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We bought the house with this in mind.
ByronParticipantThat’s awesome!
I’m happy to see I’m not the only one bringing old stuff back to life.
ByronParticipantThose radical changes in feel are pretty cool.
September 29, 2021 at 7:15 am in reply to: Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers – ZZ Top (guitar cover) #40171ByronParticipantYou’re gonna really be jealous. Here’s mine:
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ByronParticipantGood job. I always like the way you don’t seem to feel that you have to be a slave to the record.
I used to play this song with a couple other people. Always liked it, ever since I was a little kid
ByronParticipantWelcome aboard.
Where in Texas?
ByronParticipantI’d say do what you want and labels be damned
Local pro musicians have also told me that writing out all the parts is a waste of time and a turn-off to potential band mates because any musicians I get will want to play their own parts, like their own guitar solos and drum grooves, rather than learn & play my songs note-for-note.
Quite frankly, I think a real pro would play the parts given. if that was required.
This past summer I worked on writing new original songs but haven’t figured out what to do with them when done. By “new songs” I mean, all parts, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, drums, guitar solo, vocals, lyrics, written out in Guitar Pro. Like, rock band style. It seems the only call for new songs as a solo-musician is in the “Singer-Songwriter” style.
To me, the obvious thing to do is record them yourself and put them on SoundCloud or something.
And of course share them here.
ByronParticipantI hear ya.
With the Metal Fusion Belly dance thing my wife and I were doing a few years ago, I ended up writing most of the material just so we could get a full set worth. The three of us – me, bassist and doumbek player – wrote one song together. The bassist wrote two – one of which I arranged. I wrote all the others.
ByronParticipantWhy don’t you take the lead and throw out a bunch of suggestions? That might get things kick-started.
ByronParticipantByronParticipantVery well done!
ByronParticipantVSTis don’t get loaded into the keyboard: they get loaded into your DAW or a standalone VST host and the keyboard gets used as a controller.
Having said that, I have a whole bunch of stuff from SampleTank to some Orchestral stuff to a virtual warehouse full of vintage synths.I even have 1st class soundfonts of all the original E-mu Proteus modules (why is another story).
If you’re wanting a keyboard, unless you specifically want an actual hardware synth for some nostalgic retro reason, you are probably better off with a controller and VSTis.
For the SansAmp, I would try something premium (and expensive) like Deoxit and make several attempts
ByronParticipantAt best, it will sound like canine fecal matter.
At high volume, you may damage the amp
ByronParticipantMajor bummer. So now I had basically a controller keyboard with 200 instances of “init. program” in memory. And a GM sound bank.
Scouring the web, I found no way of loading Korg’s PCG files without a floppy drive. But I finally did find the factory sounds in sysex format.
I tried to send a Sysex dump to the X3 from my DAW and it was a no-go. The keyboard would only take about half of Bank A. Most of the rest appeared to be scrambled – random & missing characters in the patch names and the last few patches and all of Bank B remain in the initialized state.
I got the same – perhaps worse – results from MIDI OX, which is supposed to be the shizzle for such things.
Finally, at someone else’s suggestion I tried Bome Send SX and it worked like a charm! First time go.
I started the process, went to get a refill on my coffee and when I came back it was done.
All the tweaking in MIDI OX didn’t accomplish squat, even when I slowed the transmission down so much that it took all day. ALL DAY!
Ah! Back in business! I still need to get a replacement drive – or a floppy emulator – to load some of the other disks.
In the meantime, I have been exploring the factory sounds. I had all but forgotten there is some really good stuff in there.
The X3 was a descendant of the venerable M1 and so sounds very similar. It was never very popular, however. Partly because it lacks the very famous “M1 piano” that you’ve heard 1,000,000 times.
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