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    bapu posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 5 months ago

    Disclaimer: Not a political statement.

    Very few people live to be 100, let alone a former president.

    Happy 100’th Birthday Jimmy Carter!

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      Old Joad
      1 year, 5 months ago

      Well said, history will be very kind to Carter.

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    peter posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Happy Friday,

    If you look on the navigation bar to the left of this post, you’ll notice an expandable menu item labeled “Cake to LM Equivalent Links.” These are links to LinkedMusician’s equivalents to the Cakewalk Deals subforum, the Coffee House and the Songs forum; the three main places most of this community spent time at over at the…Read More

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    Old Joad posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    BTW, you’re really doing a good job with this forum, it’s looking great👍

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Thanks. There are some things being worked on, so it’s only going to get better. But there’s been a lot of progress in the last 4 weeks. I would guess I’ve easily put 300 hours into this. It’s far exceeded a hobby project. I really haven’t done a community site of my own since the 00s, which became the site that made my career after going viral.…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Both of my kids, teenagers, hide their Spotify playlists from me. I’m told I get too “cringey” when I talk about music. Maybe thats why I appreciate this group so much! But yesterday, my wife was playing my daughter’s Spotify playlist and I was amazed at how many songs I turned her on to were on her Playlist. Songs from Radohead, Jeff Buckley,…Read More

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      dsteinschneider
      1 year, 5 months ago

      I find they like good songs from any period back to the 50’s across many genres/subgenres – rock, folk, rockabilly, pop, punk and so on. The dominance of Hip-Hop is waning and genres continue to blur resulting in some great new music arriving if you know how to find it.

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    If you’re looking to find the Groups visit The Wall and look at the widget (block) on the right-hand side and select a Group. They’re all still available and fully usable. I’ve merely been trying different configurations to see if when I cut back to a single wall, if it might result in the community more actively using the social walls. So far, it…Read More

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    Old Joad posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    The Cure is getting set to make their 2024 return official, teasing the arrival of the lead single from their forthcoming Songs of a Lost World — “Alone” — set to drop later this week.
    After first sending postcards to fans featuring the date of November 1 noting what could only be the lead-up to the release of their first album in 16 years, The…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I’ve given advice to more than three dozen sample and plugin developers over two decades. I haven’t talked to any of them about joining yet. I wanted to wait until we were opened it to public registration next month. But the word is starting to get out. I can see that there’s an interest.

    I was just wondering what everyone’s take is on…Read More

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      Blacque Jacque Shellacque
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I am all for it. I can only see benefits, especially if they are knowledgeable in the product. Of course salesman would not be the same. I thought Peter of IK does a great job on other forums.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Peter’s a friend of two decades. I don’t know if, from a business perspective, IK would want him to invest too much time when the community is small, but I do think he’d like what we’re doing here. I know that Peter and I share the same ideals on how people should treat one another, I’ll contact him tomorrow. I would — just on a personal level…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    What are some of the things that most inspire you to play and/or write music?

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      bapu
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Simple. I turned 11 years old the day The Beatles landed in the USA for the first time (7 Feb 1964). I saw them on Ed Sullivan both times they appeared. That was all I needed even though I didn’t actually fully start until 3 years later when I got my first electric guitar (not bass) and met up with kid I went to school with in the 5th grade who…Read More

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      Old Joad
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Music was always in my family, my father was a drummer, my brother was a singer.

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      patrickwichrowski
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Beauty and some thoughts that are hard to speak. It’s basically necessity for expression. Music gives me all the liberty that I need 😀

      I love look at the sky and somehow I fell connected.

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      lastcall
      1 year, 6 months ago

      When I heard Appetite for Destruction it was the most amazing thing I have ever heard.
      Still, I think like Patrick, it’s something inside that drives me to do it (play guitar or sing).

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    pseudopop posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    How would you name the social media accounts for a music project, when the 1:1 version is already taken? Would you go with:

    – project_official
    – project_band
    – project_music

    or something else? This is currently more of a solo effort, though any live performances would require a band. I’m personally leaning towards the project_music, but…Read More

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I would tend to go with ProjectOfficial or project-official next.

      I would not want to use the _ character as users tend to not remember that and there may be times you’re telling people and they’re not reading something and there’s also the fact that some people may see something and not do it immediately and rely on memory. There’s been a lot…Read More

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      pseudopop
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Got it, no pressing enter while typing without pressing shift, too. And edit doesn’t work on Firefox, it seems.

