Woodinblack

It is viable, if you have it. I went on for over a year until the first time the wifi failed, although bear in mind it isn't a binary - one day you turn it on and it doesn't work. no it is working fine and then half way through your gig you can't really control it any more, some changes occur, some dont etc. Too many phones in the area. My external router was £15 and is slightly smaller than the mains plug, but never had any trouble with it.

I have tried it with a B3n, and that worked well! Probably not going to be using it with much as I don't have room for many small pedals on my board (in fact I only have a few small pedals now) as there is too much there. And frankly, I have been through the small pedal thing and don't really want to go back there, just too much hassle compared to a multi.

Eating?

Good luck with that. The guitarist would rather complain about the mix then do it himself Remember with group effects like reverb you are doing a submix which can trip you up later, so you have 3 vocals going to reverb, and the reverb slider up in the mix and you are trying to turn someones vocals out but still hear them, remember it is coming through the reverb! Obvious I know, but caught me out near the beginning. Also microphone groups are useful. Well, muting groups. Is it good? I was looking at one of those. I use the iPad app obviously, but sometimes when you are playing it you try and quickly jab at it to take something down and it doesn't respond well enough. The XTouch was quite expensive but looks quite appealing, especially as you can use it on a computer as well. Does it connect easily enough to not be another hassle when you are setting up?

He did for union as he was part of the ABWH (alternate yes) , but Alan White was still in the band, so they had two drummers (well, two of everything). In fact, as there were only 4 years at the beginning when he wasn't in the group and Chris died 4 years ago, he is probably now the longest serving member of Yes.

Although the drummer has been there since 72 without a break, so thats not too bad.

Some of richard cheeses stuff is brilliant, not the friends one you posted. How about this: Bearing in mind I really like the original.

Quick, run now while you have money!

Interesting - if it is monophonic, how do you get to pick which chord you are playing?

Sounds about right!

Yeh, I suggested that when the guitarist was going on about wanting to play some christmas songs.

We do either 2 or 3 hours. If we do a 2 hour we have a break at about an hour, if we do 3 hours, we tend to have a longer first half so we do an hour and a half. If we are going to do a short gig (ie, 2 hours), I might take the 5005 for a set, but tbh, although I used to cycle around the basses, I almost always take either the Maruszczyk if I trust the place, which is chambered or the 1605 which weighs nothing. I only take the 2605 if we have a proper stage.

Yep, got one of those for £30 last year and have used it as my main bag since then. The strap broke at one point (but I put tons of stuff in that) which I sort of fixed but then didn't use the strap again. Well worth it though.

So someone has just joined specifically to raise old years old threads about female bass players?

I was seriously considering the sy300 before the sy1 came along, the thing holding me back was the size

Or as I said which I think is the same thing. If it does anything to replace that waveform it is a phase locked loop (but even that would fall over polyphonically), so yes, this is a continuation of the VG technology, where the GR-10 & 55 are a continuation of the note detection technology. Which means the reason that the SY boxes don't give out midi data is that at no point has the SY worked out the pitch. And why if you actually want midi input you are still going to need the GR-55 or the like and the hexaphonic pickup (or in my case, I guess a pentaphonic pickup!). Having never used the SY300 I am wondering if it is exactly the same, or if it has moved on a bit in the following 4 years?

I am happy to listen to suggestions, especially on a song I don't know, but then they are suggestions, no one would actually tell me how to play it, and then ultimately it would be my choice.

I thought that cables and things were ok. Nice looking cable. Like the fender leads but hopefully not so useless.

I like the sound of my 5005, but then I like the sound of all my 4 digit SRs, and TBH, there isn't that much difference, but the 5005 I couldn't wear for a whole gig as it is much heavier than the others and I don't have the luxury of these short 1 hour sets that people go on about!

Oh yes, almost certainly digital, but no pitch to note conversion involved

certainly worth a try, keep us all informed, we are interested in that kind of stuff

In fact, now I am back at work from holiday and I have my 'thinking about things' head on, I would say I reckon that at no point does the SY-1 actually do pitch to note conversion. It is just too fast and the difficulty of doing that and having polyphony I don't think would work in that box with its current power requirement. I think it just converts the input to a signal which it then modifies, and triggers on so more like the VG than the GR synths. So basically replace the oscillators in a synth, and then use the existing signal with a bit of signal processing for the different sound types, and some dividing / multiplying for pitches (and I also think the switch on the back just full wave rectifies the input) and take that and feed it to the filters and envelopes like a normal subtractive synth.

No, not a minimoog, it would have to be polyphonic and also accept pitch bend per note (see the bit I mentioned about rolands pitch to midi). For this to work it would probably have to have MPE, and most hardware synths don't support this. No, the expense of that would be fractional compared to the extra processing requirement, which might need additional power requirement. Also not forget the additional development to do it. This we don't know. I suspect there would be additional production costs. Certainly a lot more development costs (that need to be factored in). Actually, like I mentioned, it would be a very limited number of available synths. I have a recording somewhere from the GR-5 midi out. It is not very good at all, and only a few synths would handle it (like logic). The synths that are allready in the SY-1 are picked specifically for that task. And that is assuming it actually has synths in and isn't just signal processing. Agreed. Most people are surprised at the complexity of doing things, because they haven't looked into things. I suspect if it was simple, which I know it isn't., it would already be being done.