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One from a poster... "Japanese cover of an American band's song about Africa, played on traditional Japanese and Trinidadian instruments... what a time to be alive!"

Absolutely.... It doesn't have to be limited to just the Drummer either. Trading fours and picking out, or picking up on the previous players four bar phrases (on the fly), requires good ear skills. Mind you, I have seen and heard some spectacular train crashes because of people getting lost, or coming in on three......

Yes, seems it was in his dream. The story is up on Wiki. “After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by "Mexican horns". Cash stated, "I'll give you about five or six more months, and if you don't hit with it, I'm gonna record it the way I feel it."[citation needed] Cash noted that adding trumpets was a change to his basic sound.[8] When the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream. This sound was later used in the song "It Ain't Me Babe", which was recorded around the same time. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters are prominently featured in the Cash recording singing harmony. Cash tinkered with a few of the original phrases in Anita Carter's version of the song.”

I think you are making it sound harder than what is, Scalpy. It’s actually very structured and disciplined. The arranger, Peter Newberry transcribed it down to a tee. His scrolling score is below. GM midi sounds, but the notes and time signatures are all there.

Although it has a double time feel, it’s in 4/4 with some 2/4 bars. Those Mariachi Brass licks are just a two bar phrase of 3/4 and 4/4. I think it might be the 3/4 bar that throws people off-kilter.

The ‘Bonechat forum is an easy going board. You just slide in and out as you please.

https://www.keyboardforums.com/ http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1/The_Keyboard_Corner

“Revelation”, well spotted. 👍 The quality is not good, but a great performance with 'The Yellowjackets and Take 6'.

Yeah, I agree.

^^^ What part ? I think the chorus sections work great and the voices sit well together.

Yeah, those early YJ albums had some lovely, groove playing on them. Harmonically, the tunes were interesting & very rich sounding. BB5, I know you are into Piano playing as well, check out this short Russell Ferrante video on stacking/poly chords. It gives you an idea how they got those themes and chord structures.

It was posted some time back. IIRC, it turned into a Bun fight over the possible use of FX on the vocals.....

What about a night out at Ronnie Scott's ? Listening to the "The Chick Corea Akoustic Band with John Patitucci and Dave Weckl" https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/4707-the-chick-corea-akoustic-band-with-john-patitucci-and-dave-weckl

But they did have a Guitarist on stage, and what iconic Steve Lukather solo? *

“Bass player’s face says it all I think”. I think he was preparing himself for his own, comical, Bass drivel routine at 04:20 onwards.

Blimey, a great tune up in smoke.... Not sure what to make of that, is it really him ?

48kHz was/is standard if using video/film for two channel stereo recording. A decent read here. https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/7999/should-audio-for-video-be-recorded-at-high-sample-rates

Yeah, of course.. But these days everything seems to be USB. I think there are more dongles, extra midi controllers & Pads, external hard drives for audio, and the big bespoke sample library hard drives (all fighting for ports). I have eight, seven of them are being used. I suppose the whole thing is never ending...

I think the main reason folks still use midi 5 pin din (apart from controllers that are not USB), is that you only need to use one USB socket on the puter for the interface. The USB interface then takes care of the Audio and midi.

As far as I know, the 2i2 doesn't have midi I/O. I think the 2i4 does though. So you would be relying on USB to USB from the controller.

5 pin din (midi) lead from a controller into a (decent) Interface, then out from the Interface into a PC via USB works absolutely fine with no latency issues. (I use a Steinberg UR22mkII for the above way) I think it's the USB out from a keyboard into the PC via USB that might cause a few problems latency wise reported by some. But, I have a second USB to USB controller, just for single lines and controlling cc#'s etc, and I don't seem to have any latency problems. Maybe any problems are down to interfaces? With such high specs these days, I thought latency wasn't really a major issue anymore?