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Sounds good. If they are taking requests then the main things on my wishlist are: USB Expression pedal port Fast/Slow detection switch (dosn't need to be a physical switch, but good if it could be set per preset) Notches on the parameter dial Perhaps this is user error but the EQ seems to act in quite an odd way for me (and I'm used to para EQ), just a graphic EQ option would be good. More compact

There can be issues with active basses and wireless systems due to the ground wiring, it must happen often enough as Boss have taken the time to draw diagrams of the issue and solution and put it on their website: https://www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/wl-20_wl-20l/support_documents/cf786345-1dd0-46c3-a2ac-350bfb4a8104/ I used the Boss wireless for the Waza Air headphones with an active Bass and there were no issue though.

It is good having those controls directly to hand though, if there is just one part of a song where you want to quickly make an EQ change then it is slightly easier doing that by turning a dial on the Bass rather than walking over to a pedal/amp to make changes mid-song. That's my main plus point for active Basses anyway. I used active and passive Basses with a Line 6 wireless system and it seemed to work fine for both.

Menahan Street Band 'Make The Road By Walking' is a great instrumental funk/soul album from 2008 that sounds like it could soundtrack a 1970's New York cop series.

I'm eyeing up the MPC Keys 61, haven't quite convinced myself that it's worth the extra ££ from using the MPC One with a midi keyboard....nearly there though! MPC One £630 + Midi Keyboard £200 + MPC instrument collection plugins £350 = £1,180 MPC Key 61 = £1,480 The Key 61 also gets a few things like more internal storage (32GB vs 4GB), more ins/outs, more hardware knobs and buttons and touch strip control, some in-built extras to map the keys. I'm not sure if that justifies the £300 extra between MC One + Midi keyboard + Pugins, but a quick, enjoyable, tactile, reliable workflow is certainly worth ££ to me (it's basically why I'm using hardware rather a Laptop). .......although as far as this thread goes, this is straying quite a long way from what would usually be classed as a drum machine!

New album 'UK Grim' from Sleaford Mods.

Behringer are cloning the Moogerfooger MF-102. https://www.musicradar.com/news/behringer-mooger-fooger-clone I've been waiting for them to do a MF-101, fingers crossed they do the whole range (although they showed pictures of their MF 104 clone a year ago and it's not available yet - possibly due to chip shortages)

Does anyone know a cure for this: Playing a note on the Bass and then playing a note quite a lot lower (like an octave lower) the lower note does a quick 'warble' doing a higher pitch note before settling into the correct lower note. It happens with a lot of the FI preset programs and a lot that I have downloaded or made myself so I don't think it's a preset specific thing. I thought it might be a portemento thing but that seems to make no difference. On the same preset playing notes on the keyboard octaves apart it doesn't do it so I guess that means it must be related to the Bass tracking rather than the synth effect. But playing on the Bass and playing through a scale of consecutive notes (e.g. playing gradually down the scale a whole octave) is a all good, it's just those big jumps down seem to confuse it and make it quickly warble up (I guess momentarily reading the harmonic an octave up?) then down to the note played, odd it doesn't do that unless you are doing a big jump down though. And the second time you play that low note it doesn't do it, just after that first jump down. I've tried with two different Basses and being very careful with technique and reducing overtones and it still does it so I'm concluding it is something with the FI tracking (changing the input level doesn't seem to stop it), or perhaps something that can be changed in the editor?

Bought a pedal from Bas (that I'd sold to him a year or so ago!) the buying back went as well as the selling did! All good, fast postage and all working as expected. Thanks!

@Al Krow the mothership has landed! Going all out digital. It'll keep me busy for a while - especially when I start using midi. I don't think there are many sounds this lot can't make.

Has anyone found any good ways of doing synths and envelope filters? For synthy stuff an Octaver/Pitch shifter into Fuzz and using things like the swell and delays and modulation can do decent enough sounds. Or lots of delays and swells for pad type sounds. I think the Zoom B1 four beats the Core and Stomp for synth bass sounds. What I'm really after are all the main ones like 808 kick/boom, Reese, Stabs, FM Bass, Plucked. The auto wah isn't great, I find the humanizer better and keeping the vowels the same does a fixed wah sound that can sound good going into a phaser. I'm not sure why multi fx are always bad at synth and envelope filters. It was expected though - anyone selling a Future Impact give me a shout!

