Tim Smith

So after 12 hours out back sanding rust off of zinc plated steel. Wading around in 42F water trying to change a pool liner in a 22,000 gallon pool. I sat down intending to maybe work in the DAW and do something, but frankly everything hurts, well ok almost everything hurts. Some things feel good. I had to have the super shower and my clothes are almost past washing.....so yep, one of those long days doing unfun stuff and now I'm too tired to do the fun stuff. That's what burns me. I hope the mask I wore protected me enough from those small airborne zinc and rust particles. Zince is supposed to be good for you right? Maybe it helped.

I had that happen to me too. There's a plow driver around here that I could see ending up missing.

Microwaves should have programmable sound. When it goes off- Come get your coffee beefcake. or......you're burning the darned thing! Must have put tin foil in there.

Thanks for the suggestions @abacab I did hear VIP ended up sliding down the tubes so to speak and so I never pursued it. I have UNIFY and enjoy working in it in a DAW. Never considered playing it live without the DAW. Having just bought the Arturia V collection, I think it fits well in this context too!

Some people do not enjoy the production side of music. They might love to play otherwise. They may begin to wonder why they aren't picking things up as well as others have. If it becomes tedious it isn't fun any more. I go back and forth with creative spurts here and there. I have realized most people never care as much about your music as you do. Just the way it is. I have been HYPED about things I've done only to get sidelined by people who didn't care. I've even been excited about other people's music because I wanted to make it sound better in my studio, only to have them forget they offered to send me their tracks. I never even had a chance. It's so bad I got all excited about making music only to be basically told no one listens to any of it. This was after I spend 3 or 4 hours producing it. I still do it though. Why? Because I like to do it.

It can't end until it starts. This I know.

You know, I should have this licked. I have never had trouble growing hair. Oh I can hear my wife, I just don't know what she is saying. I hear " duck up er, duck up er" She is saying "dark up there"

Anything with the word Spam in it concerns me. I have been putting two and two together. Lots of missing people and an over abundance of Spam. Just use lots of ketchup.

In the past we have head a holdout winters where it snowed when people were already buying flowers. Hasn't happened here this year. Go out and keep enjoying that snow man, sound like you're having fun and we know it won't last. You'll probably get up to 120F there again this year and you might be wishing for snow then.

I usually step back and wait on a new model of anything to see how the real world experience has been with it, so if I wasn't in a hurry to buy anything I would wait for the critical trusted reviews of the product. Another potential advantage to this is, since the pack is always going after the newest products companies will be trying to offload older stock at a discount. I don't think a one year old computer with similar specs is going to hurt me in any way compared to me buying a new one. If you have money you don't mind spending and you don't mind taking a chance on a new model then go for it, just be prepared for the potential of issues no one knew about until later. The other question I always ask is what are my requirements as compared to what a computer will do ? I want to nudge in the direction of being over equipped instead of potentially under equipped. Too much overkill though and I'm buying capability that's wasted. What are your goals and has anyone else attempted those goals on the same computer build? I bought an HP Omen a few years ago and I couldn't be happier. My needs might be different than yours. One thing I noted at that time was when shopping for Omens, was lots of computers in that same Omen line were using marketing tactics trying to make the laptop look like a serious gaming laptop when really they were not. For instance, There were Omens running i5 chips and 8gb of Ram. I don't think a computer called a gaming laptop should have anything less that a feisty i7 or similar chip and at least 16gb of memory. If you didn't look at the fine print you might mistake a low end laptop for a higher end one. To me it looked like they were getting people to the table using the Omen name and then offering deeper discounts on what I'll call the baby Omens. The customer then asks, " Would this computer do the job?, I mean it's an Omen." If "gaming laptop" were not in the sale lit, these buyers would have never given that spec a second look. Manufacturers demos are usually using their fastest chip on the best example of their machine. When you go looking for one these machines might only be 10% of their inventory. Another thing many high performance laptops have started to leave out on a regular basis is dual onboard drives Instead they can trim costs by making YOU buy a second drive, yet for someone who is looking for portability this works against it. They were still sneaking platter drives into laptops, especially those budget 'gamer' laptops. Not sure if they still are. Mine has a platter as secondary drive onboard and I was ok with that for a secondary on a laptop. I agree cyber war is where it's going to the next level. This is more serious than obtaining a new computer since we all have our money in the cloud somewhere. Someone said the new crude oil will be in semi conductors. I tend to agree with that, HOWEVER as long as companies who make products have customers with money to spend on them there will be supply, demand and hopefully competition. I don't think we are going to see a scarcity of laptops in the long term. Sure they will be more expensive like everything else.

