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I’m new to the world of midi programming. I’ve been tasked with playing some keyboard parts with a foot controller while playing bass.
I have a Roland Juno D6 and a Behrenger FCB1010. I’ve figured out how to use one of the FCB1010 editors to map individual notes to each foot pad. However I need to be able to map several keys to create a chord, otherwise this setup is useless for me. Is it possible to map multiple notes to a single foot pad. Perhaps with one of the third party ROM chip upgrades? I’m considering also buying the McMillen 12 step as I see that controller has a built in function for mapping multiple notes. What are my options here?

I've been doing more and more bar gigs lately, some of which are on the sketchy end of things. I'd like to bring my new Tonehammer 500 and one of my nicer basses to my next gig, but I'm concerned about theft. The amp is super light and small. I can't stop thinking about someone just grabbing the amp and making a run for the door. How can I prevent this? Are there any anti theft devices that could lock the amp to the cab to stop someone from just snatching it?

I’m looking to buy a set of luthier tools. Any recommendations you can give for a decent and inexpensive set? Preferably something that can be ordered from Amazon.

I need to deploy the 1808 Office 365 update to our managed users, however we are currently on the Monthly channel. In SCCM, the monthly update is on 1810 and 1808 has already expired. Is there a way I can push this expired update without having to switch us to the Semi-Annual channel? Currently 1808 is the version for Semi-Annual (Targeted). I would like to keep us on the Monthly channel in case any users want to update to a newer version on their own, however we often need to push versions that are several revisions beyond (we have very thorough testing and change control policies due to very picky users).

I'm trying to build BIOS updates into our Windows 10 task sequence. I've been playing around with using the Dell Command Update CLI to run directly from a package without installing the utility. With the command

dcu-cli.exe /forceupdate /silent 

it will update all drivers. How can I get it to install the BIOS update only? I already apply a driver package earlier in the task sequence. BitLocker is not yet enabled at that point in the TS.

Apologies if this is not the right place to post this, but I wanted to tell a funny anecdote that happened last night.

My two boys have a habit of crawling in to bed with us in the middle of the night. Last night, I had a really bad cold, and did not feel like getting kicked in the nuts all night, so I went and slept in my 6 year old's room after he crawled in to our bed. He didn't noticed I had moved, until hours later when he woke up and asks his mom "where's dad?".

I heard him from across the hall, so I said "I'm here". However with the bad cold I was fighting my voice did not sound the same. I could hear him whispering to his mom in a scared, hushed voice, "I don't think that's d

I currently use SCCM to deploy patches to managed hosts in our environment. I was wondering how SolarWinds Patch Manager stacks up to SCCM. I'm looking at a third party tool to patch some systems that we are not licensed to have SCCM on. Does it have most of the features that SCCM has, like setting maintenance hours, automatic patch deployment, deployment options like deadlines, etc...?

Before I go and build a custom solution, I was wondering if there were commercial apps available that will do performance testing for a corporate environment. I'm looking to test CPU, disk, network performance, along with boot up times and file encryption.

It seems like everything I have found online is geared towards testing gaming performance and overclocking the CPU. I need something that can test deltas after we add applications to our standard Windows 10 image.

Does anything like that exist? I did find SiSoftware Sandra which does appear to have the requirements I am looking for, but I have issues with the way the results are presented. It gives overall scores and compares them

I'm looking to configure Firefox or Chrome in our Enterprise environment to allow our employees to use them for personal browsing only (allowing access to Gmail and other webmail).
We use IE as our default browser and will restrict access to any webmail sites from IE.

I am wondering if App-V (5.1) can be used to prevent a user from accessing their local disk from within the browser. I am looking to prevent adding attachments from the local disk.

I'm not too familiar with App-V as we don't currently stream any apps. We are running SCCM 2012 (1511 update). Is it possible to configure Firefx in a virtual environment so the user is unable to modify any security settings and to block acces