Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2024, Cubase 13, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use
This next little present is something that only a few of us here in the forum will recognize. It has been on my shopping list for well over a year. This was demoed by my friend Simeon on Youtube were I first heard it. To my ear, this is the best Trumpet VI out there. I have already found a place for it as the melody instrument in a cover of Elvis Costello's She that I worked on all day today. OK, enough of a build up, without further ado
Mario, the Trumpet, along with several mutes, is everything it is claimed to be! Right out of the box. No messing with EQ or articulations or mics needed. The rest of the horns have not yet inspired me, but they may. I just bought it this morning. This thing never has gone on sale, but this trumpet at $79 plus tax is worth it.
Mario, the Trumpet, along with several mutes, is everything it is claimed to be! Right out of the box. No messing with EQ or articulations or mics needed. The rest of the horns have not yet inspired me, but they may. I just bought it this morning. This thing never has gone on sale, but this trumpet at $79 plus tax is worth it.
Super!
Do me a favor if you would please. Determine if you can use a wind controller with it, i.e. CC2.
Thanx
I just posted a selfie and all of the responses were get well soon!
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
...in a cover of Elvis Costello's "She" that I worked on all day today.
Elvis Costello's "She"?
Charles Aznavour wrote that song. I know Elvis sang it, as did man singers, but writing props is writing props...
OK, I stand corrected. Google agrees with you "Written by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer and was first released by Charles Aznavour in 1974." How did I miss this from 1974??
Wait, apparently it was not in English. My French is not so good. So Elvis covered it in English and now I have covered it my spare room. It is a beautiful melody.
More likely you missed it because you weren't born yet.... One advantage of having been around so long I voted for Lincoln is a long music history.
This is just one of my annoying features is that I ALWAYS research who wrote songs. There are still people who think The Monkees wrote "I'm A Believer" because that is who they first heard sing it. I had bandmates think ELP wrote Hoedown because they heard it on Trilogy, somehow ignoring the existence of Aaron Copeland. A music professor I had in college got me started on the practice of researching songwriters. And as a younger man, before music history courses in college, and 30 years before the internet, did it myself when I stupidly thought The Beatles wrote "Til There Was You". When I saw The Music Man I was all like "Wow. That's not a Beatles song???" Felt like a total moron.
I also, since the internet was born, adopted the practice of reading who a band's influences were, and then researching them to see who THEIR influences were. I have learned a lot by listening to the original original songs, seeing how the bands doing the covers treated them.
I play in a Southside Johnny tribute band, and his biggest hit, Without Love, was written by Carolyn Franklin, and sung by her big sister Aretha, and was a minor hit as a ballad. Southside "popped" it up and added the power horn parts and had a big hit with it ands it turned out to be the highest charting song he ever had in what is now what, a 50 year career.
But that's just me being a music nerd.
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I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
My brother was thrilled by their "innovative" piece "Nut Rocker", so I played him the Bee Bumble and the Stingers version from a decade or two earlier. :-D
As an aside, years ago I lived in South London and one evening was listening to someone playing that album on what must have been a very meaty Hi-Fi. It wasn't until it started to get dark and I could see the lights and lasers an Kennington Oval, that I realised is _wasn't_ someone's Hi-Fi, it was a concert.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
The hardest thing is that I am both OCD AND anal retentive. I mean, every day I understand why I am single! If I was living with me I would drive me crazy! I prefer to think I am just hyper organized, but nah. Great example. I got a new tempered glass floor mat for under the computer chair up in the studio. I didn't used to need one because the old carpet was so old it was worn as flat as tile, but the new carpet wasn't going to let me roll a chair on it. I have moved that glass mat now SIX TIMES because it wasn't perfectly centered between that legs of the work table. I honestly ended up taking a tape measure up there and doing fractional math to figure out EXACTLY the center point of the desk and the center point of the mat. (Let's all ask together...) WHY??? One inch off center isn't going to hurt a thing.
It's seriously crazy. My keys and wallet MUST be in a tray sitting on a baker's rack by the back door when I turn in or I will get out of bed and put them there. Bills in my pocket must be in order, 1s together, 5s together, and all facing the same way. There can NEVER be a dirty plate, bowl or glass in my sink overnight, The 2 dog leashes hang in the same place threaded through the lattice panel outside my back door. My mouse pad has to be exactly square to the edge of my desk. My clothes hang grouped by color. I have a lot of black t-shirts with writing on them. They hang in alphabetical order. It's crazy. And I guess by logical progression of thought, I'M crazy too.
PS I'm calling that on topic because I mentioned my music room redo. As you can see by how I write I am also a little ADD. I am truly a man of letters. CDO, ADD, PTSD...
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I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
Now that we all recognize there is a bit of Eddie in all of us, I can only add he is a bit clarivoyant! You will understand that later.
There is just one more final clue before the big reveal.
Never thought I needed these until I got them. These are the perfect touch to add to my final xmas gift to myself. Stop by New Years eve for the big reveal.
Do me a favor if you would please. Determine if you can use a wind controller with it, i.e. CC2.
Thanx
I think, No. Unless, Dynamic Controls, Key vel CC24 and MOd Whl CC25 work for you? Here is the user guide.
Thanx Dan. My guess is that the mod wheel controls the volume. But no problems, even though it does not support CC2 natively I can get it to work via getting into the guts of Kontakt. I have to do that to some instruments to get CC2 to control volume/expression.
I just posted a selfie and all of the responses were get well soon!
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2024, Cubase 13, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use
Those stands are great because they take up so little floor space. I don't know what kind of room you work in but I know I am always fighting space issues. I think all of the "spare bedroom studio" tribe shares that concern.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
I don't know what kind of room you work in but I know I am always fighting space issues. I think all of the "spare bedroom studio" tribe shares that concern.
That triangular base would drive me crazy deciding if the right orientation is with the long side parallel to the wall or a point aimed at the baseboard. I would probably put them one way then the other like 25 times before I decided.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
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