Right on the money, Jamal! I’m a bassist and when I learning keyboards on a Rhodes MK1 73; my MD, who’s a keyboardist was teaching me the importance of “DYNAMICS!” Can’t play a Rhodes like a grand piano, organ, or even a synth (velocity sensitive was UNHEARD of back in the ‘80’s). I was hearing chords but was not “listening” to the dynamics of my playing. What you said made so much sense. That’s why I’m going to upgrade to the Antelope Audio interface. The converters are real clean and warm. I know this videos is years old but info is EXCELLENT! God bless you, bro.😌🎹🎶🙏🏾🕊👍🏾
You are right on Bro. I had the same experience with a Roland X-50 that I have had for a while now. I let this Bro I know use it at a gig and I couldn't believe that that was my board that he was playing. I noticed he played each voice with different articulations. That experience made me go back and STUDY THE INSTRUMENTS that the sound patches were emulating. A grand piano is not an upright, a Rhodes is not a Wurlitzer, a Harpsichord is not a Clavinet, a Lowery is not a B-3. So I went to the masters and studied guys like George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Bob James, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Joey DeFransesco, etc. to get a history on the ways that particular instruments were used. Then I looked at how modern musicians such as yourself and guys like Corey Henry are expressing themselves today. Great stuff Bro. Keep up the great work!!!!!
On another note, depending on what keyboard or keyboard controller you are using, you need to set your "velocity curve" to match your playing style. EVERY keyboard will have adjustable velocity curves, and to accurately manipulate the velocity layers of whatever sound you are using, you need to adjust your velocity curves accordingly.
Completely agree with you, Jamal! It's also important to note that sometimes the sounds we use aren't for the right purpose. I tried out neo soul keys for chick corea's Spain, and it sounded weird. Very important to play well, and to use your sounds to their advantage, not like me, trying a soul/gospel piano on a Chick Corea piece haha!
Love your lesson and passion in expressing the importance of key sensitivity. I hope people will listening to you, because your soooooo right. I'm a former Yamaha Motif ES owner, and I'm getting ready to purchase the Kronos. Keep playing bro, and God bless.
Jamal, I love your chord flow. I am an advanced keyboard musician, and even though I have a good sense of chording and good at accompaniment and production, I haven't quite got the hang of the jazz/gospel Chordal flowing that is it's so prevalent among contemporary gospel musicians and organists today, even though my chords are also advanced. But melting one great chord into another and then another, I end up recycling the same chord progressions, although to the delight of my audiences. I just want to go higher! I think one of my hinderances is that I don't play in every key. I only play in A flat, B flat, E, flat C sharp, an F sharp, F, G, and C, but I don't play in A,B,D or E natural. I started playing in Keys like G,F and C, but then started playing in all of the flats, and preferring to play most things in the flats, but rarely the naturals. I could use some good advice! I play Gospel, R&B, some Jazz, Funk, Neo Soul, etc. I'm all ears!! :-)
+GospelMusicians Just to let you know you're brilliant at piano. I'm 13 years old and I'm a drummer but do it because I love drumming. Where did you learn how to play the piano? Alao, I think gospel musicians are awesome at music.
AGREE . i was having exactly this same issue. It changed a lot when i played more softly and used more elaborated chords. I know exacly what kind of sound everyone wants, and the first minutes with the software can be frustrating, BUT people, use more complex chord progression and go soft on the keys, you will feel the difference instantly , this kind of sound its waaaay hard to get then normal piano sounds
I've been watching most of your lessons from your clips though It was really helpful tool for me... I've been wishing I could play jazz music in our Church here in Thailand for God's glory... I wish you could give some clips for popjazz mixed in G for a worship song. please make it slowly and clear. Thank you my brother. God bless you..
I loved that you talked about how playing techniques influence in the sound that you hear. There is a guy in my church who is an outstanding musician, and he can get amazing sounds from average keyboard like no one that I know can. He has an old korg X5 and the things he can make with that little and old keyboard impress me a lot sometimes.
