I took bass lessons several years ago to learn how to play the bass like a bass player, not a guitarist. I can't help but laugh now, however my first several lessons consisted solely of trying to get me to have better timing!
That was my point, it's not! Lots of people think it means to randomize the timing, but the software was smarter than that and could be used to add intelligent timing differences. In other words, it could add 30 to 50 ms to a MIDI track (or less if desired) to make it sound more human but it was done consistently ahead or behind not both! Randomizing definitely doesn't sound human and, IMO, sounds worse than fully quantizing.
Song aspects not-withstanding (meaning speeding up for the chorus, etc.), I recall a study being done where a drummer tends to always be something like 30-50ms ahead or behind the beat. Not ahead on one hit and behind on the next like some people think. Cakewalk used to have a couple of tools (which I still have somewhere) that could be used to "humanize" an entered drum track to make it sound more like it was done by a human. This would obviously help the solo guitarist (for example) who doesn't play drums.
My condolences S.L.I.P.! Sounds like he had a good life.
93 is a much more appropriate number than a lot of friends and acquaintances of mine have made it to lately (at least four in the last year and a half between 46 and 63...). My Mom will be 90 on Mother's Day next month (my Dad passed away in 2003 at 76).
Nope, it's very true! I also intend to be 70 and 80 in December. Maybe YOUR birth month changes around, but mine doesn't.
(Maybe you read it too quickly and thought I had said "this December?"?)
It's legal all along the West Coast and Colorado (and here I sit, probably one of the very few who have never smoked anything!). One thing to remember though... Although it's legal in each of the above mentioned states, it's still illegal to cross state borders with it! (Crossing state borders falls under Federal law which still has it as illegal.) Just more government stupidity!