Jonathan Hughes
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The payment should take place through reverb. As you noted, you have no protection if you pay outside of their system. The seller would have also have to break reverb's rules and end the listing, which means that reverb doesn't get their cut of the transaction. If the seller does all their sales like this, it would explain why they have no feedback.
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Your link is still missing the part that indicates what video it is. You've just got www.youtube.com followed by the time. If you go to the video, you can click the "share" button, and then there's a check box for "at time" which will create the correct link for you.
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Suree, SSLs are great, but nobody is going to know (or care) if your stuff was ran through or summed through the Big Six. The Prophet would certainly make a bigger impact.
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I don't think many people are selling their own stuff these days without a middleman, except anyone who's still selling CDs at shows. Bandcamp takes a small cut, so artists do well from them. I just wish they'd bundle their payments to the artists so that each one doesn't have a separate PayPal fee.
If I buy anything, I check band camp first and buy there if it's available so the artist gets the bigger cut.
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Bandcamp still exists, and it's fantastic. There are lots of well-known artists and labels selling stuff on there, but they do a lot to promote independent artists in all genres. I use Bandcamp as my way to sell things, and then I use Distrokid to get it onto Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Tidal, etc.
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When you're in Rochester, make sure you set aside some time to visit the House of Guitars (they have keyboards upstairs, and a massive, messy record store in the back).
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I don't think the guy in the video knows what a "hack" is. If didn't;t already know how to transpose, that video would just make me more confused. The piano is on the second floor, and the alto sax is on the first because it's a minor third below, but, wait a second â you've got to write it up a major sixth if you want to sound in the same octave as the piano.
That's all correct, but that explanation isn't remotely a "hack".
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According to what someone from Steinberg posted in the Dorico forum on Facebook, shortly after the next version of Dorico comes out next year, they'll be releasing some kind of update to aid people who have issues connecting every 30 days. I assume that this will be for all Steinberg products and not just Dorico. This should help people with bad internet connections, and the seven people in 2022 who are still paranoid about connecting their computers to the internet.
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"He told me that the John Williams" of the world are now the exception."
But John Williams was always the exception. His scores are fantastic, but they were also scores from some of he suggest movies of all time. He's probably the only film composer who came close to being a household name, JUST for his score to Star Wars. The fact that he also scored the Indiana Jones films, and ET, and numerous other super popular films is just an added bonus. The number of film composers who have achieved any level of notoriety outside of film circles is miniscule. Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, maybe a few others.
There's no doubt that incredible sounding and very realistic sounding music can be made with sample libraries. I'd suggest checking out the stuff from Spitfire Audio, as much of their stuff intended specifically for film scoring, and they have a wide range of fantastic stuff that's free or only $30. They often run sales, too. in fact, this month, all their Hans Zimmer libraries are on sale.
Also check out Composer Magazine: https://composer.spitfireaudio.com
There are lots of really good interviews and bits of inspiration in there.
What's really interesting is how many people ARE still using full orchestras (after doing all thir composing and mockups with sample libraries). And not just bog high profile stuff, either. They have an interview with the composer of the TV show Stargirl, which I would've thought would not be big enough to get a full orchestra treatment, but they do indeed record each episode's music with a real orchestra.
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There's already some discussion in this thread: https://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/3115660/rather-have-the-story-with-steve-porcaro#Post3115660
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That's MonoNeon. Great player, but yeah, the look is more than a bit much. This seems to be the new thing. You can't just be good â you have to have a consistent "uniform" so that people recognize you on youtube. MonoNeon = winter hat, oversized loungewear, sock on headstock. Cory Wong = shirt with blue and white horizontal stripes, or yellow pants. Jack Stratton = red shirt with white stripes on the sleeves. Jacob Collier = cosby sweaters. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Well, I think it's safe to say he's in an altered state of some kind in that video. It's been posted here before, and I'm not the first person to say that the synth modules in that videos aren't the only thing that are "wired".
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"Steve plays from the shoulder...lol. Every button press is like he's trying to break something!!"
I think the cocaine might have something to do with that!
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"OY... Talk about a "Money Grab"... Almost as bad as the latest Genesis tour. "
Three guys who have been in a band for over 40 years who are touring is worse than a guy who is performing with videos of two dead members????
