![]() ![]() The older generations of plugins, EZD2, EZkeys, EZmix2, can’t easily be made to resize and will take a next gen design to implement. S3 was built from the ground up and a resizable GUI was part of that design. Broomstick Bass is a virtual instrument for Windows and OS X music computers, from the maker of Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Sven Bornemark. However, as it was explained to me, it’s no easy feat. I don’t know if this is technically feasible, but I think it would be a major improvement to these products. I hope that EZ Bass will be available in this format also. The expandable screen in Superior Drummer makes it a pleasure to work in and very easy to read. They are really useful plugins but interaction with them is difficult because of their very cramped format. As they are, they are difficult to see, difficult to read and interact with and to be frank, it makes them look a little cheesy. While I really value my EZ Keys and EZ Mix plugins, I think that they would be greatly improved (and more marketable) if the user was able to expand the GUI the way we can in Superior Drummer. Once they started playing, however, they proved they had the talent and experience to support their name, and the collaboration of banjo, cello, five-string fiddle and hammered dulcimer produced music that was expansive and rolling, like the background score for a documentary of the hills of Scotland or wild horses charging across a dusty plain-which created a cerebral experience rather than a physical one.I don’t know how else to communicate with the tech folks at Toontrack so, since you are identified as such, I’d like to make a suggestion: ![]() The name of the band conjured for me a group of hootin’ and hollerin’ bluegrass old-timers with washboard, broomstick bass, moonshine jug and a few dirty kids, so I was surprised by the number of chairs-I thought we’d be stomping around-but the four musicians were young, clean and solemn. ![]() About forty of us crowded into the house, and some people had brought a few extra chairs. Two weeks later, I visited the home of the Breakmen’s banjo player in East Van for another kind of acoustic experience-to lend an ear to New Old Stock. Shared happiness mixed with nostalgia fuels the songs on this CD, which I was still humming days after the party. At the release party for their CD When You Leave Town the capacity crowd had a diversity of ages that is more usual at a wedding reception or Madonna concert. That’s where I saw the Breakmen, five harmonizing guys with three guitars, a mandolin or two, a banjo, a stand-up bass, a slide guitar, a harmonica and various noisemakers and shakers (I said five guys, right?). James Church, in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver, is now a fantastic acoustic venue for folk music-traditional, bluegrass, Celtic, Roots, and every other kind and combination. ![]()
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