The first rule I use to test is whether they use an emotional fear response to manipulate you into clicking. No vendor or business is going to frighten you with "All your data will be lost" or such nonsense.
Sadly, this led me astray with the MSN "legitimate" email. One more reason not to use M$ for anything!
If you buy a used CD, the musicians get no money from the sale.
I keep seeing this posted as an argument. While true on the face of it, it is irrelevant. It is a symbol of money the artist has already earned.
The Artist/Label made and sold his CD to a consumer. The consumer paid the agreed-upon value.
The consumer has the choice to retain the product at it's value, or to make an arrangement with someone who finds it more valuable than the original consumer does.
Because of the fact that the physical CD reatins it's value through the years, the Artist/Label can and does charge an incrementally higher price than if it was non-transferable, or deteriorated after six months.
I know car analogies are out of favor at/. these days, but I don't hear anyone whining about Chevy not getting their cut when someone sells a used Blazer.
Call it indirect support, call it trickle-down economics, call it what you like. Just remember how hard Garth Brooks got laughed out of town when he tried to sue to claim royalties from used CD sales.
The terms used in psychology are 'fluid intelligence' and 'crystallized intelligence'
Fluid Intelligence is "a natural ability which is not dependant on acquired knowledge" Crystallized Intelligence is "ability dependent on acquired knowledge"
Thanks -- I needed those labels. They apply so well to teaching people a task on computers. I try to guide someone through a process and they want to write town every step. I tell them "Tools:Protect Document:For Forms" and they grab a pen, then grab a pad, then say, "OK, what was that? Tools? Then what."
Aaaagh! You can write it down, but it'll be different next week. Learn the tools not the motions!
Firewire is fast enough for most digital video apps.
Not in my experience. My Samsung DV camcorder will not function on my Mac if there is another firewire device active - on either port. I have to turn off my CD burner and disconnect my external 120GB to get clean live video. Otherwise, it just gives a blue screen.
I'm a frustrated Prog drummer, holding myself together with a 50s-60s rock&roll band
sounds like you may need soime drumming done, and I may be just the guy to do it.
We got some old R&R standards up on our website, Stingrays Online. Give 'em a listen, and see if you hear anything useful in the drummer.
If ya do, follow my address on the site, and tell me what you need in the way of polyrhythms.
ANd, ya GB is totally limited. You very well may need something more sophisticated like Performer or Pro Tools.
But it's still more than I've had to work with since my roommates Portastudio.
And at the risk of embarassing myself, you can find my homemade music here:
http://www.dpgriffin.com/music/music.html
All demo level stuff, and all uncompleted projects due to, er, temporary technological states. But every note played by me.
+=+=+=+=+=+=
I have now successfully used GB in a band project. Our guitarist recorded bass, keys guitar and a scratch vocal in his home studio (Using Cool Edit). I laid down drums separately in a semi=pro studio. But then I just recorded my bacground vocals in sync to aan mp3 of the premix, and posted these vocals to Graham (guitar) through our website (Click on the corvette logo for our "private" practice page;-)
I mixed two vocal tracks in GargaBand, then muted the MP# track to burn a clean mix to.aiff
He dropped that into the mix and it fit perfectly!
So, while GB is definitely not a sophisticated studio based sequencer, it is a great little scratch pad. It's like my first box of 64 crayons!
To introduce myself,
I live in Oklahoma City, with wife, kids & 1 grand, play drums in Mike Black & the Stingrays on the weekend, do logos & graphics for a major oil co. during the week.
I play (in descending order of skill): drums, vocals, acoustic guitar, keys, bass guitar electric guitar.
I definitely know my way around a beat or two, so CharAznable, if there's anything I can tap out for you, let's see what we can build!
find my e-mail at the website above -- how's that for security by obscurity?
Re:Multiple tempos/time sigs in a song?
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So as long as I stick with one tempo and time sig within a song (i.e. punk rock) I'll be fine.
Not sure if you missed my point, or if you got it and just didn't like it.
Just because you software recorder has features like loops or step editing, doesn't mean you're required to use them. If you're capable of playing a song straight through (which I'm sure you can, if you're building homemade prog), then you are not limited by the limitations of the software.
