Amicus717

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3 hours ago, Amicus717 said:

And yeah, you can do a lot with hustle, alertness and a modest skill set  

At the other end of the spectrum, Connor McDavid is basically a human cheat code. Dude's playing the game in god mode. 

29 minutes ago, craigb said:

And the occasional skate to the five-hole. 😁

Oh, there are a lot of variations on that theme...

1 hour ago, hockeyjx said:

I saw that, and it was awesome. Started with HUSTLE! I've done something similar(though obviously not at that speed). Outhustled a guy to the guy to the corner, used the glass to see my guy coming down the slot and did a backhand blind to him and he put it home. Even this old squirrel got a nut occasionally(and I was NOT known as a speed or skill guy, but did have hustle and awareness) 😜

And that was Thomas Chabot he stole the puck from and then out-dueled for possesion and position.

Chabot's no lightweight - a great defender. 

And yeah, you can do a lot with hustle, alertness and a modest skill set  

20 hours ago, hockeyjx said:

hockey is MUCH better than soccer because of hitting ...and fighting.

...and stuff like this...

On 2/11/2023 at 8:50 PM, hockeyjx said:

I'll never argue with hockey talk, but still looking forward to tomorrow!

Helluva game, and you totally have my sympathies, hockeyjx. 
 

I’m a Leafs fan - I understand heartbreak.  

...just kidding...

mostly...

15 minutes ago, hockeyjx said:

It IS the Leafs!! Curios to see if they can take the next step.

 

Yeah, it is the Leafs. Sigh. I have no idea if they can do it, this year. They should have been able to every year for the last five. 

15 minutes ago, hockeyjx said:

.... a close game is stressful! 🤪
 

Yeah, that I totally understand. If the Leafs aren't leading by a mininum 6 goals with 3 mins left, I can't relax. 

16 hours ago, craigb said:

I played hockey (hey, I was trying to be an Olympic speed skater when I was young!) but, amazingly, I never damaged my teeth (from hockey).  I did, however, have over 230 stitches in my chin and under my nose though...  Not all at the same time!  In fact, the last time the doctor put in 19 stitches.   At that time, I may have been the fastest skater, but I was tall and very skinny so I tended to not be able to absorb checks well and found myself hitting the ice chin first often.

I played a lot of hockey, including for my town and high school, and managed to keep my teeth. They are all originals!

Got stitches a few times, separated my shoulder twice - that was fun - and ended my career courtesy of an epic ankle injury I sustained in the summer break on a trampoline. My skating never really recovered from that, and between my ruined ankle and all the damage I did to my knee joints over the years, I had to find a better way to channel my energy. 

These days, when the weather is cold and damp, I limp up and down the stairs like someone twice my age.  

16 hours ago, Rain said:

I was tall and quite skinny, but I played rather nasty. I grew up admiring tough players like Terry O'Reilly and Cam Neely, so I guess I modelled myself after them a  lot.

I'd hit guys I would have never dared go up against in real life. I was lucky - not one tooth lost, not one stitch.

My younger brother would come home with a concussion or  missing teeth, and he played clean hockey - -but for some reason, I got through unarmed.

I eventually broke my arm in a fall, but kept playing, because, hockey...

Then I fell again and made it worse. 

That ended my hockey "career" - not being able to play guitar made the decision easy.

I loved guys like Clarke, O'Reilly and Neely but I never wanted to play like them. Didn't like high traffic or the corners all that much, and I really didn't like getting hit. 

Nowadays I watch hockey obsessively, and wait for the Leafs to win something, anything, in the playoffs. 

16 hours ago, hockeyjx said:

I mean, hockey is in my NAME! And I'm South Jersey born and raised, GO FLYERS!!

Not a Devils fan?

As for the big game: I'll be watching, and I suppose I'm rooting for KC -- although in truth I'd be happy if it was simply good, competitive game. 

