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My Lekato WS-90s came without a user manual - has anyone got one they could scan/photograph and send to me? (I realise it'll probably say 1. plug in. 2. turn on. but I wouldn't mind seeing if there's anything else I should know!) Ta

Hard to know who the market is for it though. It's a fair whack more expensive than the import versions from his previous two endorsers and he's hardly a household name.

Quite expensive: £599! £250 more than the Streamliner Jet. Apart from the 32” scale and front humbucker, I don’t see a huge amount extra to justify the higher price. A little bit of contouring to the top is welcome but no belly cut. It looks like the same super cheap BBOT bridge and knock-off Gotoh tuners, which will probably need replacing quickly (at least there are plenty of drop in upgrades), adding to the cost of ownership. Always nice to have another “affordable” medium scale on the market, of course.

The first video wasn't - I think she uses the same pedal board for guitar and bass.

Indeed. It would be a shame to see such innovative and iconic instruments disappear like Vigier, Pedulla and others.

Following this post. I'm big fan of building synth sounds with pedals, also have IMA's HX Stomp synth packs (pretty awesome btw). I also own an EHX Microsynth and a C4 that I have used a lot in the past, alongside other pedals, in order to create landscapes and sounds, plus I own several synths too. So I am familiar with what you can achieve with a bass and pedals. I do like what the MXR Synth does, but I am not fully sold on it yet. I'm hoping for more videos to come out and to hear real world bass players talk about it, not the usual marketing videos that are currently flooding YouTube since its release this week. IMA's video is really good, he's a great educator when it comes to pedals and creating sounds. The tracking seemes like a great selling point, plus the preset option and no need to connect to a laptop to edit or enter submenus. And the size... perfect for a small board or as a one-stop shop on a bigger board if you need a few synth-like sounds at he gig. Looking forward to everyone's experiences with the pedal!

wowsers, that's the puppy! Off to do some research!

I see that Bass Direct have currently got a full carbon fibre Klos uke bass for sale - that should take some serious stamping on! 😆😆 (I do play Uke basses by the way, and have had a couple from BD themselves - lovely chaps all) 😎🤘

Me too! There's lots of decent old joannas you can get for virtually nowt - old Challens go for pennies if you're lucky and are decent. I've just looked up our Pfeiffer, looks like they're selling ones similar for over E10000! https://www.pfeiffer-pianos.com/en/used/pianos

If you've got 91 slices either your pattern is too long or you haven't correctly identified all the relevant slice points and removed the "ghost" ones. You need to play with the sensitivity slider until it detects all the slice starts that you need and then delete the ones that aren't required. Unless it's very busy, a typical 2-bar pattern should have around 16-24 slices, and none should be shorter than 1/16 note The ascending pattern is created with the intention that you also save each slice as an audio file. You then load these into a sampler (real or plug-in) each one to a note. When it plays the MIDI file it will replay the pattern but now you can change the tempo without changing the pitch. However if that's all you want to do, it is simpler to save the REX file and if you have a Mac and are running Logic convert it into an Apple Loop which will do the same thing automatically. If you want to use your own drum samples you'll need to identify what each slice does (which is why it's important to remove the ones you don't want) and the edit the MIDI file in your DAW moving each note to the correct pitch for the relevant drum sound and duplicating those that correspond to multiple drums that occur on the same beat. Alternatively you can save the MIDI pattern as a quantise template and then program your own drums and use this template to replicate the feel of the original rhythm. HTH

Seems this is coming in at under £1000. At that price, could be a solid seller after all?