Leroy C Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewall08530 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 I preordered a Kawai ES 920. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsj Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 korg minilogue xd module Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenner13 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 I preordered a Kawai ES 920. Ooh, that"s a beauty. White or black? Getting the stand with triple pedals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 dB I know, right?!? Get a Shubb bar that fits between the fingers and has a rounded end and a volume pedal and it's an entirely new world to explore and express. Way prettier than my "Disaster Framus" too, see attache photo... Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Mike Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Took advantage of Arturia V Collection 7 for $200. Includes everything but the OB-Xa V. The Matrix 12 and SEM will do just fine. This pretty much finishes my sonic arsenal as I transition from live playing to home studio production. Quote . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve in VA Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Korg Kronos 2 61-key Titanium Limited Edition ($500 off). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroy C Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I know, right?!? Get a Shubb bar that fits between the fingers and has a rounded end and a volume pedal and it's an entirely new world to explore and express. Way prettier than my "Disaster Framus" too, see attache photo... Thanks! Yes, I may have bought some accessories with it, per the attached picture ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I know, right?!? Get a Shubb bar that fits between the fingers and has a rounded end and a volume pedal and it's an entirely new world to explore and express. Way prettier than my "Disaster Framus" too, see attache photo... Thanks! Yes, I may have bought some accessories with it, per the attached picture ... It looks just like the bar I have, they are nice bars for lap steel. Your other toys should serve you well. Somehow, David Lindley has played up here in little Bellingham twice since I've been here. I don't think there is anybody better on lap steel, amazing musician! Keeps ya humble... Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed A. Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Arturia KeyStep 37 and Pigments 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rod76 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Bought an old Oberheim Strummer. Let's see how long that will last Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Motif Max Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Bought an old Oberheim Strummer. Let's see how long that will last You mean this thing? [video:youtube] No, seriously, the Oberheim sounds like fun. It's a shame there are no useful demos on YouTube. Quote Yamaha: Motif XF8, MODX7, YS200, CVP-305, CLP-130, YPG-235, PSR-295, PSS-470 | Roland: Fantom 7, JV-1000 Kurzweil: PC3-76, PC4 (88) | Hammond: SK Pro 73 | Korg: Triton LE 76, N1R, X5DR | Emu: Proteus/1 | Casio: CT-370 | Novation: Launchkey 37 MK3 | Technics: WSA1R Former: Emu Proformance Plus & Mo'Phatt, Korg Krome 61, Roland Fantom XR & JV-1010, Yamaha MX61, Behringer CAT Assorted electric & acoustic guitars and electric basses | Roland TD-17 KVX | Alesis SamplePad Pro | Assorted organs, accordions, other instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rod76 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I ordered a Cyclone IC rom chip to try swapping between the 2 but the Strummer is more appealing to me. With none of those capabilities in my current synths/setup, I'm hoping to make good use of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroy C Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 It looks just like the bar I have, they are nice bars for lap steel. Your other toys should serve you well. Somehow, David Lindley has played up here in little Bellingham twice since I've been here. I don't think there is anybody better on lap steel, amazing musician! Keeps ya humble... Ha, my uncle just shared some David Lindley YouTube videos with me, amazing stuff. That's quite a high bar (ha!) for lap / pedal steel playing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 This is kind of boring, though necessary...I had a 10+ year old Shure wireless IEM rig and was notified about two years ago that the FCC was taking over the frequencies of my unit and it would ultimately become obsolete by 2020-2021 (or I guess I'd start hearing air traffic controllers or something in the background, LOL). Shure had offered a dumb rebate to return the equipment and buy new (I think it was like $250 towards a $1k+ unit). I decided not to use the rebate and keep using my old one. Not long ago I went ahead and ordered the