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    Low Output Pickups

    I have not discussed anybody's ego. If you read "hyper masculine" as "ego" you might want to discuss that with your psychiatrist. I also didn't mention male reproductive anything in the first post. Again, if you're seeing penises where there aren't any... Also, I suspect you do not know what...
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    Low Output Pickups

    Things I have not insulted in this thread: 1. Any genre of music. 2. Your music. 3. High output pickups. If you like high output pickups for what you do, then fine. I don't get them, and to my eyes they're marketed like UFC pay-per-view. If I was into high output pups, I'd be even more...
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    Low Output Pickups

    I've generally come to the understanding that high output pickups are mostly still around because they lend themselves well to the macho manchild sort of marketing that's used to sell most products to men. They probably made some sense in the 70s, when there were limited options for pushing...
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    Cliff, can you get RJM the Midi spec he needs?

    I had an LF+12+ that I fought with for over 2 years before I finally sold it back to one of their employees at a loss. Easily the worst customer service I've ever experienced. Jeff is clearly a smart guy and his product is very capable, but he's also a BS artist who doesn't seem to care about...
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    Windows 10?

    IIRC, Tom's Hardware didn't much like Skylake-X's thermal performance - Intel apparently went with thermal paste instead of solder and they were having trouble getting it to not overheat on them. Still beats Ryzen/Threadripper on a instructions-per-clock basis, but Tom's left the impression that...
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    Help: why is my MFC doing these undesirable things?

    Recently got MK2 and I'm trying to configure it. I got scenes working the way I want and got it stop throwing name timeout errors, but it's still doing the following strange/bad things: 1. All my songs are offset by -1, which means song 1 is inaccessible. That is, it loads what my setlist says...
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    Nine Inch Nails

    Saw them 2013 and they KILLED. Wish sounded HUGE. Their lighting rig was crazy - they had these spotlights mounted in series on arms and the whole thing was articulated so the arms could move and the lights could spin on a gimbal. Very impressive show. (Queens of the Stone Age opened, and were...
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    Happy new Star Wars day!

    I found it pretty disappointing. It's not prequels bad, and I liked a lot of the performances and the visuals. But it just wasn't special - just another CGI-heavy blockbuster with too many characters, too many subplots, and a buttload of script logic problems that really distracted me from their...
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    Any RJM users out there? Your thoughts? I'm tempted....

    OMG, where do I start? I just managed to sell my LF+12+ back to a guy at the company for less than half of what I paid for it. 1. The manual is years out of date, unfinished, and very difficult to understand. They did not hire a technical writer. 2. Their PC Editor has no documentation at all...
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    MFC-101 song mode - a little help please

    I tried for ages to use the auto tap tempo feature on my Liquid Foot to synchronize the Axe with a Reaper project and never could get it to work. Practically speaking, it's just a lot easier to use a unique preset or set of presets for each song (the XL has a bazillion, so I have trouble...
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    What features do people want in a MIDI controller?

    It seems like you might be asking an awful lot of my balance and stamina for standing on one foot if I'm supposed to suspend the other one over that thing and make precise motions on it... You're competing with expression pedals for any kind of scrolling fuction. That said, I think that in...
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    Phone number for FAMC?

    Lol - yeah, but hardly anybody reads it, and the few that do also read this one!
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    Phone number for FAMC?

    I'm trying to ship them something and need a phone number for the customs form. As they are prone to doing, they stopped communicating in the middle of a support ticket conversation, leaving me with an item packed and ready to go, but not quite enough information to actually ship it to them...
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    Is anyone still using FAMC Liquid Foot models?

    I'm running a LF+ 12+. I've had an awful, awful time with their support... but I also don't have another $1000 to spend on an RJM. It's super good if you can figure out how to program the thing.
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    Les Paul - Missing Ground Wire from Pot to Bridge Post

    I've pulled bridge bushings with a folded up towel and a claw hammer before :D Have you considered pouring a bit of conductive glue in the hole and then jamming the wire in? Seem like it would probably work, and doesn't require pulling the bushing.
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    GHOST!

