Hi all,
Gosh, I'm both impressed and a bit confused, now that I read and am smiling at the humor here and now that I see that I'm not so sure the OP was serious in the first place! My bet is that he was, but that the latter part of his post humorously lofted some sarcasm at us in a pretty warm way.
I would just ask folks to accept me saying "Never mind!" to my post, but I think there is still a grain of something that exists in this whole thing that is worth stating, and I do so with no intention of validating my original post, but rather in complete honesty regarding my impressions.
That is, my corrective slant was not based simply on this particular post, but on my years of reading this forum looking for technical guidance on Sonar issues. I've seen more clique-like team-ups against posters on this forum than on any other I've viewed, and it has concerned me. Sure, humor and wit have their place and there are no posts on this thread that aren't fun and clever, but quite often I've seen groups of friends on this site team-up and literally debase and deride new and, sure, naive posters to the point that it looks like a cheap fraternity of ten half-men trying to add up to one man by ganging against a poster for what seems to be the insecure goal of looking clever and being some kind of "gatekeeper" on the forum. (Could a brickwall limiter or gate have kept that sentence from being so long?)
It's been shameful. The Coffee House or whatever is probably more the place for showing one's colors and having beer brawls and nit-pik sessions.
Sure, this poster asked a question about composition qualities, and surely many would not resist the gate-keeper response of "That is not a question that should be asked in this section", but even that is something that should be said kindly and with the idea of each and every poster here being a potential "e-family" member. Sounds corny, maybe, but in practice it would be a dream.
I am a firearms nut, and collect and converse on such on several forums. You would be quite impressed and possibly not surprised to note that these forums are without question the places where the LEAST responsive abuse and disrespect are found, and I'm sure everyone here can figure that out. The all know that in real life, or should I say "face to face", no one would be talking any trash or being cute or terse with anyone of like "holdings". Well, we should all possibly be that way. We don't know each other, but we should know that this world won't work well at all if we aren't that way. From small involvements like this forum to how we treat our next-door neighbor, to how our country treats other countries. Spite, disdain, smart-assness (my new word!) and alienation don't work. It ends up on our porches in the long run, and sometimes in the short run.
In short, I've seen a whole lot of that here over the last four years, and I reacted to this post with that luggage pushing my words. I can now see how many folks might have thought the original post was ENTIRELY tongue-and-cheek. Crazy.
Best wishes to you ALL. Intelligence and wit are abundant here, and I'm in the middle of trying to figure out why X3 gobbles up 4X more processor than Samplitude Pro X and Pro Tools 11, so I have to be honest and apologize for the bitter tone of my first post. I stand by the content, as I've said here, but I fell into a bit of a harsh mode.
Jon