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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 2:05 PM (permalink)
If I ever had to leave, would I be able to apply my posts elsewhere?
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 2:08 PM (permalink)
I guess this stuff means a lot more to some than it does to me.

It works for me and the "expansion" went very smooth and I like the additions.
Haven't used them much but really enjoyed what I was hearing....and the FX Chain..just
very cool-really like it and wish I had the same visual contral with all of X1.

I piss-off more than 80 bucks taking my family out to dinner and a movie...
If and when it ever bothers me enough to upset me and cause bad feelings-well I'll be done with it.
"Loyalty" is a two way street....Cake can forget about that with me. Up loyality...I just
want what I pay for...so far, so good. 

Anyway...I hope things get better for those having issues.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 4:27 PM (permalink)
Well, I had no really big issues here, modulo my white screen and crash a couple of times when I threw in dimpro or that vvocal thing but I don't really see that extra $80 as a waste per se.

This past year I spent a pile of $$$$ on a steel roof on this house, another $2,000 to replace our 15 year old furnace, $300 on a blackstone model C-19 like this one...



So far this thing runs like a charm....


But seriously, I just wish that CW would get its house in order and actually get something working right...


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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 7:06 PM (permalink)
I'm not buying into the Expanded hype either.  All I see is a few re-skinned plugins that I already have covered by 3rd part developers.  The last few upgrades I justified buying by convincing myself that the upgrade was more or less what I would spend on the equivalent new plugins that were included.  The small change to the browser, the replace synth and plug in chainer just aren't enough to create any excitement for the product.  When they include something I will use or upgrade the core program to X2 or whatever it may be called, I'll pop for it if not for anything other to keep up my usefulness to the Toontrack betatest team.  I get far more use out of those products.

In the meantime since I was being forced to learn a new way of doing things, I started tinkering with Reaper 4 more and more and now after purchasing the license, I'm to the point where I'm like the guy with one foot in the rowboat and the other on the dock.  Everything concerning tracking, editing and mixing live instruments is (IMHO) done better in that platform.  The only thing I miss is V-Vocal but I'm working with the Melodyne Editor program and that pretty much blows V-Vocal out of the water except for the price of admission.

I don't think anyone stating their disapproval of Roland's direction for the Cakewalk product is out of line.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 7:15 PM (permalink)
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I don't think anyone stating their disapproval of Roland's direction for the Cakewalk product is out of line.

+1. Opinions are what make the world go 'round.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 7:56 PM (permalink)
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In the meantime since I was being forced to learn a new way of doing things, I started tinkering with Reaper 4 more and more and now after purchasing the license, I'm to the point where I'm like the guy with one foot in the rowboat and the other on the dock.  Everything concerning tracking, editing and mixing live instruments is (IMHO) done better in that platform.  The only thing I miss is V-Vocal but I'm working with the Melodyne Editor program and that pretty much blows V-Vocal out of the water except for the price of admission.

I don't think anyone stating their disapproval of Roland's direction for the Cakewalk product is out of line.
Having temporarily jumped ship - at least that's what I thought back then - I've started looking at the past 10 or 12 years. The sum of changes in Sonar during that period is simply astounding when compared to many/most of its competitors. The numbers of major revisions alone leaves everyone else far behind. Would be a good thing if all those upgrades didn't leave many issues pending every time.


Progressing so fast, I often felt like they were adding features for the sake of it, just piling them up rather than carefully implementing them. Brilliant ideas were sometimes thrown in but never to be brought to maturity, glitches persisting version after version. But the features kept on piling up.

And then, once the box was full, kind of like they said when X1 came out, they emptied it all on the table, and re-assembled all the pieces. With a certain disregard for long-time users and no obvious sense of "legacy", imho.

Loyalty, for me, has to be rooted in some sort of legacy. Looking at those past 12 years, all I can reasonably assume is that Cakewalk will keep on adding licensed plug-ins, neglect some very basic functionality issues, come up with brilliant ideas which may or may not ever reach maturity. I can also presume that they'll most likely have something new for sale every fall until once again, the box is full and they have to once again toss it all on the table and re-invent it. 

