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I've figured it out. I had the BS 2 linked per USB with the computer so that I could review patches. I also had MuseScore open to read the parts. I neglected the fact that as well as showing the dots, MuseScore has internal voices for checking arrangements (the default being a piano) and the BS2 was triggering this. Doh! 🤦♂️ Smart boy wanted. Thanks for your help, P.
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Hi Guys, I have Logic, but it isn’t opened up. Si, your point about it not being capable of making a piano sound, that‘s exactly what I was thinking, which makes it all the more perplexing. It must be erroneous sound from somewhere but being as Logic wasn‘t open... hmmm Not a problem as such, just very odd.
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I've been goofing around with my bass station 2 - loads of fun. However, sometimes (at the moment, all the time with all patches) I can very clearly hear what sounds like a piano sound layered beneath the sound I'm playing. I can only hear it through the speakers on my mini mixer, not through the built-in headphone output on the keyboard. Has anyone else experienced this or am I losing it? Cheers in advance.
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Hi there, sorry I didn’t respond sooner, I’ve only just seen this. I’m using (hack - spits in a bucket ptuh! What a piece of stinky poo ) Catalina 10.15.3 for my pains. Sometimes stuff works, sometimes not. Unfortunately I don’t know if that’s due to my UMone. There is a driver update for the interface which did help matters, but life since Catalina is fraught with issues all over my computer.
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You just absolutely rock! There, I‘ve said it.
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No, but over at the "Catalina Ranch" things aren't too rosey now either. I can load a patch onto the editor and edit, save etc. but it then freezes on that patch, not allowing me to load another. It allows you to start the load process but when you've found a patch and press open, nothing happens. It just stays on the previous patch. Even a restart didn't help. Then at some random and indeterminate time you can load another patch which then becomes the new "frozen" patch... and so on...
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Holy Schamoly!!
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I’m always just a little bit in awe of people who can do things like that. It looks fabulous. Congratulations!
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I find that doing the "p-bass bit of foam under the strings at the bridge" trick can help with this sometimes. Not always practical live (putting the foam in and taking it out) , although if you mess around a bit with thicknesses of foam it is possible to find a happy medium that you can leave in all the time. Also, if anyone has had issues with double triggering which I did get with some basses and not others, I found this excerpt from the manual very helpful NOTE ON LEVEL (global): Sets the volume threshold of the input signal above which the synth begins sounding. If low-volume notes do not trigger the synth then decrease the value. If multiple triggering occurs then increase the value. Also this, NOTE OFF LEVEL (global): Sets the volume threshold of the input signal below which the synth stops sounding. A lower value allows you to sustain notes longer. A higher value allows better articulation of staccato notes.
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For why? 😘
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I used to have a practice amp that would pick up taxi radio.
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Did you find your playing rushing a bit towards the end? Am I going too far with this line of questioning? ....yes, yes I probably am.
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Some people will really go to any lengths to make it stop, eh?
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I guessed that #2 was the V7 ‘cos I own one so know the sound, and that #4 was the HB.
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OK, fair enough if you were warned. Your solution sounds very similar to what I would have come up with under those circumstances, which reminds me of a gig we did in 2018. I live in Germany where there's a large Turkish community. We did a lookey-likey show Gala for a Turkish owned firm and we were doing a quiet dinner music set before the show-proper kicked off. As the doors opened one of the organisers turned to us and said, "Can you do a couple of Turkish tunes just to get things started?" We're always willing to be flexible and oblige where possible, but there we had to pass. I simply couldn't name you one traditional Turkish tune.
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How many reworkings of La Bamba can one come up with at short notice...? OK there’s always La Cucaracha, but that’s just about it...
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There were numerous aberrations. Two in particular spring to mind. 1.) While rehearsing in a complex of rehearsal rooms he insisted on sitting in the doorway with the door open and wanted everything really loud. When we suggested that this wouldn‘t be cool for other bands rehearsing there, his response was. “F*ck ‘em!” 2.) Our sax player was a German guy of mixed race who spoke good English but wasn’t familiar with all forms of colloquial English. Mr. Proby asked him to play some yackety sax. Our sax player didn’t immediately understand what he meant. His response? “Ya know, play me some of that n*gger sh*t.” Fortunately for Mr. Proby, our Sax player, who’s about 6” taller than him, is a very calm person. I would have snotted the tw*t on the spot.
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I did a couple of gigs backing PJ Proby some years ago. An utter and irredeemable cockwomble of the highest order.
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Einstein can’t be classed as witless, he claimed atoms were the littlest, but when he did a little split-l-little-iss frightened everybody shitless
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Now THERE’S a statement you don’t often hear 😏
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Exciting New Years Eve Gigs, What's Happening With Everyone?
SICbass replied to Bluewine's topic in General Discussion
Love the poster, very Smash Hits styley. -
That looks well nice. I googled around and here’s what Ed Friedland had to say about it: https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.bassplayer.com/.amp/gear/review-yamaha-trbx50-5-string -
Exciting New Years Eve Gigs, What's Happening With Everyone?
SICbass replied to Bluewine's topic in General Discussion
As would I. Nice one chief! -
Exciting New Years Eve Gigs, What's Happening With Everyone?
SICbass replied to Bluewine's topic in General Discussion
Wrap up warm then, eh? -
Exciting New Years Eve Gigs, What's Happening With Everyone?
SICbass replied to Bluewine's topic in General Discussion
ABBA Tribute Show in Aschaffenburg. Done by 8:30 and the whole crew are good mates. It’s way away from home so we’re in a hotel and I can actually relax for once at Midnight. I’m just glad not to be home (Berlin). NYE is like the bleedin’ apocalypse there. My wife and kids are safely at Grandma’s in the countryside.
