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good morning! i've got one question, possibly two, regarding RDP. i run two PCs at my house - one for gaming and online usage, and one for creating and writing music. the first has full network functionality and can access the web at any time. the second computer is blocked at the router from accessing the web, but is connected to my gigabit internal network. both of my monitors (1920x1200 and 1680x1050), my keyboard, and my mouse are connected to my first computer. my high-end monitors (speakers, not displays) and audio interface are connected to the music computer. both are running Windows 7 Professional. i originally wanted to use RDP to connect from my online system to my offline system to allow me to share video and control input information without having to fool with an expensive KVM (KVMs that can pass audio through HDMI are very expensive!), but i've since discovered that you cannot use multiple monitors with RDP unless you have Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise on both ends. while i have several licenses for Ultimate, it's not an option to reinstall the OS on my music computer thanks to how long it takes to re-install 75+ VSTs and audio programs and their respective security devices. it took me three days the first time through =) so, my first question is, is there a registry hack or other workaround that allows RDP to use multiple monitors at varied resolutions in Windows 7 Professional? i should note that i've tried several alternate solutions - RealVNC, UltraVNC, and Teamviewer are a few - but none have the smooth, instantaneous feel that RDP has, as well as the support for 1920x1200 video. UltraVNC was very choppy even at 256 colors...over a gigabit network that has been tested up to 120MB/s transfer rates between computers. didn't make much sense. i can stream a 1080p heavily encoded and compressed movie over the network, but not a 1680x1050 screen? in the event that this isn't possible, i need to know if it's possible to upgrade Windows 7 Professional to Ultimate without losing any of my programs and installations...over an RDP connection. the music computer currently doesn't have monitors or input devices hooked up to it, as it's in a rackmount. it also doesn't even have a DVD drive on it, and i don't really want to bother hooking one up for something that should be this simple. every time i try, it kicks back an error almost immediately, before i've even chosen to upgrade or not.

i agree here. sooooo much better without all the visual bling.

updated to today.

logged on, found the dongcastle, but no one else was there. can't believe no one ever found all my hidden goodies! at least the library was still there, and relatively uninfested. there's so much different from when i was on before - right down to the different blocks and all that. i think i'll collect my stuff and start over. do mobs spawn everywhere at night? i found several in my castle, which is well-lit, both at night and during the day.

you might call it a problem, but my email inbox says that it's totally fine. he wound up emailing me after all

might jump on again tomorrow. my info is prophetikmusic, still. dunno if you saved it since i'm like the most visiting guy on the server or something.

gates aren't necessarily a problem - anyone can use volume modulation to make an interesting pattern. something that makes it easier than manually clicking in simple patterns - like the FL delay 2 effect, for volume rather than delay - would be nice, but isn't really required at the moment. the retriggers are the issue i'm having - i can't seem to find an effect that really properly simulates a retriggering effect live, without rendering out audio and chopping it up. i know it's possible, but it seems that nothing's out there that does that without a ton of overhead.

i've been listening to a lot of music that uses extensive gating and retriggering throughout multiple instrumental parts lately. when attempting to recreate that, i've been using dblue glitch, and it seems to be working fine for what i want. unfortunately, it's really unwieldy to use solely for one of those effecting types as listed above. is there an effect or technique for FL 9/10 that would allow me to do this? or do i just have to export the pattern to a wave, chop it with a slicer, and mess with it that way?

i'd be interested. i'll send you a PM now.

shoot me a ring, we can chat about this if you want.

i'm curious when it's coming out, too. any updates?

while the game Radical Dreamers might be obscure, the amount of music from it that ended up in Chrono Cross is not. a lot of people know about it, too, since there was such a huge connection with it through CC.

getting an outdated server error =(

i didn't mean in the world, i meant in the gameplay itself. what new items? what new enemies? what new glitches? also, strader, i meant that as a point in time, not as something i'm angry about

hey, i haven't played in ages. what's changed since strader blew up my dong thingie?

updated =)

april fools

i love how the last time you posted on OCR was in october, five months and a day ago. also, we didn't invite you. if i remember correctly, you begged us to get on the project. damned, do you still have a link to that post?

aren't alts not allowed or something andy is the only judge to spam smilies just sayin.

exactly =)

it's worth noting that, if you've got a device that flat-out won't recognize in w7 - or any windows operating system, for that matter - but supposedly has driver support, you can force-install it through the device manager's hardware profiling service. if i'm not mistaken, there's an open-source asio driver that runs the blackjack, but i don't remember what it is. if i remember correctly, you're not getting advanced functionality, but it'll pass audio through both ways. the .inf for the system isn't correct since it's not designed for it, but you can make one and point it at the right files. i'd use XP mode to see what files the driver uses (device manager, properties, device details, related files), then force-install those specific file names from the w7-compatible driver. edit: first response on google outlines basically what i'd suggest doing. w7's interface isn't significantly different.

focusrite's preamps are awesome, if i haven't already said so. great stuff.

yeah, his processor has speedstep, so it likely stepped down when his fan wasn't running. buy a can of air and blow that shitter out. otherwise, mail it to me, and i'll replace the fan with something we have at work.

sent in my final yesterday morning but haven't heard anything. did you hear, josh?

and we do every magfest!