Just turn off the metromone, play your mixed time music on your native instrument the way you hear it in your head (or see it on the page full of spots 0-- whatever) et voila: alternating bars of 17/8 and 23/16. Yeah, you're not getting as much support from your software -- but if you're making music like that, you're beyond the need for that help anyway!
Think Fragile, CTTE or Tales, rather than BG/Talk (Yes album references).
If nothing else, just start with a scratch track of you singing or humming, and clicking a couple drumsticks together to build your own clicktrack.
As a personal example, I recently acquired a recording of an XM radio braodcast of a concert from Jon Anderson's Work In Progress tour (Hey, you brought up progressive rock;-). There is a near perfect version of Your Move that is just him and his guitar, simple, straight and strong. Now ordinarily, that song is a little overplayed, and I don't get to excited over it. But this version is just perfect for a little overdubbing.
My plan is to just drop the track into Garage Band, then start laying down overdubs - couple of background vocals, simple bass and drums (the half-note thuds) and just a little more acoustic guitar. And I'll have a duet with me and Jon! Time signatures and tempos, as seen by GB, will be totally ignored, since Jon's time tends to float anyway.
I believe A4 is negligibly different from 8.5" by 11" ("letter" size), so it sounds like it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter until you try to publish a document using both sizes. While both dimensions are close to 8.5 x 11, A4 is actually narrower (11)taller.
Which means you can't just scale the items on your page up or down; the aspect ratio has changed. If you scale the page as a whole, you wind up with very unattractive margins (close on the sides, with acres of white space top & bottom).
When I need a layout to work on both international and U.S. paper sizes, I generally start with 8.5 x 14, which reduces more closely to A4 without distortion or rearrangement. Also scales nicely to other U.S. sizes I use: 5.5 x 8.5, 11 x 17, 22 x 34.
8.5 x 11 is aesthetically a horrible rectangle (IMHO, as is any comment using the string "aesth").
Re:Multiple tempos/time sigs in a song?
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Sorry can't help with the time sig thing. I'm in the same boat.
Course, if you're willing to forget about sectional editing, just forget about bar lines, turn off the metronome and just jam! How many time signatures did the original TASCAM 4-track cassette portastudio support?*
As has been pointed out several times already, Google has provided credit where credit is due.
This family is dishonoring the work of their ancestor by trying to change what was once a gift to the mathematical language into a cash sale.
They already have credit where credit is due. They now also want cash -- where credit is due.
This is another SCO type thing, where some generous intellectual chooses to enhance our quality of life, and someone else comes along and notices they "forgot" to make every dime they could off of it.
If they succeed in this (doubtful) it will cast negative aspersions on their forefather's work and reputation, and run contrary to the natural evolution of language.
And the old man will come back to haunt them and curse their wealth!
Just like selling used cars is stealing from GM, right?
The fact that you can re-sell a CD if you no longer enjoyed it, (or never enjoyed it) is one of the things that adds value to the physical media.
If I couldn't even consider legally re-selling a CD, then why the hell would I consider buying one?
Get real, bubba. Garth Brooks tried that same argument and made a public fool of himself. (actually, he tried collecting royalites on useds). They already got their royalty from the original purchaser. That CD is now that purchasers property, to listen to, rip to MP3, play frisbee, scrape dog poop off the floor, or re-sell (hopefully not after using to scrape dog poop).
Now, if you want to bring in the idea of buying a CD, ripping it, THEN selling, you might have a point.
But if comb your hair just right, no one will notice;-)
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And in other news, it has been learned that the The Iliad was not acutally written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.
The first rule I use to test is whether they use an emotional fear response to manipulate you into clicking. No vendor or business is going to frighten you with "All your data will be lost" or such nonsense.
Sadly, this led me astray with the MSN "legitimate" email. One more reason not to use M$ for anything!
If you buy a used CD, the musicians get no money from the sale.
/. these days, but I don't hear anyone whining about Chevy not getting their cut when someone sells a used Blazer.
I keep seeing this posted as an argument. While true on the face of it, it is irrelevant. It is a symbol of money the artist has already earned.
The Artist/Label made and sold his CD to a consumer. The consumer paid the agreed-upon value.
