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| Converter quandry [message #82096] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 04:31  |
TCB
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To Happiness Foundation which promotes the book, The Way To
> Happiness, a group of pro-survival precepts to live by to help people make
> good choices and improve their lives. I wrote a song about that book you
> can listen to here http://www.billlorentzen.com. Click on the link in the
> left column. We also have the Scientology Volunteer Ministers who are
> active all over the world, notably after 9/11 and Katrina. Type any of
> those organization names into Google and you will find plenty of data.
>
> Bill L
I think this is great and I'm not trying to slag Scientology here.
Personally, I'm leery of all organized things. I even get paranoid when I
see a row of ducklings following their mother .........except that they
aren't ducklings......they are Roman centurions....and I know in the darkest
depths of my soul that their mother just made the eat something horrible and
they are *PISSED*!!!!!
;o)"DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com> wrote:
>I think this is great and I'm not trying to slag Scientology here.
>Personally, I'm leery of all organized things. I even get paranoid when
I
>see a row of ducklings following their mother .........except that they
>aren't ducklings......they are Roman centurions....and I know in the darkest
>depths of my soul that their mother just made the eat something horrible
and
>they are *PISSED*!!!!!
Then maybe you should start a religion where you convince
your followers that these evil ducklings are living inside of
them and the only way to get them out is for you to hook them
up to a device you've concocted from one of those spare mother
boards you've been trying to sell and a Studio Projects C1;
and they then have to pay you ridiculous sums of money for
this, and then you can also take the lyrics of a song you wrote
shortly after eating some shrooms 20 years ago... you know, the
song that you always thought was great, but that you could
never get a publisher to pick up? Then you could adapt the rest
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82102 is a reply to message #82096] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 07:14  |
Ted Gerber
Messages: 705
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et them more insanity.
>
> Depression is the #1 reason people see psycholoiatrists. there are lots of
> reasons for depression, and religions/cults/groups of like-minded people
> with the same agenda (like political parties even) are the top contenders
> for screwing up someone's head (again MHO)
>
> Hubbard created Scientology to make the able
>> more able. That is the way out for all of us.
>
> Again, I can do this without being part of a group hug.
>
>> Hubbard created secular organizations that target areas where people need
>> help: Narconon, one of the most effective drug rehab programs available;
>> Criminon, a very effective program used in many jails world wide; Applied
>> Scholastics, targeting illiteracy and education; and the overarching one,
>> The Way To Happiness Foundation which promotes the book, The Way To
>> Happiness, a group of pro-survival precepts to live by to help people make
>> good choices and improve their lives. I wrote a song about that book you
>> can listen to here http://www.billlorentzen.com. Click on the link in the
>> left column. We also have the Scientology Volunteer Ministers who are
>> active all over the world, notably after 9/11 and Katrina. Type any of
>> those organization names into Google and you will find plenty of data.
>>
>> Bill L
>
> I think this is great and I'm not trying to slag Scientology here.
> Personally, I'm leery of all organized things. I even get paranoid when I
> see a row of ducklings following their mother .........except that they
> aren't ducklings......they are Roman centurions....and I know in the darkest
> depths of my soul that their mother just made the eat something horrible and
> they are *PISSED*!!!!!
>
> ;o)
>
>Bill,
I know that. Lots of folks who are addicted to drugs become dealser
themselves because they don't have the money to buy them otherwise. It
ensures that an adequate supply is always available.
Deej
"Bill L" <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote in message news:46339458@linux...
> DJ,
>
> I said a "drug dealer" not a drug taker.
>
&g
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82109 is a reply to message #82096] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 09:26 |
excelav
Messages: 2130
Registered: July 2005
Location: Metro Detroit
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DJ wrote:
> I'm getting a midi patch bay in here in the next few days. It will allow
> midi merge on channels 1 & 2.
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> Is this something I should even do?
>
> Since I can do it, will I die if I don't?
>
>So if I had two computers running Cubase and one Houston controller, could I
merge the midi data from both DAWs to one controller.........man that sounds
so totally impossible and crazy that I'm gonna have to try it.
