Notes_Norton

And the sax player kept chasing the girls.

If I'm going to be recording a lot, I keep the TX81z plugged into the UPS and turned on. That way I don't have to reload the patches every day. For my favorite solo modules, (Yamaha VL70m), I have the patches burned into ROM and inserted into the units. Some engineers in a wind synthesizer group I belong to figured out how to do that. That's great because the VL is a physical modeling synth. It models cup mouthpieces, single reed mouthpieces, double reeds, picked strings, bowed strings and so on. Then sends that to the various resonator models, tubes, cones, boxes, etc. After that to the dampers, bells, bridges, and so on. The result is a synthesized instrument that plays, feels, and sounds like a sax, guitar, flute, violin, trumpet, trombone, harmonica and so on. This is one sound module I would hate to lose because there is nothing close, either hardware or software. I take them on the gig with me and use them with my Wind MIDI controller. Notes

BiaB (Band-in-a-Box) is an auto-accompaniment app. A little like those arranger keyboards but instead of 2 to 6 measures repeating endlessly, in BiaB I can put up to 400 patterns in and assign "masks" so that the patterns appear in musically appropriate instances. It is a great program for practicing. It give you a decent backing band for just about any pop/jazz/country/rock song you might want to play. For backing tracks I prefer to use BiaB as a starting point. The styles are by their nature generic. I export the MIDI styles into a DAW and then add the song specific licks and hits. It turns the very good output of BiaB into something excellent. BiaB has two kinds of styles, MIDI and Audio. I prefer the MIDI because it is thousands of times more editable than audio tracks (even if you have Melodine). And if you have a good MIDI synth module, they can sound 95% as good as the pre-recorded tracks. I started making my own styles in 1992, gave them to my friends who told me I should take out an ad in a trade magazine and sell them. As time went by I ended up with customers in over 100 different countries. I do it as a part-time "moonlighting" business. I'm selling to musicians so I keep the profit margin slim. The shopping cart, Visa/MC authorization company, the Visa/MC merchants account, web host, bank, and some of the subcontractors I use combined make more money on each sale than I do. But that's OK, I'm not complaining. The music in my styles I played and recorded in MIDI format. So in a way it's like a recording artist collecting royalties on his/her work. I've got two Style Disks done and Leilani and I just got 3 Fake Disks back from the subcontractors so we are working on going through song by song in real time, triple checking and fixing any problems. It's a very time consuming task, but we have plenty of time now that my full-time job (gigging) is on hold. Notes

Symphony No7 "Leningrad" - Dmitri Shostakovitch Evengy Svetlanov conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra This is "heavy metal" classical music.

I guess so. I have a dead battery on a TX81z, but I can load the patches via a data dump. I tried replacing the soldered in battery myself, which should have been a simple process, but it didn't work. It takes a minute to reload the patches so I'm not going to take the time to figure out what went wrong. Other than that, everything works as if they were new. Notes

I've lost all my gigs, so I'm working on Band-in-a-Box software. The problem with that is my customers are musicians. Oh well, economic self-isolation means I'll probably not get that COVID disease. Don't worry about me, the mortgage is paid, I've got some savings, and social security, so I might lose some needed weight, but I'll be OK. I feel mostly for the waiters and waitresses I know that are living week to week and depend on their wages and tips. Notes

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