Woodinblack

It annoys me that someone went across the desert on a horse and didn't even have the decency to name it.

You can output guitar pro to any midi source. Get a midi synth (or software midi synth) that is louder, or an amplifier. Also with Guitar Pro, the bass is hard to hear as it is low - transpose the whole thing up an octave and it is a lot easier to hear.

I have all the equipment to play in stage or studio, apart from, you know, the actual instrument.

Interested to hear how you get on - my left ear just comes out all the time, it won't stay in at all. The right one never falls out.

Oh absolutely - it takes the time to go to your bank / money account and select the refund button, but if they have some policy saying it takes 14 days tht you agree to when you sign up, maybe it would focus their minds that they have the choice of fulfilling the job or refunding you. Might be worth their while. If I type in 'Industrial Radio MIDIbass' in google, the first hit is Industrial radio, with the details of the product, the second hit is this thread.

Personaly I would reply, ok, start my refund and it is ready and boxed to be shipped to me before the 14 days you require for the refund, you can cancel the refund. So happy to see either the shipping confirmation or the refund on the 24th July. But can understand if you are so sick of it that you want it back now.

I am the same with Zombie that someone else mentioned - I heard it being done in a subway in Montreal, by someone who clearly didn't know English at all, and had reduced it down to its phonetics, which in the chorus is just the vowels 'Eee orrr ehh, Eee orr ehh'

I used to hate mustang sally, now I don't. There aren't many (non oasis) songs that I really hate, although many I would be happy not to play again, such as some of the ones previously mentioned on here.

I have 'stuff I use with the band' and 'stuff I use just for me', so there are options for either. The second group has things like an analogue echo pedal where the delay time is controlled by a CV from the pitch to cv pedal, it it makes a very pleasing if not always musical effect!

I couldn't call anything in the 80s vintage, that was only a few weeks back. Maybe the beginning of the 70s. I guess 50 years makes sense.

Thats a good plan, I should probably do that! I just got rid of all the banks that were set, as I realised all those pedalboards were in the way of mine. Thanks for the heads up, I will look at the ttap

Its the way they would have wanted to go

I don't think that is necessarily true. Some people take a bass week after week to a gig, throw it in the back of the car in a bag, play it, drop it, throw it around then put it back in the bag, lob it back in the car, get home, throw it in the corner. Its an object, they don't care. Some people take a bass week after a week to a gig, keep it in a case, take it out when they need it, play it, wipe it down afterwards, put it back in the case, take it home and store it. It has value to them and they want to look after it. I have picked up guitars that were a couple of years old that look like they were used to dig a patio, and ones that are over 20 years ago that looked like they came out of the factory yesterday. Its more to do with how they were looked after. The oldest guitars are only 70 years old, there are playable good condition musical instruments that are 4/500 years old.

Indeed - it can be a overwhelming when you just want to throw something in and realise you have 20 pedals you could use, and you are not sure which one.

Yep, tried it, sounds great at the time, not so great afterwards. i don't know about alcohol, never did that.

Only brilliant for improvising if you wanted a 4 hour 12 bar blues track!

Indeed - if you just want a bass get the one that plays well. If you want something collectable get the 76 (god knows why one that new is worth that now). Or use the 2.5k difference to invest in some stocks, you will probably get the money quicker.

hahah - when I saw the screenshot before I read what was on it, I thought you had worked out how to get the packman graphics on there! The program change / snapshot change is a good spot though, I forgot that (which is sad as I only turned it on at the weekend).

To win pacman, not just to play. And yes, it would be possible to play pacman on the dwarf but you would need to use the web interface or an external display, to do it well!

I had thought of the audio file player, but maybe with mindi doing something to kick it off, but couldn't work out how to do that. Unfortunately I can set the dwarf to accept program changes as pedalboard changes or snapshot changes, I don't think I can do both? The answer is obvious really - the sampler has public source code so I should just make one, its just a question of time.

I haven't had that issue with my NS, but I have that problem all the time with PA stands etc. That seems like a good thing!

haha - yes, I forgot that bit. I switched on the 'Change pedalboard on program change' setting on the dwarf when I was playing around with the chocolate pedal, then promptly forgot about it as I had to sort my pedalboard order out* until the gig this weekend, and got really confused as I had a pedalboard with a sample playback and one without one, but everytime I switched the 12 step to be chromatic** it would switch to my brick in the wall patch (which is the one with the chords). Then it occured to me last night when fiddling, each 12 step patch has a midi section that can send a program change (or bank change or other changes - in fact two as it has two channels) when you switch to it, and my brick in the wall patch sent a program change to my iPad to make sure it was the right patch, but now it sends it to the dwarf and changes pedalboard. *** So last night I changed the program settings so that the two 12 step patches I use select the two pedalboards on the dwarf. Which is surprisingly useful. You just have to make sure you have the right bank selected or hilarity ensues. * Can't find a way of saying 'program change 1 selects this pedalboard, program change 2 selects this one'. There are some of those enigmatic messages you get on forums where people say 'oh you just have to use mindi and reroute the midi throught that to a virtual midi channel to select the channel' like that is supposed to mean anything to a human, but basically, I can accept the limitation that program 1 selects pedalboard 1, program 2 pedalboard 2 etc' (actually 0 selects 1, 1 selects 2 due to terminoligy differences in 12 step and dwarf) ** normal pedalboard has chords in it, chromatic just sends one note out, and that is all the sampler can deal with. *** sample does sort of what I want for 1 sound but irritatingly, when you switch to it it defaults to the click sample, even if you save it pointing to something else. If you change any setting on that pedalboard it will then have the right sample. Also irritatingly, you can't remove the click sample as it doesn't exist except in the sampler! Still, at least if you accidently play the click sample when you meant something else, noone would notice it. Not like the time it was supposed to be a bell and it played the horn intro to stop the cavalry, or the 'Lets all go to the lobby jingle...'

I don't actually drink anyway, so the diet coke isn't just me cleaning up on gigs, that is the normal.

Way too much diet coke.