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Mono 1/4" jack straight to right-angle adapteur...

Famous last words. ...

50 kms south of Paris (Fontainebleau...), so a faire trot, but Skype is an option, it seems. Good solid stuff.

Ordered, unseen. D.A.Holwill is recommendation enough. Amazon review will follow (good or not so good..! )

Have you changed the battery for the piezo lately..? It has both an active and a passive mode; to run at its best it'll need the battery to be fresh, and in active mode. Worth a thought..?

Thanks for the congrats, folks, but I must offer an apology this month. I'm not well right now, and haven't been following too closely; indeed, I've not even voted, myself..! May I suggest that the current 'second ' ( @upside downer ...) take the top spot (I'd have voted for that one, which would have brought on a tie, anyway...)..? I'll get around to doing the usual Certificate later, in both our names, but I'm really not up to it right now, and wouldn't want to put too much of a damper on the Challenge, which is doing splendidly, with, as has been mentioned, much talented creation from old hands and newer faces. Copy to @lurksalot and @Skol303 for validation; I hope this meets with your satisfaction. No worries; I'll be back with more of my stuff as soon as I can.

Right-angle jack speaker cable ...

Good evening, KBD, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Gray, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Deke , and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

I did indeed, and very pleasurable it was, too. Health and time constraints put a stop to it. I did have the intention of picking it up again, but I'm rather worn out, I'm afraid, and if I can't do the stuff justice, I'd rather desist.

Good afternoon, Mark, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

The harmonic will always be exact, whatever the intonation, and, in fact, helps check the intonation..! The fretted 12th fret should be the same note as the harmonic.

Good morning, GGG, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Use the octave harmonic if the open string is too difficult to discern. Lightly touch the string at the octave, and release, whilst plucking. This is very accurate for tuning.

Your location may be a factor. London..? South-East..? Outer Hebrides..?

AD is very good if you're happy programming in the manner of a 'beat box', letting the tempo run and pressing the keys to get the element to sound at the right time. Very quick'n'easy, but rather too 'mechanical' for my tastes. The sounds are good, though. Edit : A closer look makes the latest version more interesting; I'll install and try it out with the 'live' kit. AD2 seems to have many improvements, so it's a 'maybe', then. The real upgrade from EZ Drummer would be to take the leap to Superior Drummer 3; the difference is enormous. Very wide control of all elements, whilst retaining the option of using the fine 'default' kits. Well worth the upgrade price, in my view. Just sayin'.

Salt to the wound; that's all I have to say...

I basically use three methods, depending on the part I want and the time I have to do it in. The easiest, and quickest, most of the time, is to play what I want on my electronic kit, directly into the DAW. One needs a MIDI-compatible kit for this, and to be able to drum. The second method, for the simpler stuff, is to use a keyboard (I have several, but for 'quick'n'dirty', a tiny M-Audio Keystation Mini32 does the job, on my lap. I tap out the pattern I want, in real time, and go back over it to add stuff I couldn't do, such as a hi-hat. The best way, in my opinion, is to use the piano roll, and 'draw' the patterns individually. Often enough, I'll do a 'real-time' keyboard base, for the bass drum and snare fundamentals, then go into the piano roll and add ghost notes, hi-hat lifts, whatever... The piano roll addresses all the kit, all at once, but the output can be spread out to many tracks, one for each element of the kit, if the Vst has a 'multi-track' option. I can use one MIDI chanel for all, or split into many MIDI channels if I wish I have several drum Vst's, and usually 'default' to Superior Drummer 3, but use this same technique for just about all of them. I'd make exception for M-Drummer, which has a different way of working at its core, whereby it'll compose darned good rhythms on its own, so I usually just let it rip (for jazzier-style stuff; it does that quickly and easily, with a result that pleases me...). For myself, I see no need to do anything of the sort in the drum Vst, as I'd have to learn so many different ways of composing and editing. Doing it all in the DAW gives me just one method to use, and Reaper has all the editing functions I need (cut/copy/paste, edit velocities, quantising or 'humanising' and more...). I also have the option, using the DAW, to have as many tracks, mixing as many kits or percussion elements as I wish, with individual control over the elements. Using 32-track output, for instance, I can add a slap-back delay to the snare alone, or a subtle phaser effect to the cymbals. I can add a track to have orchestral drums, for adding tympani, and ethnic drums for Japanese Taiko-style, or a Middle-Eastern Darbuka. I'm pretty much allergic to Djembes, however (I've attended too many festivals where they featured boisterously..!). If you've any better system, please share; I'm always willing to improve and learn stuff. Hope this helps.

Good evening, AH ... S'been a while since I used EZ Drummer 2, but here's how I do the things you're doing. I don't know how you're 'programming' your grooves; I use the DAW for that. I couldn't even find where to try it in EZD, so... A picture is worth, it is said, a thousand words, so here's a picture... I hope that you can see, in my DAW (Reaper...), I've set up two drum tracks, each with an instance of EZ Drummer 2 added. Each track has a MIDI pattern, in 'piano roll' format, which I quickly cobbled up, using the DAW Editor (the window with the piano keys...). I took the time to add the drum affectation to those keys, which show me where each element of the kit is to be found. I've set a different kit for each instance; I could have chosen any kits in stock, but I've not a Latin kit with this version; the principle goes for any kits, however. I've uploaded the resulting render, so you may hear the two kits playing in turn. Yes, the beat is a simple one, just for demo purposes; it only took me a couple of minutes. Does this help at all..? EZ_Drum_01_1-002.wav

'The Eagle has flown'. I repeat : 'The Eagle has flown'.

Some folks have a link to their Feedback topic in their Signature. That would be the 'easy' way to get it out there. Hope this helps.

Yes Learn also that 'wire' has only one conductor, 'cables' have more. You have red and black speaker 'wires' (only one conducting core...), the blue 'cable' has at least two. You can help yourself by using the correct terminology; it'll make communication much easier, and maybe even safer, for yourself and others. Just sayin'.

It's fine. Your present one is fine, too. Is that a guitar jack cable you're using for the speaker..? It'll work at low volume, but should really be a speaker cable. See about changing that while you're at it.