J.F.N.

March 22

Great timing for this clip to show up in my YT flow:

March 22

I can imagine, it looks like parts from K2700 meets 3d-printing to "Look it's a new machine", in a non designer worked through way.

Looking forward to see how the new ones turns out, and what feature sets, I am in the market come 6 months down the road, for another Kurzweil, as for now the votes are on the K2700 as the mother of everything home in the studio, and then keep my PC3 for band/live activitives, leaving it in the rehearsal room etc.

March 21

42 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Agreed. The Prologue is a utilitarian synth that definitely punches above its weight.😎

I love my Prologue 16, takes me back to the realms of Prophet VS (one of my favorite synths) and I totally agree that it's an incredibly versatile machine, obviously depending on what you've got in the multi-oscillator slots can take things one step further, still, in its base configuration, an amazing synth. Will never get rid of mine!

March 21

I was a bit disappointed seeing that the marimba part wasn't played with one hand only... Though it does take a lot of practice, BUT, if you can play the intro to "Perfect Strangers" with Deep Purple, having a good flow playing one handed, you can play that marimba part with one hand too.. (first part of the intro, same intervals and harmonies but in "backward" order kind of...).

March 21

Watched that vid on YouTube some days ago, got a weird feeling Paich was not at all into playing, ending up pulling Human Nature on Steve to get off the piano...

March 21

2 hours ago, SamuelBLupowitz said:

I'm looking for a supplemental board for my organ trio live rig, to cover a wide spread of sounds outside of my primary setup of dual-manual organ and synth bass. The combination of our tunes evolving in the studio, and some of our collaborations with other artists, is making me want to have some more sonic options (piano and EP, clav, bells, lead synth, Mellotron), while keeping the organ and the bass synth the main focus of the rig. My 61-key Nord Electro checks a lot of these boxes, of course, but I'm wondering what my options are these days for a smaller footprint than that.

I'm planning on playing around with my little two-octave Bluetooth MIDI controllers and an iPad and see if that's low-maintenance and low-profile enough to cover the wide array of sounds I want without taking up quite so much space, but my experience with that setup is that it can be kind of finicky (also trickier to hook up to sustain or expression pedals).

Any thoughts on what might be a good compromise between those two things? The Yamaha Reface is the hardware solution that's closest to what I'm envisioning, but of course with those you have to pick if you're going the CP, CS, or DX route. The CP would probably be my best bet, but I'd love to cover more diverse ground in a similar form factor. Without a hardware option, the most logical thing for the smaller gigs might be sticking to the iPad as a sound source, but getting myself a three- or four-octave controller with sustain and expression pedal inputs.

The new 3 octave KingKORG could be something maybe?

March 21

4 minutes ago, mcgoo said:

I had an X2, the single manual version, for several years. Other than not having Chorus (it had vibrato only), it sounded wonderful thru a vent.

Yes, they don't have Chorus indeed, spring reverb though (X2 too?), and yes, sounded great through a Leslie, did a lot of different styles and recordings too with it.

March 20

10 minutes ago, Doerfler said:

I believe so

Danny Federici (RIP) used an Acetone organ on some early E Street Band recordings. Bruce still has it in his studio

Danny, one of my heroes, together with Jon Lord, what an organ force they have up (or down) there.... 😊

March 20

1 hour ago, zxcvbnm098 said:

I know Mr. Kakehashi was a great fan of Hammond and Leslie products. I see you're in Portugal.....I wonder if the Acetone was even imported into the States?

I was not here in my haydays though, I'm a Viking from way up north lost in the south of Europe...

I would be surprised of Ace Tone was not exported to the US.

March 20

Was there by any chance an iOS update at some point?

March 20

On 2/20/2024 at 1:58 AM, Jim Alfredson said:

Anyone who thinks a modern company can make a real electro-acoustic piano with reeds, wooden keys, wooden hammers and whippens, dampers, etc. for less than $10k is dreaming.

That depends on where in Asia they decide to manufacture them, and how many they get into a container...

March 20

6 minutes ago, zxcvbnm098 said:

Wow, I had to look up the Acetone GT7......I've never seen one before.

That was Mr. Kakehashi pre Roland, the GT7 was later more well known as Hammond X5 (Produced by Ace Tone for Hammond).

Greatest "clone" back in the days, I had two, in the end I sold one to a repair guy (together with a Leslie 760) who I think may have renovated it, and the second died in a basement flooding.

March 20

7 minutes ago, Reezekeys said:

I vote Macbook. My perspective is from being on the road doing a variety of gigs but many that feature multiple bands, some where we're not headlining - and the last thing I would want to happen is a glitch with my iPad remote screen or some other failure. Too many pieces here, and having to rush a setup to make a start time can be extremely stressful. Laptops - especially one that's asleep with all your software loaded - go a long way to alleviate that stress. My 2p anyway.

