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The Fantom EX 7 is $200 more than what I paid for my new Fantom 7 so I came out just fine. The real deal is the sell off prices of the non-ex Fantoms. $400 off the Fantom 7.

This thread needs some drums. Two of my favorite instructional sites... Rob Brown - Lots of good, free lessons from a professional drummer. (With the name Rob Brown, he has to be great!) Mike Johnston - the other instructional drum site that I frequent.

For those into modular, especially Eurorack modular, DAWless and beatboxes, here are some essential YouTube channels. Omri Cohen - If you are interested in VCV Rack software modular, this is your place. Loads of videos on the modules available, as well as techniques on how to use them. Red Means Recording - Lots of instructional videos and reviews on modular and DAWless. DivKid - A master of Eurorack patching. Highly respected in the community. True Cuckoo - tutorials on beatboxes, synths, and DAWless. Braintree56 - Eurorack, tabletop synths and beatboxes. His Digitakt tutorial series alone earns him a place here. The Midlife Synthesist - Sequencers, beat boxes, and synths coming from a long time musician. Synth Dad - down to earth reviews and tutorials on modular and DAWless. If I had a channel it would probably be like this.

I have a CD player in the car, my living room surround system, and my sister bought me a turntable system that also has a CD player. I have thousands of CD in the garage and my 100 favorite CD's in my living room, but it has been at least a year since I last played a CD. With services like Distrokid, the new medium is a poster that lists your recordings and which services on which they can be found. You could offer business cards with that information, but really, kids can just take a picture of the poster with their phone.

Everyone thought I would love Bitwig, and I believed them. All that sound path construction and modulate anything ability is fine for making loops or one shots to use as samples, but when constructing a song it just seems a bit busy. I prefer Ableton Live for creating a performance, and Logic for finalizing a songs, but I am not sure what I am supposed to do with Bitwig. Every so often I think that maybe I should renew my maintenance on it and dive in again, then I ask myself why and I honestly don't have an answer. What it can do is amazing, but also distracting. It... well... throws me out of focus.

Thanks for the reminder. Saw a video a few days ago and forgot to pick it up. I have an Oxi One MIDI/CV sequencer arriving today. Looking forward to connecting it to everything from my modular to the MC 101.

Was riding with my sister Sunday night and she had a gospel radio station on. A song came on that I did not recognize and a minute later my subconscious brane was was telling me "this may be the worst song you have ever heard." After wondering why I was having such a bad reaction to the song I started listening closer. It was a string of catch phrases. Every cliche you can imagine loosely woven together with no real direction. No anchor at all. After reading the above lyrics I wonder if the song I heard on the radio was written by an AI.

Problems in my early keyboard playing days. (Early 1980's) Figuring out how to make my mini Casio sound like a real piano while saving for that $4000 CP70. Keeping analogs in tune. Scrambling to program the synth sounds for the next song in a 5 second break. Getting someone to help you move a Hammond, Leslie, Rhodes and a variety of synths. Choosing between better gear, or buying a house. Problems for new keyboardist today. Managing 4000 presets in a single keyboard. Deciding which sub-$1000 do it all keyboard to buy. Choosing between an iPad, MacBookAir, or a Korg module to expand the sound pallet. Every day I wonder what it would have been like to start my keyboard journey with a Fantom 7.

Let’s just be honest here. How many of us have hearing problems because we did not use earplugs every time we went on stage?

I think the great care of pressing on 45RPM vinyl is lost on anyone using a $300 turntable with a stock needle, and pumping it through a measly $1000 receiver into a $3000 speaker system. Now if you have already spent 25G on your stereo system, run right out and buy it. I’m sure it will sound 😱

Say it in terms of pure physics. Clarify it with a statement that not all humans perceive volume changes in the same way.

(sigh) I'm such a mess. 🫢 I decided that if I get an Eventide H-90 that would solve the problem of the Prophet 10 not having effects and I talked myself into changing my order to the P10. Half an hour later I was sure that the Summit was the best option. After thinking that I would really like to try a MatrixBrute I made the final, final decision. I canceled the Trigon 6 and vowed not to buy anything else until I can make a road trip to Sweetwater and try all of the options. On the positive side, my Hydrosynth Deluxe arrived today. After playing it for a while I was really happy with the poly-aftertouch. It has a much better pressure response curve than the DSI/Sequential keyboards, and I think better than my high end Roland keyboards. It is almost too easy to trigger the aftertouch. I'm sure I could dive into the system and change settings, but I sort of like having one and only one keyboard with a lighter touch for aftertouch. At $1499 for a 6 octave keyboard with a great interface and 16 voice with a dual model, this may be the best value out there.

Facebook is so quick to delete threads about political views or beliefs that they don't like, and they are just a bit slower to delete post of obvious misinformation, but they are only too happy to sell add space to what should be obvious scams.

I don't know that you could ever beat the value of the entry level M1 Air. All you have to buy is Mainstage, then install only what you really need from the Roland Cloud and NI.

I cannot imagine playing outdoors in Florida. In Louisville KY we played an outdoor hotel pool party in the middle of an early August day with no shade. Not a cloud in the sky and direct sun shining down on my keyboard rig. The plastic coating on the front panel of my main keyboard began to bubble. With a spare mike stand, my A-frame keyboard stand and a bunch of hotel towels I made a tent to shade my keys. I told the band to never, ever book a job like that again.