Shane_B.

The first song I learned to play without having my Complete Beatles book in front of me for the chords was Misery by the Beatles. The first solo I learned to play was Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain by Willie Nelson. That was the song that changed my life. The very first time I heard the needle set down on the record player at home and I heard him do his trademark hammer from the A to B note, it triggered something in me as a child and I've had a guitar in my hands almost every single day since. I used to sneak in to my brother's bedroom and practice on his guitar, but it didn't feel right. He plays right handed, and I'm right handed, but I cannot play guitar right handed. So I learned to play backwards on his right handed Ovation until he caught me and got mad. He bought me a an actual left handed guitar for my birthday that year and I had to relearn playing all over again with the low E on top. But Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain did something to me. It triggered something in my brain as a child and I've had music running in my head 24/7 ever since. The flip side of the 45 was Remember Me. Both of those songs are very old. His versions were remakes and he left a verse out in Blue Eyes to fit the time limit back then and add a lead. I can play that lead note for note with his slides and all. You can't hear me playing along I can emulate it so closely. We just blend together. If you listen really close you can hear he double track the first few notes, but only those. If I had to guess, I'd have to say he did multiple takes and left those first few notes as timing markers? I don't know, but I always thought it was odd that just the first few notes were double tracked. I have about 15 different versions of Blue Eyes. Conway Twitty,, Hank Sr., Marvin Rainwater, Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, just to name a few. That album was very well recorded. All of his recordings sound really good even if you don't like his music. I still have the very first recording I ever made. 12 year old me playing and singing Bungalo Bill and Strawberry Fields Forever. Fake British accent and all. Sorry if there are a lot of typos. On my cell and the screen is cracked and changes stuff I type and I don't have my glasses. Lol.

I just listened to it. I have a dumb question. Is that an AI generated voice, or is that a real person singing lyrics that AI wrote? If that's AI singing, then honestly, music is over. There's no need to bother anymore except as a hobby you enjoy. It's incredible, frightening, and depressing, all at the same time. That said, I have an instrumental song I wrote and recorded I'd love to run through that to see what it comes up with. But I don't have a clue where to start.

Yeah, I feel the same way. And he wasn't exactly truthful with this video. It kind of came off like he was making up problems just to turn around and say they were all gone by buying a pre-built daw from the place he was advertising for. That said, I think buying a pre-built is a great idea and there's nothing wrong with doing that, but he wasn't exactly honest about all the issues he claimed he had over the years and how hard it is to resolve them.

My PC was running sluggish so I checked for background updates. They usually slow it down. In the Update section under Settings there is now a link to enroll in security updates to extend the "safety" of Windows 10. I clicked on Enroll and it said because I've backed up my Windows settings I am eligible for free enrollment. I didn't know I backed up my settings, but I do have the Pro version of Win 10 that I paid a lot of money for a license for. Maybe that's the difference. I don't know. Maybe they charge to enroll for the Home version and not the Pro version? That's a relief. It says it's good for a year while I decide what PC I want to upgrade to. Lol. Edit: My PC was very sluggish. When I checked for updates, it was up to date. After I enrolled, it's back to normal speed. Probably a coinkidink. Yeah, that's it. It was just a fluke.

Yeah, I'm not really sure where he was going with this video to be honest after I watched it a couple of times. Some of the things he was saying weren't great, were things I've been able to do for many years. For example 16ms latency. I can't ever remember a time when that was an issue with live heavily compressed and reverbed mic track and guitar track with amp sims and lots of other effects. It was only when I started to get a handful of tracks and didn't freeze them that it became an issue. I agree that it's crappy that they will no longer support W10 at all, unless you pay a fee. But I definitely know that some of the problems he was going on about are not true. And it's not as complicated to tweak a PC setup for DAW usage as he makes it out to be. My only experience with Mac was trying to set it up for network printing, scanning, email when I worked on office equipment. I went to a training class one time and the instructor was our in-house Mac guru. He spent all day trying to set up the classroom to show us how easy it was and he never could get a single piece of hardware connected. He handed us a troubleshooting manual and said good luck. If you run into any problems out in the field, call me. They sent us out to connect machines at schools, which is very complicated because we had to track what every teacher was printing, setup access codes, secured folders and more, with zero hands on. So I have very limited experience with Mac, but that did scare me away from them. I'm probably going to cave in and just pay the yearly fee for a while to keep W10 safe. I don't have the time or energy to complete the build I was planning. I got an incredible deal on the CPU and jumped on it, but prices since then have skyrocketed and it's a very bad time to build or buy a PC right now. I know some blame it on other things ... ... but I belive the rising cost is mainly due to the increase in need for people to upgrade because of w11. And don't get me started on Nvidia. Grrrr.

