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Goodness Gracious. I appreciate that.

Yeah but that costs you money and will get you in trouble.

For the old timers ( I'm one too) this probably isn't the answer you wanted.......I put most of my lights, my thermostat and a fan on my Alexa. We have three Alexas scattered around the house. If someone goes off to work and forgets to turn the light off Alexa will use the timer to turn it off. Same for the HVAC system..or anything else. " Alexa make it warmer". She raises my temp 2F. Same with lowering my temp. One other thing I would like to do with Alexa is hook a record player through a WEMO or similar. Have it set up on a record I like and have her turn it on in the morning to wake up to. My coffee pot is also programmed to turn on. This isn't laziness, it's mainly me needing to get up early and be out quickly. The more stuff she does the more time I save. Heck my dish washer has an app in it but I haven't downloaded it yet. Wouldn't it be nice to have Alexa run my bathwater in the evenings....I might need to look into that.

tHAT TECHNICALLY MEANS HELLO IN SOUTHERN TALK..... LET ME TAKE THIS OFF CAPS.. whew! .much better Hay means hello but up here it only means this grassy stuff they feed to cows. Go figure. Hay Ya'll ! How do they say it in Vegas? Or Seattle?

I can see you are on to their little tricks. In my case I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I use more electricity than my neighbors...they're both Amish I need help with emoji....it seemed to express something I was feeling.

That's just silly 🐵...see what I did there.

Happy birthday! Where should I ship the prune juice?

I tried a Chinese Wok . Great food. Now that's just silly.

Yes it is.

Welllll........................ I guess if you can't get up you can always have Amazon deliver the donuts. I donut know what to say. Oh yes I do. I like coffee....and paper magazines.

I'm glad to see that you have the hang of the BL interface. I'm running behind on my intentions there. Has that special Wookie sauce in it that only you can make. Enjoyable journey to a place I've never been before. Thanks for sharing!

You do quite well on those keys. Given the subject matter I can see why it has the feel it does. Very reflective, almost meditative. Great theme running through it all. Good to hear another one from you!

Sweet tone happening here.. using an amp you built? I thought the mix was well done. Playing never veers....thumbs up and thanks for posting!

Dang, I don't know what they're putting in the food there in Utah but it must be helping you play like a maniac. All kidding aside, I know you work hard to sound like that and it pays off in the end! No timidity in this mix. Fits well for this genre. Nice man! Don't know what else to say...great mix, great chops combine to make great results.

Douglas, I really enjoyed listening to this retro track. Has that old stones vibe to it right down to the guitars and vocals. Like it was made in a studio from that period. I mean that as a high compliment. I also use the Abbey Road TG mastering chain often. Does an exceptional job. Congrats on another track well done!

Hi guys, Been away and just got back. I really appreciate the feedback and listens. Tom. I kinda mixed it up on strings there with the cello being strainght Kontakt library, Joshua Bell violin . A little Amadeus and for light background I used Spitfire Albion One. I wish I could get to the PacNW to see what that's like sometime. Beautiful out there too I'm sure.

Well....................... At least we can still get a coffee in B&N. If there's a still a B&N in your area. I was recently flying between states. Couldn't find a music mag in an airport to save my life. Figured I would visit a local mall with a book store. The one I visited had a magazine rack that went into next Tuesday. I figure FOR SURE they would have something. Nope. The last Keyboard magazine I bought was 60% advertising filler. Not even good bathroom material! I tried the sub route with SOS. Subscribed to their paper version for years. Something about holding that mag and flipping through it is a better experience than my iPad. The batteries never run down, don't need to hunt for a page with my finger. My right to see it will never go away.Must cost a fortune to mail a mag like SOS to the states from the UK. I can see why it's going that way (digital). I don't need to like it.

Running Win 10 here. You are probably correct on the OGG files. I don't use them. Kenny is the only one I know who uses them. Also have Mixcraft..would be way cool to use those loops in ACID. Haven't tried to do that yet. Wish I had known about the 20.00 deal. You sure it has everything the website version has? All the loops libraries?? Same version? Almost sounds like some kind of a pirate job. Well worth the 99 clams....and a steal at 20 if this is legit.

