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    What are you listening to right now?

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    1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

    Anyone ever heard this before, I quite like it and the bassline 

     

      

    I'm a bit confused. Your link says, 'The Legendary Pink Dots - Madame Guillotine', but my link below is 'Madame Guillotine - Legendary Pink Dots'.

    I thought it was an attempt at a cover, then I noticed in the blurb on your link "Loosely based on Madame Guillotine" by The Legendary Pink Dots". 

     :D

     

    Either way, it's quite absorbing and chilled because I nearly dozed off...(nothing to do with the track, it's just been an early start and a long day).

    Ignore me, stand down, and as you were.

    :D

     

     

     

     

     

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    Do we think about Rhythm enough?

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    On 05/12/2025 at 22:24, Homatron said:

    I've been paying a lot more attention to rhythm lately and found some great resources and exercises on Open Studio Jazz.

     

     

    Out of interest, have you signed up to the course(s), or just using the YouTube channel?

    I often pop into the YouTube channel for Jazz Piano tips. Like you say, some great resources.

    Do we think about Rhythm enough?

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    11 minutes ago, iainbass said:

    Cool thread. I'd add one more ingredient to this. 'Ghost notes'. Ghost notes are like ligaments, they bind rythmns together. 

     

     Yep...

     

    Singing the rhythms, pitched, to yourself, is a good way to get the Basslines into your head (and under your fingers).

    But I would always trip myself up with non-pitched ghost notes. Then years ago, I started to listen to Bobby McFerrin who is great at ghosting notes.

    Laurence Canty - Discussion, Memories, Potential Mega-thread

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    2 hours ago, WHUFC BASS said:

    Apologies for being almost a year late on this thread. I googled Lawrence Canty today and found out he'd passed away. Very sad news and I'd like to with my condolences to his family and friends.

     

    I first met Lawrence in the early 90s at Goldsmiths college. I did his weekly course there and turned up thinking I knew a fair bit about playing. Lawrence soon dispelled that myth for me when he presented me with the notes for the course. He was talking about chords, their structure, their relevance in a progression, what would work and what wouldn't work ... Why would I need to know about chords I thought ? I don't play chords on bass! I stuck the course out right to the end (I think it lasted 6months or so) and I turned up religiously every Saturday. I left with so much more knowledge of the fretboard, harmony, chord structures, progressions and just a huge understanding of music in general. Lawrence was a superb teacher and for someone with my limited learning capacity he made it easy for even me to understand. I will always be in debt to him for teaching me what no amount of reading of self teaching ever could.

    I was also supremely impressed with his playing and even to this day, his tone from his finger style playing has never been equalled. It was just perfect. At that time I recall he had a residency gig at a hotel in London and he would always give me a lift over the water to a tube station near his gig. We'd always talk bass and music and also about life in general. He put me onto Joe Meek, James Jameson and many other players who I'd never heard of. 

    I can honestly say he was a huge influence on my playing and I'd always quote his name if anybody asked me who I respected as a player. 

     

    R. I. P. Lawrence. 😢

     

    You were probably at Goldsmiths around the same time as my younger brother. My brother loved his time there with LC.

    A friend of my mine was also teaching Bass there at the time, John Deemer.

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    What do we make of Danny Sapko?

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    Although Danny has his place in the YouTube World, and does it well, he's not for me. I just end up flicking and skimming through bits and pieces.

    I've just watched a Scott Devine video interviewing Nathan East and then another one with Freddie Washington. For my interests, much more entertaining and engaging.

     

    What are you listening to right now?

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    I stumbled on an Album by Carol Kaye I've not heard before (featuring a whole load of top players).

    Well, I say stumbled, it came to my attention while watching a Scott Devine & Ian Martin Allison YouTube video discussing Carol Kaye and her career:

     

     

    Bass, Producer - Carol Kaye.

    Drums – Earl Palmer, John Guerin, Paul Humphrey.

    Double Bass - Ray Brown.

    Guitar – Joe Pass, Howard Roberts.

    Piano, Electric Piano – Joe Sample.

