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That's Tracy Collins, the developer, playing those demos. He's got a knack for making virtual instruments sound good in performance. Yeh, this one's gonna be added to my already-expansive Indiginus collection. I feel a new genre coming on...

This appears to be the exact same model I grew up with! Oh, how I abused that thing. When I was 19 I decided to turn it into a tack piano, painstakingly inserting brass tacks into each hammer. Then I attached large paper clips to the felt bar that comes down between the hammer and strings when you press the "soft" pedal. My idea was that I could switch between normal and tack via the pedal. That didn't work well, and the soft pedal never sounded right afterward. Coincidentally, my mother stopped playing piano around that time (it was her piano). My 19-year-old brain could not comprehend that it might be because I'd destroyed her instrument. And I can relate to learning to tune a piano - I thought it would be easy: just tune it like a guitar, going around the circle of fifths. Um, nope. By the time you come back around it's out of tune. I also learned that every time you move a piano you have to retune it. Because the piano was lightweight (relatively speaking) and could be moved by just two people, I had the idea of dragging it on stage. This was in the early 70's; there was no credible electronic equivalent to an acoustic piano back then. Well, I figured out why the only bands that used real pianos on stage were the ones wealthy enough to afford having them professionally moved and tuned for each performance. Having a portable "real" piano would be my holy grail for 30 years, when I got my Yamaha MO8. Totally agree with the premise of this thread. Sitting down at my piano is like a writer sitting at a typewriter with a blank sheet of paper. No inspiration from some cool-sounding sample library or synth, it's about creating something from scratch every time.

What does Fender's marketing department know that we don't? Are there legions of little girls dreaming of becoming guitarists? If true, that would be a very positive thing.

This is a really good delay. Anyone remember all the flak Boz got when he debuted it at 200 bucks? Yeh, he'd gotten some bad advice back then, and yes, it was not price-competitive and didn't sell well. Which overshadowed the fact that it really is a very good delay plugin (I love it on vocals in particular). I'd advise anyone to grab it for 9 stinkin' bucks!

Open Task Manager and see if an instance of Sonar is running in the background. If there is, kill it. Or reboot your computer.

Thanks for reminding me that I'd promised in my OP to report back on how they're working out. Pretty well, actually. Solved the feedback issue on the guitarist's microphone as I'd hoped. Gorilla Glue is some pretty sticky stuff! At one point the cap on the spray can stuck to my finger and popped off. Next time I'm using latex gloves, because that stuff is really hard to wash off your hands. I was afraid to touch my keyboards for a couple days lest I transfer glue residue onto them. I put a total of 21 panels on the garage door and another 8 on some cabinet doors. That leaves 19 more to figure out what to do with. The rest of the room is already covered in 703, which leaves the door as the only bare surface left. Maybe glue some to the back of a shirt so I can walk around anechoically?

Not a bad presentation, but that was an unfortunate choice of "drum" track to demonstrate the effect. If your drums are entirely synthesized and/or sampled, and you don't like the "punch" or "vibe" or whatever, you either try different samples/patches or layer in something that will provide whatever's missing. That includes reversed samples, a nice effect that I use often - but as a dynamic accent. Automatically throwing in a reversed sample on every hit waters down the effect. I'd like to hear it with a real acoustic drum track. That's where it might be useful, since it's difficult to layer samples over human-performed drums. But even then, I'd prefer a drum substitution plugin that would let me draw upon my enormous collection of percussion samples.

Decades? So what, 2004 and earlier? Hmm. It still doesn't export .ape files.

Band practice was fun yesterday but totally wiped me out. Slept 14 hours, now hoping this large 7-11 coffee will do its magic. I'm out of coffee at home but although I can't walk around the grocery store to replenish my supply, I could handle the smaller dimensions of the corner 7-11. I used to joke about getting old. But to quote Betty White, "old age ain't for pussies".

Unfortunately, when they went in they discovered that the damage to the artery was too great for the old balloon + stent cure. It will require bypass surgery. I am such a hopeless optimist. Been so excited for this procedure since it was scheduled months ago, imagining instant relief from the pain. Instead, the old pain remains and I now that the opiates have worn off, I realize I have new pains from the two holes they punched into my crotch, plus a $220 copay as frosting on the cake. My bandmates have been supportive and sympathetic, asking if there's anything I need. My answer to each of them: I need to make some music. We're still on for rehearsal on Sunday. It's always the highlight of my week. We might not be able to gig much, but we all genuinely enjoy playing together. And with all this practice, when we do eventually get back out there, at least we're gonna be frickin' tight.

I'm off to the hospital in a few minutes for surgery. Nothing major, just a double angioplasty. In and out. Hardly anybody dies from it. I am so happy. The main arteries in my legs have collapsed, resulting in insufficient oxygen to the muscles and absolutely butt-clenching pain when I walk. The surgeon described it as "a heart attack in the legs". I've been enduring this excruciating agony since last December, when it abruptly began - at a gig, of course. So today is a big day. This has been the main reason the band has only been gigging sporadically this summer. I feel bad making the other band members lug my stuff for me. In my next life, I'm taking up the piccolo. Looking forward to good drugs and an excuse to do nothing tomorrow. Band rehearsal still scheduled for Sunday. Band rehearsals are so much fun, I'm not gonna miss out on that.

Best price I can recall ever seeing. Past sales have been $99, iirc. https://www.scuffhamamps.com/

I played in Nebraska. I can still smell that sweat-soaked uniform. One night after a game, I had an epiphany. By the time we got out of the showers and up to the gymnasium for the dance, all the girls were gathered around the stage chatting up the band. I decided then and there that trying to be a jock was waaay too much work to impress the ladies. Not when playing in a rock 'n roll band existed as an alternative.

Milton's storm surge is predicted to be 4' higher than Helene's, 8 to 12 feet. People don't survive that. Buildings don't survive that. No point boarding up the windows if the whole house is going to float away. To make matters worse, all the trash from Helene is still lying about and will become deadly projectiles now. Imagine surviving the first storm only to be smushed by a flying refrigerator two weeks later. What mystifies me is all the people who move there from New York. The most oft-cited reason: for the weather. I can't imagine hating snow that much.