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Why haven't I ever thought of that? I'm in the same area code as Microsoft, so the ruse might even seem plausible. My sympathy goes out to any actual Microsoft employees that happen to have an Indian accent. (There are many) "No, my name really is Brett and I really am in Redmond!"

One night I was scrolling through some old projects and came across one in which the strings sounded particularly good. I pulled it up to see what I had used for it, and to my surprise it wasn't any of my fancy libraries, but good ol' Dimension Pro. grannis is correct. If all you're after are subtle string pads, Kontakt is overkill. SI Strings will often do just fine, as will the strings in the TTS-1. Speaking of Spitfire, I'm really loving my latest Spitfire acquisition, Legendary Low Strings. 49 bucks, no Kontakt required, and sounds absolutely amazing.

I miss my Tranzport.

Nobody ever said the name made any sense. Maybe that was the point. How else might one describe a flanger, other than "flanger"? I can't think of any cleverer names. D16's "Antresol" is a pretty good name, even if it does sound like a prescription drug that should be accompanied by a warning about operating machinery while taking Antresol. btw, this is a very nice-sounding effect that everyone absolutely should grab.

For those not old enough to get the reference...

The neuropathy isn't necessarily forever, either. Contrary to what we used to believe, nerves do eventually self-repair. 15 years ago, the only sensation in my feet was of being cold. I am happy to report that now if I step on a nail it once again hurts like hell. Progress!

I, for one, would not drink green water.

Just as an aside, there is no good reason to oversample a delay.

This has been a mystery to me since BandLab took over Cakewalk. You'd think they'd be looking for ways to make money off their now-free product. As a standalone VST, it's not tied specifically to Cakewalk. It also happens to be one of the best LA-2A emulations around. I really expected to see several Cakewalk products offered for sale, such the Adaptive Limiter, which is also very good. At first I wondered if it's because CA-2A had been licensed from a third party, but that seems unlikely. The DLL properties say "Copyright 2016 Cakewalk Inc.". When BandLab bought Cakewalk's assets, my understanding is that included all of Cakewalk's intellectual property. That in itself does not definitely prove Cakewalk owned it outright, though. It could still rely on some licensed library. But looking at the DLL's dependencies, I see nothing listed beyond standard Windows files and the C++ runtime. No obvious third-party components. Even if it had been developed by a contracted third party like, say, Rapture, I'd think that any ongoing revenue sharing agreement could be revived. But I have asked Noel about it in the past, and all he'd say is that it was developed in-house. So it remains a mystery as to why this great and potentially lucrative plugin hasn't been made available for sale again. But I'm guessing it is not a technical issue.

Those crazy bills are based on "demand pricing". I think we can assume Bill has been demanding some electricity, no?

Does the problem persist if you substitute a different delay?

I feel that way by 6:00 AM. Most mornings I'm up at 4:00, for no particular reason. Well, actually tbh it's because I have a self-imposed rule of no cannabis until an hour before bedtime. So bedtime has been coming earlier and earlier.

My home page says 371,592 trackers and ads blocked, 5.2 hours time saved. But they could be just making that up. It's not like I've been keeping track. A more useful metric would be how many hours I've wasted watching cat videos.

No such thing as a "hot water heater". If the water's already hot there's no need to heat it. It's just "water heater". Got your utility bill yet, bb? We've been hearing horror stories about $10,000 electricity bills.

I've had some time to play with Legendary Low Strings. Didn't take long to figure it out, as it's one of those one-trick libraries that just sounds great with zero effort. And golly, does it sound good. We're talking animated Disney princess-movie good.

Oh, there are still plenty of remote, unincorporated spots to build your house without gummint interference. When the Nazis moved out they left behind some verdant, low-tax, isolated properties. At least, I think they've gone. But then that's what they'd want you to think.

The only way I'll ever beat you to the punch is if I start checking my emails more than twice a week.

You're on! I've seen a number of Pacific sunsets from the Oregon coast, mostly from Yachats, where my daughter's in-laws had a place. Also spent time in Newport, when we felt like enjoying big-city amenities such as the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum. Lots of talk here about places we'd rather live. But I've travelled pretty extensively, lived in Europe and in every corner of the U.S., have a tropical island home in the Philippines, and still haven't found anywhere that suits me better overall than the Pacific Northwest.

I have longtime roots in Sandpoint. My grandparents settled on a couple hundred acres there in 1949, and it was the first destination of my life at 2 months of age. At 13, I spent a summer there logging with my grandfather. Mom 'n Dad bought a couple acres with a cabin on the lake in the 60's and it was our annual summer destination growing up. Lost my virginity in those woods (not a joke). My folks built a rammed-earth house there in the 90's, but we had to sell it when Mom died and Dad got dementia. So yeh, lots of fond memories there. But I am genuinely sad to report that Sandpoint ain't what it used to be. It has traffic lights now, and the traffic to go with them. It's become San Francisco of the north. The local government has been infested with California refugees with their big-city ideas about zoning rules and such. No more building your own log cabin without a permit. Lots of music still happening, though.

Do you love epic cellos and basses, but your own recordings seem a little limp compared to what you heard in your head? This is Viagra for your celli. $49 bucks and no Kontakt required. Abbey Road One: Legendary Low Strings I bought it immediately on the strength of the demos. That, and well, it's Spitfire. Currently waiting on the download, will report back when I've actually had hands on it.

Yup, Cakewalk has always been very good about backward compatibility. I once successfully loaded a dozen Cakewalk 1.0 projects dating back to 1986 into SONAR 8.5. The hardest part was finding a floppy drive. But those were all MIDI. Where you're likely to run into a snag is with old plugins you no longer have. Not a showstopper, though, unless they're virtual instruments.

A $4,000 microphone won't make you sound like you have a $4,000 voice. If anything, it'll amplify your flaws. I reckon my voice is worth about $300, tops, which is why I use an inexpensive AKG handheld and reserve my expensive mics for things that warrant the extra detail.

Nah, only about 17 years. My sig is the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem. I adopted it after a longwinded online argument over sample rates. It means you can argue about just about everything else, but the math isn't a matter of opinion.

Sadly, I've never been able to get my old DOS games to work properly within a modern command prompt. I'd love to see Redneck Rampage or Shadow Warrior again.

Many of the games I've gotten the most mileage out of weren't graphically impressive. Games are about gaming first, visuals second. Civilization was a favorite for a very long time. That said, the first game I ran with my new video card was Assassin's Creed Valhalla and it's a marvel to behold with all the graphic options turned up to the max. The first day I was playing it, I was engrossed and didn't notice my son-in-law had come into the room. Then behind me I heard "holy crap, it's like watching a movie!" Yeh, except you don't get to personally decapitate anyone in the movie theater. Not if you ever want to come back, anyway.