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You need to contact (email) IK Media to see if you can Authorise Sampletank offline. (Or just go to their website and check under Q&A's). Most online activations usually have a provision for offline activations, mainly s/n and challenge and response. My music puter is offline, but for activations and music software updates, I just enable my Internet connection, windows firewall and windows defender, and when finished I just disable all three when finished. The software sites are known and clean so little chance of picking up virus's etc. EDIT. Ah...I see your problem (download manager is for the activation manager). http://www.ikmultimedia.com/registration/ For legacy Sampletank older versions, Activation at the bottom of the page. Newer versions you need to Download the activation download manager. What version of Sampletank do you have? that will determine how you activate.

[quote name='alibabu' timestamp='1421093833' post='2657118'] Here is my attempt this month, after two busy months out of the challenge, I found some time to put this together: [url="https://soundcloud.com/alibabu/no-happy-bunny"]https://soundcloud.c.../no-happy-bunny[/url] Looking forward to hear the other entries through the month! a. [/quote] Excellent stuff and very well played.

Nathan East was well established before 1995 (maybe not loaded enough for the mansion). Back as early as 1970/71 he was working for Barry White. Nathan, apart from great sight reading skills has seriously good hearing/busking chops as well. He just seems to slot in with ease with everything he does. Great musician all round, and the perfect studio player. Yep, a terrific gaff (love that view). A member of the magic circle as well.....lol... Wiki don't really tell the whole story, but an amazing career. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_East http://nathaneast.com/biography/

Great playing all round. Some Marcus and Jaco influences in there as well.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1420731808' post='2652750'] Are those "portable" or "desktop" drives, or internal drives housed in an external case? [/quote] You can have them anyway you want. My externals are portable. Might be worth checking out on their site all the variations. Then Google for various shop prices. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=870 USB3 is quicker than FireWire 800 (not sure about Thunderbolt).

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1420571761' post='2650814'] Very nice appreciative crowd rather than a pub full of 'experts' pulling your performance apart [/quote] Don't worry, that would have been later on various Musicians sites....lol...

On PC, I use two external USB 3 drives (spin speed 7200 RPM). One for my Kontakt Sample libraries and my VSTi libraries (3TB), and one for my Project files (2TB). Spin drive speed of 7200 RPM is your best bet. I use WD Caviar BLACK, (but a second choice would be the BLUE version). Don't buy ANY hard drive with the word "green" in the title, from what Audio folk say, you don't want power management features slowing or stopping your DAW hard drives (Green). I suppose if you turn off all power management (I do) it might not make any difference. But that may be rubbish, someone will be along who might know if that is bull feces or not.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1420469613' post='2649645'] Mine is orchestral. [/quote] That's the Spirit. The picture looks like some avant-garde conductor giving the down beat to the buffoon section.

Another RME Babyface (solid Midi as well) user here. The driver support is second to none, always on top of it with updates (if needed).

An interesting read about 'Tears of a Clown', and the playing of Tony Newton (Touring Motown Bassist at one point). http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/08/the-tears-of-a-clown-a-classic-that-nearly-never-was/

i7 Processor with at least 8 Gig Ram, will do for most home recording (with ease). Ram won't make your PC faster, but will help with using a lot of Audio or the big Sample libraries, then you should be looking at 16-32 Gigs. The i7 CPU's (Quadcore) will handle an awful lot of VST's/VSTI's without the need for freezing or bouncing tracks. It will also help with running at very low latency, providing your ASIO drivers on your Audio interface are up to it.

Basschat on the same bill as a Puppet Show? Reminds me of a Spinal Tap scene.....lol.....

Thanks for the link. Ok, I've got it now!......lol....

Any deps I do, there is always a good chance that 'Dancing in the Streets' and 'I can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)' turn up.

Pre-Amps with direct injection I understand. Turbo charged Compressors as well (Native Instruments do one), but EQ's with overhead camshafts and Cylinder heads has lost me. I think I need to check out Ebay and see what this is all about....lol..

In: Guitarron (Lucida Mariachi six stg). NXT4 (NS) EUB Out: Nowt .

Audio & Midi in/out Steinberg UR22, really good value. Very solid drivers. Review. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun13/articles/steinberg-ur22.htm Google search will give you £99.00. You also get a trimmed back version of Cubase with it (AI 6).

The World is now minus 76 Professional Trombone players.

Well done folks, good stuff all round. Bilbo got my vote. He got away from the obvious for me, and a different and original approach.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1419257798' post='2638064'] The best I think I ever heard from him, though, is a youtibe video of a young (27-28?) AJ with Sadao Watanabe Live at The Boudokan with a Dave Grusin led Jazz orchestra. The quality of the video is appalling but Jackson plays an absolute blinder. His solo starts at around 5.40 and you can see that AJ is really 'in the zone' and we are wondering what would have happened to the bass if he had been less reticent. [/quote] I think it might be this. During the solo Sadao Watanabe's face is pricelss. Top, top band as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7S8wRcRNU

Midnight Hour BPM various through the tune. Between 112/114 BPM. Free software here for detecting BPM on Wav/MP3 files. http://www.abyssmedia.com/bpmcounter/

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1419232617' post='2637723'] Missed opportunity video. We want to see his left hand, not his jazz / (jizz) face! [/quote] Yer, but what a great opportunity to see his monster music stand!

Always a good time for this. http://youtu.be/tZOCdrwGch4

[quote name='funkle' timestamp='1419022927' post='2635877'] Nice one lowdown. I got an email about that and will be downloading. Can't wait. Also got a couple of NI vouchers worth £44 I need to spend...what to pick... Edit: Replika sounds great. I can see a use for this, and I think the download is open to all until end Dec. [/quote] A really good Guitar library has just landed - It's free (not pirate). Demos here. http://major7th.jp/kontakt/kmg7/demo.html Download here. It's a Japanese/Asian site, but it is clean. I know a few folks from another site who have downloaded and given the thumbs up. http://major7th.jp/kontakt/kmg7/downloads.html This might be of interest to you. The best site for all things Composing and Sample/DAW related. Full of absolute gents, with a ton of tips/videos/advice. You also get a lot of deals and heads up on new releases and free stuff. http://www.vi-control.net/forum/portal.php

The original (the busy Bass version). http://youtu.be/G9qA0MzbHXU And another Theme opening (or one of them....lol...). http://youtu.be/k8wz5ElZZj0 "The somewhat better-known first Kojak theme, in two distinct arrangements is the work of Billy Goldenberg, who scored the early episodes. John Cacavas composed the third main title theme used throughout the show's fifth and final season. In addition, Cacavas composed the music score for most of the series".