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All Violin Creation

Robert Thompson — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:00:48 +0000

All Violin Creation by Robert Thompson

-BOB-

Latest Version

Robert Thompson — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:34:22 +0000

All new shit from Bob.

Listen to the new shit

iTunes 7 Music Backup

Robert Thompson — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:53:35 +0000

This is a cool feature. If you’re like me and have lots of music and don’t want to lose it due to a faulty drive (even if it’s backed up) then you can automatically backup your music with iTunes’ new backup feature. The “Only back up items added since last backup” is the best, I wish I had that when I first backed up my music.

Just go to File > Back up to Disc

-BOB-

Today's Guess

Robert Thompson — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:48:49 +0000

These are the Garritan sounds through Sibelius, performing an included demo. Can you guess what this is? I think there is only one contender out there who would know…

LISTEN

-bob-

News

Robert Thompson — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:47:05 +0000

- Installed all my music apps (and will start with other apps) to skip the “wait time” for UB. Windows runs them at full speed (Sibelius, Pro Tools, Adobe, etc).

- Google Video and Google cache (cached pages) now load in China, wonder in my POP3 JV mail works now.

-BOB on WindowsXP-

Update:

Sibelius, Reason, and Pro Tools run on Windows lightening fast. It’s kinda wierd, Tom just switched to Mac, and it looks like I’m switch to Windows (in the interim until Mac goes UB). There are a few little things, like you have to wait extra long for the CD to read, and sometimes everything freezes up for a few seconds while it thinks about something else. I have to say, if the program is the same, it really runs basically the same on a PC. So all that marketing about “Macs are for creative people, blah blah” is just marketing. Same programs dude.

Pro Troolios on my Macbook Pro

Robert Thompson — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:56:36 +0000

I used about 15 plug-ins on many different tracks. I never saw the error message of death. It feels odd operating this program the way it was intended. No system halts. No overloads. No buffer issues. It just works. And it bounces about 20x faster. My favorite upgrade?

The acoustics in the ‘green’ room are a bit reverbalicious, but I kinda like that. So that’s the practice room.

Digidesign (Pro Tools) buys Sibelius

Robert Thompson — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:05:00 +0000

Digi just bought Sibelius for $23 million.

I’m guessing it means that they’ll finally add a “score” layout in Pro Tools when you’re editing your MIDI files (Logic has had that for years). But that’s good, I like these two companies.

Bob

Music Clip #1

Robert Thompson — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:30:26 +0000

Listen

It’s about 4% finished, but I thought I just put a post up. Just as a note, it’s all original, meaning, I “hand made” the beat (and didn’t copy a loop or sample.) I know what you’re thinking, ‘Damn, this is fu**** awesome!’, I agree, thanks, there will be more later.

Okay it’s 3:30am I gotta sleep now.

-bob-

eBay mentality

Robert Thompson — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:09:41 +0000

My eBay auction is up to $73 for something I originally paid $75 for.

What is Garritan?

Robert Thompson — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:46:47 +0000

This is the best way to describe it. While you can tell the difference, I think it’s amazing that it’s already that close.