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Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 4, 2018, 5:56 pm
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Ordered one of these....
HTML https://digitech.com/en/products/trio
Will make it easier to jam without firing up the computer and
fretting with drum programs and the like...get back to just
PLAYING.
Mind you, I didn't pay THAT price for it....It was on sale for
$49.95 and I had a $50 gift card...Add free shipping and I'm out
exactly ZERO!
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: The Dudley Lama Date: January 4, 2018, 6:22 pm
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will that thing loop without the drums?
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: indigo_dave Date: January 4, 2018, 6:48 pm
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Didn't know there was such an animal. Wonder how many different
patterns are stored in the little beast. And I wonder, do
variations in how you play your (what I'll call) "kickoff licks"
to set the groove - do they make the thing choose a slightly
different pattern ?
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 4, 2018, 8:15 pm
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[quote author=The Dudley Lama link=topic=179.msg1874#msg1874
date=1515111738]
will that thing loop without the drums?
[/quote]
I think you can silence the drums and the bas line if you want
to....But then it don't do nuthin'...Dunno really...It's not a
recorder...Should have it within a week and I'll file a complete
report/review right here amongst the tombstones.
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 4, 2018, 8:24 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=179.msg1875#msg1875
date=1515113315]
Didn't know there was such an animal. Wonder how many different
patterns are stored in the little beast.[/quote] there are 7
genres and 12 styles per genre. [quote author=indigo_dave
link=topic=179.msg1875#msg1875 date=1515113315] And I wonder,
do variations in how you play your (what I'll call) "kickoff
licks" to set the groove - do they make the thing choose a
slightly different pattern ?[/quote]
That's what watching the different demonstrations videos I'd
found seem to illustrate. That's what I'm hoping for anyway.
Should have it by early next week. Sweetwater has been really
good about sticking to scheduled delivery times. I've ordered
several things from them now and they've all arrived on time or
early. So I should be able to give an idea of performance
shortly.
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 11, 2018, 9:34 pm
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Got the thing. It's built quite sturdily. I just plugged in and
played a simple Em shuffle kind of thing and hit "Learn" and
repeated it. After a few bars I hit the switch again, then hit
it again and started playing the same thing and the drums and
the bass kicked right in, at the same tempo I was playing. After
8 bars the drums did a pickup and it went back into I guess
would be the rhythm line and I just soloed all over it. You can
apparently "Teach" it 3 distinct parts..A "Verse" part, a
"Chorus" part, and a "Bridge" part. After you do that, you go
into the different parts using the footswitch. It doesn't record
what you are playing but remembers how you played each part
somehow. I'm going to try and record a complete thing with it
this weekend. I don't think it would be practical using the
drum/bass audio as a finished product, but rather as intuitive
metronome device....I'm hoping the drum/bass thing can at least
provide a viable template for replacement with superior samples.
It's a kick though....For less than fifty bucks , it's a real
kick.
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: belleswell Date: January 12, 2018, 1:29 pm
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The Digitech Trio. I know it well. The one you bought for $49.95
is to clear the stock on these as they plan to, or have quit
making them. When these debuted at the NAMM show in '14, they
won "best in show" , as best new effect, I had my name on the
list when they first came out and had one being sent my way
after about a one month wait. I got a discount at Prymaxe that
made it a little cheaper. When they first came out they listed
for $199.99 and I got mine for $ 150. My Sweetwater guy, Carson,
could not match this at the time. Around '16 they released the
Trio + which I also bought when it first came out. It lists for
299 US and I got it for about $240 US. The Trio + incorporates
many of the things users wanted in the original. Digitech
listened and responded with the Trio+. There is a separate vol
knob for the drums and another for the bass on both, so yes, one
can have either or both. The + has a better looper and will
store up to 5 parts, and with the added sequencer, these parts
can be put together in any fashion to compose a song. The Trio+
is easier for live performance. Both however are great for
scratch pad composing of songs or just jamming. The Trio has 7
different styles or genres if you will, and the Trio+ has 11.
Both come with the same optional foot switch for loop control
playback and a host of other options that make them much easier
to use. A must for live performance, and very convenient for
just sitting around jamming. These foot switches run 40 to $50
US.
One tip for recording to ones pc, the headphone output is
stereo. Using this will allow stereo input for home recording.
J
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 12, 2018, 6:45 pm
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The footswitch looks like a must have really. Mine has separate
bass and drum volume controls. it has separate outs for the
drum/bass and the guitar signal, so getting discrete tracks will
be somewhat workable insofar as keeping the guitar clean. Having
the drums and bass essentially mono...in my mind is
limiting...Ergo my assertion that the drum/bass track would be
simply a snazzed up metronome...With the bonus of sketching out
lines for re=recording both.
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: belleswell Date: January 15, 2018, 9:43 am
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HTML https://3e7777c294b9bcaa5486-bc95634e606bab3d0a267a5a7901c44d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/product_documents/documents/2144_1503592198/Trio_Manual_5057870-B_original.pdf
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Re: Spent a Sweetwater gift card today
By: AJ Date: January 15, 2018, 7:45 pm
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[quote author=belleswell link=topic=179.msg1945#msg1945
date=1516031019]
HTML https://3e7777c294b9bcaa5486-bc95634e606bab3d0a267a5a7901c44d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/product_documents/documents/2144_1503592198/Trio_Manual_5057870-B_original.pdf
[/quote]
Thanks Jeff...I already downloaded the manual.
...Just haven't read it all yet.
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