From Brent Busby Sent Mon, Apr 30th 2018, 02:25
From Brent Busby Sent Mon, Apr 30th 2018, 02:25
Florian Anwander <xxxxxxxxx@xxxx-xxxxxx.xx> writes: > Though I am not asked: I do not use all the gear at the same time. I > pick two or three Instruments, put them on a keyboard stand and work > only with them. They stay there for a week or two, and then I use some > different gear. > > It is like having a cave full of wine: you don't nip from all the > bottles at the same time. You pick one and enjoy this one. This solves a lot of ergonomic problems. The problem with some of the 6-tier A-frame stands and floor-to-ceiling wallmount shelvings that have been discussed is that, although they certainly do give you a way to mount dozens of keyboards in a room, most of them are going to be in positions that will give you a lot of exercise reaching them, much less playing them. It is better to decide how many keyboards your studio has room to sit in front of comfortably, preferably never more than two tiers deep (since you're going to be standing up and sitting down a lot if you have more tiers than that), and put the rest in storage for another day, another project. In theory, Midi would allow you to remotely control the whole room from a knob surface or a computer editor. In practice, we all know how great the Midi facility was in some of the ancient 80's equipment we like to accumulate. Really, the only editor for a lot of it is the control panel of the actual synth. You're just going to have to figure out how many keyboards you can access comfortably in your room, and live with that. -- - Brent Busby + =============================================== + "The introduction of a new kind of music must -- Studio -- + be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for -- Amadeus/ -- + styles of music are never disturbed without -- Keycorner -- + without affecting the most important political -- Recording -- + institutions." --Plato, "Republic" ----------------+ ===============================================