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Yes. I asked a while back and he said no, but I notice that the it is an option on the guitar to have whatever headstock shape you like so maybe he’s budged on this now.

Yes, I was also in contact with Rob about his version and was considering that too. What swayed me were a few things: IR is much longer established and further down the road with development. Steve Chick invented this technology. IR now have P and PJ models and a PJ is the best fit for the normal bass sounds I use. I’ve also had chance to play an IR bass so know the quality is good. There isn’t any way to try an ROR bass before buying. I quite like the fact it’ll look like a normal bass. I really didn’t like the headstock of the ROR one. However it definitely had some things going for it such as the ability to plug and play and the joystick and pitch shift buttons on the body. If I’m feeling super-flush, I might buy an ROR one too.

Exactly the point of the post: that phrase was a reference to an earlier comment from someone else - read a couple of pages back and you’ll see that @yorks5stringer was actually rebuffing another poster for using that phrase. I believe this post is more meant along the lines of “how on earth can you accuse her of being a ‘gold digging tart’ after reading this article?”.

Ah, I see.

Band in a box (which is over 15 years old) had modules which would comp or solo in the style of various players and it was very authentic. It was only let down by the poor MIDI sounds on my machine at the time but would sound great with the great physical modelling stuff available nowadays.

I don’t follow.

That does seem daft. I hope it gets resolved.

23 days later and this still hasn’t been resolved!

I bought a lovely Lakland 44-60 from Simon today and it couldn’t have gone smoother. I’d committed to buy it a couple of weeks ago and he’d kindly held on to it for me, said I could pay on collection and travelled over to meet me while I was in London visiting friends so we could hand over in person. Nice to talk bass for a bit upon meeting too. Communication was excellent throughout and friendly and the bass was exactly as described. I’d have no hesitation in trading with Simon in the future Or in recommending him to others. Many thanks!

Can you get your hands on one loaded with v3? I think you’ll like it. It’s a close call. For me the FI beats the C4 because it can have an organ-gate amp envelope shape (basically full on, constant volume, to off) which starts when a note is played and stops either when the note is stopped or when the bass’s volume drops below a certain level. It will sustain for ages too. The C4 by contrast either tracks the volume of the input signal or, when an oscillator’s envelope is set to “off”, or is constantly on, changing pitch when a new note is played, but continuing to sound even when the bass’s note is muted.

What firmware version of the FI are you referring to? The v3.0 update improved the tracking noticeably.

Don’t think it’s a sticking point, in the same way that hitting two keys on a monosynth would cause grief, having two notes ringing on the bass when using the FI will give squiffy results. Clean playing and adequate muting between notes is mainly what’s needed. Pitch tracking on the filter makes tracking a bit less swift. This is the case on FI and C4.

For Mac users who might have been experiencing problems after updating to Catalina where the FI firmware update or patch writing doesn't work, please remember to update the driver for your interface too! This particular issue came up for @SICbass with his Roland UM-One MKII and there is an updated driver which fixes the issue: https://www.roland.com/global/support/by_product/um-one_mk2/updates_drivers/e1812bfc-104a-4a18-a1db-b07980c0732c/

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Short keyboards are a royal pain to me but I'm sure there'll be folks who love this. Frankly I'm still miffed that they still haven't made a firmware update which adds exact BPM to the LCD screen of the regular model.

This is about to drop: https://www.synthanatomy.com/2020/01/moog-intros-subsequent-25-analog-synthesizer-sub-phatty-successor.html @ash

I guess a lot of R&D has gone into this. It’s way beyond what I want to spend on a pedal. They have also got another one in this format as they’ve done a collaboration with Meris too.

Looks like some images are out. https://www.sequencer.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sequential-pro-3-se-top-view-800x421.jpg

Yep, it’s a great idea that means you can have presets but have actual visual feedback of the real parameter settings. He intends to use this format for other future pedals (I met him at Superbooth last year and we talked about MIDI, presets and the frustration of the lack of visual feedback). I’d really like to see this do well.

It is a lot of coin but as I said, Joel spent ages trying to break it to make sure it would stand up to abuse and, as I understand, gigs with all his own pedals. What other pedals with faders would survive liquids?

It sounds fantastic too. It’s not a gimmick, he’s put a lot of thought and effort into this and to making it gig-damage-proof.

This amazing invention is finally in production. A MIDI pedal with presets and motorised faders so that correct knob positions are shown for each preset. https://www.chaseblissaudio.com/shop-pedals/preamp-mkii

Just had a funny thing happen. I paid a deposit for an Industrial Radio MIDIBass at the end of December and the payment has still not cleared into the company’s account nearly two weeks later. I contacted my bank today to find out what was going on and it turns out that the intermediary bank (HSBC US) has held the payment as being suspicious. My reference was IRN-## which is my invoice number. I got asked if the payment was related to Iran and was asked a whole bunch of other security questions and asked for information about what the payment was for etc. Was tempted to say that I normally pay for my arms to rogue states using bitcoin!