replacement Shure PSM 900 Wireless Personal Monitor System so I now have the latest and greatest wireless frequencies in my live rig. I put the old unit at our band's rehearsal space, so I now have a functional wireless IEM rig there as well. Way better than using a wired setup. It will be interesting to see if/when the older unit becomes useless due to FCC frequency takeover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I know, right?!? Get a Shubb bar that fits between the fingers and has a rounded end and a volume pedal and it's an entirely new world to explore and express. Way prettier than my "Disaster Framus" too, see attache photo... Thanks! Yes, I may have bought some accessories with it, per the attached picture ... Dying to try one of these. I especially wanna run ith through my Leslie/Spider rig. I found a cheap one for $100 on Amazon, so I bought it. If I like it as much as I think, I'll get a better one. Another demonstration of how quickly and easily this forum costs me $. dB P.S. I bought the Shubb as well. Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I know, right?!? Get a Shubb bar that fits between the fingers and has a rounded end and a volume pedal and it's an entirely new world to explore and express. Way prettier than my "Disaster Framus" too, see attache photo... Thanks! Yes, I may have bought some accessories with it, per the attached picture ... Dying to try one of these. I especially wanna run ith through my Leslie/Spider rig. I found a cheap one for $100 on Amazon, so I bought it. If I like it as much as I think, I'll get a better one. Another demonstration of how quickly and easily this forum costs me $. dB P.S. I bought the Shubb as well. Part of the fun is laptops don't really get much better as you spend more. My Disaster-Framus has a bridge made by drilling two holes through a big, thick-walled deep socket screwing it directly to the plank. It sustains forever, got the "bridge" at a pawn shop for 75 cents or so. The reality is if you can drill six holes for tuning machines you can build a great laptop out of a piece of old fence, part of a table top or just about any plank or chunk of material that's handy. A good pickup doesn't hurt but anything will work. A spark plug socket is a classic slide bar too and a good one. The Shubb is better though. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 A spark plug socket is a classic slide bar too and a good one. The Shubb is better though. The blues are more accurate using a spark plug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Bird Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Today Reface DX Scarlett 2i2 Rode NT5 A few weeks ago Yamaha PSR-GX76 Quote Yamaha MX49, Casio SK1/WK-7600, Korg Minilogue, Alesis SR-16, Casio CT-X3000, FL Studio, many VSTs, percussion, woodwinds, strings, and sound effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yannis D Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I just bought Native Instrument's Cinematic: Session Strings 2. It's an 11 piece strings orchestra that will eventually help me to emulate a real orchestra, when the pop artist i play with won't have the real thing on gigs. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/cinematic/session-strings-2/ Quote Be grateful for what you've got - a Nord, a laptop and two hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 A spark plug socket is a classic slide bar too and a good one. The Shubb is better though. The blues are more accurate using a spark plug. Or a genuine bottleneck. I made one once, did the string soaked in kerosene, snap the neck off and grind the edges smooth on concrete ( rock would work too and was probably the original tool). It broke, gone. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonysounds Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Ive been looking for a fretless bass for a while, 2 years maybe, nothing really extravagant, but since I used to play fretless exclusively for a while, I have preferences: Jazz bass, rosewood (dark, not that pale stuff), EMGs (preferably) and Badass or Hipshot bridge. A few weeks back i stumbled on one with all of the above on the MusicGoRound site, so I pulled the trigger. I also stumbled on an early 80s Ibanez Musician 8string bass, which I also bought. I owned this model back in 84, and i was able to score it for the same price I paid 36 years ago. I just bought one of those Spark amps after a number of recommendations. Quote Hitting "Play" does NOT constitute live performance. -Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Ive been looking for a fretless bass for a while, 2 years maybe, nothing really extravagant, but since I used to play fretless exclusively for a while, I have preferences: Jazz bass, rosewood (dark, not that pale stuff), EMGs (preferably) and Badass or Hipshot bridge. A few weeks back i stumbled on one with all of the above on the MusicGoRound site, so I pulled the