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andymcd

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  1. Well, yes, as predicted. It's pilot error and once again I'm the pilot. In Common Edit you can assign a controller to a knob or slider .. you are allowed two "T"argets and a "T" appears in the upper right. That looked a whole lot like a "Z"one to me and I was trying to +/- my way through the zones ... wrong. Thanks to Anne in the UK for laying it all out to me and making me feel less like an idiot.
  2. It's very likely this is going to turn out to be pilot error and I'll have egg on my face, but this issue has been bugging me now for a few hours so I'm looking for help. For some reason, within all my stage settings on the PX-5s under common edit I can't seem to assign targets for knobs or sliders on Z3 and Z4 . I've done this before (and have stage setting to prove it) but now it's not working. Z1 and Z2 seem to work as expected for knobs and slider assignments, but I can't page past Z2 in Common Edit for any stage setting. Anyone have an Idea? The only major change I have made recently is downloading and installing the new stage settings, but can't see how it would have any effect. Hoping someone has a thought.
  3. I reviewed the Nano for a songwriting magazine here in the US. At the time, I had the Privia PX-310 and it sounded great! The Nano is light but very solid. You do have to be okay with setting up the satellite speakers...the reward is that you get nice stereo separation. I found it worked great in small venues and even on stage as a monitor. I've used the QSCs (10 and 12s) on stage and they sound great and get very loud. If you are doing anything with splits with bass or driving drum sounds it's the way to go. With any larger speakers, especially powered ones, you have to consider if you'd be prepared to move them. The weight of any professional powered speaker can get old. I also reviewed the Line6 amplifi and while it is a stereo design it has only one low-frequency speaker (two mid and high that give you stereo effects and separation). It's a great amp for guitarists who like the solid-state/DSP amp and cabinet emulations and it worked well for a light rehearsal for keys. However, I don't think it (150 watt) would hold the low end of a grand and cut through a band on stage--small venue maybe--and didn't seem to have a warm low-end for keyboard sounds. Then again it's a guitar amp, right? The full-range nature of the amplifi is probably overkill for most guitarists, but maybe not enough to call it a keyboard amp. The Bluetooth feature is nice, too. Bose L1 systems work well for small venues and we've used as many as five to cover a larger venue by chaining them together. They provided a great full-range sound, but they are not conventional speakers and not stereo. While they pack up and transport well, be aware that they have a pretty large footprint. More than once we've found ourselves putting the on the floor in some venues with small stages. Their design gives the sound 'depth' but not true stereo....I mention this only because some people love them and others not so much. They certainly make the bottom of the piano sound nice...if you really want to shake the house, there is a B2 sub option. As to adding a speaker to the L1 to make it stereo, I'm sure that would have the engineers at Bose poking themselves in their eyes. They carefully designed the L1 to be a psychoacoustic marvel and you're throwing a bunch of waves around room. While, I've never tried it, I'd be concerned that you'd undermine the critical directionality of the vertical speaker array by having another speaker unlike it and not carefully phased with it in the same space. When we use multiple L1s, we are careful to space them for this reason. Personally and after a few years of lugging equipment around for keys, I've concluded that I need two rigs: something small for rehearsals that also sounds good enough for small venues (HK nano is great for this) and a large box that will represent keys well in a band situation and handle splits with bass and other challenges (I've had Mackie 450s for years and would probably replace them today with something like QSC). For medium venues, I'll use two powered speakers. Occasionally, one on a stand and one down as a monitor, but that's usually some sort of band/PA situation. Past that, it's time to hire a real sound company. I decided a while ago that keyboard amps were a thing of the past. The ones that are heavy enough to sound decent, don't sound as good as QSCs or the like and are harder to move, store and locate on stage. Final bit of advice: Buy some good covers. Your equipment will last longer, look better and be worth more when you sell it. Hope some of that helps.
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