Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[Jeff Appleton]

I bought Jamstix1 about a year ago, right around the time it first came out. At that time I was using N-Track, which I thought was the cream of the crop (I was somewhat new to the whole daw thing, you see).
Anyway, had major problems with understanding the whole jamstix/n-track thing. Ralph was very helpful and tried to hold my hand, but I eventually gave up with both N-Track and Jamstix. I emailed Ralph and I've got to say....... he was the most consumate businessman I've met on the Net so far.

Flash forward to current time. In the interim, I'd junked N-Track and bought a Mac and converted everything I was working on w/ N-Track to ProTools. Not a plug for Digidesign or anything, but I should have done that a long, long time ago. I love PT. But, this ain't about PT's. It's about Jamstix. I had a song I was working on, and the ol' boss drum machine just wasn't cutting it. I knew the potential of JS, and thought I'd give it another whirl. Ralph was so helpful it was almost unbelievable.

After a year and a half, I've finally got Jamstix up and running and I've got to say it was worth all the headaches and frustration (most of which was self-inflicted). It really is like composing music with a real drummer.

I've got to give Ralph/Rayzoon Industries three (?) thumbs up for the customer support they give. This isn't a "paid" endorsement of any sort. Just a working guy who loves making music and wants to pass along any help he can to fellow musicians. If you're looking for drums for your home recording purposes.....it doesn't get any better than Jamstix.

Jeff Appleton

[tdye]

+1

[Voltago]

Couldn't agree more!

Now, if I only had a JamBass and a JamGuitar... I could sell my "real" amps

[Mark Blair]

With Native Instruments Guitar Rig you CAN sell your "real" amps -- but I guess you still have to do the playing...

[funktional]

I am on mac,and I bought two vırtual machines (VMvare fusion and Paralles desktop)just to be able to run the jamstix I even bootcamped my partition to run windows.And I am really broke but I have a drummer in the house now thanks to Ralph.I would give 5 thumbs up if I had,for the support and for this unique drummer.5 thumbs would look very freaky.........


peace
burak

[funktional]

[darcyb62]

[funktional]

I run jamstix on vmware fusion with yamaha usb midi interface.I can trigger the sounds of addictive dr,ez drummer running on mac.If you multi i/o audio interface (I have 01x) you can record the jamstixaudio output straight to cubase.I run the vmvare fusion from bootcamp partition.

peace
burak

[Voltago]

[darcyb62]

[funktional]

Hi Darcy,
You are right you need another usb midi interface that doesn`t share the same driver and it should have a conventional 5pin midi connector to transmit the midi to the other midi interface with regular midi cables.I run the jamstix with savihost that is connected to yamaha motif`s usb midi interface ,this is connected to yamaha`s 01x firewire audio/midi interface that feeds the cubase studio4 on mac side of things.I am afraid there is no sync at this set up.But if you find a pc vst host that accepts midi clock, I guess, it would solve our sync problem,I don`t know if live6 can be midi slave.I might try that in the future.I was using Parallels desktop but I switched to vmvare fusion that seems less proccesor hungry than parallels,both are decent applications.
In this set up,whatever comes from jamstix goes out to yamaha usb port,what comes from this port goes out thru its 5pin midiout jacks to 5pin midi in jacks of 01x,from there it goes straight into cubase.If I had a host that receives midi clock,I would let cubase send midi clock on 01x
that would go thru motif`s interface and that would solve our sync issue.I hope this gives you somekind of input to upgrade to jamstix2.
peace
burak