Posts by Monkey_Man

Brilliant, dpeters95! Thank you!

I definitely get frustrated when folks don't date stuff that way.

I just learned at BeerGutz... I mean, GearSlutz, that it's SSD5 on board.

Thanks man.

I thought we couldn't actually upload anything here, no matter how small. I mean, pics and whatnot are hosted elsewhere, aren't they? I know nothing about uploading, obviously, Kulle.

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The names "wah" are ready (i ve think about this too )for the next upload, with the kirk hammet and the 2 others. With a txt of all the authors..

Well done, warlus1! Thank you!

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Just tell how to put update.

You've got me there. I'll just do whatever you guys tell me to do... within reason of course.

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I can put this in my dropbox if you want. (even if i like more "uploaded" for a € reason...)

That'd be great, man! Just hit me with the link when you're done and I'll pop it into the correct post.

NOTE: We're still discussing this here. This feels wrong; it should be nutted out here, IMHO:

Wah-settings List

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If really NOTHING happens with your stick, even after forcing it into your PC first...

Dang. How did you know, Ingy?

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It happens sometimes.

Yeah, I've heard that. Doesn't help me feel any better 'though.

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try another stick.

Now that's where I draw the line, bro'.

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please use the latest version and let us know if the issue persists.

I will, G String. When the non-beta release occurs.

I only submitted a ticket, even 'though I said in the thread (not this one) that I didn't actually care one bit about this, because you suggested I do so (in that thread), so I figured, as a favour to you guys, I'd see if I could nut this out with someone on the Team™ just in case there was something to be learned that could somehow help you guys in the future.

It's conceivable that figuring out a bug that you weren't aware of and have difficulty reproducing (probably partly 'cause it's been a PC on your end and I'm on Mac), even if it belonged to a legacy release, could help prevent or identify future pitfalls.

So far we've not succeeded, and this won't be helped by the fact that, as I said in my last post, that by ignoring the prompt by RM to do a Rig check and deleting the duplicates via RM seems to have solved the issue for now. I can't reproduce it... for now, so for the time being at least it's dead in the water. Pity, 'cause I was hoping you guys'd discover some little gremlin that was hiding in the code.

Thanks for the suggestion, mate. I will provide feedback once the upgrade is done... as soon as you finish the non-beta version 4.

What's an adverb? The whole of Australia wants to know! Actually, it couldn't give two hoots, and it shows!

You're correct of course, dpeters95, but it's a tiny-bit different from "proportionally". Proportionally to something simply means "in equal measure", whereas "commensurate/ly" implies a causal relationship between the two things being compared. In this case, I suggested that his being a "salt-of-the-earth" bloke and living on the land, working hard 'n all, would've fostered (fed, lead to) a certain wisdom that the average city-dweller wouldn't have a clue about.

Another common use for the term is, for instance, to say that someone responded with commensurate force / kindness or whatever to a situation. In this case, the response isn't actually caused by whatever the action or situation was, but it's intended as a response, so it's a causal sort of action, which is why I described the meaning that way. It's always a response, on some level, to an initial action, situation, set of data or whatever, and yes, it's, more than merely proportionate in stature, most-often befitting of the situation.

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I'm not a farmer (pooooh ), but I'm with you. I heard Australia has such long roads that sometimes people didn't arrives...
What is "commensurately" ? I never heard that.

See above. Hope it made sense bud.

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When you put a force to "metal" piece it will curve not break. Depending on the remaining ingredients of alloy the characteristics change in the field of electric conductivity, plasticity, elasticity, density. I have witnessed many times when these "looked like metal" thingies have been breaking and when you see at the structure closely it is different from piece of metal cut by hacksaw.

Correct, BrotherSkocz, but... that was not the point. Nobody's questioning characteristics.

I was responding to the fact that you said, "The thing is that these little parts are not metal but alloy! That's why they're prone to brake."

This statement implies that alloys are not metals. They're of course metal alloys, so technically you left that critical word "metal" out of the sentence, which would've made it look to someone who didn't know better that "alloy" meant something other than metal. You know, like an obscure type of plastic or something.

I was saying it more for the sake of someone who didn't know; I didn't doubt that you knew, especially because you demonstrated a knowledge of alloys when you said that they're more prone to break (i.e. that they're more brittle).

Indeed there are good sounds in the 1010, Paul and Zappledan.

I ran a JV-2080 for years, and then the XV-5080, which was the granddaddy of the JV range which held 4 SR-JV80 and 4 SRX cards. Thereafter I sold the XV and went with the INTEGRA, which is a brilliant unit that takes that JV sound to the next level of quality and injects Roland's Supernatural instrument and synth modelling into the picture.

As brilliant as it sounds, the ol' Roland Rule™ I spelled out still applies. It's just part of Roland's sound - fat with plenty of welly; you just have to be aware of the need to carve out space EQ-wise where multiple patches are used simultaneously. At small one-man gigs Rolands sound good; there's a distinctive warmth and "GM feel" to the overall sound when they're used to simulate bands. It's not necessarily a bad thing (it's Roland's sound!), but IMHO it's best suited to small venues. That low-mid / low-end fatness would soon present challenges at big gigs. IMHO.

