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It was worth a try, but didn't work, or didn't seem to. I'll keep stabbing when I get the chance.

I have just about managed it using Ctrlr, which I had looked at in the past and found too confusing to comprehend. Now I can control the synth using a VST interface within Reaper. There's just one last niggle of working out how to make the automation work, which I can do with audio tracks and with VST instruments, but this Ctrlr one might take some working out. But generally, a success, and for free. After that I need to work out how to map the VST parameters to my BCR2000 (or Remote SL), and I'm good to go. Edit: that sounds confusing even to me. Basically, it works by adding Ctrlr as a VST instrument to the midi track in Reaper, then opening a PG-300 emulator within that VST, and the parameters on it now control the parameters of the a-Juno. Automation yet to be worked out (all the parameters in the Track/Envelope automation window just have numbers rather than names, and don't seem to be responding to anything) (but I'll work it out).

The Alpha Junos don't deal in CC but in sysex, which is the problem. Rotating the alpha dial while recording doesn't do anything in Reaper. In Midiox it does see the burst of data in the Received window as I turn the dial: how could I use that to my advantage in Reaper? Any idea? Midiox looks completely confusing -- I couldn't even say what it actually does, or is supposed to do. Thanks!

I'd like to make Reaper record parameter changes (cut-off, resonance, etc.) in real time (or not, I suppose) with my Roland Alpha Juno 2. So far I can't find a way for it to be done. Does anyone have any knowledge of this sort of thing? Many thanks. Windows 7 32bit MBox 2 audio/midi interface Midi cables correctly wired up Juno sysex enabled Edit: Hmm, it seems this just isn't a thing that can be done, due to the nature of sysex.

Chris was great. Is great. His greatness is ongoing.

Tom was very easy to sell to. If you see what I mean.

Derrick is grand. He even delivered the stuff.

I just saw this: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/compact-foot-controller-mod-korg-nanokey-for-your-feet/ and thought I'd post it here for those of you looking for midi-note foot controllers.

I can recommend this guy: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4258146

Has anyone ever used this interface? http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-101/ It's got 8 analogue ins, and I'm interested in it as a way to send all my hardware synths (which are a combination of new and old, analogue, VA and digital) into my computer on different channels (as well as any bass parts I might happen to play), so I can then apply effects to them in real time in Reason and Reaper, as part of the composition/messing-around process, rather than having to record the synth 'clean' to audio, and then applying the effects to that, without being able to change the synth bit. If that makes sense. I can get one fairly cheap, and it seems a bit too good to be true. I can also get a really nice mixer with lots of sends and auxes and all that, which I would have fun with if I start acquiring some more/better hardware effects. So all the FX stuff would be in hardware form, happening before it all gets to the computer. I can't decide which way round I want to do it. Obviously, using the computer to add lots of crazy effects in real time to my synths on multiple channels means a strain on the old machine, but it also means I already have all the plugins and effects and things anyone could possibly want, in Reason and VSTs. But then hardware is so attractive too. So, er, does anyone have anything to suggest, or comment, about that, at all? Thanks.

Yeah, I was hoping it would work alongisde the analogue inputs, but it seems that it doesn't, that the DAW (Reaper and Reason, in my case), will accept either the analogues or the digital, but not both. So it's less useful than I thought it would be, but that's only because I thought it did something that it doesn't. It might do what I think it does in Pro Tools, but I have uninstalled it and don't intend to use it, so, er, stuff it.

Never mind; I got it to work. You have to specify this and that in a DAW for it to work, which it does. Which is great.

I don't suppose anyone here uses a Digidesign MBox 2 interface, with the SPDIF connectors, at all, do they? My Novation Ultranova synth has a SPDIF out, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I enable the out in the audio menu, and plug in my newly acquired 75 ohm SPDIF cable to the SPDIF in on the Mbox, but it doesn't work. The SPDIF led doesn't come on, and there's no sound reaching the MBox, or so it seems. If anyone has any ideas, or experience with SPDIF, then, er, that would be great.

Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4

This deal is getting worse all the time!

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G Watson An acquaintance rather than a 'friend' friend, from previous shows him and my GF have been in.

And another friend was in Fings!

A friend of mine was Ryan's cover on Jersey Boys.

In fact I'm not actually typing these words, but just pretending to, while a professional typist crouched below my desk does it for real.