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Uh oh

Arty is, polite

I’m still laughing out loud Skank, made my day even more than the Afro Beat band posted this morning! So to be clear, future BFs of my daughters are likely to be of this ilk?

Sorry mate, you didn't keep up the payments

As ever Skank, hammer on nail

Yep, I was going to make a reference to Jazz musicians but IMO most of the good ones don;t look smug in the way a lot of modern players appear to (huge generalisation I know). But I felt I've seen the consistent smugness somewhere before. Folk! Bloody folk! Specifically Transatlantic Sessions which we used to watch as a band occasionally and wet ourselves at just how smug a bunch of musicians could look. I remember one set where the DB player was holding down about as rudimentary a root-5th pattern as is possible whilst pulling the sort of faces you've expected of Mingus when pulling out some of the most physically demanding and musically complex DB possible. Very entertaining

Sorry, but when the dancers came into shot I genuinely thought it was going to be French & Saunders, I laughed out loud. Probably says a little too much about me, sorry. I like the bass tone, and the drumming is great, but am not getting the current wave of instrumental bands of obviously highly talented musicians playing what sounds to my ear like 1970's lift music. There also seems to be a generic vibe about them all, a certain aesthetic in visual style from the physical surroundings to the body language and facial expressions of the musicians. Perhaps I'm just in bad mood, I'll have to go back to the bit when the dancers come in again

Had the Fissuregate thread started that way it might still be going

Like fissuregate, as time goes on, that gap gets increasingly bigger and both sides tend to lose their grasp on the original issue, and that only gets a whole lot worse once us internet lot get involved

Hi Nicko, much appreciated, many thanks. I'll take a look at the manual and online stuff and get back to you. Any device with midi will sync with Pro Tools I imagine, I think that some - especially more recent models - do it more seemlessly than others (I might be wrong, as I said above, I've never really used midi). Thanks for your help Chris

Thanks Dad! I'd like a drum machine that is operated like the machines I'm used to using and which I can use live if needs be (when I say 'live' I mean for practicing and rehearsing without needing a computer in the room, specifically for writing with bandmates of making music with the kids ahead of my 6-year old's inevitable journey towards a full kit), but which links with Pro Tools easily. I tried EZ Drummer and to be honest found it unintuitive, which is probably a major part of the problem - when it comes to drum simulation my brain appears formatted to fully understand the logic of old school hardware and not the current interfaces and protocols of the VSTs. Re playing, I'm not sure I fully understand the options above, but I think that yes, I'm looking to create tracks piano roll style, which is how I've always done it (and I have NEVER used midi, perhaps I need to get into it more). Re style, I'm mostly going to be wanting to create low key small/jazz kit type drum tracks at the moment (the stuff I'm writing for the theme music is drums, double bass and possibly a little bit of jingly-jangly telecaster), but of course, down the line I might also want to be creating 'In the Air Tonight' big kit sounds. If the consensus is that I'm shooting myself in the foot trying to avoid VSTs, then I will take that feedback and take the plunge, and perhaps use an old school 16 quarter-beat display drum machine with the kids and to rehearse. However I'd prefer the same machine does both if possible Thanks for your help Chris

Folks, I am about to record some theme music for a series of podcasts and online educational programmes. I've used hardware drum machines in the past, and have recently been using a Beat Buddy, but these have been largely for live as opposed to recording applications. I've trialled a few virtual drum products but find them very hard to use, I like and am used to the feel and logic of hardware drum machines, I also seem to be a little prone to RIS in my wrist from excessive use of the mouse, so want to minimise mouse usage as far as possible. I'd like to find a decent hardware drum machine that will integrate as easily as possible with Pro Tools. I would also like one that can emulate real drum sounds as far as possible, I'm not really into 80's sounds! Lots of reviews out there seem to like the Arturia DrumBrute which seems reasonably priced, but of course the problem with hardware kits is that, unlike their virtual counterparts, you can't audition them first! Any thoughts/experience on this or others would be very welcome. Thanks in advance Chris PS when I say 'speaks to' I mean can sync with or create a click in Pro Tools

Yes they have haven't they, or perhaps eBay are just not responding to these things any more. Ric threatened legal action a few times I believe, I wonder if eBay or another organisation called their bluff? As I understood it Ric were trying to impose bans on pretty much anything that resembled one of their products without reference to the specifics of their copyright?

Yep, IFL in there with a few others. Watching that has made my day, thanks for posting ubit

He's not joking is he! I sent him a pretty terse message about it because it whizzed me off that despite having reported it to eBay, as had quite a few others, eBay being eBay had done FA (after all, it wasn't a fake Rickenbacker). My sense is that it's going to reappear as a Fender Custom Shop Bass

Ah yes

Ye, as well all know if we've tried to carry used strings are spares, they are a nightmare to get flats because the headstock ends spiral. There'd have to be pretty poor manufacturing QC to not notice that!

Lot of odd threads about at the moment

He declined my offer

Come on guys, where's your sense of humour? There's a Make Best Offer button there, let's all hit him with £3.50?

Fixed that for you (I'm sure others have done the same). I used to love the White Album, I don't know why but in the last five years over which I haven't listened to it at all, a look through the track listing makes me seriously question my former tastes. Re Hey Jude, love the Primal Scream-esque bass-line on the Love album