      Anyway, like I was saying, I was focusing more on the suffix, but I suppose I should consider the separator, too. The “official” feels like something that big names use when there are dozens of unofficial accounts. It also feels like I…Read More

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      lamia6
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Generally they say to avoid the underscore, and also the dot. RealProject would be another good alternative. Only 4 extra characters, looks professional and generic if Project switches to something else so it will still work. Character length is an issue on some platforms, like Twitter allows only 16, if your like say ProjectSeven that’s already…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I wanted to take some time out to show my appreciation and acknowledge some of the members of the community who have pitched in and epitomized the values I had envisioned for this community, a place committed to being the friendliest, most helpful and welcoming community of its kind.

    When my days at Cakewalk Forum came to an end, I was soon…Read More

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      Satya
      1 year, 6 months ago

      me too wanted to make a deal page and it feels good to be part

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @satya It feels great to have you as a part of this.

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    lastcall posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Have you experienced this ZEN state after practicing your instrument for like more than 20/30 minutes, so focused, non stop?
    I love it and at some point experiencing it, it’s like you don’t exist anymore (scary thought but it’s awesome).

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I’ve felt that experience more when playing with other musicians. While I have been doing multitrack recordings since I was a kid, playing alone never came close to the experience of playing with other musicians. I think the closest I’ve come since tendonitis stopped my ability to play with other musicians — as I often can’t get through a minute…Read More

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      lastcall
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Aw, well, this feeling I have experienced is out of this world. Focusing on a riff for like 20/30 minutes without thinking is awesome. You don’t even think if you are doing it right or wrong, what finger goes to what fret, if you press it hard or soft. You just play and play and play. One of the best feelings I have experienced. Also, it motivates…Read More

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      dsteinschneider
      1 year, 5 months ago

      Practicing groove/feel on bass for an hour gets me in that zone

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Happy birthday to my favorite developer and sincerely one of the best human beings you could find on this planet, @gregjazz Greg was the person who encouraged me to attempt to play again around 3 years ago during the pandemic — around 20 years since I left music behind due to an injury causing lifelong tendonitis that makes playing drums even…Read More

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      right now
      It may come as a shock, but Dave Grohl cites Andrew Gold as one of his all-time favorite songwriters, responsible for what he considers the greatest songs ever written.

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      gregjazz
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Aw, I missed this–thank you for the birthday wishes!

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    musicianw posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    New stuff going on! Time to leave my stamp on the wall 😆
    Also been loving this update that we can have a wider variety of emojis (which I <3)

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Thanks for the feedback!
      We can thank @fleer for the fact that we’re using these emoji reactions. I originally used an up and down voting system and Fleer made the case for having these kind of reaction emojis and I quickly realized that he was right. I then interviewed each member of my family — except our cat — and everyone agreed that…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    As the early adopters AKA beta testers of LinkedMusicians,, you’re seeing the site evolve pretty quickly as I’m testing what engages you and what doesn’t.

    I knew when setting this site up that the forum would be easy for everyone to adjust to and the social media walls / GROUPS would take more time. All along, I had this one recurring thought:…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    A wall-related song. No, no, not that one! This one.

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    peter posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    As the early adopters or beta test users of LinkedMusicians,, you're seeing the site evolve pretty quickly and I'm testing what engages you and what doesn't. I knew when setting this site up that the forum would be easy for everyone to adjust to and the social media walls / Groups would take more time. All along one recurring thought I had was this: The integration of social media with an old school forum would likely be easier to understand and experience if there were only one social media wall. That would mean that, in the beginning, when the membership was small that there would be much more activity -- and the activity would be much broader. As all members would see it, they would be apt to see content that resonated with them and participate / engage. With that in mind, all of the next week I'm going to be conducting an experiment. I am going to pull back the existing Groups / Walls, including this one, and consolidate everything in a single wall. Just one place where we discuss whatever you want to discuss -- of course, related to music. In time, I plan on re-introducing additional Groups, but I believe, from my experience developing and nurturing online communities that this will provide the greatest user experience for the majority of community members at this point. I promise that I will monitor usage very closely and will be using your feedback and polls to make decisions that I believe will result in giving you the best possible experience at LinkedMusicians. Now, I'm going to hand the mic over to you and invite you to provide your candid thoughts on how we can make this section of the site -- the social walls / Groups more useful to you and what you think about this experiment.

