Anyone here plays the piano? Or synths.

[indecizo]

I don't recall people posting piano or keyboard covers and stuff on this forum so I guess it's a good idea making a piano thread.

I wonder how many here do, maybe post clips or ideas in this thread.

 

[Adoney]

I do! Though generally people aren't very impressed with keyboards so I usually just do guitar/vocal stuff. I also have a hard time recording MIDI cause it never feels right for some reason... So I usually just go audio out of my korg M50

In this (original) song I play a few keyboard parts. I recorded them at the same time with video and made a little play through just for fun.

Cover of a symphony x tune where I did everything.. I played all the keys live here, too. I also had to program the drums which was a HUGE pain in the ass and I will never put myself through that again.
https://soundcloud.com/adonfanion/adons-symphony-x-prometheus

 

[indecizo]

That's amazing, how long have you been playing? I guess that the midi feel is because of some added latency?

I'm kinda embarrased of posting a clip because I just tested the sounds of my yamaha s500 through my pc speakers and they are god awful and I haven't looked cool sounding vsts.

 

[Adoney]

Thanks!
I don't know. I picked up keys in middle school but never learned to read music.
Sonar X1 (the daw I use) comes with dimension pro which has some pretty neat synths actually.

 

[Nebulous]

Adon is apparently a gun. Everyone should check out his work with Ghost Ship Octavius to see how good his vocals are, on top of his bass, keys and guitar playing haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0p39JSBrTA

 

[vespiz]

Yeah... :danceboy:

 

[JamieK]

I'm hoping to learn, actually. Just this morning bought a 61key keyboard controller off ebay. Been wanting to get one for years, but i've been putting it off to buy more essential things, but I finally got round to getting one. I'm hoping it will help me with composing in a different way to how I usually go about it. Also, no more painstaking writing in MIDI by mouse/computer keyboard, I'll be able to just play it on the keyboard controller, saving time, and resulting in a more natural 'played live' feel (once I've practiced a bit).

 

[Adoney]

@Nebulous: Thank you haha

@vespiz: I just shat myself...

 

[indecizo]

Yeah... :danceboy:

 

[Ben Johnson]

Here's a video from a few years ago. My chops aren't quite up to that level these days, and unfortunately I don't have a lot of time [motivation] to get them back lately.