...................... Unfortunately it's almost impossible to know whether or not a particular machine will work well - some laptops from a vendor like Dell can be problematic, others can be fine. I can say that the Lenovo Legion 5 I use in the studio has exceptionally good and stable performance ...

I used to work with a girl whose surname was Dicks. This was in the early 2000s. It was discovered that she couldn't send emails to some of our clients because their spam filters were blocking her name. Yeah, we had that problem with our Business Analysts for a while, and when Cialis entered the ...

I was once informed that there is a lump of wood with a recess in it at the bottom of a boat thingy that is used to secure the base of the mast. It is apparently a: Considerably Unacceptable Naughty Term. There was a lecturer at a university in Manchester, and that 'naughty term' was her surname, I ...

I was once informed that there is a lump of wood with a recess in it at the bottom of a boat thingy that is used to secure the base of the mast. It is apparently a: Considerably Unacceptable Naughty Term. There was a lecturer at a university in Manchester, and that 'naughty term' was her surname, I ...

I had a Ford Sierra estate reg F303CUK and got it because a previous potential lady buyer said "Oh! I couldn't possibly drive with THAT on my car!" I couldn't give a ****. When it finally failed the MOT, Ford rust cancer, I thought I might get a decent drink for the plate but I could not find ...

I am not sure whether this is still relevant. But when I had a similar problem years ago, on two different setups, the issue was resolved by... a) turning off networking/wifi, with a shortcut on the desktop enable/disable b) changed from NVIDIA to Radeon graphics - of course not possible on laptop ...

Enjoyed that! I love those multi inset videos you guys do, they work really well. For me, all that stuff's harder than the music, so well done! I probably shouldn't say this, but the video bits are *so* low-input compared to the audio. I spend a *lot* of time on the audio - writing, rehearsing ...

It's a real pesky conundrum you Bravehearts are having. I was trying to make an online purchase using Opera. I couldn't, it wouldn't accept my debit card details. The documentation suggested changing a browser setting, I did change it. It didn't work. I opened Firefox, and the purchase went through ...

As it happens, and happen it does, I was tinkering about with Linux last night and browsed to the SOS Forum, to test the 'responsiveness' and on Linux Lite, I think the browser was Firefox, and the responses were instant. Back on Windows Opera now, and back to fits and starts. It's odd, as using ...

..like trying to paint your hallway by poking a paintbrush through the letterbox. Ooh! A bold unattributed quote in SOS. Wasn't that Gordon Reid in the review of some TG module? I loved that line; it so perfectly described the experience of programming those modules. [EDIT] No - *I'm ...

These sound amazingly 'punchy' in so much there is a very noticeable presence and even coming from DAT, so digital involved, even so, the songs are very dynamic, and done all those years ago, a grand job indeed. Sorry about his passing of course, he has left a good legacy, certainly music wise at ...

I'm reluctant to change from Reaper, I started with Samplitude, and I never got further than trying to get a VSTi to work with it, and failed, that was an evil program, so convoluted, designed by nerds. I think I'll stick with Reaper, I know it, and it’s not complicated, compared to Studio One etc, ...

I’m finding total mix really complicated, which doesn’t help matters. Is there a way to simplify this ? For someone who never records more than 2 ins at a time total mix is overkill and very often I can’t do what I want. For example I would like to monitor what sound is making up my live stream, but ...

I got all the DAW-swapping out of my system many years ago, messing around with Cubase, Nuendo, Live, Studio One, Reaper, Sonar and the rest. These days I don't do anything complicated and I still generally reach for an old version of Sonar, as it's what I started with and still most familiar to me ...

An Hammond owner I know says the purists considered the true Hammond was the pre B3, the one with electricals eg tone wheels etc and the rest, the digitables were mere pretenders. There's certainly a lot of love for all the tonewheel and valve organs which evolved from the 1930s up to the early 70s ...

……………….. Up to the point where I stopped getting royalties, my effective rate from Spotify had been between £0.003 and £0.004 per stream. In the two months that I've actually had some royalty payments this year, it's been £4.70 for 3,404 streams and £2.56 for 1,814 streams. Ignoring the fact that th ...

Which of the 253 million organ sound do you like the best? 28, 5632, and 56,875,457. You? :lol: And are we not distinguishing between the Hammond and the Hammond B3? As far as I understand it, they are a completely different animal I'm not sure what "the Hammond" is. I was talking about the ...

Which of the 253 million organ sound do you like the best?

And are we not distinguishing between the Hammond and the Hammond B3? As far as I understand it, they are a completely different animal

I was looking forward to hearing the 'repair' but I am not sure it has changed to the extent that I think - spot on, back of the net. I still feel it needs some momentum, something that drives it along, and as someone else has said, there could be parts of it that need s clearer dynamic shift ...

I'll be keeping my eyes open for that

I'm finding this all rather confusing. What exactly is a 'synthesiser' to you Tony. Going to extremes, a Hammond B3 is a synth - an electromagnetic one. Many moons ago I not only played one, but did restoration work on it (it had been left unused in a damp church side room). Over a period of years ...

Is there any xmas stock in yet? tomorrow is the day when I am going to sort my life out and on a mission not to end up, as usual, rushing round the service station last thing Christmas Eve evening buying up junk and wrapping paper

I well remember checking SOB out of our local library when I was young and while I was certainly excited to hear synthesisers used to re-create music that I could directly relate to it didn't really have much of an impact for me. Bach is meant to be played not multi-tracked. I short while later ...

BillB wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:11 pm I agree with everything you say, OneWorld. I guess I’m just offering one antidote to ‘the cold reality of synthesizers’.

I doff my cap to you sir (there's no emoji for doffin', same as there isn't one for "Well. I'll go t'top of our stairs")

.................... For my money, Carlos didn’t really do it with Switched-on Bach. Those pieces were (very accomplished for the time) technical demonstrations of what was possible, but without much emotion - although that may be as much down to Bach’s composition as Carlos’s interpretation...... ...