Man, I love what you do!! I've recently been looking at "Urban & Contemporary Worship Xtreme (Disc 2)" and "Urban Phatness" again, and with all your vids, I always come away with something; I'm like a kid with a new toy!! The things that you're saying here make a lot of sense; eventually I will get that Motif XF8!! Thanks for what you do. Stay blessed. Teddy Blackman
Hey Jamal, can u do a video about live sound and which amps for keyboards is best. I'm thinking of of people go straight thru a keyboard amp instead of the system at church or wherever they might be. A lot of people are running thru crappy amps that primarily was made for practice at home. No one has really made s video of this type before. I think it is really needed..
Excellent points and practical tips. As live/studio musicians it's important to keep in mind that our quality of sound is almost always an expensive venture. At least for me, it has been (and still is) a process and should be a key point of investment for any musician wanting to expand and refine their sound. Plugins alone aren't gonna do it.
In Cubase, for Motif, Mox, Mo8, you can have midi xml's templates( by the way, Steinberg belongs to the Yamaha), you can install that midi xml's templates and Cubase will know the internal position of Yamaha Motif, Mox, Mo8 sounds( voices, tones) and playing as well on midi through a midi usb cable. No just midi events, but also, audio too! Cheers!
@@andreford5016 I think I have for live setups. I would use my bass amp on gigs. It was okay. Now I have switched to the QRS K12.2s. I'm using that for my bass also. It made a world of difference...and it weights a lot less.
Hey Jamal one point of correction even though you are coming-out of the Motif via firewire YOU ARE STILL PLAYING THROUGH THE SOUNDCARD AUDIO OUTPUT (D/A). Also most sound cards d/a are very good indeed infact one could argue much better than the d/a on the motif. To me the most crucial factor is indeed the keyboard and the velocity layers , if you play through a non weighted keyed chances are you will bypass number of velocities , if you play through a motif xf type keybed (weighted) you will likely get better but off course there may be even better controllers. I found the mpk88 had the most difficult consistency of velocity it took me a while to get used to it as each time i hit the keys i got different velocities even though i was fairly consistent.
I'll tell u this Jamal made it possible for me to lighten my load of equipment. The iPad is killer in that it has almost every sound available that anyone would use. The ik multimedia piano sounds are amazing, and I can't forget Jamal's Rhodes sounds which I have them all. If anyone out there hasn't tried iPad for your midi sounds yet you need to immediately. I'm waiting now for someone to make an authentic Hammond sound on the iPad that actually is at least semi close to an xk3 or nord. Shoot I may do it myself lol
I have to agree that chords and velocity and arrangement makes a lot of sense to how it sounds but I think there is one more aspect that I personally think few are considering. The sound chain used when creating and tweaking the bank as well as the listening evironment will affect the final product. That means the final product might have some dips or peaks frequency wise that will show up for everyone except Jamal or the people involved in creating the patch. I personally think that is at least a small contributíon to the discussion about different soound than Jamals. Also Youtub compression and whatever stuff they do to the sound will affect the result somewhat.
I purchased Academic Grand several days ago and I can assure everybody that it sounds exactly the same as presented in the video! All differences must be attributed to the device you are playing / listening through.
Jamal - i think, you`re right ! Nice video ! Everyone can see, that you love what you do ! Thanks a lot for your videos full of spirit ! Greetings from germany !
Love your videos man. Thanks for all your contributions. I have MKSensations on my iPhone. I've been using it at my church for the past 3wks and for my outsides gigs....AND I LOVE IT. My question is 'Is there another piece of equipment that I could connect that would help in controlling the volumes instead of having to use the screen?' Something like the Akai LPD8
Gospel Musicians Man, it worked!!! MIDI Learned the sliders with the knobs on my LPD8 and I can now control the sounds individually. Only one issue now and thats to MIDI Learn the main volume to a different knob. But other than that, thanks man!!!
Hi Jamal, where did you get that recording desk? I have a very similar setup to yours, where the motif is my main keyboard and I prefer to have it stationed in front of me but still have some rack space and a place to put monitors on. Thanks!
Hey there young man. Thanks for spreading your love for music and sound and creating these sweet patches. One question. Are the sounds you get with the iPad neo soul keys 2 and the Mac the same “quality”? Also asking about the MK sensation. I have the iPad versions. Thank you and keep up the quest for perfecting the sounds of these soul inspiring electro mechanical instruments. Peace my brother.
Yo Jamal, great video! I just have a question.. I see that you have a 3 tier keyboard stand.. just wanna know where i can buy a good 3 tier keyboard stand, the same as what you have.. hope to hear from you!
