Ready for what? And some tech talk

Ready to listen. In all the ways that can mean.

Ready or Not

A few days ago, I released a new piano improvisation single. You may listen to it wherever you like. Or click the play button below.

As you see, the title of this piece is “U Better B Read E”. Obviously, this is a play on words about being ready. In these times, we must be ready to protect the people we love and even help the stranger in need. There are so many who need this protection with the greedy, hate-mongers in power.

And Now the Geeky Stuff

The piano in our dining room is a Kawai. In addition to being a wonderful digital piano, it also has some great technical features.

One of those features is an app that loads on my phone or pad called PianoRemote. And now, you can begin to imagine what it does. There’s a bluetooth connection between the piano and the app that allows for many kinds of tweaking.

While the ability to tweak the sound of the piano is interesting, there’s another feature that has served me well.

Ready to Transfer

On the Kawai digital piano, I play the improvisation while “recording” it into PianoRemote. Just press the record button and improvise. Stop the recording when I’m done and it prompts me to name the piece.

There are several things I can do with the saved pieces. All I have to do is select the triple-dot menu. From there, I can play them back on the digital piano (which is pretty magical); save them to cloud storage (DropBox, etc.); or transfer them to the computer where my DAW recording studio lives.

These saves or transfers of the improvisation are in MIDI format, so they are quite small. Once I load these into my DAW, it’s just a few hours of work to get them ready for release. How fun is that?

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