Woodinblack

Yes, that is all the Gecko can do so I guess it relieves the buttons of the core from doing that.

Oh they are nice. Would be interested in those, but I don't know why, as I don't (or rarely) play acoustic guitar!

I have a crafter acoustic, but not full acoustic like that, a Crafter SA-QMMS, which is one of the blue quilted ones with the side F holes, a piezo in the bridge and a lipstick pickup by the neck. I like it a lot, Had it for ages, never really wanted another acoustic. Although a bit of a heresy question - why do you want so many very similar looking acoustics, are there differences?

So back to the principle, "What is it you want to do on your Gecko that you can't do on your Core alone'. When you change to a preset (there are 20 on the gecko), it sends a number of channel changes out on midi. At the basic level, if you set the midi channel on your gecko to the midi channel on your core, then if you have changed nothing, selecting preset 1 on the gecko will set patch 1 on the core, then changing to 2 on the gecko will set patch 2 on the core. I assume you want to talk to multiple devices, as this doesnt' give you anything you can't do (I assume) on the core itself, so if you have a second device, unless you want changing preset on the gecko to change on both the core and the other device to the same preset (which is what would happen by default), the other device needs a different midi channel from the core, and you need to tell the gecko something like 'channel 1 goes to preset 2, channel 2 goes to preset 35 or something. Hard to say as an abstract without you saying what it is you want to control to do what

Someone will pay that much, then when they do, it will become the norm, so lots of other places will make that the price, then berfore you know it it will be the 80s ones going up

Thats odd - the battery in mine lasted fairly well

I think there was a change at one point, I think it used to be Volume balance piezo volume, but then was changed to volume volume volume. I had one a while back, great bass but too good for my fretless ability. I think if you changed the system to give active passive switch you might then lose the piezo when you went to passive mode, unless you got creative with the wiring. Or even a john east - I don't think there is one that works with piezos is there? Bartolini do replacement modules though, so maybe there is something there.

I really wanted one of the red pulse 1s, but I never got one, and then ended up with two spectors anyway.

Understandable if it isn't immediately obvious, but one of the advantages of MIDI and why it has survived this long is because it is really simple, really really simple. you send a bunch of bytes to something down a cable and something happens and something gets sent back. The two things on either end don't have to know about each other beforehand, as long as they send the right data, which is why you can still to this day use it with a controller that came out last week and a Jupiter 6 from 1983, which is pretty rare with digital technologies. There are some very basic concepts to midi - there is a channel (from 1-16), and there are a series of values you can send from 0-127.. There are a few different predetermined type of messages, note on/off, program change, parameter change, control change etc. A lot of these are default sorts of messages, and the midi implimentation chart says what the system responds to with each one. I am sure noone wants to know specifically in this depth, and you don't need to know this to program a controller, but say note on - you send 3 bytes, the first byte is a combination of the note on code (9) and the channel (0-F), the second byte in the note and the third byte is the velocity. So the hex bytes 90 3C 7F tells the sound thingy to play a middle C as loud as it can on channel 1. Then you have to send a 80 3C 00 to turn it off. Where it gets more useful for the hardware you are talking about here is the program change, so if you take the program message, which is C, so C0 for channel 1, and a program number from 0-127. On a device like this it would be a patch so sending a program change of C0 02 would tell the unit to change patch to patch 2 (or 3 if you start at 1). Largely if you just want next patch / previous patch that would be a simple controller function of telling the controller to set the buttons to do that, or to send a specific patch number. You only need to know the implimentation if you want to start changing actual values, for example echo time or output level etc, and generally you probably aren't going to want to do that.

That is a midi implimentation document - very important and lists everything that it responds to or provides over midi. In a way it is like a dictionary, you open a dictionary to find out what words do, not for a good read. That document will tell you everything you need to know - however, you have to know what you want to know before you ask the question! If you just want to change presets, all pretty easy stuff, or if you want something more complicated you can do that too - depends on the controller or your requirements.

Good oportunity here to improve things. You remember those fibre optic lights that were all the rage in the 70s? Well, they just had one light, a disk with lots of colours that just slowly spun and a group of fibre optic elements. If you can find one of those in a charity shop, take the disk out and fit that to your cab - so if you play hard enough you get a colour light show!

I would imagine that every time you have driven the cab hard you haven't been facing it?

I do the start of that, as the drummer always shouts out 'what was that, jajagoogoo' when someone makes a request

It doesn't make any sense regardless of the type of amp it is connected to, your resistor would have to match the wattage of any speaker it was connected to as half of your power would be going to heat up the resistor, which means it needs to be very big and bolted to some metal to get rid of the heat and you are wasting half of your power. So if you have a valve amp, connect it to the correct impedance output, and if you have a solid state amp, you can put more power into the speaker, and use more power, just to throw away that power heating a resistor, giving you the same volume if you had connected it without the resistor. The Harkte has a dual voice coil apparently, so I guess you are only using half of it in one of the modes.

Groove is in the heart generally.

They try to push you away from PayPal, as they have their own payment system.

I buy through ebay a lot of the time and rarely have a problem, it is a good place to get cheap bits for those of us that won't use amazon and find things that are really rare (I mean, where does one get an eignharp otherwise?). i have never really had a selling issue and certainly nothing like the level of crazy above.

I have an Argon 8 - don't use it too much at the moment, amazing sounds though. There is also the cobalt 8 which is the analogue version. I would probably use it more if it wasn't for the fact that it still doesn't blow the Blofeld out of the water as it should.

Yes, I do that, I didn't realise it had a name or anything. Or at least that in technique, not the metal stuff.

When someone says they don't post, and something hasn't sold and they relist and relist, I ask if they would consider posting. If they won't then that is fine, its worth an ask, but the answer no is pretty clear, it doesn't need a reason.

So a separate sub forum for the 48 english counties, 33 scottish counties, 11 welsh counties, 6 northern irish counties, or do we also include the 26 counties of ireland and maybe european and american ones too, as we have members from there?

our singer has now gone so far as to wear earphones. They aren't wired up yet, but baby steps, its only been 7 years...