RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

Thanks for your replies . Adam g67, it does seem like I have mostly 5 pin din sockets , which are labelled midi on the drum machine /sampler and bass whammy. I haven't taken a pic of the grandmothers backside , but you get the gist . Back in the days of cassette decks I remember those 5 pin din plugs and hated them . The impression I am getting , is that I'm better off forgetting about midi . Usb seems to be plug and play , and of course computer based. If I was old skool ( wow! My trendy spelling ), I'd imagine I'd be doing everything midi . One of my friends who does recording with old , new and computer equipment was the one to recommend a mixer and midi to me . I gather from what he was saying , is that I'd have all of my gear together which makes sense .Having said that , for a semi novice like me, I prefer the plug and play usb line 6 interface I have where everything seems straightforward . I'll leave it there ...

Howdy ! I'm recording stuff through my Line6 Toneport ux1 . All good no complaints . Could do with an extra input socket , but hey ho not the end of the world . Looking at some of my equipment , I notice that a few of my bits and pieces have midi sockets . I use TRS and don't know if I'm missing out by not using midi sockets . Plus I have actually no idea how midi is supposed to work in layman's /woman's terms . I have a couple of pics showing the hardware I use .( Please excuse the mess 😺🙀) The gear I'm talking about in particular is : Moog grandmother , digitech bass whammy , Boss dr groove DR02, Boss DR Sample SP202, radium 49 usb keyboard , mic input on the line 6 toneport ux1, and a behringer UB802 eurorack mixer. Things to mention ( and ask 😺): I don't use the euro rack mixer / Is it worth keeping the sampler ? If so, what would be a good alternative ?I haven't used the radium 49 keyboard for years , but thought I'd mention it as it has a midi socket I use the akai mini keyboard a lot , plus my iPad a lot . So is it worth buying a few midi cables , or forget about it and move on ? Thanks

Fwiw, I have the mpk mini 1 . Really good with GarageBand , and. works with iPad if you have the camera connection kit . The mpk mini play has extra bundles to play with , and apparently you can use that without a computer straight out of the box should you wish . I'm thinking of getting the mini play, or the mini mk 3 . . These midi controllers have improved and upgraded in a short time .

Sorry, but where is the bass player? I have just watched this on my iPad , and the sound is ok for a pub band , but the bass player cannot be seen or heard . I saw the headstock of a precision , or was it a jazz , or an encore ? I had to laugh at the vocalist who looks disinterested , and wants to carry on drinking once she puts the papers down . Sorry , not professional . In a roundabout way , it is a bit like the Aerosmith / run dmc video . In my last band , the frontman actually had a book which he put on a music stand and sung with the lyrics in front of him . We got gigs , but most of the compliments went to mr drums and myself . . Apologies if I said too much ..

I suppose it's a bit like those ads in the back of daily newspapers , where you are asked to pay to be a model etc . Not applicable to me obviously , but the same sort of trap .😼

DAD , you're a man of many talents ,and I think you've secretly been a music promoter in the past 😺👍

You're right J-L p . Having said that , they were giving me the impression of a very small outfit looking to grow . I have received the usual scammers talking 'dope ' / 'bro' trying to do the same thing but they were blatantly obvious . Most of those spammers got deleted by soundcloud . This lot , are incredibly polite in comparison 😸

The email they sent was [email protected] They asked how many songs do I want to start with nice try 😸

Thanks for confirming J-LP 😸 My thoughts exactly , but the scammers are getting more sophisticated . Not sure whether to report to soundcloud or just block them .

The last tango in Barnsley is what everybody needs . 😸 I think that you have hit the nail on the head about the perceived soundcloud uploaders . Years ago pre internet a friend / work colleague who is very talented on the recording side of things, used to get paid for background jingle noises and had an agent . Small time obviously , and one of his samples was on tv for a woman's magazine called Red. He had various distractions unfortunately , and I doubt if he did much after that . That would appeal to me , being paid for the odd jingle here and there but it's not going to happen . It's best to keep treating it as an enjoyable hobby . That is , until the recording process becomes too complex ..

The name of the company is beige , if that helps .

Thanks gjones 😹 I never thought of that , and I think you may be onto something there. They wanted the proper wave files of other stuff I have ,but I'm not doing that. Bizarrely , I received 2 random emails from other artists sending me their efforts this morning . One was okay , but the other was not my bag . Don't know why they chose me . Maybe it's all connected .

