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Post by jpvideo on Jul 28, 2007 23:25:57 GMT
I use both hands when I play the keyboard; to take one off the keys and hold it on that little pad and keep holding it ... seems like a real waste of fingers ... (even if I'm triggering a bunch of buttons simultaneously, which seems like the only way to justify the expenditure of digits ... ) It's a synthesizer not a piano brother. Using your left (or right) hand to manipulate the controllers while you play is what it's all about. However, I do understand that there is a way to 'latch' the buttons on the performance panel if need be. I guess you never used a Mini-Moog or Arp Odyssey (pure analog). Contouring the filter Q into a screeching angry rage or softening the envelope by slowing down the attack into a sensual 'fluffy' sonority. So smooth...ohhhhhhhh nice, soft and sweet solo. There is a lot more than just pitch bend and vibrato. Boy, those sure were the 'daze'... |
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Post by diametro on Jul 29, 2007 0:32:52 GMT
Pressing a button – and having to holding it down to work – is not tweaking ... not interesting ... not necessary ... and not worth the effort for a static effect ...
I'm glad y'all like the way it works ... I don't ... C'est la vie ...
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Post by gwenhwyfaer on Jul 29, 2007 10:33:00 GMT
Again - maybe not to you.
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Post by duaneodonnell on Jul 29, 2007 15:28:57 GMT
I'm glad this discussion came up, as I wasn't aware of what the four buttons could do.
No synth is perfect. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln once said that you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. This is the current situation with the Fusion.
Since getting my first electronic keyboard in 1964 (Wurlitzer 140 EP), more than 50 keyboards have passed through my ownership, and some of them were great, some were alright, some were headaches, and some were truly POS. None of them were perfect. If you haven't lived through the experience of having a reed or tine break during a performance, or having some drunk spill his glass of booze onto and into your keyboard, and being crippled for the evening, you've missed a part of history.
I really like the Fusion. It moves me in a way that only a few keyboards have. The first time I heard a MiniMoog in 1971, at a bowling alley, and saw/heard what the mod wheel and pitch bend were capable of, I was blown away. No other keyboard before was that expressive.
Buttons and wheels are where it's at. Velocity and aftertouch only go so far.
Either you get" the concept of buttons and wheels, or you don't. It has to do with each individuals performance style. Diametro doesn't get it. Many people don't get it, and never will. Enlightenment is not necessarily for the masses.
Obviously, we are at the point where we agree to disagree.
But it's been an excellent thread, imparting a great deal of knowledge about our avatar.
Duane O'Donnell
Sacramento, CA
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Post by guydenruyter on Jul 29, 2007 15:58:57 GMT
Let's not be offensive against diametro, he made good contributions earlier - he also just pointed out that for HIM it's not useful but that this is not really a bother.
What about a T-button-contest? Create some weird synth patches (ab)using the T- and S-buttons?
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Post by diametro on Jul 29, 2007 16:12:13 GMT
Exactly ... It's situations like this that raise awareness of issues and encourage solutions and useful workarouns ... .... meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy working in my newly revamped "studio" today ...  Happy music making, Fusers! |
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Post by twwphilippi on Jul 29, 2007 17:06:52 GMT
Alesis latches the T buttons for their own use.
Go to the Mixer mode (actually a submode of Mix or Song). The Enable/Disable function for a track is a latched T button.
Opening up a Latching function for us Little People would be an easy and useful boon. And not just for T buttons, either. There are times, especially when playing a Hammond organ, that the ability to latch (or flip-flop) the second Foot Switch would be a nice way to alternate between fast and slow rotating speaker.
My late, lamented SQ2 also allowed the use of aftertouch to toggle Leslie speed. Perhaps the ideal general solution would be a flip-flop function, inserted in a modulation route (like a table).
-Tom Williams
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Post by guydenruyter on Jul 29, 2007 20:25:02 GMT
Many of the Electronica presets do something with the T-buttons as well.
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Post by jpvideo on Jul 30, 2007 20:02:37 GMT
WOW DIAMETRO! What a great picture and set-up. A true 21st century keyboard studio. Is that you in the picture?
I use Roland amp's (2-Roland 550's). Ass kicking! Although, I have never heard of that brand that you use. They look similar. Were they made in Warsaw after the Solidarity movement?
I know that the Fusion manual is sucky. Therefore, the performance panel is for us to decipher.
Just be careful. Don't go near those 4 buttons!
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Post by diametro on Jul 31, 2007 4:42:04 GMT
 Greetings, Bob. |
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Post by mozape on Aug 1, 2007 6:55:42 GMT
A) The glass is half empty. B) The glass is half full. C) The glass is twice as large as it needs to be. Hopefully with Guinness! ;D   |
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Post by derekf on Aug 9, 2007 9:02:06 GMT
We have both options on the Fusion, the T and S buttons - gives you plenty of possibilities. What I don't understand is why you can't specify just any midi controller as a mod source, that would allow us to use external controllers and hence control much more parameters in real time. Being an ex-software-designer, I can't think of any (technical) reason why Alesis forgot this. Does this mean you can't control or access fusion sounds from a wind controller Derek |
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Post by guydenruyter on Aug 9, 2007 9:30:38 GMT
No, it doesn't mean that. Wind controllers are no problem on the Fusion.
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Post by jokeyman123 on Jun 12, 2021 10:08:15 GMT
I'm reviving these old threads-I'm reviving the Fusion-took awhile but then I'm a little slow. For Diametro-if he's still around-just use your nose to push the T-buttons-that way both hands can stay on the piano keys. Don't laugh-I had a friend who used to try to steer his car with his nose....but then a car is alot simpler than a Fusion. Funny how in 2021, so much hasn't changed. Except some of the best musical instruments that were considered obsolete-are now extraordinarily costly "vintage" "collectibles"......and how there is a sudden (well not so sudden Dave Smith's been doing it with Sequential for a long time)resurgence in instruments that are duplicating the "obsolete" ones. look at this...long live the Fusion. Numark-pay attention. www.musicradar.com/news/focusrite-buys-sequential-taking-ownership-of-dave-smiths-analogue-synths |
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