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    Thanks, thats encouraging. Ill always use just one monitor at home so the new 3 monitor feature isnt one ill every use, but the more RAM will certainly be welcome. With gig performer i use a lot of soft synths, which is why i need the RAM, but other wise i rarely tax the MBP as it is.
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    That's a really good deal. I did look at that place, and was quite tempted with some of the refurbished ones, but my other complaint is the weight of my MBP. It's not horrendous of course, but I would like something a bit more public transport friendly for rehearsals. My rucksack always feels light until that goes in, so a MBP was ruled out (im pushing my budget even now, but as Amazon were over £100 cheaper than Apple and on an interest free 12 month payment scheme it was too good to pass. Never maxed out my MBP as such, I just need a bit more ram. Hoping the M4 Air isn't a step back for whet I need.
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    I too have the iPad M4 pro (13') and keyboard, and I agree, it's a power house that has never even broke in to a sweat doing all sorts. It's my main device at home, I rarely use my MacBook Pro (always in clamshell mode attached to a monitor) other than music making, and I take it out for gigging and rehearsals. Even photo and diode stuff is mostly on my iPad. I was going to keep the MacBook Pro and get an M4 Mac mini, but I really do need the extra ram that I can get in the Air, and feel the MBP is a bit on the funky side even for the odd occasion I do take it out. Guess im so used to the iPad's weight. I have ordered it and I'll give it a go over the weekend once ive cloned the MBP to it.
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    As much as I love my MacBook Pro M1, ive recently noticed some of my plugins are using quite a bit of memory. 16GB is fine most of the time but id like bit more. Very tempted to get the new Air M4 with 24GB and sell the MBP. I also like its smaller form factor. Just wondered if anyone is using one and how it performs. Im thinking mostly about any thermal issues with, say, 20 tracks in cubase or Logic. I do have another real reason for changing, as I use Gig performer live, and that can use up to 30GB if everything is loaded, so more ram is definitely going to be useful there to avoid too much swap file use.
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    Can I ask why Mono?
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    You could try an envelope follower to cut the reverb down, and there are De-Verb plugins available.
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    I tend to use something like Ozone to finish off the recordings i make using my Zoom H4e. Recently ive got a plugin called Fuel that does a really good job of bringing out the instruments and give ign the recording more depth and volume.
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    We use Macs for our daily drivers at work. We find the older Office 2021 stuff runs perfectly on our M2’s, although e hate having to use those apps. im probably going to get an M4 MacBook Air this week. It will involve me trading in my M1 MacBook Pro, but i want more ram as 16GB is not quite enough for what i need to run Gig Performer comfortably at gigs with everything loaded. I have also recently got the new iPad 11 base model, and that seems to record fine from my XR18 in to Cubasis, although so far only used it for rehearsals.
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    I was a Windows user for decades, even built my own from day one, but when i made the jump to Mac i was shocked at how little set up and tweaking was needed for music making. Saying that, it’s even easier on iPad, which is wha it use for live recording. I was using Logic no ipad but have switched to Cubasis as it seems a bit easier for this. Not suggesting you make the jump, but wondered if you had tried a tablet or phone?
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    Same, although at gigs i always have it running in to an iPad for convenience. I gain stage at the Mixer so the levels going in to Logic or Cubase are normally ok and i don’t need to adjust anything at that end until i mix it. Bas, have you tried any non windows devices?
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    Ive never used an EQ pedal or Preamp pedal on the floor. Always sitting on top of my amp(s). After all, if its going to be the front end of my signal chain it might as well be in the right place and easy to get to. for me its always on so never need to use a foot switch.
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    I've used Scan many times. Last couple of times ive spent about £3000 in total on keyboards from them (the music kind, not computer type). Over the years they, along with eBuyer have been my go to computer supliers.
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    I was talking more about those that do use amps. For ampless i totally get it, but this has been going on for years. Im just as guilty. Dont think ive ever really used the knobs on my Markbass heads, always used a BDDI with them.
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    No problem, and good luck. Might take a a while to adjust to them and find the right pair (i couldn’t get on at all with the KZ stuff), but once you do it’s like a lightbulb moment.
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    Hi Michael. Let me know if i can help with any gear while you are in london. If got both wired and wireless IEM you are welcome to borrow. Even my XR18 if im not gigging if it helps.
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    Isn’t that pretty much what a lot of the dinosaur bands do now. Stones, Madonna etc are not short of money, but it must make feel good that they can still milk the cash cow.
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    I found it pretty much life changing as far as the band goes.
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    You could be right. what we do is store each gig in the XR18, so when we go back there we just recall those settings from the desk, in to MS's layout. Never done it the other way around when off line.
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    It's been a while since I did it, but im pretty sure you can do this with layouts, but the mixer holds all the levels settings. These get sent to the tablet once it's connected to the mixer......I think.
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    2 weeks later and ive heard back. Yes, they want me to send mine to them. At this stage i don’t think ill risk it, as ill need my IEM’s and i don’t feel comfortable sending them off to a company that that takes this long to reply to a message.
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    I also only use the internal router at home, and never really had any issues, but after the first time I tried at a gig and couldn't log on, I don’t take the risk now I actually much prefer the Behringer app, but Ive found it sluggish and unreliable, so I tend to stick with MS because it's what I know alas works. The Behringer app seems better laid out and very easy to see what's going on. MS can be like that, but it's all too easy to go further with the layouts and over complicate things. When I got my XR18 I did use it as my home interface for a while and had no issues at all, nothing really to set up and no drivers etc (im on Mac). I love that I can take one USB cable and record multitrack to my iPad (or even phone) at gigs. This has been very enlightening as far as who knows the songs/can play them properly. Obviously i redo any mistake I make before sending the band the full mix down lol.
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    Also check out the compact mixer thread, as these are also talked about quite a lot We went over to an XR18 a couple of years ago and it was life changing. We normally use one of those small travel routers, and never had issues on 5ghz. I have had a few gigs where for speed ive tried to connect tot the internal 2.4ghz and just couldn't. It sits there ws no bandwidth availible. Now I keep a Lan cable and adapter handy as well. I also tried a 6E router recently, just as an experiment I tried this and found it worked perfectly at close distances (on and just off stage, say about 20ft out on the dance floor). I did a scan of the pub and no one was using this band.
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    I use Mixing station all the time, but it does have a steep learning curve. Even now after using it for a couple of years some very basic things have me confused if i haven’t used them for while. It’s definitely the most versatile, and I’ve also found it’s the most reliable as far as connection goes, but i can see why people get put off.
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    Well i wouldn’t be going out and charging a lot of money if i wasn’t up to the job. For the record, i don’t rate his singing at all, never have. Awful voice. It’s a shame that people’s last memory of a once great band will be this. Sure, Ozzy will get a lot of praise from those who are fans, and sympathy from other, but it will be ‘he did well considering’.
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