The version I bought was 99.00. The most recent. I kept getting these emails. They kept tempting me and I finally bought it. Had ACID for years. Didn't use it during the whole Sony thing. I missed what it could do. Used loops in Cakewalk. More cumbersome yet doable. TBH I am not a regular loops user but it can be fun and a quick way to build up a backing track. Loaded it on another computer besides the one I had the old copy of ACID on. I'm not sure what the 20.00 version is. If it gets you into the basic loop world I guess that will get you acclimated to the basic. The version I have is pretty smack. No crashes yet. Made some guitar tracks and loaded em' up in it. Now I can put the guitar away and mix. I don't use rewire. Makes no sense for what I do. Why run two DAWS? I simply export the tracks and import them into Cakewalk. Even if you don't use the tracks it's a great way to find a groove, have a frame work to build from. I have Ableton too and it is so much more complicated to do the same things. Set the resolutions correctly in Cakewalk and you can do a similar thing but less intuitive IMHO. The loops bump right up against one another and line up perfectly. The sale I bought had a few free libraries thrown in. They give you a choice on the loop quality you want to download. 16/44.1 is good for me. I like playing in the DAW.....I'm a seasoned musician who plays multiple instruments. Loops? So what?

They all seem to have a way to try and collect from you in the future. I really like Waves plugins. I'll admit some of the marketing seems a bit confusing sometimes. I'm pretty much invested in the Waves world right now. No real need to update WUP at this time. I don't consider a 240.00 ish price every 4 or 5 years unreasonable to keep all of my plugins up to date. Likely they will have a Black Friday sale, maybe on WUP. I'm not paying a large sum every year. Just because a plugin is expired doesn't mean you can't use it. It only means that it probably has an update or will be due for one. Same as people are still using CW Platinum on older computers....non WUPPED plugs will run for a long time. For me, it's all good. Just depends on how you see it I guess

Interesting to read this. I just upgraded to the pro 9 version from an older version. Admittedly I was reluctant to do so. If you think of "loops" as simply building blocks to a song. Loops which you can create yourself BTW. It isn't a bad thing. I can play guitar but it seemed I wasted hours on end when live tracking making sequential verses exactly the same. Sure they would always be close, but often not close enough for me to accept. One would have a little extra something in it while finger picking. If you make a loop of the verse/chorus and bridge that's locked to tempo you save TONS of time. I haven't used the program in awhile so I'm still feeling my way around making loops well. Loops can be sent to a folder and seen easily in the explorer. After that it's simple drag and drop. Don't forget that any of it can be pitch or tempo adjusted. If I'm playing guitar and changing keys it's a whole can of worms to open for me. For me, I think making my own loops is the way to go. Yes it can also be done in several other DAWs including Cakewalk by Bandlab. I just prefer the user interface in this DAW. Also records audio and sees all of my Waves plugins. Not too deep to get your head around it really. Well worth this pittance if you fancy making your main song parts into loops and rearranging them at will.

Thank you for the comments all! I thought I had been here to comment already 🐵 Sorry it took me so long to get back. I put this to a picture collage for anyone that might care to look at it.. also made some corrections to the mix. The pic collage- I took em' two days ago a half hour from my house.

Whale Well, this is good music. What else need I say here? Has that slathering of Lynn in it that would make the sound unmistakable anywhere, yet each song has an originality to it....signature Lynn. Good Music. Nuff said. Thanks for sharing it!

This has a nice retro feel I don't often hear. I feel like I'm back in 1973 11 years old and listening to a tune on the radio. I hope you understand that this is a high compliment from me on this because I really like that stuff!!!

Great subject matter. If only we could be our online selves.....As I have come to expect from you this is yet another pristine mix. Tell me if I'm wrong about your mixes ( I probably am) It sounds as if you are making some deep cuts in EQ to get such clarity in the mix. I feel as if I'm in a huge room with only a few items in it when I listen to a mix you've made. I have often almost envied you for that . I like this approach and it works very well with you and the missus here.