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5 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

And I'm binging The Office again. I managed the facilities dept at the Starbucks Corp office in Seattle from '04 to '10. I didn't start out as their boss, but as one of them. I rose up and a few hated me for it but I had always hated them from the start because from day one they were always less than welcoming. There were several legacy folk there who reminded me of that stereotypical middle to upper aged territorial single woman who's lived in the apartment building you just moved into for over a decade and a half and she comes down huffing and puffing at your front door at the slightest bit of noise you've made. And my boss Tom.. now there was a wall to wall pos. Tom was this Go Lean bird seed eatin type of passively disdainful boss who you'd be in his good graces one moment and then for no apparent reason one day you'd just randomly fall out of favor. 10 years later and I still think about Tom, and how one day when he was out of the office I ran Dban on his PC just long enough to f up his hard drive so that when he came back to work the next day he got the BSOD and all of his work = gone. I droned long and hard in that office and I thought I was gonna die there. And I still have dreams about that job; a recurring dream where I keep getting fired from it in different ways. Last Sunday I moved into an artist loft in downtown Seattle that took 6 years to get into. I'm beginning a new chapter that may have happy ending but is beginning with a storm. 

Thanks for sharing a glimpse of what's happening with you and a little brief history besides. Best to you on the new endeavor. Are you better off now than you were 10 years ago? The same? Worse?

I can relate. I don't know exactly how I ended up where I ended up or why. I tried to be somewhere else. I never pictured this as being "it". I guess this is it. I was looking for an opportunity and a way to make it. Not make it big, just make it and get by comfortably. I managed to do it in a very uncommon way. It isn't a career in music but I am able to play and I guess that's enough for me.

As a good friend of mine once said, I'm not hot, I'm not cold, I'm not hungry, I'm healthy. I'm ok.

That's probably because she lacks the common support system. ? The strap thingy that holds them up. In her case that would be a three person tent.

She looks as if she could feed half of Rhode Island IMO. Just thinking out loud. Maybe I shouldn't do that.?

I'll never think of a Mac Mini in the same way ever again.?

19 minutes ago, craigb said:

Her getting two black eyes has a higher probability I would think...

Yes she looks like she has already been running a bit. Someone get that poor lady some counter weights.

12 minutes ago, craigb said:

Yes!!!  All of those smoking hazards are exactly why I only smoke crack and inject heroin while with my Jack Daniels!  ?

Well..................just look at the Rolling Stones. When they die I doubt they will need any sort of preservation. No intelligent germ would come within 50ft of the body. 

The only side effect is you look like a cross between a human raisin and shoe leather..

On 5/18/2020 at 11:21 PM, Larry Jones said:

I've only scored one 30 minute film in Cakewalk, but I can confirm all your problems and frustrations. I tried converting to a couple of different video formats (in Vegas) and ended up creating an .avi file. This worked, but of course it had to be converted back to a .mov at the end. 

I think any DAW worth the name has to be able to do film scoring. But having a video track that won't accept modern formats doesn't make sense to me.

I can also confirm this. Since .mov files are really an apple extension not all windows programs accept it. I suspect because Cubase is cross platform they somehow made it work on Windows computers. .mov is also a common Cannon extension. I found it frustrating early on in trying to find something that would import it from my cameras and also allow me to mix the audio in a DAW. Probably the most advanced video platform in a DAW besides Cubase for windows is Mixcraft. It has decent basic editing features but again no .mov. files accepted.  Vegas has been hit or miss for me. Glitchy to say the least. The advanced version of Vegas  accepts .mov. I only have the  Vegas Movie Maker version 16. The other Magix program Movie Edit Pro Plus at 69.95 accepts .mov files and is a great editing program. This is what I ended up buying to edit .mov files although it isn't a DAW .

I hate to say it, but Cubase looks better if you already have that program. Not sure how much video editing you have done, but computer video spec will come into play here in a big way. If under spec. the process won't be smooth.

6 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

No!  The pups make whoopie to each other ?

 I preferred not to let my imagination go that far.?

1 hour ago, kennywtelejazz said:

.not Charlie the tuna type quality ?

