New Roland LX!

Pete14 · 2023-05-15T12:36:47+00:00

Got you! But still, I’m wondering if a new LX is in the horizon; because the current has been out for five years. I owned the LX-17, and the thing I liked...

kawafanboi

piano is complex for a single human to master, so we AS humans hold it in high regard. Collective humanity does not value pianism with the same judgement as clearly other mechanistic goals have taken priority.

climate change is going to wipe us out in 5-10 years, so play while we still can.😗

Pete14

kawafanboi climate change is going to wipe us out in 5-10 years, so play while we still can.😗

Dear Professor,

It is not without hesitation that I dare disagree with thy expert opinion; however, if I may be allowed an observation:

My research indicates that humanity’s downward spiral will begin in about 10-15, rather than 5-10 years, and this will not be as the result of climate change, but rather as the result of AI absorbing, consuming, and/or outright destroying us, the people!

Yours truly,

Pete XIV

Pete14

I want something new from one of the big three, pronto!

I’ve had my beloved P-515 for over four years (a record), and for the last few months my GAS has returned with a vengeance. Recently, I had a GAS episode in an elevator headed towards the top floor; it was cleared within a few floors, the elevator, and I was forced to ride solo to the 100th floor. It’s really bad, you guys!

On the one hand I’m familiar with Yamaha and would not mind trying out the 785, but then, that instrument was due for an update last April, and I’m afraid on making a move now, and the next day, the CLP-885 is released.

I’ve owned a few Rolands; however, ever since the V-Piano I had a fallout with them on the basis of pricing (over-priced). I have to say I’ve been “curious” about the new offerings (GP6), but the LX would be more practical; however, I owned an LX-17, and whilst the action was okay, I was not happy with the sound nor the price.

The current LX has been out for five years, so my guess is that it’ll be upgraded soon, and it’ll include the new “touch-sensitive” screen (goes black when not in use). I also like the unibody design of the top LX model.

Kawai sucks! (I’m kidding, but I’ve decided to look elsewhere since the GF3, which I hate, but I guess some love).

kawafanboi

Pete14

humanity's spiral began around 10,000 years ago somewhere between there we started animal agriculture.

this delayed for the mean-time the natural ice-age which would've occured. We don't know if this is good or bad, but "maybe it's good"

for most of that 10K, we've achieved warming through tree cutting and burning, clearing land to graze/feed livestock. Deforestation was responsible for the vast majority of carbon emission and net warming. tree-falling continued to be the largest source of emission until around year 1978 where the fossil fuel use that only began in 1850 finally took over as the leading cause of emission.

https://skepticalscience.com/EmmissionsAcceleration.html

finally between 1970 and 2022, based on the largest index of wildlife 32000 species, composited by world wide scientists, we are down approximately 69% from just 1970. the earth ecology can not function without these animals, by 2030-2050, if it goes down further (proportional to economy), we will probably all be dead.😁

we don't know if it's already irreparable, but we should try the alternative.

https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

SouthPark

Pete's has chronic gas right now. Maybe if Roland makes an EX line, then we call all get our ROL-EX.

MacMacMac

@Pete14 …

So you might leave the old, trusty 515 and BUY a new Roland?

You said: "I’ve been CURIOUS about the new offerings."

So I guess that makes you "BUY CURIOUS"?

Pete14

I am “curious” about the new Roland, but still, my heart belongs to Yamaha!

Now, would I be up for a quickie-threesome between yours truly, Yamaha, and Roland? Maybe (so long as Kawai doesn’t show up to ruin the mood).😆

Pete14

You guys,

I just dusted my rusty, crystal balls🔮🔮!

My balls had been retired ever since I quit my clairvoyant ways, for it turned out that my clients only wanted a rosy view of the future, yet when my balls predicted an ominous one, some of them reacted angrily, and amongst other things, called me a witch 🧙, and sometimes even took it out on my crystal balls.

So hard, they kicked my balls, that one of them was cracked, and that’s when I had enough; I quit, and retired my broken balls.