As an example, by design, X1 seems to be aimed, at least partially, at making working on a single monitor/laptop a breeze. At first, this should have made it even more appealing to me, as I was transitioning to a portable rig.  Nevertheless, one of the reasons which prevented me from buying it in the first place is tha,t with all the wasted screen space, it'd probably take me a 27 inches laptop to have everything on screen. The basic concept is there, but like it often happen, they didn't go all the way with it. 
Working w/ a different application, it seems to me that a lot of the things that I've come to depend on aren't typically the features that Cakewalk could use to market their application - although they took a step in that direction w/ X1. 

The ability to change loop points in realtime, to highlight a section I want to skip in realtime (often just in front of the playhead, w/o a glitch), to insert plug-ins and move them around without hiccups, to navigate through all plug-ins on any/every channel strip via one single plug-in interface, selected tracks which arm themselves when you press record, as scalable GUI, swipe comp'ing...  Those things can be done. 

No amount of saturation will ever help to glue the playback engine so that it doesn't glitch every time you need to change something in realtime, no photo realistic vu meter will make up for the lack of ergonomics.  

For the first time in 12 years, I feel like I'm working with a finished version of a DAW software. Of course, there were bug fixes and revisions (2 years worth of free update so far), but the product itself doesn't feel like this or that is still in development and will hopefully get better in the next paid upgrade. It's not perfect but it's certainly ready for prime time in its current incarnation. 

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 8:17 PM (permalink)
For the first time in 12 years, I feel like I'm working with a finished version of a DAW software. Of course, there were bug fixes and revisions (2 years worth of free update so far), but the product itself doesn't feel like this or that is still in development and will hopefully get better in the next paid upgrade. It's not perfect but it's certainly ready for prime time in its current incarnation. 



I agree with everything you said Rain. But then you said the above. Are you talking about X1 ??
Or Logic?

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 8:24 PM (permalink)
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For the first time in 12 years, I feel like I'm working with a finished version of a DAW software. Of course, there were bug fixes and revisions (2 years worth of free update so far), but the product itself doesn't feel like this or that is still in development and will hopefully get better in the next paid upgrade. It's not perfect but it's certainly ready for prime time in its current incarnation. 



I agree with everything you said Rain. But then you said the above. Are you talking about X1 ??
Or Logic?

Hmmm, reading that paragraph, and I'm taking a guess here, X1 seems like a bad match for it.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 8:44 PM (permalink)
Jon, I don't see Cake changing there direction of actually making something that works as promised, advertised and sold, but Rain's comment seems to imply otherwise. Just curious what momentous occurence happened to make that a possibility. 

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 8:44 PM (permalink)
Logic. I meant that there were obviously bugs - some introduced by OS revisions, for example - but that overall, the product was ready when they released it.

My original intention was to go back to Cakewalk when we get back home. But somehow, it's almost like when you take a break in a relationship and you gradually realize that things don't have to be this way and that you don't miss the other all that much. 

Currently, if I were to get back, I'd probably be using 8.5 if I had to work on my PC, anyway. But then, there is no future there. 

I'd still like to see that ultimate Sonar version, with the gapless engine and all. But the more time passes, the more the interest becomes a simple curiosity. Like, we're just friends and it's ok.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 9:11 PM (permalink)
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Jon, I don't see Cake changing there direction of actually making something that works as promised, advertised and sold, but Rain's comment seems to imply otherwise. Just curious what momentous occurence happened to make that a possibility. 


I stopped upgrading at 8.5 because it still didn't work as promised or advertised and over 3 different version upgrades.  Many of those issues still remain in X1 so I'm glad I didn't go further.

Don't get me wrong there is a lot of functionality that I like in Sonar which makes it still my number one choice but given that many that went X1 bound in December are only now daring to use it full-time many are still unhappy.

Having said that I would have still taken the upgrade and expanded just for FX Chains 2 had it been up to the mark  (incidentally Noel's actually acknowledged to me personally that it didn't go as far as initially intended), rather than it being just the ergonomic aid it is now, despite the fact that I vowed never to part with further cash until Rewire got sorted out which has been an outstanding unaddressed issue since I came in on version 7 despite it being promised, advertised and sold.

btw anyone know what happened to Beatscape? Some users would have come in on the advertised promise of being able to use that when it was introduced, no?  Marketing used it as being a draw and worthwhile feature to users and it was even manufactured as one of the 4 disk install set of V8.  How much time went into that puff of smoke instead of addressing known issues?  Somebody at that time also thought adding an arpeggiator in order to freely produce midi spew on every track was more worthwhile than making layers and automation behave a bit more predictably.  I could go on.