Yeah, I'm not sure how far we really want to push the bizarre threshold.

Second thought...go ahead. If you want to. 

I can't promise you I'll look. Maybe you could slide us a pre warning, pre cautionary pre conditioning warm up if you ever do that. At least I can prepare my eyes and take a drink first.

It's kinda tough to go from zero to immediate trip all of a sudden. I intend to come out of the rabbit hole.?

When she runs down the road the puppies fight each other.

11 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Got some good news today...according to the government, I am not elderly! Woo hoo!

Because of that, my check was for the lowest amount possible. My 19-year-old grandson got more. Me, I fall into the freewheelin' single-guy category. They know I'd just blow it all on beer and pizza.

In other good news, apparently cannabis prevents COVID-19. No kidding.

That's a bummer about the check. I don't personally do the cannabis, but I have acquaintances who do. The one thing I've learned about it that I have personally seen is if you don't use a good filter you put yourself at risk for other serious issues. It's like smoking a rolled cigarette without filters. Case in point, a young guy under 30. The son of another person I know did a lot of it and contracted lung cancer. The synthesized cannabis is especially bad. That's bad for other reasons. I'm no authority on this stuff. I have seen this first hand.

Maybe you remember the vaping issues that were found right before everyone 's attention was drawn to the  C virus.  This is another thing that was happening. You probably don't vape, but for anyone who does, there were very young people admitted to the hospital with serious lung complications because some of the fluid they were using.

13 hours ago, Sheens said:

This is the new C virus way. No germs.

Well. I'm still looking for pictures. Will we ever see the new  Bitflipper??

craigb. PLEASE. No pictures of you with no pants!  Can you imagine what Kenny could do with those?  Might need a little help in that dept. *ahem*. I really don't need to know. 

A bass player that buys EZ bass. Now I've seen everything.

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I'm just trying to fit in wit da homies.

My pants were shrinking before the quarantine. They will soon call me Dunlap. Dunlapped over the belt.

I did loose some serious weight last evening though. Something didn't agree with me about 2 in the morning. I know what it was.

Trying to stay healthy I had a health shake. It was healthy alright. I probably stopped up the local waste water facility. I seriously didn't believe that much could come out of a man all at once. TMI? A two flusher? H** I needed a dump truck. They called the priest thinking it was a demon possession.

Poor Linus.

Where can I get some of that?  I wouldn't be taking any of it just curious what it is?

Thanks Notes. I guess everything is relative. We are all distant relatives, but that's another story. 

People were at that very moment lying in hospital beds in induced comas. I had a good day. 

This is going to sound crazy, but I think I've already had it but it didn't affect me in a serious way. I say this because I was hacking and coughing with breathing issues for a month right before the C virus was known .  The next week we were all working from home and I found out one of my coworkers had it and had to be hospitalized.  We were talking face to face within a few feet of one another before he went in. If it's that contagious I would have had it. They had to disinfect the building I work in. As a reference, a couple we know, the husband caught it and was so bad he was in the IU for three weeks. They didn't expect him to live. He finally pulled out of it thankfully.  His wife, who slept right by him every night was a carrier but never really seriously had the virus. I think this was me. Though enough time has lapsed that I would no longer be a carrier. I still wear the mask. I could be wrong. I'm not a doc, but I have a gut feeling I had it because of the timing.

Interesting connections to Lynx.

I had to imagine what it was like naming both products, " What shall we call this deodorant?" Marketing rep shrugs shoulders, " I dunno". "Have you ever smelled a Lynx?" 

"Well no I can't say that I have. Why? What does this have to do with eliminating smelly armpits from the earth or Lynx-es?" "What do we know of these creatures? "  Pardon me Craig, my punctuation is probably off slightly. I hope yo can ignore it. I wasn't so good in English class.

Assistant- "They are furry maybe more like a fuzzy kind of furry and they look like a big cat with pointy ears. They eat other wildlife, probably armpits and all."

"Hmmmmm    I like the sound of that name though." "Lynx eliminates the stinks".  " You know what we should do?"  " No oh great lard butt one  what?" 

"I don't know , I'm asking you".

