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Or it's someone who thinks they can re-sell it for more money if they include delivery.

There are all sorts of tribute bands ranging from those that are the closest you'll ever get to the "real thing" without actually going to see the "real thing", and at the other end covers bands who just play songs by a single artist. To the OP. IMO you need to be a lot more specific about the sort of tribute band you'd like to be in and why. As others have said lots of tribute bands are formed by musicians who are massive fans of the act they are a tribute to, and someone who doesn't appear to be as enthusiastic about the music may not be the sort of musician they are looking for to complete the line-up. At the moment to being "open-minded, just nothing too heavy" tends to make you come across as being somewhat unfocused musically. With the right connections you might get a one-off dep when the band are desperate, but you'll need to be a lot more specific if you want a permanent band place. Also if you want to get into a band who are more than just covers band who only do one artist, you will probably be expected to look the part, at least as far as having the right clothes, haircut, makeup (if applicable) and instrument. Are you prepared to do that?

I had quite a complex MIDI set-up in the 90s which was used both in the studio and live, but it was all controlled via a dedicated 8-port MIDI interface which avoided the need to use MIDI-thru chains and meant if one device was acting up it wouldn't affect any of the others. However this was in the days when MIDI connections were all 5-pin DIN so you only had to worry about one protocol for connecting everything. IMO the introduction of MIDI over USB is fine a couple of input devices connected directly to a computer, but makes pretty much everything else unnecessarily complicated, added to which USB connections simply aren't robust enough for gigging use.

I can see the advantage of using the UMC1820 as a single device for all the audio inputs and outputs. However for MIDI control of the Roland surely it would be easiest to just use the USB connection direct to the computer?

Yes, but if you looked at the photos in the OP, you'll see that the body is a two piece sandwich with each "slice" being in two halves, and at least one of the joins appears to bisect the recess for the neck joint. That means reassembly will have to be accurate to less than 1mm in order for the rest of the parts to fit properly without additional sanding and routing. Personally I wouldn't risk it and I wouldn't recommend that the OP risk it either.

I currently play in a post-punk/goth/synth-pop influenced band and so the chorus is quite prominent in the effects mix. However I've always had some chorus on my bass sound from when I bought my first chorus pedal in 1983. I was using it with my 90s dance-rock band, the blues/pop band I was with during the 2000s and even playing psychobilly with Dick Venom.

The Helix will allow the control of each parameter in a Preset to be attached to one of three expression pedals, or one of 11 footswitches, or any MIDI CC between 4 and 127. It also allows the value of parameters to change with each Snapshot in the Preset, which is how Line6 do glitch-less sound changes. And it is possible to control parameter values using the volume and tone controls of a Line6 Variax guitar. It won't allow parameter control to be based on the sound of the instrument which I think is what @MrDinsdale is saying. For me this wouldn't be of much use because I don't play in any sort of controlled way and having the sound change due to how hard or soft I'm playing would be a complete non-starter. I'm sure it sounds great on the factory sounds that use it, but I wouldn't be able to play accurately enough to control it. What would be useful to me would be if the triggering of the noise gate and filters could be controlled by MIDI note information instead of the incoming audio signal. Can you do this with the GT1000? The other thing I would find useful would be the ability to have time-based effects synchronised to MIDI clock for periods longer than 1 bar, particularly phasers and flangers

Back in 2011 one of the guitar blogs at the time was asking for photos for a page a month calendar with a free calendar for those whose photos were chosen. I got up very early one August morning and went into Nottingham city centre, when it was just light but hardly anyone was about, to take these two (amongst many others) which were selected:

For me it's the note choices and combinations more than anything. Although a decent amount of chorus also helps.

Good luck with trying to accurately glue together 4 pieces of wood with no straight edges on the non-glue surfaces. I wouldn't want to do that.

That's weird. The way you had worded your previous post suggested that you didn't like the body shape.

Why do you need to connect the Roland Piano to the Behringer interface via MIDI? surely the best thing is to connect the Roland direct to your computer using the USB sockets on each or have I missed something?

If you don’t like the body shape as well as the colour how about getting a new body made to fit the rest of the hardware?

Personally I wouldn't take this to a door stripping company even in the UK. The chemicals used are rather too aggressive in order to get the job done with the minimum of fuss and you are likely to end up with 4 separate pieces of wood. Doors mostly survive because they are held together by woodworking joints and nails although it is always best to re-glue them after the stripping process.

Very true. If this was a Fender bass from the same era, this thread would have probably generated an outcry with posts full of words like "mojo" and "vintage". However 70s Kramers are an oddity only really interesting to enthusiasts of aluminium basses (like myself). Having said that the body colour isn't the most attractive, and if this bass was mine and I hadn't already had a poor experience trying to strip a 70s Kramer bass, I might be tempted to change it.