, you wonder when/if they're going to give it the Triton treatment.

    I declined an offer to play

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    3 hours ago, Jose EB5AGV said:

    I play on a pop/rock band (80s+ covers and band originals) for two years now, just for fun (I spend quite a lot more in music gear than I earn playing 😅, and money is not my goal)

     

    Today, the drummer has offered me to play keys on a Queen musical at his former high school. It will be on 26th March. He will play drums.

     

    The reason for me to decline the offer is lack of time (although that could be more or less solved) and, the most important, lack of capability to do it. I feel far from ready to do that kind of thing. I know there would be some young players of other instruments from the school, and the idea is for more seasoned musicians to support them. But I don't feel like a seasoned musician, but as a beginner with limited experience playing live with the first and unique band I have ever played.

     

    I feel sad for not being able to do it. It is a reality check for me. And it hurts 😔

     

    Well, the only thing I can do is to keep learning, so perhaps next time I will be ready for something like this. I will also comment this with my piano teacher next Monday, to see what he thinks.

     

    Sorry for the OT, but where else can I talk something like this? 🙏🏻

     

    Jose

     

    Echoing other's sentiments, you'd be surprised by how low your perceived 100% is when you expand your capacity by taking on challenges. Further too, you never know what opportunities will arise from your life when you say yes to things! 

     

    In 2018, a band director approached me to perform keyboards for an upcoming production of Young Frankenstein, because his first pick was unavailable. I looked at the book, which had some complicated areas, switching instruments, and it was just sooooo thick! I got really nervous about my ability to hang. I told him I'd think about it, but as soon as I said it, I knew if I said no, I'd be capping off my own potential, and said yes like 20 minutes later. 

     

    While I was nervous, I created a simple daily goal: during rehearsals, play one bar with both staves. This was my goal because in performance situations prior, I would just play one staff with both hands out of fear of making mistakes. As it happened, when you're in the heat of the moment and the music is flowing, you don't just say "Well, I played my one bar, I'll just play one staff with two hands now!" 

    So what was the end result of me taking on this challenge? I ended up vibing with all of the people in the band really well, and we formed a band that's getting bigger and bigger every year (I moved away a year after it formation, but I'm still really close friends with several of them and get updates from them and see the social media posts). 

     

    The band director loved working with me to the point where I became his first pick piano/keyboard player for the rest of my time living there.

     

    I made a connection with the theater owners and producers, and the following year they had a play that desperately needed music, and I got to score it. From then, I became their in-house composer for several years...last year was really dry for me musically, but the income for music I got was solely from the royalties for their theme I wrote last year!

     

    And of course, I now had an irrefutable experience in my life that told me I could take on tough challenges. : )

     

    Obviously, it's your decision whether you take on the gig or not, but it's truly amazing how much the course of our lives move because of one three-letter word.

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    Yamaha E.S.P - as it pertains to Montage M

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    Just now, DeltaJockey said:

    I wonder if Yamaha might even be considering ESP as a subscription? 😵  Do Yamaha have any musical product that is subscriber?

     

    Rather than a hardware sales killer, they might see that as teasing way of getting people to sample the product and then buying the hardware! Or keep the subscription going.

     

    I was wondering the same, especially after Roland Cloud was brought up. 

    Yamaha E.S.P - as it pertains to Montage M

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    1 hour ago, jazzpiano88 said:

    I think Yamaha is proceeding carefully with many factors involved.  The main two that come to mind:

     - Do not cannibalize Hardware Montage M sales without first establishing the correct price on the standalone vst.

     - Get feedback using the free vst via Montage HW users (no disgruntled customers) to make sure the standalone version comes out smoothly.

     

     

     

    I was thinking about that, and I'm sure it's been brought up before, but on the first point: I do wonder how much a VST would take away from hardware sales, especially given its high and premium price tag. For example, myself? I'm not gonna buy a Montage M, and don't have any intention of doing so. So that's $4,000+ they're not getting from me. However, if I bought the software for whatever they would charge for it, that'd give them a profit, yeah?

    (very) OT: Emotional Support Animals

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    4 hours ago, BluMunk said:

    No, you don't.
     

     

    So you haven't seen it for yourself? I thought you said you know someone who does, and whose parents facilitate. 
     

     

    I don't think "we" are letting "them" identify as anything, because this isn't a real situation.

    @AROIOS, that man is lying.

    This is a "(very) OT" topic, and I can see why we generally keep things locked down pretty tight here on this forum. It doesn't take much for folks to start pulling in fear-mongering, click-bait, lies-pretending-to-be-news, people-today-are-too-tolerant-look-kids-are-shitting-in-litter-boxes-and-no-one-dares-stop-them bullshit.
     

     

    Oh my god thank you so much, this thread was getting hard to read with all these Joe Rogan-ass anecdote stories.

     

    This issue of emotional support animals is one that I've personally observed for the last 10 years or so, though. Obviously, animals/pets can provide a great therapeutic benefit to their owners, but there is a difference between this and trained support animals. The conduct between the two is usually if not always very apparent, and as someone said, there's official certification and processes someone has to go through to have an animal designated as a support animal.

     

    Going back to the first sentence, and some of the focus the thread took: a couple years ago, I was walking on my way home and near me was this person around my age (mid-late 20s) with a cane. Immediately all these kinds of thoughts were coming up: "What does a 20something need with a cane? I bet they're faking something, it's in their head and they're making themselves weaker", etc. This went on for like two minutes, and after, I was like wait...why was I so angry? Here was this person I didn't know, didn't even talk to, would probably never see again, and I was lobbing all of this crap on them that I had no way to verify one way or the other, and getting worked up about it! And what for? I started asking myself if there was a connection to my immediate cynicism towards that person and how I treat myself, and I didn't like the answer very much. I've said it before in context with music on several threads before, but it's a much healthier and successful life to take that energy trying to convince myself of my superiority over others--and yes, that situation with that stranger was exactly that, whether I recognized it as such or not--, and transfer that energy into winning over myself. 

     

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