Woodinblack

There is next to no band I would join on that basis ever, unless I guess they were a name group with a recording deal and the job had a guaranteed minimum payback. Happy to pay a share going forward of my pay for the use of the PA, but I would hope that if that situation happened it would be clear before the auditioning as I wouldn't want to waste my time.

If you can, can you let us know, I I have a bridge I would like to sell him

I put vmware on mine yesterday, but didn't actually do anything with it yet. But I retried with docker at lunchtime, and following the same thing I did on the PC earlier, I got the LV2 debian image installer, downloaded LV2 (not sure why it is an LV2 image when it doesn't have LV2 on it but hey), installed LV2, it passed all the tests and I installed it. So in theory, it is there ready to run and tonight I will try building a basic LV2 from the samples and playing around / adding stuff to it. If that all works (and maybe will do a few more LV2 plugins), next step would be the UI which would involve some of the mod stuff

My last ones were marked but didn't seem much point marking them currently, they so obviously only fit one way round that it takes longer to look than to try. In fact, by looking, take one headphone, put the black rubbery bit on the right of the headphone. If the cable is at the top its the left ear, if it isn't its the right ear.

Not a bad idea, but at the moment my actual issue is just getting the dev environment working, not the actual making of LV2 plugins. The plugins themselves, ie, the LV2 plugins as such not the mod versions, seem pretty straight forward. Hopefully if I get any time this week I will have a test plugin to work on, and then I will try and get it on the dwarf, and then I will try and gig it. I am certainly writing down everything I am doing along the way, and every resource I have used, hopefully at the end of this with a bit of trimming I can write a full checklist of how to do it, something that seems sadly lacking.

Currently no, but I have installed everything on another machine so I will see if that helps anything. Currently I can't get the mod-plugin-builder image working.

Sometimes there is a problem with the question that it contains a premise that is not true. When I was young I had a 4 string bass, a ric copy, which was stolen. but then I was a guitar player for a longest time. After a while I bought a bass, it was a 5 string, it just happened to be that is what I found cheap. So for me, the 'moving on' part of the question is odd. I effectively started on a 5. So for me, moving on would be moving to a 4 or a 6. I can't see any advantage in moving to a 4, other than a different choice of basses, and the problem of moving to a 6 is a wider neck for not that much gain. I have tried 6s a few times but have difficulty with the widths. I try 4s from time to time but the missing string always gets me in the end! People always assume there is a 'going to a 5 from a 4' rather than a 'going to a 4 from a 5'.

Yes, the simple amplifier project is good - shows conceptually a lot of what you need to know - the input coming in, the output going out, taking a value from external control etc. The other link that smanth posted up there covers almost the same project in a slightly different way if you prefer / can deal with youtube videos. I have tried that, it does build as a project and work.

Yeh - not going to make myself popular there am I! Never mind, there isn't much point me trying to get the LV2->Mod thing done until i have a LV2 that I am happy with, I guess there is no problem, just that I have an LV2 in mind that I actually need gigging right now, so if I can get that made this week, I will get back to trying to get on the mod.

Yeh, another few hours trying to get stuff working. I think maybe I have just been doing too much windows and mac devopment recently and have gone too soft in the head to go back to the open source jungle for a while, I have got kind of used to stuff actually working, and spending time actually writing code, rather than spending 4 hours just to try and find random unconnected parts of documentation telling you which frameworks and scripts and libraries you need to do, contradicting the last parts and sending you round the loop again. Which is a shame as the writing LV2 plugins seems pretty simple, and the documentation is good on that. The Dwarf stuff at the moment seems like somewhere between guesswork, magic and luck I will get my LV2 plugins built and tested and all working as actual plugins first on the mac, then and only then I may have renewed energy to dive into the murky badly documented world of getting them onto the dwarf!

Yeh, that is the kind of definitive LV2 resource, but the guy that did a lot of the LV2 stuff.

Yes - documentation. I don't mind if it is paper or electronic, but static text that you can read at your speed and look up the bits you want to see in the order you want to see it. I don't want someone describing the parameters to me, I want to look for the thing I need info on and nothing else! Not knocking stack overflow, it is there and it is useful (I have contributed myself) and it is a good resource. Its just that it helps to build understanding, but for many open source projects its 'why isn't this working' - half an hour browse, find a post on some random forum that says 'oh of course if your system is this type and it is a tuesday obviously you need to set the time to 38 minutes back from your request time, set the other variable to less than 16 and then the counter variable works again'. I found a 'how to build a LV2 plugin from start to finish' that is perfect, by the guy that wrote LV2 - that much is easy. Its the 'how to translate that to get it running on the mod' that seems a lot harder than it should be. I guess I should build a generic LV2 plugin (as that will work on any platform), and then when I have done that, I can hope the next step is easier! Probably just a bit pissy as I spent the afternoon trying to get docker and everything working, with the usual spotty random level of success. It seems to work, no idea where anything is but I am sure I have a couple of less gig on the machine now!

I wasted half the day trying to get going on plugin development - unfortunately it is like a lot of open source stuff where it is a badge of honour if you can actually work out the way to do something*, with half a ton of things you are supposed to download to make it easier, a lack of documentation and everyone saying 'use this framework' or 'watch this video' (I can never get any useful programming information from a youtube video!). the code itself looks pretty simple, the 'how to get from your text editor to the mod device' seems opaque as hell. * the joy of freedom. Want to write a windows app? write it like this. Want to write a mac app? write it like this. Want to do an open source or linux project, we aren't going to restrict you, you can use one of these 250 ways, but we only documented 3 and it is all out of date and probably doesn't work on your system!

You will get banned - we don't need that crazy positivity here!

I know - who wants to live in wales right?

I have a chapman stick - although that is only 5 bass strings, unless you are in bass reciprocal, in which case, two loads of 5 strings. Or 6 if you have a grand stick. Still play 5 string basses though.

I think of the B, A, D, G and C as extensions to the E string, you don't really need any of them but makes life better!

Wouldn't work for me - I have the PA, and I have a couple of basic lights as the band had none. They are mine, if I leave then they come with me. I dont' get any money from it, but I never asked for any. If they wanted to update anything they are welcome to, but I am not paying for it. At the moment I woudl just be happy if the guitarist bought the leads he needed to plug his equipment in, let alone anything else. Certainly when it comes down to IEM and stuff like that, that is a personal purchase, I have mine, if others want theirs they can buy it just like their instruments or something (unless it was a shared block, but I can't imagine that ever happening).

I didnt really hear the bass much in that, seemed very low down in the mix, but to be fair I can't imagine that had I heard the bass and it had been good it would have improved anything much. Didn't see that much of it, and the bit we saw was just for its comedy value. There is such a thing as bad publicity.

The preamp anyway.

My previous ZS10s had a mark on one side as to what was left or right (although I never remembered which that was), but you get used to it really quickly that they only actually fit one way round. Now I look at my current ones I don't see a mark.

Well, I would give them a heads up that if some blues band came up it would be more your thing, but if you are there then there are obviously fewer metal original bass players (and I would assume that there would be a fraction of metal original bands to blues bands) so that if someone else came along to replace you they could.

Honestly, yes, because in general I wouldn't bother going to see many bands!

Some kind of shecter or something from the headstock? I doubt you would be able to tell the difference from one to the other on stage.

On the jamman pedal I had it was next to impossible to add stuff, so I just copied the folder structure and xml file and put my wav file in it, worked fine!