But today I’ve decided to bring them balls out of the attic, and I tell you, despite one ball being cracked, the predictions seem exciting:

“A ‘grand’ occasion to take place at Kawai Japan,” read my balls!

“The keys, long; the sound celestial; the name Yamaha,” further read my crystal balls!

So far, only these two predictions seem of importance; the rest has to do with the upcoming famine, starvation, and the apocalypse, but who cares about that when a new-and-improved digital is around the corner!

P.S.

I’ll keep looking at my balls for further details/predictions!

Pete14

Not too long ago we started ‘the war on plastic,’ because, you know, plastic was ‘bad’, and if not annihilated promptly, it, plastic, would annihilate us, but then I saw a lecture by yet another world-wide scientist, and I wasn’t so sure. Still, I humbly believe that AI will get to us before climate change does, but I digress:

https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c

kawafanboi

Pete14

greater than 50% of ocean plastic is fishing nets. we are also seeing 90% depletion of most fisheries of target species, ontop of 90% depletion of non-target species.

plastics is 1 of the biggest concerns, as microplastics have been shown to cause endocrine disruption in the body (hormone regulation problems). this causes all sorts of issues from cancer to autoimmune disorders

the ocean is quite literally plastic soup at this point, because the fishing nets decay overtime and the microplastic bio-accumulates in fish eaten by people.

it's pretty clear climate change will end us well before AI, most of the forum members here seem to be from northern latitude, which is colder and seemingly stable, (only seemingly), if we look southward, around 10,000 Indian farmers commit suicide every year, because their land parcels can no longer be farmed.

and then the canadian wildfires of late, sky rocketing air purifier sales. 🙃

the biosphere can't function without a healthy ocean, the less optimistic scientists say we've gone beyond tipping point, but i am personally optimistic that if we manage to at least stop eating cows and fish, it'll buy us 20-50 years.

the main issue here is humans consider nature to be an externality, it's like your brain considering the rest of the body an external machine.

QuasiUnaFantasia

A fellow, who died so long ago that none of us can prove he actually existed, once said: *You have nothing to fear but fear itself" *. Than statement is a deep truth that we all could benefit from internalizing a bit better.

Actually, he died without saying it, because he put it differently, which no one today remembers. Moreover, he just took it from another fellow, who died long before that even, and he also didn't say exactly that, but something entirely different, which meant the same. That's about as thoreau as I'm going to get about it here.

kawafanboi

QuasiUnaFantasia

I don't think anyone actually fears climate change where we are, at least not yet.

the chinese have a saying if you don't see the coffin, there are no tears.

because most of us are comfortably "north", colder climate. our society and its inclinations will have a longer lag time to the reality of the burning house we're in.

again 69% of the animal population on the largest wildlife tracking index of 38000 species disappeared between 1970 and 2022. where do you suppose this is headed. 😗 business as usual locks in the certainty that this generation does not have a future.

SouthPark

QuasiUnaFantasia *You have nothing to fear but fear itself" *. Than statement is a deep truth

Yes indeed. 13000 feet or 4000 metres deep.

QuasiUnaFantasia

kawafanboi again 69% of the animal population on the largest wildlife tracking index of 38000 species disappeared between 1970 and 2022. where do you suppose this is headed.

Mass extinctions have happened quite a few times. By the end of the last ice age, almost all species on Earth had become extinct. What we have left now is almost nothing. Lesson of the story: nature has a habit of killing its own. Human beings are a blip on the grander scale.

CyberGene

Imagine those poor dinosaurs that did nothing wrong and got wiped by an asteroid.