Thank you so much for doing this video blog. So man folks purchase or acquire great equipment, however never really now what to do with it. A great musician can get the best out of any he or she is using
How can the velocity change the timbre? That will only happen in digital if it's programmed that way. I get that it can sound different with a variety of velocities, but not different timbres, again unless the code is done that way, which is nit the usual thing.
Hey, Jamal! Just wondering what you think of the new beastie called Montage 8... Knowing you are a huge fan of the Mottif... thought about you when watching Namm´s videos... peace.
Love your videos. Very good and helpful points. Also some food for thought as far as expressiveness and technique in playing style is that a weighted key keyboard can effect the style and sound of expressiveness vs a non weighted key keyboard because of how easy it is to press down and switch velocities on the key as well.
I think the people are referring to the virtual instrument you use being better than the ones they have (which I suspect are just standard midi sounds). Are you saying you provide virtual instruments with your midi packs/midi lessons? If not then I think the question the people are getting at is what vsts do you use. Hope that helps
No this is not correct. People are purchasing MKSensatin, FM Tines, or Neo-Soul Keys and are saying that the sounds they just bought from us, do not sound like the demos of the product.
Jamal, I was wondering. Do you know the best way to get rid of latency from the keys? I'm using a Roland Juno DI connected to an iMac through a USB midi cable. I'm looking to get into an audio interface, but I'm not sure where to start. I have bad latency in midi keyz and in garage band too. Thanks
Man you are awesome! BTW, you cannot TEACH feeling. I understood what you were talking about. Either you "FEEL" the power or you don't. And if you don't, they are not going to sound like you do. I feel you just listening to this video. Touch is from the HEART and SOUL. From GOD, exactly!! That can't be taught.
Question, do you think that using USB interface or going through the firewire is better? I can do both but want to achieve the best clarity of frequency. Thanks
It depends. Assuming you have a Mac, either one will have the same quality, because it is a true digital signal. I personally would use the Firewire, because it has a greater bandwidth than the USB and it handles audio streams better. Just be careful not to daisy chain too many firewires at once, because you will loose your bandwidth.
+michael jagger Depends on what your playing, if you play classical piano then go for the weighted keys, if synth then the non weighted. Then non weighted is also much lighter weigh for portability
Basically you will get what you paid for, esp. if it new right? The effective of the set up will garner the obvious result? Sucky gospel or holy cathedral, really up to the effort or efforts!?
Recording from the XF via FW won't work w/the NEW apogee ensemble because it feat. Thunderbolt connections that replaced the FW.....so how would you rec. if u were to upgrade to the new ensemble?
You connect your Motif via a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter to the the Appgee Ensemble. The New Apogee has two Thunderbolt ports. Then connect the other port on the Apogee to the computer. Or use a Belkin Thunderbolt hub.
GospelMusicians Gotcha! I actually saw that adapter on sweetwater's site last night. Could you possibly do a video showcasing you recording sounds from the motif into the computer via the m-lan FW(tutorial)? I've never seen it done before...but people have been doing it since the ES I believe.
GospelMusicians Also...If I got the Apogee Quartet...then I could rec. from the Motif ES/MLan FW (FW to usb adapter) since the Quartet feat. usb correct?
You really think a FireWire expansion is worth upgrading for? I bought a RME Babyface to records my Motif XF6 sounds and getting some pretty good results. Would I really notice recording from that FireWire expansion card?
You can play a 'bad guy' or his brother as a backup extra in his 'Empire' series. Love your video's brother. I'll be buyin' some stuff soon from your website.
He is telling the truth...Once I learned about conversion/converters, all of my sounds and final mixes sound 10Xs better...
No two musicians play the same, thats what makes a True Musician. Create your own Tone and Technique and become YOU.
