Byron Dickens

I just don't get it.  If I want to look at something pretty, I have a wife and 2 acres in the country.

1 hour ago, Tim Godfrey said:

I've been using Cakewalk since it was a DOS program from Twelve Tone Systems. 

I purchased the "lifetime updates" for Sonar before Cakewalk went under. 

Now it appears that I am losing the right to keep using CWB in its current form.  I'm fine with offering "extras" for a price, but taking away what has been paid for by many of is is totally unacceptable. 

I am not interested in subscription software. Period.  I'll pay for upgrade when they make sense, but I expect to be able to use software I purchase for as long as I wish.

If there is no option for perpetual license for the new Sonar, I suppose I'll have to uninstall CWB and go back to my original Sonar Platinum. That has all the features I need. 

Are there any other options? 

 

There's only about 852,693 threads on this. 

On 8/5/2025 at 9:10 AM, Bass Guitar said:

Yep. W7 holdouts are now left behind. Not much will work anymore. I have a 2008 Sony laptop with W7. It only works with hardware and software that was produced 10 or more years ago. 
The good news is Sonar Platinum will run just fine. 

Coulda told them that was going to happen 

Trio Mandili - Psalm 50

These girls are known for singing cute, happy Eastern European folk songs while walking in and around their little village in Georgia (the country). Here they take a more somber turn chanting David's most famous penitential Psalm.  You're likely more familiar with it as #51 because there is different divisions and numbering between the Greek Septuagint and the Hebrew Masoreric texts. 

On 8/8/2025 at 5:10 AM, T Boog said:

 

 I always considered that record the definitive example for "overproduced."  To this day I think "What would Mutt Lange do here if this was a Def Leppard record" and do the opposite.

I just lay it out in the PRV.

I wish they would make it so you can filter out the stuff you don't have and show only what you do.

I have scads of stuff in Amplitube, for example, that I got either dirt cheap or free that I scroll through periodically and I always come back to the Marshall JMP model. 

As long as it has all of the MIDI editing capabilities, I'm good. 

From what I have read and experienced, noise removal is best accomplished in multiple subtle passes instead of trying to do it all at once. Even better is doing it with several different tools. Also, it is always better to do too little than too much. 

6 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

Only "now"?  When did it change?   

Well now they don't even try to hide it. It's just open and brazen.

8 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

They are megalomaniacs.  I think in the not so distant past Google (or facebook) bought a load of land in America and wanted to build their own smart city that had it's own laws which had nothing to do with the government, they didn't get the go ahead, but I'm sure they will try again in the future.

And we now have a government that doesn't care about the law so its pretty much the same thing.

Must not have been that important....

HAL sounds kinda monotone.

Lossless Cut for the win. That's it's whole purpose.

Shotcut is a free NLE for video that is not nearly as resource intensive as DaVinci Resolve (nor, of course, as powerful)

I still use my Korg X3.

On 2/2/2025 at 9:10 AM, bitflipper said:

Could it be that the secret to happiness always expecting the worst so that you can be pleasantly surprised? 

Keeping your expectations low makes them way easier to meet. 

Hell is other people.

  - Jean-Paul Sartre

It sounds like your BIAB  project used Real Tracks, which are audio recordings, not MIDI so you are stuck with what you got.

I talked myself into two different jobs when I knew better. 

On 1/25/2025 at 4:40 AM, Kris Vango said:

This is because apps want to ping to your phone and gather data on your location and then sell that data off to make more profit. And why many are demanding this use. Do not be naive. Push back. Also it means that ifg you lose your phone you lose your access to all your banking, soundcloud etc. So it is a terrible idea. We must push back against this. Demand they remove it and that it is a opt in only option. To force this on consumers is absolutely unethical . I travel a lot and 2FA is the bane of my existence and having to install and remove mutliple sim cards to get into accounts and pay bills. It is a *****ing mess. I have never had any cyber threat and until i do, i do not require any further applications forced onto me under the guise of "safety and security" as soon as i hear those terms, i know something dark is going on. 

It didn't used to be like that. I have seen many times the suggestion of getting a cheap prepaid and using it for 2fa and nothing else.

I use my Korg X3 all the time.

Ear training.