John: Thanks! Well, the good sounds on my end are due to really using a high video/audio export. I always try to make the actual sounds as good as they can be. I've not shared much by way of video that shows any production other than little things, but I try my best. No sense posting a video that sounds terrible, ya know? LOL! Yeah, gotta add personality into these things. Nothing kills my desire to learn faster than a voice or delivery that reminds me of a college professor or Ben Stein. Uggh! I think we're all pretty blessed to have each other. This place is nearly as good as Sonar support thanks to guys like you and everyone else that has come to my aid over the years. So thank YOU for that. :)
Chuck: Honest I'm just a hack, but thanks for the kind words. Seriously man, each lesson I do for my students, I learn something new in Sonar. A guy named Clifford that studies with me has shared quite a few things I never knew about when we'd talk after the lesson. He'd mail me and say "you know you can do this that and this to get it like that?" One time our Janet (piano player of the forum) sent me a project to check out. One thing I noticed was, all her virtual tracks of drums had wave forms from using waveform preview on every drum track. Ok, I'm dumb for never thinking of that and knew it could be done, but that was another cool trick I would have never used or thought of unless I saw it.
I think she said she learned that from Dave (ModBod) or Beagle. But I learn something in Sonar all the time. Now, when my students start teaching me how to get good sounds and techniques, then I need to worry. LOL! But right now, I'll gladly take all the Sonar tips and tricks anyone wants to share. Honest when I tell ya...if you watched me work an entire project in it, you'd laugh youself silly. But..hey, it works right? :) Thanks man.
dxp: LOL I always start typing dmx! Hahaha! You're welcome bro. Hey, that Head Case video is up. Speaking of me making a fool out of myself, you can actually see my sorry butt this time. Raw with the usual Danny-isms...lol...but pretty cool as far as working with Head Case. There are two more parts to the video which they haven't uploaded yet, but they are ready to go. I do some playing in real time on the others. But check this out if you get a minute...it's quite entertaining. :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/AcmeBarGig/ (First vid is me. I shared that link in case you wanted to see the other videos they have up...enjoy!)
Beeps: Yeah, I was aware of going into audio snap to take care of that with the threshold. I just wanted to do things really quick as I literally had a 15 minute time window to do the vid. LOL! :) You're welcome brother...thanks for the extra firepower with the Audio Snap thing....I probably should have mentioned that and included it in the vid. But see, other than the snare....those other ones really weren't making any noise...so I'm a firm believer of "hey, it's one less thing to do...leave it alone if it ain't bothering you Danny!" Sort of like bees. LMAO! Although I have this attraction for bees. I win bee boxer/kick boxer award every year. Yeah, we literally keep track of how many we punch, kick, head-butt, eat, we gotta kill em though and take cell phone picks. LOL! Imagine hangin' out with me....we're outside, a bee comes near us and I turn into Bruce Lee. Dude...it's hysterical! LMAO! I can't tell you how many times people have asked me "ummm you ok? What the heck were ya swingin at?" And I say "I had a bee after me....and well, I'm dead in 12 minutes without my epi-pen that I never carry, so it's him or me...I struck first." LOL! :)
Zonno: No problem, yeah my bad on not mentioning more about AS. I guess other than not having much time at that moment, the last thing I wanted to do was confuse people about using AS because to me, it does sort of require a learning curve where this thing I was doing is only two button presses (minus the two times I hit the wrong button LOL) and is so simple to do. But yeah, I sort of regret not putting that part in now. Thanks!
Chef Mike: Hahaha thanks....yeah we don't have accents, everyone else does! :) You're in North J though...so you're probably worse than me. I'm sort of Philly meets NJ...you gotta be NY meets NJ. Hahahaha! The both of us together...man, what a motley crew. :)
mmorgan: Thank you! I always try to be a gentleman, but the scholar thing....I need some work. I gotta learn howta tawk first. LOL! Then again, I blew it in the gentleman department the other day BAD! I saw a girl that I knew (or at least I THOUGHT it was the girl I knew) and walked up and said "dats a nice lil fart box ya got dere babes" pointin' to her butt. Well when she turned around and said " Excuse me, WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!?!?" and it WASN'T the girl I knew.....I was mortified. After I said I'm so sorry 1000 times, offered to pay for her pretzels at the pretzel factory and showed her a pic of the girl I thought she was , she knew I was sincere. She started laughing and said..."what did you call it?" I said "fart box". She lost it because she never heard it called that before. LOL! I'm really normally a gentleman though....but I thought for sure it was the girl I knew!!!! Then of course there's the times my dirty little cell phone has sent text messages where spell check threw me under the bridge...but I'll spare ya on those. LOL! :) Thanks Mike!
Living Room Rocker: No problem, you're very welcome! :)
Sixfinger: Thanks! Yeah, the pan thing definitely can help you out. If you start hearing a HAAS-like effect, you know something isn't lined up right that's for sure. And you're right...it's amazing how the different samplers react to triggered hits be it a keyboar or even a V Drums kit. I noticed Superior and Kontakt react completely different than say, BFD 2.
Ed: Shhh you. There goes my gentleman status....REALLY out the window now. I fear when I die and someone goes through my stuff, that whoever is left that may know me....might really think I'm a weirdo. Hahahaha! I can see them going through my DVD's now. "How man times can this dude listen to a snare drum? There are like 500,000 snare drum samples on these discs?!" :-Þ
Grant: Thanks man! :)
You guys rule, thanks so much again for the kind words. I'll see what else I got that may be useful to you.
-Danny