Having swooned over the amazing sounding Little Wing and Purple Rain videos featuring this amazing bit of kit, it has set the gas cogs turning and making me start the process of justifying it to myself to get one.
Anybody here got one? Used one? Heard any experience from friends etc?
I'm a piano player originally so thinking I may have the dexterity skills so main difficulty would be in the detection of instruments and sounds to use with it, and adapting my brain processes to combine guitar thinking with piano hand playing
Because they are awesome here are the vids again
I'm scared and I'm waiting for life
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MPE is now part of the MIDI spec, I believe, so support is only going to increase - the newly released Cubase 10 supports it natively, Moog Model 15 iPad app also supports it and I think the synth that comes with the full version sounds pretty good. I have watched videos on the Roli site about setting it up with different hosts/ instruments but TBH it does look like a faff.
The only thing that has put me off really is the price of admission...
My comment was only intended in the sense that one of you might be able to convey some helpful advise to the other about the Seaboard. Maybe, even, one of your brief video demonstrations.
It should not be inferred that anyone on tFB has a high turnover rate for gear purchases.
As it turns out, goldtop’s post does a thorough job of explaining the advantages of adopting an unconventional MIDI Controller instrument.
The other approach is to do something different with one’s existing instruments. Nashville High Tuning turns conventional guitar chord shapes into interesting note clusters. Devices such as the Roland VG99 and BOSS SY300 allow alternate tunings in the box without restringing/retuning the guitar itself. Parallel Fifths, Fripp’s New Standard Tuning and some of Joni Mitchell’s open tunings should all yield interesting results.