Right on the money, Jamal! I’m a bassist and when I learning keyboards on a Rhodes MK1 73; my MD, who’s a keyboardist was teaching me the importance of “DYNAMICS!” Can’t play a Rhodes like a grand piano, organ, or even a synth (velocity sensitive was UNHEARD of back in the ‘80’s). I was hearing chords but was not “listening” to the dynamics of my playing. What you said made so much sense. That’s why I’m going to upgrade to the Antelope Audio interface. The converters are real clean and warm. I know this videos is years old but info is EXCELLENT! God bless you, bro.😌🎹🎶🙏🏾🕊👍🏾
You are right on Bro. I had the same experience with a Roland X-50 that I have had for a while now. I let this Bro I know use it at a gig and I couldn't believe that that was my board that he was playing. I noticed he played each voice with different articulations. That experience made me go back and STUDY THE INSTRUMENTS that the sound patches were emulating. A grand piano is not an upright, a Rhodes is not a Wurlitzer, a Harpsichord is not a Clavinet, a Lowery is not a B-3. So I went to the masters and studied guys like George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Bob James, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Joey DeFransesco, etc. to get a history on the ways that particular instruments were used. Then I looked at how modern musicians such as yourself and guys like Corey Henry are expressing themselves today. Great stuff Bro. Keep up the great work!!!!!
On another note, depending on what keyboard or keyboard controller you are using, you need to set your "velocity curve" to match your playing style. EVERY keyboard will have adjustable velocity curves, and to accurately manipulate the velocity layers of whatever sound you are using, you need to adjust your velocity curves accordingly.
You can teach me how to play any day. You play phat chords. I can now do the same. I believe in you. Keep on keeping on. Thank you.
You're talkin good Doc!!! It's all in how you play as well as how one sets their eq on their(amp or monitor)
Good stuff doc! You got to spell it out some folks...I have about 75% of your stuff...and its a-1 when you use the RIGHT equipment!!!
the sounds are the same its his chord progressions and his playing
Agreed on 😁 I saved this video I needed this.. 😁
Completely agree with you, Jamal! It's also important to note that sometimes the sounds we use aren't for the right purpose. I tried out neo soul keys for chick corea's Spain, and it sounded weird. Very important to play well, and to use your sounds to their advantage, not like me, trying a soul/gospel piano on a Chick Corea piece haha!
Love your lesson and passion in expressing the importance of key sensitivity. I hope people will listening to you, because your soooooo right. I'm a former Yamaha Motif ES owner, and I'm getting ready to purchase the Kronos. Keep playing bro, and God bless.
what you think of kronos
Yep, the tone is in the hands!
Jamal, I love your chord flow. I am an advanced keyboard musician, and even though I have a good sense of chording and good at accompaniment and production, I haven't quite got the hang of the jazz/gospel Chordal flowing that is it's so prevalent among contemporary gospel musicians and organists today, even though my chords are also advanced. But melting one great chord into another and then another, I end up recycling the same chord progressions, although to the delight of my audiences. I just want to go higher!
I think one of my hinderances is that I don't play in every key. I only play in A flat, B flat, E, flat C sharp, an F sharp, F, G, and C, but I don't play in A,B,D or E natural.
I started playing in Keys like G,F and C, but then started playing in all of the flats, and preferring to play most things in the flats, but rarely the naturals.
I could use some good advice! I play Gospel, R&B, some Jazz, Funk, Neo Soul, etc.
I'm all ears!! :-)
did he just say hes " not all that good "? You are awesome!!
+Frances Gonzalez Ahhh thanks...But there are so many others better. I do what I can! Thanks for the support!
+GospelMusicians Just to let you know you're brilliant at piano. I'm 13 years old and I'm a drummer but do it because I love drumming. Where did you learn how to play the piano? Alao, I think gospel musicians are awesome at music.
Frances Gonzalez hi what's up
AGREE . i was having exactly this same issue. It changed a lot when i played more softly and used more elaborated chords. I know exacly what kind of sound everyone wants, and the first minutes with the software can be frustrating, BUT people, use more complex chord progression and go soft on the keys, you will feel the difference instantly , this kind of sound its waaaay hard to get then normal piano sounds
'only as good as the weakest link in your sound system', I like that; good way of putting it. i've always found that hard to phrase, for some reason.
I've been watching most of your lessons from your clips though It was really helpful tool for me... I've been wishing I could play jazz music in our Church here in Thailand for God's glory... I wish you could give some clips for popjazz mixed in G for a worship song. please make it slowly and clear. Thank you my brother. God bless you..
Having a MIDI controller with good key feel is important also , cuz that will affect the velocity curve
I loved that you talked about how playing techniques influence in the sound that you hear. There is a guy in my church who is an outstanding musician, and he can get amazing sounds from average keyboard like no one that I know can. He has an old korg X5 and the things he can make with that little and old keyboard impress me a lot sometimes.
