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Thanks guys.
This is just life with tendinitis, nothing surprising. I thought I should share what’s going on in case someone wondered why my posting suddenly slowed down. I just need to rest my right wrist/tendons. I’m just tapping this out on my phone which is a lot less stress on the tendons than using a mouse and computer keyboard. I, no doubt, will still do some posting. There’s a ridiculous amount of deep discounted deals right now. I’m sure that there will be some surprises for the actual Black Friday, but I think most developers have simply started early and won’t be doing much more for the actual Black Friday or Cyber Monday .
Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I'm also the chef at this place.
FTR, I’m fine. I just didn’t want people seeing the sudden dip in my posting and think that I’m not committed. I am. I just want to be open about my situation, because I don’t want to stop, but I need to.
Your friend who keeps the beat.
DISCLOSURE: I’ve advised more than 3 dozen sample and plugin developers on branding and marketing strategy. I’ve never been paid to make posts, they reflect my sincere opinions, and I’ve never been an influencer.
I am sure most of us here will understand if you need to step away momentarily Peter, your commitment to this site has been extremely consistent and VERY much appreciated.
Secondly, apologies as I’m really not sure how much this would help with tendinitis, but i recently saw an ad for a new device called TapXR which straps to your wrist and it picks up on custom finger-tap gestures on any surface, which you would assign to computer keyboard/mouse actions. I think thats how it works at least. Could maybe be helpful as it says “works with any DAW;” I don’t know if this could also be of assistance but thought I’d pass along the info:
If what I’m imagining is possible, could maybe even combine it with something like better touch tool or keyboard maestro for even more of a tailored experience, but that’s just based on my own assumptions, haven’t read about or tested those combos, but I immediately thought of assigning each piano key’s midi cc message to a regular keyboard key, which assigns to a tap with the wristband on whatever surface is most physically manageable, for example.
1Thanks for the recommendation, @Teebacca and @Kirean thanks for your suggestion. I did try a vertical mouse at a computer store a couple of years ago, maybe I should just buy one and try it for a while. Thanks for the suggestion.
Beyond the fact that I’m still disappointed in what went down with Larry and the reality is my tendinitis getting really bad a short while later was disappointing because of the timing. But I want to acknowledge and thank everyone in the community for being so kind and thoughtful. This community has come together and made me feel everything, all of the hours I’ve put into this, all of the money I’ve spent, has resulted in keeping together a really wonderful group of people. And yes, I do still hope for Larrry to call me. I’m not into holding grudges or getting even with people; life is too short to be so petty. My hope is always for a resolution and friendship.
So thanks to everyone in the community, and a special thanks to those who’ve posted supportive and encouraging messages — those are always great to see and they mean a lot to me FTR, I didn’t share about my tendinitis for people to feel bad about it or look for pity (I loathe the idea of that; I don’t want it). I just didn’t want people coming here, seeing the deals posts slow down a bit and think that it wasn’t a priority to me. It is. I just got a bit sidelined by tendinitis. It does bum me out a little. But I’m very resilient. I have family with disabilities and advise (pro bono) a wonderful organization that provides mobility equipment for children with disabilities. My tendinitis is nothing compared to what my loved ones and friends I’ve known deal with. I’ve lost a number of friends in recent years, one good friend who lost both legs and one arm in an accident when he was 14, another with severe osteogenesis imperfecta AKA brittle bone disease that severely contorted her bones who had three major strokes before she died before seeing 40. I certainly don’t deal with anything remotely close to that. I wish I could still play music, but I had 12 years of playing before audiences and great memories. It was largely through my encouraging others with disabilities to create music in a forum for people with osteogenesis imperfecta for an organization I provide that made me realize that I gave up on music because I couldn’t play with other musicians anymore of play at a level of proficiency I expected of myself, so I just stopped and it seemed clear to me that way I thought of myself was not how I encouraged others. I’d tell them to not give up, that you can still enjoy music despite your limitations, while personally, my inability to play as I once did caused me to throw in the towel. For me, it’s always been easy to encourage others. It’s harder to do it for myself. It was due to a friend — and then a second friend — encouraging me to try to play again, then to keep at it, that I started up trying to make music a few years ago and haven’t stopped since.
Anyhow, it’s another way too long post from me. Sorry. I promise to get the system emails up this week and after that we open the site to public registration. But very candidly, just speaking from the heart, the encouragement that all of you have been to me has made all of this worthwhile. I’m quite happy with a small community. Yes, I’m going to grow this community, but having this small group has been wonderful. There are truly some really great people here from all around the world.
Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I'm also the chef at this place.
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