Why I suggested a touch screen instead, the remote control iPad is definitely a SPOF to avoid.

March 20

6 minutes ago, Docbop said:

I was thinking how I'd do this with Ableton so I figure Reaper can do the same. In the DAW I create another Return track which in Ableton adds another send on every track. Then in the settings set that return tracks output to one Scarlet's outputs. That what you can send whatever track(s) you want to the new return track and that return track goes out one of the Scarlet output you could send to your mixer. That would give you a lot of control of what goes to the new return and it's level and completely bypass the Master outputs. The nice thing about DAWs is you can do all sorts of signal routing if you audio interface has extra outputs.

Or just like in the good old analog days, 4 busses, routed to each of the outputs of the Scarlett, and BOOM!

March 20

What previous poster said, switch the "stereo" on the ports (boxes to the left) to mono and you should instead see one box per mono channel, which hopefully will resolve your problem.

March 20

Here's some inspiration:

Been investigating this for recording purposes on the road, the mac, drives, accessories, and a keyboard with trackpad in a drawer, and another drawer to store the monitor in when packed down, all in a rack, then depending on how you want it setup, attach the monitor with a vesa mount in your rig etc.

There seems to be a fair number of touch screen monitors supporting Mac, so just dig one up that fits your specs, and with a touch screen you get the direct interaction from your rig, but you still have the keyboard/trackpad in the rack if needed.

March 20

I have only good experience from the Focusrite support, they helped me with some minor things with my SL61MkII and surprisingly sent me a Power supply, for free, even though it's an old product and I had bought it used.

Call them and ask for help with setting your interface up in Reaper and they will most probably walk you through the process, and eventual problems can be ironed out with them directly on the phone.

March 20

I mean, look at their normally very smooth well designed hardware interface, this has to got to be NAMM rush work with the 3D-printer on max speed...

March 19

Okay, so, software out through the interface and then to the mixer. Sounds either like a driver setup problem, or a bug somewhere if you can't access all four streams in Reaper.

March 19

The 4i4 has 4 physical inputs, and 4 physical outputs, which you will find, all of them, in your DAW. You are talking about a mixer, what mixer is that? If you want to route 4 channels from the mixer to 4 of the physical inputs on the 4i4, the mixer needs to be compatible with your strategy here.

March 19

And it's kinda funny, as once upon a time there were no options.. Back in my haydays, in the early and mid 90s, I lugged a Rhodes (owned three of them) a Clavinet (owned two..) a Hammond or clone (CX3 or Acetone GT7), Leslie, Fender or Musicman amps for the electromechanical keys, and when needed, synths (to sound like synths) on top of that... Had a cpl of different ones, Juno 60, D50, Moog Prodigy, Logan String machine, Siel something, and later on an XP50 which basically replaced all of the above and some, that's when things started to change...

Those were the days, and oh, my physical condition was SO much better back then..

😂

March 18

Blues in Gi (Girona) - A covid lockdown improvisation (I was living in Girona, Spain, we were all locked in for 3-4 months), which in the end turned out to be a nice little blues. Drums, unknown loop randomly used for jamming. Recorded live with my phone in my room (!).

Fretless bass and guitar by my friend, who did his part locked inside his home, I think in Garageband or Logic, thank Dogs for the internet!

😃

March 18

I really hope these are just handcrafted prototypes, as the design and materials looks terrible!

March 18

On 3/9/2024 at 8:39 PM, TommyRude said:

I was watching this one some week or two ago, I find she's definitely concluding it in a very easy and comprehensive way, great video!!

March 18

2 hours ago, jazzpiano88 said:

Even at that lower price, I don’t know. To justify playing a real E-M instrument you need to be a Chick, Michael, Donald, etc. and they were (are) big enough to tour with the real deal. Although I think Mr. Wonderful is actually using a VV 88 suitcase.

The Motif/Montage sampled Rhodes is pretty though to beat. Check out the guy playing Still Crazy for James Taylor at the Paul Simon tribute. It’s pretty killer. There are some sample artifacts I find annoying if you look for them, but in the context of a band performance they are fine.

OT Digression :: I’ve got the Crumar and the Montage sample is much much better. Sure, the Crumar emulates the Rhodes when you depress the sustain pedal without anything else, but talk about a cheesy gimmick. If you were to record that shit, it’s noise and adds blur and other artifacts they’ve cheesed up.

Yeah, I would probably seldom bring a real one out, but keep it in my home studio for recording, unless of course playing in a very specific setting where the electric piano had a central part of the music.

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