Gus Lozada

I am not expecting MIDI 2.0 to "solve" anything. I've been a happy user of MIDI for its 36 years of existence and I can do everything I need with it. I can say, though, that MIDI connections via USB or other protocols have made things easier, less cables, etc. That said, I would like to see how much and for good MIDI 2.0 makes things better.

I do care. I just don't want to learn another set of weird numbers for controllers. And that's one of the promises of MIDI 2.0: PROFILING. Say, you have a modern analog synth or a virtual synth. You connect two different synths together, they "see" each other" with all of their hardware controls and voilá, you can completely control a synth from another synth with full auto-mapping (profiling). Or, say, you have an organ... or two organs... or a MIDI controller which happens to have 9 faders... when connected and profiled, you will have those faders or drawbars ready to control the other organ or software. ... just to start with... and I'm really excited. Why not? If it's backwards compatible and I can use new and old stuff together... Yes, I DO CARE.

Hi Dave! That is why I have an ENSONIQ ZR76. Nice keys, awesome "Real Piano" expansion board, for its age. And YES, it is also my main MIDI controller in my studio. The Trinity won't replace it because it does not have weighted keys; that would be the job of the K2500 if I buy it.

So Kurzweil is winning... But Mike, YES, the Trinity it has all the expansion boards. So the bang on the buck is high.

Hello! I've tried them both. I love them both. I can buy ONE only for around $600 USD -Good deal given I live in Mexico and both are in great conditions- NOW I need you guys to tell me which one would you choose and why... maybe I'm missing something... The TRINITY has all the MOSS Expansions. Awesome. What a SYNTH. Expressive. Light and sexy. Boring regular keys for being a 76-keys synth. The K2500XS ... well, was used by Rick Wright... it sounds like Floyd's "Pulse". Nice keys, heavy as hell. Boring black. Awesome pianos and organs. So... ?

The most money I've ever made in the music business has been when a company licenses one of my songs -or pay me to make their "jingle" under a license agreement- to promote a product OR even better, for a TV series or a movie. SO, this has been happening for the last 25 years.

... OMG Craig Anderton asking me one technical question... OMG... Have you tried bypassing the mixer? The mixer adds a tiny latency that may cause your problems.

That Just like the tons and tons of guys asking for the "Digigrid" option for the StudioLive Series III (AVB) Mixers of PreSonus. I am *sure* not even the 1% will actually end-up buying a digigrid system and the plug-ins -which as a total would end-up costing more than the mixer itself- ... but if it is possible to do it, like the "hardware insert" thing -"Pipeline" which actually works wonderfully with my preamps/reamps/compressors!-, why not to add it?

"If you can't make it sound right with the stock plug-ins, don't blame the DAW. The song and/or performance sucks by itself"

... to say it politely, indeed.

I kept this old M-AUDIO hand-held recorder -that one which started a small revolution in digital, portable recorders, the MicroTrack- I had it around, you know, "just in case" I may ever need one. Like two years ago I opened the drawer where it was... and wanted to play with it... only to discover it was "pregnant" or about to deliver an alien... ... yes, the battery was like a balloon about to explode... thanks god I found it "on time" somehow... but it ended in the electronics disposal bin. Sad. Same happened with an old MacBook Pro (a 2008 model, I think). But replaced the battery, it was all good.

Hey it has a great vibe. Liked it!!!

... and people can immediately feel familiar with whatever you are doing. Yes, I make my own songs, but I haven't made more than 40, I think, so I'm mostly a "cover" musician.

I've just read -and confirmed- that our old friend, fellow forum member George Hamilton (YAMAHA, KURZWEIL) passed away on July 31st, after battling a long time with a disease. I met him several times at NAMM until he found "a real job" in another totally different industry a few years ago and lost track of him. I liked him. May he rest in peace. Here, Sweetwater's Chuck Surack, George and I, in a small picture in the pages of KEYBOARD MAGAZINE in 2004 http://guslozada.com/ForumPics/198484_10152000789161029_1901105939_n.jpg

If robotic sex partners are as beautiful as Anna de Armas, I would be TOTALLY into that. Word. I wouldn't care about the music. Thanks, Sensei, It just feels like home. Waiting for my community to wake up and start posting!