;o)
"Bill L" <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote in message news:4633dbe0@linux...
> It is useful if you are using more than one controller, such as a keyboard
> and a guitar controller or percussion controller and you don't want to
> waste time plugging in a different cable all the time.
>
> Bill L
>
> DJ wrote:
>> I'm getting a midi patch bay in here in the next few days. It will allow
>> midi merge on channels 1 & 2.
>>
>> Is this something I should even do?
>>
>> Since I can do it, will I die if I don't?
>>Brian, I had the exact same problem a few years back, turns out it was RAM,
swapped it and pops were gone.
I am on a PC thow.
Good luck.
Rob
"Brian Carter" <bricrter@spammitymindspring.com> wrote in message
news:bricrter-062E64.16123027042007@cust0358.vic01.dataco.com.au...
>
> Hi all,
>
> Been a while since I last posted just to say "hi", but now I'm back
in PARIS world again,
> bouncing things from analog to digital and back again. It's a great way to
work, but I'm having a
> real problem with pops. These pops are unusual in that, if one opens a
project file, they appear at
> certain times during playback; however closing and re-opening the *same*
project produces these
> little pops in different places during playback. When keeping the same
project open and playing
> through the song multiple times, they seem to remain stable.They're also
unusual in that they're
> very small and hard to find within the waveform, but once you find them,
you can open up a
> millisecond of empty space (with perhaps a millisecond of crossfade before
and after) and they're
> effectively eliminated, usually but not always without audible effect.
>
> I use an external clock, so of course I've tried PARIS' internal
clock both during playback,
> but this didn't seem to help. I've tried re-transferring the files from
analog 16-track several
> times, but it doesn't seem to be an A/D converter issue, since this didn't
help. I've tried using
> different hard drives to stream the files, to no avail. I've tried using a
different MEC for output
> to my console (I'm mixing out of the box) with no improvement (the other
MEC also provided a chance
> to use another MEC-to-EDS cable to rule that out). I've tried removing the
8-in cards and cleaning
> their contacts with De-Oxit, as well as cleaning the MEC-to-EDS connector
cable. I've tried using a
> different EDS card (I have two functioning cards, one not working, but
have only one card at a time
> installed right now). I've tried cleaning the contacts on each EDS card.
I've tried using different
> slots for the EDS card.
> On the software side I've tried making sure the Default project
clock settings agree with the
> project I'm opening. I've tried 256fs, 44.1 and Internal, each time
setting the Default Project to
> agree with the project I'm opening. I do this by changing the clock
setting on the Default Project,
> saving it, closing PARIS, re-opening PARIS (with the exteral clock set
correctly, of course), then
> from within PARIS opening the project I'm working on.
> Since I'm only using one MEC, I've also tried including and
removing "UseHouseSync=1" nad
> "MidiPlayDisabled=1".
>
> I should mention that, during the transfers, I'm syncing PARIS to
MTC and the external clock
> at the same time, both of which are g
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82110 is a reply to message #82109] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 09:30 |
excelav
Messages: 2130
Registered: July 2005
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enerated by an Aardvark TimeSync II
which is built for this.
> (The Aardvark reads SMTPE and spits out a low-jitter clock and MTC. I
believe it's electronically
> identical to the half-rack version of a Rosendahl Nanosync.) To check
whether it might be the
> Aardvark, I tried using the OpCode Studio64 XTC to read SMPTE and generate
MTC/ clock, but on
> playback there were still pops. I've also tried disabling all SkunkWorks
plugins by removing them
> from the Ensoniq "Plugins" folder.
> Oh, and I've re-installed PARIS as well, and tried using different
Default Projects in case
> it might be a corrupt Default Project file (but so far I've only tried
using a couple different
> backups of *my* Default Project-- I haven't yet tried starting with a
clean Default Project). I'm
> also not quite sure whether I've tried simply transferring audio without
being slaved to SMTPE/MTC,
> but I don't think I've tried that yet. (There were lots of things to try,
obviously!) I've tried
> opening different Project files, too (that is, the Project file I'm
working on, not the Default
> Project).
