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  1. Yes, sadly it's a matter of fact that most high-end pianos are not sold as instruments, but as furniture for millionaires in Beverly Hills and Dubai. Like most Ferraris and Lamborghinis are not bought to ever be driven, etc. From this perspective, I can understand the success of the Spirio system (which is perplexing to us from our musician's point of view). And I must say that it kinda makes me happy: it means that even if nobody will ever play them, those pianos will hopefully make some music, instead of being just left there as an expensive piece of interior design to show off.
  2. They really REALLY couldn't make it uglier, didn't they? Hope that off-white with weird cuts in the wooden corners is just a prototype...
  3. Exactly. The whole fuss of manufacturers to provide the best possible stereo samples is only a bonus for the player, to better recreate the experience of sitting at a real piano. But for the audience, it actually makes the sound worse.
  4. Isn't that just a Korg C1 with a new piano sample and a fancier wooden case? I does look good though, it will make a nice piece of furniture in any living room.
  5. Exactly. As usual in these kind of threads, in a few pages every keyboard ever produced will be mentioned, but the truly iconic ones are just a very selected few: the ones with a striking, distinctive look, seen everywhere onstage and in videos, and maybe even recognizable by non-keyboard players (though this last criteria is not really important). Microkorg surely is at the very top of the list together with Hammond, Rhodes, Vox, Minimoog, Prophet, Juno, Jupiter, Mellotron...and of course the most iconic of them all: a big black shiny grand piano (the brand is totally irrelevant, nobody knows of Steinways or Yamahas or Bosendorfers outside our small circle)
  6. And maybe he is a devote user of Juno synths 🤭
  7. Jupiter 8's or OB8's were standard stuff in LA?!? How many billionaire musicians were there at the time? 😯
  8. This is something I never really understood. How come that the "standard" organ trio came to be Hammond+drums+guitar? To me the guitar seems totally redundant next to an organ that can easily do the same parts plus much more. Wouldn't a bass or a lead instrument (sax, trumpet etc) make more sense? Ps is it possible that nobody mentioned the Cory Henry trio yet?
  9. As Samuel said, literally all the "stories", articles, interviews, videos... everything I found about the song said that AI only extracted John's solo voice from the mess of the demo. By now I probably read at least 30-40 reviews, news and articles and I never found any hint anywhere of supposed deepfakes. And the bootleg of John's demo has been available everywhere online for the last couple of decades, so it's just plain evident that it it is his song and his voice. Let's just enjoy one last Lennon-McCartney song, no need for conspiracy theories.
  10. Funny how personal taste varies so wildly. Among the "lost" songs I couldn't care less about Free as a Bird, I find it a totally plain and insignificant song. But this brought a tear to my eyes. While I agree that it's definitely not the Beatles' or John's greatest song, I find it has some feeling and depth that the other lacked. But of course it's just my gut reaction.
  11. Well, let's be polite and say that they're not the most characterful strings I've heard. It sounds more like a GM preset than a Solina or whatever. For that kind of money one could get a Mellotron Micro and a Behringer Solina, and be covered for all the 70s "fake string sounds" forever.
  12. That sounds a bit, well, extreme? 😅 I've owned 14 Moog products in the last 10 years (all modern, no vintage) and none of them ever had any issue at all, including my 2016 D Reissue. Internet forums are not the real world, it's widely demonstrated that issues and criticism are amplified there. Textbook example of echo chamber and vocal minority vs. silent majority. Saying that EVERY SINGLE MINIMOOG has issues, like it was an absolute truth, is just useless alarmism. Especially when you admit that you never even tried a Moog product after the Voyager (that is what, 20 years ago?). As for the fact that in the new Minimoog MIDI, aftertouch and extra LFO are stupid useless features, and they even committed the fatal offense of putting THE WRONG STYLE OF MOD WHEEL...you're entitled to your opinion, we know everybody has one 😉
  13. I was also about to say this. Of course, 300 is tiny next to global conglomerate monstrosities like Roland or Yamaha. But in absolute terms, it's not small in the least. I think the critical threshold for a company is around 100 employees, when they must decide if they want to stay small (less expenses, less competition, lower volumes, higher profits) or keep growing. That's a very risky endeavor because they step into the arena with the really big guys, but don't have yet a comparable critical mass. It's like a boxer putting on a couple of kgs and rising to the next weight category: he suddenly goes from being the biggest and strongest in the old class, winning every match easily, to being the smallest and weakest in the new class, and every match becomes a fight for his life. I think that's the situation where Moog was. To me, it's not korg that's too small for his product portfolio, it was moog that was too big for making a profit with very few, highly specialized product lines, all relatively similar and competing with themselves.
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