He uses the F word a lot, but it's kind of funny to watch. He goes on a rant about the forced upgrade to Windows 11 and DAW's. The problems he goes into detail about I have not experienced, but he does this for a living and spends far more time in front of his PC than I do. He also talks about Cakewalk a little back in the day. I can say from experience ... what he was saying about the problems he had, they weren't caused by Windows ... lol. The second half of video is an ad for the company he bought a PC from. He says he loves his Mac until he gets to his sponsor segment. Fwiw, you can keep Windows 10 going with security updates for a yearly fee for a few years. He doesn't mention that. https://youtu.be/CsymyR9GgpM?si=LVooicBEeITBzH9o

I predicted here a while ago that there would come a time when we could make our voices sound like famous entertainers within our daw with an ai type vst. We don't have that yet, but I've heard a lot of new so gs by Elvis recently done by AI. So it's here. Just a matter of time. There's a time and a place for that kind of thing, but real musicians will always be here. We'll start seeing "human" remakes of AI generated songs before long. I'm sure we already have heard that already actually. All this pop music that sounds all the same is probably ai generated and someone fleshes them out.

Oh come on man. We've all come to expect more out of you than this. With a thread title like "A Plug For A Friend", I thought for sure a pic of Ed and a strategically placed Alembic would have showed up here by now ... if only for a brief moment before it was deleted.

Thanks. It's the 2nd time this year I've had to wear it. Sorry to hear you had to wear yours too. I think what I'm going to do is hit the stores on release date. Halloween is coming up, so I may get lucky and they'll have one in stock. Best Buy has one little rack they keep them on in the back of the store. They used to have isle's and isle's of Blu-Ray's and UHD disc's, but they are online only now except for new releases. I'll try my luck there.

It was a bad weekend. The good news is, my wedding/graduation/funeral/formal occasion suit still fits. So there's that at least. Sitting at home afterwards last night I wanted to watch a movie to distract myself. I can't think of a better genre to watch after a funeral than a zombie flick. Flipping through free movies on YouTube I came across Night Of The Living Dead 1990. The Savini remake. I was thinking, man it would be really great if they gave this the royal 4K restoration treatment. To that Batcell Boy Blunder went. I did a quick search on the net and low and behold, "4k restoration including the uncut restored version with deleted scenes. Release date ... SEPTEMBER 23RD $39.99 Pre-order now at amazon, walmart, target, and other online retailers" Straight to Amazon I go. It's not even listed on Amazon. Went to Bestbuy, Walmart, Target dot coms and all the preorders were sold out and it's unavailable. I couldn't even place my order and wait. Pop on over to ebay and there they all are. You can buy them all day long. Lowest one I found was starting price ... $89 + $15 shipping. I'm all for capitalism. That said ... there really should be a limit on how many preorder people can place because this is scalping and that's not right. It's just as underhanded as daw subscriptions. There, I made it "music"related. This isn't the first time I've seen this. I've had to wait for years for some movies to drop back down to retail price. All because of the preorder situation. I suppose I'll have to cave and order one on ebay. Maybe I'll say it never arrived and get a refund from ebay and screw the seller like they're screwing me.

Speaking of plugins. I just saw Ozone is at Version 12 as of a few days ago. I'd get a good price for upgrading from 9. But, as usual the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away. I'd also have to upgrade S1 because Ozone 12 won't work with my version of S1. So now my good deal just doubled in cost.

I can't remember how many I have for certain. I think around 300? That's not counting VSTi's. I have a handful of those but not many. Mostly free stuff I found out on the net. That said, out of my roughly 300, I rarely use more than a handful. Maybe 10 different ones. Maybe. Ozone 9 Adcanced changed the way I do everything, so some of the stuff I used to used never gets touched anymore.

The real question is .... "I have 493 plugins. Guess how many I actually use.". .... Answer: 5

Yes, sorry, I was referring to Oxone 9 Advanced. I once worked for a large company that had so many abbreviations they had to put out a memo of definitions. True story.

The one I used in the 80's died. I got a replacement a few years ago on marketplace and transferred some of my old masters. I was able to use O9A to seperate some tracks, clean things up, and add to them. It was a lot of fun. One song my brother and I recorded back in the 80's and left out a key change in the song. I used O9A to correct it and you can't tell software was used. I certainly got my money's worth out of O9A imho.