TapperMike

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The best I can explain it as. The string vibrates on either side of the node when one taps it is less noticable on the lower notes of the string because there is less of a soundboard (fretboard) to accomodate the vibration. It's also less noticable when there is less force exerted on the node itself. Adapting to any technique means leaving something of a previous technique behind. Just like if you are a finger picker and one day you decide you want to master alternate flat picking. You gain the speed of alternate picking single notes but lose the versatility of fingerpicking. Even if you "hybird" flat pick and fingerpick there are certain methods that can't be attained with flatpick in hand that a classical fingerstyle guitarists would have.

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pc or mac required. I go both ways on recording or "hosting" sounds on a computer. You don't have to record from a computer to play from a computer. That's what I do I play sounds from the computer without recording them. If I want to record I've got a nice recording setup separate. Some people say I'm being quirky or old fashioned. Most of the people I know these days work with computer based sounds. And If you think about it a "workstation keyboad" is actually a computer just a highly specialized one that can't do everything a computer can do but what it does do it does well. A few years back I owned a serious workstation Everything but the keys. Oneday I spilled coffee on it and it was gone for good. Now I own the software version of it from the same company. The software version is free. The sounds are exacly the same as the hardware version.

Most portable varieties only allow for two channel simultaneous recording. BR from Roland, Tascam DP MR-8 Mk etc The only one in that price range which allows for more then two channels at once recording is the Zoom R16 http://www.samsontech.com/zoom/products/multi-track-recorders/r16/

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About the microstation. Please do yourself a favor and test it in a store. Between the smaller sized keys and action you may not be happy with it. Key size and action are very personal things. Sure you can always rig another keyboard with midi out to the midi in. But you can also adapt to the keys themselves. Personally I like smaller keys and a light action. I'm not most people I never took piano lessons and I haven't touched a traditional piano in over 25 years now.

CC stands for continuous controllers. or Continuous control OR control change. Even Manufactuer's disagree with the actual name All midi whether it be synth or rompler have cc to some capacity. The simple stuff is just volume and sustain controls Also bends and a million other things. http://www.tweakheadz.com/midi_controllers.htm Types of CC varies with the type of rompler or synth With cc's you can vary the sounds during performance or if you simply want to fine tune a sound for personal taste.. Many midi controllers have knobs and faders that can be assigned to cc's. With Computers you can use "midi learn" to assign a cc to a specific controller on your keyboard. Here is a youtube video for session strings where they use the CC's to affect the character of the sound.

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Yes, Yamaha Tyro's Roland Virtual Arranger and many other vendors supply expansion sounds for loading. Though I'm not fond of roland as it has very limited expansion sets and one can't buy sounds / patches, etc from third parties. One word about Kurzweil. It's Andrew Lloyd Weber's instrument of choice for all his theatrical productions. He can't supply a full orchestra for his musicals. In the past he used the k series from kurzweil today he uses the pc3k version The super orchestral stuff that is add on is mostly for computers not keyboards. Die hard classicalists prefer a very unprocessed sound with is ungodly dry and boring to work with for me. VSL and Miroslav are the big names in dry sounds that you have to spend hours and hours setting up so it sounds right. Hans Zimmer uses his own crafted samples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer As well as VSL, Atmosphere and Omnisphere The next is GPO , Garritan is considered the working mans orchestra. It's slightly processed and you have to work the heck out of it to get a good classical sound but it works. The others worth noting are EWQL and Naitive Instruments, I've always found EWQL bulky the file sizes are huge and hard to work with and yet they have some amazing specialty libraries most notably Hollywood Brass and Hollywood Strings, Again these are work to setup up right and sound right. You really have to know your way around midi. Finally the native instruments Kontact libraries Session Strings Pro. This has to be the smartest and best sounding string library I've ever heard. It is highly processed and the cc's make it all the much more realistic.

Hi's Of all the freeware I've tried one still reigns supreme. Proteus VX The catch is if you are using Vista or Windows 7 you must install the program using right click, run as administrator and then open the program using right click, run as administrator. Which kind of makes it a pain to use in daw's But still for the sheer volume of sounds and quailty of them it's hard to beat .http://www.creative.com/emu/proteusvx/

In that instance it wouldn't be required. However true touch guitarists especially those who play with more then 6 strings are usually occupying their fingers elsewhere. Not using some type of a mute limits possiblilites for playing more then using one.