Of course! Monetize music is SOOOOOOOO easy. Good luck.

Amen to all that.

... and the fat channel settings if you used a template for the mixer / interface...

Every single piece of gear "talks" to you. A guitar, a keyboard, a gun, a pair of shoes, an exercise machine, a microphone (like my 44-A, dude!) ... or a camera... you find "the right one" and that is a glorious moment. As I said, I had many "point and shoot" cameras, even some very sophisticated ... and NONE of them ever inspired me to take any pics. All that changed when I upgraded into an iPhone 4 and discovered the "HDR" feature + built in photo editing. Being able to see in that huge, beautiful screen what I wanted to frame and capture, made all the difference. I am by no means a photographer and I don't consider myself one. I love taking photographs with my iPhone and they keep improving, but I have several good, close friends who actually are photographers, so I leave to them the titles, techniques and cameras.

YES HDR. Saturated color. It's my visual AutoTune. But I finally started enjoying photography ever since. * I am NOT buying a PRO camera like, never. I travel with so much audio stuff I can't afford to also carry a camera with accessories. iPhone photographer. That's me.

Thankfully this is NOT a photography contest... ... that said, well, I was NEVER able to take a good picture with a "point and shoot" camera, and I had several different ones... zero. It was until I got an iPhone 4 with its "HDR" capability of double exposition and that HUGE screen, that I was able to take decent pictures. At least, pictures I actually liked. And with built-in editing, I could enhance ((saturate)) the colors, so they looked "better" to my partially colorblinded eyes. These pictures are from a trip to Colombia, Puerto Rico and Venezuela when I just got the iPhone 4, in 2010. http://guslozada.com/totem.png http://guslozada.com/ForumPics/gus03-new.jpg http://guslozada.com/ForumPics/IMG_1938.JPG.jpg http://guslozada.com/ForumPics/IMG_1857.JPG.jpg

I purchased a very old TRAP KAT controller. It is beyond awesome -an HEAVY!!! Absolutely love it. But I did buy full hat controller and kick pedal / kick trigger (ALESIS). It makes a huge difference. The little square ones are great for taking to gigs. Smaller, less space required. The piano-style are for home or for gigs that need a lot of piano

Hi Mike! Incredible to think we met around these pages 20 years ago... nice to "see" you! It's good to be back at the 'hood. Their price increases tell the opposite. They need income. And if they only have "the professionals", well, they will have to pay the new, higher price. And about "not breaking anything else", they recently had a serious problem with the online thing deleting sessions. I mean, that's "normal" with all software developers, but still, does not help having new, higher prices and still failing like that with bugs. The difference we like to make is that we make our own DAW, unlike like Steinberg / Yamaha, same company, company's official software, but NOT made for Yamaha or other brands... We highly respect every other manufacturer. But when it comes to integration, we are right at the place M-Audio/AVID were 10 years ago and we have a more solid DAW for musicians and producers and better hardware solutions. * Still NO Keyboards. I will work on that later...

Brother, I missed you! Glad to be back. "New" toys I've been hunting as crazy for the last decade. Love them After being "Mr M-Audio" for 14 years, you won't find a USB MIDI controller in my studio. It's a 100% hardware now.

As long as MS Windows is the alternative to macOS, I'm staying at this, the fun side. When I was working for AVID I was always looking for the most powerful computer ever, since Pro Tools is so CPU hungry. Studio One Pro runs quite perfectly on my son's MacBook Air, 256 GB, 8GB RAM. That said, I couldn't care less about the $6K Mac Pro. Not for me. It's getting harder and harder every day. But ... I'm here! ... and that microphone really helps my voice and looks