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I forget what version I had (it was whatever the latest update was); I deleted it from my system late last night. I'm a strong believer in moving on and adapting. If I wasn't so super-busy with my career and with constant gigs, rehearsals, and recording sessions, and had time for regular use of nota...

With the release this week of MuseScore-specific sound packs from Vienna Symphonic Library, I'm afraid the prophets (profits?) may have been correct when they stated that MS is the inevitable future, not Doritos. I am going through the process tonight, of cataloguing all my true scores (as opposed t...

I stopped by Best Buy tonight and as I suspected, they can only sell stock models with no upgrades. I'm leaning towards the base model vs. the CPU upgrade, as I think 36 GB of unified memory will be enough given that I use less than half of my 64 GB of RAM even when running multiple apps. But a 2 TB...

Hmm, it looks like it isn't possible to order upgraded models from Best Buy; just the stock models (and not even including the upgraded CPU). Bummer. Guess I'll have to order from MacSales/OWC or directly from Apple, hopefully with a monthly payment plan vs. credit card with sky-high interest. Oh, A...

James, I can send you my blue filter glasses if you like. I ended up not being able to use them due to my astigmatism. These are non-prescription. Years ago, I paid to have filtering on my regular eyeglasses, but then I had to go to continuous tri-focals, and I no longer use eyeglasses on the comput...

Weird: Best Buy has the Asus 5K 27" monitor after all, as a web search shows, but surfing or searching the Best Buy site directly, doesn't turn up the product. I've noticed this with other items as well. Someone needs to fix their website! https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-proart-27-5k-ips-led-...

Thanks; that is an extremely helpful video explanation. Amazingly, nothing that guy said shows up in any articles I found, but most web talk on computer monitors is Windows-centric and/or game-oriented. Here's another discussion that clears up any confusion over which resolution to choose in System ...

Hah, I forgot that I set my 2017 iMac with 5K Monitor to 2560 x 1440 (the default) vs. full 5120 x 2880 anyway, due to text size (although this can probably be scaled accordingly), so maybe I don't need a 5K monitor after all. The more important specs are color accuracy, then latency, and (if lucky)...

Interesting. The one and only time I tried TurboTax, I had nothing but W2 income from one low-paying job and a small amount of bank interest and thus was eligible for the 1040EZ form. And yet, TurboTax said I owed a gazillion dollars in AMT! I figured if it couldn't even handle that, there's no way ...

Thanks, Mike. I've had the money for some time, but it's time-consuming to find "uncommon" tax forms so I haven't started my taxes yet (my printer is suddenly printing squiggly lines even though it passes all diagnostics, so I unfortunately must wait until I can print forms from the office...

Does anyone know if tariffs cause an immediate price rise in stuff like computer monitors and computers? Not a crystal ball kind of prediction, but simply observations from the past. When I check prices on 5K 27" monitors and new Mac Studios tonight, they are unchanged, but does there seem to b...

Yeah, I wish we could make a global system-wide choice for all installers to check for our "preference" to not install any of the Digitech formats, as they take up a HUGE amount of disc space and it doesn't take many accidental installs of AAX and legacy PT plug-in formats before the inter...

The Loar are one of those bargain companies like Gold Tone that don't really make any bad product, yet they aren't as well known as they should be. I considered them for my mandolin and my archtop guitar but wound up with D'angelico and Ibanez for the latter and Kentucky for the former. Interestingl...

FWIW, every version and minor update of Pigments takes about 45 minutes to install on my computer.

How are you folks getting Kontakt 8 to validate? It fails every time I try, even after updates, and regardless of VST vs. AU. I thought I remembered using it in the previous DP update, but it fails any time I reexamine it now. This is slowing me down as I'm doing a lot of re-tracking and part-switch...