Alright, this is getting out of hand. This is absolutely ridiculous. First of all, where exactly are you getting your information from? I\'m beginning to fear that you have been the (un)willing victim of being forcefed false information. And the individuals who have told you this information were very foolish to think that we would never find out about it. You know who they are, they know who they are, and I know who they are.
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As far as your zero tolerance policy to pirating thats a joke. Just today I sent several links which have remained on your site to administrators of other sites so they can see what goes on on your site. You can say all you want and what your position is but the fact is that it\'s just not true.
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What links would those be? Please forward them to me. We\'ll have them taken care of if we\'ve missed them. I\'m not sure what you\'re getting at, but the truth is the truth - we do our best to eliminate potentially illegal posts on our forums as quickly as possible. All of us are very busy, so it is unrealistic to be able to jump on every thread. It may take us a couple days to get to a questionable thread, but we will get to it eventually. I\'m not sure what you are not understanding about our zero tolerance policy for piracy. Zero tolerance is zero tolerance, period. It\'s just unrealistic to ban entire networks because of one user who resides on that network. We want to be fair to everyone, but there are only so many hours in the day.
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The only way to have a true creditable BB IS for people to register. Without it you get people just wanting to cause problems for legitimate users.
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Actually, no. We made a specific choice to allow unregistered users to post because a lot of the time people want to ask simple questions without having to go through a lengthy registration procedure. This way, everyone can participate, they aren\'t obligated to hand over their email addresses, nor are they forced to remember passwords or user names. We polled quite a few people before even setting up the forums regarding the registration issue, and most preferred to be able to post immediately without the need to register.
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The Tracthman episope on your site is a prime example. Guys with no clue whatsoever were bombarding this guy for no reason at all and ripping on his product which they new nothing about. If thats what \"hidden\" ip addresses get us then leave me out. But I guess if you did switch to this then more than half of your \"posters\" would be gone since we know how much name sharing you and others like to do. Oh, and thats not debatable so don\'t try unless you want me to have someone post who caught you at this.
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I again don\'t follow you here, Donnie. Again, we protect the privacy of all of our users, and this includes their IP addresses and email addresses. They\'re logged for security reasons, but under no circumstances is private information about our users ever given out.
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And as you continue to act like the little boy living at his parents house that you are you will continue to get this rap.
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\"A little boy\" - Sheesh, do I wish I was still a little boy. Heck, I\'d settle for being 10 years younger and knowing what I know now. A sweet deal it would be to be able to live in my parent\'s basement too. http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif All the money I spend on phone bills and utility bills and rent could go into buying more gear and maybe into Sonic Control. And by the way, Sonic Control is a sideline for all of us - we do it for fun. We aren\'t backed by investors with deep pockets (yet). Our own time, sweat, money and resources are put into Sonic Control for the benefit of other composers and musicians. We are all very busy and SC takes up the remainder of any free time that we have left, but I think it\'s worth it in the end if we can pass on some valuable advice or information to a novice or even pro composer who seeks it.
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Hell, you couldn\'t even get a NFR copy of Gigastudio!
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While we\'ve tried to involve Nemesys and their great product as much as possible, it\'s been nearly impossible for us to even contact anyone there lately. Considering all of the free product support that we provide for such a deserving product, does this not seem just a little bit odd to you? It does to me, and any rational-minded individual I would suspect.
Then again, it goes back to those said individuals that I know of and that you know of - who have somehow took it upon themselves to try and destroy Sonic Control and the reputations of everyone here by spreading false, slanderous rumors and accusations in some petty little unprofessional game that they think they must play. To these individuals, who are surely reading this thread: Did you think that we wouldn\'t find out?
We in fact have no need to request NFRs of GigaStudio, those of us who use the product are already legit, satisfied customers who have paid money out of our own pockets for the product. It does burn me however, that these said individuals have slandered our reputation with these false remarks to the point where Nemesys actually completely ignores us.
It makes sense to me now why you, out of the blue, requested that we pull your review of your library while it was 90% done, before it was able to hit publication. Judging by the kind of slanderous information that I suspect you may have been going on I wouldn\'t blame you - the pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together. After all, it is extremely odd for a developer like yourself to send us product and then suddenly request that it be pulled, without rhyme or reason.
