Jerry Gerber

Thank you Martin, very glad to hear you enjoyed the piece! Best, Jerry

The title of this new music video suggests that there may exist consciousness outside of time. We have glimpses of it in our dream life, and in those somewhat rare experiences of "Deja vu". People who report NDEs (near death experiences) often allude to a similar sense--time as we know it has disappeared or taken on an entirely new meaning. PLAY

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Thanks Chaps! No orchestra for me. Getting a work like this played will take more time and effort than writing and producing it. I'll leave that to other composers to pursue. I am satisfied working in the digital medium. Best, Jerry

Well, here I am, 73 years old and I had no idea whether I'd make it to my 13th symphony. The main themes, introduced in the upper and lower strings, permeate the entire movement, with a few "off-road" transitions. Growing old has its challenges and rewards, no doubt. Maybe I'll be lucky and get the other 3 movements done as well. Produced, as all my music is, in Cakewalk.. Symphony #13, 1st movement (open score in new tab, the usual method of automatically opening a new tab isn't working right now)

I finally found the problem and resolved it. Thanks Starship Krupa for steering me in the right direction. The VSL library comes with what's called the Directory Manager. In this utility, is a setting called "Pre-Load", which allows you to choose how many samples from each sample set (i.e. brass samples, string samples, etc., whatever samples you've installed on your machine) you want to load at start-up. At some point long ago I may have changed each sample set to 2048 samples. I forgot about this setting. and had never thought to change this. When I changed every sample set to load 8192 samples, the problem I explained above disappeared. I still have over 19GB of free RAM. If you ever run across the same problem, consider looking at how many samples are being loaded into memory at startup. Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

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Thanks, I appreciate the offer. I want to first talk to Leandra (the singer) to see what she thinks. Personally I don't think it's a problem at all but I don't want others to think it is if it detracts from the piece. On the other hand, my critics are going to be my critics no matter what I do, so there's that to consider!

Hi Bjorn, New technology is making astrophotography a bit easier. The most difficult challenge I faced are the sky conditions where I live in San Francisco, California. Nearly constant fog and wind (I don't live far from the coast) became very discouraging. So I put my 130mm refractor at a dark sky site in New Mexico, about 900 miles from where I live and I control everything now remotely by computer. I don't have to carry equipment and set up every time I image, it's all ready to go on a permanent pier. Glad you enjoyed the piece! Jerry

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