I may have told that story many times already but 15 years ago I read that carrot juice is very beneficial for your health and so I started buying one each morning on the way to the office. The place was a typical hilarious Bulgarian oddity: a basement in a block building has its window on ground level and someone turned it into a store (usually tobacco, alcohol and stuff but also sandwiches, fresh juice, etc). You’re buying on the street only kneeling/squatting in front 😀 And so, I’d been buying that carrot juice every morning and one day while I’m squatting there, it was at the end of winter, so an enormously big and solid ice piece with the size of, say, a microwave oven drops from the five story building and smashes with a thunderous crash right besides me. Might’ve been just a centimeter off my head. The girl that prepared the fresh juice was so frightened she couldn’t speak for a minute. If I was just a tiny bit further on the right I could’ve been killed in an instant. Now, remember I went there to purchase carrot juice for my health, the irony, right 😉

SouthPark

CyberGene Now, remember I went there to purchase carrot juice for my health, the irony, right

Geez. That was close! That's literally and physically speaking. The authorities probably need to check what was going on at the top of that building. As somebody might not be so lucky next time.

The carrot juice probably is good for your health hahaha. But probably not that amazing night vision or super vision etc hehehe

kawafanboi

QuasiUnaFantasia

Attitudes like that only serve to kick the ball down the road, when the science is very clear that the situation we're in is entirely human caused. There is wide agreement that the mass extinction which we are IN THE TAIL END OF, is the "Anthropo-cene Extinction"

So it's either take responsibility now, or assume our kids will fix it, which they probably won't, as most of them will die in the coming famine/plague/heatwave/war.

We're operating at the limits of empathy, as a component of intellect. You're only so smart, and so you can only care so much about so many people. You feed your kids, then bugger off to some form of entertainment which the perpetuates denial of the burning house we're all in. 😆

QuasiUnaFantasia

kawafanboi We are indeed in troubling times, but the real concern is not man's relationship with nature, it is man's relationship with man. However, the way things have been developing over the past several years, it should all come to a head within the next 10 years. After that everything will be different.

And nature won't even notice any of that, because it will all be too inconsequential for it.

kawafanboi

QuasiUnaFantasia And nature won't even notice any of that, because it will all be too inconsequential for it.

same as above, seeing nature and man as separate with diverging goals is inaccurate.

we want the same thing, we exist as components of one another, but SOME OF US are not at the intellectual capacity to see the bigger picture and operate on the long term goals.

CyberGene

The first known mass extinction event was actually caused by global warming:

Ordovician–Silurian extinction events (End Ordovician or O–S): 445–444 Ma, just prior to and at the Ordovician–Silurian transition. Two events occurred that killed off 27% of all families, 57% of all genera and 85% of all species.[6] Together they are ranked by many scientists as the second-largest of the five major extinctions in Earth's history in terms of percentage of genera that became extinct. In May 2020, studies suggested that the causes of the mass extinction were global warming, related to volcanism, and anoxia, and not, as considered earlier, cooling and glaciation.

So, Mother Nature already killed most of its inhabitants through global warming once.

kawafanboi

CyberGene So, Mother Nature already killed most of its inhabitants through global warming once.

I don't know that it's accurate to frame it that way, as it -Ignores- the agency that WE DO HAVE, as humans, a relevant component of -Nature-.

QuasiUnaFantasia

kawafanboi SOME OF US are not at the intellectual capacity to see the bigger picture and operate on the long term goals.

One beings long term goals is another beings here-and-now. There is no such things as objective long term goals. A human being thinking only about the next 100 years, completely fails in comprehending the next 1000 years. One who thinks 1000 years ahead will be clueless about the following 10000 years, etc.

Every single being in existence tries to have a good life, and there are an unfathomable number of such beings. The way this universe is constructed, one beings death is another beings life.

There is no objectively right solution to existence in this world; every being fends for itself to the best of its abilities (which includes its ability to cooperate with other beings).

Case in point: the way Yahama, Kawai, and Roland cooperate to annoy digital piano customers of the world. [See what I did there? 😉}

CyberGene

Even if we somehow manage to fully eradicate ourselves, what's the big issue with that? We'll certainly reappear again, maybe in a different form. That's how the Big Plan works. Some prefer to call it God, some call it Nature, other call it Chaos, etc. I think attributing too much to human, namely being part of that "plan" is a bit too exaggerated, don't you think? 😉 We're a consequence, not a reason/cause.

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