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RSS 2.0 Now Available! Tuesday, November 02, 1999
 

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  Glyph 6416 CDRW
New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: We just received our first batch of the new 6416 CDRW mechanisms from Glyph Technologies. The 6416 is a Masterlist compatible 6x write, 4x rewrite, and 16x read drive that is very affordably priced. The SCSI Masterlist compatible versions we stock retail for $529.

Sweetwater has significantly lowered the price of several Alesis items. Now's the time to get great deals on QS6.1's, Studio 24 mixers, Nano Synths, and Nano Bass modules.

Those price reductions (above) are all well and good, but worthy of its own inSync blurb is the great deal we are offering on the incredible Alesis Q20 multi-effects processor. The street price had been around $800 for these, and well worth it, but we're blowing the lid off those prices and offering them for $499! This is a GREAT sounding processor for $499. When it first came out we did A/B comparisons between them and a $12k Lexicon 480L. The Q20 stacked up very respectively against this leading reverb system. On some algorithms we could hardly tell the difference.

  Alesis price drop: QS6.1, Studio 24, NanoSynth
New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: We just received our first batch of the new 6416 CDRW mechanisms from Glyph Technologies. The 6416 is a Masterlist compatible 6x write, 4x rewrite, and 16x read drive that is very affordably priced. The SCSI Masterlist compatible versions we stock retail for $529.

Sweetwater has significantly lowered the price of several Alesis items. Now's the time to get great deals on QS6.1's, Studio 24 mixers, Nano Synths, and Nano Bass modules.

Those price reductions (above) are all well and good, but worthy of its own inSync blurb is the great deal we are offering on the incredible Alesis Q20 multi-effects processor. The street price had been around $800 for these, and well worth it, but we're blowing the lid off those prices and offering them for $499! This is a GREAT sounding processor for $499. When it first came out we did A/B comparisons between them and a $12k Lexicon 480L. The Q20 stacked up very respectively against this leading reverb system. On some algorithms we could hardly tell the difference.

  Alesis Q20
New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: We just received our first batch of the new 6416 CDRW mechanisms from Glyph Technologies. The 6416 is a Masterlist compatible 6x write, 4x rewrite, and 16x read drive that is very affordably priced. The SCSI Masterlist compatible versions we stock retail for $529.

Sweetwater has significantly lowered the price of several Alesis items. Now's the time to get great deals on QS6.1's, Studio 24 mixers, Nano Synths, and Nano Bass modules.

Those price reductions (above) are all well and good, but worthy of its own inSync blurb is the great deal we are offering on the incredible Alesis Q20 multi-effects processor. The street price had been around $800 for these, and well worth it, but we're blowing the lid off those prices and offering them for $499! This is a GREAT sounding processor for $499. When it first came out we did A/B comparisons between them and a $12k Lexicon 480L. The Q20 stacked up very respectively against this leading reverb system. On some algorithms we could hardly tell the difference.


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MTS (MIDI Time Stamping)
An abbreviation that stands for many different things, but the one that concerns us is the newly coined term from Mark of the Unicorn. MTS is their technology known as MIDI Time Stamping, which allows MIDI tracks to be recorded and played back with an extremely high degree of timing accuracy. MIDI Time Stamping has been a part of all MOTU USB MIDI interfaces and is officially being deployed (activated) with the release of Digital Performer version 2.61. It is a method of coding MIDI data that passes through a MOTU MIDI interface with specific timing information. Once each piece of MIDI data is time stamped the software can control it with an extremely high degree of accuracy, and (this is the important part) play it back with that degree of accuracy. The key to MTS is that MIDI playback is no longer computer clock dependent. For playback, the time stamped event is pre-transmitted to the USB interface from DP, and the MOTU USB interface handles the transmission of those events to the playback MIDI modules. MOTU boasts sub-millisecond accuracy with MTS, and has changed the PPQ resolution of DP to accept values up to 10,000! Now that's a lot of pulses per quarter note.
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Those "jiggly" vibrato arms

Last week's tip on guitar tremolo systems (see inSync 10/18/99) triggered the following question from an inSync reader.

"I want to eliminate that loose "jiggle" or slack that my vibrato arm has. I set up my vibrato arm bi-directionally and I use very subtle vibrato effects where I am pushing and pulling the arm only very slightly so that the slightest touch of the arm affects the strings. But it seems that most of the older Fender guitar vibrato arms have the problem of being "jiggly" or loose at the threaded hole they are screwed into, even with that small spring down the hole, unless they are way tightened down. I am wasting movement just to compensate for this slack and achieve even a slight vibrato effect. I don't think this is caused by a worn out threaded hole because the entire bridge block is relatively new. Is there a way to eliminate that loose "jiggle" or slack and still be able to rotate the arm into a convenient grabbing position?"

This is a great question. I can't imagine how many players out there must be frustrated by this, including yours truly. Take note inSync readers. It's a rare occurrence, but your inSync editor was stumped with this one. Having used Fender style vibrato arms quite a bit over the years I usually became so frustrated with them I would replace them with a more sophisticated system. Not a bad alternative as there are many benefits to some systems, but it's not an option if you want to retain the original look and feel of a vintage instrument (most retrofit vibrato arm systems require extensive routing to the body of the guitar). Without a better solution than that I decided to go back to the source of the original tip, John Robinson, one of our great Sweetwater Sales Engineers to see what his thoughts were.

"That Jiggly thing....I have yet another low-tech path for this particular malady: Ram the threaded end of the tremolo arm into a bar of soap, or rub soap around the threads. The soap helps fill in the gaps between the tremolo arm and the receptacle on the bridge. Another thing I have done when I haven't been close to soap (yes kids, it can get downright scary on the road) is to break a balloon, stretch a piece of it across the receptacle, and screw the tremolo arm in, using the balloon as a gasket of sorts."

Amazing. If I had only known this years ago my 1977 Strat would probably be worth more than $77 at this point (no, that is NOT an offer to sell it for $77).


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