Man, I love what you do!! I've recently been looking at "Urban & Contemporary Worship Xtreme (Disc 2)" and "Urban Phatness" again, and with all your vids, I always come away with something; I'm like a kid with a new toy!!
The things that you're saying here make a lot of sense; eventually I will get that Motif XF8!!
Thanks for what you do. Stay blessed.
Teddy Blackman
I got the HS50 with the HS10sub..Absolutely magical and nothing better then neutral response!!
Hey Jamal, can u do a video about live sound and which amps for keyboards is best. I'm thinking of of people go straight thru a keyboard amp instead of the system at church or wherever they might be. A lot of people are running thru crappy amps that primarily was made for practice at home. No one has really made s video of this type before. I think it is really needed..
Excellent points and practical tips. As live/studio musicians it's important to keep in mind that our quality of sound is almost always an expensive venture. At least for me, it has been (and still is) a process and should be a key point of investment for any musician wanting to expand and refine their sound. Plugins alone aren't gonna do it.
In Cubase, for Motif, Mox, Mo8, you can have midi xml's templates( by the way, Steinberg belongs to the Yamaha), you can install that midi xml's templates and Cubase will know the internal position of Yamaha Motif, Mox, Mo8 sounds( voices, tones) and playing as well on midi through a midi usb cable. No just midi events, but also, audio too!
Cheers!
Do you ever get any thumbs down? 😑
I enjoy watchig your tutorials because you say something to everyone. You and JFilt. Dopeness at it's finest!
My strat doesn't sound like Jimmys or Eric's either haha
Everything you said is so true. My keyboard sounds great in the head phones all the time. When I use my amp, it sound awful.
Yo have you figured out why that is?? With some keyboards that is so me right v.
@@andreford5016 I think I have for live setups. I would use my bass amp on gigs. It was okay. Now I have switched to the QRS K12.2s. I'm using that for my bass also. It made a world of difference...and it weights a lot less.
Dear JAMAL you are 100% rightyou are an awesome musician
The person is 80% to 90% and gear is 10% to 20% of the awesomeness in the sounds being made...think of it like that and get your game up!✌🏾
Thanks for the tips btw 7:19 this sequence is simple but crazy
Hey Jamal one point of correction even though you are coming-out of the Motif via firewire YOU ARE STILL PLAYING THROUGH THE SOUNDCARD AUDIO OUTPUT (D/A). Also most sound cards d/a are very good indeed infact one could argue much better than the d/a on the motif. To me the most crucial factor is indeed the keyboard and the velocity layers , if you play through a non weighted keyed chances are you will bypass number of velocities , if you play through a motif xf type keybed (weighted) you will likely get better but off course there may be even better controllers. I found the mpk88 had the most difficult consistency of velocity it took me a while to get used to it as each time i hit the keys i got different velocities even though i was fairly consistent.
I'll tell u this Jamal made it possible for me to lighten my load of equipment. The iPad is killer in that it has almost every sound available that anyone would use. The ik multimedia piano sounds are amazing, and I can't forget Jamal's Rhodes sounds which I have them all. If anyone out there hasn't tried iPad for your midi sounds yet you need to immediately. I'm waiting now for someone to make an authentic Hammond sound on the iPad that actually is at least semi close to an xk3 or nord. Shoot I may do it myself lol
I have to agree that chords and velocity and arrangement makes a lot of sense to how it sounds but I think there is one more aspect that I personally think few are considering.
The sound chain used when creating and tweaking the bank as well as the listening evironment will affect the final product. That means the final product might have some dips or peaks frequency wise that will show up for everyone except Jamal or the people involved in creating the patch. I personally think that is at least a small contributíon to the discussion about different soound than Jamals.
Also Youtub compression and whatever stuff they do to the sound will affect the result somewhat.
I purchased Academic Grand several days ago and I can assure everybody that it sounds exactly the same as presented in the video!
All differences must be attributed to the device you are playing / listening through.
Jamal - i think, you`re right ! Nice video ! Everyone can see, that you love what you do ! Thanks a lot for your videos full of spirit ! Greetings from germany !
