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Hi everyone, I have new music all recorded with 2Box Drumit5

Gilt Cage, a new venture with some friends...

http://facebook.com/giltcage - go to the BandPage and listen to Mountain Language
or you can go direct to SoundCloud here: http://soundcloud.com/giltcage

and my solo stuff
http://facebook.com/withthisdeafeningsilence - go to BandPage
or go direct to my SoundCloud page for original stuff and remixes: http://soundcloud.com/neilcarden

Cheers
Neil

Hi all, this might be easy to do, but I can't find where to do it...

When I recording via MIDI from the 2Box into Cubase 5, the midi notes (in the editor) are so narrow I can't move them withought resizing them first... does anyone know a way of setting a default size of the individual MIDI notes? It would probably be easier with a picture but am at work at the minute....

If anyone knows what I mean, let me know, if not I'll post an image....

Morning everyone... Can't find Scottie's email address and HandInHand haven't replied, but does anyone know if a spares/extras pricelist exists for parts for the Drumit5?

Cheers
Neil

Hello all, long time no see, and my work got rid of it;s stupid Proxy gateway!

I just ended up leaving Stonerun due to lack of moving forward and they style of music we were doing, and am now regularly back in my loft on my trusty 2Box. I have recently re-recorded/souped up some demo's I did back in 2009 and literally this morning created a Facebook page. Not really a massive fan of Facebook but here you go: http://www.facebook.com/withthisdeafeningsilence

Also you can get me on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/neilcarden

More stuff on the way once I get a bass guitar sorted.

Cheers, glad to see the forum is still going strong!

Neil

Hi all,

I have been asked to fill in (and maybe stay) in my friends band StoneRun and we have a sort of tour happening soon. So basically, you may not see me on here for a while, as I will be busy learning, rehearsing, recording, and playing!

if any of you are available, come and see us on one of the dates below...

www.myspace.com/stonerunmusic

Thursday 25th February - The Pulse Bar, Barnsley
Friday 26th February - Wakefield Festival TBC
Saturday 27th February - Carlisle (Falling Red album launch)
Wednesday 24th March - The Maze, Nottingham
Tuesday 30th March - BBC Radio Sheffield (live session for Raw Talent)
Wednesday 31st March - West Street Live, Sheffield
Thursday 1st April - Grand Central, Manchester
Friday 2nd April - Dickens, Rotherham
Monday 5th April - The Rigger, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Wednesday 7th April - Sharkey's, Hull
Thursday 8th April - The King Billy, Northhampton
Friday 9th April - Town Mill, Mansfield
Saturday 10th April - Frog and Nightgown, Worksop
Wednesday 14th April - Whittles, Oldham
Friday 16th April - The Appleby, Burton
Saturday 17th April - The Vic, Coalville
Thursday 22nd April - The Clubhouse, Stockport
Friday 23rd April - The Primrose, Leeds
Saturday 24th April - The Snooty fox, Wakefield
Friday 30th April - The Leopard, Doncaster
Friday 7th May - Hark to Towler, Bury
Sunday 9th May - The Boardwalk, Sheffield
Friday 14th May - The Ship Inn, Preston
Saturday 15th May - The Old Bell, Derby
Sunday 16th May - Wakefield Festival (TBC)
Friday 21st May - Mexborough Civic, Mexborough
Saturday 29th May - Cottingham Festival, Hull
Sunday 30th May - The Grapes, Sheffield

Cheers

Afternoon all...

It came to my mind yesterday that there isn't a one stop shop for all things to do with our favourite eKit. You know, there are videos here there and everywhere, audio clips, hints from users on here that inevitably get lost due to a forums nature...

So I have set this site up:

http://www.2box-forum.com/resources/

I haven't even begun to get started with it, but have a look and see if you think this would be useful? If you have any ideas or want things adding then PM me or reply to this thread.

As time goes by I will put on compatibility lists, users own website links etc etc...

This is work in progress at the moment but if everyone thinks this would be helpful then I will get it up and running properly!

Thanks, feel free to let me know what you think!

Neil

It seems some people are able to play the kit during the day when I am at work. And that just isn't fair!

Seriously though, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Xmas, and thanks to everyone who uses this forum, I have learnt a lot and I hope I have helped some people out too!

Big shout out to UC for creating the forum and of course to Scottie for his tireless chasing of 2Box and other distributors across Europe!

Massive thanks and seasons greetings!

Neil

Enjoy....


http://www.2box.se/Pages/downloads.html

Hi all, this one probably for Scott.... but...

Do we know when spares/accessories/extra's will be available? You know like extra pads or cymbals, clamps etc...

Cheers
Neil

Hi all, I know there is a music section on this forum, but has anyone done any recording with the kit yet?

I have here on my Work In Progress site - the tracks are work in progress too done using Drumit 5 with Cubase, Superior Drummer 2 with DrumKit From Hell. I spent about 2 hours on each track (played all instruments) and these are very rough (no quantize or tweaking yet)

Have a listen http://www.neilcarden.co.uk (the tracks auto play - so be careful if you're at work!)...

Anyone else got any snippets of work???

