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On 6/5/2023 at 1:58 AM, AnotherScott said:
Yeah, I skipped the image, because the two links I included both had the images. But here's what it looks like filled with gear, from each side.
The top level has...
... tall thin bag with short speaker pole, mic stand, and a stand to put an iPhone/iPad in if I want to get video of the gig
... tall thin bag with Bose PA top unit and PA cables
... red bag with all the keyboard pedals/cables
... Bose PA bottom unit in its cover
... small soft case with PA mixer
... 8" speaker case with powered speaker for keyboards
... 2-tier keyboard stand on top
The bottom level has the two keyboards, plus a bag with spare cables/accessories and our mini-lighting system.
Everything is just laid in, except there's a little strap built into the thing, which I route through the spare cable bag on bottom, to make sure it doesn't fall off.
For a small venue gig, this is complete PA, keyboards, and lights in one trip. Total of all gear is under 150 lbs, so well below the official 225 lb weight capacity. Admittedly, these two keyboards are one of my lightest setups... if I picked the heaviest pair I might gig with these days, that could add about 20 lbs.
If we're playing a bigger venue, or we have a bigger band config, or if I'm doing a separate ceremony/cocktail, I could need more stuff, so a second trip could be necessary, e.g. there are times I might bring a third keyboard and extra keyboard stand, or a dedicated bass amp for LH bass, or additional small PA speakers/monitors. So two trips is still a possibility, but even that isn't bad, and often this one trip's worth would be fine.
For some reason your pics made me think about this little "cart"...
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6 hours ago, Paul Woodward said:
Now we're just waiting for the iOS version...
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4 minutes ago, jerrythek said:
I can tell you that Korg did all their own work developing algorithms for the Prophecy/Z1/Oasys/Kronos etc. But we were legally bound to pay the license/show the mark on our products.
I'm sure that Yamaha (of all companies) would have the ability to use the technology as they wanted.
Some interesting memorabilia
https://web.archive.org/web/20131126203942/http://sondiusxg.com/korgpr.html
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7 hours ago, mrk7421 said:
I once again would really like to know what is up with the MAG. I have access to hearing the HX3.6
because I introduced Christian at Keyboard partner to Michael McIntosh who is doing HX3 related service work as well as service for Crumar ,Viscount Hammond Suzuki etc ,.....................................The last time he had a HX3.6
I went up there and.....that thing was complicated.Even though I own as HX3 I couldn't get to first base trying to set up split mode,CV settings and parameters to use the Leslie sim.I know the HX3 pretty well but this was such.a different animal set up wise I struck out
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).
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14 hours ago, Mr -G- said:
Good idea! I just did that: I run the transformer around the keyboard (without opening it this time) and does not seem to induce any noise at all even when touching the panel, the screen and the connectors zone at the back.
I will try the self-wrap sleeve, I have not thought about it. In the middle of all this I wondered if it is worth opening the chassis drilling holes for the mains and miscalculating something that I might regret later...
I also got another transformer like a laptop brick which is the same voltage 12V and polarity (I think it was from an old monitor) and I might velcro that to an X stand. The cable in that seems much better than in the original wart.
Thank you all for your comments!
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!
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5 hours ago, jerrythek said:
Those patenta are really Stanford's and the work of Scott A. Van Duyne and Julius O. Smith, III, covering waveguide technology. They deserve the bulk of the credit. Yamaha paid for the rights and controlled it for a period of time. And everyone that explored that field had to pay their license fee.
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.
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Air Wick comes in all sizes and flavours these days...
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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!
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2 minutes ago, Delaware Dave said:
Its a hardware solution vs. software.
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.
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1 hour ago, mrk7421 said:
I still am wondering what MAG organ did with their HX3 based engine to make people love them so much. I am tempted to get my old HX3 out again at least because I have a new speaker system and have gotten at least the sim in my Legend Live to sound better. For 5 grand I would consider at least consider using a Leslie.
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...
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Looking at its layout I would be surprised if there is not a lot of space on the right side.
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I was in contact with him late in 2021, that's a while ago now. I guess he's busy with life.
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20 minutes ago, jerrythek said:
Just listened - his stuff is really good.
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!
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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.
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13 hours ago, TommyRude said:
Maybe, but Apple won’t give up without a fight. The new iPad with AI
Oooops!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/apple-ipad-ad-prompts-online-backlash
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12 hours ago, Docbop said:
Just watched a cool YouTube on AI Generated Music and the guy used one of the AI Music generators typed out the type of tune he wanted. It spit out a short tune, he request a longer tune, it added to the tune. Then he said he wanted variations to compare to and he ended up with a handful of variations. Then he took the tune and put it through a AI stem separator. He then started editing, replacing the drums, adding tracks and building up the tune. He felt it need some more variation so split one of the variations he liked and then pulled pieces of it into the tune He than start adding automation to AI tracks that were lacking dynamics. He ended up with a nice track he planing to keep working on. So he was showing AI can do a lot, but adding his own creativity to get his ideas out. That the AI is another tool and up to the user to be creative with it or not.
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!
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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...
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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.
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7 minutes ago, Ibarch said:
The fact that these libraries do not exist on iPad shows that developers very much see the problem, even if you do not.
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..)
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1 minute ago, Ibarch said:
New hardware is not what the musician needs from an iPad. I can't remember the last time I thought an iPad couldn't cope with the workload. Maybe about 2018.
What the platform needs is the software. Until the likes of Arturia V collection, Omnisphere, Kompact are available then it will remain a niche product with only challenger level apps.
But till Apple remove the 30% tax for entry and relinquish their death grip on control of software installs, I don't see it happening.
So M4 iPad, no. Not for me.
Well, resellers require margins too, and 30% is far from uncommon, so from that perspective I don't see the problem.
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5 minutes ago, Paul Woodward said:
This is the thing with Apple, they keep pushing tech that few of us really need day to day. You can do amazing stuff with a standard iPad from a few years ago...and it niggles me that, unlike other tech such as games consoles or synths, they never really 'max' out a device with any apps or applications before releasing a new '4x' better model. I mean, what will push an M2 to the limits and now we have M4.
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...
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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!
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Now we all are just waiting for Main Stage!
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39 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:
It's actually the other way around... it's not that Yamaha endorses them, but rather that they endorse Yamaha, but yes, that results in their getting the gear, if not for free, than at least for cheap.
I would take it one step further, pretty sure it's Yamaha paying for them here, not only in gear...
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Your Latest Purchase (music related)
in The Keyboard Corner
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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.