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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.

I'll have to watch it later, but it's a well known thing that continuing until something is perfect never produces anything! ?

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).

You should know that Dave HATES the word becan. ?

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?"?)

I'll be 90 in December (if I live that long). ?

Purility encapsulates needlessly immature silliness. Parmigiana excites noodles in sauce.

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!

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You can learn twice as fast if you try songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet Song.

Nice! The waves shouldn't all look like sausages. I still remember this:

I hear the MK3 Ultra can be operated using mind control... ?

I like twins! They only look unhappy because you have to turn them on first! Duh. (I wonder if they realize I'd be using both at the same time...)

? You get a Kenny facepalm for that one Ed!

Poor Kenny... Do you need someone to hold your guitar picks for ya too? ?

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So Romeo Void is redundant, ya?

With so many of us considered "seniors" here (i.e., over 55), I'm surprised we don't have entire threads devoted to the best fiber we can find.

Two parts to this answer. The first is how to best enter the notes because, as you alluded to, they're nearly impossible to enter manually (talking purely MIDI here). I first bought the SPD-20 (in the top middle) to do this but it probably had the same issues that the Korg Nanopad does. So it turned into my "effects" (MORE COWBELL!) and I bought a starter V-Drum set. It wasn't long before I had maxed it out to what you see above (damn was it fun!). Next, I was using the DR 808 extra that came with one of the early versions of Cakewalk for the drum sequencing because you could map a sample to a MIDI note which meant I could change out samples all over the place (I had a bunch). The other feature I liked about the DR 808 was that you could have multiple samples at different (Ai! Lost the correct word! Dammit...) volumes/levels/strengths (hope you know what I mean!). Anyway, I don't know what the best replacement is for the DR 808 now, but that's the basic idea! It's kind of fun to make a complex fill and then look at what it creates in MIDI - you can definitely see that doing it manually is not going to happen!