Posts by Monkey_Man

LOL

Thankfully there'll be no live work unless I have to do a Prince and get a bunch of chicks to back me up should a "record company" require it. I'm determined to be a recording artist 'though, both in order to minimise stress (a huge issue for me with PTSD symptoms), and also so that I can maintain full control of all instrumentation, arrangements and so on. A one-stop shop, if you will, although I expect that, if I can afford it, I'd be sending stuff off for mastering as that's a whole new set of tools and skills that I've not yet developed.

"You might actually still need to Programme after getting all that gear..."

Yeah, my approach is to let the song ask for what it needs. You know - bring no ego to the table, and you'll hear it. I then go about figuring out how to play, record it, and subsequently I forget what I've done. Keeps the slate clean and helps to avoid repetition. This is why I've never practiced - eliminates comfort-zone riffing etc. I do this for all instruments, although keys and synth parts, along with brass, strings and so on are much easier than guitar, bass, or in future, I imagine, drums, 'cause I can slow everything down, record the data, speed it up and then massage it. I imagine that this'll be what I'll do for the drums too, in which case the massaging will involve not just the usual velocity and timing adjustments, but also ones that help disguise the fact that they were recorded ad a different tempo.

Should be a whole lot of fun, and I've looked forward to it since I made my own MIDI kit in '92 using wood, rubber practice pads and home-made piezo "sticks" with shrink wrap. I regretted selling it right away, but even 'though the buyer was stoked, I was underwhelmed with its sensitivity, as you might imagine!

Still would love the integrated convenience and robustness of a Rolly kit. Oh, and by the way, after perhaps dozens of enquiries over the years, I did get an admission by a very-big store's owner that it is possible, whilst "inconvenient" for Roland, to in fact acquire the kit separately from the brain. A top-flight kit would still be out of the question due to the expense, but I imagine that something in the upper-middle area would do just fine. Foregoing the fancy-shamancy "skins" for the next flavour down, for example, would help justify that dreaded 4th tom (floor tom, in my case). IIRC only the top-line models sport 4 toms. Me? I've just gotta have 4; I've always programmed for 'em anyway.

Enough rambling. Just thought I'd respond to your very-sensible warnings, Mr. 'Light. Thank you once again, brother.

Yeah, I've often wondered that.

Can you use the buttons and 4-way switch to play Nintendo or what? I assumed at first that this would've been your aim in order to add to the novelty value and utility of the guitar, Pixelman

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That way the Kemper stays warm at home and in the studio

... and safe!

Ah... thank you, Paul.

I did check which sub-forum it was in before I even loaded the thread, 'cause I'm a wise old fool, but this strategy doesn't protect one from others' mistakes...

Genius!

Thanks bro'.

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That may be true for stable final releases but if you are a beta user and are waiting for the next version with some sorted out bugs it would really be cool to get notified. I'm ending up checking the forum and update page several times a day since I'm waiting for an update.

I can't argue with that, mate. Didn't think of beta testers.

Thank you.

Hey man, the Russians just plunked me into the space ship and taught me to hit the red button; they didn't teach me no steeekin' science!

Once again, Nightlight, I really appreciate all your info. As I said, I'll keep this link, and don't be surprised if I hit you up for more when the time eventually comes to take the plunge. It has to happen one day. I mean, 3 decades of playin' from the keyboards is quite enough already.

Thanks for sharing that, Strabes.

I'm curious:
Are you able and willing to make some clips for us to listen to of these great tones?
Is the latency on this thing as low as the Kemper's (undetectable even for latency-sensitive folks like lil' ol' me)?
How cheap is it, and is it easy to get a deal due to, say, a decent margin on 'em?

You've got me wondering about using one in the living room for practice...

I'd quite like the customised-column layout I set up to be inherited too, Gianfranco.

Perhaps it could be tweaked in a special prefs window - a dummy RM window, if you will. That way it'd remain untouched even if you make changes to the main window, which let's face it, may happen often in order to aide searching or sorting.

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Dang...

Noooooo Sam! Easy boy...

Might have to bump the sessions up to twice a week now...

Thank you, Justice.

