Woodinblack

I looked for the stats and found this video I hadn't seen before which has a lot of detail

That one lacks both pitch bend and modulation wheel, which is what the OP wanted. There are a load of cheap controllers that have it htough

Just got home from a splendid gig too. Not normally that busy but absolutely heaving by the end. A short one for us at just over 2 hours. I finally get to use my basschat cab now I have got a cover for it and it is magnificent. Strangely I have to turn down a bit, I assumed I would have to turn up, as it is 1 8r 1x12 and I normally play into 2 8r 1x12, but seems really loud. Very clear though. Great night.

Be surprised then. Its got nothing to do with the app, it is down to the OS. "Bluetooth MIDI connections are bidirectional for Mac computers and iOS and iPadOS devices. For example, a Mac in the peripheral role and a Mac in the host role are both capable of sending and receiving MIDI data."

I'd love a bass like that but I know its going to be a bit stinky poo (and its also a 4!)

Bluetooth midi on iPhones is a standard and works very well with everything. If you have something that can use bluetooth midi it will work with any iPhone midi application, regardless of what its source is, the same with a mac. I don't know about the PC but would imagine it should be able to cope.

If only they had some kind of user forum to contact them

Nothing new under the sun

A copy of a Ritter, I am guessing in appearance only!

Guitarguitar have them listed at £399, so I assume that would be the going price. edit: andertons have them at £499.. and PMT £549. Better get the order in from GuitarGuitar if anyone wants one!

Well, there is the touche.. a little pricy though https://www.expressivee.com/touche-se There are a lot of other little controllers, might do the job. Or you could just get a windows mod wheel application, I am sure there are some (I don't use a PC for midi so not sure what is around). Unfortunately this is just the disadvantage of progress. Back in the day devices just had 5 pin midi ports - if you had two devices and one had an in port and one had an out port, you could connect them, and they would do 'something' whatever that was. This is still the case for old midi, but if you want to use USB, it has a direction, one end if a computer, the other end is a thing being controlled. A controller can't connect to a controller, and a computer can't connect to a computer. You could use a bluetooth midi device, yamaha make one (i have it), which you could connect a computer to an ipad (which uses bluetooth midi). That would almost certainly work.

Hmm.. well, there are a few ways. The easy way is bluetooth midi, which I am guessing you haven't got or you would have found it easy. Problem is that the phone is a computer end, not a controller end, so it is easy to connect things to it, but not so easy to connect it to another computer without some device in the middle. Which means, no, there isn't a really simple first step. If you connect both to midi (5 pin) interfaces, it becomes easy, it is one of the downsides of USB midi in that it has a direction. There are a few devices that can do it (although all of them will cost more than a simple keyboard with pitch bend / modulation) Why doesn't your computer send pitch bend / modulation - is it just because it doesn't have the wheels?

Depends who you are and where you are playing, if you are a dancy group or not. I mean if you are a prog group or a rush tribute act, there aren't going to be any women in the audience, so there are no worries on that front!

I haven't had a go yet, nowhere near me has any released yet (andertons claims today, although they aren't near). They are supposed to be optimised for sitting, so hopefully they have thought of that. The spacing of 17.5 on the 5 is a bit wide for me, so I want to try it before actually buying one, I am hoping PMT will have some thing month.

That seems an odd thing, I mean it doesn't really make it that much smaller while making it a bit less versatile. I assume that someone will want that but seems.. well, unexciting. If only they could get behringers drive!

I specified the neck profile and got non-raked thrown in for free (but without string tree)!

Nick beggs does actually have a Ric, but didn't use it with Steve Hacket the year before but the current guy Jonas Reingold is a ric player. Not really that Chris Squire like though.

I must admit that I don't hear the chris squire thing in modern prog that much, although on the last steve hacket gig the guy did have a ric! My favourite would be prog rock and I don't even have a ric copy <shuffles the chapman stick slightly out of view>

@scrumpymike is it the same btinternet paypal account as a couple of years ago?

Wow, Microsoft and Cisco require you to learn songs for their qualification now? That *is* harsh! I hope its not that windows 386 song...

Me too, happens to everyone. I am not blaming him for not being able to sing as well, it is just as you say, a fact of life. I am just saying his voice is not as good, so if you want to hear them at their best, listen to something from before 2005 as it is better. Rush are my all time favourite group which is why I chose to not go and see them in the last 10 years.

sounds good!

He is ok, yes. His bass and keyboard is fantastic, but his voice was not what it was. He has obviously been taught different techniques to make the best of it and he is ok. But OK isn't really good for rush, I don't enjoy it as much as earlier rush. But there is a lifetime of stuff out there to go through so there is not really an issue.

And the original was the B3, not the B3n