Last Call

I edited all my comments (well, not all 100+ I have made so far, haha).

Cheers.

3 hours ago, simon said:

Kontakt 7 player is already available in Native Access - anyone tried it yet ?

Simon, I never meant to make you feel bad about the aids thing, let's make amends 🤗

1 hour ago, Peter Woods said:

I realize that you probably didn't mean any harm when you made a reference to AIDS, using it as a joke. I saw your remark and frankly, I wasn't sure if I was going to mention it or ignore it. But after your exchange with Simon, I think it's best to try to shed some light on why the remark is problematic.  Please understand that my intent isn't to try and make you feel bad or hurl an insult at you, my desire is that you may see how others view your AIDS remark, which I hope will result in your better understanding Simon and his reaction. 

So a short, true story. 

I've lost two people in my life to AIDS. One of them was my only close extended family member, my cousin, I'll just use his first initial, R.  R was a year older than me. As kids, he was like a brother. We went on vacations together. He even took up the drums after I did. We shared a devout love of the music of Led  Zeppelin from an early age. When he was around 30 he was diagnosed with full blown AIDS and we once again became close. He only lived around a year after being diagnosed. The stigma around AIDS (often referred to as "the gay man's disease) was so strong and R was a closeted bi-sexual man and his parents, my aunt and uncle -- they were completely non-religious, but held to a far political ideology that was and still is very intolerant of LGBTQ people, and consequently, they were unaccepting of my cousin's sexual orientation and the fact that he had AIDS and concocted a lie they persuaded him to use, that he was dying of cancer. Consequently, he spent the last months of his life in the AIDS section of the hospital, with only a small amount of visitors -- me among them --as he was in the AIDS section of the hospital and his parents didn't want people to find out that he had AIDS and not cancer, so they blocked his friends from knowing what hospital he was at, saying that he wanted his privacy. So the stigma around AIDS was that great that he was kept from his friends in his final months of his life. So someone mocking AIDS as an illness and AIDS victims definitely doesn't sit well with me. But until I saw Simon's response, I wasn't going to address it. 

I realize that you were just making a joke that seemed funny to you and that -- hopefully-- you weren't considering the insensitivity of your remark. But to people whose lives have been impacted by the disease, mocking that disease and what those who have it  is just plain indefensibly cruel. It's just my opinion, but I try my best in life to show empathy to others. There have been times in my life where I have been unintentionally insensitive to others. The best I can do in those times is to step back, try and better understand their perspective and let them know I'm sorry, that my intent is not to be hurtful to them. Hopefully, now that I've shared a little of my personal life you can better understand why Simon and others might have an issue with your AIDS joke. It doesn't have anything to do with Larry or why Larry stopped posting here. 

Man, I like you so much! 🥰

Even though I get your point, and that you were so polite with your statement, I feel on the internet people take stuff too seriously, instead of what, at least the intention of a comment is (also have noticed people focus on the negative). Specially people from the US. (and please don't take this as offensive, just making clear my perception, where I live we call a black guy, well, Black, and no one makes a fuss about it, and in some regions people call Black other guys that aren't, sometimes is with love, we call anyone fat/thin (and they aren't), with love, specially people that are married the wife calls his husband fat/thin, but with love, as if it were a positive adjective, in fact is used as a sustantive).

Nevertheless, I will try to say from now on "I am allergic to the Beatles".

(Also I really don't come here to make fun out of anyone, or argue with anyone, in fact, if he didn't say or do anything, I wouldn't have said anything).
(Also, aids to me doesn't mean a thing, is just another very bad illness, and where I live really no one makes a fuss about it, that's why I strongly feel US people focus a lot on the negative, or jump out of their seat because of just an expression (I play videogames a lot with voice chat and I notice this happens every single day, like if everyone's ready to jump at anything).

Also, please don't think I come here also to make anyone feel bad.

Uff, lots of typing, I am tired/

TLDR: You're great, I made a comment someone felt offended by, my bad. (But don't make a fuss about it).
 

9 hours ago, simon said:

I don't care that you don't like the Beatles - I do care that you say

 

classy 

And more hugs Simon

16 hours ago, Last Call said:

Well, to me, a song is lyrics and melody, so if it's your melody (no matter the chord progression, which we know are used on zillions of songs), then it's your song (medley in this case).
At 1:28 a guitar melody starts, I love it. And the whole solo is very nice (did you play it? Or just composed it?
I love guitar btw.



