Doug Rintoul

37 minutes ago, sarine said:

Some handy apps to make Windows more tolerable:

Free:

Everything: https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#what_is_everything

PowerToys Run: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

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

8 hours ago, Piotr said:

Not possible for GAS infected family 😛

We are constantly adding new ones and updating zylion of already owned

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

5 hours ago, sarine said:

P.s. I don't get why people get excited and/or anxious over a new OS. For me it's like getting excited/anxious about buying new feet for my bed. It simply does not concern me enough to become emotionally involved in any measurable amount.

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.

4 hours ago, Grem said:

I got a story behind that. We had just got off work, picked upo the girls and was hauling ***** to get to the concert before they started. The car started running hot... so we would stop and go find water in the ditches and fill the radiator back up. It was only about a 45ml ride, so it wasn't too bad. After the second stop one of the girls said "Why do all of this? It's just a rock band?" Me and my buddy told her if she didn't grab some water and help she would be walking! 

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

54 minutes ago, Grem said:

Yeah I think we all do!!

I seen Floyd with Rogers for the the Animals tour. They played Animals in it's entirety then played most of DSOTM.

And for me my first taste of prog was Floyd. DSOTM.

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.

13 hours ago, Grem said:

Dream Theater!

Porcupine Tree!

15 minutes ago, Michael Vogel said:

Hey Larry, is there a connection between your departure and my sudden and inexplicable episode of GAS?  
Please hurry back before I go broke. 

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

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Still one of the best. Waiting for that big 3. 

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

12 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

No Chris. No light. It's a freight train, I know it. You'll see. 

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.

1 hour ago, fret_man said:

Same as above but with Bass libraries:

So no overlap for acoustic guitars?

10 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

I didn't express myself well.  This is not about political correctness.  This is not about "sinister" overtones.   I am only looking at this through an aesthetic perspective.

It's just a question of accuracy in my book.  Music has never been about borders.  It flows like a river. Pretty much all of American popular music is a blend.

For me, using the term "World Music" just makes more sense than "Ethnic Music."   AmpleSound sells a banjo, which they brand as Ample Ethno Banjo.  If there's a young woman in Nashville who learned to play banjo from her father, and he learned from his father--does she think she's making ethnic music with it?  She just thinks it's Country.    But to a Chinese company like AmpleSound it is only an Appalachian instrument.  Ethnic music.

To me, when you follow this line of thinking, it doesn't make any sense, that instruments should be categorized as exotic just because of where they are played.

We all live on the same world, right?  Let people in the political world concern themselves we people who are "ethnic."  For us, everybody who makes music is part of our family. 

And by the way, there is no better example of this than forums like this one.  I've made friends from all over the world.

 

 

In a sense then, all music is "World Music" since we all live in the same world. I think, in some sense anyway, World/Ethnic music has come to mean non-Western music, or maybe even non-Western folk music. I actually think it has to do more with the target audience than the source of the music which you kind of hinted at with your banjo analogy. I sort of hate the term World music anyway. Why does Celtic music always get lumped in with yodelers from Switzerland?

50 minutes ago, paulo said:

It's been more or less that price for years. The "discount" isn't real.

Gotcha. So no hurry then if I do decide go for it.  @Reid Rosefelt, so you weren't serious when you said it might never come back? Kind of like, "I wonder  if Waves is running a sale right now?" 

1 minute ago, paulo said:

Exactly.😁

Can you elaborate? All the reviews I have read seem to be very positive about these VIs. They are older, but older does not necessarily mean dated.

2 hours ago, paulo said:

The best thing about this "deal" is that it proves that I'm not as stupid as they think I am.

😀

 

How do you mean? So not a deal?

Two of those guitars sure look electric to me 😝.

With just over 6 days to go and the number at 1116, we need an average of 64 per day joining the group buy. The average since the beginning has been about 139 per day. I think we just might make it 😁.

3 hours ago, Fleer said:

Just heard from a cousin in Vancouver 😎

I live just outside of Vancouver in Abbotsford. We don't have the luxury of living near the ocean. It was 43 C or 109.4 F to those of you who live south of the border. Tomorrow it is supposed to be a balmy 33 C or 91 F. I can hardly wait.

41 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

Still, I don't think we're gonna make it, Chris.. hold me 😢 

And if we don't make it and I don't get what I want.. then avenge me! 

Pessimist.

5 hours ago, abacab said:

The Intel CPU must also be at least 8th gen. The i5-7200U won't pass the test. MS has announced that 6th and 7th gen is not supported for Win 11.

So what is it in the 8th gen CPU that the previous gens do not have?

5 hours ago, Paul Young said:

My first SSD drive fail was Intel.   At least with Intel they send you a replacement and you send the defective item back. 

Is the M1MacBookAir's SSD replaceable?

58 minutes ago, antler said:

S.M.A.R.T. is something that's built into the disks themselves. I suspect the app you mentioned reads and displays that data.

For Windows users, try CrystalDiskInfo

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

Seagate tools is a great as well, and not just for Seagate drives.

4 hours ago, Paul Young said:

Welcome to the modern age of synth  programming called sound design  and not to be confused with music design.

Not so sure this is necessarily a "modern age" phenomena. Some early electronic "music" sounded pretty horrendous too. Of course, you could consider that modern age as well I guess. Sort of reminds me of the folk purists who squawked at Dylan when he brought electric guitars to the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Or my parents commenting "You call that music?" upon hearing what I was listening to.