Open note — you guys don’t do this! Hahaha.

[LinkedMusicians]

I have (1) car problems and (2) my daughter has a choir concert tonight and I don’t have time to do any more posting for this evening and I haven’t finished going through my inbox or RSS feeds. If someone could post the Plugin Alliance deals for the day, I would be grateful!

And yes, it’s shameful that I’m posting this in the deals forum, but this is the only place most of you go. We’ll work on that soon, but you fish where the fish are, you know.

Have a good one!

– Peter

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[LinkedMusicians]

I’m back. BTW, when I wrote “You guys, don’t do this,” I was laughing at myself for posting something that technically is very off topic in the deals forum, but since I’m one of the most frequent deals posters, I thought I would do and ask. Thanks so much to @mustakatu. You really are an incredible person and I can’t explain why here, but believe me guys, I’m not merely referring to how helpful he has been with this site. He is truly an amazing human being.  But when it comes to this community, he’s a really kind and considerate person.

I’m really grateful for that.

As long as I started this out, sharing my day. Both of my kids are pretty reserved. They’re very friendly. Very focused on helping others as my wife and I have always modeled. My daughter, a teenager in HS, is fairly shy. She also has a beautiful singing voice. But I never heard her sing like tonight. Wow, what a treat. My family had passed on by her birth, so she only knows stories of my music teacher mother, my three siblings and I playing in a band. And unfortunately, I can’t persuade her to sing in my little attempts at making music. And though I bought a karaoke system a few years ago, she has refused to do it. I’m the only family member shameless enough to do karaoke and be a complete goof. That’s my role as dad. But tonight really surprised me. When she soloed, it was really lovely. What a thrill it was to see my daughter singing beautifully. I felt my family’s legacy — even though my mother and siblings and I were musicians and didn’t really sing (except for me, but never in public performances).

Witnessing my daughter singing, performing publicly and seeing how it moved people, that was really special. It’s so wonderful that we have this gift of music, that we share in this community. I hope we will continue to get to know one another better and share more of ourselves in the year ahead. Feel free to share whatever you like in this completely off topic, out of place thread. I’ll eventually delete it.

– Peter

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[jude77]

I noticed that since starting this site you’ve referenced your family several times.  On each occasion it was in warm, appreciative, graceful tones.  It’s pretty easy to see a genuine closeness is there.  Parenting can be tough sledding, and plenty of people do it poorly.  Freud famously said our parents screw us up in our first two years and then we spend the rest of our lives straightening ourselves out. It sounds like you and The wife did a very admirable job.  The seeds we plant today will bear their fruit tomorrow. May we all plant wisely.

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[LinkedMusicians]

On jude77 said

I noticed that since starting this site you’ve referenced your family several times.  On each occasion it was in warm, appreciative, graceful tones.  It’s pretty easy to see a genuine closeness is there.  Parenting can be tough sledding, and plenty of people do it poorly.  Freud famously said our parents screw us up in our first two years and then we spend the rest of our lives straightening ourselves out. It sounds like you and The wife did a very admirable job.  The seeds we plant today will bear their fruit tomorrow. May we all plant wisely.

Well, this site was intended as a place where people can learn about making music, share the music they make, share their musical stories, share the music that inspires them. My desire was never to make this site about deals, I thought that it would only be one small part of a site dedicated to the love of making music, learning more about music, and sharing our musical stories and the music that inspires us. I realize that a lot of our early group met at a deals subforum of a DAW software site, but if we’re buying all of that stuff, my theory is that we must be making music with it at some point (largely, that’s still just a theory).

My favorite thread on this site is 7 Questions to Get to Know Each Other Better. My motivation for this community was about people and music, not deals, even though is clearly something we all enjoy. My desire is to get us to move beyond just deals. To share our musical histories and what music means to us, to share more about what we’re doing musically, and to learn more about growing musically.

Yesterday was big to me — and I suppose because of my family history, being the son of a musician / music teacher and having grown up performing in recitals and public concerts with my siblings, my mother taking me out to sit in with bands at night clubs since I was probably around 9 years old (I realize that’s a pretty unusual story), then the school band, music was a very important to my family and me. My daughter and my son are pretty reserved people. My daughter is in HS, my son is in college. They definitely see their dad as more apt to start a conversation or talk to anyone with ease — and then get that person laughing; my kids are more on the shy side, but not extraordinarily shy.  My daughter won’t sing in front of her family when it’s just us. I don’t even hear her rehearsing for concerts. So hearing her perform at her school’s holiday concert and do an entire song as the soloist — and finding that she has developed a really beautiful voice simply amazed me, and of course, as her father, it was very moving. I just wanted to share that musical story.

FTR, IRL, we joke a lot in our family. When my kids hear my voice on songs, they regularly say stuff like, “Stick with the drums!” And I have begged my daughter to sing on my little recordings, but I only persuaded her, my wife, son and cat, to sing on one song that I recorded a few years ago, during the pandemic, a cover (in 4/4 — shamefully) of “All You Need is Love.”

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