Studio Sale!!

[rainbow]

Hi all,
Entirely due to our John Gee introducing me to temptation and giving me a bad case of Gear AcquisitionSyndrome (GAS for short!!) ... there seems to be no option other than to start selling some of my existing Studio to make way for the new!! So herewith list of goodies:

Boss BR1200CD Digital Recorder

Burns Brian May Signature Electric Guitar (in the rarer Green)

Vox Brian May 'Deacy' Amp (in white Tolex)

Roland Jazz Chorus 85 Amp (twin 40 watt 10" speakers )

If anyone's interested at all, before I put 'em all up on e-bay, just send me a pm and I'll give further details and prices etc.

Best regards ... Graham aka Rainbow:)

[Tiny]

Burns Brian May Signature Electric Guitar (in the rarer Green)

Would Love this graham can i give you 50p a week untill i get
another paper round ............ ;D ;D ;D ;D
The yorkshire idiot

[rainbow]

;D ;D ;D ;D

[rainbow]

Well, all the items advertised (except the Deacy amp which I decided to hang onto in the end) have all been sold on e-bay and the proceeds have paid for the East West Quantum Leap software which, as I write, I'm waiting on delivery.

[JohnG]

Hi Graham,

Don't forget to visit the soundsonline support area and download the corrections, and so forth, for the Play program, it should be at v1.2.5 (if my memory is good), and updates to the sample libraries and instruments, Goliath etc. Some of them are pretty big and it's as well to start asap!

Try here: www.soundsonline.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=4&pcid=0&nav=0. I used a download manager, throttled right back (20KB/s and one stream), to do them, one by one, in background mode. Although the web site says the server will not allow restarts, I found that FDM (free download manager) was able to pick up where I had left off when I had to stop one download half way through. Or, better still, go here: www.soundsonline.com/updates.php.

Hope you have as much fun as I'm having playing with all the sounds. It'll probably take you many weeks or months to try them all!

Best regards,
JohnG.

[rainbow]

Hi John,
I finally took delivery of the software/key controller and iLok at about 5pm today. The first thing I've found is that the 88key controller looks enormous in my small space studio (reminds me of that George Harrison video of 'When We Was Fab!!) and the semi-weighted keys take a bit of getting used to ... just tried it with GarageBand instruments to check out the feel. The actual software looks insignificant by comparison ... just 5 packs of DVDs in a big otherwise empty box ... doesn't look a lot for your money at first glance. But then I checked out the number of DVDs to load and starting with Goliath at 6 DVDs at roughly 45 minutes load time plus authorisation and test runs ... if I start at 9:30am in the morning as planned, if all goes well, I might be actually up and running by tomorrow evening if I'm lucky.
Anyway John, thanks for the links above and I'll certainly make a start with the updates as I load each set ... cheers for that
Best regards ... Graham:)

[freeway]

Congrats on your new purchase Graham........ I also find the 88key controler a monstrosity but just waiting on my Sonar 7 should be here in the morning so I can check everything out regarding my own Yammie and whether Ill actually need the controler at all.......ya took me about 2 hours to load the 6 disks in "Goliath" so ya can imagine how long its gonna take you with the updates as well.....anyway it's all gonna be worth it when all's up and running....give us a shout when your ready to go ok......talk soon...cheerz for now
Regards Barry

[JohnG]

Well, Graham and Barry,

Here's hoping that the new purchases are all you expect of them. Yea, an 88er is a wide beast isn't it?
As wide as ... well ... a piano! Plus a bit for the pitch bend and mod wheels.
There are a few, more recent posts regarding using an 88 key keyboard on the EW forum. Some report using 2 keyboards, a small one for the key-switches, and 4 or 5 octave one for input. Setting the input in the DAW s/w to MIDI all allows both to be recognised simultaneously, apparently. The small one is normally transposed low, but it also allows it to be transposed high, when the voices are in the bass, and the key-switches moved above the notes. I must admit I never tried this (only have one keyboard), and imagined all sorts of problems, and I suspect it depends what DAW s/w you use. But, I would guess, as long as the two keyboards aren't overlapping in their range, it ought to work.

It took me an absolute age, to get the complete CCC on my system, Graham. After I'd loaded each set I did a defrag and disk reorganise, to make absolutely sure that sample loading would be as quick as possible. Fragmentation of files is a killer when you're streaming the samples from disk. Remember, with this kind of library not all of the sample is loaded, and it is streamed as it plays, especially the release trails. Anything that slows the disk transfer process is likely to cause glitches in the audio.

Now I've heard from Seagate, yesterday, that the two drives I originally purchased, back late last year, are faulty, and they have sent replacements. No wonder I couldn't get my home built DAW PC to function. What are the chances, I wonder, of buying two hard disks and having them both kaput on delivery? I thought it was something I'd done wrong, but no amount of research helped me to solve the problem. It was only a chance remark, from a student, saying that Seagate had had a faulty batch of drives that made me send them back. I guess when the replacements arrive I'll be able to spread the libraries across three drives for improved performance. What a luxury!

I'm having great fun playing with Wordbuilder at the moment.
Ever heard a full choir singing rude words to an orchestral accompaniment?
A mistake in input using Votox led to the chance discovery!

Back to Play,
JohnG.