Love your videos man. Thanks for all your contributions. I have MKSensations on my iPhone. I've been using it at my church for the past 3wks and for my outsides gigs....AND I LOVE IT. My question is 'Is there another piece of equipment that I could connect that would help in controlling the volumes instead of having to use the screen?' Something like the Akai LPD8
You can already do this. Just touch and hold and you can MIDI learn. Then move a knob or slider on your keyboard and it's attached.
Gospel Musicians Man, it worked!!! MIDI Learned the sliders with the knobs on my LPD8 and I can now control the sounds individually. Only one issue now and thats to MIDI Learn the main volume to a different knob. But other than that, thanks man!!!
The guy has an SQ80? Wow! That's OLD school.
Hi Jamal, where did you get that recording desk? I have a very similar setup to yours, where the motif is my main keyboard and I prefer to have it stationed in front of me but still have some rack space and a place to put monitors on. Thanks!
Smooth on keys 👍
Hey there young man. Thanks for spreading your love for music and sound and creating these sweet patches. One question. Are the sounds you get with the iPad neo soul keys 2 and the Mac the same “quality”? Also asking about the MK sensation. I have the iPad versions.
Thank you and keep up the quest for perfecting the sounds of these soul inspiring electro mechanical instruments.
Peace my brother.
Thanks so much for the support.Yep the sounds are the same quality now that you have the ability to stream samples from the external hardrive on iOS.
Gospel Musicians
Thank you
Go to Settings/Audio/Buffer/change the default Buffer size from 512 to 1024 samples. Wow big difference for me😊
Man... what I'd pay for private lessons.
A intensidade do toque que você dá nas teclas fazem toda a diferença no acorde, mesmo as vezes sendo acordes simples, vlw toca muito
Yo Jamal, great video! I just have a question.. I see that you have a 3 tier keyboard stand.. just wanna know where i can buy a good 3 tier keyboard stand, the same as what you have.. hope to hear from you!
I say that all the time also play in stereo if you can
Hi, great feel man!! Let me ask you something, what studio monitors are you using?
Thank you so much for doing this video blog. So man folks purchase or acquire great equipment, however never really now what to do with it. A great musician can get the best out of any he or she is using
In the video you stress having the right sound card. Can you give a few tips on what that means, and also which card you are using also?
wow this definition is crazy good... is this 4k?
Believe it or not it's the iPhone 6 plus in 60p mode.
GospelMusicians wow... i got a 6plus as well I have yet to try the video on it though . now i cant wait!
So True So True!
You are So Right.....Awesome.. !!!
How can the velocity change the timbre? That will only happen in digital if it's programmed that way. I get that it can sound different with a variety of velocities, but not different timbres, again unless the code is done that way, which is nit the usual thing.
Hey man did you take music lesson or how did you learn to play? Thank you so much,
Appreciate the 60fps. Curious, what kind of latency do you get with your set-up (plugins)? e.g. 12ms
Excellent vid good eye opener
Hey, Jamal! Just wondering what you think of the new beastie called Montage 8... Knowing you are a huge fan of the Mottif... thought about you when watching Namm´s videos... peace.
+Hernán Guerrero I'm waiting on mine to come in so I can get a chance to really play it.
you soooooo cool!!! :)
What software do you use to play your plugins?
Love your videos. Very good and helpful points. Also some food for thought as far as expressiveness and technique in playing style is that a weighted key keyboard can effect the style and sound of expressiveness vs a non weighted key keyboard because of how easy it is to press down and switch velocities on the key as well.
Jammal I saw you on the Kronos video
I am a Yamaha man but i am very into buying a Korg Kronos........give me some advice
Soundcard & fingers RIGHT BRO 👍
You should of gotten the Kronos Jamal .. you said you liked it better haha
I think the people are referring to the virtual instrument you use being better than the ones they have (which I suspect are just standard midi sounds). Are you saying you provide virtual instruments with your midi packs/midi lessons? If not then I think the question the people are getting at is what vsts do you use. Hope that helps
No this is not correct. People are purchasing MKSensatin, FM Tines, or Neo-Soul Keys and are saying that the sounds they just bought from us, do not sound like the demos of the product.
Oh my mistake, thanks for clearing up
Jamal, I was wondering. Do you know the best way to get rid of latency from the keys? I'm using a Roland Juno DI connected to an iMac through a USB midi cable. I'm looking to get into an audio interface, but I'm not sure where to start.
