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PMT Bristol: Top blokes, to a man. They were so helpful to an old duffer asking so many questions.

In the end they had to concede - It CAN'T make the tea - That's why I got a good price on it.

That and it being their ex-dem model, and the ol' G7 being discontinued and all.

Sonic meyhem - Ahoy!

Seeing the lady Gaga piano in another thread, I was messing with a 3D modelling program over the weekend and had a go at designing a keytar that looks a bit more organic...

And here it is:





Just a thought experiment really, but fun, nonetheless!

I have been looking at some Ableton vids online and wondered what you guys thought of it's suitability in a proggy environment (both in the studio and onstage) I can see some interesting opportunities with the Akai controller.

But the trouble is most of the youtube stuff is showing pretty dull 4 to the floor beatz.

Any of you proggites use it? what do you think?

Anyone else seen THIS?

http://www.infiniteresponse.com/

Poly aftertouch, colour touchscreen 7 octaves, and best of all.... It FOLDS IN HALF.

It would go in the boot of the SLK - Yay!

Downside is it's $3000.

Eddie Jobson has 2.

I've been looking at some of the demos on YouTube, and it looks like quite a nice board for live use. Anyone used one in anger?

Or a really rubbish search engine...

Don't know which

... on the forum.  Every single time I come here I have to log in again.  What is with that?

Mac, Safari 5, blah, blah, Snow Leopard, Blah, Blah, home made black desk with Ikea legs, blah, blah, stuff.

Mrs One has just informed me that she has clicked the paypal link and ordered me a copy of TPE, from our tortoises for Father's day (We're mad in our house, you see)

Hopefully Weston-upon-Mud wil ring out with Frostie progness this weekend.

Jem - If I play it loud enough you might just hear it!

Well...

I have for the past 11 months been recording an album, and I decided to document the process in a blog (I can't think where *that* idea came from!)

It's old-fashioned prog* featuring much hammonde organe, mooge synthesisere, and (horror) mellotrone  (OK Audio Units that *pretend* to be those classics) though my much loved Korg Prophecy makes more than a few appearances. Collaborators from far flung places like Syracuse NY, Norway, Holland and Weston-super-Mare provide variously guitars, sax, bass and drums while I carry out keyboard duties tracking, editing and mixing

Anyway I'm now up to my ears in final mixing prior to sending the project off for mastering (once I've found a mastering house I am happy with  - and can afford! - Abbey Road was a tad out of my budget!) So I thought I'd post small snippets of the final mixes as I complete them...

The first two tracks are in the bag and there are excerpts on the blog:
http://markonemusic.co.uk/newblog/?p=261
http://markonemusic.co.uk/newblog/?p=267

I'd welcome your initial thoughts

*not because I don't like this new fangled prog that Mr G makes, it's just because I think the musical parts of my brain were frozen in 1974!

//http://www.audiomidi.com/Steven-Slate-Drums-EX-Edition-No-Brainer-Deal-P13601.aspx

//http://www.stevenslatedrums.com/

Offer ends at the end of Feb.

I bought these over the weekend.  It cost like 15 quid.  Normally about $100.  Downloaded and installed it - The process is a bit arcane to say the least.  But it is insanely good for rock drums.  The Zep kit is nice, but I like the Slate Hybrid kit.

And what's nice is with very little faffing about I was getting a killer drum sound out of it.

Weekend after next I have organised a tracking session with my long-time drummer mate in a beautiful acoustic space... It will of course be gutting if I end up using Logic's drum replacement feature to use the Slate drums instead of the real thing, but somehow I suspect the Sennheiser/Rode/AKG/Shure stuff I have available won't quite match the stuff Mr Slate used.

I have been spending the last few weeks getting huge amounts of fun out of my latest virtual toys.

NI B4 II and NI Akoustik Pianos.

I could never afford (or house) a genuine Hammond, A Steinway, a Bechstein and a Bosendorfer...  But these virtual recreations are lovely! (if not ACTUALLY as good as the real thing )

They really are splendid.

And also now obsolete  :evil:

Like almost the day I unwrapped them Native Instruments removed them from their current catalogue.

This happens to me a lot.  I get a new toy and the company in question stop making it.

EMU Proteus PK6 (and cousins) - one month after I bought mine
Alesis Fusion 8HD - 2 months after I bought mine
Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire - I managed 9 months before they obsoleted it
NI B4II and Akoustik Pianos - The same *&()dy day I got mine  :evil:

Moral of this story.  FInd out what's on MarkOne's shopping list before buying it :roll: .

Hi all...

Late to the party, I know...  But, I've been loving Frost since I picked up Milliontown, sometime last year, and I love Experiments...

As something of a key-tickler myself, I have huge respect for Jem's chops.

And you guys have a forum too...

Cool