I just noticed this while going through the Presonus site: the Universal Control driver was updated on Dec 6, 2022 to v4.0.0.90879

The release notes: https://pae-web.presonusmusic.com/downloads/products/release_notes/UC_4.0_Milestone_Release_Notes1.pdf

The String Ostinatos Chapter II library has some nice bits in it, including the "measured" articulation -- which sounds kind of like a measured tremolo, to my ears.

That's useful, for $25

On 1/30/2023 at 3:23 PM, Jim Roseberry said:

Recent Nvidia cards don't have issues with drivers causing high DPC Latency.

In fact, if you're really pushing the limits of ultra low audio latency performance (say running at 32-sample ASIO buffer size or smaller), you're better off with a RTX-3xxx video card than AMD 6xxx.  Audio will start glitching sooner with the AMD 6xxx series.  I've tested side-by-side with otherwise identical configuration.

Thanks, Jim. Appreciate it a lot. I don't run my audio latency quite that low, but I use all VST libraries (and a lot of them at once) so that last thing I need is my graphics card getting in the way. 

Thanks for the info, folks. Appreciated. 

4 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

I use a pretty basic AMD Radeon card. I had trouble with Nvidia and latency issues so I went with AMD and have no problems. Driving a 4k TCL TV.

Thanks! By any chance, would you happen to know the model or GPU version? I have been looking at models like the Radeon RX 550, etc. But it's hard to get any kind of performance reviews that include productivity / non-3D application use. Everything is gaming benchmarks and little else, these days. Or so it seems, anyway...

Hi everyone,

I'm curious what graphics card folks are using with 4K displays and Cakewalk. I've got a 4K Samsung TV and two 1440p monitors flanking it, and while it all looks great, I've noticed recently that my graphics card is beginning to chug, especially when I have multiple Kontakt 7 instances open. I've got a GeForce GT 710 with multiple HDMI outputs, and it's performed just fine for about a year (full-screen 4K video was choppy, but other than that I had no problems running Cakewalk and Cubase in 4K and using multiple monitors).

I guess new software and various updates have made the 710 no longer up to the task, so I was thinking of upgrading. Some card/GPU suggestions would be appreciated. 

Thanks,

Rob 

30 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

I assume you know that TOTAL MAX 3.5 doesn't include a lot of new things that have come out since it was released.  If you currently qualify for the $99 MAXGrade, don't want any of the newer stuff, might not be able to save up enough money to afford TOTAL MAX 4.0 when it  comes out, etc. $69 plus Jampoints might work for you.  

Only you can say whether or not the stuff included in TS3.5 MAX would be a good decision or if it would be in your interest to wait.   

If  by "them all" you are including reverbs that were released after TS 3.5 came out, I would encourage you to check out the What's-Included list to make sure the ones you want are included.

Yeah, did that already. I was just surprised at how little it would cost to add some of the pieces I'd like. Seemed to good to be true, and I tend to think that means I'm missing some qualifying detail somewhere. 

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

I'm no longer buying anything IK Ala Carte....

Upgrading to TS4 Max is the ticket to save a lot of green!

Yeah, I took a look at the current deals, and it seems I can get Total Studio Max 3.5 for $99.

Add in my JamPoints and it's $69!

I already have MOST of what IK has to offer, but I'm missing a few select pieces I'd like -- the Tascam Tape Collection, and a couple of the newer reverbs. Seems like I can get them all for less than the individual sale price for one of them...am I reading that correctly?

Yeah, my wife has worked as a pro -- singer and theatre work -- and she's very good (although I may have a bias).

She's also smoking hot. And that's not bias -- everyone else thinks so too, and when they look at her and then me, they go: "dude...seriously, how...?"

At which point she says: "we worked together for years as musicians, and he's awesome to play with."

And then folks nod slowly: "ah...ok"

Van Halen and Hank Williams. Epic...

