paulo

Thankfully not seeing any here on either lappy, phone or tablet.

30 minutes ago, James G said:

Can we have a 'Men's Day' then?

That would be sexist.

......It was going to be yesterday, but they weren't ready.

11 minutes ago, James G said:

Good voice that lad

If he's good enough for Dave, then he's all right by me.....

I do have a sometimes disturbing ability to listen to the same song over and over, but yeah some do just annoy after a while and I have to move on to something else. Most memorably some years back there was  one that I just couldn't shift out of my head for days afterwards and it irritated me to the point that I hated it. Eventually, I was released from it's hold and I have never listened to it since.

44 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

He comes from Newton-le-Willows, about six miles up the road from me...

Ah, that explains it.............

11 hours ago, Grem said:

How much did that cost? : )

So far the inability to shut my eyes without seeing horrors the like of which I had previously thought to be unimaginable. I may never be able to sleep again.

9 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Sorry we don't do massage therapy here ?

A happy ending from a CH resident. Thanks a bunch for that mental image.

1 minute ago, InstrEd said:

I'm still waiting for my fresh brew of Java. Man the service around here is...............................................................
Good thing I stop by for the company

I don't even like coffee. I come here for the therapy.

19 hours ago, Jyotishvarii said:

There are some strange people on this topic

You do know this is the Coffee House, right?

22 hours ago, craigb said:

Are you using a Virtual Private Network

Yeah, but all other sites I visited worked ok, just this one that was a problem. Didn't work in FF without VPN either. 

1 minute ago, synkrotron said:

I can't find Noel's post you mentioned. A search didn't pull anything up either. Do you have a link?

Me neither. Must be only visible to the privileged.

3 hours ago, craigb said:

This poor girl doesn't even understand how to use a mic, and yet she's still very popular.  Strange how that works, ya? ?

Oh dear........

Who is it?

I had intermittent problems most of yesterday with this site only, slightly different error message, something about a bad tunnel, which means sweet FA to me, but it's fine today, so maybe craigb is right and Mrs S doesn't want me to give away any more of her secrets??

23 hours ago, S.L.I.P. said:

...If they would have left it in the instruments forum, it would have 1 reply and 4 views. Ha, ha, ha.....

It's like rain on your wedding day........

Oh, wait........

11 hours ago, synkrotron said:

Been a long day... And although my missus hasn't said anything, she will be a little bit cheesed off with me right now......

Don't kid yourself - she sees everything in that room as an electronic babysitter that keeps you out of the way while she does whatever she wants to. If she ever  tries to tell you anything different to that, then she's just messing with your mind because she can.?

1 minute ago, msmcleod said:

To their credit, they have vastly improved the stability of NI Access.

When I first bought Komplete 11, I was absolutely raging at it (and I rarely lose my temper). Any slight delay in the download process (such as my cron job on another machine downloading a backup of my website's database), would mean it timing out and starting again from the beginning. This was totally unacceptable given that some of the installs are approaching 10GB or more. I mean, of course there's a likelihood of your download speed going up and down over a few hours - in fact, I suspect my ISP started throttling it at some point.

At least now it recovers nicely, and will quite happily continue from where it left off.

 

In my case, not only did almost every  large download fail several times, always right near the end, but they just completely ignored my question of why I had to download everything  when I just paid for the HD.  Several other related support tickets  were also just marked as solved when they had even responded to my question.

Meanwhile, it's Saturday night and I'm discussing the merits of various pies with people I'm never likely to meet. 

If  my 20 yr old self could see me now I'm sure he'd have something to say about that.

38 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Never did get to like chicken pie. Over here they always tend to pair chicken with mushroom and as much as I like me mushrooms I hate it when they put them in pies...

Yeah I'm with you there. Never had any kind of pie with mushrooms in it that wouldn't have been better without them.

28 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Yeah, I can understand that.

I love three things of theirs, though. Absynth, Reaktor and Guitar Rig. I like Battery too but don't use it much lately since going on that "ambient journey..."

So I'm kinda sticking with it, for now.

I do use it, but thinking about that day and the absolute shambles that they call support has me thinking that I won't be giving them any more money any time soon.

2 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Haha! Yeah, you got it

doing my head in... Biggest faff so far is the Native Instruments stuff. They have their "Native Access" application, so all should be good... But it ain't and for some reason it wants to put some library stuff in the C:\Users\Public\Documents folder, except there isn't a folder with that name and Windows 10 is not allowing Native Access to create it. Might be something to do with the new ransomware protection and I tried adding Native Access to the list of allowed applications, but that didn't work. After a bit of poking around in Native Access I found that you could specify a different path, and that worked.

More I think about it, must be something to do with the new Windows security stuff because I've never had trouble with NI stuff previously.

Anyway, I've at least now got to the point where all my NI stuff is installed and I'm now working my way through checking everything is licensed and works.

Oh man, don't start me on NI. When I bought Komplete 11 I sprung the extra for the HD version because I just couldn't face the downloads...........except it was a total waste of money because NI access insisted upon downloading absolutely everything again anyway even though it recognised the HD. As a result I now think of NI as NA (Never Again).

I'm still trying to wrap  my head around the concept of a warm pork pie. Must be a [insert region here] thing.

At first I thought........why is he doing this thread? I'm sure that most people here have experienced this process at some point.......

And then I remembered how fucking boring it is.......took me an entire weekend last time. Gotta do something while you're endlessly waiting, right?

4 hours ago, synkrotron said:

I think that you did, and you simply don't realise.

Listen again, what do you hear?

It's probably fair to say that I am my own harshest critic.  I guess my last effort wasn't too bad really, but the mix is definitely lacking something.

I've tried to record several cover versions and never managed to get it right.