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When it's all tapping both hands not just the left are involved in the tapping action. Lets for example say that you are only using your left hand (and you are a right hand guitarist( to tap. Because advanced tapping means you can tap any note with any finger on either hand. So if your ring finger of your left hand is serving as a mute/support and then you try to tap with your pinky you are not going to get note resonance/attach. Sure you have effectively muted the "back string resonance but It's simply not going to be loud enough to ring clear

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No, It is impossible to tap an open note. What happens when a note is tapped but not muted by fingers behind the "point of tap" is that the string vibrates in both directions. From the finger to the nut and from the finger to the bridge. Thats two notes though not really a good harmony at once from one string.

The video only demonstrates "some" of the piano's offered in the unit. It also produces a wide range of other musical sounds. I did not find the piano sounds "unnatural" In regards to synthesis techology there is no universal synth nor does programming come easy to most folks. Sample libraries can only come so far in emulating synths. However sampling a synth is not the same as generating a softsynth. Softsynths offer a greater variety of tonality then for instance an roland jupiter. And when you get bored with one you don't have to hide it in your closet or resell it for a fraction of what you paid then find yourself wanting it again. The big league pro's who used to perform with analog synths now all tour with muse research receptor. In short it's a computer (linux) that is designed for one thing (playing sounds) It's rugged, reliable and expensive.

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There is no rule that says you can't do both. Either your heart is into something or it's not. If your hearts there the rest will find a way.

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It's not the same. If you dampend at the brigde then the note point you want to resonate would be muted. You want to mute the string between the fretting finger and the nut. The string damper affects the string vibration between the frettet note and the damper. If you are picking you don't notice it as you are using one hand in a different location to initiate the note. When you are a "touch guitarist" You use the "under hand" to both inistiate the note and define it's note value. Try this with an electric guitar, Tap the note at the 15th fret and dont touch the fretboard with your other hand. Let the note ring out. You'll get vibration from the string on both sides of that note. Now if you mute with one hand behind the tapped note you won't hear that secondary vibration. In regards to slides on keyboards. Not really what you have from the older days is gliss and portamento gliss is just dragging your finger acrosse the keybard. when this is done you have remnants of the previous note it's not a smooth slide. With portamento you can only play one note at a time. With a bend control on a keybard all the notes bend like a whammy bar. And with the newer keyboards for a bend to work 1 it must be the highest note on the keybard, 2 you have to use much more force then the other notes to initiate. The most commong guitar bend is oblique. Play two notes next to each other harmonically and bend the lower to the upper. Like Chuck Berry. That type of bending still isn't possible on keybards because they can only recognize one instance of the note per channel. You'd have to do a different channel for every note inorder to make that happen. Midi only has 16 channels. and bends are local (channel only) Now as an alternative on a ztar you could assign each "string" it's own channel and then assign each of the four way joystick directions to do a bend for four of the strings. Which would leave you two strings shy of bending on all six strings. If you have other cc controllers on the ztar you could assign them for the other two "strings" I know I've done it. It's still less then ideal.

A Sampler is something that can sample sounds. A rompler is something with sampled sounds. The sound is stored in rom on a "workstartion" keyboard. What that means is when the keyboard is on the sounds load very fast. The sound library (soft synth for computers) or rompler has a very sophisicated means of taking multiple sounds and organizing them in layers. Lets take a natural piano. If you hit the key very hard it will produce a "compressed" loud sound.. It's not only the volume that is affected by how hard you hit the key. If they only sampled the sound for one level of attack it would sound boring and unnatural. With a rompler you'll have several samples of the same tone recorded and when you hit the key soft or loud you'll get a more natural sound because the workstation will react you your playing force or technique and select the recording sample that best reflects it. The best of the best in rompler / workstations (in my opinion) is the Kurzweil PCX3 any version (they have a few pcx3 types) It's not just the file size of the sounds but how they use them in layers and apply physical modeling. But every step from recording to sampling then layering affects the final sound. Honestly I'll never be able to afford one but the video below will show what a quality rompler is capable of [media=]

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Because you can't bend strings or slide strings on a piano for two of several other reasons. If you notice the very begining where they have the nut and headstock there is a strip of felt as a damper where the first fret would be.