thanks for all the help guys

i prefer cubase SX3 too, and ive been threatening to get my Atari back out for a while now, i miss it so much !

so you've had a good old LOL at me, so how about instead of using the definition of improvisation at food@dictionary.com LOL you use the one in wikipedia for music; Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical...

presenting your material isnt the same as improvising though I think that is a matter of opinion... the "improvisation" is what direction you go, what things to use, what samples/loop to layer on top of one another, what samples to trigger, what effect to place where, ect.. when you getti...

@ john clees presenting your material isnt the same as improvising though. its a big difference. i do both because its just as important to present your material as it is to improvise. but some people need to take the risk, to their gear and their reputation, and go out and jam live in real time. th...

the mbase is not without its faults, but for me its more things like it should have an analgue fine tune control. my friend had the 999 and i didnt like the kick sound on that either, of course its a matter of taste, but the mbase can create a massive range of kick sounds, it can quite closely emula...

Well, I used to own a 999 and I never got a truly great kick out of it, no matter what I did. Could be just me though. you cant assume that the 999 kick is anything like the mbase. Its not. your description in the previous post does not describe the sound i get from my mbase at all. i compared the ...

i think there is a big difference between playing live improvised music and using a platform like Ableton. its two entirely different different things, one you are playing music both you and the audience are hearing for the first time, the other you construct a framework in advance which you know wi...