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Yes, among the moron demographic. Young people have a way-too-high chance of ending up in the ICU with this, and getting lung damage IF they have to be ventilated. They just don't tend to die nearly as often as "boomers". Probably would be a good wake-up call to spend a week solid gasping for air surrounded by dying people and not being allowed to have visitors. Apparently this has gone viral. A boomers response? "Our parents were called on to fight world wars, you are being called on to wash your hands and sit on the couch. Dont fuck this up,"

On a similar vein one of my millennial colleagues made the comment, rather unkindly I thought given I was part of the conversation, when we were discussing the gender and age distribution of infections in Australia, highest is males aged 60 to 69 currently, that it would be good thing to wipe out the boomers so the millenials could go and live in their houses.

Now we are going into lockdown,writing lame lyrics to existng tunes. Exhibit 1; To the tune of a popular Cliff Richard's song 1st verse - "We're all going on a self-isolating holiday, no more working for a week or two, fun and laughter on our self isolating holiday, no Coronavirus for me and you, for a week or two. "

From Motorsport Week. "Organisers of the Monaco Grand Prix have announced that the 2020 edition of the event has been cancelled altogether due to the coronavirus. Formula 1 officials confirmed on Thursday that the event had been postponed on account of the coronavirus. But on Thursday evening the Automobile Club de Monaco, which organises both the Formula 1 grand prix and the preceding Historic Grand Prix, confirmed the entire cancellation of proceedings."

Just received an email from Lachy Doley advising that all his Australian gigs and Canadian tour have been cancelled or postponed. Just another muso facing tough times ahead. He is encouraging folk to join his supporters group which costs $1 a month and gives access to his entire catalogue plus updates and live streams, maybe from the studio in this era of social separation. Also Lachy is encouraging anyone who likes any working muso to buy some of their merch and stream them as often as possible on Spotify or Apple music.

Excellent message to clients sent by Seismic Post Audio, based in Santa Monica, CA - Be a Barrier, not a Carrier.

Looks like cancelled through to May is official. While other cancelled GP's at permanent tracks, for example Bahrain, may be rescheduled for later that will not happen for Melbourne given the logistics involved in setting the track up and the other grand finals and events that happen Melbourne later in the year. I will apply my refund to buying the same seats in 2021.

That is really good suggestion. Hope other venues do the same.

I agree thats the best outcome. By then much more will be known about the pandemic and how best to manage it. The financial hit on each host will at least be minimised, they will not have to incur the huge set up costs as was the case in Melbourne. And every team can stay put and adhere to their own pandemic plan.

Event cancelled. The question remains why didn't every team have their crew tested for CV before they left for Australia? They didn't get it here, they brought it with them. So how can Bahrain go ahead? There is also an extensive entertainment programme over the 4 days here. Lots of musos with cancelled gigs now including Robbie Williams.

It is interesting being at the track while all this swirls around us. It seems entirely normal. The support practices and qualifying are all going ahead as normal, people are there, maybe not as many as usual as it is hard judge on a Thursday when school excursions get free admission. I guess the acid test will be who is there and whether the grandstands are full for F1 P1 at 12.30 tomorrow. Nightlife in the inner Melbourne suburbs seems to be going along as normal. One person I was chatting to made the comment that the worst part of CV is the wide spread fear rather than the reality. One of my guests tomorrow has been assigned to the state Health Departments Covid-19 strike force so I will get some insight from an expert of how it looks from a public health perspective.

McLaren Racing has confirmed on Thursday evening in Melbourne that it has withdrawn from the 2020 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix, following the positive test of a team member for the coronavirus.

Well here in Australia a relief package has been announced that will assist small businesses that have employees and apprentices. Also for those on pensions and unemployment benefits. Missing from this anything for founders of the "gig" economy, self employed musos. So it is going to be tough unless further measures are introduced to help the self employed.

There is no HIV vaccine, and it's actually been 35 years. OK well in Australia the number of HIV deaths fell from just under 800 in the early 1990' to less than a 100 in 2017 and many years before. So no vaccine or treatment here, everyone just got lucky? So with CV relax, it will get will get worse but then it will get better, nothing to see here for medical science.

lookey here Yep Aussies get the award for worlds worst practice on hoarding dunny rolls. Amazingly we dont seem to be worried about hoarding inputs before addressing how we deal with the outputs. Lucky we still make toilet paper here and dont have to rely on importing them from China. One newspaper here had CV supplement in the centre of the paper. Eight sheets of blank paper.

Most people dont understand that the Australian GP's are a unique event on the F1 calendar. It is a 4 day event that includes at least 4 support series which includes the soon to die Aussie V8 super cars. The F1 drivers all watch the V8's from the pit wall as it is really close racing. I will post some pices. So for me if the race at 4pm Sunday turns into a boring procession I am not bothered as I know there will be plenty of thrills and spills on turn 1 and 2 where I sit in the other categories, plus Vettel always loses it there in practice when he brakes too late for turn 1. Hamilton on the other hand always gets turn 1 right but can push too hard getting out of turn 2 and raise a bit of dust. Whatever you may think of the sport getting P1 takes big cajones, and a well set up car at every race.

