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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490890891' post='3268884'] Just busy doing other things... [/quote] Cheers, thanks for replying. .. ([i]Getting old, it would seem; needs to get out and rave more[/i]... )

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1490871967' post='3268636'] That's greedy. You can't vote for yourself and three others as well. [/quote] [quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1490824716' post='3268422'] voted for mine... [/quote] To be understood as 'mine' = 'my favourite three'.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1490822928' post='3268410'] Dad... [/quote]

... and voted. Tough choice, as ever. There's some good stuff there (and then there's Lenny's tune, of course ...). Well done, folks.

... or this..?

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1490739201' post='3267628'] Eek! I was only kidding! At least there's plenty to criticize, so sharpen your teeth... [/quote] Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490733816' post='3267573'] I am not getting to these lately, I am afraid. [/quote] You wouldn't care to expand on that, by any chance..? A bit cryptic for an old beggar such as I, and I'd be interested to have any ambiguity resolved.

[quote name='timhiggins' timestamp='1490490175' post='3265517'] Exotic tree's [/quote] Exotic tree's [i]what[/i], exactly..? Please finish your sentences.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1490651729' post='3266838']...you could retrospectively do all mine... [/quote] I'll do that, an 'MBA Special'. I've given 'em a short listen just now, and they're worthy of comment. Not this week (our daughter and grandson are coming over for a week's visit...), but it'll maybe help me get back in the saddle. Coming soon, then...

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1490630581' post='3266627']...i wrote and recorded the lyrics, edited and mixed it in the space of 2 hours... [/quote] 2 hours..? What kept you..? I have time to bung out a couple of symphonies and a fugue or two in that time..! ... (... [size=2]although it's true that mine are unpolishable, too..![/size] ) As for 'Play Of The Day', it's tempting (I miss it too...), but I have to be fit enough for the 'long haul' first. Soon, but not this month, I'm afraid.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1490626863' post='3266586'] i wouldn't bother, mine is sh*t [/quote] So, now is not the right moment for me to resume my 'Play Of The Day' critiques, then..?

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1490393630' post='3264922'] oh well in that case, you can't have mine [/quote] NO; GET YER SKATES ON..! ... ... (Skol will be late posting the voting, anyway, so ... )

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1490395285' post='3264933']... The great thing about this challenge, for me, is that it makes me do stuff and learn stuff that I would normally keep putting off... [/quote] Unfortunately, the same goes for Lenny. ... ...

Official date-time for entering is midnight, tonight, so any entrants yet to come may need to get their skates on ... It's not strictly applied, so no panic, but time is running out, just the same. Just sayin'.

Get the fellow working on Zappa's 'Black Page'. He'll adore 'four on the floor' as respite from then on.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1489696178' post='3259090']... Now as for a round robin... [/quote] When programming drums, a continual repetition of the same sample will sound unnatural, and, in extreme cases (drum rolls, or bass drum blast beats, for instance...) will give an effect known as 'machine gun'. A Round Robin will play a different sample for each successive note, sometimes each in turn, or, even better for most drums, randomly. This gives a more natural rendition. 3 or 4 RR's are enough for many applications (that's to say, 3 or 4 sets of samples to be triggered...), but 8 is good too..! If the samples are well recorded, the result is almost imperceptible, but the end product has a far better 'feeling' to it. I'll bow to your superior expertise concerning perms; it's been a long time since I went to the hairdressers.

[quote name='Fuzzbass2000' timestamp='1489614537' post='3258453']... Assuming I can find someone to do the work... [/quote] Don't let on that I told you, but our very own [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/7835-kiogon/"]KiOgon ...[/url] has been known to successfully repair many items thought lost to all for ever. Might be worth asking him (nicely...)..?

Yes indeed. It's only the first forty years or so that are the worst, after which things tend to get (slightly...) better.

[quote name='Scoop' timestamp='1489579464' post='3258062'] I have an old Status Electro Mk1 (no magnetic pickups, just a piezo bridge)... [/quote] Many (most..?) piezo pickups need a specific pre-amp to adapt their output and impedance to a standard amp. Perhaps you could try out such a pre-amp; they're often used by acoustic bass players.

... which probably explains why one often has to transpose an octave up or down certain MIDI files. No big deal, as it's easy to do with Reaper, at least, but can produce some surprises. Luckily it's not a life-threatening lack of coordination, just another bugbear to bear with.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1489536121' post='3257813'] Well thank you Douglas , that is very generous of you , now , can we go back to the first bit I started to lose it ...... C3, what's that all about [/quote] I'm sorry, Lurks, I forgot that not all here are members of the intelligentsia. 'C3' refers to the 'piano' key that will trigger the bass drum through MIDI. The notes are numbered by octave, where C0 is a very low C indeed. Typical drum configurations, such as General MIDI (GM...) use C for the bass drum, C# for the snare, and so on. For the purposes of my experiment I could have chosen any key at all; I just naturally went for the 'standard' key for the bass drum. I'm assuming that the concept of a Round Robin is within your grasp (generous as I am this evening...), and that velocity levels hold no secrets from you..? If not, I'll elaborate further. Anything else too cloudy for you..? ... To tell the truth, most of this stuff was way beyond my ken a week or so ago, and anyway, I forget it as fast (or faster...) than I pick it up..! Old age, eh..?

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1489526301' post='3257718'] AFAIK the important thing to look for when choosing batteries is the Ah(Amp hour) rating. The higher the figure the longer they will last(theoretically) [/quote] S'worth looking at the date, too, as dry cells (batteries...) have a finite shelf life. These days, stocks turn over quite swiftly, but some web sources or pound shops could have 'NOS' lots that are not at their freshest. Personally, what few batteries I still use are rechargeables. The more one 'eats' batteries, the quicker the return on a (modest, these days...) investment. Just sayin'.

As you were, men (and ladies...); I've got it sussed now. Thanks to some posts on the TX forum, a fair bit of head scratching and not a few experiments, I now have a fully randomised 8-round robin sampled bass drum, with 32 velocity layers. I can't say that it's exactly intuitive (I'd never in a million years have found out by myself, nor with the User Manual alone, although it all adds up...), but it's a doddle, really, once the penny drops. I've always wanted to have an open-ended sampler that I could load up with my own stuff, and have always been either limited to simple 'one-shots' and the like, or an interface requiring NASA training to get to grips with, and often enough text-based, or worse..! This TX16Wx is powerful, easy as pie for the more simple manipulations, and, as I now find, with oodles of handy features for those wishing to delve into the murky depths behind the façade. Free download, simple to install, with the possibility of trialling the 'Pro' features with no restrictions. A 'personal use' 'Pro' license is a mere €29, and I will put my neck out and affirm that this is the best sampler available for personal use by a long chalk, and worth every penny (or euro, or dollar, or whatever...). Now then, what about a cracking snare drum, eh..? Midnight oil will be burned (again...), I fear... PS: if there's anyone wishing to learn how to do this, I'd be happy to go through the steps to get 'em started, at least. Expert, I am not, but I'm willing to share what little I have.