I'm still happy enough with 8.5 to be a Sonar fan but I think if I'd have been with X1 from the outset it would have completely seen me off by now.

For some weird reason I'm still watching and hoping for a better future with Cakewalk software though.

I tend to purchase stuff when it has something that is better (rather than look better) than what I already have.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 10:15 PM (permalink)
btw anyone know what happened to Beatscape? Some users would have come in on the advertised promise of being able to use that when it was introduced, no?
I've never even installed that part of the program.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 10:17 PM (permalink)
Ya'll really make me uneasy. I've never used anything except Sonar... these posts make me feel like I am mising something. I am not to the point of buying a Mac and Logic to find out though, but still it is discomforting somehow.

It's always something I guess... but what you don't know actually can hurt you.

J
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 10:42 PM (permalink)
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If I ever had to leave, would I be able to apply my posts elsewhere?


 No worries Bapu, it will never happen.....I was merely hypothesising. What ifs usually never are.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 10:54 PM (permalink)
 I must have been a very fortunate person with regard to using Sonar. I have used Cakewalk products for years and have not yet had any serious issues. I even used it with Visa and it worked. The most major problem I had was a high CPU meter in Win764bit and I discovered with the help of some helpful people here that my computer needed a few OS tweaks. Since then I have had zero failures.
 I suspect that my success is due to my using Sonar  mainly as a really nice multi-track recorder. I could have probably gotten by with a more basic program but I wanted the room to grow so I ordered Sonar X-1 producer. I almost never use midi, I use very few soft synths. I'm not syncing to video or running 100 tracks of intensive stuff. 
  I hope those who use the deeper features can eventually get where they want to be.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 07, 11 11:41 PM (permalink)
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Ya'll really make me uneasy. I've never used anything except Sonar... these posts make me feel like I am mising something. I am not to the point of buying a Mac and Logic to find out though, but still it is discomforting somehow.

It's always something I guess... but what you don't know actually can hurt you.

J

You're not "missing" anything, Julien. I've been mostly happy using Sonar during all those years. And in the end, whichever tool you decide to use will work. There are obvious advantages in sticking with it and making it do what you need it to do.


I mentioned some reasons for my own switch - which proved to be beneficial on many levels - but let's not forget that it's also circumstantial. I happened to be switching to a laptop-based setup exactly when X1 came out. 


On top of not being overly enthusiast about X1 and of the display requirement issue, there were also compatibility issues - my fiancée is on Mac, she has plenty of archives I needed to take care of, including Logic projects, we share stuff all the time, and 99% of the people in our entourage (fellow musicians and studio owners/producers) are using Logic, so in terms of collaboration, it just made sense.


Had I stayed home and continued working on my own stuff, I probably would have kept running 8.5, maybe slowly trying to integrate X1 in the picture.


The absence in Sonar of all those little things I mentioned (gapless engine, the skip selection feature, and all the rest) never prevented me to finish my projects. It is, however, very nice to have those things included in my DAW software, not as some sort of highly desirable feature, but as basic functionality.  And that's where it becomes sort of a "philosophical" discussion about Cakewalk's modus operandi.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 4:10 AM (permalink)
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btw anyone know what happened to Beatscape? Some users would have come in on the advertised promise of being able to use that when it was introduced, no?
I've never even installed that part of the program.


Nor me...lol

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 4:40 AM (permalink)
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Ya'll really make me uneasy. I've never used anything except Sonar... these posts make me feel like I am mising something. I am not to the point of buying a Mac and Logic to find out though, but still it is discomforting somehow.

It's always something I guess... but what you don't know actually can hurt you.

J


I wouldn't worry about the experiences of others, if you are using the program without running into issues then it is perfect for you.  Many users are happy with it and clearly enjoy using it and to a great extent I am very happy with 8.5 aside from a few caveats.

It's very hard to take a middle line on this because when I bring up the areas where I'm discontent I tend to get polarized into being a 'basher' when in actual fact I am a fan of the program which is why I'm using it and why I hang out here.

Trouble is on a forum some people seem to like to make things out to be black or white and it is much more complicated than that because learning to use a new or different DAW is a big undertaking. Going through that process without gaining some real significant benefit in productivity or scope to my mind hasn't seemed worth the effort. 

It made me look at alternatives which I'd never done up until X1's release, which in fact has highlighted some of the shortcomings in Sonar and Cakewalk's ability to provide a good customer oriented service with regard to dealing with long standing issues.  Issues with the store, the forum, the advertising, the pricing structure all seem to reflect the same malaise.