Hi all - here is our EP online:

http://www.machinesband.co.uk/prerelease.htm
http://www.machinesband.co.uk/observations.htm (hover over the centre of the screen)

quite old now (well a year and a bit). no electronic kit but some nice tunes...

We may be calling it a day soon due to issues out of our control, but we should have a couple more recordings...

Is there a way to reset the Brain to factory settings? Or can you download the original files to load back onto the unit....

Can't find anything in the manual...

Hi, Scott you might be best to try and answer this?

Does 2box have a MIDI map for use with BFD? I'm struggling to set up manually as the documentation appears to be wrong... and so does BFD?

In the manual it says that the kick is on note C2
In the Brain it says the kick is C0
If I use the learn function in BFD (you press this then the pad you want to assign) it says C1

So I am very confused... also it's not easy to figure out which notes chokes are or rims of drums, as it seems there is no consistency between the 3 areas?

Anyone shed any light?

Thanks
Neil

OK, so hope there's no copyright infringements here or anything I'm assuming not, but I have looped a few bar sample for each kit, sorry it's nothing exciting, quite boring, and not ALL the sounds of the kit will be heard, but Kick, Snare, HH, Ride, Crash and toms will.

I think the sound file is a bit right side bias (due to my inputs not the brain), but it's totally raw out of the brain itself exported to 320kbps MP3... Here is the list Scottie provided, so patience will be needed...

Here is the link: http://www.neilcarden.co.uk/audio/2boxSamples.mp3


DrumIt_Live_Kit
Studio_Kit
The_Minneman_Kit
Stockholm_Jazz
Nippon_Recordings
Baba_Gilberto
Ambassadors_Cross
Marching_On
Give_It_Away
Grace_Night_Club
The_Pretender
Kashmir
Latin_Tims
LTJ_D&B
Urban_Kit_1
Emperors_Cross
Minneman_C_Maple
Joe's_Rosanna
Mr_Philips
Iggy_Punk
Peter_Lockett_Kit
Fatboy
So_What!!!
Oh! Snares!!!
Open_Sound
God_Put_A_Smile
Love_Stoned
Lenny_Go_My_Way
Cochise
Back_in_Black
Raining_Blood
Demetalized
Exodus
Hard_Nuts
Panned_Away
Roxanne
Congero
Locketts_India
Recording_Shells
Genius_John_G
Mckenzies_Mustach
Mix_Of_Toms
Minneman_Customs
Sweet_Home
Dani_California
Session_Kit
Minneman_Rim_Kit
The_Loopmaster_Kit
Loopmaster_Perc
Lockett_Variation
Bombay_Life
Cross_Mix
Snappy_Recordings
Maples
Higher_Emperor
Lower_Ambassadors
Dance_Dude
Custom_Maple
Maple_World
Cross_Stix_On_Rim
Latin_Rims
Gee_Ones!
Way_Down
Marine_Band
Kicking_Menace
Club_Gig
Tight_It_Up
Birdland
Late_Night
Jazzy
Fractions
Cymbalmania
Wierd_Rims
Balanced_Kit
Paranoia
Black_is_Back
Smoke_On_Water
More_Wierd_Rims
Balanced_RimTomg
Urbans_Kit
Slave_kit
Session_Kit
In_The_Studio
Dance_&_Beat
Hard_Kit
The_Gold_Kit
Deep_Kit
Sleep_Kit
Percussion_Kit
Sabosito
Medatic_Heros
Surdoi
Lationos
Urban_Kit_2
Bloody_Sunday
Sad_But_True
Wanna_be_Startin
Hot_Hey_Oh_Chilli
Van_Dyke
Vultures

OK I was gonna record some samples of the kit in my set up, but as soon as my new kit arrives, my PC dies! So my new quad core is coming tomorrow and I will spedn this weekend playing with the kit in Cubase,

So if anyone wants any of the particular kit sounds recording (list from Scottie in a previous post) reply here and I'll get a raw mp3 recording done! solo or with music....

Hi guys, I have a question about the kick drum. If you look at the attached pic, the dark blue rectangle shape is like extra padding underneath the batter mesh, i assumed that this is where it's best played, so I set it up for there (which was naturally where my beaters were set up for the acoustic kit) and I thought OK. I played on the kit for a while and though hmmm the kick is a bit week compared to the rest of the kit, I then got my stick and hit various parts of the kick, and where the light blue circle is gave a masive increase in sample and sounded much better, so where is the correct place to play the kick?

Any ideas, or thoughts?

Hi all, just thought I would get involved with this forum as beeing a fully fledged user...

A few pointers:

It will take a couple hours to set up, I found the manual slightly unhelpful, but all the same better than nothing
Make sure you calibrate the HH. I didn't and I thought it was the worst e-HH ever, but not so if calibrated.
The stand is very light, and very sturdy. I'm a very hard hitter and this will suit me fine!
The sounds are good - not had chance to play with them, but I will be using BFD to practice through etc.
The USB to PC connection is rEALLY slow so copying your own drumless .wavs will take time and not always 100% accurate.
The kit is very playable.

I am VERY impressed with this kit. I bought it as my Pearl kit is in our practice room and cant always go and hit when I want, this enables me to...

All in all I cannot fault this kit!