"OH"

"Let's call it Lynx. Sounds suave. Sort of like naming a car after a Jaguar only this is deodorant, we know that." " None really knows what a Lynx smells like, so we can't be sued for false advertisement." 

Atari Lynx. That's easy. You may call a video game anything you want to call it.  Gameboy did a lot better at the time mainly because of the larger marketing budget. 

12 hours ago, craigb said:

Sorry Craig, I'll have to check my pics more closely next time.

Maybe turn the photo in the frame. Use a level on it? 

What bothers me is  then it wouldn't  be an accurate representation. I'm going to  need a few shovels and some work permits. Digging under the high side should do the trick. 

11 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

A lot of it has to do with the major influx of people that actually use a laptop for the majority of their work (many of which are not even recording instruments or vocals with regularity).  

I prefer the traditional full blown computer setup.  But will admit that my mobile rig is nice that I can go record something and then dock it at home with multiple monitors, USBs, Interface, etc  Without having to transfer files.    With the move to make shift studios and recordings at home instead of always in a real studio, having the mobile options in addition to the real full blown setup at home is really common place.    

I might be working on one project, then need to leave for a mobile session   recording.     Time is valuabe to the pro and non-pro.    

There is also the issue if something goes wrong.  With one seat you are screwed if you HD dies  or that USB stick it was tied to dies.    My experience with WAVES support (and others) means I'm not back up and running in minutes, it could be days or weeks.    With a couple seats, you can move things around if one machine/method just dies.

Points all well made Brian.

I bought the laptop thinking I would use it more. I just haven't. Right now it's loaned out to a friend who's laptop went down until they can get their laptop fixed. I use a portable handheld if I go out to get say nature recordings or similar. This is the nice thing about it. We aren't boxed into any one system. I like the Waves idea for people like you.

Scook is the fastest draw in the west.

13 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

It is super common to have more than one machine.  When I'm using the laptop, I don't have "free" USB ports to give up, and transfering from USB and ilok to the local machine to use is really annoying for a product I purchased.  Certianly can't give up 1 port let alone 2 since these VSTs have different authorization needs.  Heaven help you if you also use something like Reason with yet another stick.    ?

I use way more than 2 computers, but I also know I'm in the minority on that front.    

Brian I guess I run In different circles. I don't do this for a living. I work in automation which isn't related at all to DAWS. I take my work out sometimes on a laptop for live shows. I guess my exposure is limited. I have a tough time finding the time to track on my one studio DAW. ? Maybe I need to "get out" more.

I don't remember there being a huge collection of the 3rd party plugins written for the PC. Judging from descriptions I've heard it's basically a normal vst with a different wrapper for the PC. Important considerations would be making the GUI small enough to fit into the PC and still be operational. Cakewalk are definitely onto something with regard to the workflow improvements if one only wanted to lean heavily on the PC as a one stop fx area.. The benefit being the toolkit is readily available in one open window. You can't do that stacking vst up in the fx bin. I liked the way automation was so closely tied to plug ins in the PC as well.

Without a doubt we have people here who could make these additions using standard vsts. Making a vst bin in the PC is somewhat helpful. It is more advantageous  to integrate the PC with PC written plugins IMHO. Anyone care to give this a try?

Maybe more people than I realized move between two computers often? I didn't see this being a widespread thing. It's wasted on me. I have a laptop for anything I don't do in the studio. If I need it, I grab the usb out of my desktop which is almost never. 

For me, it's  a nice addition to the WUP "just in case". I will probably never use it. I don't begrudge Waves. This appears to be another way to persuade people to upgrade their WUP since this doesn't go backward to older licenses as far as I know.

Overall I think they are a good company who make good plugins. You need ilok to use. I had best luck using the hardware iLok. Cloud was slow for me.

I made the false assumption that the HD version was somehow better. Not so. The difference between native and HD is "AAX HD" a PT format.

 AAX HD versions will work in  FOH   mixers with compatible OS or standard Pro Tools HD DAW applications. This is  Pro Tools related. Many developers such as Softube and Izotope have dropped support for it.

The native version of the plugin also has AAX as a choice upon download, so it should still run in any application that uses AAX. For Cakewalk all you need is VST.