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How about "crushes sibilance like a dancer's thighs"? Or, "crushes sibilance like the dreams of a failing rock star"? ...crushes sibilance like a cartoon piano.

Waves needs your help, antler. How would you fill in the blank - "crushes sibilance like ________"?

I informed my grandson (20) that I shared a birthday with Sting. His response: "who's that?". But when I reminded him of Eddie Murphy singing "Roxanne" in Beverly Hills Cop, he showed some recognition. Yeh, Sting wrote that, I said.

I only know this because I thought it would be interesting to see what was going on the day I was born. Based on the search results, Google concludes that only one thing of any importance happened on October 2nd, 1951. That's how I found out that Sting and I were born hours apart. That's also when I knew conclusively that there is absolutely no validity to astrology.

Glad to hear it, Billy. Best thing about articulation maps is they encourage you to use more - and more varied - articulations, which in turn makes for more sonically interesting music. If only they existed in real life, e.g. the ability to drag in a bar that says "exercise".

Only the good ones. I've had a few that would be dangerous in anybody's hands. Some went straight into the bitbucket.

If I want a delay, I buy a "Delay". If I want a reverb I buy a "Reverb". Perhaps the product would be more popular if it wasn't named "Sibilance". Which, not to brag or anything but I already get for free. Came with the microphone.

I still follow the cardinal rule that I learned while using V-Vocal: listen to it first and if it doesn't sound wrong, leave it the f*ck alone, regardless of what it looks like.

I see what you did there, Sonny.

Of course, that wouldn't fly nowadays. Now, I'd have to take a screenshot of page 37, circle the keywords and accompany it with a cute meme.

I used to write manuals. With great care, too, despite knowing that no one would ever read them. But it saved me from much aggravation, because even though I'd still have to repeatedly explain the same thing over and over, I could now do it in shorthand, e.g. "see page 37".

Wait...Reddit has a search feature? What happens if you type in "angry post"? Does that narrow it down any?

As everyone should. As everyone should.

So when he was young, then. Creative people are doomed to remain creative their entire lives. However, one's focus does shift over time as we move from inventing wheels to refining the implementation, style and manufacture of said wheels.

Kurre, your post made me chuckle but we oughta lighten up a bit. The OP is brand-new to this stuff and unaware that there are lots of free instruments out there that you might have to do a little research to find. Every noob embarrasses himself by asking questions that have already been answered many times before. That's part of the feet-wetting process. If you don't remember ever doing that yourself, then your memory is failing. Gingko Biloba is supposed to help with that. SKATOR, start with Michael's link. That should keep you busy for awhile.

Adam Neely tongue-in-cheek demonstration of why Melodyne is dangerous in the wrong hands.

I totally forgot that it was Tracy who did all the scripting for that library. And yeh, it's a good one. In fact, it's become my go-to orchestral library, despite having a plethora of much more expensive ones on hand. Btw, my hot tip of the week: run The Fiddle through some light distortion, a chorus and delay. Juicy goodness.

Yikes. I guess I was so proud about knowing my blood type that I missed the questions about gullibility and forgetfulness.

Holy crap, antler. Where did that come from? It's a joke, right?

Maybe, just a little. I'm currently building an Access db to manage my band's song list and generate set lists. That might seem like overkill, but there are just too many factors to consider when I make up sets for a gig. It's mostly about planning ahead for minimal dead air between songs, while tailoring the playlist to the venue. The guitarist switches between three guitars, so I try to minimize the changes between songs. One of them is a double-neck that pains his back if he plays it for too many consecutive songs, so I have to disperse them throughout the set. The sax player switches between alto and tenor, so I can't put two songs back-to-back that require a switch if he's playing from the start. The singer has some top-of-her-range screamers, so I can't follow one of them with a mellow ballad. Same for me; I have some vocals that I have to sneak up on, so it's best if they're in the last two sets. Sometimes I have some setup to do on my keyboard and/or mixer (which I run from the stage, being the only band member who can temporarily play with one hand). Some songs are showy but not friendly to dancers, so they're best used as set openers. Some high-energy songs exist solely to entice dancers, and many of them are reserved as set closers. Some venues don't want slow songs while other places demand more of them. Either way, I have to consider how the dynamics flow, treating each set as an album. And then there are the new tunes that we're still a little shaky on - those have to happen after the audience has had time to get drunk. I'm putting all those factors into the database. That's the easy part. The hard part will be writing the algorithm that sequences them.

Good to know I'm not alone. Buying CDs, that is. I don't actually listen to CDs anymore. Don't even own a working player. But second-hand CDs are often cheaper than an MP3 download, and you have a hard-copy backup should you ever lose your ripped files. Plus if you rip them to FLAC, the quality is slightly better than a 256kb/s MP3. Good idea putting them into a database. I should do that with my vast collection of DVDs, which numbers in the thousands. But I'm too lazy to even put them all into wallets, much less catalogue them.

Fluid Pitch. I just bought it for $34.40 using the discount code FALL30. Such a deal. Now, I should have been suspicious when I went to create an account and it told me my email address had already been used. Undeterred, I placed the order anyway. Turns out, I'd already purchased the product - earlier this month! Don't you just hate when that happens? If you don't know what this plugin does:

What a terrible name for such a great product. Usually when I receive a link to a "media kit" in an email, it's a press release. I let it sit in my inbox for a few days for that reason, before realizing "oh, wait; it's Spitfire, better have a look".

Good one, Simeon. You're almost as good at faux-guitar playing on a keyboard as Tracy himself. Better singer, though. I once spent a wonderful afternoon hanging out with Tracy down in Anaheim. It was his first time at NAMM and he didn't have a team of assistants to man the booth, so it was just him and his delightful wife Brenda. Wanting to be helpful, I gave some enthusiastic - if unsolicited - product demonstrations to passers-by. Don't know if I helped them sell anything that day, but it was sure fun for me.

A game I play when watching old performances is identifying all the now-vintage instruments in use. Here we have the unique Yamaha CP-80 , an electric piano that had real piano strings inside, and an Oberheim OB-X - the rarely-seen 8-voice, split keyboard version that would have been the latest in cutting-edge tech in 1982.