I hate the Beatles, lol ( to me they sound like very very very old music and it gives me aids).
I am not saying I hate their songs, some of which I like because there are other artists that cover them. Nevertheless I am not fond of any Beatles songs at all either.
I love 80's hair metal, 🥰that's my thing (very melodic, great vocalists) and Kiss.
I love old Dream Theater, but I don't like progressive metal as a genre.
 

Yes, I am weird if you think that, lol.

Hugs Simon

17 hours ago, Peter Woods said:

It is a medley. The first 16 bars are me vamping over a 4 chord progression from Paul McCartney's "Dear Boy" with my melody. I then go into a song I wrote when I was 13 that had a very strong McCartney vibe, called "Brighter Days,"  for the remainder of the medley. My concept was that together it would serve as my tribute to the music and bass playing of Paul McCartney and how much it influenced and inspired me.  I had written 4 new compositions for the demo and received the green light on one, but I recorded this one impromptu, as a little jam, and it just felt more enthusiastic to me.  The part you like, I think, is the part with the drums drop out and the Mellotron strings (with a cello in the background) come in? I actually pulled the drums out of that section to draw more attention to the sound of the bass, which, of course, is the point of the demo. 

This is my cover of "Dear Boy" that I took the 16 bar intro from (this was before Orange Tree Samples released the Evolution Vintage Violin Bass library; I used MODO's modeled Hofner. During exposed parts I actually doubled the parts with a guitar, as the modeled bass, when exposed, lacked depth in the tone and it becomes transparent when it's exposed in a mix. BTW, that demo is the first music ever really shared publicly, beyond my SoundCloud account that I don't promote, but mainly share with my friends and get feedback from the Cakewalk Song Forum on. While I played drums semi-professionally in bands from 18 until sustaining a repetitive stress injury in 1999, none of the bands I played with (beyond an  instrumental band I put together when I was 18 that had like 3 gigs) performed any of my music. So after all of these years, a song I wrote when I was 13 is now being shared publicly. I never really would have been comfortable with my playing being shared publicly, but Greg Schlaepfer, the CEO of Orange Tree Samples is a friend and has been encouraging me to play music again -- so anyone that hears my demo and thinks it's terrible, blame him and his encouraging me! Hahaha.  But I seriously also rationalized it as something to put out there that shows even a guy like me, who is no longer a competent musician, can still pull off something semi-decent with the right tools and a little musical imagination. 

 

Well, to me, a song is lyrics and melody, so if it's your melody (no matter the chord progression, which we know are used on zillions of songs), then it's your song (medley in this case).
At 1:28 a guitar melody starts, I love it. And the whole solo is very nice (did you play it? Or just composed it?
I love guitar btw.



I hate the Beatles, lol ( to me they sound like very very very old music and ... EDITED).
I am not saying I hate their songs, some of which I like because there are other artists that cover them. Nevertheless I am not fond of any Beatles songs at all either.
I love 80's hair metal, 🥰that's my thing (very melodic, great vocalists) and Kiss.
I love old Dream Theater, but I don't like progressive metal as a genre.
 

Yes, I am weird if you think that, lol.

4 hours ago, Peter Woods said:

I just did my first ever demo (I stopped playing music professionally 23 years ago after a repetitive stress injury resulted in really bad tendonitis' I started playing again early last year and can only play for short periods at a time -- literally, sometimes only like a few minutes if there is, say an 8th note  cymbal pattern a fast tempo; so my playing is pretty much never going to be good again. But I'm trying to play again and can handle very simple stuff. This uses all Orange Tree Samples guitars and their bass (they're all KONTAKT libraries), NI's Abbey Road 60s Drums, Spitfire's Jangle Box Piano, Sound Dust's 1900 Dulcitone and GForce's Mtron Pro. All of the instruments are virtual and were played in real time (as opposed to writing in MIDI or step sequencing, etc.).  I was once a very good drummer -- Jimmy Chamberlin of the Smashing Pumpkins once said I was one of his favorite drummers (back in the 90s definitely not today! And he did say "out of Chicago" which is less impressive. Oh well, it's still my favorite brag! Today I can't even play as well as I could at 8, literally, I'm just focused on trying to play beats decently).   

https://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/PeterDeLegge-DearPaul.mp3

This is YOUR song?
My fave part is 1:28 (guitar melody/solo) and my fave part of it is the staccato part.