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

That post wasn't a great idea. But it's a pretty hostile thread and he was going to be attacked no matter what he said. And consider that I'm easily one of the top harshest 8Dio and SoundPaint critics at this forum,  but I'm not okay with the mob action mentally of that thread. People aren't looking for facts,  they're looking to burn the  developer at a stake. It's a hostile echo chamber. 

I rarely get involved in threads like that one, mainly because it's a waste of energy. What actually happened is a total unknown -- I don't know any of the people directly involved, and neither does 99.999% of the commentators -- and so drawing conclusions is pointless. And honestly, maybe I'm just getting old and tired, but the drama of it just wears me out.

It kind of dovetails with my own mild distaste for VI Control, generally. I have never enjoyed it much, and rarely go there unless on a search for specific info that is hard to find elsewhere. I personally have not had a bad experience on the forum, but it's always had a chaotic schoolyard vibe that I found a bit off-putting. That's just my own sense of things, and I can understand others finding it a very useful community to participate in.

I'm perfectly content with the Cakewalk forum. This is a good group. 

This sounds like a nice little library, and right in my wheel-house...

This is a great value (I think they ran the same deal a few months ago?)

Of all the 8Dio libraries I own, this one gets the most use by far. It's not perfect, but I think you can do a lot with it, and for $50 its a great way for folks to venture into orchestral stuff without breaking the bank.

I use the Legatos (mainly Legato I), as those patches are super-schmaltzy and in your face. The legato transitions are big and bold, and just outrageous to my ears. When I need an over-the-top string line they are my goto, and so they remain in my template even though I have a ton of other string libraries.  I've never had any problems blending them with my other libraries, although it can take some eq work and careful mic adjustment. 

I don't like the shorts, as they just don't sound natural to my ears. The trems and pizz are useable, although I have better options that I'd turn to first before I fired up the Anthology versions. The chamber patches have never really interested me, and the solo string patches are way less playable than my other solo string libs, so I never use them. 

But if all you had is Anthology, all of the above could be made to work pretty well. It's a lot of library for $50, regardless of its rough areas and age spots. 

Just my two cents. As always, workflow and library preferences are pretty personal thing and so YMMV.

Rob

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

I think many are finding out the more you add 8dio to your collection you finally come across serious disappointments.  Some of the stuff is in the league of Aria sounds not near VSL.

I find with 8Dio, it's all-or-nothing. I have some 8Dio libraries that have some great components, and I use them regularly; and I have too many that disappointed me greatly and have never been put into a project. There's nothing in between.

And for the libraries that work, even they are hit-and-miss when considered on a patch by patch basis. The Century Brass and Anthology Strings are the ones I use most often, but only specific patches, and only for specific purposes.

The above-linked Majestica does not interest me in the slightest. I have not heard a lot of good things about it...

19 hours ago, mibby said:

With all of the year end sales and an "upgrade" in progress for my basement studio, I am wondering about this.

Is anyone using a TV as a monitor?

Any Pros/Cons in doing so? 

Is a particular type or size better - or should I just stick with a PC Monitor and upgrade that?

I use a Samsung 43" 4K television, and it's great - tons of monitor space, you can pack a lot of tracks onto the screen. 

There was a time when you had to be careful which model TV you bought if you wanted to use it as a computer monitor: you needed one with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling in order to prevent text blurriness, and had a game input setting to reduce mouse lag, etc, but I think pretty much all 4K tv's cover those bases, these days.  

The RTings site linked above by fitzroy is a great resource, and I used them when I bought my TV. 

I've had mine for a year, and for me it's mostly pros rather than cons:  love the image quality and the screen-space, and it all works just great.

The only  downside is more related to my video card: I have a low-end Asus graphics card with no fan and four HDMI outputs, which works great for everything except video in 4K. If I try to watch a YouTube video in fullscreen on the 4K monitor, it chugs like crazy. My smaller side monitors work fine, in that regard, so if I'm watching something on YouTube, I leave it there.

Rob