>
>
> I'm starting to think that it's something in my computer (a Mac G4
Quicksilver 2002 with a
> 1.467GHz GigaDesigns G4 upgrade card, 1.5GB RAM), since *either* of my EDS
cards, in any slot, using
> any MEC, using any clocking scheme during transfer or playback, using any
hard drive for transfer or
> streaming, etc., etc., seems to produce the same result: intermittent,
small pops, visible in the
> waveform, which stay consistent when the project is left open but change
completely after closing
> and re-opening the project. The pops seem to move around at random, and
don't stay in a given area.
>
>
>
> I'm out of steam. Can anyone (DJ, I'm looking in your direction)
*possibly* come up with a
> few more possibilities as to what might be wrong?
>
> Thanks ever so much in advance!
>
>
> bcWhen I was traveling a lot a couple years ago I bought a used
Steinberger which would fit in a hard shell Samsonite. It ain't a really
great sounding guitar and it's kind of wobbly when you play it, but it's
my new favorite guitar...
I have to sing a bunch of '80s tunes for a wedding gig (I never would
have predicted it, but '80s is coming back for weddings). In the '80s
all the guys sang as high as they could. They were mostly tenors, but
I'm a bari and it is a painful struggle singing that high. All these
tunes have hooky guitar parts that use open strings, and don't sound or
play right transposed down. So, I bought some heavy strings for the
Steinberger and tuned it down a whole step and I can play and sing all
this stuff nice and comfy now without getting up on tip toes and
scrunching my face up. Plus it fits in a tiny gig bag so I can easily
bring it along with my other full sized one. That's why it is my new
favorite guitar.
BillSounds like a good way to start a fire.
DJ wrote:
> So if I had two computers running Cubase and one Houston controller, could I
> merge the midi data from both DAWs to one controller.........man that sounds
> so totally impossible and crazy that I'm gonna have to try it.
>
> ;o)
>
> "Bill L" <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote in message news:4633dbe0@linux...
>> It is useful if you are using more than one controller, such as a keyboard
>> and a guitar controller or percussion controller and you don't want to
>> waste time plugging in a different cable all the time.
>>
>> Bill L
>>
>> DJ wrote:
>>> I'm getting a midi patch bay in here in the next few days. It will allow
>>> midi merge on channels 1 & 2.
>>>
>>> Is this something I should even do?
>>>
>>> Since I can do it, will I die if I don't?
>>>
>I am SO glad someone finally had the nerve to address this duck problem. I
thought maybe I was the only one who felt this way.
S
"DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com> wrote in message news:46335f57@linux...
>
>
> I think this is great and I'm not trying to slag Scientology here.
> Personally, I'm leery of all organized things. I even get paranoid when I
> see a row of ducklings following their mother .........except that they
> aren't ducklings......they are Roman centurions....and I know in the
> darkest depths of my soul that their mother just made the eat something
> horrible and they are *PISSED*!!!!!
>
> ;o)
>cun 'n pasted from another forum......
"My
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82111 is a reply to message #82096] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 09:33 |
Miguel Vigil [1]
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wife and I heard you at our friend's wedding reception recently, and
look
forward to you providing music at our daughter's upcoming wedding. We have a
list of songs we would like you to play. Don't worry if you don't know all
of them. Any Chick Corea composition would be great, but we would especially
like you to play "The Three Quartets, No.1" as the guests walk in.
For the bride's mother, please go right into the piano intro to "Quartet No.
2." Keep playing it till she gets up to the altar. Also, have it arranged
for the full ensemble. Don't play any of the "Electric Band" songs. Make
sure the drummer uses "Evans" drum heads so his drums sound like Steve Gadd,
our favorite drummer. Now, when I walk in, please play "Birdland" (but the
version from "Live"). My wife and I were at that show, and we particularly
like it. If you find it too difficult, you can play "Sister Cheryl" from
"Tony Williams Live in Tokyo "
Now, for the song in the middle of the Mass during the communion, we want
the singer to sing Alan Holdsworth's "Against the Clock" from his
"Wardenclyffe Tower " CD. We love this song and especially the drum solo by
Vinnie Colaiuta. We think that it's his greatest solo, although some will
argue against this. Keep repeating the drum solo till the priest tells you
to stop. Any of John Coltrane's duets w/Pharaoh Sanders would be grand.