Damn, delete the thread because now I am curious! lol

1 hour ago, marled said:

Is this progress when an audio tool needs much more resources for graphics? 😡

I am too old, really don't understand the 21st century. To me it gets more and more crazy! 😆

You look young in your picture 🤗

3 hours ago, John Maar said:

I have SampleTank, but hate the UI. Never use it.

Me neither. We have good taste! 🤣

Judging by the sound this is a steal.

Did you buy it at least at Thommans for 55 or ?

I hope you keep on posting these great finds although right now my wallet is melted.

Hugs!

It's not free,  they want you to work for it by promoting it.

I'll pass.

But thanks.

I play drums 

1 hour ago, Grem said:

Sometimes, it's just about emptying the cup.

This forum is awesome X) (and wise) 🥰

On 9/22/2022 at 12:32 AM, John Maar said:

Not sure I'm one to give life advice. I suffered a TBI in September 1965. American football. Been living with PTSD-like symptoms ever since. 0 for 3 on wives. 0 for my adult life on relationships. I'm lucky my dogs love me. I managed a great career, which I feel proud of. If I can offer any advice at all, it's to not let your job consume you. When you leave work, leave the work behind. Forget about it. Really enjoy the time you've got with your friends and family. Once a moment has passed, it's gone for good. Be joyful. Smile. Be kind to those around you. Love your neighbor as you do yourself, regardless of their color, gender, who they sleep with or who they pray to.

Thanks for opening up. Is always helpful to have insight of oldER people. And from not so young too (just watched a video of Paddy baddy or aomething like that, taught some marines some jujitsu, then opened up about he cried every day for an hour when he woke up for a very long time, until he started talking about how he felt, even if not related to what made him cry, he didn't know btw, and said one day he finally stopped crying).

18 hours ago, John Maar said:

I was spending 200+ nights a year sleeping in hotels and another 40+ sleeping on airplanes. I spent my severance package playing golf 4+ days a week for 9 months in ...

How do you view life now?

What advice would you give us?

I just watched a Short on YT about how Travolta's wise young 10 yo son told him if he felt he had 30 more years to live, he said yes, son says there you have it, enjoy it muthafkca 🤗

Your model is discontinued, it looks amazing, sad face:

https://www.proacousticsusa.com/mackie-big-knob-studio-command-system.html

Found it on Reverb

https://reverb.com/item/61061682-mackie-big-knob-studio-command-system-church-owned-cg00lka

Now it's like this

https://www.amazon.com/Mackie-BIG-KNOB-STUDIO-Studio/dp/B01N9QNWRY

Or a passive box (no headphones output)

The bad thing about Julian is I think he's deaf.

He measures stuff with gear or equipment, not with his ears.

I find Scarlett's so so, UAD the worst ever (arrow interface), Adi 2 DAC worse than worst ( line outputs into a headphone amp sounds way better), babyface prob has the best I have ever tested, Audient id44 very decent at least.

The issue for me is stuff in the highs and  mid highs sound thin, no body or weight.

A friend of mine 20 years ago had an maudio interface (lowest tier) and it sounded way better than what has come put in the last 15 years or so.

I even had an Mbox original, that thing sounded good at least.

That's my POV, imho.

2 hours ago, jesse g said:

For my use, I plug then directly into the the Big Knob head phone jack on the front (two of them).  For the artist, I have a Presonus HP4 headphone amp coming out of the head phone amp outputs at the rear of the  Big Knob.

That Big knob looks amazing, they have several models, I thought you had the passive controller box.

Do you like it a lot? (Headphone output)

What headphones do you have?

I have the Sennheiser HD820, love them.

3 hours ago, jesse g said:

I have never used the headphone outs on any of my audio interfaces since I got the original Mackie Big Knob.   I bring my audio into the Big Knob from my interface and then distribute it to where it needs to go.

Fair enough.

Where do you plug your headphones then?

I was going to say I am waiting and saving for the Clarett+ 8, but I realized it's too expensive so I am aiming for the Audient iD44 Mk II (although yeah, the Clarett has 8 inputs so idk).

I am looking for a decent headphone output and Scarletts and M1 (Motu) aren't good at all for my needs. (Read Claretts have a better headphone output than Scarletts).

Sweet deal thanks!

8 minutes ago, daveiv said:

Thank you. We should have a forum to discuss plugins, apart from discounts.

Go to KVR forums, or Vi control.