Reid Rosefelt

I got an email from Sample Logic with a code for a $25 discount on this for being a loyal Sample Logic user. So check your inbox if you're interested in this.

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It is ironic that I was talking about the kind of people who took me down. But no actual person did that. They have AI set up to do that. The guy that founded the subreddit is a great guy and has reached out to me to join his Discord. But I don't know if he has the power to reinstate me to his own subreddit. Just to be absolutely sure, I took it down from YouTube. I really wouldn't want to screw up my second channel! 😀 I wasn't that crazy about the video anyway.

I just found out I have been permanently banned from the Metaverse forum on Reddit because of this video. Too bad. It's a great forum. You can say ***** on network TV, but not apparently on Reddit. You can't say it here either.

If I do get some time I will try to post this one to Rumble.

One aspect of free updates is that it renews attention to a piece of software. So when there is a free update to Scaler, people on this site talk about how much they love Scaler. And this might lead some people who don't have Scaler to buy it. Marketing is an expense. How do you get people to find out about your product? There is a lot of attention when something first comes out, but then it drops off. So companies use freebies, and special sales to get attention. But I am a believer in supporting developers in any way we can.

People on Reddit really slammed my video but I got a really good quote from a guy: “If you take a shit in the Metaverse, it will turn up in your pants.” Weird-Breakfast-7259, Reddit I plan to use this wonderful quote in my third video: "Why You Can't Live in the Metaverse."

Even in "Ready Player One," the hero says that people need to take bathroom breaks, eat and sleep. To say the least. I seriously doubt that many people will use it for more than an hour a day. The majority of people will never use it, at least for a long time. Everybody will continue to live their lives in the real world and use the devices that make sense. Nobody is going on the subway in immersive VR. It's not about how long people use it. It's the impact the time in the Metaverse has on people when they come back to the real world. it's the impact that the Metaverse economy will have on the real economy. My parents never used a computer or had smart phones, but their lives were changed a lot by the fact that others did. And I need to say what I will say a lot in the channel. There is no guarantee this thing is going to happen, despite how many trillions are spent trying to make it happen.

Uh oh. 😱

About frickin' time! There hasn't been a Scaler update since 12/13! 🤬 We've waited almost a month! 🤮 Please note: I am kidding.

Yes, I'm currently reading Snow Crash. A lot of stuff to read. If I stick with this, I will be at it for years. Virtual Reality started as an idea with writers. I remember reading "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, when I was a kid. And then there were movies like "Lawnmower Man," "Tron," "The Matrix," and "Ready Player One." But it became real through the work of game designers. They created real virtual worlds, starting with Second Life, and then Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, VRChat and others. These designers, particularly the engine creators, are poised to have the biggest impact in the creation of the Metaverse. Sorry, Mark Z.

@Monomox @abacab I didn't really lose my channel. I didn't violate any policies and I wasn't thrown off. All the videos are still there. They just can't be monetized for technical reasons. I just don't think it's fair that I should work for thousands of hours and spend thousands of dollars without any hope of ever making five cents. It's the principle. So I'm moving forward with at least hope. I made a video on what happened, but it's my belief that Google doesn't offer any technical support, they just use AI. And they figure if somebody has a unique problem that can't be solved by AI, that is worth less to them than the huge cost of paying real people to work in customer support. Another thing that was interesting is that I read they have a policy that forbids people within Google to help anybody with a problem--as that wouldn't be fair! I do have a friend who once had a very high-level job at Google, and he told me he tried to help one of his best friends and he couldn't. This problem could be fixed in three minutes, but I don't think it ever will be. So I've moved on. It's okay. I've found a topic I'm really interested in learning about, so that's my path forward. I will have fun doing these videos and write a lot of music cues for them. The problem is solved because this channel is associated with my wife's YouTube Channel, and, more importantly, her social security number. So they'll pay her. That's fine with me. All in the family. 😀

The channel is going to be about imagining what things would be like if this thing is built. What would shopping be like in immersive 3D? What about gaming? What would dating be like? Could there be love with somebody in a different country who doesn't know what you look like and you don't know about them? How does it change things when you cam just pick what you'll look like? One thing that fascinates me about being in virtual worlds is that a woman with a beautiful avatar comes over and men act the way they do when a real live beauty is there. And they have no idea if the woman is attractive in real life or even if she is a woman. What would music be like if you could get together in the same virtual space with people from all over the world? I find when I think about these things it opens up a Pandora's Box of good and bad things. Particularly the latter. A lot of dangers in this thing, and I don't know if there's any way to stop it.

All of you are helping me so much, and I am very grateful. My dream is that YouTube will pick up on this engagement and start to show the video to people who are interested in the topic. But I'm realistic. I'm going to have to make a dozen more videos before that is likely to happen. But I'm committed. I've already written drafts of 8 or 9 of the scripts. As I have to be traveling a lot this year, I got myself a laptop powerful enough to run Premiere.