Sure that argument gets countered with no company is perfect, or no software is perfect, but some of the stuff that happens here is just plain bad.

I don't get into the common debate as to what causes it, i.e Roland this or cashflow that, I just try to adopt my partners view on how she'd react if something she'd purchased didn't work as expected and I'm sure she'd have dragged the salesman over the counter and demanded to speak to the management and got some resolution by now.

Some of the guys here reckon I should suck up to the staff for doing the job they are paid to do rather than complain.  Guys are softer like that.

Really though against all the companies I have dealings with during the working week this one frankly ranks as a shambles, and that list includes my ISP, which I'm stuck with because of my location and who are world wide notoriously bad.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 6:25 AM (permalink)
That is why I constantly harp about there needs to be a space for those who like what they are seeing but want to see improvements...the constant enemy imagery that haunted these forums in the past are slowly withering away though..which I think is a good thing.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 6:51 AM (permalink)
Prior to X1 I had only looked at Reaper and bought the License to support the work at version 3.
But i continued to use SONAR 8.5.3 x64.

Since December when X1 failed me (the first Cakewalk/SONAR version ever to do so) I have bought and tried and still use Studio One Pro as well as PT 9HD and I have to say my eyes have been opened to the other possibilities out there. Reaper 4 is right up there with them and I'm going to be giving it a much better run in the future.

What I stay with now that I've retired (very suddenly) doesn't really matter as I have the time and means to do as I pretty much please. But I'm no longer a fanboi of any DAW and while I'm finally getting something out of my enormous investment of time in SONAR X1, I'll stick with 8.5.3 if I "needs to get it done" without worries. Maybe getting more familiar with the X1 way of doing things, will see me use it more, who knows. especially now as X1C and Expanded have brought a new "stability & smoothness" to the experience.

In the end whatever works is what you should  use. Music is the end or should I say the enjoyment of music is the end and the the tools we use should just be that. The tools. Can you see a bunch of carpenters going at it on a forum because one used a different hammer or screw driver to his colleagues. Do tradesman even have forums or is it just us arty farty types?

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 7:48 AM (permalink)

In the end whatever works is what you should use. Music is the end or should I say the enjoyment of music is the end and the the tools we use should just be that. The tools. Can you see a bunch of carpenters going at it on a forum because one used a different hammer or screw driver to his colleagues. Do tradesman even have forums or is it just us arty farty types?


I have no problem whatsoever with what anybody uses to get the job done.  To my mind a good DAW is the one that least hampers creativity.

What I will take exception too though, everytime, is somebody taking my words out of context or even directly and sometimes deliberately misquoting me to formulate personal attacks, insults or being undermining when they are not even addressing or giving their views on the actual issues being discussed.

Rightly, none of the Cakewalk staff treat me in that manner however critical I maybe on a specific issue, and I will not allow other members here do that without at least making them very aware they are out of line.

If that makes me sound a bit tedious in my responses to some, they always have the option to 'Shut The Front Door', then they won't hear a peep from my other than my original point of view on the subject at hand.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 8:22 AM (permalink)
Jonbuoy:
I don't know why you've part quoted my post. You seem to be saying that you take exception to something I've said.
My comments were general only and not in any way related to anything you said. Most of it was just a discussion of jbows post about what he might have been missing out on as he only used SONAR. Again though because it was a really general comment I didn't feel the need to quote a specific post.

It's weird because the part you've quoted was actually inspired by trimph1 who's post was just before mine about the "enemy imagery" that existed around the forum after the X1 release.
 
Guess the coffee house isn't the place for me. Sorry I came over. Thought it would be a bit of light relief.
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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 8:55 AM (permalink)
Mud,

Maybe you can read your quote and Jon's response and try to de contextualize it from your first reaction... and hopefully you'll see that Jon merely answered your question... within the context of something that is weighing heavy on his mind... I sincerely don't see it as a counter argument or debate or dismissal of anything you have said.

It seemed more like a qualified agreement.

I enjoy seeing your posts down here... I'm guessing Jon does too.



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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 9:06 AM (permalink)
Whatever Mike. I've read and re-read it and I can't make anything out of it except an accusation that I've somehow twisted his words and taken them out of context and not even talked on topic. Go figure.

Anyway - i just saw you had added a post to this thread as I was on my out of the forum.

