bob_sd

I'm an attorney by day (wanna be rockstar by night) and without expressing any specific opinion on the specific facts presented, and to paraphrase part of KuruPrionz's thoughts; whatever you do just make sure you are ready to defend your actions. In reality given the limited distribution of most content it's likely nothing will happen, however just remember you are playing with fire. You don't want anyone jacking your content right? and of course, if you have to ask the question, then you probably already know the answer...

in a perfect world your view re intellectual property would ring true. However, as so many entrepreneurs find out the hard way, a patent means absolutely nothing without the means to defend it.

#9 in paid music category in App Store!

+1 on Standtastic for studio install. I use the keyboard wall mount kit. Keyboard angles are not continuously adjustable - but the keyboard height is continuously adjustable! Just make sure you attach the wall mounts to studs...

Pardon me if this has already been requested and denied, but do you have any interest in providing the schematics/BOM and code? I would gladly provide a healthy donation in exchange for this info.

Brother monochrome laser 5200 series. $100-200. Supports duplex & wireless. I purchase refurbished cartridges for approx $25, lasts on avg 20,000 pages. Ive printed over 200,000 pages on mine. Zero problems.

I ordered one last week. Approx. $80. Shipping from Hong Kong. The guy made a limited run (I believe <100) some in color, some in black and white. I'll post a pic once I receive it.

yes! I use it with the FA06 - it fits perfectly on the upper left area of the keyboard (just to left of volume control) Totally transforms the keyboard IMHO

and I thought something (else) was wrong with me. I had VR-09 for a few months before swapping it out for an FA-06. I absolutely loved the harmonica sound on the VR-09. It absolutely nailed the harmonica solo in Long Train Runnin. Band mates always complimented me on it. Until the FA came along and no matter what harmonica sound I use it sounds like crap. I've tried screwing around with PCM parameters but can't get anywhere close to the harmonica on the VR-09. Would pay good money to replicate on the FA-06. Wondering if the VR harmonica was a supernatural patch not included in the FA?

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Re adding a controller - not possible unless a) it is programmable and has midi din in/output or b) it is routed through your computer first (through USB) AND you are comfortable with sysex

I wish this were the case. The problem is that the matrix is only available for the PCM sounds - not supernatural (synth and/or instrument). Realtime performance control assignments for the supernatural synths are virtually nonexistent - such a huge step back from the older PCM technology. Re c/v - would love to know what Roland was thinking - something like - "hey guys, we absolutely cannot under any scenario cannibalize sales of the VR-09, so lets remove all physical realtime clone wheel controls. While we are at it, lets make sure that they can't assign any clone wheel controls. But we can't stop there, let's just remove a core piece of the clone wheel functionality altogether. Should we remove c/v or high trigger point? Why not both?"

So after a crappy experience with the VR09 I traded it in for an FA06 (approx 14 months ago) I've gigged with the FA on several occasions as my upper synth/organs board (I've got an SV-1 on the bottom covering stage piano, electric piano, and clavs). Previously I used an Alesis Ion for my top board and while its organs certainly couldn't compare to the "not quite clone wheel" quality of the FA, the Ion allowed me to effectively map any parameter I wanted to the pitch wheel or two modulation wheels - resulting in Nord morph "like" affects. Then steps in the FA. It's got decent organs (apart from some jaw dropping functionality omissions), but all in all for my purposes which includes performing live, I am unimpressed with the Supernatural synths. Not necessarily the sound quality, but rather I am unimpressed with the inability to assign synth parameters via cc to pitch/mod paddle, buttons, and knobs when used in a performance setting. Obviously we all know that there is no good quality cost effective available solution for adding drawbar controllers to the supernatural organ, but also, unless I am completely missing the boat, it is not possible to assign controllers to any destinations in the supernatural synths - rather can only assign controllers to destinations of the current MFX effect. So for instance, if I want use the pitch/mod joystick to change filter cutoff/resonance, etc on a Supernatural synth patch, I am out of luck. Not going to happen. Likewise I can't assign a knob to a CC to control key tracking on the filter. I've found that really any of the cool performance options provided by the FA06 are only available if I'm willing to utilize the dated sound gen tech employed in Roland's earlier boards - which totally bums me out. Don't get me wrong, many of these still rock - it just puzzles me to no end that Roland releases a new product which much improve sounds but forgot to give us even 30% of the control we previously had to modify the old synth parameters in a live setting. Hopefully one of you will tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about and all is indeed possible on the FA (without using the touchscreen - using that in a live situation to control parameters is a nonstarter and accident waiting to happen). But I'm not holding my breath. But it would sure be cool...

so you were never able to solve the problem? anyone else?

I'm having trouble saving/recalling registrations. Specifically, I set up my upper and lower sound - then write to a registration. I run into problems when I try to recall the registration, the lower sound works just fine, but the upper sound does not recall correctly. The screen lists the correct name of the sound, but a different sound is output. I can correct the sound by just scrolling to the next sound in the list, then scroll back to the sound saved in the reg - then everything plays just fine. Not exactly optimal... I'm using v1.03 Any tips?