Byron Dickens

Does anybody know when the looting is scheduled to start? I don't want to be late and miss out on the good stuff.

It's a PANDEMIC, ? yet more people die in automobile accidents over a long holiday weekend than have died from coronavirus so far.

Well, they do already rule over the internet....

Back to Hume's point: the fact that 99.99% of people choose not to excersise it does not mean that free will does not exist. Neither does the fact that things happen which are beyond one's control. The existentialist position is summed up as "man's existence preceeds his esscence." My cat here is a predetermined being. He is a hunter and a carnivore. He can not choose otherwise. In fact, it would be harmful to him if he could. Despite the fact that he has a ready source of food available for the taking that he need do no work for, he still exhibits predatory behavior and will still hunt down and kill things. I, on the other hand, can be a hunter or a vegan. I can even be one thing one day and another the next. If a debilitating health condition forces me to abandon a long held career, I can allow it to devastate me emotionally and psychologically or I can view it as an opportunity to grow. If the cat (assuming his natural state without the human intervening to do the deed for him) can no longer hunt, he dies. That simple. Back to Neal Peart's point: even if you do not choose to exercise your free will, that in and of itself is a choice. We really have no choice but to choose. One way or another. As Sarte put it: "man is condemned to be free."

It is serious, but good God! People are panic buying and hoarding toilet paper and ammo. Fighting over cases of pasta. So far, about 6000 people have died from it. Meanwhile, over half a million people die from the regular ol' generic flu every year. 1 1/4 million in auto accidents.

I'm holding out for Shiner Virus myself.

Hume pointed out that just because you can predict a person's actions with uncanny accuracy does not mean that he does not freely choose them. Neal Peart also pointed out that "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. "

I've had Corona before. Tastes like ammonia cleaner, which is still better than the rancid watered down piss taste of Bud Lite & the like.

I was there first!

You don't "convert MIDI to audio." MIDI is a set of instructions that tell a synthesizer, sequencer or other music machine what to do. (i.e. "play a C3 now, at a velocity of 110)

Oh yeah. Definitely work with a copy! You also can often get much better results by doing only a little bit at a time in multiple passes.

Use triggers or a higher end electronic kit & your drum sample library of choice.

I try to hate GC too, so I can hang out at the same lunch table with the popular kids. But damn it, I keep getting good customer service from them every time I go in. Bastards!

I wouldn't bother replying.

There is no such thing.

SampleTank has such. East West has some stuff too. I like the Symphonic Choir.

Have you unchecked "remove DC offset during recording" yet?

I once lost the better part of a day trying to troubleshoot distortion on some tracks I was trying to record. Finally discovered that I had somehow accidentally clicked on "remove DC offset during recording" and that was the cause. So, to the OP: uncheck that.

Try raising the buffer.

Because no delivery format is 96k.

Since you are apparently using a real interface with a real driver, you probably ought to uninstall that ASIO4ALL crap because it is usually nothing but trouble anyway.

Exactly. Weather is not the same as climate.

Yep. The polar ice caps on Mars are melting, too. But there are only two SUVs on the whole planet, and they're both solar powered.

The iRig Acoustic gizmo pretty much takes the room out of the picture but doesn't sound sterile or brittle like a pickup can.

A lot of the best music in the world is found in churches.