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Hi all

Full kit wanted in Essex, UK for a reasonable price.
Decided to try and get hold of a full 2 box kit second hand, a previous listing on ebay of £600 had no bids on it so I also wonder what the general used price of these is incase I need to make an offer?

Kind regards

Anthony

Mh, first post, 600 pounds..... smells spammy to me....

The "bounce through mixer" switch is in the bounce section of Toontrack Solo.



I'm using the latest version (1.3.1). I suggest you go to your downloads section over at toontrack.com and check if you have updates available.

There are a couple of users here selling the brain only. Drop them a message and see if they are willing to ship to the US.

Otherwise, wait till 2box moves to California and starts mass producing the kits (not before paying a license fee to that company from the far east....)

This summer
And I'm curious which day will be your first summer day ... 

It varies, but it's usually in December, while you europeans are freezing your asses of, I go to the beach and admire Nicole

Starting another month, first winter day here in Australia I'm asking Where is OS 1.2?

It looks like Gibraltar no leg snare stand (http://www.gibraltarhardware.com/?fa=detail&mid=1189&sid=687&cid=123)

You can also try a stand with an offset snare basket if you prefer usual three leg construction.

Yeah, that's the one
Attached to the lower tube with this: http://www.gibraltarhardware.com/?fa=detail&mid=271&sid=86&cid=31

and this: http://www.gibraltarhardware.com/?fa=detail&mid=1246&sid=383&cid=31

It doesn't have to be all Gibraltar though, if you can find a tube and some rack clamps (I think pearl are cheaper) you can DIY..

I did not actually tried to remove the foam. The foam pushes the mesh a little bit outside. And i suppose it divides the impact of the beatings (thus protecting the mesh)
Probably a new foam will suffice. I'm going to write 2box and supply them of this URL.

Maybe they will send you a new foam also....

Don't be afraid to remove the foam Nothing will happen to the pad or mesh (assuming you are not lars ulrich or sth)

I think the foam protects the rings of all pads, but since you will never play a ring in the kick (will you?) I reckon the foam is not necessary at all in the kick.... provided you tension the mesh evenly and tight enough of course....

Yes, I think most of us have bought that very same item from e-bay - sorry I just assumed you had one already and were using it!

Ha, yeah, I was using a SD card reader like this:


But now I ordered the extender cable. But still I'm sad about the USB 1.1 on the 2box
Why not offer a configurable option: Selling the module in 4gb, 8gb,16gb or 32 gb configurations?

I'm not sure I understand.  Firstly, the 2Box has only a USB 1 socket, not USB2.  Therefore, when you connect the module to the PC via USB, it can only transfer a max of 12mb/s - this is the maximum speed of access over this port so the card will never reach its full speed.

Secondly, DO NOT try any of this through a virtual machine - a virtual machine cannot have full access to your computer's hardware because the resources are emulated and shared, hence the reduced read/write speeds.  All procedures are done under Windows 7 (64-bit).

The card will be able to reach its full speed through a card reader over USB2 as your test shows, as USB2 has a bandwidth of up to 480Mb/s.  The extension cable  will also allow the card to be accessed at full speed, as it is plugged into the 2Box motherboard and not running through the USB interface.

So to sum up, your card will not run at full speed over USB1, but this speed only affects the rate at which you can transfer files from the PC to the module and this is to be expected.  Do not use a virtual machine to format or partition your cards.  Only follow these instructions under Windows, (or use the alternate MAC software/methods, BUT DO NOT USE A VIRTUAL MACHINE.)

Thanks for the clarification, I will use a windows machine of my wife and report back, but not until the sd card extension arrives from Hong Kong..... I'm too tired to open the module every time, must have opened at least a dozen times

edit: Well, after perusing the german forum and specifically the posts of user "AA", he's using a virtual machine so the hardware virtualization is no the problem but the fact that mac OS tries to index the card every time I plug it via usb port of the module, messing up the file system and partitions.... one solution to this is add the card to the spotlight privacy tab so that every time you plug the card, the mac won't index it and mess it up.. (if you dont have a mac ignore this hehe)

now I know that the culprit is the 1.1 usb port on the module and the mac combo. This wont support cards bigger than 4gb. So from now on I will use the sd card extender cable and attach it to the module externally.
By the way, to jman: How are you transferring your huge kits to the module? per the module's usb? any file bigger than 4GB?

Have you tried connecting it to a native windows machine? -  at least to be sure that the problem lies on Mac and/or the virtual machine...

another solution (not aesthetic at all) is to connect an SD card extension to the module, then you can move the card from the module to mac, without having to dismantle everything over and over. Either way I guess you don't have to connect it too often, right?

Thanks for the hint, I ordered a extender from eplay...
Will see if it works

On a side note, in a german forum there is someone who modded the module really nice: he cut a space so the sd card is accessible without dismantling the module, really neat! If I had the tools!
Let me find a link, it's like 76 pages of pure german reading pleasure

I'm willing to write the mail but i am waiting for feedback of more mk2 users first.

Bengt is aware of it already, I sent him some emails last week. In my case, warranty is not an option since I bought it from the UK and I'm in Australia, so for me the simplest and cheapest solution is get rid of the foam.

what concerns me is that i formated the card when i got it. of course i formated in 32 kb cluster as is adviced, but i cant check yet as i am waiting for the new brain

fingers crossed!

Well, the solution would be to take out the piezo, and cut a piece of foam larger enough so that it touches the mesh, and solder it again......
If you don't like my proposed solution, well, you should buy your soldering kit right now....

It seems they didn't bother to redesign the size of the foam attached to the piezo so I think it's the same size as the Mk1 kick, which has more stuff so the sensor is touching the mesh, but for the mk2 pad the piezo don't touches the mesh since it has no additional parts that can "push" the piezo against the mesh... so yeah, remove the foam completely and you'll see......

Sorry, I didn't realize the mk1 kick hast the sensor in the middle, so my above comment is completely wrong

anyway, the mk2 kick is completely silent with the ring foam, and yeah, there is a gap between the piezo and the mesh.

Thanks for that, I tried again with the software you recommended but it seems the Sd card behavior is completely different when connected directly to the computer or assembled in the 2box module.
Connected with a SD card reader directly to my mac, I managed to format it correctly (in windows on a virtual machine) and can read/write.

But when I assembly it into the module and then connect it to the computer (using windows on a virtual machine) then it behaves completely different, saying that the card needs to be reformatted.... and the circle starts again: sd card shrinks again to 2.2 gb, must take it out of the module and assembly the stock card etc...

I think there is something hardware dependent on the module that influences the sd card behavior?

I ran the benchmark on your other post and it seems this is the case, since connecting it directly with a Sd card reader, I get 17MBs read and 14mbs write, but when I connect it with the module it gives only .9mbs read and write....