    Congas - Milt Holland.

    Saxophone/Flute – Tom Scott.

    Trombone – J.J. Johnson.

    Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Conte Condoli.

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    The Soul, Funk and Groove thread.. Pete Academy's original thread part 2.

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    21 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

    Been enjoying this album. Only became aware of her by accident when a CD I bought has one of her albums mistakenly printed on it as opposed to the one I bought. 

     

    Bass Guitar by Bernard Reed, who also played Bass on 'This Will Be' by Natalie Cole from the same album.

    Great player!!

     

    Natalie Cole - This Will Be | Bass Transcription | Bernard Reed

    Heads up! Great VST deals spotted

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    4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

    Has anyone come up with a way of automatically converting Kontakt Player instruments to work with Logic's ES24/Sampler?

     

    Having had a poor experience with NI in the past and also having made a decision not to have any 3rd-party plug-ins that require me to install anything other than the plug-in itself, I'm not going to install Kontakt Player, which means that I've missed out on a couple of interesting instruments that have come up recently that I might have wanted to explore.

     

    Presuming you haven't already tried this route, a quick AI search came up with the below. Not real-world examples, of course, but a starting point to investigate:

     

    Can NI Kontakt Player instruments be converted to work with Logic's ES24/Sampler?

     

    ChatGPT said:

     

    Short answer: mostly no, you cannot reliably convert a full instrument for Kontakt Player into the native Sampler (formerly EXS24) in Logic Pro with full functionality. Here’s a breakdown of why and what is possible:

     

    ✅ What is possible

    Export the raw samples from the Kontakt-library (if you have access to them). Once you have the WAV/AIFF files, you can import them into Sampler/EXS24 in Logic, map the zones, set up velocity layers etc. Logic even has an “Convert Audio → EXS Instrument” workflow. macprovideo.com+2Gearspace+2

    You can create a simplified version of the instrument in Sampler using those samples — for example basic multisample mapping, basic key-range and velocity zones.

     

    🚫 Why you can’t fully convert a Kontakt Player instrument

    Kontakt libraries often contain proprietary scripting (using KSP), advanced modulation, filters, effects chains, custom GUI elements. Sampler/EXS24 does not support those natively. So you lose a lot of the advanced behaviour.

    Many Kontakt instruments (especially “Player” versions) are locked/protected; you may not have access to the raw sample files or are prevented from repurposing them.

    There is no straightforward, general-purpose tool that reliably converts a full .nki/.nkm (Kontakt) instrument into a Sampler format with all features intact. For example, older tools like Translator existed for conversions, but they had limitations. Apple Support Community+1

    The format differences: Kontakt’s architecture is far more advanced than Sampler/EXS24. Simply mapping samples doesn’t replicate logic, scripting, round-robin, advanced articulations etc.

     

    🔍 My recommendation for your situation

    If you own the Kontakt library and access the samples, do the manual route: export or locate the sample files, import into Logic’s Sampler (or EXS24 if you’re using an older version) and recreate the mapping.

    If the instrument uses heavy scripting or you don’t have sample access, run it as Kontakt inside Logic (as a plugin) instead of trying to convert.

    Evaluate whether you need the full feature set of the Kontakt instrument — if you only need basic playback of the sampled sounds, conversion might be “good enough”. But if you need the advanced behaviour, stick with Kontakt.

     

    If you like, I can check for specific libraries (the exact Kontakt instrument you have) and see whether there are known conversions or cheat-workarounds for that library. Would that be helpful?

    Heads up! Great VST deals spotted

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    ^^^^^

    Just a follow-up to my above 'Spitfire Audio' post.

    I downloaded the library, and it came in at just under 6 gigs.

     

    It does sound very nice, but beware...The articulations are very limited and only consist of two variations on the instruments - Just Longs and shorts.

    The rest of the articulations are in demo mode with just one playable note.

    I have quite a substantial amount of SA libraries, so of course, I'm not part of the target audience. 

    But sound wise, like I said, it does sound nice and authentic and may well be of use to many.

     

     

     

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