Starship Krupa

He's magnetic ink.

Huge fan here, both of The Moody Blues and of Mr. Pinder's contribution to same.

15 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Welcome to the world of Linux fanboys. 

I don't need to travel to their world, they seem to be determined to endlessly try to bring it to mine.

The point that most don't seem to get is that in order for a switch to make sense, the target OS would have to work better than Windows 10. It's not like Windows 10 is going to stop working.

As far as malware paranoia, there's too much 3rd-party malware protection software to even list.

Isn't Matrix a clip launcher?

It seems like the biggest missing feature from Matrix is the ability to record directly into a Matrix clip slot.

23 hours ago, bluem said:

I received it.
Very much appreciated.
I wish I could be a better person like you.😊

Hey, staying an absolute lurker for 4 years and breaking your silence to say thanks is a nice step.

On 4/24/2024 at 12:07 AM, Max Arwood said:

Anyone have any suggestions?

Yeah, spend an extra $10 and get all 3 of these plus Miroslav Philharmonik and an insane number of other instruments:

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/st4/?pkey=sampletank-4-max-v2

Just now, craigb said:

Define "real..." 😂

I wasn't asking the question in terms of The Treachery of Images. I know that "ceci n'est pas une derrière."

However, since Plato expressed his concept of Forms (timeless, absolute, and unchangeable essences of all things, of which objects and matter in the physical world are merely imitations), it could be said to represent that. In this sense, it could be said to be all derrières or if you will, the  derrière.

At least in my universe.

What I meant was whether this image appeared in an actual advertisement for Velveeta. Maybe in Playboy or Esquire during the Mad Men era?

And yes, I'm also wondering whether the model for the upper image in question was represented accurately by the artist, and if so, whether she posed for other works. Because....damn.

On 4/22/2024 at 6:42 AM, craigb said:

You can see how they had to sell it back in the day! 😆

While that could be said to communicate the idea that the makers of Velveeta and I have similar ideas of what is delicious, it could also communicate "this stuff tastes like a55."

BTW, is this for real?

On 4/24/2024 at 7:44 AM, John Vere said:

There’s the target market.

I guess it's up to plug-ins to wring the coin out of the gr'ups. Look at the way age skews in our own Deals forum. 😂

But it could also be that just about every DAW can perform the task of recording and comping audio tracks. That workflow is pretty similar across DAW's IME; ITB production is probably where the biggest distinctions appear.

DAW's don't need to play "my comping is better than your comping," but they need to do it with clip and loop based workflows?

John's comment also makes me wonder whether DAW advertising that also featured a photo of a 4-piece band using it might make it more attractive to people who primarily record instruments, help make it the DAW of choice. Show the shoppers that they still pay attention to that crowd.

3 hours ago, kennywtelejazz said:

     I listened to what you said but please forgive me for what I'm about to say next .

                         I closed my eyes and this is the face I saw saying all of that 😅

                                    

Kenny

Trying to imagine what the sister in the photo might consider "good" music made me remember the "beautiful music" radio format that started to die out in the early 80's (which was....hmmm....now that I think of it, right around the time that the "classic rock" format was born. Coincidence?).

My mom (b. 1937, "Mad Men" generation), who is now more into smooth jazz and mellower contemporary pop R'n'B stuff, LOVED that format in her late 30's and early 40's.

Bless her heart, I thank her to this day (out loud and via our favorite messaging program, Telegram) for the two cultural channels that she kept open my entire childhood and teen years: any (non-pr0n) book I wanted was mine, either as a gift or via library, AND as soon as I got in the car, control of the radio was mine. Hit the programmed button for at first the Boss Radio station, and later album rock FM.

The only time she drew the line on the book thing was when I wanted an Alice Cooper bio (she thought Alice-who may be more politically conservative than she is now for all I know-was too culturally subversive, although as a retired teacher, "School's Out" was a turn-it-up).

(send me mum healing mojo; she had a fall a couple weeks ago and is in hospital hoping to get home to her husband soon)

Need current system specs.

Not that we're looking to point fingers, but with performance issues like this, we need to know better what we're dealing with.

OS, CPU, RAM, disk, video, make and model of audio interface is the minimum amount of info I need before I can take a guess or give suggestions. See my sig for an idea of a full list of pertinent system info.

Download and install HWInfo64 and Latency Monitor, 'cause we're gonna be asking you to use them.

Also, did anything else happen with your system around the time Cakewalk started acting up? System update, install new software (program or plug-in or utility)?

50 minutes ago, CSistine said:

Player installation => online!

Not a problem here.

My only gripe about online installation/registration is that there seems to be a trend with install/update managers (Native Access, looking at you) not to store username or password. So every time I want to check for updates I have to enter them again. I. do. not. like. this.

I guess it's to deter people from installing the softwareses on their friends' systems. Protection of the (intellectual) property at the cost of inconveniencing the honest.

