Awesome UD - hope you find time. I always like your work

Among the many things I've learned from Dave, Donny and Fran over the years is to utilize every tool at your disposal to entertain your audiences. I strictly adhere to this rule, and it has paid off with more jobs than I can handle. I guess I've said this a zillion times, but it bears repeating--this is the entertainment business and that's why we get paid to do what we do.

One of the neat things I recently discovered about a friends S-900 was the ability to record vocal backing tracks. What an incredible feature. You can record the vocal harmony track for a song such as "In The Still Of The Night" by the Five Satins, record the midi file, then provide the lead vocals and lead instrumentals live--WOW! And, it can all be saved on the USB drive in a registration. How things have progressed.

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

Wow!! What a simple, but brilliant idea!! It's definitely one of those "damn,why didn't I think of that earlier!!!"....I have been toying with the idea of recording my midis to mp3's, but the only thing that stopped me was not getting the harmoniser working as there would be no midi file data to drive it..turn down the lead and then record...wonderful..
thanks dave ....mucho!!
cheers
dennis

PS: and with the sd1+ having a seperate vocal out (which includes harmoniser but no effects) I can then use some of my really excellent plug-in effects in Sonar for harmony vocal...




[This message has been edited by miden (edited 10-21-2007).]

Because I rarely, if ever, do vocals, this very cool feature of the S900 was missed altogether by me.

Works very slick and all easily done right on the keyboard.

Thanks for pointing it out, Gary.

Ian

Glad to be of help ! In my world, it's always been about the vocals. Not many people in my audience can play an instrument, but they ALL think they can sing. Words bring the message to the listener!

You did say, "NO opinions...no conjecture"


Ian

Sorry about the editing...I accidentally erased.




[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 10-21-2007).]

Gary you were my best student......

I'm glad I was a part of your success of the KING OF BALTIMORE!!!

Ooops ! Damn...this IS hard. You're right...let me rephrase:

"I don't suppose that many in my audience are trained instrumentalists, but judging from the ammount of requests for Karaoke, there seems to be a greated number of those who would sing, if asked."

Whew...... that sounds like a crock !

Anyway ... it's teh details of the instruments that I was talking about when I asked for 100% fact. I wanted to avoid things like:
"better" drums
"poor" build quality
"sweeter" sounds etc ......

Sigh...

Yes, it is very hard to remain opinion free, isn't it?

You're a little closer, but still suppositional...hard habit to break, ain't it?

Sigh...nice try.

I agree there should be no "mine is better than yours".


Ian

There are several songs on the PSR Tutorial forum that have been recorded with the Yamaha harmonizer. They are truly amazing.
Here's a link to one of them. http://www.box.net/shared/sk7y804q2v
DonM