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Every time I see you post and see your Nimoy avatar all I can hear in my head is, "Ahhhaahhaa, bitter dregs.". You have to be a die hard Trek fan to get that one. 😁

Mine is adjustable. It goes from 200DPI to 8000DPI.

All three songs you posted were great. My favorite was the 2nd one called Midi Guitar Moods V 2.5.

That video is truly unbelievable. I mean. Really. I don't believe it. I think there has to be some studio trickery going on there. I didn't think you could hammer like he is doing in that video with any of these midi rigs. For me I would only find this useful for making realistic sounding strings and like I think I said before trying to do some realistic sounding steel guitar parts for live and recording. I'm pretty good at faking it on keyboard to get the synth sounds I like but for big band type instruments like horns, strings, flutes, and so on, something like this would be a lot easier than having to go in and edit midi after the fact to tweak it how you would like it. I've spent hours editing strings. I would think/hope it would be a lot easier for me to get the nuances I'm looking for if I did it on my guitar to begin with.

No strap is a deal breaker for me.

They must be Super Duper Slinky's.

Yeah, and Grandpa Jones wasn't old when he started either but look what happened to him. Danged shame.

Yeah. Mitch at Sweetwater makes it seem like anything is possible with that thing. He shows bends and vibrato with the whammy bar but unless I missed it he didn't do any hammering. Here's a link to his vid on utoob. I've always wanted to try to emulate steel guitar triggering samples with something like that.

This kind of childish behavior is why we can't have nice things down here!

Hah! We posted at the same time and said the same thing. Another thing that's a good idea is to clean and replace the thermal paste on your CPU and GPU. Over time it breaks down. I'm always terrified to take those back out once they are in and working though. I've never done it but I've read that you should once a PC gets a few years under it's belt. This guy has a really good utoob channel on cleaning PC's. I'm glad the OP is getting it working well. When all this technology gets in the way it really ruins the creativity. (coughxcough1cough 😜). EDIT: Another thing I forgot to mention. Never spin the fans when blowing things out. Spinning them generates a voltage and if spun fast enough can fry your mobo. Hold them still with something that's non-conductive. I remember from my copier days Canon's were notorious for bad connectors. So bad you had to leave them plugged in and physically take something pointy like a straightened out spring hook or a small jewelers screw driver and push the individual little metal clamps on each wire in the connector through the connector and on to the pins on the PCB's. There were thousands of wires in some of those bigger machines and no way to replace entire harnesses without gutting everything to the frame. It was a nightmare. So glad I don't work on those anymore. Hah.

It could have if it was running way too hot from vents being blocked. It could also be that a cable was making bad contact and the air jostling things around made it make better contact again. I used to service office equipment and PC's and lot of times reseating connectors on boards fixed a lot of odd problems. I recently blew mine out with an air compressor. It appeared clean but a lot of crap came out. It's scary to do but on older systems it's a good idea to clean your cpu and reapply new thermal paste. Same with the video card. It's really easy to accidentally fry something or zap your hard drives and have to format them if you don't wear a grounding strap or make sure you discharge yourself by touching something metal that is grounded like a fridge. With plastic Pex plumbing being widely used now touching a faucet may not work anymore.

There is a sugar sub I use called Swerve. You can get it in several forms. Brown granulated powdered. I like it. Yeah you can tell a difference but it's better than most. And it doesn't spike your insulin like othe sugar subs. It passes through your body and is not processed and it's all natural. That's why it doesn't spike your insulin. Side effects ... until your body gets used to it you won't need laxatives ... I concocted a 0 carb chocolate milkshake with it. I use my Ninja smoothie maker. It's roughly 60 - 70 calories for a 16 oz shake. Freeze an ice cube tray of vanilla flavored zero sugar added almond milk. Its 30 cal a cup. My cube trays hold 2 cups. Use about half a tray or so of frozen almond milk cubes. 30 cal. 1 TBSP cocoa powder 10 cals. 3 or 4 heaping scoops of Swerve 0 cal sugar sub. Fill cup rest of the way with no sugar added almond milk. Roughly 30 cal. or less. Blend. Its really good and not bad for you at all. Sometimes I'll add frozen fruit too. If you like vanilla shakes skip the cocoa and put a couple drops of vanilla extract.

Awesome! Break a leg!

Reminds me of the time we had to tell our bass player he wasn't going to be singing Angel Eyes by Jeff Healey anymore. He was terrible and he wasn't the type of bass player who could play and sing at the same time. Bass and drum players who sing are a special breed in my opinion. It's very hard to do for most. I think your brain has to be wired wrong in a good way. Our drummer was one of those guys who could play and sing. It was his band and he wanted to sing it but didn't have the testicular fortitude to tell the bass player. So he called me and asked me to transpose it in a key he could sing in. A freaking flat. You guys ever try playing that song in a flat on guitar? Of course not. Nobody has. And before you run to youtube to fact check me, I can tell you from memory without checking the original was in C. 😁 But anyway, we got to practice and the drummer says, "Ok lets go over Angel Eyes in A flat." and the bass player totally lost his shiznit. I still keep in touch with the drummer and whenever one of us calls each other on the phone to this day the other will answer by saying, "A FLAT?!!?!". It's one of those awkward band moments you never forget and it happened in the early 90s.