I understand that their use of atonality is not everyone's cup of tea, but
all of our guests LOVE high register tenor saxes. We thought a little
Stravinsky right after the toast would be nice. We particularly like the
"Infernal Dance", or whatever it's called, from the Rite of Spring (second
version c. 1932). If you want to use the sheet music, that's OK. We like a
tempo of about 93. (Ozawa). Faster would be cool, too, but don't play it too
slow. That would ruin it.
Next, for the "life candle" lighting ceremony, please play Frank Zappa's
"The Black Page." If you want to play it in the original key of Bb minor,
that would be fine, but my cousin Janeen would like to sing it, so you may
have to play that part in another key (she majored in voice at UCLA).
During the cocktail hour, we want some nice Keith Jarrett tunes from his
"Standard Vol. 1 and 2" And, feel free to take things out as far as you
like. When my daughter throws the garter, could you play just a little of
Varese 's "Ionization"? It's such a cool piece. We think it would go over
really well: it's much better than "The Stripper."
Now, for the bride and groom's first dance, please slow things down a bit by
doing Barber's "Adagio for Strings." It's so much better than "We've Only
just Begun" or "The Anniversary Waltz." When my wife and I join in the first
dance, could you please segue to
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82112 is a reply to message #82111] |
Sun, 25 March 2007 10:10 |
Aaron Allen
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Thelonius Monk's "Ruby, My Dear"? That's in
honor of my wife's grandmother, whose name was Ruby. It would mean so much
to the family. Then, we would like to hear some nice Mexican music while we
eat dinner. We love the sound of Los Ponchos, so any of their hits would be
great.
Thanks very much for all your help. We'll certainly be happy to recommend
your band to all of our friends. We thought that $50.00 per man for 4 hours
would be sufficient. So that's $350.00 for the entire group. If you get our
guests dancing, I will throw in an extra $50.00. So, get 'em dancing. We
want you to be set up TWO HOURS before your start time @ 5:00 pm., and do
not be late.
We don't want to see any cases, bags, coats, boxes, cables, wires, or any
unnecessary clutter on the stage or within view of the guests. Play 1 hour
and then take a break of no more than 10 minutes, but don't forget, to leave
the guitar player or the piano player playing while the rest of the band
breaks. Absolutely no drinking! In fact, we don't even want to see the
musicians near the bar or food tables. Also, NO TALKING ON STAGE!! Go
outside quietly where no one can see you.
Of course, no smoking anywhere. Someone will be watching you on your breaks
to make sure you don't consume any alcohol. Before you leave, please feel
free to ask the caterer for a sandwich (or, a "bandwich" as you people call
them). And, perhaps a soda to take with you.
Oh, and one more thing... and this is very important. In between songs, we
don't want to hear any musicians practicing "licks," or running up and down
high speed scales. Nothing sounds worse than hearing musicians all "fooling
around" at the same time. I believe you people like to call it "noodling,"
or something like that. But, it is a terrible habit. It's very
unprofessional. You don't hear the members of the Berlin Philharmonic
"noodling around" between movements, right?
We look forward to hearing you play."Hi Bill,
"Bill L" <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote in message news:4633c817@linux...
> I'm not sure I can express this adequately but I will try. Hubbard wrote,
> "You are totally responsible for the condition you are in."
So if I'm walking down the sidewalk and someone in a rac leaves the roadway
and squashes me flat, am I responsible for the condition I am in?
> that may sound hard, any lessening of responsibility alloys one's
> integrity and lessens one's ability to solve the problem or improve the
> condition.
now I can understand this and I agree. If I survive the squashing, it will
not help me one iota to sit around and feel sorry for myself.
To the degree one blames others for one's condition he gives
> responsibility to solve it to them and surrenders his causativeness.