I have bad latency in midi keyz and in garage band too. Thanks
As an example bro's hammering the keys like those rigid brick people who've never felt emotion in their life lol
Are your sound samples available for Kontakt 5 player? GospelMusicians
GospelMusicians What specific plugin and from what library are you using during the video? Thank you
Http://PureSynth.net/
i learn something new thank you.......
Man you are awesome! BTW, you cannot TEACH feeling. I understood what you were talking about. Either you "FEEL" the power or you don't. And if you don't, they are not going to sound like you do. I feel you just listening to this video. Touch is from the HEART and SOUL. From GOD, exactly!! That can't be taught.
+Dennie Jones lol touch is from God .. very true
Even Beethoven said as much: "To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable!"
well said bro......
How do you negate against the noise we get from connecting via midi cable
Question, do you think that using USB interface or going through the firewire is better? I can do both but want to achieve the best clarity of frequency. Thanks
It depends. Assuming you have a Mac, either one will have the same quality, because it is a true digital signal. I personally would use the Firewire, because it has a greater bandwidth than the USB and it handles audio streams better. Just be careful not to daisy chain too many firewires at once, because you will loose your bandwidth.
I see. I do have a mac. Ill try this and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
TRUE!
He’s pretty much saying his sound ain’t gonna do nothing if u trash at playing
Thx so much 4the info!
please help me im Edson From Haiti I want to Buy a keyboard. I want you Help me to choose between the XS 7 or a MoXF8.
Moxf8
+GospelMusicians whats the reason moxf8 is better than xs7? can u give a good reason aside from the moxf is newer and can upgrade sounds.
Edson pierre louis price range, xf7 too heavy if u gig
are weighted keys better than non weighted keys?
+michael jagger Depends on what your playing, if you play classical piano then go for the weighted keys, if synth then the non weighted. Then non weighted is also much lighter weigh for portability
Basically you will get what you paid for, esp. if it new right? The effective of the set up will garner the obvious result? Sucky gospel or holy cathedral, really up to the effort or efforts!?
Jamal, like very much of your vídeo. I would like what it have a legend in portuguese. Thanks.
Improve the audio quality of your videos recording the sound direct from the keyboard output or from the mixer.
Recording from the XF via FW won't work w/the NEW apogee ensemble because it feat. Thunderbolt connections that replaced the FW.....so how would you rec. if u were to upgrade to the new ensemble?
You connect your Motif via a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter to the the Appgee Ensemble. The New Apogee has two Thunderbolt ports. Then connect the other port on the Apogee to the computer. Or use a Belkin Thunderbolt hub.
GospelMusicians Gotcha! I actually saw that adapter on sweetwater's site last night. Could you possibly do a video showcasing you recording sounds from the motif into the computer via the m-lan FW(tutorial)? I've never seen it done before...but people have been doing it since the ES I believe.
GospelMusicians Also...If I got the Apogee Quartet...then I could rec. from the Motif ES/MLan FW (FW to usb adapter) since the Quartet feat. usb correct?
It sounded better when you played without expressiveness xD! Right before 5:44. But haha yeah but i get what you're saying.
seems like you use sustain pedals n added reverb on your videos
Sounds like a master to me.........:)
People dissing the speakers don't know what the fuqq they're talking about. Those HS8's are some of the best studio monitor speakers on the market.
is the Scarlett 18i8 a good preamp?
Scarlett 18i8 is an interface with award winning preamps. I have the 8i6 and the preamps are great!!
i will that my keyboard sounds like a piano it don't work
You really think a FireWire expansion is worth upgrading for? I bought a RME Babyface to records my Motif XF6 sounds and getting some pretty good results. Would I really notice recording from that FireWire expansion card?
No sir! The RME is high quality. You don't need the FireWire
GospelMusicians Thanks sir! :)
dude this camera is crazy!!! lol
they thought your software would make them sound just like you.
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Unequivocally...10points
Has anyone told you, you look just like Terrence Howard?
All the time
You can play a 'bad guy' or his brother as a backup extra in his 'Empire' series. Love your video's brother. I'll be buyin' some stuff soon from your website.
:)
Bro forget the sounds, the camera work is amazing! ManManMan!
Terrance Nock Just an iPhone on 60p.
I have that now! WoW! Thanks!
its videos like this that mislead young / inexperienced producers
talk less, play music please