sammybee

My current method is, get drums programmed on the MPC -> Logic I'll then string together guitar part. Then I play it to my daughter, who will take the guitar part & replay it/rearrange it herself and make it sound 100x better -> Logic I'll add bass next DI'd into Logic Keys/samples & anything else gets added after the meat of the song. Minimal processing/fx in Logic, I'll spend the time recording (and re-recording) to get it sounding as good as possible avoiding the need to 'fix it in the mix' I like to keep it as simple as possible

I didn't mean generally, I meant the specific interfaces I had, 2x 828mk2's and an 8Pre - support for these interfaces were finally dropped a couple of iterations of MacOS back.

Well the used synth market would have a more positive view of the SH101 Even tatty examples are approaching £1000. Even the Behringher MS101 which retailed for about £240 new, changing hands used for around the £350-400 mark. Score one at a decent price, you'll learn something about synthesis (the OP i mean), and if it's not for you... punt it on for a profit...

Behringer MS-101 - (a very accurate/good) copy of a Roland SH101. Front panel controls for everything and less than £375.

Well it's sitting in the cupboard (still).... I had a short play with it a few weeks ago, but it didn't inspire me as much as I thought it would. Sure it does the TR-909 thing to a tee, and is great coupled with a 303 & 101 clone for some acid jamming or similar - which is cool, but I haven't been motivated to make that kind of stuff recently. Drum machine wise, atm, my Akai S900 driven by an MPC 2000xl is doing it for me. I love the simplistic nature of the S900, the 12bit crunch - it's a very musical piece of gear.

I had MOTU interface(s) for over 10 years, very solid, great bits of kit. Unfortunately they were no longer supported on MacOS so I had to change. I was going to buy one of these M4 interfaces as a replacement, but plumped for the Audient as it has ADAT in (giving me an additional 8 channels of inputs). If you don't have the need for the ADAT I'd say go for it. Support from MOTU is top notch if you ever run into difficulties.

My daughter (12 yo) started playing bass (semi-seriously) about 2-3 years ago. At 9 years old, I bought her a decent short scale bass, which she never touched, much preferring a full size bass. Over the past few years she has played a Squier PJ (music teachers), Sire V5, Stingray, and... she often picks up my US RI 75 Jazz which is hefty to say the least. I'm not sure how tall your daughter is now, but if you buy a smaller bass - they shoot up quickly and she may out grow whatever you buy today in 6 months.

Look for anything by Leon Sylvers III (producer and bassist on Solar records - thats Shalamar's label, along with the Whispers, Midnight Star and a whole bunch of 80's boogie) Esther Williams - I'll Be Your Pleasure (Larry Levan Mix) Anything by the fantastic (RIP) Mark Adams of the band Slave A couple of 'easier' but fun and funky songs I love to play and improvise over... 'Shes A Real Mama Jama' - Carl Carlton (synth bass but sounds good played on electric) and 'Before I Let Go' - Maze feat Frankie Beverley.. If you like those, I can recommend loads more - have fun!!

The sound is somewhat distinctive (unmistakably Stingray). Interesting that he thought the BC Rich looked cooler

Love my EBMM Stingray 4H... There's a PMT in Bristol... if you speak to them very nicely and sound serious about buying one, they'll probably get one or two from another branch if they don't have any in stock (they've done this for me in Northampton)

I'm not sure any of them are playing, none of the instruments look like they're plugged in... more like miming!

Behringer RD-9 arrived yesterday evening after a very long delay shipping. Have resisted the urge to unwrap & plug in so far!

This is the only drawback to the M1 laptops, the 'official' support of only one external monitor. Like you say, 2 monitors is a hack that doesn't work consistently if at all.

if it's a cheap harp, the cost is going to outweigh the benefit... if it's an expensive harp - are you sure you would trust ANY courier to deliver it safely? sounds like heartbreak waiting to happen

Hope you don't mind me commenting. I think it sounded great overall. I recon subscribing to any of those courses isn't going to teach you anything you probably don't know (or teach you very little). One thing that did jump out at me (the snare level / sound mentioned above also), was that the drums and synths felt very tightly quantised (like you had quantise turned to 1/16 for everything) . I think the song would be lot better if it was just a touch looser and the the keys/drums would feel just that bit more human. But overall it's a solid effort & I'd love to hear more. Really enjoyed your bass part too!

+1 for the Audient, take a look at the iD14 too if you think you might need more (8) inputs in the future.

I'm running logic 10.7 on an 2021 MacBook Air M1, with 8gb. Runs much better than the 2017 MacBook Pro with i7 and 16gb ram that I was using before. Ram isnt capped at 8gb BTW, you can specify it with 16GB at order. However M1s use RAM far more efficiently than Intel Macs so you'll probably find 8gb sufficient

Well the replacement cable didn't fix the issue. I did a factory reset on the pedal, set the sync on the pedal to internal, set the output clock to on. plugged the cable into midi out from the pedal -> midi in on my MPC (set the MPC to slave to incoming clock)... pressed play on the pedal, and no midi clock sent to MPC Any ideas?

I've ordered quite a bit of stuff over the past 2-3 years from them, never had any issues, stuff gets ordered on website, arrives a couple of days later well packed.

Yes I need a trs from the pedal to a 5pin din on the MPC.. I can see how it could get mighty confusing if it was trs to trs and they were different standards. We never had any of these problems when all midi interfaces / gear was on 5pin din !

Of course, I bought the cheapest one (cable) I could find from eBay! I think you've hit the nail on the head about the wiring of the cable - I've ordered the 'official' Boss cable now which I'm hoping will fix it.

It's really great fun. I have it set up with a Fender ABY pedal so my daughter can play guitar & I can play bass, going back and forth

Has anybody here got any experience with a Boss RC-10r loop pedal? I bought this one specifically because it has a midi out jack and I understood it would be able to drive MIDI clock from the loop/internal rhythm. I've set it to send midi clock in the menu, however its sending nothing.. great fun just using the loops with the internal drums though. Really want it to be driving my MPC though.

Sad news, RIP Martin, I only dealt with him once - but a true gent