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It's been on there for 2 weeks now.

Price drop: £900 I've decided to include my Quik-Lok QLX-21 keyboard stand too and my Roland DP-8 sustain pedal.

You could always live off beans for a few months

Haha don't worry, very much not from Nigera, sunny (lol..) 'uddersfield here.

Well I thought here would be the best place to advertise and I'd love to see it go to a fellow Frostie, I've spent many an hour absolutely crucifying Hyperventilate and BLM on it!

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(I hope for sale threads are allowed here, I did look for some forum rules but couldn't find any, sorry if I've broken a rule)

Hi all, it's with great sorrow and nasty sharp pointy bits that I put this up for sale, but the Fantom is simply overkill for my needs at the moment. I am currently learning how to drive and will soon be beginning some teaching work in schools around Yorkshire, so I need to buy myself a vehicle to trundle about in.

Condition:

The keyboard is in mint condition, it has been well looked after, never been gigged, when not in use it has always been kept dust-free with a cover.

Extras:

Audio track expansion upgrade
128mb CF memory card
Roland SRX-99 waveform expansion card
Quik-Lok QLX-21 keyboard stand
Roland DP-8 sustain pedal

A couple of pictures:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/A ... tup011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/A ... tup004.jpg

If you would like some more detailed pics or information then don't hesitate to get in touch. I don't have a box or case for the keyboard so you'd have to come and collect I'm afraid, I would deliver but I don't fancy attempting to carry this around on my pushbike

Asking price: £900
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Cheers

Go for it I don't think you can go wrong with any of the albums. Everyone into Position  has a good collection of quite mainstream/melodic sounding tracks (Music for a Nurse - was featured in an Orange tv ad! and New Pin).

But then again their first album (Effloresce) has Catalyst, Amputee, it's probably more 'progressive' sounding than the second as goes off into quite a lot of extended song forms.

Frames (the most recent one) is also good although I dont think there's as many stand out tracks, Trail of Fire, Unfamiliar, Sleeping Dogs and Dead Lions (so awesome) have really strong choruses/hooks whilst still not being afraid to go a bit mental at times, especially Sleeping Dogs.

They always put on a good live show too, I've seen them twice (Leeds and Mansfield), they always seem very energetic and banter with the crowd a lot.

Haha, I love the song, that's gone straight into my 'toob favourites

I want to hear the Christmas remix of this since there was definite potential there with the bells and all!

You can group them however you want, who cares as long as it sounds good

just popular music
i would have gone for a jazz guitar course cuz i want to do studio musician stuff but at the time i was applyin i was feelin really unconfident about my playin so now im writing more than im playing. still shreddin out tho. full on. lol
also, the guitar in your avatar looks quite a lot like mine, what is it?
i have a hairband on mine too lol

It's a Suhr Carved Top:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/A ... 500002.jpg

Hudds is supposed to have a good music department, I just never considered it because I wanted to move away from home and would feel obliged to stay if I was going to Hudds.

What course did you apply for at LCM and what did you get offered?

When I originally applied I applied (foolishly) for Music Studies (basically the classical course) it was the wrong course for me (I didn't really research them properly) and was denied a place because they didn't have an electric guitar tutor who worked on that course - they just turned down my application rather than offering me another course, I had to phone up and ask them wtf was going on (since I well met all the entry requirements) - so basically I understand if they mucked up your application, they must be a bit crappy in that department.

Anyway.

I'm also from Huddersfield but currently live in Leeds as I go to the College of Music there. Will be moving back to Huddersfield come July when my course finishes. Also going to the Leeds gig

BFD and Stylus RMX feature a lot as far as I know

Do it Jem.. do it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoqDYcCD ... re=related

Non techies, proceed with caution.

The wasp sounds scattered around the song 'The Other Me' are from one of the samples built into one of the modules in a program called Reason. Quite simply, he's taken the sample, applied some dynamics to it and thrown it in the piece. The beautiful part comes at the very end, which puzzles most, where the wasps sound like they've just entered the Large Hadron Collider and sound like they've melded into each other. This is achieved within the 'Malstrom Graintable Synthesiser'. The term 'graintable' is a malformation (Hah) of two words, granular and wavetable. In short, the synth unit uses both these concepts to generate it's sounds. Granular comes from Granular synthesis, which is the process of taking tiny fragments, or grains, of sound, and repeating them and morphing them. Wavetable synthesis is basically a bunch of waves stuck on a chip, or in this case virtually, and played back.
The ending of The Other Me uses the wave used throughout the piece, called 'Flies' (HAH! They aren't wasps now, are they? >: ) ) and in the last section, the 'Motion', or number of grains of the sound played through, is reduced until it becomes a single, continuous grain, and then the pitch is dropped down a couple octaves. For you kids at home I've replicated the ending for you to listen to. No extra charge.

As a final note, I'm sure this is all very complicated, and I'm almost certain Jem only used that strange morphing effect at the end because he tweaked a knob and it sounded nice.

That's nuts! Thanks very much for the info, I need to try that out in reason. How did you figure out how he did that? Is this Malstrom Graintable Synthesis majig something that's easily used in Reason?

Aw no How did I miss this..