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From: Bob Donald on 12 Mar 2010 00:06

> I don't remember his video and I had no idea there were videos at their
> web
> site. Where are these videos? Forum somewhere?

I dont remember exactly where they were, I downloaded them onto the daw.
I'll dig around and see if I can find the link. They were extremely
informative, at least to me as a novice


> Yeah, I have been a bit ridiculous...you would think I just had a baby
> and am a proud father or something, but if it makes you feel any better I
> am building another one for the wife and will be ordering my parts within
> a week. <G> I will report back <VBG>

Naw, actually it's been fun. I really wanted to build another one, but the
prices went up on the 860 the day I was going to get it. Now I'm stuck with
this atom 330 for the HTPC that isnt working out so well, and making me wish
I had spent the money on another one of these core i7's.

> The computer she is using in her office was built by us in 2001 and is on
> its last leg and has had three legs in the grave as of late. Today we
> were booking flights simultaneously but she was booking with reward
> mileage and I was booking normally but we wanted to get seats on the same
> plane next to each other and her computer screwed up the transaction and
> she had to start all over again. It is getting real slow but was a good
> build since it has lasted nine years; an early XP machine.

Well, at least it justifies the new system. Plus 9 years is a good amount
of time.

> A UAD-2 Solo is two and a half times more powerful than the original UAD
> and only one of those cannot do much unless your freezing tracks. The
> Solo can be had for 400.00 and comes with the UA 1176SE
> Compressor/Limiter, the Pultec EQP-1A Program Equalizer, the RealVerb Pro
> Room Modeler, and the CS-1 Channel Strip plus a $50 Plug-in Voucher. A
> bargain in my opinion without killing you at the bank.

Yeah, but I dont use it enough to justify spending that much. Nowaday's
it's strictly a hobby, so I have to try to do things on the cheap <or at
least as cheap as possible>. If I ever get something down that needs a good
mix or mastering it's going to my buddy's studio where he has a couple of
duo's and knows how to use them. I'm just looking for something to ease the
load on the CPU and fill up the unused pci slots :) So far the software
plug-ins have been more than enough for my meager requirements.


From: Bob Donald on 12 Mar 2010 10:20

"Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9D395951FB97CBrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213...
> The killer robot "Here In Oregon" <HIO(a)nospam.net> grabbed the controls
> of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons...
>
>> I don't remember his video and I had no idea there were videos at
>> their web site. Where are these videos? Forum somewhere?
>
> The vid I posted was how simple it is in Reaper to use Drag-n-Drop
> routing to do things like connect one midi track to several midi
> softsynths. Here's a link to that one.

Oh, my mistake, sorry. It must have been one of their vid's that showed
copying the whole chain. Either way, both were helpful no matter the author
:)


From: Ouroboros Rex on 12 Mar 2010 14:18
On 3/11/2010 6:57 PM, Bob Donald wrote:
> "Here In Oregon"<HIO(a)nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:hnc1ag$i52$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> I am a licensed Reaper user now and I have my badge and credentials.
>>
>> In Reaper you have to forget a lot of the way you worked before in other
>> DAWs. Once you do this you can begin to understand what you thought was
>> insanity is actually genius. Track folders and grouping of tracks for
>> instance with bussing and sends is incredible.
>
> Yeah, that was pretty much my experience with it. Once I cleared my mind of
> my usual techniques it was amazing how everything made sense and came
> together. This paragraph is so deja vu!
>
>> Guess which DAW you can drag and copy effects along with effects chains
>> and change order around while retaining your effect settings?. Yep, good
>> guess.
>
> Glennbo did a little video about this for us, just blew me away. Then I
> found a bunch of tutorial video's on their website and was laughing the
> whole time while shaking my head. It took me less than an hour to log on
> and buy it, and I didnt get the usual hmmm'ing and hawing during the
> process, I couldnt click the submit button fast enough.
>
>> The current default GUI and theme has grown on me and is easy on the eyes
>> and looks professional. I recommend it over some the other themes
>> because buttons and knobs can get goofy looking.

That's interesting. Could changing this possibly make knobs and
buttons bigger, do you suppose, maybe touchscreen size? I know most GUI
themes cannot do this, just wondering It would be so nice not to have
to run stuff in 800x600 screen resolution. lol

Probably going to spring for Reaper this month. Thanks, all, for the
great reviews. =)
From: Bob Donald on 12 Mar 2010 15:00
> Reaper's GUI is 100% scalable. Look in the UI prefs and you can set it
> other things besides it's default of 100%. On my netbook, I have it set
> for 80%.

Cool, I was wondering when the conversation was going to turn to reaper and
the netbook. I just picked up an aspire, and would be nice to have it on
there. Guitar Rig 4 didnt play too well with it, but I kind of suspected
that reaper would. I was thinking of trying to use reaper as the host and
create some patches using the free vst's that are out there. It was on the
backburner, but moved up a couple of lines on the list.


From: Bob Donald on 12 Mar 2010 15:36

"Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9D39904F7C450BrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213...
> The killer robot "Bob Donald" <bdonald(a)panova.com> grabbed the controls
> of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons...

> On my Eee PC's 9" screen, it's a comfortable fit scaled down to 80%.
> I've actually done a multi-track test just to see how far I could take
> it as a scratch pad, and was surprised to find that I could run
> EZ-Drummer for the drum track, and three guitar amp simulators (I think
> I used Freeamp) for two guitar tracks and a bass track. I even used the
> tiny netbook keyboard to record my drums in real time. The test was to
> see if I ever wanted to take my Eee and only a bass and a guitar
> somewhere (like on a vacation), if I could use it to do rough drafts of
> songs. This was the result of the test, which I even uploaded direct
> from the Eee as a second part of the test.

Great, thanks for the point of reference. I was thinking freeamp as well,
so nice to know it works so well in it. This is an n450 <1.66 with HT> so
it should work be able to handle it. I was kind of disappointed at GR not
being able to handle it, although not entirely surprised. It would have
been just so convenient to program it all on the daw, copy the patches over
to the netbook, grab the art preamp and berhinger foot controller and go. I
set it all up on the laptop, but these arent the most "aware" guys and I
could picture 15 or 20 ways that it would have met it's demise. This is
definitely a smaller target :)



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