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Well, there is the touche.. a little pricy though https://www.expressivee.com/touche-se There are a lot of other little controllers, might do the job. Or you could just get a windows mod wheel application, I am sure there are some (I don't use a PC for midi so not sure what is around). Unfortunately this is just the disadvantage of progress. Back in the day devices just had 5 pin midi ports - if you had two devices and one had an in port and one had an out port, you could connect them, and they would do 'something' whatever that was. This is still the case for old midi, but if you want to use USB, it has a direction, one end if a computer, the other end is a thing being controlled. A controller can't connect to a controller, and a computer can't connect to a computer. You could use a bluetooth midi device, yamaha make one (i have it), which you could connect a computer to an ipad (which uses bluetooth midi). That would almost certainly work.

Hmm.. well, there are a few ways. The easy way is bluetooth midi, which I am guessing you haven't got or you would have found it easy. Problem is that the phone is a computer end, not a controller end, so it is easy to connect things to it, but not so easy to connect it to another computer without some device in the middle. Which means, no, there isn't a really simple first step. If you connect both to midi (5 pin) interfaces, it becomes easy, it is one of the downsides of USB midi in that it has a direction. There are a few devices that can do it (although all of them will cost more than a simple keyboard with pitch bend / modulation) Why doesn't your computer send pitch bend / modulation - is it just because it doesn't have the wheels?

Depends who you are and where you are playing, if you are a dancy group or not. I mean if you are a prog group or a rush tribute act, there aren't going to be any women in the audience, so there are no worries on that front!

I haven't had a go yet, nowhere near me has any released yet (andertons claims today, although they aren't near). They are supposed to be optimised for sitting, so hopefully they have thought of that. The spacing of 17.5 on the 5 is a bit wide for me, so I want to try it before actually buying one, I am hoping PMT will have some thing month.

That seems an odd thing, I mean it doesn't really make it that much smaller while making it a bit less versatile. I assume that someone will want that but seems.. well, unexciting. If only they could get behringers drive!

I specified the neck profile and got non-raked thrown in for free (but without string tree)!

Nick beggs does actually have a Ric, but didn't use it with Steve Hacket the year before but the current guy Jonas Reingold is a ric player. Not really that Chris Squire like though.

I must admit that I don't hear the chris squire thing in modern prog that much, although on the last steve hacket gig the guy did have a ric! My favourite would be prog rock and I don't even have a ric copy <shuffles the chapman stick slightly out of view>

@scrumpymike is it the same btinternet paypal account as a couple of years ago?

Wow, Microsoft and Cisco require you to learn songs for their qualification now? That *is* harsh! I hope its not that windows 386 song...

Me too, happens to everyone. I am not blaming him for not being able to sing as well, it is just as you say, a fact of life. I am just saying his voice is not as good, so if you want to hear them at their best, listen to something from before 2005 as it is better. Rush are my all time favourite group which is why I chose to not go and see them in the last 10 years.

sounds good!

He is ok, yes. His bass and keyboard is fantastic, but his voice was not what it was. He has obviously been taught different techniques to make the best of it and he is ok. But OK isn't really good for rush, I don't enjoy it as much as earlier rush. But there is a lifetime of stuff out there to go through so there is not really an issue.

And the original was the B3, not the B3n

Bass wise, no problem assuming I can remember the song at all, I can remember every part of it. Sometimes I have a mental block on the start (some times I have a mental block on everything). I have a list of the first notes of each song, so if I ever do, the first note will tell me the rest of the song. Lyrics wise, I can remember most of them unless I am also playing and then I can go a bit blank. Toscanini sounds a bit like an italian version of my first childhood piano teacher though

Agreed - but anything that hasn't been in the last 10 years or so, the vocals sound a bit better there.

Do you mean the Harley benton powerplant? In which case, yes there will be a whine, or do you mean the Harley Benton Powerplant Jr, in which case there really shouldn't be. In my posts before I was only talking about the Jr. The non Jr is not isolated.

I have never talked to a cover band who didn't say that!

I didn't know it either.

No, Stoke sub human (sorry, hamdon).

There is a place near us that all sing sweet Caroline when we finish, no idea why, apparently they do it for all groups. We don't do it and I couldn't imagine we would do it well

Yep, I saw that and thought about getting one, then it occurred to me that actually, I have way too much stuff and don't need another amp!

Me neither - never heard it played anywhere by anyone and we have a lot of cover bands round here, maybe its regional? Pretty well everything else on here though.

We removed mustang sally from our list, and got complaints. Because it is a really terrible song! Having been around a lot of prog people, I never understood the interest in them. Despite it not being there yet, our set list contains 1 of each (2 if you consider twist and shout, although that was a cover) Most of this stuff listed is in our set list (although a few are Ska'd up), we do a lot of what people want, apart from oasis, as I won't do that.