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James (or possibly others),
Don't know if you have this information or are familiar with this side of the DP business, but wanted to ask nonetheless.

How much work is it for Kawai (or any keyboard manufacturer) to create a Librarian? I've run into the same thing with other keyboards as the poster who was complaining of the slow and tedious method of inputting a name. Considering the mind-boggling amount of time I spend on 'making a keyboard my own' (populating the User banks with edited versions of the Presets for example), this would at least make some of the super tedious work of pecking out a name and re-ordering User banks much easier.

In my case (Casio CT-X5000) they already have a utility that runs on PCs for transferring different file types to and from a USB stick, so they've already have some infrastructure in place. Like most people, I have no idea of how hard this might be to do. Just being able to use your laptop to change the names of your patches/recordings, and being able to re-order their place in whatever User area they are saved to on a board would be enormously helpful!

I suppose that creating a Librarian or Editor is an ongoing task, you'd have to update it sometimes depending on the OS of the computer. But is it really so hard to do, expensive, to create a basic Librarian? Seems like a slam dunk given the existing BT MIDI connection.

Thanks,
Randy

I'd usually only expect to normalise as part of a wider project. Feels like an easy win for an otherwise very low functionality app, given its practically unusable to name recordings.

On reflection, much more useful than changing a sound is.

This is the same track as before recorded with USB rather than line out. Just a USB stick and an iPad (iMovie).

Thanks for sharing. I hope the lockdown is going okay over there.

Interesting colour grade, by the way.

James
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So now it’s “colour grade”?

Whatever happened to good ol’ “color”? Is it passé to say ‘color’ in these #GenerationZ/millennial times?

I don't know why, but that white ES920 looks to me like a large bar of white chocolate.

It's a professional term. 🧐

Here is a graph of the use of the 2 variants of the word in the last 2 centuries:


It looks like today the "colour" variant is mostly used by British people.

Oh, I’m sorry for being so unprofessional.

That looks like a highly scientific graph; very professional, magicpiano.

You’ve earned yourself one Gold Star!

Ah, it was about the 'u'.

I'm so used to seeing either one form of "colour", "labour" and such that I didn't even pay any attentioun.

"Color grading" would be a professional term too, of course. 🧐

Ha, nice graph magicpiano. Yes, colour/color is one of many spelling differences introduced by Noah Webster, who simplified the English dictionary to create an American version. A lot of British folks still sneer about the American tweaks to the English dictionary. I'm probably in the minority of Brits that support the American version - we have plenty of historically weird words, with silent vowels and double letters - the simplification is an improvement to me.

Isn’t it weird how the ‘English’ suddenly lose their ‘accent’ when they sing?

Also, I can’t imagine John Lennon ever singing “Yellour Submarine”; that would just be weird.

Yes, yellour is a made up word, but to me, colour is no more real!

I don’t hear anyone out there still saying “dost thou hail from Yorkshire, where the men are men and the sheep are afraid” (except for Peterws, I guess); now it’s simply “where u at” or “you up”!

Some do, some don't.

And not just English, but e.g. Welsh and Scottish too. (We don't want to make them angry by calling them "English". 😨)

Americans might "lose their accent" too when singing.


http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/why-british-singers-lose-their-accent-when-singing/

For completeness, that graph was from this article.

Thanks for that link, clothearednincompo (ever think of shortening/simplifying your name a bit? My auto-correct threw in the towel).

Is it fair to ask a ‘Brit’ to simply ‘sing it to me’ when I have trouble understanding their spoken version of a conversation?

Sing it to me, James!

A short version would be C.E.N. or CEN.

Maybe I should just pick something completely different. (In the spirit of Monty Python?)

Would Gsus be too religious?

Or PestoAgitato if I really like Italian food and Beethoven?

Or the pivot length of the white keys on my piano? Too much room for misinterpretation?

What was this topic again? Ah, the Kawai ES920.

I still haven't bought it or played a one, so nothing to report.

The ES920 is not yet available here. December perhaps...?. I hope to get my hands and ears on one at the local Kawai dealer or Sam Ash in Jan/Feb and make a decision....or is that take a decision ;-)

“CEN” is nice and easy and catchy!

Let us know if you decide to go with ‘the pivot length of the white keys........’

If you don’t want to leave any room for misinterpretation (envy) go for an average -goldilocks- size!

Imagine there's no Pete14, it isn't hard to do.
No one to derail Kawai-specific threads, with off-topic nonsense.

(I'm still working on the second line)