Robert.Goble
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Robert.GobleJust bumping this again — thought I’d click on the EZKEYS forum and see what people are asking and talking about EZKEYS — BOOM! Restricted to a pre-sale forum only…… Again — proven registered customer who has shown he will spend money on toontrack products ——- denied access to a forum for a product I’ve yet to buy (but am curious about). How crazy is that? Like I’ve got marketing and sales textbooks on my bookshelf that basically spell out all the reasons this is wrong —— just crazy.
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Robert.GobleThanks Henrik: The point I have to reinforce is that I am already a proven customer – I’ve made several purchases both on the EZD and SD side of things – so I’m already shown that I will lay down my cash…. If you want to restrict the forum to non members, or non purchasers I get that — but to restrict verified customers from viewing forums pertaining to products they’ve yet to buy — this just seems ill thought out — you’ve put a barrier in front of me that makes it harder for me to make purchases — and we all know in sales, it’s your repeat customers who are more likely to buy stuff. Can you see how insane it is that as a registered EZD and SD purchaser (and EZX & SDX purchaser) can not view the MIDI packs forum? THat’s just crazy.
And by extension — what are the chances that someone who bought SD or EZD is doing some recording — wouldn’t those customers be a PRIME pool for your EZ MIX products? or any of your other products? You really want to make it harder for me to find out about these products and what kind of experiences people are having with them?
My recommendation — registered users of toontrack products should have full forum access regardless of what product they’ve bought — I put my money behind Toontrack, and you inspire and reward my loyalty by opening up the forum gates and keeping me in the family. If I keep bumping into doors I’m not feeling part of the family… you want me to be part of the family.
Thanks for listening and for all your work on our behalf. Regards. Rob.
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Thanked by: wildcatdave71 and jonah66Robert.GobleJust want to say that a user pointed out that the single slash like that usually means a doible hit, so in this case two 32nd notes. I’d say it’s solved!
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Robert.GobleScratch tracks are just another way to say “rough copy” like when you are writing something messy and quick before you take the care to do it right. In music production scratch tracks are used in a variety of ways.
If I’m recording a song and it’s in 120 BPM — I’ll start first with a metronome (click track) and play & record a guitar tracks to establish the song. I might do this with the bass and the vocals as well. These tracks might be really rough or they might be very well done — but the point is that none of them will be used for the final mix — what they are usually used for is so my drummer has tracks he can hear when he lays down his permanent drum tracks. Once the drum tracks are done and you are happy with them in terms of time and feel, then you basically re-record all your music tracks again but this time you use the drum tracks as opposed to the click track (you might use both) to play and record these new “keeper” tracks to.
The scratch tracks then get “scratched” or basically erased. That’s why they are called scratch tracks.
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Robert.GobleThat’s why I ask — it’s taking me an enormously long time to program drums – and for covers etc I would have thought people would be swapping these like baseball cards… “here’s my Ramble-on for your Custard Pie” sort of thing…
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Robert.GobleFollowing up on this —- Has anyone experienced issues with Shockwave relating to EZdrummer & or Reaper? I’m assuming Shockwave is part of the animations — I was getting some shockwave failures as well that seemed to stall the loading of EZdrummer.
EDIT: I’m now convinced it was related to shockwave. I uninstalled shockwave and then made sure the 3 browsers I have were all updated — then I installed shockwave again for each browser and suddenly I could load my old project in reaper and the drums played and loaded fine. My only clue was at some point I had brief flash of a shockwave plugin stopping working — and I thought — wait — EZdrummer has an animation.
Can anyone confirm this or have any insight into this as an issue? — until I solved it EZdrummer was basically DOA. I have TONS of memory and CPU even with Live FX (like 20 Plus) across the tracks.
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Robert.GobleAs soon as I hit play – usage jumps from 7% to 100 — reaper to 92%.
EDIT TO ADD: so I’ve gone in a turned off all the live FX within the project (in reaper) and that freed up my CPU usage — what I can’t figure out is why the “sudden” change — and why the change on projects that I had already worked with and added nothing to. So I’m going to play around with rendering tracks in the workflow so there’s not so many “live” FX — but I still am not satisfied with the sudden nature of this change. More investigation (and thanks for the tip re – cpu usage) – that at least got me into a different troubleshooting mode.
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