This is great news. Maybe by the time we all get old they will have an over the counter med for it. Hold on a sec, my wife is yelling something and I can't hear her. I would be a little concerned about possible side effects.

It's AD2.

Kewl.

I have a recording here where I picked an unnamed drum vst and selected a kit. I changed the bass drum in it and the snare, but I never went outside of the kit or the GUI, so it was all in house. I did use some outboard reverb , the IK Sunset Sound reverb. I'll tell you the bass is MODO bass side chained into the drums. The bass was tough to deal with because I used a 6 string bass in MODO. This is at 96bpm but I sped the tempo up toward the last 1/3rd of the track. This isn't really a finished track, but I think it gives a decent idea, and yes I go over in LUFS on it some. I picked this kit because BFD wasn't working for me at the time. Two things I like. When the cymbal is hit you can hear the ring from it for 20 seconds afterwards. I grew fond of the snare because of it's unique ring which i thing carries the kit. It isn't my fav drum vst. Can you guess which one it is? I don't think it's quite as good as BFD but it isn't bad either in terms of the kit.

I hear ya man. I hope you can get what you need. I haven't given up on BFD yet but I haven't had the time to go back and beg for my zilgian collection.

So who is nagging Bap then??

Well I'm real and I play a VSTi B3, actually a few of them. You get into gospel Jackson?

I thought where could they possibly take it from here? The solids library? Version 1 the Bazooka Version2, Armaddon. Version 3, RUN! He lit it!! -

My crossgrade price for SD3 is 319.00. Non crossgrade price is 399.99. I'm really a plugin ***** just like everyone else here ?. I seldom buy stuff because I need it. I sometimes buy stuff because I might need it. Maybe the difference between me and possibly others is I have the time to wait for a deal. Hopefully Toontrack will offer a better deal on SD3 or BDF3 will finally get things working better. Until then I'm still more than ok on drums. I believe it's all been done before just using different itinerations. Frankly , when I went to the Toontrack LM no one tried to sell me anything and no deals were offered from it directly. This stands in contrast to so many other LM systems that at the very least throw a carrot or two out there. The EZ Drummer 3 update isn't even mentioned. If you missed the email *was going to add a shrug emoji here but there isn't one* I see ways to make the whole process more interesting, especially for a drummer who knows their stuff. I watched a video yesterday where someone took a ST4 multi and tied midi channels to it to build a drum kit. This is something i had never thought of before. Not sure why, because it is done in Kontakt all the time, however ST4 includes one killer Neil Pert kit among others. Break it up. Use some of that and some of a kit in Kontakt or load up different kits in UNIFY...or...or....or I guess this is what most want to get away from. There are many ways of working drums into a mix, and the kicker is ( no pun intended...well ok if it works maybe)..... The KICKER is - I could take a recording of me hitting the bottom of a cardboard box, sample it, drop it into a track with something like boz sasquatch kick machine and have everyone believing I sampled a real kick. You know, the stuff that shakes headliners in tricked Toyotas loose in LA. BOOM!

Probably depends on the velocity setting.

I think so but you know how birds are. They aren't very loud.

I think he has a good point. I've heard plenty of fake farts that sound fake like someone blowing their mouth on their arm.. We need real fart sounds. I'm sure a few here can pull it off convincingly.

A fresh set of batteries in a tens turned all the way up. I can smell burning flesh but it feels good.

NagBap 2.0. Is that your second wife? I'll get me coat.

Most drum programs will allow dragging of the midi part into a midi track in Cakewalk, same as you may have done with the drums in Komplete. Changing bass shouldn't be an issue once in a midi track unless the bass is mapped weird. Simply copy the midi into MODO bass track. Click Ctrl and drag it over. If the grid is different you can CTRL +A the whole thing and move it all around or just what you think needs to be moved. Cakewalk's piano roll is great for that when expanded. Superimposing both the bass and the drum track over each other in the PR lets you line it all up. The articulations are usually mapped to keys on the keyboard. Find them on the PR, write them in and you are in business.