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Pre-ordered about 8 weeks ago. And even better, I'll be on vacation next week when it comes, so I'll have plenty of time to play. Yes, pineapples are great. Even better if they're all level 10 pineapples. Although strawberries are a better crop, and other than the fact that it means you have to do all the work yourself, filling Carmite Cave with level 10 strawberries gives you tones of money every two days.

If that doesn't work, you could always copy the project files, open the new copy, and delete all the parts, leaving you with the same tempo track as the original.

I don't know if he'd sue, but I'm sure he'll recognize his own music. After all, he is involved with the Black Mages now, a rock group playing his music. Any good composer would recognize their music in a remix anyway.

Happy birthday Chris! As a present I'll try really hard to finish my WIP for the rock opera

Stuff someone posts on his personal site doesn't mean it's produced and mixed up to project quality. Reuben likely posted his contest entry from the competition zircon held early this year, which while good for a contest entry probably needed just a bit more work to make it project-worthy. Also, downloading tracks from someone's site and including them in your project without permission is a bad idea

That's what I get for having tight deadlines at work and not having played the bot or even entered the channel in the last week

It's not open-source. Zircon's done all the coding so far, but may allow others to help him out in that regard. Mostly, he needs design help.

If you have a half-decent torrent client, you can choose to only download some of the files instead of all of them

The special edition is a bit of a joke anyway. "Here, have this really crappy amp that's basically a replacement for plugging your PC speakers or something into your DS". I'm mildly interested in Jam Sessions but won't be spending any money on it. If they had a good mechanism for playing individual notes and allowed you to store a very large number of palettes of chords per song instead of just two, I'd be much more interested. Jazz chords, or better yet, the ability to create your own chords, would make it fantastic. (I don't know how they'd let you play individual notes, but the other two features are/were definitely doable).

Didn't realize they didn't have daylight savings time in England. Now I feel dumb. However, Voices of the Lifestream in less than 2 hours

EST is GMT -5

You lucky punk! They never offered that course during my undergrad, and I really wish I'd been able to take it. I'd be probably 5 years ahead of where I am now as a remixer if it'd been available. Carol Ann is fine for the jazz history class, but I have yet to hear anyone who liked her as a theory teacher. If you start taking the higher-level theory (270, 271, etc), try and get Leonard Enns if you can.

Hah, sounds like a fun assignment. Who was teaching the course? Oh, and did you make it into stage band this term? Also, it's in your best interests to avoid taking classes with Carol Ann Weaver if possible

The problem is in the phrase "plays back as written, regardless of your computer's strength". Unless you use a sequencer *AS* a VST plugin, which might get complicated to set up, you have no way of controlling most of the human aspects of playing. Sibelius will try to apply some kind of "humanizing" logic to your music; given a musical style that you tell it, it tries to make things sound like real people playing real instruments were playing your music, but the artificial intelligence to pull that off well just isn't there yet. A sequencer doesn't explicitly let you create better music (and if you have no way to get your samples into a sequencer, you might even sound worse). What it lets you do is let you adjust a whole set of parameters for each note manually. There's velocity, attack/delay/sustain/release, and a bunch of other parameters that Sibelius will try and control for you but you can control yourself in a decent sequencer. Not to mention that whatever processing Sibelius does isn't that complex; after all, it can do all that on the fly on a reasonable computer. So basically, it's a limitation of Sibelius, not GPO. Sibelius and Finale are still a long way off, from what I've heard, of getting realistic playback. They're great for writing notation and giving you some way to approximate what it will sound like when real people play it, but to get audio worth listening to, you'll either have to find real people to play it or use a sequencer. Yes, you can export a MIDI from Sibelius and tweak it in a sequencer, but unless you're exceptionally fast with notation, you'd probably find it easier to do things directly in a sequencer.

Dealing with storms is easy: save before bed, reload if you get a storm I'm now growing one of each crop in the caves with greenifiers, to get them all to level 10. I've got all 7 monster barns built, but no basements yet, and have the first 5 full: 4 each of monsters who produce wool, milk, eggs, honey, and 4 that water. It's about the 3rd day of fall, my house has been fully upgraded since the 24th of summer, and I'm just buying the rest of the recipe books and small house upgrades. The crafting part of the game (cooking, forging, pharmacy, and decoration) is a lot of fun too. Who to marry? Right now, I'm thinking Rosetta, but I'm going to get through the end of the game before I bother with getting married. Too many other things keeping me busy

The key is knowing which things to plant. I started off with 6 fields (3 tiles x 3 tiles) of strawberry plants for the spring, and right now, have 6 fields of grazing grass and six of pineapples. When I get to the fall, I'll plant 6 or more fields of sweet potatoes. Why those crops in particular? They all sell pretty well, and they all have a regrowth period: after you harvest, keep watering those fields. In 2 days for strawberries and sweet potatoes (not sure yet for pineapples; they have a 20-day initial growth period, but it's probably 2 days as well), the crops grow back without you having to replant. Other than that, I've done a lot of mining, particularly in Clemens Cave, because there are some good clusters of ore to mine. The room south of the trap room with the titan gives you 18, I think, and the room with the water in it (two screens north and one screen east of the titan room) has another 11. I did a lot of fishing in the first few days; once I'd watered my crops, I fished. At the moment, I'm basically harvesting wood, but I've cleared the first 4 caves and have about 170,000 gold and 600 wood and am working on creating super-fruit (level 10 strawberries, sweet potatoes, and pineapples) in the first 3 caves. If you don't know, you can either trade items back and forth via Wi-Fi (they level up one quality level each time they're traded; very cheap way to get tons of money if you start trading a few items up to level 100), or you can plant a field of level 1 crops and use a greenifier on one of them (producing a level 2 crop), then sell the level 1 crops and put the level 2 crop in your seedmaker to get level 2 seeds, plant, use a greenifier, repeat. I have level 3 strawberry seeds to plant once I get my sickle back and can clear a field in Carmite Cave to plant on, plus level 3 sweet potatoes and level 3 pineapples growing in Toros and Clemens caves.

Been playing Rune Factory nonstop since I got it. I'm on day 7 in my first summer and have almost enough cash and wood to upgrade my house.

Villainelle submitted her mix, but as far as I know, it hasn't been processed by the panel yet, so it'd be hard to get unless you asked her about it directly.

By music, I'm guessing you mean playing MP3s and so on. You won't find a decent soundcard for remixing for $40 anyway. Is your machine a laptop or desktop? If a desktop, does it have an empty PCI slot?

AnotherSoundscape's going to have a nervous breakdown!

Most people in Ontario don't know there's life more than 50km away from the 401 corridor. Most people in Ontario are quite ignorant

For the record, a jazz mix of *any* track will work well, as long as the artist knows what he or she is doing

Do you want a good soundcard for remixing (in which case $40 is probably too low) or one more for basic MP3 playback and gaming?

http://www.w3schools.com

I don't have any other suggestions for saxes. Garritan Jazz & Big Band will run you about $250 or so, I think, and will at least give you better trumpet/trombone sounds, but won't help out your saxes that much. You can probably get somewhere by using the right processing effects on your saxes, but I'm not an expert in that so I can't really give you any help. Good luck with it; post some updates when you get them and I'll comment again.