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  • in reply to: my safe space #40199
    Byron
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    We bought the house with this in mind.

    in reply to: Need some insight #40198
    Byron
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    That’s awesome!

    I’m happy to see I’m not the only one bringing old stuff back to life.

    in reply to: Last Order #40173
    Byron
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    Those radical changes in feel are pretty cool.

    in reply to: Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers – ZZ Top (guitar cover) #40171
    Byron
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    🤘

    Yeah!

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    in reply to: my safe space #40163
    Byron
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    You’re gonna really be jealous. Here’s mine:

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    in reply to: Wishing Well – FREE (guitar cover) #40131
    Byron
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    Good job. I always like the way you don’t seem to feel that you have to be a slave to the record.

    I used to play this song with a couple other people. Always liked it, ever since I was a little kid

    in reply to: Meet N Greet from Texas #40125
    Byron
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    Welcome aboard.

    Where in Texas?

    in reply to: “Singer-Songwriter” vs. Hard Rock & Heavy Metal #40124
    Byron
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    I’d say do what you want and labels be damned

    Local pro musicians have also told me that writing out all the parts is a waste of time and a turn-off to potential band mates because any musicians I get will want to play their own parts, like their own guitar solos and drum grooves, rather than learn & play my songs note-for-note.

    Quite frankly, I think a real pro would play the parts given. if that was required.

    This past summer I worked on writing new original songs but haven’t figured out what to do with them when done. By “new songs” I mean, all parts, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, drums, guitar solo, vocals, lyrics, written out in Guitar Pro. Like, rock band style. It seems the only call for new songs as a solo-musician is in the “Singer-Songwriter” style.

    To me, the obvious thing to do is record them yourself and put them on SoundCloud or something.

    And of course share them here.

    in reply to: New band situation 😁 #40112
    Byron
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    I hear ya.

    With the Metal Fusion Belly dance thing my wife and I were doing a few years ago, I ended up writing most of the material just so we could get a full set worth. The three of us – me, bassist and doumbek player – wrote one song together. The bassist wrote two – one of which I arranged. I wrote all the others.

    in reply to: New band situation 😁 #40108
    Byron
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    Why don’t you take the lead and throw out a bunch of suggestions? That might get things kick-started.

    in reply to: Doomsday Prophecy #40105
    Byron
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    in reply to: Flatlined #40087
    Byron
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    Very well done!

    in reply to: Gear Necromancy #39915
    Byron
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    VSTis don’t get loaded into the keyboard: they get loaded into your DAW or a standalone VST host and the keyboard gets used as a controller.

    Having said that, I have a whole bunch of stuff from SampleTank to some Orchestral stuff to a virtual warehouse full of vintage synths.I even have 1st class soundfonts of all the original E-mu Proteus modules (why is another story).

    If you’re wanting a keyboard, unless you specifically want an actual hardware synth for some nostalgic retro reason, you are probably better off with a controller and VSTis.

    For the SansAmp, I would try something premium (and expensive) like Deoxit and make several attempts

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Byron.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Byron.
    in reply to: Is it safe to plug a bass into a guitar amp? #39913
    Byron
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    At best, it will sound like canine fecal matter.

    At high volume, you may damage the amp

    in reply to: Gear Necromancy #39912
    Byron
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    Major bummer. So now I had basically a controller keyboard with 200 instances of “init. program” in memory. And a GM sound bank.

    Scouring the web, I found no way of loading Korg’s PCG files without a floppy drive. But I finally did find the factory sounds in sysex format.

    I tried to send a Sysex dump to the X3 from my DAW and it was a no-go. The keyboard would only take about half of Bank A. Most of the rest appeared to be scrambled – random & missing characters in the patch names and the last few patches and all of Bank B remain in the initialized state.

    I got the same – perhaps worse – results from MIDI OX, which is supposed to be the shizzle for such things.

    Finally, at someone else’s suggestion I tried Bome Send SX and it worked like a charm! First time go.

    I started the process, went to get a refill on my coffee and when I came back it was done.

    All the tweaking in MIDI OX didn’t accomplish squat, even when I slowed the transmission down so much that it took all day. ALL DAY!

    Ah! Back in business! I still need to get a replacement drive – or a floppy emulator – to load some of the other disks.

    In the meantime, I have been exploring the factory sounds. I had all but forgotten there is some really good stuff in there.

    The X3 was a descendant of the venerable M1 and so sounds very similar. It was never very popular, however. Partly because it lacks the very famous “M1 piano” that you’ve heard 1,000,000 times.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Byron.
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