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MTalking

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  • Birthday 01/19/2022
  1. Great idea re: the library! I'll see if they would like them. Thanks, everyone!
  2. I don't follow you, David, but for real, I don't want them, don't need them, and thought maybe someone here could use them. If not, cool. I'll just chainsaw someone else.
  3. For those of you living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, I have a big ol' collection of old Keyboard magazines dating back to 1986. I never reference them and they're just taking up shelf space, so if you'd like them for free, please let me know. Otherwise, I'm just gonna toss them. Thanks!
  4. The iPads are all dedicated to running lyrics via OnSong, but they're varying ages â some as old as iPad 3, some as new as iPad Pro 1. There's no real logic or pattern that I can see as to which one drops Bluetooth when. Well, wait, that's not true. I know that testing them at home, I haven't been able to get a drop. It's only at gigs. Maybe it's interference from ...I don't know. In any event, I think I'll try AnotherScott's suggestion of using a CME WIDI device on an iPad (in addition to the transmitters attached to the MioXL). Maybe that will perform better than the iPad's own internal bluetooth. Worth a shot, so thanks!
  5. Hello! I'm struggling with getting wireless MIDI to my iPads and I'm wondering what you guys have found to be the best, most reliable solution â especially for live performance, where a dropout can be really disruptive. When my band plays live, we have four iPads on stage, one for each player. The drummer's iPad shows his drum charts, the singer's shows her lyrics, etc. We use some tracks, which are on my MacBook Pro in Ableton Live. We have program changes in Ableton Live that go to the iPads to change the lyrics/chart to the right song, and even to scroll at the right part of the song (scroll to the chorus during the chorus part of the song, etc.). I've been routing the program changes out of the MacBook and into the mioXL, and then from there outputting via the DIN ports to the iPads (each of which has a little MIDI-to-USB converter hooked up to it). This method works fine, but I hate having MIDI cables all over the stage and those little converts hanging off each iPad; just looks sloppy, and of course it means more set-up and tear-down time. I tried setting up a Session on my MacBook Pro and sending the MIDI information over WiFi, but for whatever reason, this route caused some interference with Ableton Live and the connection kept dropping live anyways. So then I tried plugging in WIDI Adapters into the mioXL's outputs, and sending the MIDI information via Bluetooth. That actually works pretty well, although I still get at least a couple of drop-outs per show, which is disruptive to the musicians. (For instance, a song starts and the singer's iPad doesn't change to the new song, and she has to manually rifle through the various songs to find her chart. And she has to re-establish a connection to the WIDI Adapter.) What do you guys suggest I try next? Thanks in advance for any input you all can provide!
  6. I've been needing help with droopage and danglies.
  7. Do y'all think our need/desire (obsession?) with getting our rigs as organized as possible (clean cable runs, organized pedals, etc.) is a keyboard player thing, or a musician thing? I ask because a few of the musicians I work with seem to just slop cords around and not really mind the mess and disorganization. But that's a small sample...so what have you guys generally seen?
  8. Very cool, David! Which venue is this? (I'm also in DFW area, so just curious)
  9. Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest or make an argument that you should've paid him. I was just jabbering about my own band's situation showing a different look at the notion of paying a band member to bring and run PA.
  10. In our band, the guitar player handles PA, meaning it's his equipment, he brings it in and sets it up and runs it (as well as anyone could do, from the stage) throughout the show. We help him tear it down and load it into his truck, if we're not busy with our own gear. Maybe I'm a big sucker, but it seems fair to me to pay him whatever we would pay a third party to handle sound, which is $300 in our market. I would consider asking him to reduce that to $200, and use the difference as a slush fund for the band's expenses, but here's the kicker; He drives 4.5 hours each way for our gigs! (He lives in Oklahoma, we're in Texas). Driving 4.5 hours at 3 a.m. after tearing down a PA is some serious work, so yeah, I'm cool with the $300.
  11. Love the sound of the Moog One. Detest the horizontal-scrolling website. I mean, there's doing things a new, fun way and then there's unnecessarily upending conventions that work extremely well.
  12. Just got an IEM system for our band (Shure PSM 300) with some Westone Am Pro 30 ears. This will be our first step into the IEM world can't wait! And a Rock N Rolla (spelling?) cart to make life easier on my back. Aww yeah!
  13. cphollis: Does the router you bring have to plug into an internet cable that goes into the wall, like at home? (I obviously don't know any of the technical terms which is why my question sounds like I'm 5 years old.)
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