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#153436 - 10/21/07 07:16 AM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Awesome UD - hope you find time. I always like your work
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#153437 - 10/21/07 02:36 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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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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#153438 - 10/21/07 03:31 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Registered: 01/31/06
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Originally posted by Uncle Dave:
My simple method is to use the arranger with the piano part muted and I sing harmonies with the lead voice turned way down or off ...depending on the effect I want.


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).]

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#153439 - 10/21/07 03:32 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Registered: 07/27/05
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Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
Quote:
Originally posted by travlin'easy:
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



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.

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#153440 - 10/21/07 05:03 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Originally posted by miden:
Wow!!thanks dave ...


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!
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#153441 - 10/21/07 05:27 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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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).]
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#153442 - 10/21/07 08:17 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Registered: 09/21/00
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Originally posted by travlin'easy:
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.

Gary



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

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

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#153443 - 10/21/07 09:45 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Registered: 12/01/99
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Loc: Penn Yan, NY
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Originally posted by ianmcnll:
You did say, "NO opinions...no conjecture"


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...
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#153444 - 10/21/07 10:32 PM Re: After working with teenagers....
ianmcnll Offline
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Registered: 07/27/05
Posts: 10606
Loc: Cape Breton Island, Canada
Quote:
Originally posted by Uncle Dave:
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
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#153445 - 10/22/07 07:43 AM Re: After working with teenagers....
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Registered: 06/25/99
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Loc: Benton, LA, USA
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
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