Howdy ! Over the last few months, I've been getting to grips with GarageBand and uploading short tracks onto soundcloud . Far from spectacular , and just a continuation of me enjoying playing with my toys on a regular basis and getting a few likes ,and rare comments also.. Yes, I've had the spam comments from the females who want to hook up with me etc and are removed fairly promptly . However, I got approached from a small label a couple of days ago ( I won't name them just yet ) . They offered to promote my efforts on Spotify ,and Apple Music . They are supposedly a small label who are trying to expand blah blah blah . My initial reaction was to think it's a scam . I asked for more information , and they said I'd get 80% of all tracks etc. so , about 20 cents . Further investigation by myself , reveals they want $50 . . I asked if it is a one off payment and they said that is the case. payment is by PayPal . i forwarded one of my tracks , and they liked it . ( of course. they would if they're scammers and want $50). Has this happened to anybody here ? The company have a few artists on their page , I've ignored the last email, and will Probabky avoid but it would be interesting to see if others have been in this situation. Cheers

Delurking to say , great job ! I'm getting to grips with GarageBand at last , and it has a lot of benefits .

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner , and thanks for your help . I thought it best to give an update . Since lockdown started , I decided to pull my finger out and get on with things I have actually started to record efforts of my bass ideas in my head, combined with various keyboard apps on my iPad and believe it or not , upload to soundcloud 🙀😸yes really . There is a way to go obviously , but I am surprised by likes and reposts of my efforts . I think the way I was apprehensive towards recording , was like when I was starting out to learn songs on the bass when I as frightened of making mistakes and just played the notes and too nervous to fill and elaborate if that makes sense . The good thing which I should have realised earlier , was that if you make a mistake home recording , there are no frowns or pressure and that you can just scrap that file and open another one . Hope that makes sense . I will tackle reason at some stage properly . Same with Ableton live . At the moment, I'll try myself rather than course . I think sometimes you have to be in the mood also . Yesterday for example , I just recorded a few 2 minute efforts , and before that I wouldn't do anything for days. I had to move my equipment into the living room due to neighbour / noise issues so it as staring me in the face . I had no choice , but to get a grip and record something 😹 Anyway, I'll leave it there . Thanks again for your help and input 👍

Legend . 400 children also . RIP 😿

Seems fine . The only thing really , what cost is postage ?

Have you checked their feedback ?

Is this joey jordisons new band? slipknot were never the same once he left . This is really good 😼

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I thought for a moment that I may have been useful, as my playing often resembles les Dawson . I played a couple of my early gigs in the '90s with a keyboard player .The amount of plugs and wires everywhere was a serious breach of health and safety . Like drummers , keyboard players are gold dust . Having said all of that, if my keyboard friend was doing the set lists we had back then , he told me he could do it all on a laptop . The last time I saw Edgar Froese at the Astoria , I noticed the virtual stuff on his Mac laptop back in 2007 .

Thanks for that Steve . Long time ago

Mmm.. flotsam and jetsam blowing megadeth totally off at the hammy o ( Jason was with them then ) . Dave mustaine was mumbling . Megadeth seemed to take a few breaks and mustaine had a couple of costume changes symphony x blowing off dream theatre at Wembley arena in 2007. Never saw or heard of them before , but they rocked and owned the stage . stan Webb blowing off John May all at hammy o sometime in this millennium All I can remember about Mayall was that he looked a bit like jimmy saville in appearance trying to be cool in tracksuit bottoms . Very arrogant ,although mick Taylor played one good song as a special guest iirc . M..OD supporting Suicidal tendencies at the Astoria on a Sunday afternoon . I ended up buying billy Milano a Coca Cola . Glenn Hughes blowing Jack Bruce off at a truly miserable gig at shepherd 's bush in this millennium . It was a gig that Michael shenker was supposed to headline but pulled out , leaving a half empty crowd Frank Marino was pretty good , Glenn Hughes was excellent , and Jack bruce looked like a used car salesman struggling for business. The encore? ..Eleanor Rigby. WTF!?! Anthrax better than iron maiden Wembley arena, persistence of time tour. Wembley arena