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Thanks for the inputs, Nicky. I'm constantly amazed how much you know about gear.

You know, I was amazed by this statement, AJ!

Here's the thing mate: Miraculously, you've asked questions about stuff I've either owned or own.

Today's the most spectacle-titty-stack-you-laugh example of all, 'cause I'm running a TD-30 brain, a bunch of XS racks (planned originally to make them my primary, if not sole synth source for running in real-time and recording in one pass when rendering to my DAW, hence the numbers involved due to their only sporting 4 outputs each), and... an INTEGRA7, with the now-2-year intention to add a second one 'cause you can only load 4 virtual SRX boards at a time, and in order to cater for the EDM side of my future projects as well as the pop / rock / funk stuff, I'd need four of the remaining 8 virtual boards to be loaded.

So, INTEGRA7, MOTIF XS Rack, Roland TD-30... I mean, what gives brah? That's my damned "studio" man!

See? I know nothing, really.

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I actually was debating something like the Integra, but I find that the whole Cosm approach to tone synthesis never really clicked with me. Even with something like the TD-30, the sounds are not as good as the sounds on a Yammie module due to the fact that one bases its sound off real samples and the other just "models" them. The Roland triggers much more dynamically though, so it does have advantages.

The form factor is amazing on the XS rack though - just a single unit. I really wish this was done with something like the Kemper. The size comes at the cost of being able to do things from the front panel. But the Motif has a VST-like software that works just like a plugin. Kemper could have tried something like that and it would have worked with the crowd here that wants an efitor. Of course, with the toaster, i really don't do much tweaking, so not really necessary imo.

I plan to use it for live work as well as recording, so it is great to hear that the instruments sit well in a mix.

Just FYI, the Rolly's modelling engine used for sounds is the next step beyond COSM; it's called "SuperNatural", and employs samples, but, and there's a lot of spectacular-titty-titilation here, probably in conjunction with scripting that modifies, just in the nick of time, which samples are played according to live MIDI input characteristics such as style (legato or whatever) and speed. This is how the TD-30 works too, but only for the "SuperNatural" kits and sounds, which form a small portion of the overall, legacy soundset inherited from previous models. That's why the TD can reproduce more-realistic snare rolls, for instance (detects the speed of input) as well as cymbal swells (detects speed again). The FX on the INTEGRA7, by the way, may well still be COSM-based as the SuperNatural M.O. obviously has everything to do with sample triggering and nothing to do with DSP.

Also, FYI, you shouldn't need to use the Yamaha editor. The knobs on the front panel provide access to 20 parameters (4 banks of 5 knobs, the selection of which is indicated by an LED), and believe it or not two of those rows of 5 parameters are better-suited to your live-gigging-setup situation than my recording one. The third row is all EQ, and the 4th one Reverb, Chorus, two "assignable" knobs who's destinations will vary according to what they've been programmed to do on a per-patch basis, and Tempo. I'm not going to bother with the editor, and I'll be chasing some serious synth sounds and whatnot... and using only the top 2 rows, half of what you'll be able to take advantage of. These rows cover the most-used synth-control parameters, such as ADSR, cutoff and resonance. The EQ controls won't be necessary for me as I'll obviously want to EQ my DAW, but for your live-setp multisets, they could prove mighty handy. The Chorus and Reverb ones theoretically are tailor-made for your situation too, whereas, again, I don't record with FX - not for any instrument.

All up, as I've said, I'm supremely confident that you'll be absolutely wrapped with the unit.

Genius! Thank you, Dan!

So... I thought RM would've imported it regardless of the name, 'cause the time stamp should be different. I don't get why it wouldn't import it. No matter. Way past bedtime so gotta run; I'm so grateful for your timely response and for the Rig.

Thank you again, Dan!

Cripes! Oh man. LOL

That Plexi you built has some serious mojo 'though, Jesse. Somehow I doubt the JCM800 will be able to compete in that area. There'll be plenty of balls to go around of course; your neighbours will be able to confirm that. I can see it now. You mosey on over to their houses, knock on their doors (preferably in the middle of the night), and ask,

"So tell me groovers, d'ya reckon the JCM800's got big cojones or what, and if so, are they bigger than the Plexi's?"

or, after running the Kemper's earth-shattering profiling process,

"Did you feel that? May I use your 'phone? I'd better call the seismic-monitoring body right away!"

Yeah, he was slappin' the bejeezus out of that kit, AJ.

The thing is, you can hook up any e-kit, and the software engine is essentially SSD and the attached MIDI-translation code (if it has MIDI ins too so you can play it from a keyboard or e-kit that provides MIDI outs, like from a Roland drum brain) , along with whatever code was required to drive and provide feedback from the touch-screen. Undoubtedly some sort of lean-and-mean host OS.

So, with that in mind, whatever the dynamic ability of SSD, thus it will be, and that can't be half bad.

