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I was at work yesterday and thought...Hey you idiot, you never ordered your M2 drive for audio writing... Samsung 980 Plus 2tb on the way! I have a choice of 4 SSD and 4 SATA drives or 3 SSD and 8 SATA drives... think I'll do that Bill

I could never get Soundpaint to run in Win7 even though it said it was compatible. Bill

What abacab said Bill

The 1tb for OS and programs, a 2tb for the audio disk, and the second 2tb just because They don't make SSD's large enough for my sample libraries...especially my EastWest and Kontakt stuff! Bill

I checked, some M2 mounting accessories come with my board...I'm still wondering why a thunderbolt interface doesn't come with a thunderbolt cable? Bill

Congratulations Larry! This post got me to thinking about my system...I'm still running a Win7 Ultimate PC and been thinking about updating and was talking to my gf about this post this past weekend....she gave me the greenlight so I took the ball and ran. I have many packages coming in this week starting with yesterday- Asus ProArt Z690 Creator Wifi (came yesterday) Intel i9-12900K (came yesterday) Corsair XTM50 Thermal Paste (came yesterday) Bolt Dropper PC & Standoff Screw Kit (came yesterday) MOTU MIDI Express XT USB (coming today) Many assorted audio and Midi cables (coming today) Corsair RMX 1000x Gold Modular PSU (coming today) MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Super Videocard (coming today) Samsung 980 SSD 1tb M.2 NVMe (coming today) Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (coming today) Noctua NH-U12S CPU Cooler (coming today) Thermaltake Core V71 Tempered Glass Edition E-ATX Full Tower Case (Coming tomorrow) Pioneer BDR-212V 16x Internal Blu-ray Burner (coming tomorrow) Corsair Vengeance DDR5 64GB(2x32GB) 5600MHz ram (coming Thursday...another set coming next week for a total of 128GB of ram) Thunderbolt 4 6,6ft. cable (coming Thursday) Presonus Quantum 2626 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface (coming Thursday) Going to order 2 more NVMe SSD drives soon...probably 2TB each :) Going to reuse my sata drives from the old computer for now...1TB to 4TB drives...also an external 8TB drive! Any tips on software moves? I'm not worried by the i-Lok and elic stuff...more so the machine activated stuff! I don't know about you but I'm hoping for another 10 years from this ;) Bill

...the only place I visit at these forums ? I've been working on a new album and always include a Christmas song...so anyways here's a rough mix of the new one- Christmas On the Wing Seasons greetings to all the good people here! Bill

If you're going to make music with a computer you should - 1 Have some idea how music works 2 Have some idea how a computer works If you have these basic DAW skills you're well on your way! Bill

Go to your File Explorer, then the view tab, put a checkmark in the File Extension box. Now you can see what kind of files they are Bill

Still rough but a simple revision Maidin an Fhómhair 060521 Thanks for listening! Working on the album outro today Bill

Here's a short little intro to the new album I'm working on. It'll stay a rough mix until all the material is ready to go Maidin an Fhómhair(rough mix) Enjoy, Bill

I have two subscription plans- Adobe Photography Plan(Photoshop and Lightroom for about 10.00 a month) and East West Composer Cloud Pro at 29.99 a month. One of these days I'll pick up the EW libraries I use the most(I do own EWQL Pianos, EW Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Plus, and EW Symphonic Choirs with the VOTA addon) and then drop the subscription...waiting on Opus to drop! I use software that does the year of free updates and then you need to pay a fee for another year of updates and upgrades...I get to choose when and how I spend based on my needs...if iZotope goes that way I can live with it, I just picked up MPS 4 and could probably use it for years without issue. Bill

I'm still running an iLok1 along with the e-Licenser...I've never had any trouble at all. I've had trouble with machine activations and various server problems but nothing with the dongles. Sure they can break if you treat your stuff like a 2 year old Bill

Good, I'm not the only one to get a used code I'm waiting to hear back now... On the brighter side I picked up IK Total Studio Max 2 finally...about 3 days before the new version dropped! Doh!! Bill

I never understood the dongle hate. It's nice to just plug in to one of your machines and have the software just work...and if your machine dies and you build a new one just install and go! No internet checks, no license refreshing, no annoying popups while recording, etc. Simple serial is my favorite form of authorization but after that I'll take a dongle any day over activation, deactivation, reactivation... I'm 100% Cubase Pro now...actually running v11 in Windows 7 Ultimate. I have Samplitude Pro X Suite 3 but as powerful as it is I find it awkward to use. Cubase isn't that hard to use after years of Sonar and Cakewalk usage Bill

I have a blu-ray burner for backups...you only lose if you don't plan ahead Bill

Blu-ray burner Bill

I'm running 11 in Windows 7 so I'm a rebel anyways Bill

Actually you want to buy the .5 update and hold for the .0 releases...the .5 updates are cheaper Your best bet if you pick this up is to activate and use, when 11.5 comes out buy but don't activate till 12 comes out Bill

I know they put updates on sale at times but you may have to buy the next two updates to get in "cycle" Always buy the .5 update(cheaper) and hold off activating until the next major .0 release. Steinberg gives you a license for the newest version when you activate. Bill

It's been a while so I thought I would share something from the next album I'm working on. This is a quick and dirty mix...I'll do the real thing when all the material is ready...so anyways here it is A  Murder of Crows(Demo) Enjoy, Bill

By the way, Zo...you're doing it backwards, do it Larry's way...buy the .5 updates at the lower price and install after the .0 update comes out for free Bill

Avid Control Rocks! I haven't "touched" TouchDAW since installing Control. Just follow the instructions on the Avid site Bill P.S. Cubase 11 Pro runs really good on my Windows 7 machine!

Hey guys, thanks for checking out my music! If you'd like to hear the full album or any track in it's entirety go to the link above, scroll down to the small Youtube icon. That will take you to my artist channel...then just scroll down to Albums and you can either click on the album to hear it from start to end or click on the playlist link below and that will take you to the album itself with all the song links Work doesn't give me much free time during the week so I'll be back this weekend to spend some time....lots of posts, songs, and nearly nekkid ladies to catch up on...especially the ladies Bill

Finally finished this project...material recorded in Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk, and Cubase Pro. I made a lot of mistakes during the process...hopefully different mistakes next time Fragile Magick Thanks for listening, Bill