I don't see the major streamers disappearing any time soon. Particularly as they continue to fill their rosters with music they generate themselves (and hence own the mechanical and songwriting IP and avoid paying 0.02p per stream to anyone ) Even more so, if they start to use generative AI to prod...

Some excellent advice above. Also think about how you’re going to manage your backing tracks? I’ve seen all kinds ranging from simply a tablet running Spotify playlists through various hardware units up to a laptop running Ableton Starting out, an iPad or something running a dedicated live track app...

After an hour or two in PMT Bristol, I went for the compact. It’s waterfall keybed certainly isn’t fully weighted, but I found it solid and responsive both for synths and organs, but gave a pretty satisfying feel for piano sounds (I can’t pretend to be a ‘proper’ pianist anyway) But I really didn’t ...

I know that if I had, a a big car, and b, a roadie to do the heavy lifting, or c, not be in my mid 60s, there would have been different choices to put into the mix. But these things are not the case, and the Keylab was too big, and too heavy for me now. As it happens, due to the generosity of the wo...

N i g e l wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:54 pm but otherwise why not trigger a sample from a key ?

Yes!

That's the obvious solution. Thanks!

I discovered another way the music business hasn’t really thought through the whole streaming thing. We have (had?)* 300+ CDs at least 20% of which are too old or not sufficiently mainstream to be on the streaming platforms. I was pleased to find that Apple Music, at least would add CDs you rip to y...

I’ll have to see what the launch pad can actually do with a hardware keyboard (I thought it needed Ableton). I got briefly excited by the keystep, but reading the manual, it stores one chord and plays the same chord transposing it to the note you play and I’m needing to define a chord per note. Hydr...

When using a laptop live, you look boring, and it feels boring, simple as that. When I see a band live, or a solo artist, it’s all about movement, how they move, and interact with their instruments, I find this extremely interesting, that’s what playing live is all about, it’s a live "performa...

Anyone know of there’s anny little gadget out there that allows you to program or play in complex chords that get triggered when you play a single note on a Midi controller?

I use chord trigger in MainStage all the time live, but I’d love to be able to replicate this in a hardware unit.

In essence, yes.

Transporting a full 88 key and a 61 (and all the other stuff) is becoming a pain, (literally as far as my back goes) and there are gigs when rocking up with one board, a stand and no laptop would be more than adequate.

Very! :roll: I've just been on a chat with one of the Thomann product specialists, and he describes it as a 'synth action' keybed and didn't think it was really what he'd describe as semi-weighted. I am starting to think that portability and good key feel are unobtainable unless I* spring for the No...

This is currently on my new keyboard shortlist. It sounds incredible, it can do lots of splits and layers, and obviously VAST, KB3, 6 Op DX compatible FM. It’s also fairly small and light. But I have no idea what the key bed is like. THere’s nowhere near me to try one. I’ve heard it described as sem...

In a Windows rig it's possible to translate those messages into what you need using a plug-in or the like. I'm not sure about the Mac, but maybe there is an equivalent? (I don't use MainStage.) Yes, in MainStage you can assign pretty much any midi CC to a MainStage control to do whatever you want. ...

Drat, just realised it’s tomorrow. And I have a gig in the evening, back here in the west county.

I've looked through the MOXF manual, and it doesn't look like the favourite buttons send MIDI CC. You could check by adding a Parameter Display window to you MainStage layout and assigning that to MIDI Display (Actions>MIDI display). it will show you the value of the last MIDI message received, and ...

Hi everyone, I'm doing a musical theatre show where I'm only using four or five sounds, but I need to be able to select them very quickly - probably no time to reach to the laptop. I'm using a Yamaha MOXF as a controller, which has 16 "favourites" buttons on the front. Is there a way of a...

I was setting up my MainStage rig for Saturday, and under settings>Audio> I clicked (possibly for the first time) Advanced Settings I was mystified to see a CPU Usage slider (that's greyed out) But it only goes up to 4 - which it's set on. But my 13" M1 MBP has 8 cores. Does this mean that Main...

BigRedX wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:17 pm

vintage electronic keyboards like the Korg M1

It seems weird to me having the M1 described as vintage...

Launched in 1988!

Thirty Six Years Ago!

You could still buy a brand new Austin Maestro then! (wonder how many of those still exist? )

Arturia MiniBrute 2s Alternative? Ok guys. I’d almost narrowed down my desktop (no keyboard) synth to an Arturia MiniBrute 2s, but it’s not quite right. Basically, what I want is something like the MiniBrute 2s as this model has amazing sounds (for bass and lead), a good built-in sequencer and good...

Most would say it was Edison... but actually, the French got there first. A man called Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 — 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0j7x5f7/listen-to-the-oldest-known-...

Prog? That's the obvious one (And obviously something pretty close to my heart :) ) But I guess people will say that isn't pop (Though if you weren't around in the early 70s, you'd be surprised how close to the mainstream it was back then!) But there were bands who had massive mainstream hits with ...

It's been a while but I've finally got around to properly adding my Squishbox to the keyboard stand I designed and 3D printed a bracket that clamps onto the keyboard stand and glued in some magnets: https://i.imgur.com/3GsrYY3.jpeg Then designed a mating segment and screwed this to the base of the s...

I think current logic demands very recent Mac os You need Ventura 13.5 or later to run Logic 11. You need an M1 or later Apple silicon processor to take advantage of many of the new features . (But let's face it, the Drummer, Bassist and Keyboard arranger features - I'm not going to grace them with...

I think I know the answer, and it's live with it as is. But just in case: In my little studio corner my MacBook is hooked up to my Audient iD14 and I use Logic as my DAW. I tend to design my MainStage concerts there using the same USB keyboards running off a Hub and the Audient as the audio device. ...

I would interpret ‘punch’ as dynamics. And you’re saying you are capturing a loud Marshall. It follows then, that to experience the same level of dynamics in your recording you need to play it back at the same level, and on a monitor chain that is capable of reproducing the same frequencies at the s...

I have the iloud MTM and a little bit of acoustic treatment in a far from optimal spot in the corner of our shared home office/workroom, and I’m pretty pleased with the mixes I’m getting now*

*whether they are good mixes is, of course a different question.

In the first instance, I'm seriously thinking about resurrecting the MiniDexed project I started to pull together the bits to make. Particularly as I now have a 3D printer to make a fairly tidy enclosure for it.

The idea of a TX816 in a tiny box providing 8 x DX7 capability is pretty appealing!

Aled Hughes wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 12:03 pm Thanks Mike.

I’d be silly not to at that price!

Me too…

I don’t really know a, why Apple called it AI, and b, why the ire it’s generated. The bass and keys pattern generators, are really doing the same thing as the Drummer instrument, and not doing much different to what the Yamaha Tyros keyboards, and stuff like band in a box have been doing for years. ...

The sssnake Cat Snake 3FC isn't proper cat 6, it just uses the shielded 4 x twisted pairs in a cat 6 cable to pass the analogue signals between ssnake units and as long as you use grounded foil shielded cat 6 cable it should work OK with phantom power.

Wiring info