6 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i use the drum map simply to have the names, not that i'm mapping anything specific)

That's usually all I'm ever seeking. All external gear I have conforms to Yamaha XG or Alesis mapping.

1 minute ago, kennywtelejazz said:

Nice try I ain't buying it .

Not even on Bandcamp??😅

I ain't really "trying" for anything. It's all in good fun. ❤

I miss the old days, too, it's just that I'm enjoying the present and have hope for the future.

Annoying glASS half full dork that I am....

I managed to snag Expose 2 for free from them, also got the Ozone Elements serial and gave it to a friend.

25 minutes ago, Sheens said:

This will be one of my last posts as a normal person.

I'll be writing you soon from a white sand beach, surrounded by beautiful girls in bikinis.

I can't remember who first said this, but I'll know I'm successful when beautiful women whose names I don't know are walking around my house wearing nothing but my shirts.

All we have is a bunch of gyrating prostitots, decades-past-their-prime rockers trying to squeeze every drop of cash out of their decaying fanbase, and no-talents using chord generators to bloop away on their laptops.

9 hours ago, kennywtelejazz said:

So for me what they call music now simply does not hold the appeal it may as it does for younger people ....I'm just not into watching a scantly dressed singer lip syncing while shaking her booty with 50 back up dancers evading explosions and streams of light ...

Nothing new under the sun.

Even now-beloved acts have attracted such shade.

"I'm just not into watching some trumpet player turn his back on the audience and spew whatever notes are in the mode while his piano player vamps over two chords."

"I'm just not into watching four guys with mop hairdos brang away at simplistic 3-chord tripe at ear-splitting volume while a bunch of screaming teenage girls wet their panties."

"I'm just not into watching a bunch of Australian has-been Beatle wannabes trying to pander to the latest trend."

(not implying that what you are hatin' on is in a league with messrs. Davis, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey, and Gibb, I'm right with you there😄)

So where are you seeing these scantily clad prostitots? On TV? Has that ever been a way of finding great music (except for the aforementioned mop hairdo guys)? Since the 60's, when Rat Pack geniuses had their own shows, it's mostly been lowest common denominator, with the exception of a few weekend graveyard shift programs and an all music video channel that switched to reality shows.

Y'know, "Oh boy, my little sister is spazzing out because her favorite airhead is on Sonny and Cher."

Back in the day, I wasn't into watching Paul Anka sing about how cool it was that he knocked up his old lady. Nor was I into Debbie Boone screeching about someone lighting up her life. But they were all over TV and radio.

(oddly enough, I've found some GREAT stuff recently being used under closing credits for streaming series, go figure. Storefront Church for Beach Boy lovers, Lil' Yachty for Tame Impala lovers)

Kids These Days don't make music in a vacuum either. Talk to some of them. You might be surprised at what they say.

11 hours ago, X-53mph said:

I'll explain a bit more clearly from my own personal experience.

Excellent rebuttal/rant. Let the jibba-jabba flow.

On the consumer side:

Sigh. Yeah. I even agree with what you're saying, coming from your...uh....current perspective. It IS harder in some ways. And we're older and not surrounded by a network of rabid music fans the way we once were.

But that's what I mean about having to work. For the kind of music that excites me today, I have dug up good curated streams. It helps that the electronic music I'm into now still has a good current following. Platforms like Bandcamp have blogs that talk about promising artists, YouTube makes recommendations, etc.

And for SURE, it ain't always about finding stuff that's current. Some of the stuff that I've found recently was originally produced 5, 10 20 or 30 years ago. It's new to me and that's what I want.

Also this tool, Music-Map, is a fun and useful way to find artists who are working in the same genres you're seeking out. Put in anything you want and it will find something that has similar elements.

Artist side:

As far as the revenue streams and curation and finding audiences and audiences finding artists, we're still in the midst of a HUGE shift. For fans of The Expanse, we're in what Amos called the Churn. An upheaval that some will survive and some will not. Who knows what the future holds? Things can shift very quickly in the entertainment realm. How long ago was it that Netflix was competing with Blockbuster?

I say what I say because I'm one of those annoying glass half-full people.

Creating a brand and story, well, it's there on Bandcamp and YouTube. Superabbit is a person who lives on an island and makes music. Even that much can be interesting to people. Or not.

Musicians becoming rich never happened until fairly recently in human history. Even my idol and namesake, Gene Krupa, who revolutionized playing the drum kit the way that Eddie Van Halen revolutionized playing the guitar (and had as much or more involvement in its development as Les Paul did for guitar). Krupa wound up teaching drums in New York (supposedly Peter Criss was one of his students).

Even making a decent living has always been difficult for the majority of players. Coffee house gigs. Teaching. The people we consider the great composers had rich people who just gave them money to sit around and compose. Mozart's funeral? Dusted with lime and dumped in a common grave.

