Notes_Norton

With all my gigs cancelled until probably October, I have a lot of time to make Band-in-a-Box products, and am self-isolating. Things could be worse.

"Time Is On My Side" - Kai Winding (the original version of this song)

"Concerto For Group And Orchestra" - Deep Purple Pretty decent attempt at mixing rock with an orchestra.

Due to the virus, and the area banning live music because it draws a crowd, I'm unemployed at least until August - and August/September are the slowest months of the year ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ Oh well, at least while drawing down my savings, I should go anywhere, and that'll keep me from getting the (&#@ virus. So I guess I'll work on creating more style 'disks' and fake 'disks' for Band-in-a-Box. Notes

"Twine Time" - Alvin Cash & The Crawlers

I like the rhyming scheme. I like the rhyming scheme.

The DS8 is a nice synth. Some of the melodic percussion sounds are better for many songs than the newer synths I have. Some of the synth sounds are just unique to that model. I just use it as a sound module now. I use the Korg i3 for keyboard playing. I used to have a Korg DDD-5. Good drum machine for it's day, but drum sounds got better so I retired it. I sampled what I wanted and gave it to a young student musician. I've got Korg, Roland/Edirol, Yamaha, Ketron, Akai, and Peavey synths/samplers. Nothing rare that would get a buck on the used market, but very workable and good sounding machines if you pick the better sounds of each in the same song. Notes

Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis

Girls, Girls, Girls - The Coasters triple word score ? (of course that's 3 times 0)

I'm thinking about starting an un-started song.

"Monkey See, Monkey Do" - Michael Franks

I think the hymn is PD ? - - - - - - - - - Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson

"Sunday Will Never Be The Same" - Spanky And Our Gang Have you ever noticed the intro and vocal "da da" part trembles the Christian Hymn "Gloria" from the extended gloria to the "Excelsis Deo"

"A Sunday Kind Of Love" - Etta James A jazz standard writte by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima, and was published in 1946. I've always loved the way Ms. James sang it.

"Danger Zone" - Ray Charles "The Danger Zone Is Everywhere" -- This song sums up today's situation exactly, perhaps things never really change.

Emily Remler Quartet A fine guitarist who left us way too soon.

Kick a Picnic - The Residents

Wooly Bully without a saxophone? You should get demerits for that ? (Actually I kind-of liked it, but don't tell any other sax players) Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Estralita - Sonny Stitt

Blue Gardenia - Nat 'King' Cole

In the early days of MIDI I daisy chained them, then I found a MIDI interfaces. I currently use a MOTU MIDI Express 128 MIDI interface. Most of my MIDI devices have the good old 5 pin DIN plugs. I put a USB to MIDI interface into the computer and take the 5 pin DIN out of there to feed the MIDI devices. I still prefer hardware synths to software synths. Hardware synths with the 5 pin DIN that worked decades ago with both Windows 3.1 and Motorola CPU Macs are still working. There are some great sounds in them that aren't found in more modern synthesis methods. Any software synth from 10 years ago might not work today. My first 3 software synths won't work on any modern OS. However more modern synths have their own stellar sounds. I generally mix 6 to 8 synths on a recording, and unlike software synths, there is virtually no latency and since each unit has its own CPU, there is a minimal load on the computer. Actually the hardware synths have from 5-6 ms latency so they are all in sync without any further manipulation. One more thing, in the software synth the computer's CPU has to "do the math" for every note, ever voice, every nuance played, the hardware synths have them stored in ROM. That allows the synth developer to make more complex sounds on the hardware synths since he/she doesn't have to take short cuts to lessen the computer's CPU load. I guess that makes me a dinosaur. I'm not a luddite though, some day the software synths will sound as good as the hardware synths, and computers will be fast enough for them to do that. When that happens, and they have 5ms latency, I might mix them with my hardware synths. Insights and incites by Notes

A lot of good stuff, some of which I am new to and still digesting. BTW, we do Bang A Gong (Get It On) and it's fun to play. I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) - The Sweet Inspirations (does that qualify for a double word score?) ?

I Am The Law - Anthrax

What: no cerveza and limón?

Good ol' Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He was one of a kind.