You're quite right -- I can simply use the DR-880 as a sound module. What I was hoping for, though, was an easy way to take drum/bass patterns that I compose on a computer (e.g., using Ableton Live)...

Ha ha, very funny.

I'm perfectly capable of using MIDI. The trouble is that the DR-880 doesn't offer a straightforward way of uploading a MIDI file into its memory. You have to import the file,...

Dire Straits, 'Waterline'

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I am exceedingly skeptical that would ever be possible to hear a difference between material recorded on one brand of CD versus another, with one exception that I'll mention later.

Here's why. ...

If you can get by with just a controller, how about Edirol PCR-300?
32 keys, $250.

All things being equal, a bi-amped monitor is likely to sound better than a single-amped monitor with the same total power, for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

However, all things are rarely...

In theory it is easier to design a bi-amped system than a single-amped system, because the crossover network can operate at low signal levels rather than having to handle the full power consumed by...

Cakewalk Kinetic?

I have an Xboard 49, which I think is the same but smaller, and think it's an excellent value. The biggest disadvantage I have found is that although you can connect either a damper pedal or an...

Have you considered putting fuses in series with the speakers?

Before going down that route, you might want to verify that your hum is coming from power conditioning problems rather than from ground loops.

If your computer is supplied from AC, and so is your receiver, it could be that the signal ground from your sound card is at a different potential from the chassis ground on your receiver, which...

I can't find anything in the online manual that says that recorder fingerings are an option -- just flute and sax. If I'm wrong, can you tell me where in the manual to look?

I'm thinking of picking up a WX-5. I am an experienced recorder player, so I have good breath control and have recorder fingerings wired into my brain already. However, I have no experience with...

I'm surprised that no one has commented on the Barbetta powered speakers at all. Someone out there must be using them!

However, wherever you are, if you don't know what you want, there is no substitute for finding a dealer with a very large stock of guitars and playing everything you can get your hands on so that you...

These three powered speakers are in the same approximate price bracket ($550-700), weight bracket (27-35 pounds) and size bracket. Anyone have experience with more than one and care to comment on...

The KSM9 has the obvious advantage over the Neumann that you have a choice of pickup pattern. But it would still be interesting to know: If you've tried both, which one wins and why?

(I suppose...

I'm thinking about getting together with a nontraditional contra-dance band.

In case you don't know about contra dancing, it's like square dancing without the squares. There's a caller, and...

I've seen people use two speakers even when they are feeding them both from the same input. Is it just the desire to avoid feedback from having the microphones pointing at the speakers? To avoid...

Did you ever get this problem fixed?

The difference from standard XY setups appears to be that the capsules are not at the same height. I would have thought it would be important for them to be next to each other rather than one above...

Right. So if the sound source is above or below the plane that includes the microphone body, I'm concerned about possible cancellation. If the capsules are displaced an inch vertically, which I...

This may be a foolish question, but can't the fact that the NT4's two capsules are vertically misaligned cause phase problems in some circumstances? Or is the misalignment not enough to matter?