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I am still getting used to the whole "chilling in your garage" thing down here. I guess our rednecks don't have lawns in front of the house so they use their garage...

Reminds me of that Star Trek Enterprise episode where someone explained where the base material used in replicators came from...

Might as well...

I've always loved the sound of those old organ "drums" and managed to incorporate samples from them in a few songs. Nostalgia, I guess.

Whatever happened to the old saying...

Must be told that I myself wanted to be a bass player. Even though I started on the guitar, after a friend of the family broke my acoustic guitar, what I really wanted was a bass. I had no idea what a bass actually sounded like, but I thought Gene Simmons and Nikki Sixx looked cool. Then I heard Randy Rhoads. I often wonder how different my life would be if I'd picked up the bass instead of the guitar. I'd live a radically different life, of that I am sure.

I've been there. What you put yourself through to earn a few bucks... For some strange reason, I've encountered a lot of people who wanted to play bass who had absolutely no musical talent. It's almost as if they couldn't hear the instrument and thought they could fake their way through a song. Maybe they felt that if Sid Vicious could do it... The most surprising was my ex - after all, she's a prodigiously talented singer, classically trained and all, so I expected that she'd pick the basics very easily, even though the motor skills might have taken some time, as for most people. I don't know how many times I tried to show her the simple chorus run for Babe I'm Gonna Leave You that she really wanted to learn. Or the Seven Nation Army line that she loved so much. But you'd put a bass in her hand, and it's like she'd become tone deaf and lost all sense of rhythm. I tried using different analogy, shapes, box, and so on, but it just wouldn't stick. She'd go through it laboriously a few times and but the 3rd or 4th, it was as if her memory had been wiped and she had to start from scratch. But then again, in some ways, I can relate. I've been messing with keyboards forever and I still struggle to play the simplest things one hand at a time. I'll have to look into that test when I have a moment. I'm curious to take it.

Same. I know I do have the Google one because I see it in my apps but I don't think I ever had to use it after the initial setup. That may have been fro my previous job, where they used the Google suite. I also have the Microsoft one because it's mandatory at work and also because someone managed to steal my hotmail credentials in 2019. I remember the first time I looked at the log of failed login attempts. I was a little shocked, although I really shouldn't have been. I still see 20-some attempts on any given day. If tapping on a number to confirm my identity on my cell phone can make things a little safer, I don't mind.

They should have remained impossible as far as I'm concerned. Those pesky things always annoyed the heck out of me. (But it's funny to see that these ridiculously affordable monitors still work 22 years later). I guess my brain's geared backwards - I can spend 60 hours a week in this red room, but a tiny bit of blue drives me nuts.

Zoltan!

Alexander agrees. Although I don't think that his version of Windows (Windows 3.23 BC) would be compatible with the latest versions of Guitar Rig.

The name brings back memories. I loved Sound Forge so much back then. I wouldn't have changed a thing about it. And let us not forget Acoustic Modeler/Mirror, which had to be one of the first impulse response plugins out there, back in the late 90's early 2000's. You could only use it offline, and I remember spending a lot of time in Sound Forge sweetening individual tracks with tape and compressor impulses, and even using it for offline reverbs with some free impulses I'd found on the web. It seemed so revolutionary. The things would display 300% CPU usage while processing files. But it was worth it. I remember Peter H. (Haller or Heller?) hanging out on the old Cakewalk NG and forums. Super nice guy, always helpful.

I had last night. On Google, every time I hit search - which I found quite perplexing. Went away when I disabled the VPN. I'm a huge Krafwerk fan, so I refuse to acknowledge that I'm not a robot.

Imagine the number of people who could potentially start doing blow just because they happen to visit this forum and read the real word for coke... EDIT: The above was a test and, see, these alternatives are ok. ?

Aboot that, eh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_humour Just like the metric system, practically everywhere but in the US - although to be perfectly honest most Canadians use both systems (the chart below is quite accurate). Reminds me of basic mechanic classes in high school - in the shop, every tool was referred to by its English name and measurements were all imperial. Back in the classroom, it was all French and and metric - although the teacher would still continue to use the English names unless he was reading from the manual. You just had to figure it out. My father would probably have called me a wuss if I ever used the French word for wrench in front of him.

Happy birthday, Sir Bapu.

Never mind - I read posthumous. We'll be back after lunch for a post hummus follow up on this thread.

You mean like?

I would assume that he wore out his welcome and rode on the steel breeze...

I LOVE that movie.

Wait, we're supposed to wear anything besides pajama pants? (I obviously don't do zoom settings).

You're absolutely right. I tend to forget because I've not had to deal with that in a while now, but indeed.

Like a lot of people these days, I am aware that AI can potentially replace people like myself at work, but sometimes, I wonder how AI will deal with the unfathomable stupidity of a lot of the user questions I answer on a daily basis. How does Artificial Intelligence cope with Genuine Stupidity? There are many cases where you really need to think creatively and do some extraordinary mental gymnastic in order to be able to even read and then understand what it is that those poor souls are trying to express. I'm not talking about typos here, but crippling inability to express oneself in written form (accompanied by an equally severe inability to think or understand simple questions). In other words, you need to be able to think like a complete moron. I have seen some desperate cases where I thought of asking a user to wait a little while I went downstairs in the garage, banged my head on the concrete floor a few times, and sniffed some paint thinner - just to try and level the playing in field a little. I bet you AI can't do that, eh? Who's the intelligent one now? Maybe stupidity is our last best hope. And it seems to be infinitely renewable, so, there's that. Rejoice in thy dumbness I say, rejoice, for the kingdom is at hand.

Deep Purple's Getting Tighter - 2010 remaster vs original. They killed the groove - and that groove was what the song was all about. I watch a lot of music related content on YouTube these days, so of course I get the targeted ads. And essentially, what they are advertising are products and libraries designed to get that sound you're familiar with - and that will make you sound just like everyone else. I cringe every time one of those ads start and I hear those libraries. Back in the days, I read about the making of Nine Inch Nails The Fragile in Keyboard magazine. Trent Reznor had hired a guy (Keith Hillerbrand from memory) to create a huge library of weird, unique sounds for him to use, just for that album. To me, the making of that record always represented everything that was fantastic about DAWs and working with computers. But there are also a lot of opportunities to remove almost every variable from the equation, thereby compromising the chances of creating something original. And it seems that a lot of people aren't making music for the love of art, so they're quite content to just assemble songs. It's their take on the same basic idea. If you spend 5 minutes on social media, it's quite obvious that most people only want to have their turn in the spotlight doing the same thing as everyone else. I remember recording demos with nothing but my guitars, a little Marshall transistor combo, an Akai XR10, a tube distortion, a wah pedal, and a Boss flanger. And the delay on my Sony reel machine. A lot of the things I had in mind like mellotron parts, a Hammond, or horns were simply impossible, so I would have to create something that had vaguely similar sonic qualities using what I had. In many ways, it often made the songs more interesting. It's something I try not to let go of, even now that I have access to all those instrument libraries.