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When you say "reasonably priced," what is your budget? Lots of great advice here but you haven't really given an idea of spec. I mean, is it just the black and white keys that you want and perhaps a pitch bend and modulation wheel? Or are you thinking about something that has additional pots and sliders, and perhaps a few drum pads to boot?

And it's the drone that appeals to me... I like all manner of drone stuff. A sitar, for instance, that has drone stings... I can listen to that stuff all day long haha!

Been using some of that cable tidy stuff on some of me cables:-

Listening now... Marvellous

That's most interesting. I never realised that the drone would be slightly out of tune. I mustn't have a very good ear for intonation and all that haha! A bit worrying...

Ha! Beat me to it!

Weird, that, because I was on there literally two hours ago and now I get "service Unavailable"

Okay, here are a couple of photographs I took last night:- Let me know if pictures linked here do not show up. I think I am having "issues" with my web provider. Sometimes hitting F5 a couple of times will force them to show.

That's a mighty long read @Jim Hurley Not read over all of it, mainly scanned. But you can tell that you put so much effort into Reaktor and your workstation. I didn't realise the Reaktor will only use one core of your CPU. Is it random as to which core it uses or are you able to control that somehow. If you mention that in your write up I obviously missed that in my scan... Sorry. At the moment I am loving my i9 based desktop as it is. I don't think I have the knowledge or the time, even, to start playing with overclocking and stuff. I'm reasonably happy with what I have at the moment and temps are nice and low. Ambient temps here at the moment are still around 10~15 deg C, give or take, but when that goes up to the mid to late twenties in the summer it would be interesting to see how it copes. I am guessing it will be fine. I did a very simple test of my own the other day. I use a flame fractal animation package called Chaotica and one you have set up the animation parameters you just let it run. On the laptop, a typical HD render of around 14400 images (eight minutes of video) it could take anything between 50 to 80 hours of rendering time and by that I mean 14400 PNG files are created. So I set up both workstations to render the same animation and left it for over an hour. Laptop = 632 images Desktop = 1602 images So that, to me, represents a considerable difference in processing power between an Intel Core™i7-3820QM Quad Core Mobile Processor (2.70GHz) with an 8MB cache and an Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) with a 16MB Cache And although Chaotica is a so called graphics package it only uses the CPU and never the GPU, which has been a small bone of contention with some peeps. cheers andy

Yeah, in his early days. Not sure about is couple of attempted come backs. Although I am sure Rick would say that he's never been away, just out of the limelight. He comes from Newton-le-Willows, about six miles up the road from me...

Not so much nowadays. I developed a penchant for sound design and ambient music and threw off the shackles of worrying about conventional song arrangements. Very niche market, for sure, but I really enjoy the process and the end results. I am in no way suggesting that anyone else do this... It just works for me. cheers andy

I quite like listening to bag pipes.

I'm a bit slow by the way. Just give me time.

Very subtle. I'm waiting for someone to explain it to me...

Excellent, thanks. I was wondering if it was something as simple as that

I am not angry. Was just curious what your problems are that need fixing with an update, assuming that an update would fix your problems. Have you raised your issues with the Cakewalk Peeps? Gone are the days when software was released as "finished." Indeed. I sincerely hope that your Cakewalk problems are fixed, and soon. cheers andy

Not that kind of scratching. At least I don't think so...

Is something broken?

Thanks Chuck. My playing ability, or lack of, perhaps doesn't warrant splashing out on those things but curiosity always gets the better of me haha

Yeah, that certainly was the case with earlier versions of Sound Forge. I've just gone through the registering process of the iZotope stuff as well as having a quick look at what they do and, to be honest, I don't think I'll be bothering to use them in either Sound Forge or my DAWs.

Anyway! All of my plugins have been installed and tested now. Some 27 instruments and 39 effects. I also upgraded to Sound Forge 12 because I wanted to bring that up to 64bit, and it recognises VST3 plugins too. Some "freebies" came with that, mainly iZotop mastering plugins, but I haven't tested those yet and will probably only use them in Sound Forge anyway. Got to test my hardware/software setup next

But of course

Oooohh... Anyway, I'd like to ask, why do you, @Jyotishvarii, rarely use full stops (periods) in your sentences. Makes your post difficult to read sometimes.

I'm back! On my home internets that it. Strange

Good point... I will give it a few more days and in the meantime I will feed my addiction by using my phone 4G connection. @Wookiee, I can't find Noel's post you mentioned. A search didn't pull anything up either. Do you have a link? cheers andy