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Status update, or WHY YOU NO MUSIC FOR MOTNHS
16 years ago
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UPDATE - Zero-G is awesome. They reactivated my download timer so I could get Ecstatic Grooves back. It's definitely one of my favorite electronic drum collections to work with, so I'm definitely pleased about this.
So, you know how I haven't made much music lately? There's a couple reasons for that.
First, lack of motivation/inspiration. Nothing's really come out and hit me like "This must be done." Plus I've been busy with schoolwork, and that's been occupying my mind a lot more recently.
Second, lack of computing power. As I get more and more experienced, I want to do more and more things, and my computer can't keep up with it. QLSO is a big thing to consider here. When I originally got it, it used the Kontakt engine, and it worked pretty good. Then they upgraded to this new PLAY engine, and it makes some things a lot easier to do and just generally sounds better. However, unless I'm doing REALLY basic stuff, my computer can't handle it. All I've got here is a 2Ghz single-core with 2 GB RAM. The minimum requirements for single-core processors is 3Ghz. Damn.
Of course, those are just the issues I was having UNTIL now. Now there's a whole new issue.
My hard drive won't turn on.
Yup, last night, I felt compelled to turn the bugger off, and today it decided it didn't want to come back on. (I am, of course, referring to an external drive, not my internal.)
Why is this bad?
Primarily because my dozens of GB of instrument samples were stored on it.
QLSO, gone.
Ecstatic Grooves, gone. But not any more, see the update at the top of the page for more info.
Stormdrum, gone.
Nostalgia, gone.
My random collection of assorted soundfonts, gone.
All my SONiVOX MI virtual instruments, gone.
Not to mention all my old hard drive backups with my old projects.
So what does this leave me with?
Softsynths. I've got Sytrus, Toxic Biohazard, Poizone, Morphine, Zebra2, and all that free junk that FLStudio comes with.
Guitar. I can still amp up and do some recordings if necessary.
I've also got NS_Kit7, since I stored it on a separate drive, but that one's nearly full to capacity, as is my internal, so I can't reinstall the sample libraries. I MIGHT be able to get Ecstatic Grooves back, since it was only a hundred meg or so, but Zero-G would have to want to cooperate with me since they offer it via download through a timed-download system, and my 48 hours is long since past.
I've also got Notepad.
...what's so great about Notepad? MML. I can still program 8-bit NES music.
Other than that, I don't have much, nor do I have the hard drive space to install it. So until I get that drive replaced or fixed (I'm seriously hoping that it's the case that went bad and not the drive itself) my instrument choices are particularly limited.
...yes, I know I mentioned having another external hard drive. I can't swap the drives out because the other cases are IDE and the drive with all my stuff is SATA.
Wanna help me buy a new case? Check the link in the footer.
And before anybody asks, yes, I had a porn collection on that drive. No, I'm not particularly sad about losing it.
So, you know how I haven't made much music lately? There's a couple reasons for that.
First, lack of motivation/inspiration. Nothing's really come out and hit me like "This must be done." Plus I've been busy with schoolwork, and that's been occupying my mind a lot more recently.
Second, lack of computing power. As I get more and more experienced, I want to do more and more things, and my computer can't keep up with it. QLSO is a big thing to consider here. When I originally got it, it used the Kontakt engine, and it worked pretty good. Then they upgraded to this new PLAY engine, and it makes some things a lot easier to do and just generally sounds better. However, unless I'm doing REALLY basic stuff, my computer can't handle it. All I've got here is a 2Ghz single-core with 2 GB RAM. The minimum requirements for single-core processors is 3Ghz. Damn.
Of course, those are just the issues I was having UNTIL now. Now there's a whole new issue.
My hard drive won't turn on.
Yup, last night, I felt compelled to turn the bugger off, and today it decided it didn't want to come back on. (I am, of course, referring to an external drive, not my internal.)
Why is this bad?
Primarily because my dozens of GB of instrument samples were stored on it.
QLSO, gone.
Ecstatic Grooves, gone. But not any more, see the update at the top of the page for more info.
Stormdrum, gone.
Nostalgia, gone.
My random collection of assorted soundfonts, gone.
All my SONiVOX MI virtual instruments, gone.
Not to mention all my old hard drive backups with my old projects.
So what does this leave me with?
Softsynths. I've got Sytrus, Toxic Biohazard, Poizone, Morphine, Zebra2, and all that free junk that FLStudio comes with.
Guitar. I can still amp up and do some recordings if necessary.
I've also got NS_Kit7, since I stored it on a separate drive, but that one's nearly full to capacity, as is my internal, so I can't reinstall the sample libraries. I MIGHT be able to get Ecstatic Grooves back, since it was only a hundred meg or so, but Zero-G would have to want to cooperate with me since they offer it via download through a timed-download system, and my 48 hours is long since past.
I've also got Notepad.
...what's so great about Notepad? MML. I can still program 8-bit NES music.
Other than that, I don't have much, nor do I have the hard drive space to install it. So until I get that drive replaced or fixed (I'm seriously hoping that it's the case that went bad and not the drive itself) my instrument choices are particularly limited.
...yes, I know I mentioned having another external hard drive. I can't swap the drives out because the other cases are IDE and the drive with all my stuff is SATA.
Wanna help me buy a new case? Check the link in the footer.
And before anybody asks, yes, I had a porn collection on that drive. No, I'm not particularly sad about losing it.
I, too, really hope it's just the case... I sure hope you didn't irreversibly lose all of your data, your works... your memories... *sigh...
So sorry to hear about that whole hard drive dealio.
Here's hoping you can get it either fixed or transferred onto another drive.