    The new band sounds like exactly what it is: a bunch of hired guns that don't know each other's rhythms banging out "OK" performances for a paycheque. Glad I got to see the real band on their last North American tour, but it's sort of bittersweet now. They were a fantastic show - how you could...
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    Mrs. Fuzz

    St. Vincent rules. Also, I'm pretty sure DLR wore that exact outfit 30 years ago, except his was pink! Sadly, according to interviews, she plays a Kemper :P
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    Fractal Audio DRIVE models: Pi Fuzz (based on Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi)

    Masters off the Muff
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    Craigslist - Is this a thing?

    I've bought and sold lots of stuff on CL here in Vancouver and, frankly, it's always been basically fine. Sellers almost always do the transaction out of their house, which I'm fine with... you're probably not going to show someone where you live and then rip them off unless you're a gangster or...
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    Who is the Leo Fender of today?

    You could really make the case for Leo having a similar "grand vision" of what was possible and a similar disrespect for the traditional way of doing things. The Telecaster was a radical re-imagining of a guitar at the time. Leo had no luthiery experience, so he stripped the electric guitar down...
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    Synchronizing Reaper Projects with AxeFX using midi: this is how

    A bit of background: I've been trying to find a way to use my LF controller to synchronize my AxeFX presets with whatever song is open in my DAW. So, for instance, if I step on the button that tells my AxeFX to load my Mysterious Ways patch, I also want my DAW to load my Mysterious Ways file...
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    Recommend a Tele Bridge Pup

    http://wildepickups.com/Home_Page.html Call Becky and tell her what sound you're looking for, and she'll hook up with some awesome pups for unbelievably cheap.
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    Vertigo

    Had it happen last year just as I bent down to towel off the dog. Everything started spinning all of a sudden and I just about fell on my head. It would have looked utterly weird to an observer as I slumped against a pedestal and then kinda climbed my way inside my house, as though the world had...
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    Laptop with firewire or expresscard port

    A couple of things to bear in mind: 1. Many people who use FireWire for audio insist on having a Texas Instruments chipset for the FireWire adapter. Since it's often impossible to figure out what chipset is in on the motherboard in a particular laptop (manufacturers change specifications all...
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    Strat question...

    If I've got my picking hand near the bridge so that I can palm mute, the pick naturally falls between the bridge and middle pickups. I've got pretty small hands though - maybe folks with bigger hands land closer to the middle pickup? Hendrix had monster hands but I've never read of him...
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    Advice on dealing with FAMC

    Just soliciting some advice on what to do in my situation. Some background: I bought a LF+ 12+ in the summer of 2014, but it sat unused in its box for nearly another year until I had the rest of my rig together. Once I started using it, I kept having connection errors and configuration problems...
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    Inserting EH PitchFork into signal chain

    The Pitchfork is a pitch shifter? I thought it just told you whether your music was trendy and then rated it a 6.2...
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    If 12AX7 and ECC83 are the same...

    ... then why is there an option on the preamp page to change between them? I've always read that 12AX7 and ECC83 were the same thing, but the preamp page is implying to me that they're not. Are they actually different? What's the difference?
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    What amp model do you like for U2, other than the obvious Vox choices?

    Edge also plays vintage Fender Deluxe amps, and a Fender Harvard, though they don't have their original speakers. Similar to his new signature amp from Fender, which I'm sure is no coincidence. IIRC "Vertigo" is all Fender amps - I guess fuzz pedals probably make the Vox sound too buzzy. For...
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    The X-Files 2016

    I've enjoyed it. I agree that the first episode really forced they mythology stuff way too fast, which made Mulder look like a fool. IMO it was a mistake to do just six episodes - bound to clash with the show's tectonic-slow mythology arcs. They actors were clearly having trouble saying lines...
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    Tele neck

    You may also be "fretting out" - common problem on vintage radius fender necks. Normally cured with a fret level. IIRC Jeff Beck (or someone else) has his frets leveled with a 9.5" radius on a 7.25" fretboard to get the best of both worlds.
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    Is someone experiencing student loan hardship if they can afford an Axe-Fx?