Right now you're one crispy critter, and believe me, I've been there, with many formerly beloved pursuits. I stepped away for however long it took to come back to it when/if I wanted to do it for the love of it. That's what I did after my last band imploded. In its meagre way, it was the best shot I ever had at coming up through the old record company/gigging/radio play system (when bartenders and sound people stop you during loadout to say that they really liked your set, job well done). Walked away with my head down, hardly played a note for about 5 years. (I did get what many dudes want from being in a band, a cutie pie girlfriend) Then I happened to buy a house with a rental cottage out back occupied by....a piano teacher. Never played keys before, never really worked theory, but what the heck, eh?

It retriggered my interest in music to the point that my next career was starting my own pedal building and amp design and repair business. Also got a sweet musician girlfriend. All of those things are gone now, but the interest in making music remains.

The old hippie "if you love something set it free, if it comes back to you, etc." might apply here.

Who knows? Do we choose music or does music choose us? It seems it won't friggin' leave me alone.😄

It looks like Cloudflare had some kind of outage or routing problem. I tried going to MeldaProduction earlier and got the same Cloudflare error message.

It wasn't very Productive either.

Pity they haven't updated the Blue Tubes collection in this way.

I mentioned/requested this several years ago.

With the impending launch of Cakewalk Sonar and Next, can we FINALLY get t-shirts and coffee mugs and laptop stickers?

In my opinion, much marketing opportunity was lost over the past 6 years by not having these things.

If I had a Cakewalk t-shirt I would wear it everywhere! Best way to connect with other people who are using the program. Laptop stickers, too.

I suspect we'd all like to connect with other people around our communities who are using CbB or Sonar or Next.

How about it? It ain't hard to do, I went to Zazzle and created one for my own company and it took me about an hour to put together the logo and get them up on the store. And Cakewalk already has the logos ready to go. If you do it through Zazzle, they automatically make the logo available on shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, fridge magnets, stickers of various sizes, a wide array of goodies.

Aside from spreading the brand recognition, Cakewalk would probably sell a LOT of stuff.

Just now, craigb said:

As for the Ketamine lozenges, those are meant for a very different issue

One that I, unfortunately, suffer from. It is VERY treatment-resistant, as the term goes (as if it's the fault of the disorder rather than the failure of the effort to treat it).

2 minutes ago, craigb said:

I, personally, recommend against using Ketamine except in rare circumstances and under the guidance of a qualified medical person.

My circumstances are, unfortunately among the rare ones I believe you are referring to. And as a recovering substance abuser I have to be really really vigilant about possible relapse triggers. So my treatment is under the care of not one but two physicians.

On 4/20/2024 at 11:17 PM, Rain said:

I always remember my few months in Russia very fondly because of the people

You might like the TETRIS movie that came out recently. Most of it takes place in Moscow and involves a friendship between an American entrepreneur and the Russian programmer who created TETRIS. As part of the business dealings that led to TETRIS coming to the rest of the world and doing more to damage productivity in Capitalist countries than any other subversion could have.😄

I have a love for the Russian people in general just because of how much of the world's bacon their forebears saved as the Eastern Front in WWII. Germany having to fight on two fronts, and one of them being Napoleon's bane.

I get tears thinking about the awful way so many of those heroic soldiers and partisans were treated by the Stalinist government. Plenty of them, their only crime was being shown mercy by German soldiers who realized that they were already beaten and let them go after capturing them (imagine being treated better by Nazis than your own government). And then the decades of Animal Farm nastiness that followed.

I was first made aware of it via this song by Al Stewart, a favorite of my pre-teen years. It's an ode to those brave boys and girls:

Q: can I mine the Bitcorns on my builtin Intel graphis? I have old Dell's in a closet so I could have a farm. I use my good GT 710 video card for mimecraft and don't want to burn it up. The Dell's have fans on the cpu chip so it shuld be okay?

https://www.westwoodinstruments.com/roots/

I've Bapu'd it and can vouch for its usefulness for evolving dark ambient and cinematic textures. I'd say that between this and Soundpaint's free libraries, you've got ambient drone-in-box.

And it looks as if Westwood will be doing what others have started doing and releasing future free Player instruments in this line, so sign up for their newsletter if you want to stay informed.

Kontakt-aware peeplz: did NI change the licensing for Player instruments recently? Because I'm starting to see a LOT more Player-compatible instruments for free. It used to be that the creator of any Player-compatible instrument had to cough up a fee to NI for doing so. Has that been relaxed?

If so, good idea, because it's an excellent way to raise interest in Kontakt. Always has been, they just botched it. I wouldn't have installed or been aware of Kontakt if it hadn't been for DrumMic'a back in the day. Unfortunately, Sennheiser eventually decided it wasn't worth it and stopped issuing licenses. DrumMic'a was both an excellent free drum instrument and also worked for its intended use as a showcase for Sennheiser's line of microphones.