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@SpondonBassed Yes, that intro is terrific. Although it doesn't win me a prize, it is one of my favourite all time intros.

'Fairlight Orchestral Hit'. 'LinnDrum'

French Horn, eh? Lovely..... My dear old mum would have approved. Rather than my oily Trombone slide, dropping onto her lovely new carpet,

You might be interested in this website. The United States Marine Band - 'The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa'. Three albums (legally free to download, but MP3 only), along with the full scores and single instrument parts in PDF. (Click on the individual track to get access to the score PDF's). http://www.marineband.marines.mil/Audio-Resources/The-Complete-Marches-of-John-Philip-Sousa/

Ahhh...Sometimes known as 'The Norman (Archer)', or a 'Doinker', with noises usually made by non slapping Bassists, in the wrong places, at the wrong time with more pulled force than a Medieval Bowman.***

Yeah, I have this as well. Top, top playing, and those arrangements are Terrific. One of my favourite albums.

Save up an extra £150 and get a pair of Genelec 8010A’s. (Small with quality). https://www.genelec.com/8010 And yep, in white as well..... https://www.musicmatter.co.uk/genelec-8010a-white-pair?gclid=CjwKCAiA-KzSBRAnEiwAkmQ154ZBz1und94Nb5jMLu6-H1GNtApSPegFmKmMD2upRH0yI_RDUX3hnhoCzN0QAvD_BwE

I love Banjo, especially 'Bela Fleck'. Plenty for people not to like here. Solos, lots of them...including Victor Wooten on his Fretless.

Indeed, along with Jimmy Smith's Bass pedal playing (his pedal playing smokes a lot of Bass players for note choice). Also Chester Thompson (Tower Of Power), his groove playing on Hammond is terrific. (not to mention, another Bass pedal monster). Not really any Instruments I don't like. They all seem to have their place at some point Plenty of players playing them that I don't like....

Who did Niles Roger ?

Voted. Well done all.

Forget the stand, there is no entertainment value with it. Instead, get a lighter and incorporate your bum notes into the stage act.

Another 'This Is This'. Good reading chops, good ears and a good music stand for full time freelancing/depping. 'What Clothes?' is the only major concern. That can be quite alarming and frightening at times compared to the set list.

'Grasshopper' by the Wayne Johnson Trio has sublime, wonderful playing from Jimmy Johnson. Top stuff indeed.

Yes agreed, with great musicianship and top, top vocals all round. The arranger did a terrific job as well. Maybe not one for the Zep fanboys, granted, but excruciating? I don’t think so. José Feliciano not at the top of his game at all, ‘The Police’ cover was pretty sad really. Although, watching Sting wince at the Northfolks was amusing (around :52).

I know someone who still uses emagic Logic 5.5.1 on a Windows XP machine. (as a second DAW). Back in the day, Logic on a PC rocked all over Logic on a Mac. Stable, no crashes and brilliant, water tight Midi.

The 2007 live in Burghausen concert, is great. It's up on Youtube.

(you had to have been there).

Yeah, I wasn't clear. I meant that as well. Just convert ikay's word doc.

No meagre effort at all. ikay. Some folks are still operating in the paper, analogue world. You certainly would be helping them. But, yeah. iRealPro is great.

It might be an idea if you can do a very in depth, detailed, extensive, review of each DAW for BC. It will save any future newbie having the brain freeze, indecisive grief you are having....

Presonus Studio One is worth demoing. You get 30 days. It’s mostly drag and drop. One of the easiest to be up and running in no time. https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One

Great album.

I have been using Cubase since back in the 90's. The Steinberg key (Syncrosoft eLicenser) has never been an issue for me. I also store my VSL Libraries on it. It's just stuck in the back of the PC out of the way. I suppose, if you are using a laptop there could be possible breakage problems. Losing your licenses or damaging your eLicenser key is not much of a huge problem these days. Although this has not happened to me, I do know a couple of people who used the 'Zero Downtime' without a problem to retrieve/reinstall licenses. https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/206532304-Steinberg-Zero-Downtime (Cubase/Nuendo don't use iLok, so I can't comment on how that works for recovery, if indeed iLok do recover for you). At present, I have an assistant composer gig for about three months (virtual tea boy & Midi house keeping/score prep) with someone over in LA. This works through using Steinberg VST Connect Pro. As far as I know, there is no DAW other than Cubase/Nuendo using this system (it works a treat as well). https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/vst/vst_connect/vst_connect_pro.html

Transcriptions turn up in this very 'General Discussions' forum as well, are all these to be removed unless cleared ? Talk Bass and many other musicians forums have Transcriptions & chord sheets on their sites, I wonder how they deal with it?