Kanthos

Doh, and now I can't even type properly. 4081-5772-1984 Weird; I definitely typed it, because I typoed it as 1981 both previously and now. Somehow I erased it, I guess?

Major apologies to everyone who added me. I haven't paid much attention to this thread in a while. The thumbstick on my 3DS broke a while back so I got a replacement, so my friend code in the first post isn't right. My new one is 4081-5772- Also, I've added everyone in the first post now.

Yeah, I wasn't going to run out and buy anything new. I was just curious why you think VB3's more effective, sample size aside (since B4-II is on the small side too, though probably not as small as VB3).

I'm curious, Yoozer; what is it that makes VB3 better, besides the price? I've used both B4-II and Vintage Organs. Convince me why it would be worth buying VB3 when I've already got the other two.

Do you have NI Kontakt? If so, get NI Vintage Organs. It's basically their B4-II product, but sampled instead of synthesized - the B4-II is discontinued - and it sounds great. It's got the Hammond B3, C3, and M3s (probably what you'd think of as classic rock organ sound), plus the Vox Continental (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, House Of The Rising Sun, etc.), and Farfisa Compact (Pink Floyd used it a lot; it's somewhere in between the B3 and Vox sounds). If you want a more pipe organ sound, Kontakt's got some in its stock library under the Orchestral section, or there's the Project SAM Organ Mystique product - never used it, but the demos sound great and there's a lot of control and options in it.

My pleasure, and thanks for having a long list to choose from!

I got my gift today from the fine gentleman I'm quoting. It was this book. Thanks so much! Incidentally, which Nord do you have? I used to have the third update of the Nord Stage; I miss its piano and electric piano section, but the Roland V-Combo VR-700 I have now has real drawbars, better-feeling keys, and a few other sounds like strings that the Nord just didn't have. There's good and bad things about both, really.

Depends how many outputs you want. I'm pretty sure that Kontakt 5.dll is just two outputs (one stereo pair), while the 8 and 16-output versions obviously give you more. The advantage is that you can use one instance of Kontakt (and thus use less memory) for multiple instruments, but send the outgoing audio to different tracks in FL Studio so you can apply different effects to them.

Mine's shipped now, could arrive as early as tomorrow. It's in two parts though, and they may arrive separately.

He's better than I am! Very cute too

I'm not too picky a person, but if it helps my giver out, I've got a list on amazon.ca. Also, gift cards for iTunes (Canada or the US, I've got a US iTunes account) or amazon.ca are welcome, or any other creative thing you can think of. And, my gift has been ordered and should be delivered in a week or so.

I've found it a bit hard on *my* eyes, and I'm 30. I generally don't play with it on, other than for Mario Land 3D, and even then it still isn't necessary. I wouldn't let a 7-year-old play with the 3D turned on. You can lock the 3D via Parental Controls though, so I wouldn't worry about buying the system for him.

Oh, I forgot Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales. It's quite possibly my favourite DS game. It's based on the Final Fantasy series and a great art style. The main game world is a nice 3D style, and you control a chocobo and walk around, advancing the story. The meat of the game takes place in minigames, all tied to storybooks (so there's some great reading practice for Tom), a few microgames that aren't book-related, and a fairly simple trading card game battle system. Completing objectives in the books will either reward you with cards for battling or will change parts of the world to advance the story. The storybooks and TCG battles all appear in a great popup-book style. Basically, I'd highly recommend it for reading comprehension, strategy (figuring out which cards you should use in your TCG deck), and because you're not doing the same thing the whole way through.

Hmm, good point on the grinding. I didn't find the inventory management to be too hard, other than having to remember to always buy a warp wire before you leave town (it's an item that warps you back to town and it's pretty much essential to always carry one). He's quite cool. He's got an ear for music already, I let him play our upright piano or my keyboard fairly often. He loves percussion too: at church, he'll stare at the drummer the whole time. I took him to a music store a couple weeks ago while my wife was shopping, and he had the greatest afternoon ever playing with all the instruments. He's even smart enough to hit congas with one hand on each. He's making up for being born in the car on the half-mile drive to the hospital

The Etrian Odyssey series might be pushing it, depending on what his attention span is like and whether he's ok with more logical RPG-type games, but if you think he can handle wandering in a dungeon where it's *easy* to die within the first 10 minutes of the game, where *every* trip to the dungeon can be hazardous unless you're over-leveled, where each dungeon floor is big and you have to draw your own maps on the touch-screen, he might like it. It's easily among the most challenging games on the DS. Also, especially since you mentioned music, I want my nine-month-old to turn out like Tom

I'm in again.

Nonsense. It depends what you're going for. If you want your project to be a compilation of the best/your favourite songs over the series, do that. I think what Kuolema means is that trying to remix every song used in all three games is a ton of work. There's no reason why you can't pick and choose though and end up with something manageable.

I haven't had that much time to play yet, and I'm only a few hours into the game. Two nights ago, I made it to Whiterun, went into the alchemist's shop, and cleared out every last one of her ingredients while she was in the shop. I then made them all into potions and sold them back to her. Then, last night, I got jumped by three thugs in Riverwood. Took me a few tries to kill them, but when I did, one of them had a contract on him from the Whiterun alchemist asking them to teach me a lesson. GOTY.

I'm running just fine on my laptop with the graphics on medium and a lower resolution (1280x720); it's got an Intel i5 and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 card.

Just saw this today. The best part of it is that it means there'll be a lot more in-game music in Skyrim than there was in Morrowind or Oblivion.

Wow, good stuff! Someone get her to sing on your remix! (or I'll have to put together something good enough to warrant such a good voice). Welcome!

You can in Oblivion and Morrowind; don't know why they'd disallow it here.

For anyone planning to run Skyrim on the PC, here are the system requirements. I think my laptop just squeaks in on the graphics card front, so I'm going to give it a shot.

Actually, in QBasic and beyond, line numbers (or names; pretty sure named targets were introduced in QBasic) are only needed for destinations of goto instructions, so depending on the version, his code might be right

OA, you're old! Congrats, Tony, that's a huge break. Have fun with it!