Good sentiment, Kulle, but this is a forum (you know how that goes - if someone wants to say something, he will!) and I'm not a mod, so I don't have the power to delete posts. Regardless of what we might say, experience tells me that the thread will grow.

Some will have questions, others will have answers, and many, both. There'll be logistical discussions such as about who's going to host the presets at any given time. Who knows what might crop up? The thing we should remember, IMHO, is that there's no more-appropriate place to discuss the list, the presets and indeed other related issues than here. This is precisely why the first 3 posts will be used for the list, the preset link and relevant information, in that order. Nice and neat. The links in my sig point exactly to the list (1st link) and the DL post (2nd link). You can't get any more precise or neat than that, so for "newcomers", it couldn't be simpler or more accommodating... unless, of course, it was pinned, and that might still happen one day.

Everyone is of course welcome to add the links to his or her sig as well, 'cause unless or until the thread is pinned, those links will make folks aware of it when they're posting around the forum.

Hope this allays your fear, bud; I felt the same way 'til I thought it through and used the first 3 posts this way.

The MOTIF XS Rack is a class act, AJ.

You mentioned that it's a couple o' generations behind. It matters not:

It was the pinnacle of the MOTIF line, and the XF that followed, incorporating some larger multi samples of things like piano with the inclusion of flash RAM (that's where the "F" came from), was not only essentially the same otherwise, but only appeared in keyboard form, so the XS remains the latest MOTIF rack.

Yamaha totally nailed the tone thing. They captured the essence of the acoustic instruments tonally like no other hardware-synth company has before or since IMHO. You might think some of the strings sound a little thin, but it's like with Bert's Profiles; pop 'em in a mix and they'll sound real, sitting perfectly, just as they should.

Roland's ROMPler sounds, OTOH, are impressive in isolation, but don't lend themselves to layering without much frequency sculpting. They're fat, warm, round and tubby in the low mids. The Yammy's instruments are clear, bright and balanced, with the essence, the signature-identifying frequency regions of instruments perfectly-reproduced. This all bodes perfectly-well for you 'cause you'll be using the thing as an entire band. Perfect, man; you won't find any better for this purpose. It'll sound balanced and classy.

Great choice, IMHO. Really, you couldn't have chosen better. Just wait 'til you come to mixing it, if indeed you use it for recording, and you'll see what I mean.

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the CAE MC404 by Kulle Wumpenteich is the same that Don

Genius! I'm amazed nobody picked this up yet.

Well done, Warlus1, and thank you.

Fixed.

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Here is a drop box Link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pew40jfdyi6p703/Preset wah WARLUS.rar?dl=0

MERCI

Woohoo! Thank you, Ash. Will replace it now, but it raises the question:

How will warlus1 or whoever updates the presets get them to you so you can replace the file (update the link)?

There's now another link in the production-line chain, no matter how we look at it. LOL

NOTE: Guys, I think discussion about the ins and outs of maintaining the list or preset upload should be conducted in the desiccated-list / preset thread out of respect to Don; this is his thread after all, and it's focussed on the modelling and gathering of wahs. In essence, it'll feed the other thread, where the results will be stored; that was the whole idea behind its creation anyway.

Whaddaya reckon?

... along with the damned ability to click on parent folders and see / audition all the Rigs within!

I keep saying it (even started a thread about it that I received a demerit point for when I revived it 6 months later rather than create a new one for efficiency's sake), but having to jump around sub-folders whilst trying to audition in a particular broad category is impractical and downright annoying!

There. Got that off my chest yet again. I can't for the life of me figure out why this simple-to-implement functionality isn't already present.

The only valid argument I've seen against this is that Rigs in the parent folder that aren't already in folders of their own will be seen along with all the rest when one clicks on said folder. To this I say big deal - create a "miscellaneous" or similarly-named-to-the-parent folder if you must. Surely it'd make sense to pop them into a folder anyway?

I rest my case. If this one as aspect of RM's functionality came to fruition, it'd probably make my year, and I'm not kidding!

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If you wanna hear ssd4 in a mix context then check out the first four songs of my band. https://soundcloud.com/working-class-monkey

Working-class Monkey?

Well, what choice do I have? LOL

I'll have a listen as soon as I wake up; 5:21AM Saturday morning. Thank you, KoMa!

Hmm... strange.

Thanks for not being mad at me, mate. I felt bad saying that, but I love to help if I can.

You know how it is.

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Nope. fresh and better is this.

Hate to break it to you, Dan, but RM wouldn't allow me to import it to your folder 'cause it's a Rig you gave us last month:

RZ_KrankR1_F01 2016-05-18 16:54:15

I can even show you the thread where you shared it:

Two Krank REV 1 studio profiles

Your description:

F01 = metal rhythm
F02 = crunchy lead

Uploaded to rig exchange but if not appearing you can download below.

Enjoy \m/

Head: Krank Rev 1
Cab: David Laboga Custom 2x12
Mic: PR20

What can I say? The Monkey's on the ball today... at 5:12AM!

I'm thinking maybe it's cause you're so generous that it's tough to keep up with everything you've given us, mate.

Alriiiight!

Go break a leg, Wes... but not your back... anymore.