    How can I respond, but to say: don't fall for the false dichotomy of thinking that the only available options are a wild west of total deregulation or rigid, innovation-crushing Stalinism. Virtually every education system in the world exists somewhere between these two extremes, and every...
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    Is someone experiencing student loan hardship if they can afford an Axe-Fx?

    Student loans seem like a broken tools because they're part of an education system based on decentralization, where all the stakeholders have different objectives and are thus all working at cross-purposes. Government needs to be seen to be "doing something" about unemployment here, labour...
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    I need a handcontroller!

    http://lividinstruments.com/products/guitar-wing/ Might look pretty weird on a pedal steel, but certainly would do the functions.
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    axe 3 speculation

    Cliff has previously expressed frustration that Analog Devices have abandoned their development of the TigerSHARC processor line... I imagine that until someone makes a significantly more powerful DSP, there's nothing to reasonably base an AxeFX 3 on. However, even if there were a more powerful...
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    Star Wars - The Force Awakens - No Spoilers!

    Saw it on Friday night. It was good, but definitely not great. JJ Abrams remains one of my least favorite directors, and I found the film was full of Abrams-isms, including: - Going for touching emotional moments, but just having it feel awkward because he hasn't done the character work yet -...
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    Need advice: music recording for a 15-year-old girl

    The Distillers made a great album before they broke up called Coral Fang. Just hope your teenager doesn't start smoking to try get Brody Dalle's voice!
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    Star Trek Beyond - Official Trailer

    This was the text from my recent FB post about the new Star Trek: "I know my protests are useless, but Paramount, please stop. I love Star Trek, and you're ruining it. There are lots of other IPs you could use to title a shitty action movie - use those. Reboot Battlestar Galactica again...
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    Need advice: music recording for a 15-year-old girl

    The Pixies - Doolittle. Everyone needs a copy before they turn 20.
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    phantom power midi over 7 pin

    If the phantom power circuit on the Axe is indeed burnt out, you can just use a "phantom box" like this one to bypass it: http://www.famcmusic.com/store/accessories/PhantomPowerBox
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    Dynamics / unwanted compression

    It's been mentioned before that the Axe line-outs are quite hot, so you may have been clipping the FOH mixer input a bit. The input limiter on the board might then be squashing your sound on its way in. It's also possible that you just don't like the sound of the PA at that venue. Such are the...
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    FAMC support is still terrible

    I totally get it if Jeff is the kind of guy that's always working on the "next thing" and isn't interested in the day-to-day operations. He can do the reclusive genius thing and that's fine, BUT if he doesn't want to personally do the banal, routine stuff then he's got to delegate. I do taxes...
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    FAMC support is still terrible

    They haven't responded to my support ticket in over two weeks. Or the second ticket I created to complain that nobody was responding to the first one. Or even my post in their forums that warned them that I was going to post here if they continued to ignore my support tickets. So, I'm sorry to...
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    "competing" AC30 clip

    This actually sounds quite brittle to me. No sparkle, not much swirl. I'd be pretty disappointed in my Helix if that was the best Top Boost tone I could get with a Tele.
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    Is Axe Fx too perfect sounding?

    I'm reminded of a couple of things: First, something a salesperson a music store told me a long time ago - "You can always make clean sound dirtier, but it's really hard to make dirt sound clean". If your guitar sounds too polite, mix in some white noise. Get some un-potted, mircrophonic...
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    Purchasing an Axe FX 2 in Canada

    From my experiences with buying music equipment across the border: 1. The good ol' US Postal Service charges much more reasonable brokerage fees than any of the couriers. Fractal will probably send it by USPS if you ask them to. 2. If you live near the border, consider hiring a parcel handling...
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    Here's an alternative 7-pin MIDI cable for ya

    That's the one!
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    Here's an alternative 7-pin MIDI cable for ya

    7-Pin Replacement DIN Cable | Amplifier Hardware & Handles Amplifier Parts | Fender® Amplifier Parts I was frustrated with the high cost of getting a decent 7-pin MIDI cable here in Canada and started looking for alternatives. This is intended as a replacement part for some of Fender's amp...
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    Music recommandations for a long run

    Therapy's Troublegum will kick your ass if you've never heard it. Also re-listened to U2's Boy a couple weeks ago and thought it was waaay better than what I remembered... Fantomas self-titled 1999 album is fantastic, and will definitely keep you on your toes if you start to get sleepy!
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    So I just discovered Agile guitars...

