I didn't realize that a nice round number just appeared in my viewfinder as I was just setting up my vacation countdown app that i use for Mexico and such and by golly it is 100 more days in America. Swiss Air out of SFO and 15 hours later, la mia nuova casa in Sardegna.
And yes, I have learned this simple preposition "in" is mostly the same same. Let those other heathens make it "en" or something. En? that's a letter stupid. And here, another example of same same for english and italian. The letter N is used and dictated the same in both.
Ya gotta grab these low hangin fruits first thing when you're tryin to parla la lingua dell'amore. Thankfully every Italian i ever encountered over there was gracious and patient in any of my efforts to speak to him in his language. They are kind hearted creatures by nature down in the South. No greed to turn them into,, into Northernors!
But the real reason I thought of posting, was to lay on the ground and grovel at Yamaha of all people, for finally making the best got dammed piece of electronic keyboard the world has yet seen. It is the pinnacle of our musical physical ingenuity. Meet the Yamaha Montage M. Yeah, it came out almost 2 years ago now but it was and is an unwieldly beast of a synth. 61 effing pounds first of all. That's heavy gear man. No, I have purchased something else. Not the $4000 flagship of Yamaha, but instead, his new offspring from his very loins. Meet the Yamaha ModX-M, To be had for appreciably less than the Montage ( got it for $2300 at zzounds.com) and many have already dug into this new offspring, meant to give gigging players something more gigable for travel. And these divers of synth gear have determined that Yamaha gave practically the whole Montage wad to the Modx. I think it weighs half and is no biggie to wield. It is more plastic than the Montage of course and like all boards, must have a special care given to them especially in transit.
III ox
And yes, this synthesizer has first and foremost, a collection of the best acoustic grand patches I've ever heard out of a board. A CFof course, and a Hamburg Steinway, and even a Bosendorfer and they all sound distinctly different and I think I'm with Klaus. I think maybe the CFIIi and maybe even his cousin Shigeru are making the most popular pianos today. Because they play and sound great.
That's just it, every sound has bumped not one notch but more like 5! I'm going to record you all some youtubes soon but I have never been so ecstatic of a new piece of gear. This board could hook you in a shell of a life easier than heroin. "hmmm the sun is out but it hurts our eyes Precious, methinks we will stay inside today and make more sounds."
Did you see how many Chopin contestants sat at a Yamaha or Shigeru? Pretty cool. A Fazioli and a Bechstein were also available and of course because of all of that, Steinway insisted on having 2 models to choose from. Haha, cracks me up. That's just it, every sound has bumped not one notch but more like 5! I'm going to record you all some youtubes to show you. effin hell, this board could hook you in a shell of a life easier than heroin. "hmmm the sun is out but it hurts our eyes Precious, methinks we will stay inside today and make more sounds."
I think the total patch count is in the neighborhood of 3400.
And this board is getting the treatment right now as an old bandmate who is in another band now calls and asks me to learn a 3 hour gigs worth of songs for their band as they have 3 big gigs lined up before I get on the Titanic. So bam, it's on like donkey kong and sure enough, i get the 36 song setlist and I see I gotta learn 22 virgin songs I never touched. Something like that would usually have me whimpering in self pity knowing all the hours it will take me to jump this high hurdle. Where's that set list? Here.... I count 22 songs I never touched in my life and it has been quite a journey so far. Not as tedious as in the past. So many options to make it come together easier, user friendly interface to find those patches.
I wish I had a real workstation setup at my pc desk now. I still throw it up on there as it fits the desk i use , but not willingly. pain in the ass, but ya need to be right next to a pc if you want to learn these songs expeditiously.
To top it all off, I have found a resource from Down Under. This man called NARF is an American expat in Austrailia and has created a most wonderful thing, that I have already purchased and implemented. I show you Narf's website and you can see what I am talking about. I bought his 13 pack bundle you see on the link .. Keep scrolling to see what he has created. I has been awesome sauce for me..
https://www.narfsounds.com/montage-modx-sounds
finally since it just appeared on my youtube, here is a soul soothing video
Link to video
