Recent content by Oancient1

The things we do for our kids!!!:confused: OK ... so despite my best efforts to direct my son toward more traditional rock styles that I play, he does have some interest in rap, or at least beats that sound to me like rap beats, with some "semi-singing" going on in between the rapping. He...

A question for anyone who downtunes for one reason or another. In instances where a guitar player in a band downtunes, say a full step, is it typical for the bassist to play downtuned as well? If so, are a different (thicker?) gauge of strings needed to make it work?

I'm a guitar player with very little drum knowledge, but I'm going by my 15-year old drummer son one of these for XMAS. It'll be one of the 14-inch the black anodized (?) ones. The question is, what height to get -- 5-inch or 6 1/2. He is pretty rock oriented now, but not entirely and he says...

I guess its about time that I posted something here instead of just lurking and listening. This is one about my dear sweet wife putting pressure on me and my son to hasten the process by which I semi-retire and we all move out to the desert where she will be warm. Arizona Bound Nothing fancy...

Sorry for reposting -- didn't notice the message was there when I checked today..

This is partly a cross-post with one I posted in the Tascam users forum... Currently I compose on my Yamaha keyboard, save to MIDI, and play the MIDI back on the Yamaha, recording the output to a couple audio track on my digital recorder, and then build on that with recorded guitars and vocals...

Another thread mentioned that the 2488 can do MIDI synching to an external drum machine. Can it also do MIDI syncing to a MIDI keyboard? How about the DP series, or the discontinued 788? What I would like to do is be able to use a MIDI file loaded into the Yamaha as backing synchronized to...