    The Agile Les Pauls with the "M" or "MC" suffix have a 3/4" maple cap - Epiphone won't sell an LP with that no matter how much you pay them (and I bet you can guess why...) They also do "semi-custom" guitars where you pick a base model and then specify the finish, wood types, number of strings...
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    U2 Edge falls off stage

    Bono's quip about it on the second night: "Last night The Edge downloaded himself into the audience without asking permission first...."
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    On top or underneath?

    Weight distribution matters too - having heavy stuff like a power amp at the top can make a top-heavy rack that is easier to tip over. It can make some sense to put the power amp the the bottom, leave some space (or some shallow rack equipment) and put the more sensitive stuff at the top. That...
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    Royal blood no guitar involved...really ?

    I don't mean my comments as criticism at all - I haven't heard Royal Blood's album, but I from what I read it's a pretty solid piece of rock & roll. The newest Death From Above 1979 album is actually much more pop - they've got a song in heavy rotation on the radio right now (at least here in...
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    Royal blood no guitar involved...really ?

    It's funny how history repeats itself... The whole recent "bass that doesn't sound like a bass" + drums trend got started with a band called Lightning Bolt from Rhode Island: https://youtu.be/clAJ8mufzJ0 Really noisy stuff- no vocals except the random stuff the drummer shouts. Then these...
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    Blurred Lines / Got to give it up

    Rich people suing other rich people... how pedestrian and boring. If we had established artists hammering up-and-coming acts with copyright lawsuits all the time then that would upset me, because that really would stifle creativity. Usually it's the successful artists that get sued because...
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    Who is this guy?!!!

    Very cool - I like it. Reminds me a bit of VAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRBSRQxyXM
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    Help me choose a 2-point trem

    That's gotten to be a little complicated to answer - I had originally ordered some parts expecting to upgrade a Squier, but bought the Lite Ash instead. Lets see: 1. Bill Lawrence Keystone pups cost ~100 CAD when I bought them, but I've pulled the stock Seymour Duncan APS1 pups and can probably...
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    Help me choose a 2-point trem

    This is my issue with the Wilkinson: there doesn't seem to be any such thing as a "genuine" one - they'll all licensed. I'm specifically wary of the "mystery" black sustain blocks on them... Not even the gotoh site seems to indicate what they're made of. I found this: Babicz Full Contact...
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    Help me choose a 2-point trem

    Heya folks, So I've got a 2004-ish made in Korea Fender "Lite Ash" Strat that I bought off someone on craigslist for $250. I've been trying to fix it up as a good "bang for the buck" Strat. Replaced the tuners, pickups and all the electonics, but I think the bridge on it is toast. The knife...
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    ...

    1. Slash (at least EVH took a 1/2 dozen albums to completely dry up creatively - Slash took ONE.) 2. Joey Santiago (dude, your riffs rule - would it KILL YOU to practice for 10 minutes a day?) 3. Dave Navarro (OMG a rock guitarist than knows a 7th chord! It's a revolution!!) 4. Steve Vai...
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    How beefy a laptop do I need?

    I should not need a ton of plugins running live - really just a basic synthesizer with some reverb on it that sounds passably like a piano. Most of the other loops or backing bits I want can really just be mixed down to .wav files and triggered from the floor controller (i.e.: I can just...
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    How beefy a laptop do I need?

    I'm trying to get my rig together, but money is tight. I'm trying to buy a used workstation class laptop, like maybe a HP 8540W, but I don't know how hot I need the hardware to be for it to do what I need it to do. Here is the intended usage: - Presonus Firepod is the interface - Axe Edit -...
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    RIP Robin Williams

    Teenagers and such sometimes have suicide attempts that are the sort of passive/aggressive demand for attention that you're describing. Those attempts rarely kill except by accident, since it would defeat the whole point of attaining the attention. This is different. People who actually kill...
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    I don't get new, relic guitars.