As many of you know, I lost my last YouTube Channel, after 100 videos and 14 years of work. My first video from my new channel is finally up! Please support me any way you can with my new channel. It has one subscriber (me) right now. Absolutely anything you do--subscribe, like, comment, share on other social media platforms, etc. will cause YouTube to show my video to more people. It’s going to be a long slog. Hopefully this will take less than 14 years. I don’t know what you know about The Metaverse, or if you care, but I have become convinced that it is something we should all know about. For one thing, McKinsey & Company says that The Metaverse may generate $5 trillion dollars by 2030, so pretty much all the world’s biggest companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to cash in on this thing. (You may have heard that the company behind Facebook is spending a measly ten billion a year in hopes of grabbing a share of this bonanza.) I believe it will be a tidal wave for anybody involved in music and the arts—but truly it will affect all commerce. I don’t think that The Metaverse will be here for ten years or a lot longer, but still it’s good to be informed. Forum rules will keep me from posting more videos here, even though I never made one cent after all my years on YouTube. So if you want to be notified about my videos, you’ll have to click the YouTuber bell in order to get notificatioins. But it is allowed for me to put my link below. I’ll be writing a lot of music cues for this Channel. I don’t know if I would call it music in this one—maybe more like textures. I used two recent sales purchases (Vocalise 2 and Audiofier’s Veevum Human) for the staccato female vocal sounds you hear during the titles. After I get going with this, I hope to expand some of these cues into actual music, and do a separate “Metaverse Music” channel for them. Thanks everybody! PS @cclarry has subscribed, so now I have two subscribers! Thank you, Larry!

I'm at a standstill because I've maxxed out on downloads. 🥵

Just wanted to tell everybody that a few people on VI:Control, including me, have had trouble installing this. In fact I bought it on 12/22 and still haven't been able to install it! I've loved Embertone for years, but I am not happy with their customer service on this. All through it, there has been the assumption that I: 1) Don't now how to download files 2) Don't know how to unzip files 3) Don't know how to rename files I was treated like a dummy or outright ignored until it became clear that other people had the same problem. Many helpful people on VI:Control also assumed I was an ignoramus. Insult to injury. It seems like the problem was Firefox. This was discovered by somebody on VI:Control, not Embertone. Later today I will try downloading it in another browser. Here's the thread, if you're interested: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/intro-price-ending-soon-new-release-the-whiskey-series-honkytonk-harmonica.133866/page-8#post-5265886 It's too bad, because as somebody who has played blues harp for 50 years, I was looking to try this and, if I liked it, recommend it to people who were considering it at the intro price. My life has been crazy lately, but that is literally why I bought it on 12/22.

When my first YouTube Channel died, I started searching for an idea for a new one. After three months of false starts, research, and preparation, I should have the first video out next week, to kick off the New Year. My resolution for 2023 is to try to get 25 videos done for my new channel. If I do, that means I'll be writing a lot of music. As I know I will be traveling a lot, I just bought a powerful laptop so I can work anywhere. It just arrived. I don't want to let anything hold me back. That's 2023 for me, I hope.

@JohnL wrote me to say that now the Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, and Clarinet are all available for $20 each! https://8dio.com/collections/flash-sale

What a great way to start picking up the excellent Claire series for so little. All that are left are the Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, and Bassoon. They'll no doubt turn up in future sales. One of the things that is special about the 8dio solo woods is they add the Piccolo, Alto and English Horn, which are often left out. They sell (!!) the entire bundle for $688, if anybody's interested.

Whenever I see MNDALA, it triggers a weird memory. I was working as Unit Publicist on a movie called "Big Business" with Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler. While we were shooting on the streets of New York, we were followed around by a homeless guy, who kept saying, "MID-LAH... BETT MID-LAH. Over and over and over. After that, whenever "Big Busines" still photographer Andy Schwartz and I would run into each other, instead of hi, we'd say, "MID-LAH."

Hi @Leok85 The thing that makes BIAB great is that they have RealTracks, which are actual recordings by various studio musicians. They are 2 bar and 4 bar and one bar. The program uses Algorithms to make them create realistic arrangements from your chord progression. You can create your own style by taking any of the RealTracks they've released and combining them, for example, two guitars, bass, piano, fiddle, drums, etc. You kind of have to know what you're doing to do that. Each new version of BIAB has more RealTracks and includes styles that show them off. Combinations of Realtracks, perfectly mixed and ready to use. I mainly use the styles that come with the program. The Xtra Styles are just that--more styles. For me, the more the merrier. If you watch my video you will see why. The Xtra Styles PAKs have no new Realtracks. They just combine the Realtracks in different ways. But the most recent versions of Xtra Styles PAKs require the latest versions of BIAB, because they use the latest RealTracks. I've never bought any of the XPro Styles. They are a product directed towards people who have a lesser version of BIAB than the Ultrapack. I hear they are different, but I've never felt the need to buy them. The 2023 Bonus 49Pak is an expensive Xtra Styles Pak. It goes for $49 and they go for $29 during the sale. I used to think you had to buy these bonus packs when the new version is released, but I now am not sure. A customer service person from PGMusic told me that if you don't buy one it just gets folded into the following year's upgrade. Somebody else got a different response. In the future I won't but the $49 pak and how those styles turn up in the following year's update. Of course I'll always be a year behind, but I would like to not waste $49. PGMusic has demos of all the XtraStyles paks, so you can decide what you want. Hope this helps!

The Claire Solo Woodwinds series are one of the only 8dio libraries I really love. This is a great price.

One of the Lunatics just posted that they will have an update for Mini soon, which may have more presets.