Doug Rintoul

In a sense then, all music is "World Music" since we all live in the same world. I think, in some sense anyway, World/Ethnic music has come to mean non-Western music, or maybe even non-Western folk music. I actually think it has to do more with the target audience than the source of the music which you kind of hinted at with your banjo analogy. I sort of hate the term World music anyway. Why does Celtic music always get lumped in with yodelers from Switzerland?

Gotcha. So no hurry then if I do decide go for it. @Reid Rosefelt, so you weren't serious when you said it might never come back? Kind of like, "I wonder if Waves is running a sale right now?"

Can you elaborate? All the reviews I have read seem to be very positive about these VIs. They are older, but older does not necessarily mean dated.

How do you mean? So not a deal?

Two of those guitars sure look electric to me ?.

With just over 6 days to go and the number at 1116, we need an average of 64 per day joining the group buy. The average since the beginning has been about 139 per day. I think we just might make it ?.

I live just outside of Vancouver in Abbotsford. We don't have the luxury of living near the ocean. It was 43 C or 109.4 F to those of you who live south of the border. Tomorrow it is supposed to be a balmy 33 C or 91 F. I can hardly wait.

Pessimist.

So what is it in the 8th gen CPU that the previous gens do not have?

Is the M1MacBookAir's SSD replaceable?

Seagate tools is a great as well, and not just for Seagate drives.

Not so sure this is necessarily a "modern age" phenomena. Some early electronic "music" sounded pretty horrendous too. Of course, you could consider that modern age as well I guess. Sort of reminds me of the folk purists who squawked at Dylan when he brought electric guitars to the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Or my parents commenting "You call that music?" upon hearing what I was listening to.

Yes. Safe travels. Hope all goes well in Kentucky.

I was thinking Edith.

This is another developer I would avoid. He released an effects plugin called Vybz in February that saw some traction. However a show stopping bug was found that the developer said he had fixed and would release a new version within the week but the version has yet to see the light of day. The developer has not been heard from since the end of March, except to run a bunch of bargain basement sales.

Now I challenge you to used them all on one project. They have some really good ones and some unique ones too. I still haven't got my head around knifonium to make a sound that doesn't sound like a cat horking up a hairball. Needless to say that was not what I was going for. And Byome and Triad are beasts. Nothing quite like them.

Loading times are completely irrelevant to whether it is an M1 or Intel or AMD. It is an indication of the speed of the SSD. SSD speeds have come a long way since 2016 and even since 2018.

And this year's voucher is...drum roll please...MEGA-SALE-20OFF

Currently out of stock though. But Windows 11 won't be released in the next 2 to 4 weeks will it?

Last year, they sent out a $20 voucher during the Mega sale. It was MEGA-SALE-20-OFF.

If you can find one. After the Windows 11 announcement, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a run on TPM modules.

Correct. So if you use the firmware TPM, and upgrade your processor, make sure you unencrypt any encrypted drives before replacing it. Also note that when you encrypt a drive using bitlocker you should store the recovery key in a location other than your computer for example, on a USB drive, or a physical printout.

I also have an ASUS TUF X570-Plus. My processor is an 3700x. I just needed to turn on fTPM (firmware TPM as opposed to discrete TPM) in the bios to get TPM 2.0 support. I believe all Ryzen CPUs have TPM built in.

That is pretty impressive for sure. One thing you might want to look at though is the difference between loading nine instances of the same instrument and loading nine different instruments. That is what a real world scenario would look like. There may be sample sharing between the Kontakt instances. I would also be interested to see how it performs with CPU heavy vsts such as anything from Acustica, Diversion with full unison, or Fathom.

I could do with a Rumbo, right about now.