    Relic'd guitars are just like "distressed" anything else - usually it's clothing. Lots of places now sell new "distressed" furniture. One one hand I think, y'know, whatever floats your boat. On the other hand, there's something dissonant about "new things made to look old". As others in thread...
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    5 Artists that are you

    1. Therapy? - I'll take any opportunity to plug these guys. They break all the rules about what you're allowed to do in a "heavy" rock band without ever getting all proggy and indulgent about it. Drums can be a lead instrument. Earnestness is optional. That random guitar noise might be the hook...
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    A weird POLL of guitar tones

    Liked B. The A guitar sounds harsh on the bridge pickup and lacks detail on the neck pickup. The B guitar sounds balanced and sparkly - swamp ash? I guess the A guitar is a bit "fuller", but I think the B guitar through a booster would sounds just a full and also "better".
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    A Question about 'Reaper '

    Please post if you figure it out! I'm currently trying to settle on a way to do backing tracks live, and would prefer not to blow $495 on Ableton if I can help it...
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    Anyone use Atomic CLR on a low stand and place Axe Fx on top of it?

    I'd be awfully worried about the Axe vibrating off the top. Come to think of it, exposing the Axe to a ton of vibration through direct contact with a speaker enclosure might not be a great idea either. But maybe I'm worried about nothing...
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    Windows 8 users - how's touch working?

    I hate having to put down my pick so that I can grab a mouse and tweak something. Is anybody getting satisfactory results out of a touch interface yet? Thinking about nabbing a touchscreen...
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    Please recommend a keyboard/sampler for me

    Holy Cheese this is complicated! I'm now considering three options: 1. A rack-mounted PC + a touchscreen on an arm + a midi-controller keyboard. This would be fairly heavy to transport and slightly annoying to set up (got to take the arm and the monitor off every time). However, desktop...
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    Please recommend a keyboard/sampler for me

    I was intending for me and the singer to be able to actually play the keys live a little bit, otherwise a rack sampler would indeed do the job. I'd actually considered building a PC in to a rackmount server case and racking it next to the axe, as opposed to a laptop. But I'm still a bit leery...
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    Please recommend a keyboard/sampler for me

    Hi Folks, I'm not a keyboard player, and have no real aspirations to be one, but the band and I need something for a handful of keyboard parts, and also something that will play samples/backing tracks. It would be nice to get one device that does both functions. This is primarily for live...
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    Rhythm guitar, rhythm guitar !!

    All this being said, a lot of pro bands have a core trio of band members that they record with, but hire second guitarist when they go on tour. Just off the top of my head: Nirvana, U2, Green Day, R.E.M., Therapy?, and I'm sure many others have all toured with "phantom guitarists" to fill out...
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    New BabyMetal video out

    My only concerns are that they have adequate hearing protection (because it would be awful to mess up your hearing at such a young age) and that they are being managed responsibly. I'm not seeing any skimpy outfits or terribly suggestive dance moves, which is more than I can say for basically...
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    Difficulty with MIDI and upgrading firmware

    Yeah, Microsoft's own Win7 MIDI to USB drivers evidently work great. Other UNO owners would be well advised to uninstall their M-Audio drivers and try just using Microsoft's. On one hand, I don't want to be too hard on M-Audio for their driver problems - I mean the Delta line is something like...
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    Difficulty with MIDI and upgrading firmware

    I had to give up on my Delta 2496 card in Win7 x64. It was doing the same thing you're describing - it couldn't send long sysex messages (ie: the Axe firmware) without having output port stall at some random point during transmission. I tried EVERYTHING. Every freeware midi program I could find...
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    Firmware Update Problems

    I've had this message while messing with the sysex configuration options in MIDI-OX while trying to solve my own firmware update problems. I think MIDI-OX generates this when you're trying to send the data faster than the hardware drivers are capable of, thus creating a log-jam. I was able to...
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    Can I use the Ultra to play loops?

    I've been trying to use the synth block and arpeggiator in my Ultra to generate some synth loops - like in Baba O'Rielly or U2's Bad... but I haven't been having any luck. Everything just ends up sounding like a broken Atari. I figured that I could use the synth block and an LFO controller to...
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