The consumer has the choice to retain the product at it's value, or to make an arrangement with someone who finds it more valuable than the original consumer does.
Because of the fact that the physical CD reatins it's value through the years, the Artist/Label can and does charge an incrementally higher price than if it was non-transferable, or deteriorated after six months.
I know car analogies are out of favor at
Call it indirect support, call it trickle-down economics, call it what you like. Just remember how hard Garth Brooks got laughed out of town when he tried to sue to claim royalties from used CD sales.
Emboldened.
Or,
MFs ain't gone git boughtened.
Bu'... these go up to Elven!
Fluid Intelligence is "a natural ability which is not dependant on acquired knowledge" Crystallized Intelligence is "ability dependent on acquired knowledge"
Thanks -- I needed those labels. They apply so well to teaching people a task on computers. I try to guide someone through a process and they want to write town every step. I tell them "Tools:Protect Document:For Forms" and they grab a pen, then grab a pad, then say, "OK, what was that? Tools? Then what."
Aaaagh! You can write it down, but it'll be different next week. Learn the tools not the motions!
Like, it got dropped or stepped on or accidentally abused in some other way.
Would that actually be homicide? That sounds more like the legal definition of podslaughter.
Why on earth are we paying companies like Haliburton and Bechtel to charge us 10 to 50 times as much for the same job?
Gee, I have no idea (Ducks and runs).
Firewire is fast enough for most digital video apps.
Not in my experience. My Samsung DV camcorder will not function on my Mac if there is another firewire device active - on either port. I have to turn off my CD burner and disconnect my external 120GB to get clean live video. Otherwise, it just gives a blue screen.
G4 cube, 450 mhz, using iMovie.
See my journal for further developments on this topic, including an mp3 file of some Garageband self-gratification.
How much would wood a wouldchuck tzuk...
Oh, never mind -182 off-topic.
There is, to the best of my recollection, only one Venus.
Perhaps you meant that they have pretty good control over media on many planets?
Charaz, we totally got to get together.
;-)
.aiff
I'm a frustrated Prog drummer, holding myself together with a 50s-60s rock&roll band
sounds like you may need soime drumming done, and I may be just the guy to do it.
We got some old R&R standards up on our website, Stingrays Online. Give 'em a listen, and see if you hear anything useful in the drummer.
If ya do, follow my address on the site, and tell me what you need in the way of polyrhythms.
ANd, ya GB is totally limited. You very well may need something more sophisticated like Performer or Pro Tools.
But it's still more than I've had to work with since my roommates Portastudio.
And at the risk of embarassing myself, you can find my homemade music here:
http://www.dpgriffin.com/music/music.html
All demo level stuff, and all uncompleted projects due to, er, temporary technological states. But every note played by me.
+=+=+=+=+=+=
I have now successfully used GB in a band project. Our guitarist recorded bass, keys guitar and a scratch vocal in his home studio (Using Cool Edit). I laid down drums separately in a semi=pro studio. But then I just recorded my bacground vocals in sync to aan mp3 of the premix, and posted these vocals to Graham (guitar) through our website (Click on the corvette logo for our "private" practice page
I mixed two vocal tracks in GargaBand, then muted the MP# track to burn a clean mix to
He dropped that into the mix and it fit perfectly!
So, while GB is definitely not a sophisticated studio based sequencer, it is a great little scratch pad. It's like my first box of 64 crayons!
To introduce myself,
I live in Oklahoma City, with wife, kids & 1 grand, play drums in Mike Black & the Stingrays on the weekend, do logos & graphics for a major oil co. during the week.
I play (in descending order of skill): drums, vocals, acoustic guitar, keys, bass guitar electric guitar.
I definitely know my way around a beat or two, so CharAznable, if there's anything I can tap out for you, let's see what we can build!
find my e-mail at the website above -- how's that for security by obscurity?
I never get that "40 times slower" reference.
What unit of 'Slowness" do they multiply by 40? is it a negative number?
Or do they must mean it runs 1/40 the speed of the host?
In soviet Russia, Yourself trolls You!
wait, don't hit send y...
So as long as I stick with one tempo and time sig within a song (i.e. punk rock) I'll be fine.
