Ebonivor

Hugh, I like the idea of the Bose L1 Compact, but at around $1700 here in Australia, it's a bit more than I am intending to spend. For that amount of money I can get two HK Lucas Nanos, or a pair of Yamaha HS7 studio monitors and a QSC K10!

Not that don't like Bose - I use Bose speakers for my stereo, home theatre system and Mac-based video production setup; and used Bose 802's with my band's PA system before I retired in the early 80's.

Since the band I'm occasionally gigging with these days use a pair of Yamaha DXR12's for front-of-house and a number of DXR10's and 8's for on-stage monitoring, I really only need to cover home use and practice/jamming.

After reading leoaprilia2001's comment, has anyone else either bought or tried the HK Lucas Nano. I'm interested in getting one, but since I'll have to buy it online without the luxury of actually seeing or trying it (and will be unable to return it!), I want to gather as much hands-on information as possible.

BTW, I made the mistake of buying a Laney AH150 based on reviews and endorsements, and it is terrible. I bought it mainly for rehearsals, small gigs and onstage monitoring - it's lightweight, has 4 channels (mic, instrument/guitar, line in/ keyboards, iPad etc.) but I need to push the 2.5k EQ slider to its maximum to get anywhere near a decent sound. I even get a better result from a little Fender Frontman 25R amp (10" speaker and open back) that I used to take to practice to run my guitar through!

Worse still, my band members reckon that they would rather listen to the sound from the Yamaha DGX-505 that I used to own and now resides where we practice. What an insult to the PX-5S!

I hope there's no one else here that has a Laney AH150 and is offended by my comments! Feel free to disagree ;-)

Thanks so much guys - this is exactly what I was looking for.

And Scott, I am already a member of the group (Terry Lane) and have benefited from your and others wisdom there. Hopefully I can contribute myself as time goes by.

Having just recently returned to performing at 70 years of age after an absence of 30 years (primarily on guitar), and now the proud owner of a PX-5S, I'm wishing I had spent some of that time learning midi!

I have been using Set List Maker for just about everything except for midi, so was very interested to see that Mike had used it for changing stage settings, but I haven't a clue of how to make it work,

I initially tried to find what values to enter into the Bank MSB, Bank LSB and Program fields, but the Casio Midi documentation just left me totally confused! So I tried letting Set List Maker learn the midii. That worked, but the resulting hex code means nothing to me qnd I would prefer to have an understanding of what to enter into the fields.

Could someone please either give me some examples of what the values should be or, point me in the direction of some good basic relevant midi tutorials.

Is there any sign of progress in fixing this issue yet? I want to run a guitar via Amplitube on my iPad into the the external inputs, but the signal cuts out when signal decays to to about 10 percent and then cuts back in.

I've tried going throught the line in jacks and the audio jack and get the same problem. I've also tried connecting the guitar directly and through a DI box with the same result.

I tried the same thing with a Korg Kross and it works fine.