trigger. I also stumbled on an early 80s Ibanez Musician 8string bass, which I also bought. I owned this model back in 84, and i was able to score it for the same price I paid 36 years ago. I just bought one of those Spark amps after a number of recommendations. Nice stuff!!!! I've got my fretless bass strung with Rotosound Trubass strings, they won't grind away your fretboard but are much more lively sounding than roundwounds. Photos attached, the bass on the floor is current iteration. I'm with you on the EMG pickups but I use the P bass one. Also Schaller tuners and bridge. I remember the Badass bass bridges, great stuff. Have not seen the Hipshot yet but they have good products. The other shot is the same bass when it still had frets and an EMG Jazz pickup, that is a much younger me playing bass for one night as part of Bo Diddley's pickup band - my all time favorite gig. Crappy photo but I'm glad to have it. Cheers, Kuru Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Mike Metlay Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I ordered a Cyclone IC rom chip to try swapping between the 2 but the Strummer is more appealing to me. With none of those capabilities in my current synths/setup, I'm hoping to make good use of it. I am having bad acid flashbacks right now. I mean REALLY bad. When you pop that ROM in, if you ever do, Rod, let me know which software version it is? TL;DR -- 1.0 is disastrously awful, 1.2 is just about usable most of the time, and 1.4 is actually pretty solid but rare as hens' teeth. I want to say so much more about these boxes but I won't in this thread. Elsewhere! Elsewhere! Oh, and on topic: not including iOS apps (a neverending flood of them), my last purchase was a little TC Electronic Hall Of Fame Mini 2. My current plan is to run it through the main insert in the audio path of my Arturia MatrixBrute, with the box itself located right next to the keyboard on the stand. That way, I can move my left hand just a hair to the left of the pitch bender and use the MASH button to bring in reverb blooms as part of performance technique. We'll see if it works. Quote Dr. Mike Metlay (PhD in nuclear physics, golly gosh) Musician, Author, Editor, Educator, Impresario, Online Radio Guy, Cut-Rate Polymath, and Kindly Pedant Editor-in-Chief, Bjooks ~ Author of SYNTH GEMS 1 clicky!: more about me ~ my radio station (and my fam) ~ my local tribe ~ my day job ~ my book ~ my music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rod76 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Rod, let me know which software version it is? TL;DR -- 1.0 is disastrously awful, 1.2 is just about usable most of the time, and 1.4 is actually pretty solid but rare as hens' teeth. . The OS should be 1.2 AFAIK... interestingly, there's an added 32K of memory for the Strummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSynth Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Had planned using my year end budget for a Prophet 10, but got sidetracked digging for used gear deals. In the last two weeks, instead of the P10 picked up these: Yamaha VL1M Yamaha FS1R Kawai K5M Kawai K5000S Behringer BCR2000 Manny Quote People assume timbre is a strict progression of input to harmonics, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timbrally-wimbrally... stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderGroundGr Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Arturia FX Collection iZotope Holiday Bundle The element series bundle? ? Quote Kurzweil K2661 + full options,iMac 27",Mac book white,Apogee Element 24 + Duet,Genelec 8030A,Strymon Lex + Flint,Hohner Pianet T,Radial Key-Largo,Kawai K5000W,Moog Minitaur,Yamaha Reface YC + CP, iPad 9th Gen, Arturia Beatstep + V Collection 9 https://antonisadelfidis.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Mike Metlay Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Had planned using my year end budget for a Prophet 10, but got sidetracked digging for used gear deals. In the last two weeks, instead of the P10 picked up these: Yamaha VL1M Yamaha FS1R Kawai K5M Kawai K5000S Behringer BCR2000 Manny I miss my K5000S sometimes. I wish I had a place to put one, I'll bet they're pretty easy to find at a good price. Quote Dr. Mike Metlay (PhD in nuclear physics, golly gosh) Musician, Author, Editor, Educator, Impresario, Online Radio Guy, Cut-Rate Polymath, and Kindly Pedant Editor-in-Chief, Bjooks ~ Author of SYNTH GEMS 1 clicky!: more about me ~ my radio station (and my fam) ~ my local tribe ~ my day job ~ my book ~ my music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroy C Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Fellow bassists here, nice! I play upright bass in a jazz quartet (not that we've been playing out much these days ... ), and occasionally whip out my Carvin Icon fretless bass. Fun stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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