{"id":378,"date":"2003-02-17T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2003-02-17T23:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:20:39","slug":"patch-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/patch-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch = Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doodling on one of the Piano patches on the Roland Fantom. It&#8217;s called &#8220;PR-A 002: Contemplative&#8221; and it is very expressive, particularly now I&#8217;ve hooked up the sustain pedal. My sustain pedal is a big clunky metal thing, with a feel that is very like a real piano damper pedal, and I&#8217;ve found that inspiration isn&#8217;t far away. Usually I just set SONAR up to record the MIDI notes and then just improvise away for 10 minutes at a time, working on chord sequences and practicing left-hand phrases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s true what they said: Practice helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doodling on one of the Piano patches on the Roland Fantom. It&#8217;s called &#8220;PR-A 002: Contemplative&#8221; and it is very expressive, particularly now I&#8217;ve hooked up the sustain pedal. My sustain pedal is a big clunky metal thing, with a feel that is very like a real piano damper pedal, and I&#8217;ve found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}