From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017060723052658523-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It's a shame you didn't watch the video of Obama insulting Trump at that   
   > dinner.  Oh well.   
      
   I can't stand seeing or hearing that Disgusting Socialist, but I watched for   
   a little while, until I just wanted to Puke.   
      
   > Spent a good day sorta resting.  Supposedly band rehearsal is on for   
   > tomorrow.  Yeah, holding my breath. Do I sound cynical ?  A glass of   
   > schnapps will do that to me :-)   
      
   I should get a 30 can case of beer...a local store has them on sale, but of   
   course, with 91 F temperatures, putting that 'rocket fuel' into my   
   bloodstream is just asking for a hot flash, and I've been doing pretty well   
   with them since taking the phytoestrogen rich herb black cohosh ;)   
      
   > It was a good day tho. I worked on some old midi tracks, songs we never   
   > quite finished.  My abilities to create midi stuff is light years better   
   > than it was in the past. Simple reason. I'm a better keyboard player these   
   > days. Work on that a lot. Midi is a keyboard based thing.  Guitarists, and   
   > that's what I am, was, just can't do much in midi land. I think sometimes   
   > about dumping midi and going totally to audio tracks for our backings.   
   > Two reason not to do that.  One is I have years of songs in midi format.   
   > Redoing all those would take the rest of my life. The other reason is   
   > midi's flexibility.  I work with different vocalists and so often need the   
   > same song in a different key. That's an easy change in midi.  Audio tracks   
   > .... pretty much forget it.  Pure audio sounds better, but it's " baked "   
   > once it's done. Pretty much carved in stone. You can't go back and   
   > slightly change the tempo. Or the key sig.  Those aren't problems if   
   > you're making a record. Go in, play it, pay the man, and you're done.   
   > You're not gonna want to, or be able to, change anything later.   
      
   There's software that'll change the pitch i.e. key of audio recordings as   
   well as the tempo.   
      
   > For backing tracks to be used live, it's a different game. I change those   
   > constantly.   
      
   So you're probably using it already.   
      
   > Ok, the other thing on my plate is reworking a click track for the   
   > drummer.  What a pain. What an ongoing Pain in the A$$.   Bottom line is   
   > he doesn't want to work with the tracks, really. And so pretty much   
   > nothing I do will fix that.   
      
   The most I'd ever use any kind of track, including a click track for, is   
   practice Only.   
      
   > One one hand, I need a drum track there so I can use the same tracks for   
   > my solo gig. No way I can keep up with two versons ( one with drums and   
   > one without ) of every song I know. Still, I'm thinking about making a   
   > dedicated click track in each song, and figuring out how to use it when we   
   > have the live drummer.  Mute the drum track, activate the click. That   
   > rolls over into the problem of counting the song off and such. We need to   
   > hear that, but don't need the click. He needs to hear both.  It's gonna be   
   > a challenge.   
      
   > I better call it a night. We just might actually have a rehearsal tomm   
   .... :-)   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Combining the non-living with the living is always asking for trouble ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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