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That was nice! But find the other 3/4 reel to reel so we can hear the whole thing! ? Definitely reminds me of those wonderful high-school garage band days though (think late-70's)... ?

OMG! WTF? LOL! ?

No problem Wookiee! I'm sure I'll need delay (and reverb!) too... ?

Nice! Another famous one from there is Cheap Trick's Live At Budokan. That's my kind of piano in the beginning too. If you like that as well, check out Keiko Matsui! I've been playing her discography a lot lately. Here are two example albums from her:

But are we sure it's really his place? I don't see a dozen cats... ? (Actually, I remember a picture you posted of your ex up on a ladder dressing a Christmas tree in front of that fireplace... ?)

Sorry, I was busy that night! ?

My business partner and I had a third-party store on Amazon for a while. Yes, they are as evil as people make them out to be! VERY carnivorous! Want something nice without having to pay for it? (For those with no morals or ethics only...) Just buy it, then take something newish that's laying around the house that you don't want and return that to Amazon saying "What the heck is this??? It's not what I ordered!" for a prompt and completely illegal refund. Only the third-party sellers get screwed. Apart from that scenario happening to us, Amazon stole $16,000 worth of product and left us holding the bill. That was the last straw. Lots more horror stories where that came from! ?

Fyxed!

Here, have a couple of these! ?

Still have no idea. Got a link to any of these videos?

I'm not comparing, I literally haven't been able to do anything except play my guitar through an amp (without any pedals or anything else). Plus, with the rest of "life" I haven't had much time or desire for even that. Joining the livestreams has been giving me the itch to play around with virtual synths, so I'm just seeing what I can do without buying much. In addition to my guitar, I have a fast PC, Reason, Cakewalk and other stuff, but nothing is currently installed... I know I need an interface and a software amp sim at the very least. I'm mainly trying to come up with a wish list that I can start getting once I get paid next month.

Let's tie both of those together, shall we? Deep Purple - Highway Star

That's option #1. Option #2 involves forgetting to pack the wife and bring her, and you don't want to do that option! ?

I still remember the days where I was always up-to-date on all my software versions and the current tech. However, after 2009, I haven't been able (and hadn't cared) to stay on top of things but, knowing how fast things can change, I thought I'd start by asking here instead of killing many hours searching and watching videos! I still don't have either the time or the money for anything serious, but watching Andy's (Synkrotron's) modular livestreams has been giving me the itch to play around. ?

Well, one can get in trouble for abusing Am! ?

Cool! Now if I can just find somewhere to buy some money and free time I'll be set!!! ?

Nope, haven't. Was too broke to allow myself to check things out! Which John?

I've got a fast PC and a guitar. I want to make modular-synth type backgrounds and play guitar over them but all in the PC. So, what software do I need and what interface to get my guitar talking with the PC? ?

Thanks for the ideas! It looks like I'm going to have to do some research on those names and products though... Not worried about the PC. I've got a screaming i9 built by Jim Roseberry with 64 GB of RAM. I also have a 40" 4k monitor (which can be rotated into portrait mode for better usage of a Reason rack). My goal is purely instrumental fun for now, though it might not be a bad idea to go back to doing voice-overs (I have a DJ voice, not a singing voice! LOL ? ). I'm currently working on organizing my disks and files. I have over 5.4 million files with 1.3 million duplicates (long story!) spread out over five drives and 20 TB's of space (16.3 TB's used)! Once that's been optimized I'll make a place for music software and files again. Hey, it's a lot of space but it probably isn't enough for all of Bapu's plugins, right? ?

Meant to mention that Danny Danzi (from the old Cakewalk forums) was telling me quite a while back about some software guitar amp modelers that sounded pretty good that he was testing! I'm naturally interested in those too.

Ok, most of you know that I lost everything back in 2009 including my music studio that I had put about $134k into. I have very little gear left (mainly one custom guitar though my luthier still has my custom guitar with Variax guts in it that I hope to get back eventually). I don't even have my own amp (I use an extra Marshall that my roommate got for me to use a few years ago). Lately I've been watching Andy's (Synkrotron's) livestreams that occur in the middle of the night for me (around 2am) and I see some from here occasionally (like Wookiee), but he has a wonderful modular synth setup with extra stuff. I then remembered that I do have Reason, but haven't installed it. I basically took all of this as the Universe telling me to do other things. Anyway, since I have neither the money nor the room for a lot of physical gear, here's what I'm wondering: How much can I do purely "in the box?" I'm seeing that Ableton apparently has synths included with normal DAW abilities, but if I want to do as little physically (just a "real" guitar into my computer somehow if possible), what do you guys think I would need? My direction is more software-only synth-based bed with a physical guitar using software modelers if possible. To do this, I realize I'll need SOMETHING to connect my guitar to the computer (a D/I of some kind?), but I'd like to do everything else just on the computer. For now, this is only for fun. I'm not intending to make anything serious. I only just started considering this so I haven't done any research yet! Can Reason be an input to Cakewalk? Oh, I do have a small MIDI keyboard (Oxygen 8 or something like that) too so I can enter notes that way. So, what are some possible setups to do this? And what will I need to get that I don't already have? (Like a D/I for the guitar.) Thanks!

Feeling Less Omnipotent Over Partner, Yes.