I have the jv-1010 still, I am trying it with my EWI electronic wind instrument.

I have a Ketron SD-2 great sounds.

I am more and more inclined to use RealTracks and eschew the midi. (I feel a sniffle coming on.)

As to anchovies I found out early that if I ordered a pizza the other guys didn't want in on it. (I was for years the single guy in the Fire Hall) So the other half wasn't cold yet and some guys would scarf down the other half I was going to eat in the middle of the night when we came back from a call or in the morning for my breakfast...no wife at home to make me bacon and eggs. I like anchovies...I started ordering a deluxe pizza at 8 pm. with double anchovies and they left it alone. Only one guy I knew liked anchovies, and we would sometimes order a large deluxe double everything including anchovies. Yum. Memories.

I people messed up orders for pizza at 2 a.m. the guys in the delivery cars would look and if our lights were on we'd get the messed up order for free. Many times at 2 a.m. the door bell would ring and we'd have 4 or 5 large pizzas and just 4 of us. Call the adjacent station and they go for a 'drive' and come and have some pizza with us. LOL.

That was 26 years or so ago, because today is my 25th wedding anniversary to the same Scottish girl from the bush she was 25 years ago. I've kept her because she had 2 good swiss army knives in her purse and can pick the eye out of a beaver at 40 yards with a 22.

Dang beavers. Bane of my existence, but the wife has a real nice REAL beaver jacket made from the furs of the ones from behind the cabin. Pictures of the wife and cabin available on request.

Might be hard to do for the next month whilst we are in Europe though. I'm going over to explain Canada to them, and maybe they want to know stuff like snaring rabbits, and repairing snowshoes with cedar bark. Otherwise I'm going to seek out find music.

Some fine organ patches on the SD2, I let it play Santana's minor thing...Black Magic Woman, all Realtracks but the melody on the SD2 and who ever transcribed that tune for Band in a Box did a dandy job, and I must say the all RealTracks Reggae 1 style is great. After I let it play 2 times I played it with the melody muted and wailed away on my organ patches on the Korg, until my daughter came down and asked if I was to play the same song for another hour.

Don't get band in a box if you don't want to spend hours at it. I waste more time just playing and playing and playing. Then again I'm retired and my hair grew back, (Darker), and it's never been this long before so I'm thinking about rocking in the afternoon with other old dudes.

As to midi, if you are on 64 bit the choices in soft synths are limited.

64 bit is the future, but midi lives in the past, so unless someone gets motivated the soft synth marked has 'stagnated'.

If you need strings, or Chicago type horns you won't get that from Real Instruments, 'yet'.

If you take the cost of band in a box and the hours you will spend playing with it, and do the math it costs like nothing. Unless you are not into music, then get netflix and a box of crisps. (potatoe chips outside my house).

I hope you gained some insight here, and from the other posts, some knowledge as to how things work.

And don't mind me, I counted yesterday, which was the day of my 'cancer' surgery, and I had 125 doctor's appts last year, and I survived. Odd. I had to pay for parking, $148 bucks. The doc's visits were covered though, I hate paying to park in a field where I used to play football as a kid. Crazy.




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John Conley
Musica est vita