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One of these, used in as new condition for only 20€ shipped: https://www.k-m.de/en/products/mic-stands/floor-stands/27105-microphone-stand-black/27105-300-55 And two 5 meters Cordial XLR-XLR Finally had the first rehearsal with the new band yesterday, and I just hadn't had the time to fix with stand and cable for the microphone I bought some weeks ago. Everything should arrive here before the next rehearsal.

For some reason your pics made me think about this little "cart"...

Now we're just waiting for the iOS version...

Some interesting memorabilia https://web.archive.org/web/20131126203942/http://sondiusxg.com/korgpr.html

It is super easy with the settings, the buttons on the front to navigate to the right parameter, and the knob to set the value, and to save just press the knob and keep it pressed for a cpl of seconds. I have one preset set up for split, and one for full keyboard, and the rest I control in real time with my B4D drawbar controller and some faders and buttons on my midi keyboard (for overdrive and reverb settings).

Or if you REALLY want this done, find a good music electronics guy in your area and pay him to do it. Back in the days I was travelling with a Juno 60, and as some of you may know they came from the factory with the mains cable fixed to the machine, highly inconvenient, so I had a three prong mains socket installed instead, at the same time I took the opportunity to add a MIDI to it and had an overhaul on the electronics in general on it as well. Unfortunately this machine, which was my 3rd Juno 60 and that I had the intention to keep for life, was stolen after a gig (the last gig I did... haha) in Paris in 2001, so much for that, HAHA!

Yes indeed, and considering that the KORG counterpart products comes from Stanford's Sondius program as well (same as Yamaha) and that the Prophecy is available as a software these days, it would be interesting to know if Yamaha still would have the right to do something similar today.

Air Wick comes in all sizes and flavours these days...

I wonder what happened to Yamaha's partnership with Stanford for the physical modeling stuff, the VL/VP machines, it would have been FANTASTIC if they included this technology in one way or the other in their flagship machines, but also created some interesting software/plugins, I assume that would be Steinberg taking care of this. I have the EX5R which contains some flavours of this, and I will never sell that machine!

I assume the MAG organs have the beds connected right on to the HX3 circuitry, no MIDI board inbetween, this (I've heard) is supposed to give a quicker response, no 1st hand experience of it though, I am sure someone here has.

MAG is a full organ, and they've built the physical machine around the HX3, which is just an engine, available either just as a circuit board, or you can also buy it as a half rack-ish midi module (I use this). Actually you can even buy HX3 as an XB2 retrofit kit if you have one of those that died on you (common), that will replace the dead engine in the XB2 and give it a new (and better sounding) life! So I guess the MAG love comes from the full solution...

Looking at its layout I would be surprised if there is not a lot of space on the right side.

I was in contact with him late in 2021, that's a while ago now. I guess he's busy with life.

That guy is amazing, he's doing custom work as well. I sent him a message when I found that site, with some nice words as I was really impressed, and he got back to me so we were in mail conversation for some time there. I had just bought my PC3 and he gave me some encouragement for the VAST programming etc. Very nice guy too!

If you really bring something interesting to the table, don't be afraid to charge for it, your time is someone elses profit.. Here's a guy who is a real talent on VAST, I assume he's doing a nice little extra on his side hustle (I can also imagine he's spending quite some time hanging over his Kurzweil) judging from the quality of his work. https://enjoythesirens.com/

Oooops! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/apple-ipad-ad-prompts-online-backlash

Exactly, imagine what you can churn out with Suno today, but in stems + midi which is already set up with the instruments in your DAW etc. I do believe that in a near future some DAW manufacturer will definitely start using these technologies in one way or the other to assist in the creative process "What would you like to create today?". Will be interesting to see the new Logic version with the AI Session Players, and what can be achieved with that!

Back in my heydays for some years I was playing with a locally well known country singer (mix of original material and covers). We played in a pub/club where line dancers used to gather, so a lot of tipsy middle age women in the audience. A low not so deep stage at the bottom of the room next to the end of a long bar, and I was sitting at the side like on a corner where the stage could be accessed from both sides. In the middle of a song this woman (who I think knew the singer) went towards me and started flirting heavily, doing "sexy" moves etc. I smiled at her and kept playing, then she walks around the corner of the stage, so she's now behind me, and all of a sudden I feel her hand on my waiste, and the second after, she is kissing and licking my ear, whispering dirty talk... We were still in a song, so I probably (don't remember) tried to shake her off me like a dog shakes insects off its head, and I remember she didn't stop immediately, no memory of any details for the rest though, this was in the mid 90's, long time ago, but I do remember her very upfront invites after the set, to no avail, I was disgusted...

I can assure you that the 30% margin for Apple is not a big problem. And correct, boxed products are dead, instead these days there's a global distribution channel called XChange, who are doing a great job hooking up dealers with manufacturers for online sales and distribution/delivery via APIs used by the resellers. XChange take their cut, and the reseller is basically expecting 30%. There are physical stores using this too (GC for example) but the main thing here is the online sales. I've been in this industry for the last 20 years, and audio software (instruments, plugins, stand alone software), through retail is an important thing. Direct sales is obviously bigger today than 15 years ago, still, the reach out you get with solid channel sales is crucial for the brand's development and existence, including the sales figures.

I don't think, in a larger perspective, any developer see 30% in distribution b2c as a problem. Ime it's more about maintaining yet another platform, in which not yet is commodity for the purpose in our case. If they knew there would be 50000 new customer the first year, and growing for each year, they would probably not hesitate doing the necessary investments for going all in with a new platform. (This is the reality I live and work in, I'm not a developer, but I work for an audio software company, nothing that has anything to do with synths and keyboards, but the conversation has been on our table too..)

Well, resellers require margins too, and 30% is far from uncommon, so from that perspective I don't see the problem.

Indeed, tbh, for my keyboard lab I have an iPad Gen8 for midi stuff, practice and rehearsal for playing tunes, scores, etc. and I have never experienced any limitations. For my personal life I have a Gen9 with SIM card as well, that I use for everyhing I used to do with a computer (I never use any of my computers for personal stuff anymore). I doubt any of these three iPads, including the Air M1, will ever need to be replaced because I feel I have "grown out" of them, it will rather be Apple pushing me when they abandon the hardware one day with a new iOS version...

I am still very impressed by my iPad Air M1 (first M1 iPad Air), using it for music only, and it's just rock solid!

Now we all are just waiting for Main Stage!

I would take it one step further, pretty sure it's Yamaha paying for them here, not only in gear...