Day: March 18, 2020

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2020-03-18 A Month Flows By

I’ve been busy working on Scott Joplin‘s “The Entertainer” full Rookie Song. But I did take a brief detour to do the Playground Sessions Facebook Social Media Challenge #QuincyChallenge to celebrate Quincy Jones‘ 87th Birthday. Just a snippet of “My Way.” Since these WordPress pages aren’t really suited to video media, I decided not to post it here.

I do want to put up a small montage of shots in response to a ‘Creative Sauce‘ YouTube video where he reviewed a BenQ LED lamp. I have an LED lamp on my DAW workstation by LE Power, so I took some shots and expanded the grouping to get the Yamaha P-515 digital piano too.

This is my music workstation setup. The LED Lamp allows me to illuminate the MX-49 keyboard. Multiple shots show Cakewalk by BandLab running, the Mixer and digital recorder are on the left side of the workstation. A TINY Intel NUC computer runs the setup. Finally, my White Yamaha P-515W has audio output to the Mixer, so I can record that too. It is not connected by MIDI, but I do have a Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) so I can record and playback MIDI to it, too.

I did add a Yamaha FC-3A pedal to the Yamaha P-515W to allow pitch bends as necessary, which is more useful for Guitar and Synth voices than piano, but worth having.