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I'd rather not be connected to the highway.

Speaking of which, how do I specify where I want my warp set? Do I just have to run into you or Gman in-game to point out the spot specifically, or is somewhere up by my castle (the big bridge-looking thing NNW of spawn) specific enough?

I'm not sure about Kontakt specifically, but usually sample use involves both loading to RAM and streaming from disk since the patches are often too large to fit entirely in RAM. Sometimes you can set an option that will force it to load everything into RAM and not stream -- I know PLAY has this feature; I don't know about Kontakt.

It's kind of slow. I don't know if it would be too slow relative to how you're using samples or not. I used to use a Firewire drive for samples on a laptop; I now have the same drive hooked to a desktop via eSATA (which makes it almost as fast as an internal drive) and the speed increase relative to Firewire is very noticeable. Load times for large projects are much shorter. The playback streaming performance is, I'm sure, also much better with internal/eSATA, but on the laptop I was pushing the limits of RAM and CPU already, so I'm not really sure how much of a playback bottleneck the Firewire connection was. Another possibility is to buy a larger replacement internal drive for the laptop, then use a USB enclosure to transfer things from the old drive to the new drive. (EDIT: n/m, forgot that you were pulling the second drive from an old system, not buying it.) EDIT: Or you could use the USB drive for games and data and put Kontakt on the system drive. I don't know how using a USB drive for games would impact game performance, but it probably wouldn't be as adversely as using USB for samples would impact sample streaming performance.

I'm glad I've finished the stuff on the castle that needed scaffolding. There was a lot of falling involved.

IRC sucks; let's send telegrams.

Build a maze.

I'm using the Painterly Pack.

My castle is sort of finished. NW of spawn if anyone wants to see it up close.

Very nice. I'm in the process of digging a big hole between two adjacent bluffs, because I want a tower on a bridge over a deep lava pit. Takes a looong time.

This is totally just a publicity stunt. As shown in the first post, Nintendo's already gotten at least one news article from it, so apparently it's working.

obama's message to republican-controlled house: "it's on like donkey kong"

It's easy to do when you're going from a major key down a minor third to a minor key (i.e. from a major key to its relative minor key) because the key signature stays the same. Not quite so easy when you go minor to minor since as IBBIAZ pointed out there's a difference of three accidentals. Generally speaking, the closer the key signatures are to each other, the easier it is to modulate between the keys.

The first modulation to E works all right, although you approach E with its minor dominant instead of the much stronger major dominant. If you used B major or B7 to approach E instead of B minor the modulatory effect would be a lot stronger. It doesn't sound bad the way it is now; it's just a question of how strongly you want the modulation to come across. The second modulation doesn't work so well (as in "doesn't sound like a textbook modulation," not as in "doesn't sound good") because vii only functions like V if vii is diminished (spelled E-sharp, G-sharp, B, in the case of an F-sharp key). The major VII of F-sharp that you use here means that you're approaching F-sharp with something that doesn't sound like its dominant, so the key change sounds abrupt.

It's a lot clearer in the 480p version if you haven't tried that.

For clarification: are buckets now okay to use or do they still cause CPU spikes?

I can throw some moneys at the server too.

What I do when I want to write something as quickly as possible is to write 16 bars or so of melody by hand on staff paper (ideally while at a coffee shop because that's a good place for thinking), divide it into three-to-five-note motives and generally break it into pieces, then create a section-by-section outline of the entire piece describing how the motives are used in specific measures and basic ideas for orchestration. (For example: mm. 24-39 -- Develop motive 3 as call-and-response between flute and oboe; winds and high strings in background; modulate to V.) When I have this done, I take it into Sonar and write out the melody and/or important lines for the entire piece, then go back and make orchestration and counterpoint decisions and generally flesh things out. This process is how I made this remix for the Freshly Baked ReMixer Challenge this year.

fuckin video games how do they work?

I wonder if the Beta or release version will let you limit the terrain size on multiplayer to keep system resource use in check.

I think this is the first YouTube video I've seen that has more dislikes than likes.

I was gonna buy it but the price is too damn high.

I was on last night and the tree preserve was fine.

This thread is totally over a year old.