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Holy old news, Batman! I blame synthtopia for making me think this was just released. -steve

I'm all sticky now. Anyway, Yellow Tools is giving away a light version of their Independence sampler with no restrictions except the importing of external sounds (they even allow you to use it commercially) and a select 2GB library of sounds. As far as I know, a free professional download of this size is unprecedented. Lookie: http://www.yellowtools.us/cp21/cms/index.php?id=399&shownews=527 -steve

Then throw some nylons on it. Agreed on buying a guitar in person, though. There's just no comparison. -steve

Well then, I answered your question. -steve

For Kontakt 2, you want the "Offline (Bounce) Mode" button on the Engine tab. -steve

The materials they're made of, the prices, and the way they sound. Not sure what you're getting at here... -steve

It's not bad, but it's no better than any solo David Gilmour's ever plucked out. -steve

Not really, but he's been spamming his company's crap software for a solid two years on audio forums (check google), and it's time someone called him on it. The only reason I stopped posting info was because there was too much of it to sift through. The guy's dumb enough to leave huge amounts of info around before he spams. His phone number is floating around somewhere, too. -steve

Fuck you and fuck your spam. Edit: your wife's hot: http://www.thehargreavesfamily.co.uk/photos/Honeymoon_-_October_2004_files/Media/DSCF0305/DSCF0305.jpg Edit 2: What the heck... Andrew James Hargreaves www.thehargreavesfamily.co.uk www.helience.com http://www.thehargreavesfamily.co.uk/photos/Honeymoon_-_October_2004.html#39 DOB: 1/14/80 Google Earth house info: http://www.gearthhacks.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4404&d=1153688068 house built in 2001 Warrington, UK IP as of 10/2006: 192.157.10.241 Used to be a teacher http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10596908 -steve

No. My wife's main computer is a laptop I gave her when I updated mine. Other than the occasional Windows-required reboot, it's been on continuously for over a year. Now get ready for the irony: it's an eMachines M5310, notorious for overheating issues. On Dell: my laptop and my son's laptop are both Dells. I use mine for at least 12 hours every day, and he's 4 years old (hence, hard on his stuff--he spilled water directly into his keyboard just last week, in fact). Both laptops are quite rugged and I would not hesitate to get another when upgrade time comes around again. They also made the best run of cheap PDA ever (Axim 50 and 51 series, on which I ran a full-speed Playstation emulator) and the widescreen 37" LCD TV I have, which has been flawless in every respect. Dell's old reputation for shitty products has been turned around for several years now. So I'm going to have to compare my year-old Dell, my son's 11-year-old Dell and my wife's 5-year-old eMachines laptops--none of which have had any problems other than the previously mentioned overheating issue (which isn't affecting my wife because she doesn't play intensive games like I did)--to your year-old Compaq, which has had two problems. Heh. Ninja-san: I would recommend Dell's refurb program for whatever you decide to get, if you're not averse to refurbished hardware. You can find stuff really cheap there sometimes, and you still get a 1-year warranty. If you go with another brand, see if they have refurbs with full warranties as well. -steve PS: in the interest of not sounding like I work for Dell, I have to say that while their hardware support department has been very responsive to questions I had about my laptop's specs, their general customer support department sucks ass. If you need to contact Dell for anything other than tech support, be prepared for several weeks worth of back-and-forth with annoyingly stupid people.

Is this an open-source project? Because while I'm not a big fan of FF, I really miss Legend of the Red Dragon, and it would be nice to be able to play it right in IRC. -steve

Rubbery Dude: growing your fingernails and keeping them just the right length (a daily procedure, involving precision sanding) and making sure you don't do anything which might break them is a pain in the ass, but it sounds much better. I did it for about a year before I went back to playing with my fingertips instead of nails. You can also get fingertip plectrums (plectra?) but I have no experience with those. -steve

XueFei Yang, playing one of the most complex pieces I've ever personally attempted: She's awesome. There's a better video on her website somewhere. -steve

You should buy them all, then find out which one you like most. -steve

Burn-in is not an issue on LCDs, as a couple of others have mentioned. Plasmas, apparently. LCDs, no. I work in a NOC. We just replaced all of our monitoring CRTs with 5 large (46" and 42") LCDs, and I can tell you these things will have the same images displayed on them for the next 8 years if the life of the CRTs was any indication. We aren't concerned about burn-in. Hell, one of the replaced CRTs had the same thing on it for at least a year and there's no hint of burn-in even on it (the other ones, sure, but remember those are CRTs). -steve

I had to stop harvesting after that gameplay twist. The biggest theme in the game is Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism, which (someone correct me if I'm wrong, I've never read her work) emphasizes personal responsibility, objective reality (truth independent of observation) and the fact that free men should be able to choose their own way in life without undue interference. The only real choice the player has is to either harvest or save the little sisters. -steve

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is excellent. -steve

I'm about 70-80% of the way through the game as far as I know. It's lots of fun but I don't know that I would rate it above HL2. The storyline so far is very comparable to the one in F.E.A.R. in terms of how it gets revealed. -steve

You're the man now, dawg! I'll try that when I get home in the morning. Sweet. EDIT: rawk. You also have to turn on the pre-fader button to route the signal to the send effect track first, but it worked beautifully. Thanks. -steve

Incorrect. I've seen many collabs between OC remixers and other people, some here and some elsewhere. Michael, your music is great and reminds me of both Tool and Radiohead with more of a college feel. I added both your myspace accounts as friends. Sign me up for a collab. I play acoustic and electric guitar (20 years), computer synths (15 years?) and I "play" drums through a drum ROMpler (fxPansion BFD). -steve

I have an annoying problem in CuBase SX. I can use Amplitube 2 (or any effect) as an insert without problems, but if I try to use it as a send, I hear the dry signal mixed with the effected sound on record and playback, and when bouncing to wav. This is a problem because when I do use guitar, I typically have between 8 and 12 different guitar tracks per song. I'd love to be able to use 3-4 sends instead of 12 inserts because it would save me a lot of time that is now spent freezing individual tracks to save my CPU. According to the manual I should be able to adjust the wet/dry mix on the VST mixer panel. The problem is, Amplitube 2 doesn't have a wet/dry control on it and neither does the dedicated mixer for it. Does anyone know what I'm overlooking here? Thanks. -steve

I want to have your babies. -steve PS: why don't you do it this way, slacker? http://neutronstar.org/pix/fls.jpg

True dat. This topic comes up every couple of months, and every couple of months we say the same thing: it will take you longer to tweak every virtual parameter on a guitar VST than it will to actually learn to play guitar and do it right. Maybe this should be stickied. -steve

I use Trilogy and have never seen this issue. I have not seen issues with any of those. Kontakt 2 did have some strange dropouts going until I changed a setting internal to that program, but it had to do with the rendering engine, not the buffers (if you're interested, I'll try to find the song where I made the note "DO {whatever} TO GET K2 TO RENDER RIGHT" to myself...). In fact, several of my songs use Trilogy with Guitar Rig 2 and I haven't had problems with either. How can you tell? I thought FL itself, as the host, was responsible for threading. But I do all of my production and mastering work in another environment, so I don't think I'd notice anyway, personally. I have not noticed this myself...but it's been awhile since I fired up Pro53. -steve

Have you considered saving $900 and just replacing the drive? You can send it to me if it's burning a hole in your bank account. -steve