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I literally only found out minutes before I posted that. Apparently it isn't the first time he's been in "trouble." He has apologised.

Apparently he has been banned from twitch for homophobic comments...

Well, you said, I took that to mean that you want to have a few synths because having lots of synths is "a problem," and I interpreted that problem to be, the more synths you have, the less time you have to spend with each one, therefore not really getting to learn about what you can do with them. If I have interpreted your thoughts incorrectly I can only apologise. cheers andy

With you there, Chris, you can end up spreading yourself a bit thin as you try to keep on top of your tools, learning how to use them, get into their sound and all that.

Really? I mean, okay, may not have been "life threatening," but it would have certainly affected your quality of life. Got my own thoughts about our "wonderful" NHS, but I'll keep them to myself. All to do with my missus, not me. Taking them ages to diagnose what is going on... Anyway, not for here. Never great going "under the knife." So it's good to hear that you are on that road to recovery Jonesey 👍 And back home too... Always a bonus. I had six weeks of hospital food... I lost nearly two stone haha! cheers andy

Interesting stuff @ien I'll be referring back to this sort of information before finally taking the plunge. cheers andy

Me too! Was going to pull the trigger today but wanted to do a little bit more research first. Probably early next week now

Absolutely. I have a couple now in the fire safe waiting to be used. I see them going into my desktop setup for sure

Thanks @mettelus I think I should be okay then. That motherboard comes with six SATA 6Gb/s so losing one, or even two of those shouldn't be a problem. I will put the question directly to the company who will be building this for me before I order. No point in getting a 3000MB per second SSD if it can't work at that speed. One of the advantages, I think, of going down the pre-built route...

I still have some homework to do regarding the M." drive. I am struggling to find out if my chosen motherboard, ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E will actually use a Samsung 970 EVO M/2 NVMe card to its fullest. It has two M.2 ports that support "PCIe 3.0 x4 mode" but I have no idea what that means...

Hi @Jim Roseberry My lad has helped me along a bit wit the "new tech," so I'll be going along with the NVMe PCIe cards rather than the ones that use the SATA bus. I know what you mean about "overkill," and for what I create, music wise, my system will be well over the top. My thinking is, this will very probably be my last PC, ever. If it lasts me ten years then, at 68, I probably won't be bothered so much about gaming (assuming I even reach that age), and I will probably be more than happy to freeze my music setup at a point that is still workable on my proposed spec. Hence some of my seemingly over the top decisions. If I did upgrade anything in the future it would be for what ever game takes my fancy at the time and will probably only involved swapping out the GPU. Funny really... I loved my laptop and it is still doing "almost" what I want it to do and I generally manage loading issues by freezing VST or printing effects as the need arises. I had always said that I would "never" go back to a desktop... Never say never haha! I still have another laptop that I like to take away with me, a Surface Pro i5, which handles straight forward VST stuff quite well and that is another reason why I don't mind going back down the Desktop route. And if I need something with a bit more oomph, like recording my youngest lads V-Drums at his house then I can always resurrect the old CLEVO by sticking the Pro 850 SSD back in and getting a newer one for my desktop. Interesting times... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a more powerful PC will help with some of my ongoing problems with crackles and pops... cheers andy

Thanks, yeah, good point I think. I still have the option to go for a smaller (500GB) NVMe drive for OS and, seeing as I really won't be using my old CLEVO laptop much I am going to rip my 1TB Samsung Pro 850 out of that.

Noted, Jim, thanks. I'll be okay I think. Going for a Socket 1151 i9 CPU with a Noctua NH-U14S cooler. And I'm going for a full tower case now in the hope that it will aid with cooling... Could fit more 140mm fans if need be. cheers andy

Thanks @MUDGEL I'm thinking along the same lines, but thought I'd ask. I am currently considering a slightly larger, 1TB OS drive and was wondering about creating two partitions on it. This is what I am challenging, I suppose. I mean, do we even really need to partition storage devices with all this new tech. cheers andy

I guess I'm "lucky" then... I consider myself to be more of a "sound designer" nowadays and I find that I get away with using factory presets and then tweak until I get to something I like. Or even initialising a patch and start from scratch. So, I suppose the question for me is, "don't you save your tweaks as presets then?" And the answer to that is, "no." I treat each project as a "new start" and each sound, although very similar to other sounds, are still unique to that project. I never take a sound from one project to another. That's what I mean by "lucky..." I do not have to worry about saving presets in order to use them in another project. And then there is my modular system... No presets there... Every sound is built from scratch. But, yeah, that's not for everybody, I understand that, it's just how I work right now cheers andy

Hiya Pees Yet another one for the PC experts here... Back in the "good ol'days" you were always advised to have one storage device for the OS and another storage device for data. That was for traditional disk drives. I am now looking at solid state drives, particularly M.2 format PCIe NVMe device. Read/wright speeds are in the order of 3000MB per second. So, is it still important to have separate devices for OS and data in this instance? Obviously the OS and data R/W operations will be on the same bus, but does this matter at this sort of data transfer rate? Might be something else I am missing... cheers andy

My lad has water cooled CPU and he has advised me not to bother.

Thank goodness! I wanted to help but got stuck in an endless loop... Had me really confused. I'm glad all is now clear

I know, sorry, I shouldn't even be posting in this topic as I don't have a clue what it's about.

would have to be gaffer tape...

IBTL your turn Craig

Better than anything I could do, Geoff. I hate doing talky stuff in any sort of "live" situation. It ain't easy, even though some YouTubers make it look like it is... cheers, andy

A couple of nice pictures there @SteveStrummerUK 👍 I've tried my hand at this kind of stuff and I'm crap. I like some of my panoramas but that's it. I'd since decided to concentrate on motor sport pictures, when I can get to a track that is.

Hi again @craig I tried synchronising my Beatstep Pro, as the Master, with REAPER this morning. It REAPER didn't even register the incoming MIDI Time Code and therefore didn't start. I posted about it in the REAPER forum and the one reply so far stated the it is a known fact that REAPER doesn't work well as a slave. So that was a waste of time. I have also posted a question in the Arturia forum about this. No response as yet. Is it essential for you to have the BSP as the master? You could try setting the tempo on the BSP to equal the Cakewalk project tempo but it may drift out over time. cheers andy