AndyB01

All the best for a swift and full recovery Wookiee - look forward to seeing you back soon.

Wow Mark, that's one tough song to cover. I remember when this was first released, it was like nothing else around at the time and I've always really liked it. I think you nailed it, the percussion and guitar work is top notch and the backing vocals work really well. No crits on the lead vocal for me - I'm super impressed. Andy

I'm going to respectfully disagree ever so slightly with @Jim Fogle (although his comments are most definitely valid). I quite like the long intro and I also like the long pauses between phrases - but - I think it needs to build and get busier as the song progresses; then you can row it back again at the end. But hey Rex, if I could write, perform and produce a song to even ten percent of this calibre I'd be over the moon. It's a beautiful piece of work. Merry Christmas Andy

Love it Nigel - left a like and a comment on YT Brilliant song, performance and production standards as always - great job. Andy

And every year, I look forward to listening to it again. Now it's officially Christmas. Cheers Gary 🌲

The answer rather depends to whom and how you choose to distribute your files. Many special characters can be incorrectly parsed by browsers, so as a general rule I would say that if sharing content online, special characters are best avoided. That said - for local and personal file storage - you'll encounter fewer problems if you include them as part of your chosen file naming convention but it's still considered bad practice to use them. Andy

I've written more than a few technical guides in my time - kudos to the team that put this together. 👏 👏 👏 👏 Andy

Oh this is one of my favourite Beatles tracks - you did a cracking job with this Steve. Andy

Ah well, if we're talking Chopin, I'll raise you with this: Chanson de l'adieu but Nocturne is also a beautiful piece - we share excellent taste. 🙂 Andy

Can't disagree with the choice of Bridge Over Troubled Water but my top choice would be She's Always A Woman by Billy Joel. Every time I hear it played, I just have to stop and listen to remind myself what a work of sheer genius it is. Andy

The level of spam on this forum is not especially significant, the filters and mods do a pretty good job. It takes me a few seconds to report a spam post - which I typically do a couple of times a month, at most. There's always a trade off between the effort and cost required to make a site 'spam-proof' (assuming that's even possible) and a level of spam that is considered tolerable.. As @Wookiee observed - the mods do have a life outside of this forum and don't spend all their spare time on here hunting out rogue posts. We can all help by reporting swiftly when we see any - as has already been pointed out. Andy

Beautiful Daryl Season's Greetings to you and yours. Andy

Inventive use of EzKeys - I'm currently trying to do more of this (writing my own chord progressions and then applying EzKeys grooves using the replace midi function) - instead of just writing lyrics for the built-in grooves written and played by someone else - although that's been fun to do (and it worked out pretty well for Bernie Taupin). 😉😂. I'm finding Scaler pretty good for developing chord progressions I wouldn't have necessarily thought of. Nice work. Andy

Just updated today - I'm not experiencing this issue which is by no means conclusive, but suggests it may be something other than just the the patch which is causing your issue. Andy

I guess if you are a bit more demanding of your organ VST then there's always Organteq. However at €269, you have to be considerably more discerning than I am. For the absolute diehard - the husband of a friend of mine swears by Hauptwerk - a sniff at just $599 for a perp licence and add-on pack prices to melt your credit card. 😂😂 Andy