    What do you think about temporary scaling back the GROUPS to a single social media wall for LinkedMusicians
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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I tend to be a separator rather than a clumper so like separate groups. But I would not be devastated if the was only one wall. So it is not really true that I don’t like the idea of one wall; I just prefer interest-based groups.

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    lamia6 posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Too soon?

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      Old Joad
      1 year, 6 months ago

      This should be a sticky post😎

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @oldjoad as you wish! Kudos to @lamia6 for making this. It totally cracks me up. Love it!!! YOU ROCK!!!

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      We really should embrace the whole Cakewalk Forum banning any references to LinkedMusicians while allowing people to post links to every KVR, Gearspace, VI Control — and a bunch of affiliate marketing links. I thought BandLab was out of Singapore. I guess they must have relocated to North Korea. It takes some truly awful decision-making to end up…Read More

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    peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I was talking with a friend and talked about LinkedMusicians. He asked for a clarification on what I meant by “it’s an online community of musicians.” I explained, it’s basically Facebook for musicians with forums focused on sharing deals, tutorials, documentaries, gear and music production. How would you describe it?

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      lastcall
      1 year, 6 months ago

      A community to share thoughts about music, and visit the DEALS page… haha.

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    Brian posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    @Doug I know Peter is still tweaking stuff, but for the past couple days there should be an exclamation point inside a gay dot next to forum posts. If the exclamation is green, there are new posts- click on the (!) to jump to unread. If the exclamation is light gray on gray, nothing new since last visit. Are you seeing that?

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Amusing typo and the editing function is presently not available (please don’t delete it!!!!) , but I consider the forum functionality complete. I will swap out the read / unread function if a bunch of folks want it because I’ve already tested it and it didn’t cause any conflicts with other scripts (the biggest concern when adding a new script /…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @Brian, as I have said before, I am partly colour blind and I cannot really see the difference between the green and the grey exclaimation points. To you the difference may be obvious but not to me. A number of people have suggested using something with more contrast; I guess I don’t understand the resistance to doing that. Does the current system…Read More

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      Brian
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @Doug. My apologies- I didn’t catch your post about color blindness. I actually brought that up to Peter a couple days ago. He said he is going to change the icon shapes to make the difference clearer. Right now it is green on white for un-read, and gray on white for read. That is likely indistinguishable for you, unfortunately. I think they…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @bluescat, no worries. @peter has already reached out and I have offered to find some icons that might work. I had taken Peter’s comment that the site was feature complete to mean that green and gray exclaimation points were what was going to be used to identify read/unread messages. That was not his intent at all.

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    Brian posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Hey @Peter; the site is really cooking! I haven’t visited the Group section for a while, but the changes have made it much more “friendly” IMO. Taking out the “new user” banners really helped the presentation, I think. I also don’t remember that box to the right —> with the ability to quickly see what is happening in Groups. I am starting to…Read More

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

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    doug posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Is search supposed to be working? If so, then what is it searching? I typed Vegas in the search bar and got no hits. I typed Kontakt and got only one hit: “Getting Started at LinkedMusicians”.

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    peter posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I just purchased and activated reactions for GROUPS. Living like Bapu. Installed!

    Go ahead and put a reaction on this post! Later this week we’ll be re-introducing the editing function.

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    peter posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    The LinkedMusicians Deals Forum is far deeper and far more prominent than the Deals subforum many of us left behind at the Cakewalk Forum. I realize that it takes some getting used to. It’s far more convenient and organized. After getting familiar with the Forums, I’m sure you’ll appreciate the difference. We break everything deals down by…Read More

    LinkedMusicians Physical Musical Instruments & Hardware Deals
    One of the LinkedMusicians deal forums you should be checking out.
    https://linkedmusicians.com/forums/forum/deals/hardware/
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    doug posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I have just noticed that you can only like or unlike a group post and you can do nothing to comments to a post. The forums are working great but I am thinking that group have a way to go before they are feature complete.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Yep, you’re correct. We did have the ability to edit posts — but lost it when I installed some pretty significant enhancements on the site. The developer responsible for those enhancements is looking into the issues and if they can’t resolve them, they have some additional plugins I can purchase that do the same thing. So it’s easy to get the…Read More

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    Teebacca posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    Just wanted to say everything is looking great Peter really nice work. Appreciate your time investment. Wondering if it makes sense on the deals forum (or forum topics in general) to have a filter/sort options like sort by: “most recent, most replies, etc.” other things like that. I am on my phone so it may already be right under my nose som…Read More

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