Where is it? I've searched for Lerxst, Alex, Lifeson and Alex Lifeson, and... nothing.

I was disappointed by his performance. I found it somewhat disjointed, and his phrasing and timing left a little to be desired.

I s'pose it came across as being "awkward". Just MHO of course.

EDIT: I'm referring to the White House performance.

I understand very well how you might feel, Dan.

I received one only today for doing something I didn't realise was wrong. I find it quite devastating when I try so hard in life to always do the right thing only to find that in some way I've crossed a line I din't know existed, or in your case, one I did my best to ensure I didn't cross.

Who knows, mate, it could be a misunderstanding. Are you counting the spaces between words when you tally the characters up? This could account for the discrepancy. I doubt it was a one-off miscount 'cause it's happened a number of times...

Actually, I can't either:

It was @MentaL who first made the connection...

Dang. You guys are making me thirsty.

I know. I don't deserve any reward. That's what I tell the checkout chicks at the supermarkets when they ask me, "Do you have reward points?".

Thank you, 'PanMan.

Not showing up here yet. It is up there 'though, right?

Bumping this 'cause I'm still hanging out for my original requests, which I felt were extremely reasonable and simple to implement.

You may have noticed that I withdrew from the discussion when the focus became ever-more complicated. I feel that the original requests were logical and, you'd think, would require very little tweaking in order to bring to fruition.

Please forgive me for bumping; I figured it'd be more efficient than creating a new thread, especially as several of this nature have already appeared over the years.

That's definitive.

Brilliant! That's exactly... the only reason I could think of that I'd use it, Sam.

My confusion arose because, as I said, folks seemed to be splashin' (spraying?) tags around like confetti. Well, not quite, but I s'pose I could well have missed the poignance of the references due to lack of insider info, so to speak. Thank you for clarifying that, Sammy!

Now, MentaL... I hope you realise that those holes in my tag were caused by flyin' poop; 'tis the simian way to desecrate property... and anything else deemed poo-worthy. Just sayin'. No idea how you found that pic; you must have a contact in Jungleville or indeed have visited at some point. Pity the snapshot was taken after the damage was done.

Hang on... the tag was fine before you took the snapshot - we know that. Therefore, it must've been you who throo the poo and thought you'd have a laugh by showing it to your friends and posting it all over the cast-a-nets, right? Naughty MentaL! Naughty boy!

The song at 27min isn't bad; the singing and all the solos are good.

The Chick Corea song after that's not bad either, but isn't as accessible melodically to non-jazzers.

Dave Brubeck's "Take 5", is an absolute classic. Fascinating to hear Al Jarreau singing it at 37 min. This is the song I noticed Lee Ritenour in. I've only needle-dropped the vid, so I've probably missed a lot too. Turns out he only got 8 bars, but hey, he's good and sounded great.

Oh, and there's John MacGlaughlin at 58min if you're interested. Again, not overly-accessible, but very good for what it is.

There's some cool '70s-style funky-guitar chugging at 1hr 12min in Prince's 1999, but then Herbie goes and steals any thunder the guitarist might've had to offer with his Korg Kronos guitar solo. LOL

Having said all that, there's a bunch of stuff on there that's so ridiculously-boring and stiff I'd consider it torture to be forced to listen to it. Just MHO of course; each has his own taste.

Also, it seems I just got "lucky" with the needle dropping when I heard Lee Ritenour earlier, I may be wrong, but it seems he only got 8 bars in the entire night, which IMHO is a tragedy! I mean, they could've sent Sting to South America to monitor the effect he's had on deforestation, but nooooo, they had to have him sing a style he's really not suited to, didn't they? Roxanne? Yes. This? No. At least Marcus Miller was on the bass for it.

I could go on, but I just wanted to let you know that I totally get where your impression may have come from, ITTO. Often I find, as you'd have too no doubt, that patience and the determination to dig deep for gems are keys to exposing oneself to new stuff.

EDIT: Just finished documenting this stuff for you, ITTO, and so missed your post. Sorry mate. I was going to mention Buddy too, but felt that might've been a little unfair - I mean, the dude's really getting on now...