Doug Rintoul

I like how they define bug fixes as "Quality-of-life" updates. MacOS quirks! Of course, Windows doesn't have any quirks.

That is a good price for Dandy but I have absolutely no use for a 3 month subscription to the Mega bundle.

Sorry, I have been around long enough (like forever) to know this is not the case. I have no expectations to get support for Office 2003, or Adobe CS6, or Windows 7, or the software I got with a Microtek scanner I purchased in 2009, or Android on my Samsung Galaxy S2. I will give you that MIDI tracks have a much longer shelf life though. But also much less likely to need support. I still have books I purchased in the 70s and the 80s. Some books have lasted even longer than that. I am starting wander, what was the point again? Not even sure what I am arguing.

I bought a bunch for $12-$14. Toontracks was always prompt with the license transfers. I don't begrudge Toontracks charging a license transfer fee; I just wish it was proportional to the cost of the original item, not a flat fee.

There was on KVR Marketplace.

The physical argument though falls down when you talk about CDs, DVDs, and perhaps even books. The artist or writer did not produce the actual CD or book. And unlike a sculpture, books and CDs and DVDs can be easily mass produced. Which, as you said has led to attempts to try to turn the non-physical into physical, vis a vis copy protection. So I guess I agree with you and Paul, but would argue that CD, and DVDs and maybe even books do not constitute physical. This does not however, determine whether ownership of a license should or should not be allowed to be sold or transferred to someone else.

Yes. I understand this and agree with this. But is that not true of music as well? Whether it is on a CD or resides on my hard drive is, to my mind anyway, irrelevant. The intrinsic value is in the music itself, not the medium it comes on. The digital verses physical argument was applied to computer games. At one point it was argued that you could resell a game as long as you bought a game on DVD. But it was a different story as soon as software was able to be downloaded. To me however, the DVD or the CD is just the medium of distribution. I just bought a Komplete 13 upgrade. It came (mostly) on a hard drive. Just because it came on a physical device does not change in any way what I can do with the upgrade.

You keep saying this but I don't get it. When you buy a CD, are you buying the content on the CD or the plastic and foil it comes on? When you buy a book, are you buying the paper and the ink or are you buying the content contained on said physical medium? I have yet to hear a coherent argument on how digital is different than physical. I am serious about trying to fathom the difference because, at this point anyway, I cannot see the difference. Paul, is there some article or something that explains this out in a rational way that is easy for a dense mind like mine to comprehend?

This basically kills the used midi pack market. The only thing worth transferring now are big ticket items. I am glad I bought a bunch just before this went into effect.

Thanks. It would help if I actually tried the dropdown menus. 😝

I am an even cheapa sucka than Grem. I am not sure I can bring myself to spend $89 AUD on a "file manager" (yes, I know it can do a whole lot more). It does look like a geek's dream tool and would be right up my alley if not for the price. I also have multiple machines I would want to use this on, and I really can't see myself spending $249 on this for 5 licenses. Process Lasso looks really interesting too, but I just don't do subscriptions. Give me the option to buy at a reasonable price and I would be all over this puppy.

+1000 for Power Toys Run and Everything. Everything's file search is incredible. So so much better and efficient than Window's search tool.

This too true. I often disable plugin scans only to immediately need to enable them again the next time I run the program.

Getting new feet for your bed does not generally change the way you get into bed, nor does it render your current bed unusable for giving you a good nights sleep.

Got my $50 PA voucher today and used it to get GP4 for $49.99. So I was able to purchase GP3 for $24.99 and play with it for three months, then upgrade to GP4 for $49.99. Not such a bad turn of events IMHO.

MixBox updated fine for me. Win 21H1.

Oh Larilia, I’m down on my knees I'm begging you please to come home Come on home.

Just a rock band? Just a rock band? Them's fighting words. I am glad she saw the errors of her ways.

When I was a wee little lad, there was a radio station out of Seattle that used to play new release albums in their entirety with no commercial breaks on Tuesday night. Even over crappy staticky radio speakers, I was blown away by DSOTM and that set the course for my love for prog. I also heard Tubular Bells for the first time the same way. Sadly I never did see Floyd live.

Porcupine Tree!

I would have thought that Larry leaving would have been a GAS reducer. Kind of like Beano.

Well, 2.9.9 is pretty close to 3 if you round it up.

You know what is going to happen. Someone is going to pull the plug and the Internet is going to go down just before we reach 1500.

So no overlap for acoustic guitars?