........not necessarily....by placing the blame squarely on someone else, I
ensure that my attorney has a case that will allow some kind of restitution
so that the rest of my (now somewhat amended) life is spent with some
aussurance that my medical bills will be paid and I will have someone around
to wipe my ass if I can't.
>
> Likewise each of us must take full responsibility for every other one of
> us, to solve the rather large problems we face on this planet.
.......tell that to the insurance adjustor for the *sqashor*.
If I
> assume the viewpoint of another and I am willing to walk in another's
> shoes I cannot but understand him and from that understanding I can help
> him. One is only as valuab
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| Re: Converter quandry [message #82135 is a reply to message #82112] |
Mon, 26 March 2007 08:04 |
rich
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> pretty much made it impossible to have the music only and fit it into some
> context in your life. Second, it moved the focus to visual content
> instead
> of aural content. To quote one of my older songs:
>
> "Images upon the screen
> finish our imagining
> first we watched the singers dance
> now we watch the dancers sing"
>
>
Back in the late 70's an Austin musician named Chris Geppert was heading up
a cover band by the name of Christopher Cross. They used to play lots of
proivate parties and played a lot of gigs at local clubs there, most often
at a nightclub called Steamboat 1874 and it's sister club downtown called
Steamboat Springs. One of my good frineds, a guy named Kerry Flynn, was the
owner/manager of Steamboat 1874 and we used to hang with these guys a bit.
Chris was a good songwriter, had a decent voice and was a fairly proficient
guitar player. The band played lots of his original songs at the club gigs.
He ended getting picked up by a label (I forget which one now) and the band
was flown out ot LA and Michael O'Martian produced their first (and only)
album. Lots of major session musicians played on the album and though the
band members were good players and could hold their own, chris was just no
match for guys like Larry Carlton (who played lead on the album). they got
major airplay with songs like Ride Like the Wind and Sailing. There were
lots of other good songs on the album too...not much filler at all. When
they started touring to promote the album, MTV was just getting started and
they did a video. Chris looked a bit like the Pillsbury Doughboy. Chris'
lack of photogeniety, along with the fact that they didn't bring along the
studio guitar slingers to flesh out the musical prowess and give the
audiences a semblance of the signature chops on a lot of the album cuts,
plus pretty much insured that a second album never happened...........but he
did get his 15 minutes and his songs still get airplay on the oldies
stations(mailbox money). Had he looked like David Lee Roth (I think he could
have even developed a "Meatloaf" kinda *ugly rocker* persona if he had been
the type to get into wrteched excess.....he was a family man though) and
fired his band, he would have probably been more successful. He had lots of
good songs in the can back then.
;o)"Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> wrote:
>OK, I'm halfway with you.
>
>1. Autotune
Hey, I'd have rather heard some properly-applied Autotune the
other day as opposed to the car-horn tritones that supposedly
passed for vocal harmonies on Jan & Dean's "Surf City" when it
came on the Oldies station I was listening to.
>2.) Quantizing
If you had been working on the string arrangement I was fighting
with over the past two weeks, you'd have BEGGED for the ability
to quantize the backing track. I know I was.
NeilIt is the studio I had in the 90's--were you ever there?
Iliff and Quebec basically--we can definitely check
it out...
Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote:
>
>Lunch on Friday works for me. Email me for my phone number (John, you
>have mail...).
>
>Are you building a new studio, John? Maybe we could meet nearby and you
>could give us a tour.
>
>Cheers,
> -Jamie
> www.JamieKrutz.com
>
>
>John Macy wrote:
>> Well, lunch Friday sounds like all will be
>> available--my schedule still holds as above.
>> I am working on my new studio in SE Denver
>> and also at the one in west Denver... Pretty
>> loose schedule other than the required stuff...
>>
>> Email me and I'll send you my cell number...
>>
>>
>> Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote:
>>> Places to see? I'll start the list with these:
>>>
>>> -Red Rocks Amphitheater
>>> -Museum of Nature and Science
>>> -Denver Zoo
>>>
>>> And, if you're into skiing, head West from here. Not sure when ski
>>> resorts are closing so be sure to double check thei
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