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And certain MJ songs were written by others ('Thriller' was by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones), MJ just performed it. So if you sing it nowadays in your own style you're not really using any MJ 'art', and if you play the bassline then it is just something that was popularised by MJ - not his artistic creation as such.

It seems to depend partly on how good the music is. Chris Rock's latest standup: "The thing I have a problem with is selective outrage. That’s right, selective outrage. Everybody, you know what I’m talking about? One person does something, they get cancelled. Somebody else does the exact same thing… No. You know what I’m talking about. You know, like the kind of people that play Michael Jackson songs, but won’t play R. Kelly."

Yes, the same. Still vampire slaying

A new one from Scientist:

Koffee, Lonely

^^^ You sure it's not an echo you're after?! 🙂

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.