Well it is all going pear shaped here in Melbourne. "Three Formula One team members have been placed into isolation ahead of the Melbourne Grand Prix after showing symptoms of coronavirus. One member from McLaren and two from team Haas were evaluated at Albert Circuit's isolation unit after presenting with fever. The trio were tested for coronavirus and placed under self isolation at their hotels after showing symptoms, their teams confirmed." "The overriding concern will come if the three team members' tests return positive, having already heavily mixed with the F1 racing paddock. Aussie F1 star Daniel Ricciardo was pulled out of a scheduled Renault team media conference earlier today over fears he might be exposed to the coronavirus." Quoted on a local sports channel "Ferrari's worst nightmare, one pit stop person and a five minute pit stop time".

The last of the Ferrari team arrived last night. Today Italy was added to our CV 14 day quarantine list.

Indeed - let's say they do have a potential vaccine in 3 months. Then there are human trials and assuming it all goes perfectly with the first trial, the ramp up to produce hundreds of millions to billions of doses. 12 months will be an amazing achievement if they pull it off, but I'd expect it to take longer than that. Well I have to disagree and maybe the sole dissenter from that view on the planet. We are not talking about trials here on people in a remote Scottish village when for example statins were being trialled as the miracle cure for high cholesterol. Shame that only lasted two years cause I was getting statins for free until they got authorised under the PBS in Australia. We are talking about a rerun of HIV. Then I was on the pointy end of the impact of HIV on shareholders, with zero interest on the impact on individual lives. There were arms offered up by those infected by HIV everywhere in the world to test the new vaccines, and the rate at which HIV went from a certain killer to low mortality set a new benchmark. That was the late eighties, medical science has moved on since then and now has real live patients to work with. Let face it you don't die from Covid-19, you die from the complications, for example when an abscess on the wall of the lung bursts and you get complications from the resultant hole in the wall of the lung. All treatable in a first world medical institution. Sadly the majority of the world's population does not live in a first world country.

Well the Unversity lab in Melbourne Australia that first cracked the Covid 19 code said that the fastest that a vaccine has been developed so far for other viruses is 3 months. Guess they should have consulted some keyboard players first before stating that fact.

I am now in Melbourne looking forward to being in the grandstand at what may be the last GP run in front of spectators until we have the corana virus pandemic under control. Ferrari's pantomime about not coming here unless they got special treatment was entertaining, Ferrari is based in northern Italy after all, so our goverment removed Italy from a list of countries from which arrivals, which now includes Iran, must be quarantined for 14 days on arrival. I know Grandstand seats were sold out several weeks ago as I had to adjust my day job invites to accomodate a short notice corporate guest from overseas and could not buy another seat, but I suspect there will be many empty seats now as the infection rate climbs and do not congregate in large numbers warnings are now being widely circulated. The China GP has been cancelled and Bahrain will be run without spectators so it may be a TV only race for sometime during this season. Interesting times. Will post some pics, but not of the Ferrari pits as I am not going near them.

I have never found any need to get my hands dirty with Mac OS. It comes with native audio and midi drivers which are easily accessed inside MainStage. Sometimes folk ignore the fact that Apple is the provider of all the software needed for live gigging and they have done a lot of research and testing to make sure it all works nicely together. With Windows as you say it is almost essential to get your hands dirty. Before I switched to MainStage I had a reliable Windows gig laptop running Cantabile and Brads guide linked above is a really good guide on how to configure a Windows gig machine.

This part of the conversation is heading down an unintended rabbit hole. The point was that there is additional overhead when using VI's inside a scripting wrapper like Kontakt or UVI player. With adequate machine resources no issues. And yes load an effect like convolution reverb, including Logic's Space Designer and you can quickly eat up resources. One of the reasons I am switching to Logic's modelled Chromaverb.

Rob, lets take one NI example, the recently released Noir by Galaxy Instruments, again from the NI website " System requirements: Free KONTAKT PLAYER or KONTAKT (Version 6.0.4 or higher)." Here is the NI website LINK Look under "At a glance". MainStage has a CPU, Memory and disk usage live meters which tells you what resources are being used by each AU. When I load Kontakt ot UVI player without an instrument loaded inside them, I see them using resources. Load the desired VI inside them and resource usage goes up again.

Which NI application is an AU host that runs inside Mainstage (or any other AU host)? Any NI VI that requires Konkakt. From the NI website, for example Kontakt Player 6 "FREE PLAYER FOR KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS, Hosts a huge selection of Native Instruments and third-party instruments". This and UVI are the major wrappers which third-party VI developers can use to short cut development time. For example Acoustic Samples B-5 requires the current version of UVI player be installed so you can use it. And there are all the IK VI's. Another major in the VI market. Same applies with any other host, for example Cantabile on Windows.