Gas with no remedy....the elusive thingy......

 
  I have been looking at getting this thingy. I can't tell you what it is.
 
  I made a personal decision not to pay the inflated retail price on it so I have been looking at second hand thingys and almost brand new thingys. In the land of thingys there is always someone eventually willing to part with theirs because they thought it was the most wonderful thingy and the love wore off soon after they had it.Maybe they seen another thingy they liked more and needed the money for it....anyways it is foolish to look for a new one unless it is the kind of thingy that might need warranty work, but even in this case a used thingy can be returned if purchased from the right place.
 
  In the last few weeks I stumbled across several thingys at way less that the retail  price some of them still in the plastic and basically new. In every case someone else beat me out of the thingy at auction. Just last night I seen this thingy for less than I have ever seen it priced and thought that maybe I should consult my better half to confirm the funds for this. After this was done I returned to buy the thingy and while I was gone someone else bought it. In another case a well known music vendor showed a used one on their site for a wonderful price. I tried to buy it but the link was dead. When I called the vendor they informed me the item is no longer available.
 
  One of these days the timing will work out. I know there's one out there with my name on it.Hopefully after I find one the love won't wear off for years.

Bristol_Jonesey


Hands off my thingy!

Has it got "Starise" written on it?

Karyn

Bristol_Jonesey


Hands off my thingy!

Has it got "Starise" written on it?

Ffor some reason the s & t have been erased. I thought I was being knighted

I thought he was talking about a Rolex - there's a clue in his last paragraph

If it does more things, does that make your thingy a multithingy?

Bristol_Jonesey


If it does more things, does that make your thingy a multithingy?

 Yes  the list of things the thingy does is quite extensive.

HERE is my latest elusive thingy.

One of those elusive thingies I'm contemplating these days...

Jonbouy


Gas with no remedy?
 
I just get Bapu to pull my finger.
 
That usually does the trick.

 Yeah I tried that and it never works for me..
 
 Hey Rain thats a nice thingie and probably a loud one too!!
 
 Bapu I don't usually buy things that have words that sound like algae in them but who knows maybe one day it will be my thingie. Here is the thingie I ordered....
 
 I got an almost new one for a not new price. I get a 45 day warranty period with it too.
 

 
 

Or at least Tim's has more "buttons"

Beagle

bapu


Or at least Tim's has more "buttons"

oh, it's definitely bigger!
 

I see that NOW.

Starise

 
 Hey Rain thats a nice thingie and probably a loud one too!!
       

An almighty 1 watt actually. :)


Nice thingie you ordered, btw.

Starise


  Hey Beag. I snagged this for 444.00 with shipping. Retail is 549.00. I seen one for 400 but it was a private seller with no warranty. The lowest I seen one was 375 used. I went through fatwallet.com and got an additional discount. I think I paid a fair used price for it if it  works ok. I don't usually get into measuring my thingies Beag lol.

me either, but it was hard not to notice! 

 Don't let the three tracks fool you. You can record additional parts onto each track and it has built in midi and backing tracks/export to wav.It is essentially a realtime hardware recorder. I play live sometimes  as a one man band and as a practice and composition tool it will work well getting ideas for parts together on the fly.Probably much faster than any other method, at least in my case it will be far more intuitive than anything computer related even Ableton.

yes, so do I, that's why I bought the one I did.  stereo output is nice, but unecessary for me since it's going into a mixer to send to the house mains in mono.  however, I supposed I could put "backing tracks" or loops on one channel, keyboard on another to send out and let the board handle it that way, but that really would just be over complicating it.
 
however, what I like about yours are the footswitches.  I have considered adding a behringer FCB-1010 to my setup for being able to quickly switch things.
 
re: Abelton - yeah, for my purpose (and sounds like yours) that's not even a real consideration. and no, it's not cheaper anyway since I'd have to buy a laptop to run Abelton on.

 I can sync my HD 500 to it and use the 48 second looper in it or any other midi clock including software. I can probably get it to sync with Sonar.

yes, you should be able to sync it with sonar.
 
good luck with it - it looks coolio!

me either.  I don't use it as a "looper" myself - I use it as a backing track.  I'll put the entire song on it without vocals or keyboards and I'll use that as accompaniment to my vocals and keyboards.  the one I have allows me to choose "loop" or "single" run (as yours probably does as well) and I always set it to single so that it doesn't repeat at the end of the song.

Rain..... I have been GASing over that 1w Black Star as well.