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by GUY SMILEY
Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:40 am
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: Definitive proof that Bush Jr. is less of a douche than McF.
Replies: 97
Views: 18823

Re: Definitive proof the Earth is warming.

Steve Ballmer wrote: I like how that graph doesn't show the 60% increase from 2012 to 2013. If it's "irrelevant", best not include it.
That's also my favourite part
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:22 am
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: Definitive proof that Bush Jr. is less of a douche than McF.
Replies: 97
Views: 18823

Re: Definitive proof the Earth is warming.

Great Link from Frank N Furter.
Condensed answer to the original post :
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by GUY SMILEY
Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:06 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Experienced with production, Ableton Live Noob. Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 1921

Re: Experienced with production, Ableton Live Noob. Questions

bicarbone wrote:GUY SMILEY beats me to it! Sorry for my bad english and my slow typing.
heh ! close race though :D
Your point about quantisation of clip triggering is a good one which I missed. Can feel like latency.
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:51 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Experienced with production, Ableton Live Noob. Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 1921

Re: Experienced with production, Ableton Live Noob. Questions

session and arrangement view can be viewed as seperate environments with capabilities to easily transfer between them. There are numerous ways of utilising this to your advantage. For me personally when writing a tune, I start in session view, create clips and jam with them , and then hit record, wh...
by GUY SMILEY
Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:15 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Melodyne 2.1.0 Not being recognized.
Replies: 9
Views: 4142

Re: Melodyne 2.1.0 Not being recognized.

oh dear. that's not good.
Only massey plugins, gforce plugins and numerology and melodyne don't work in 64bit host for me
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:17 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: SSD with Live
Replies: 47
Views: 10257

Re: SSD with Live

my understanding is that there's not a lot of point using an SSD for recording/streaming audio. No appreciable speed increase. Unreliable (especially when twinned with TRIM) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1385967 http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=276934 https://www.steinberg.net/for...
by GUY SMILEY
Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:10 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Deleted my ableton plist file
Replies: 2
Views: 1371

Re: Deleted my ableton plist file

I can't find one. What are you expecting it to contain ? where did you delete it from user library/preferences or Mac OS/library /preferences ?
Did you 'save live set as template' ?
by GUY SMILEY
Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:27 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Why do I use Ableton Live ?
Replies: 5
Views: 1623

Re: Why do I use Ableton Live ?

good read.
typo in the Push paragraph ;)
line begins "I was a beta tester early february 2013"
by GUY SMILEY
Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:25 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

hey GUY... I bought a Crucial M4 256 GB a few months ago to replace the optical drive in my mid 2012 Macbook, but it's still lying around. Would you recommend to get rid of this thing or do you think making a firmware upgrade on a desktop and replace it like I planned would be a good choice (while ...
by GUY SMILEY
Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:48 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

(Just FYI for other readers) http://thessdreview.com/ Useful post. Useful tool is also Trim enabler for OSX users http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler/ But this one is also worth reading to give an idea of problems as it says "SSD's Fail. A lot" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-...
by GUY SMILEY
Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:44 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

fwiw. Crucial have replaced the drive. It was just over a year old, but still fell within their 3 year guarantee period.
by GUY SMILEY
Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:37 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

it all sounds like abit of a nightmare! Yeah 'fraid so, although trying to establish what the issue was proved the most stressful bit. i was under the impression that cause an SSD is just ram and not physical like a harddrive its not only going to be alot faster, wear and tear on it wont happen and...
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Aug 03, 2013 1:00 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

Ubik wrote:I don't remember if i had this faulty partition error but i remember that i saw several warning messages and that i had to wait for some time after disk check before the upgrade would start. My macbook pro is a late 2012.
Helpful advice Ubik, Cheers for letting me know.
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:42 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

I upgraded the firmware following this explanation http://www.macg.co/unes/voir/131943/faire-la-mise-a-jour-firmware-d-un-ssd-crucial-m4 (it's in french but it's pretty straightforward) i can help if you need Thanks Ubik, This is basically the walkthrough I followed too (english version here) http:...
by GUY SMILEY
Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:37 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail
Replies: 15
Views: 5686

Re: Macbook Pro freezes every hour. Crucial M4 SSD Fail

tekkers wrote:yeah i have a mid 2009 macbook pro .. i heard anything bigger than 256gigs and u need to download those firmware upgrades ...
Fo the record, mine was a 256 GB. Cheers for the sympathy though !