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Dropbox should handle it. Assuming your project is in a consistent folder, along with the related audio files, only the project file itself will sync between users if the audio files haven't changed. Assuming you use it as intended, with each user installing the dropbox application on their computer (rather than just uploading files through the web page and giving the other person a link), then everything will sync locally shortly after the other person changes it. Of course, there's some danger in the other person not knowing what they're doing and deleting things, not knowing that they will be deleted or you, too, so I always keep a copy of stuff outside the dropbox folder to serve as a backup. Dropbox doesn't offer any kind of version controls to my knowledge, but you can set it up to send e-mail notifications to the other person when you've changed something. They keep shrinking the size of the free account, so you may have to spring for a paid level. A friend of mine bought the family plan and lets me use that, since we're working on a project, and if you can split the cost, and have use for dropbox outside of this project, it could be a good way to go.
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These interfaces don't let you run UA plugins.
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Assuming these are good quality (and they look like they are), these are surprisingly inexpensive. I'm, guessing that as computers have gotten more powerful, and you can literally run 1000 plugins in Logic on an M1 Mac, there's going to be less appeal in having your audio interface supply the horsepower to run specific plugins, and UA knows that and are testing the waters for what lies ahead. I have an Apollo 8 and a twin duo, and I love them, but the real killer feature on them is that you can run plugins on the preamps as you record. There are a couple UA reverbs that I love and use regularly, but they could most likely port those over to running natively without much effort. So with these new interfaces, you're getting the good stuff (a "vintage" preamp option and an 1176-style compressor) that's beneficial to have in the signal chain before it hits the computer, without the stuff that you can just as easily run on your computer.
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The Mark Ronson show was surprisingly good. I was pleased that the synth episode didn't just talk about typical stuff, and also that it included a number of women synthesists. The drum machine episode was surprisingly good, too. Those things tend to just focus on the 808, but this thankfully didn't.
Song Exploder is hot or miss. Unfortunately, a good number of the songs they "explode" just aren't that interesting, and some of the people seem so impressed with themselves. The Killers episode is the perfect example. They talk about a very basic chord progression that they "discovered" and talk about it as if they had just landed on Mars.
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Huh?
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I was super excited when I saw this. Until I saw the price. I stupidly traded in my Microwave XT several years ago. It was in great condition and would now be worth a fortune (about the same as this new synth). And it had two more voices (although it didn't have the analogue filter)
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"1/8" TRS just seems like a bad idea."
Yet, there are companies who have have been using these connectors in their products for years, due to lack of space for a MIDI DIN connector.
"This is an enormous failing on the part of the MMA and all around a generally terrible idea."
You're barking up the wrong tree. The MMA has just created a specification/standard for the companies who are already using this connector so that going forward, everyone does things the same way, and users don't need to worry about two different devices with the same connector being wired differently. This couldn't be any clearer from the quote in the original post, specifically the part that says "By specifying the pin-out for the TRS connection, and also the connectors for the adapter cable, we can ensure greater interoperability between TRS and DIN-MIDI devices". If you're afraid of 1/8" TRS connectors replacing DIN connectors (which is very unlikely on anything that has room for it, complain to the manufacturers.
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"Or a suggestion to try the used market?"
Because the Wirecutter makes money through affiliate links. That's why it's not behind a paywall, unlike the rest of The NY Times.
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"Don't know why people are getting their panties up in a bunch right now"
Probably because no one had heard about it until now. I look at a bunch of music sites daily and hadn't heard anything about this until I saw this video a couple days ago.
I'm with those who don't think this will be good for customers and employees in the long run (and probably starting in the near future). I've never heard of an example of a company that went public or was bought by venture capitalists or investment groups that improved in terms of treatment of employees or customers. Those groups are interested in profit (in particular, short-term profit), and anything that decreases profit is going to be scrutinized. I don't buy a ton of equipment, and I don't buy it all from Sweetwater. I'm also not into bickering about price. But it's nice to have someone consistent to deal with who can occasionally make price adjustments based on the fact that you've bought from them in the past. That's the kind of thing that could easily change.
My guess is that the candy will stay. It's cheap and meaningless, and its continuity would imply that nothing has changed (regardless of whether you're paying more and getting poorer service).
Mono audio to midi conversion?
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Your thread title is "Mono audio to midi conversion", but it sounds like you're just looking for an audio plugin, right? Any harmonizer/pitch shifter will do what you want. Logic has one. I assume most DAWs have a stock harmonizer. If you're actually looking for mono audio to MIDI conversion, Logic does that, too.