{"id":6,"date":"2015-07-15T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-07-15T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:36:32","slug":"toys-for-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Toys for boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once in while men tend to revisit their old hobbies. Women may validate this as a midlife crisis, I simply categorize it as getting back time lost while pretending to be a grown up \ud83d\ude09 Tomatoes, tomatoes, who cares anyway?<\/p>\n

About 25 years back I bought my first (and up till now my only) synthesizer: The Roland D70.
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Really nice synthesizer, I still love the sound of it but it had been gathering dust for a while and as I wanted to see how much technology had advanced in the meantime, I checked out what is currently available. As usual, things are not as easy as it seems. At first, I had a preference for either the FA-60 or FA-80 but after some very sound advise from the shop where I bought my D70 (Spanjaard<\/a> in Alkmaar), I finally decided on a separate keyboard controller\/synthesizer combo: The A800 Pro controller and Integra-7.<\/p>\n

\"integra-7_angle_gal\"<\/a> \"A800+Pro_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In one word: Awesome! 6000 sounds, extra sounds can be loaded into virtual banks, 16 voices and each voice can have each own effect, motion surround, etc…<\/p>\n

My current setup is the A800 Pro connect through Midi to the Integra-7 and the Integra-7 hooked up through USB to my Mac (running Logic Pro). I had some initial issues with the A800 Pro not sending data through Midi out but it turned out the device is a bit too intelligent: If you use USB to power it, it expects to send the Midi data through USB as well. In other words: You’ll need to purchase the external power supply which is not included.<\/p>\n

The Roland D70 has been completely cleaned and repaired (broken backlight) and is now being used by my niece. I already advised her to be careful with an instrument older than her \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once in while men tend to revisit their old hobbies. Women may validate this as a midlife crisis, I simply categorize it as getting back time lost while pretending to be a grown up \ud83d\ude09 Tomatoes, tomatoes, who cares anyway? About 25 years back I bought my first (and up till now my only) synthesizer: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}