Main stage, logic Pro X, and a nice weighted midi controller. If you have to go out on location take a laptop. That will get the job done.
Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 > On Mar 22, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Cameron Strife <came...@cameronstrife.com> > wrote: > > Hi all. Covering a lot of ground here;sorry if it's a bit much but I > thought one message may be better than a bunch of them... > > Looking for suggestions regarding a weighted 88 key keyboard with some > sort of reliable sound source that is high quality and covers many > different styles of music as I need to be able to cover pop, rock, > prog, lite orchestral, smooth jazz, horns, some world instruments, new > age, middle of the road electronic stuff, and have underscoring > elements too if possible. Maybe more organic or lifelike sounds as > opposed to crazy stuff that will tare your head off. (And, for the > time being at least, I won't be doing hip hop, dubb step or anything > like that.) As far as blues, metal, folk etc, I pretty much only need > acoustic drums which I have ssd for... > > I'm having some soft synth/virtual instrument reliability issues with > sonar, hsc, and windows 10 and can't use most of my virtual > instruments like Omnisphere for example, in pro tools. > > It's getting frustrating and I just want to be able to sit down, call > up some patches, and start creating as being my own technician is > resulting in bringing in far less cash lately and not getting much > done. > > I am working on learning pt but sonar is still my daw of choice when I > need to get something done for someone else, especially when it comes > to midi as I'm so used to that daw... > > I play guitar and bass but need to sequence many of my other parts and > the same is true for the clients I've had in. > > I've been pretty impressed with the sounds that are included with > Logic from the demos I've heard and yes, I am aware that you can use > sound flower to get them into pt... I don't own Logic yet but that may > be a solution for my "in the box" sounds that are actually easily > accessible given the current accessibility landscape... > > I'm wondering if there is any sort of current equivalent to the K > display reader program that allowed you to read the display of the > older Kurzweil boards like the K2600 etc? I used that with my K2661 > until it was stolen and that company doesn't seem to have any sort of > new replacement although I doubt that old program would work with a > new OS etc anyways... > > There are boards with tons of amazing sounds and features on the > market now but there doesn't seem to be a solution like this available > for any current product line... Please correct me if I'm wrong on > that. > > The new Motif 8, korg kronos 2, and even the korg kross seem to have a > lot of nice sounds and features but I don't want to shell out big > bucks for something I won't really be able to really access much of > independently. > > I don't need to do sampling or use an on board sequencer but would > like to be able to do some patch editing, and setting up sixteen part > multi timberal setups etc. > > I'm up for second hand/slightly older suggestions if they are more > useable EG;roland fantom series, Korg Triton series etc. Nothing too > cheesy sound wise though... > > As an alternative, what about an 88 key board that can be remotely > controlled via an iOS device? I know that there is the iOS app for the > Roland Integra-7 Synthesizer Module and there is an app for Omnisphere > so perhaps things are headed in that direction;to a certain degree at > least? > > The stage piano as a controller with a hardware module is also an > option although it's not my first choice. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Cameron. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