;-). There is a near perfect version of Your Move that is just him and his guitar, simple, straight and strong. Now ordinarily, that song is a little overplayed, and I don't get to excited over it. But this version is just perfect for a little overdubbing.
Not sure if you missed my point, or if you got it and just didn't like it.
Just because you software recorder has features like loops or step editing, doesn't mean you're required to use them. If you're capable of playing a song straight through (which I'm sure you can, if you're building homemade prog), then you are not limited by the limitations of the software.
Just turn off the metromone, play your mixed time music on your native instrument the way you hear it in your head (or see it on the page full of spots 0-- whatever) et voila:
alternating bars of 17/8 and 23/16. Yeah, you're not getting as much support from your software -- but if you're making music like that, you're beyond the need for that help anyway!
Think Fragile, CTTE or Tales, rather than BG/Talk (Yes album references).
If nothing else, just start with a scratch track of you singing or humming, and clicking a couple drumsticks together to build your own clicktrack.
As a personal example, I recently acquired a recording of an XM radio braodcast of a concert from Jon Anderson's Work In Progress tour (Hey, you brought up progressive rock
My plan is to just drop the track into Garage Band, then start laying down overdubs - couple of background vocals, simple bass and drums (the half-note thuds) and just a little more acoustic guitar. And I'll have a duet with me and Jon! Time signatures and tempos, as seen by GB, will be totally ignored, since Jon's time tends to float anyway.
BTW, got any of that homemade prog to share?
I believe A4 is negligibly different from 8.5" by 11" ("letter" size), so it sounds like it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter until you try to publish a document using both sizes. While both dimensions are close to 8.5 x 11, A4 is actually narrower (11)taller.
Which means you can't just scale the items on your page up or down; the aspect ratio has changed. If you scale the page as a whole, you wind up with very unattractive margins (close on the sides, with acres of white space top & bottom).
When I need a layout to work on both international and U.S. paper sizes, I generally start with 8.5 x 14, which reduces more closely to A4 without distortion or rearrangement. Also scales nicely to other U.S. sizes I use:
5.5 x 8.5, 11 x 17, 22 x 34.
8.5 x 11 is aesthetically a horrible rectangle (IMHO, as is any comment using the string "aesth").
I wish I had a dedicated midi drum editor.
;-)
Ask and ye shall receive!
Sorry can't help with the time sig thing. I'm in the same boat.
Course, if you're willing to forget about sectional editing, just forget about bar lines, turn off the metronome and just jam! How many time signatures did the original TASCAM 4-track cassette portastudio support?*
*Trick question: None (or all
As has been pointed out several times already, Google has provided credit where credit is due.
This family is dishonoring the work of their ancestor by trying to change what was once a gift to the mathematical language into a cash sale.
They already have credit where credit is due. They now also want cash -- where credit is due.
This is another SCO type thing, where some generous intellectual chooses to enhance our quality of life, and someone else comes along and notices they "forgot" to make every dime they could off of it.
If they succeed in this (doubtful) it will cast negative aspersions on their forefather's work and reputation, and run contrary to the natural evolution of language.
And the old man will come back to haunt them and curse their wealth!
Why isn't 1,000 kilograms called a megagram?
Then you'll probably crash into 1000 kilograms of Canadian bacon.
Apple.
That depends on how many Newtons your car weighs.
Fig or strawberry?
eEye?
eEye?
Oh.
If you call that difference negligible, then stay the fsck out of my workflow, you blind so-and-so!
(sorry, can't help feeding the troll)
;-)
Just like selling used cars is stealing from GM, right?
The fact that you can re-sell a CD if you no longer enjoyed it, (or never enjoyed it) is one of the things that adds value to the physical media.
If I couldn't even consider legally re-selling a CD, then why the hell would I consider buying one?
Get real, bubba. Garth Brooks tried that same argument and made a public fool of himself. (actually, he tried collecting royalites on useds). They already got their royalty from the original purchaser. That CD is now that purchasers property, to listen to, rip to MP3, play frisbee, scrape dog poop off the floor, or re-sell (hopefully not after using to scrape dog poop).
Now, if you want to bring in the idea of buying a CD, ripping it, THEN selling, you might have a point.
But if comb your hair just right, no one will notice