See ya 'round.

to quote jon

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"So long and thanks for all the fish" - Douglass Adams.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 9:10 AM (permalink)
mike_mccue


Mud,

Maybe you can read your quote and Jon's response and try to de contextualize it from your first reaction... and hopefully you'll see that Jon merely answered your question... within the context of something that is weighing heavy on his mind... I sincerely don't see it as a counter argument or debate or dismissal of anything you have said.

It seemed more like a qualified agreement.

I enjoy seeing your posts down here... I'm guessing Jon does too.



all the best,
mike

MudMike's response was more in response to my post I think...


See...now I have to keep two Mike's here...one is McZizzleMike and the other is now MudMike....

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 9:30 AM (permalink)
ya know Mudgel if I could give my two cents;

I live in Los Angeles and I've lived in many parts of the U.S.
but I have very little knowledge of the rest of the world.

and I truly enjoy the fact that there is a diversity amongst the forum members; I wish more people would let us know where they live (like you have done); and what they see when they look out their window.

Good luck on your move by the way.

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 10:51 AM (permalink)

live in Los Angeles and I've lived in many parts of the U.S. but I have very little knowledge of the rest of the world. and I truly enjoy the fact that there is a diversity amongst the forum members; I wish more people would let us know where they live (like you have done); and what they see when they look out their window.
 
I see the north Georgia hills. I see mostly hardwoods, some cedars, nad a few pines. Blue skies with distant planes heading north from the ATL airport. I have a wrap around front porch with stone columns I can put my feet on and read and listen to mockingbirds (and crows). I really big screened in back porch where we sometimes sit at night and listen to some music or the sounds of the cididas in summer. It is a nice place to live. N GA resembles the land after you get up in the rockies, on the plateau from CO Springs up past Pikes Peak, different but similar... and warmer. It is snowing there right now but will be 80+ degrees F here today.
 
After reading your software line... I couldn't help thinking the silly thought that you should get East West L.A. strings... DOH! I know, I know...
 
edit> or maybe East West L.A. Bass.. (I hate subwoofers in cars, especially after 10:00 at night)
I could get NorthGA Weedeaters, mowers, and blowers. There is someone within earshot mowing almost every day.. it is maddening.
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post edited by jbow - October 08, 11 10:59 AM

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 08, 11 1:26 PM (permalink)
mudgel


Jonbuoy:
I don't know why you've part quoted my post. You seem to be saying that you take exception to something I've said.
My comments were general only and not in any way related to anything you said. Most of it was just a discussion of jbows post about what he might have been missing out on as he only used SONAR. Again though because it was a really general comment I didn't feel the need to quote a specific post.

It's weird because the part you've quoted was actually inspired by trimph1 who's post was just before mine about the "enemy imagery" that existed around the forum after the X1 release. 
 
Guess the coffee house isn't the place for me. Sorry I came over. Thought it would be a bit of light relief.


LOL, no Mike your thoughtful post prompted me to think some more and I was generally thinking out loud, not referring to your post specifically but it inspired some further musings on the subject.  The paragraph I quoted was because I was completely in agreement with what you'd written.  If I put "I couldn't agree with you more." at the beginning of my post it possibly would have made sense...

As I said in the other thread I'm always grateful for the balance you bring to the table, my comments were merely aimed at  those for whom the cap fits.  Mainly the hardcore of flamers upstairs that seem to be completely out of control, not present company.

Sorry if it came over the way you picked it up that was never my intention.

Gladly McQ got my intent clearly but I can see in the context of your post where I allowed the confusion to arise, besides McQ has been watching me put myself through the mill on this issue for that past few weeks, so it would have seemed more in context to him what I was saying.

But yes I could have gone to more effort in the writing to de-contextualise it from your previous post to eliminate that confusion arising.

Yes McQ is again right I do enjoy your posts, upstairs or downstairs, so carry on.

It's quite common when I open my mouth for me to put my foot in it...
post edited by Jonbouy - October 08, 11 1:38 PM

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Re:AM I alone, deflated about xpanded October 09, 11 3:14 AM (permalink)
Thanks jonbuoy Glad I came back to check just one more time.

I tried to make McQ's version fit the thread but I couldn't. Must be a language barrier between the antipodes and you's up there. All's good; thankfully. Don't like having a falling out. even worse if it can't be mended. In this case no falling out. I need a babel fish stuck in my ear. Another Douglass Adams reference.

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