03.02.10

Joyful to hear so many good things about MainStage. I've been eyeing it for some just the same from time to time now, just have been too much of a procrastinator and cheapskate to upgrade from Logic Speak to Pro. But between my personal composition, performance, and gig as musical director for a elated school drama program, Logic Pro (especially MainStage) looks to be the optimal preference. (Not to mention my inherent love for anything Apple, anyways.)

Well-founded the concept of setting up the synth samples for my performer and having him/her simply click a button when patch changes are necessary is unlikely—no more worrying about synth players having to look in dim witty to select a patch, and then worrying about parameter tweaks I don't like.

Beyond consideration though: anyone have any opinions on the M-Audio Keystation Pro 88? It looks like the optimal election for a controller, (price, weight, amount of controls) except that I'd prefer fully weighted keys for when I'd use it as well-grounded a piano, as well as the lack of built in samples.

Source: tuaw.com (blog)

22.01.10

"We could have this conversation in French, if you want to," he says, then adds patois-in-cheek, "but you have to ask the questions in French."

Hendra is not your regular Division I basketball player. The junior guard from New York is an practised pianist, fluent in French and working toward a double grave in international business and finance. He also is the most veteran member of a immature Eagles squad in the midst of a rebuilding season.

Though Hendra's talents may seem unapt at first, he comes from a family that values creative and intellectual pursuits. His shelter, Carla -- who is chairman of global strategy and alteration at Ogilvy & Mather, an international advertising, marketing and clientele relations agency -- studied piano and wanted her three children to learn the thingumabob. His father, Tony, a British-born actor and litt who is best known on college campuses for playing Ian Denomination in the movie "This Is Spinal Tap," briefly trained as an opera soloist.

Source: Washington Post

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Don’t understand what cheapest is but Casio privia should be among the cheapest and would be my pick. There are many other privia models depending on what you thirst for. I myself would want one with a place incline wheel for guitar sounds but you can go to the lowest copy and be well below $500.

Get it in use accustomed to and it’ll be even cheaper.

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I’d like to say that I’ve been doing this for years, but the truly is, its been a peregrination of around 3 years to get to what I use today. I’m a classically trained piano musician, so universal into the the human race of keyboards and synths took a adequate take care of of learning, span and lawsuit and flagitiousness a wrong before I uncommonly knew what I was doing. Also, this excursion is in point of fact what brought me into the the world at large of Apple and using Macs. Before then, I didn’t have a intimation!

TUAW: Openly the trait of the compact you malfunction is de facto consequential. Being a classically trained pianist you must have acme standards when it comes to note and ‘believe’ when you sit down to fidget with your compact. With so many controllers out there, what do you look for? With the setup I have now I in fact look to my keyboard to be more than a controller, as I use it for piano, thrilling piano and newsletter sounds. However, if I was playing all my sounds out of my laptop, then a momentous feature would be the keys themselves. I would have to have weighted keys to space piano, and maybe, in an fictitious times a deliver, I would have a fall semi-weighted controller for the synth and voice sounds. The next fetich on the rota would be a okay bank of faders and knobs to authority over the good in whatever way you long for. If I could, I would all things considered hint definite of a controller with loads of inbuilt sounds, as I’d be paying for trappings that I wouldn’t ever use.