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Oh and by the way eveytime you say \"as an orchestral composer\" I just have to laugh. I found this little ditty you composed and performed---oh yeah sweet timing too! http://members.home.net/portonestudios/audio/my%20heart%20will%20loathe%20on.mp3 (\"http://members.home.net/portonestudios/audio/my%20heart%20will%20loathe%20on.mp3\")
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Again, I don\'t know why you resort to personal attacks. It\'s hurtful and uncalled for, in my opinion. That is quite amazing that you were able to dig up that old MP3 though, I didn\'t even know that one was still kicking around! I did that for my 4 year old cousins\' pre-school play some time ago. It was on one of those little $300 Roland keyboards that you can pick up at any electronics store (unfortunately, most pre-schools around here don\'t have state of the art sampling workstations and high end sequencers to nit-pick every little glitch after it\'s been played into the onboard sequencer of that luxurious $300 Yamaha keyboard). Basically what you get in 5 minutes of \'sequencing\' in a gymnasium with a bunch of screaming four-year-olds is what you get. It was quite a cute in the end, I think I have it on video somewhere. I actually don\'t mind \"lowering\" myself to a level where I can pitch in and let some little kids have some fun now and again.
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I hate that I have to come out and act this way because the people on this site who I have gotten to know know me better than this. Hell, I\'m probably one of the most mild mannered country boys you will ever meet.
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You and I as well as most everyone on the Northern Sounds forums and the Sonic Control forums know that this is not the first time you have initiated such correspondence. I only entertain your correspondence with replies because I feel that it is my moral obligation to stand up for what is right and defend those who are unfairly targeted for attack. I actually want to avoid confrontation at all costs - it\'s in my nature. I have absolutely nothing against you Donnie, I don\'t know you, I cannot judge you. I do think that you have done some incredible work based on what I\'ve seen of your products so far and there is no reason to believe that your future products won\'t be even better.
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My advice for you is first of all update page that has gone unchanged for almost a year now complete with the same articles. Find some other way of attracting industry news on your site rather than going to other sites and \"copy and pasting\". And most importantly stay out of our business. Don\'t think for a sec. Sean and I don\'t know some things that have been going on on your site.
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Sadly, your attacks are now getting personal, yet again. First of all, please read up a few lines about Sonic Control being a private venture of our own free time. We update regularly with new reviews all of the time. Our current feature article has generated some incredible feedback and has been extremely helpful to the thousands who have read it and emailed us. For that reason, we decided to leave it up for a bit longer than usual. The key here is for us to get as much helpful information out there as we can. If an article is really getting a great response and people are still reading it, writing in and thanking us for giving them some new ideas then it\'s useful to leave it up so people can still read it (we have a bunch of new articles in the works).
Your comments about SC \"copy and pasting\" are false, and that is saddening to me. We do not copy and paste, we have our own sources of news, and we collect and publish our own news. In fact, most of our news is up and on-line before anyone else has it on-line. In some cases we\'ve actually been 2 to 5 days ahead of other news sites in publishing product announcements. We also let the little guys have their place in the spotlight, whereas with some other larger sites and magazines they won\'t touch product announcements from small, start-up companies.
I\'ve obviously let this issue go by the wayside for much too long (a year or so too long) and I\'m not prepared to play this game with the individuals that are involved with this any longer. As I said, they are likely reading this thread right now - you know who they are, I know who they are and they know who they are.
In any case, this has gone too far off topic (yet again). I apologize to Nick and everyone for writing this giant response, but I feel that I have a moral obligation to at least defend myself, my colleagues and Sonic Control. We do honest work at SC, and we\'re proud of the quality of the content.
If anyone needs my help, please email me - it seems that every time I try and post here with helpful advice I am viciously attacked. Quite frankly, posting frequently just isn\'t worth the time I\'m putting into dealing with defending myself. I could be using this time for composing, sleeping, playing with my dog or God forbid, writing new reviews and preparing new articles for Sonic Control.
Anyway - back on topic: With regards to hard drives, it seems to me that rotational speed plays a big role in both the polyphony and performance that you get (especially with huge samples). The drive has to be able to pull the samples off very quickly, especially with music that triggers a lot of samples at once. For example, I\'ve noticed while playing certain Chopin Etudes (some of these things are realy polyphony eaters, especially with lots of pedal), I\'ve noticed slower drives completely choke. As a rule, I wouldn\'t touch anything under 7200 RPM - I\'m not even sure if they make 10,000 RPM drives in IDE (maybe only in SCSI). I wish there was an option to load a .gig directly to RAM, thus bypassing the need to use the hard drive if you had a gigabyte or thereabout of RAM to work with.
Ryan.
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