ElmerJFudd

Sounds

This looks like the service manual, which would get you inside and give you an idea about disassembly, reassembly and what the case you envision would need to hold it. But I can't imagine how anything I would build to hold it would come out lighter. Cooler looking perhaps (I'd use wood and tolex), but lighter?

hmm, Seamless sound switching seems to be implemented as we would expect. Voices are allocated for sounds currently happening and other voices are already assigned to the incoming patch. A sample based patch with a larger library has a brief load time. This is more similar to say, Kontakt than a stage piano or synth. And I think that has to do with the size of the library and the read time (processor speed, storage speed, bus speed). to be expected? Mainstage is quite quick, depending on how quick your Mac is.

Realistically speaking, the video creators/YouTubers have to be satisfied with whatever they earn from the number of views and ads on their channel - which apparently isn’t much until you get into the millions of views. So either the creator is independently wealthy and benevolent (which is not likely) or there is a product for sale or it’s simply self promotion for their own lesson studio. There is nothing for free in our world.

A set of big brass buttons?

V2 - or if hot for the patches. Arturia controller and the software. But don’t under estimate Bert’s ability to sell a synth. 🤣 "So get your hands on this amazing performance keyboard, Astrolab" - as I leave you with the vocoder!

Bert is back, bigger and badder than ever.

I haven’t checked on this specific app, but they appeared to be getting away from the elicenser with other products.

https://www.steinberg.net/vst-live/ With VST Live Pro 2, the platform combines features for music performance, audio processing, lighting control, and video sync, making it a unique tool in the live music environment.

My guess was that there would be a rejection of tech in the most popular of popular styles in music at some point. It seemed inevitable given the cyclical nature of these things. But decades have passed now and instead it seems we just have a so much music being created in every imaginable style and most of it has no sign of ditching processed instruments, time and pitch corrected vocals, programmed beats and loops, synthy timbres. 🤷‍♂️ Synths - hardware or software. Amp and fx modeling, generated harmony vocals, etc. it’s just here to stay for the foreseeable future. Arrangements produced entirely in the box or sequencing “noise boxes” with usb or mini MIDI cables. That’s where we’re at. The biggest shift we’re likely to see is the top 5 songs on the chart all either AI created or assisted.

Ah, I don’t actually know. But point taken.

I did notice the sloppy tuning on this record and was surprised by it. And then I thought, well you know - it’s almost refreshing given how locked into the North/South East/West grid everything is. 😉

True! Killing vibrato or creating unnatural vibrato is the worst part of it. It actually has young singers copying the sound of their idols singing straight tone and doing mechanical moves in their replication without the software. That’s unfortunate but happening regardless.

Sure, to care about these things is to be deeply invested in music, a student of music making. Educated, trained, experienced Musicians are musicians’ greatest fans and greatest critics.