peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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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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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What are some of the things that most inspire you to play and/or write music?
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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
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.
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).
pseudopop posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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_musicor 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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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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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
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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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
2 Commentslastcall posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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).3 Comments-
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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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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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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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.
musicianw posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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)1 Comment-
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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
A wall-related song. No, no, not that one! This one.
peter posted in the group Early Adopters
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 LinkedMusicians1 Comment
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.
This should be a sticky post😎
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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
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
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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Brian posted in the group Early Adopters
@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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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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@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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@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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@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.
Brian posted in the group Early Adopters
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
1 Commentdoug posted in the group Early Adopters
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”.
peter posted in the group Early Adopters
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.
peter posted in the group Early Adopters
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
doug posted in the group Early Adopters
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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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
Teebacca posted in the group Early Adopters
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
Blacque Jacque Shellacque posted in the group Early Adopters
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Is it just me or the edit for comments does not work properly. When I click edit on a comment the buttons changes and I can cancel or save but I can’t edit the text.2 Comments-
It’s not just you. I posted about that yesterday to make everyone aware of the issue and that I’ve put in a trouble ticket with the developer of this functionality (a different developer than the theme developer I usually refer to; there are plugins/scripts from A LOT of different developers on this site). We’ll get it fixed. And you know, there’s…Read More
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Oups, I must have missed that post. Thanks for all the hard work! I naïvely thought setting up a forum would be a simple task. Was I wrong or what! 🙂
peter posted in the group Early Adopters
I’ve gotten feedback from several members that all four of the read / unread systems we’ve used in the forums either haven’t worked properly for at least some users or it simply wasn’t intuitive enough. After making some posts about it, I haven’t received any feedback from anyone saying they liked it, so I took it that it was best to look for…Read More
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Love it, thanks!
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Seeing your comment made my day! Thanks for sharing your candid feedback.
@patrickwichrowski made an excellent observation — that the contrast between the two images isn’t ideal and I think he’s right. So, I’m going to be replacing those with something that has more contrast. If you can think of any sites where you’ve seen images to represent…Read More
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I agree that thre isn”t enough difference in the two icons. Maybe an exclamation point for unread and a checkmark when read. An other alternative is an exclamation point for unread and nothing when read.
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On the lighter side, I did realize that when I tagged Release in the poll that I probably unintentionally killed any possibility to see anyone who was going to vote “it’s alright” or “I don’t really like it” from voting as they’re like — um, no, Peter can see my vote and he’ll tag me next! Sorry folks, I’ll try to wait a bit longer next time.…Read More
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I liked the system with the blue stripe for unread posts. It made it very obvious what was read and unread. Is that the one people found unintuitive? Being slightly colour blind I can’t really distringuish between the green and the gray of the current system. Maybe I just got used to it but I really liked the system the old forum had of having a…Read More
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I was told by two people that it didn’t work. I don’t recall hearing from anyone else, so I assumed that it had problems and moved on.
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@blackjackschellac It make take several days, but the plugin allows me to upload my own graphic, so in the next several days I’ll replace it and I’m very interested in hearing or seeing screenshots of forums where you think the icons they use are highly intuitive.
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I am not part of many forums, so I can’t really suggest any graphics unfortunatly. I am part of this forum and cakewalk’s and visit other site’s when searching for specific help. But I suggest keeping it simple. The most important thing is visibility. The Cakewalk forum has a simple dot in front of the title when unread that disappears when read.…Read More
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Just spitballing here. It’s a very small element, so a U in reverse on a green circle for unread. When a topic of forum is read it remains a ball, but with a revetse R out of gray. But it could just as well be a checkmark because it’s so small
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Yes, when it is small details are difficult to see at a glance which is what we want for this. I have done some looking on the internet and from what I saw, I believe you could use the activity icon you already have. 3 dots in it when it is unread and a checkmark when it is read. I also realised, from some of the comments I saw, is that we must be…Read More
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That surprises me that people said stripes didn’t work. It worked great for me and was exactly what I was looking for. Did they DM you about it or was it part of a thread? If part of a thread, then I missed the discussion. Anyway, what you are now proposing would be fine as well,
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I’m pretty sure it.was either the thread for people to report fixes or a thread in the Earky Adopters Group. I realize that sometimes the issues are that folks don’t understand how to use something. I wish I remembered which one had the stripes so I could note it. I take it you like that better than the one we’re using now?
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The stripes made it very easy to see what was read and unread. If the current system would do that, then I would be fine with it. As it stands now, I cannot tell the difference between read and unread so the current system is useless to me.
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The current system is the first one where I’ve had positive feedback. But if MOST people agree they want a prior system — and because I’ve installed, I think, a total of 4 different systems, I can’t recall which one had the blue bars, but I’d replace this one if a bunch of members can agree to it. Feel free to do a poll just like I did below –…Read More
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@peter I am not against the current system. Just used different icons for read/unread to help us poor color challenged folk.
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@doug You must have missed the discussion, but I’m going to create new icons that are specifically considering those who are color blind. I have a long history of managing / leading digital marketing, including corporate websites at three major global brands. While it was EXTREMELY unpopular among the next level up (I’ll try not get sued), I…Read More
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@peter I did not miss the discussion on accomodating colour blind people. Brian tagged me and asked if I did not see the exclaimation marks showing read and unread messages. I responded saying I saw the exclaimation marks but not the difference between green and gray. Then I was confused by your statement about the forum being functionally…Read More
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@peter, I have responded to your DM with more discussion on this topic.
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@doug By functionally complete I only meant that I was finished adding new features for version one. I definitely 100% support anything I can do (within the constraints of my budget) to make the site more accessible. There’s no end date for that. That is about human beings. No, I absolutely planned on getting this fixed as soon as it was pointed…Read More
Old Joad posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Earth to get a temporary “second moon”
antler posted in the group Early Adopters
Hi Peter. In the forums, what does the number below our profile name mean? At first I thought it was the total number of likes from posts or something like that. But I’ve seen some posts with a few likes, and the number under the profile name doesn’t seem to reflect it.
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The number under a member’s username in the forum represents how many forum topics that user has created. It’s no surprise that @cclarry blows away everyone else. Last I noticed, Larry’s number was, I think, over 230 and mine is not even 10 percent of that. I think mine is currently at around 17 and I built this site. I just haven’t had time to do…Read More
Old Joad posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
A little humor for today😎
What bro country sounds like to people who don’t like bro country:doug posted in the group Early Adopters
The new Groups format is much better. Filtering out the “joe.blow has joined the group” makes it much more usable,
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Thanks for the feedback. My take was that I enjoy seeing when new people join, but the notices were just way too big and I couldn’t find a way to reduce the size, so they’re gone now. Don’t ever hesitate to share your thoughts if you think there’s some functionality that you really enjoy, or other functionality you think isn’t really adding value.…Read More
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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.