Here's a good example of writing a song on the fly. @Tim Smith is this, uh, lady, any relation to you? 😁😘😜

Yeah sweetie? 😁

It's hard to separate all that stuff, but we all seem to do a great job of that here. Seriously. As for the masks, they do what they are intended to do, but their intended use has been warped. I don't believe it was intentional, it's just human nature. They are meant to reduce your spittle not your breath. It's not an airborne thing. But moisture droplets travel a long long way and land on things and stay there for a while. The purpose of the masks is to halt that from happening. But they do nothing to actually filter anything. So way back when when a certain shorter fella who is still there originally said they don't work to filter the virus, he was and still is 100% right. But what he said got twisted and here we are. Gotta go to the gym, where nobody has gotten the big C since this all started and we sweat and breathe heavy and have a giant fan above the workout floor spreading it all around ...

This time of year is horrible for allergies. I'm on a steady regiment of Zyrtec and Flonase all year round. I buy both in bulk at Sam's Clubs. I used to get inner ear infections like clockwork every year since I was born right around Easter because of allergies. I remember sitting up in bed one Easter morning when I was a kid and blood and pus shooting out of my right ear all over my arm, bed, bedroom wall. I found a specialist at KU about 5 or 6 years ago when I moved out here. He tried a new treatment he developed there at the University. It's a powder he shoots in to both ear canals and coats everything. Haven't had any ear infection since. Whatever it is it kills all the bacteria and fungus that slowly builds up in there from the allergies that cause the infection. Back to the OT though. I've been getting out a lot the last few weekends. People here have pretty much gone back to normal. I've only seen a few people wearing masks. I can't help but wonder if we would have just carried on like normal from the beginning if we would have even needed any jabs at all and things wouldn't have been completely back to normal a long time ago.

Here's my favorite variation of Am. It's pertty. You can walk the neck like Jim Croce with this one, starting in E. 👍🏻 XO75OO

Here's a nice site for getting them online. Not sure if you can save the site as a PDF and print though? Toward the bottom right where it says "Chord Type" select "Movable" and it will show you the chord all the way up the neck. Here's a link to the site.

We gotta come up with a more flamboyant name for that. How about The Be Bop A Lu Lu Baps Bot (BBALLBB for short.) Ai(r)Baps© BapsBot 4K The slogan could be, "Ai(r)Baps© automatic Bass line software. Save 20 - 40% now while supplies last!"

They were actually shot in better than 4K. They were shot in analog. And therein lies the problem. The transfer to digital and how to get that to people's viewing devices with minimal compression artifacts. You can't think of DVD (720), or HD (1080), or 4K (2160) as recording methods but rather delivery methods physical or stream. You have to think of them in terms of compression like MP3, FLACC, WAV. And that's where the problem lies. You can have a 96k MP3 or a 320k MP3. There's a huge different. All DVD's and Blu Ray's are compressed. UHD discs are too but the technology is getting better and the discs are getting larger so you can fit larger (less compressed) files on to a disc or stream them within the limitations of the streaming capabilities of most people. Uncompressed movies in 1080 won't fit on a single disc. You could watch an uncompressed HD movie on Netflix but the file size they would have to get to you real time while you are watching the movie would be enormous. You would need a very fast internet connection and very few people have that. Some people don't mind watching old DVD's. I do. It actually gives me a really bad headache to watch an old DVD on a flatscreen. They weren't developed for that type of resolution, they were developed for tube TV's. On those with the scan lines and limited resolution they actually look really really good. Scanning film is like scanning a picture on a flatbed scanner. You scan it at the highest resolution you can and reduce the size to fit on the screen to make it look good. It's the same with 4K. As for gaming, it's the exact same. It's all about compression and how fast your system can deal with higher resolution in real time before the framerate drops so bad you get sick looking at it. And the higher resolution isn't necessary for them. That's a choice the developers are making always striving to be the biggest and best and newest. They could just as easily have made Fallout 4 with the same engine as Fallout 3 but they used a newer engine that takes more horsepower and the visuals suffer for it on all but todays highest end current hardware ... and that game is 7 years old. Fallout 3 on todays modest hardware looks better than Fallout 4. Thankfully audio resolution isn't a big deal and nobody ever argues about that.🙄

I just skimmed through this thread and have nothing to say IRT the actual topic because I'm one of the 'home studio' type guys. So I'll bow out of that part of it. But, I was a master service technician and supervisor for a fortune 500 company for 10 years that got bought out by and dissolved in to Ricoh. They are a massive copier and printer manufacturer. I knew I wanted nothing to do with Mac's when I ran in to having to install an $800 dollar circuit board containing a proprietary ROM chip in multifunction machines (Printer/Copier/Scanner/Fax machines) that activated Adobe True Type fonts for use with Mac. IOW, on top of the optional NIC, you had to install another TTF board. I can't tell you how many times salesmen would almost lose deals because they didn't know this and ended up giving that $800 ripoff, I mean, add-on, to customers and gave up their commission so the company wouldn't lose the sale. There's an old saying that goes, "The bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.". That is oh so true in the Mac world.