I might be wrong, but a hopefully simple enough thing that I think you could do with the Gecko is use it basically like three extra footswitches e.g. preset up, preset down (using Program Change (PC) messages), and Tap Tempo (using CC messages) that it sends to the Core. That would mean you you'd still have the Core 'ctrl 1, 2, Exp 1' and 'ctrl 3, 4, Exp 2' outputs to add up to two extra dual footswitches, (or two expression pedals, or one of each). So you could have up to 10 footswitches vs 3.

Yeah, but the Bass Gallery has a webite too. And is 15% commission rather than 20%. And personally, is a shorter journey for me to go and drop off the Bass. But yeah, I'm sure Bass Bros and Bass Direct are probably fine to use too, not a huge amount in it.

I sold through the Bass Gallery on 15% comission. I think it's a good deal as you can charge a bit more selling through them rather than privately so you don't really lose much money as a seller and it takes hassle out of it. I set the price myself and the Gallery didn't question it so I guess when you see very expensive basses on there it is sellers taking a chance. There is a 2 week 'cooling off' period for buyers to be able to return basses so you need to wait until after that before you get paid. It seems the best deal being that it is in a London shop that can probably sell for a bit more than a shop in a Leamington Spa industrial estate, and it's a lower % comission than competitors. I'd use them again. If I was selling a Bass I'd put it up on Basschat first, if it doesn't go for what I'd think it's worth I'd put it up for sale at 10-15% more via the Gallery. If I was doing part-ex then Bass Direct has given me the best deals. I'd avoid eBay and Reverb. Too many chacers and time wasters and too much risk, and they take their % (I think ebay is 12.8%) when all the effort and risk is on the seller.

For anyone getting into programming Reggae drums I think this video by DM Kahn is one of the best (he also does a lot of sample packs and other tutorials and production)

The S-Bend sums up a lot of my impressions with the Core: It is a great feature that I don’t remember seeing on any other pedal or multi-fx, but labelling the clean to new pitch transition time control ‘rise’ and the return ‘fall’ is not well thought out, it is in-fact the opposite if the shifted pitch is a lower octave. Labelling those controls something like ‘shift’ and ‘return’ would make more sense. Also, it shifts into a poly octave/pitch shifter tone but when staying in that new tone it has no control for clean blend like it does when using those effects – could dive bomb down into Octave playing (with clean blend, and ideally with the Mono octaver sound) and then rise back up to clean. Then it'd go from quite a cool but slight novelty effect to something that is potentially better than owning an OC5. Like most things with the Core though I expect there are workarounds, I guess once the S Bend dive down is complete a mono octaver with clean blend could be activated if it was on a parallel path, then the reverse of that when un-triggering the S Bend to rise back up to clean. A bit of a faff though for something that seems could've been added as a S Bend control easy enough. Likewise for the Freeze effect. It is a great feature other than the fact that turning it on does a volume jump and turing it off does a sudden stop so isn't as good as owning an EHX Freeze. If it had the swell and decay option (like an EHX Freeze) and adding more complex swell/decay/modulation then then it could potentially be better than owning a Freeze though - clearly those are things the Core is capable of which is why it is a bit frustrating the effect doesn't have those controls. Again though, there are probably workarounds by adding a swell effect and trailing delay to the Freeze effect and adding a clean parallel path for playing over the top of it – another faff though that seems it could've been avoided if the stand-alone effect was a bit more thought out.

I'm not sure what's going wrong for you as it works for me. Perhaps double check your 'Rise' isn't set to zero? 'Rise' is how long it takes to transition from clean to the pitch you select, 'fall' is the time back to clean, so that is confusing if the pitch you select is lower.

@Kiwianother one worth considering is the Elektron Samples. Not as good as the MPC One but half the price. It's pretty good and has some quite decent ways of adding 'randomness' to quantized beats.