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BTILC paraphrase - now THATS appreciated!

I live about 5 miles from the epicenter. Not to make light of anyone who actually sustained damage but it was pretty mild by LA-native standards. On the other hand, we lost half a tree to the rain and wind. The storm’s not bad out here in Ventura but my wife pointed out that we don’t usually get this much rain when the trees are in full bloom (thanks to the extra rain earlier in the year). We’re probably going to see a lot more snapped branches in the months to come. Strange days indeed…

The PAiA Stringz n Thingz was all we could afford in my first cover band. We had a strangely good time with it (it did a mean “I Ran” if I recall correctly) - all we had to compare it to was a Magnus chord organ so it was a pretty low bar. A friend built it just for kicks and loaned it to me until it was stolen from my car. I replaced it with an ARP Omni that we didn’t enjoy half as much given it’s weight and general flakiness .

I’ve had many disappointments but the “winner” has to be the Siel Px Jr - I needed a bottom board for my Juno 60 back in the 80s. It sounded truly awful. It played OK until it stopped producing sound after a month. At least it was heavy and fairly expensive.

I’ve had Headrush 8” speakers and I currently use the equivalent Altos. For my application (small, medium volume pop gigs with a Radial Key Largo as input), the Alto is vastly superior - way more volume and clarity. There must be something to the different preamp. I loathed the Headrush…

I have long since dumped the 8s on a solo artist (acoustic guitar and vocals) who thinks they"re great. I definitely found that boosting the input signal helped a bit but it still seemed pretty weak for a my medium volume bar band. Since then, I"ve gotten a couple ofAlto TS312s (I believe that the TS3XX is nearly identical to the Headrush speakers with a slightly different preamp) for the same kind of gigs and been quite happy with it - decent volume and decent range even if piano sounds a little metallic. It even works for mid-sized outdoor soirees.

The comparison chart says no sample memory.

I"ve got one of these and it does get pretty hot when it"s charging. Until now I"ve never had a piece of gear that threatened to have its cover 'separate forcefully'. A brave new world.

MidiPad supports cc messages 0-127 (although you have to add 1 to midi control values in the interface for some reason) so I guess it supports bank select but I"ve never tried it.

From my experience, MidiPad allows you to send a series of note on/off with velocity, program change, or midi control values on specified midi channels per pad so you could, for instance, send three different program changes to three different midi devices with one pad press.

I use MidiPad on an iPad mini to accomplish this task. It creates a grid of colored/nameable buttons and associates midi messages with them. It"s pretty basic but it works great. I"m not sure how well it works on the iPhone but it can create a grid of 24 readable buttons on one if you keep the text simple.

Sort of - According to the manager application, my 2x reports only 512MB available(?!) - who knew? Better than nothing...

Just downloaded the firmware update, the manager and the new sound files. Not a whole lot of doc but it's useable. I like that they finally did it and the new piano and mellotron are welcome but all in all not too thrilling. From my perspective, it'll live and die on the availability of a lot more new sound content.

Unfortunately, I own a couple of 8s - they sound fairly good a low volumes but they"re stunningly underpowered for live gigs even as monitors. I"d love to find out if/how anyone has had a positive live experience with either the 8s or the 12s.

Assuming the NC2X is the same as the NC2 USB-Audio wise then it works pretty well with IOS devices I haven't noticed any particular latency issues with either an IPad or an IPhone and the audio fidelity is fine for live work. Level matching is a total pain tho - I'm loving the USB audio level knob on the MODX!