Sunday Synth Jam: Jazz pianist Erika Oba performs George Gershwin’s Summertime, using a Keith McMillen Instruments QuNexus controller.
The KMI QuNexus is controlling an electric piano in Ableton Live 9. Key pressure is mapped to reverb (wet/dry).
Sunday Synth Jam: Jazz pianist Erika Oba performs George Gershwin’s Summertime, using a Keith McMillen Instruments QuNexus controller.
The KMI QuNexus is controlling an electric piano in Ableton Live 9. Key pressure is mapped to reverb (wet/dry).
She’s great!
A piano… for ants?
Hahhaahah excellent!
That sort of thinking is why synth keyboards are stuck in the past – everybody seems to want cheap synths with cheesy keyboards, instead of something more powerful and innovative.
Erika’s playing really drew out a lot of what the instrument will do. Classy rendition. I have a small crush on the darned thing and its so small, I could barely hope to approach it effectively. From pinkie-tip to thumb-tip, I can reach 9 inches. The QuNexus is about a foot long. Many music goodies are easy for Japanese schoolgirls to play, but miniaturization shuts me out of using a lot of it. If there was a 4-octave model with closer-to-traditional key sizes, I’d be on it, because it suits the nature of my SYNTH playing lately. When a new tool pulls your thinking further down the line musically, that’s a winner.
I’m not sure. Is this the musical equivalent of txt speak instead of grammar, punctuation and eloquence?
I kind of agree. I love my Qunexus, but I have yet to see anybody (myself included) really make the pressure/tilt controls “speak” the way I imagine they could.