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**Different** · 26th September 2023, 10:18 PM

@Mia ! What's on your mind? How's life treating you these days?

**Different** · 26th September 2023, 10:19 PM

That video editing in Spongebob Squarepants is really good. The way they made the targets look authentic is just incredible.

**Mia** · 26th September 2023, 10:27 PM

(26th September 2023, 10:18 PM)Different Wrote: @Mia ! What's on your mind? How's life treating you these days?

Life's been great. These past few months have been so wonderful

**Different** · 26th September 2023, 10:57 PM

(26th September 2023, 10:27 PM)Mia Wrote: Life's been great. These past few months have been so wonderful

Oh yeah?... How so?

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 2:55 AM

Well, not my grandpa passing away and my body aches. That part has been awful.

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 2:58 AM

But having someone to help me through the tough times has been helpful, I don't feel so alone anymore, and my overall happiness has improved. I just want the aching and nightmares to stop

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 2:05 PM

Get get get some help

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 3:15 PM

Get get get some help

**Mia**

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 3:20 PM

I used to watch anime, now I watch anime girls play games

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 5:12 PM

Piggie, Piggie, Piggie, can't you see?

Sometimes your oinks just hypnotize me

**Different** · 27th September 2023, 5:17 PM

(27th September 2023, 2:58 AM)Mia Wrote: But having someone to help me through the tough times has been helpful, I don't feel so alone anymore, and my overall happiness has improved. I just want the aching and nightmares to stop

Well it's nice to know that you're not going through those tough times anymore. Speaking of nightmares... do you ever wake up after a nightmare and ask yourself 'what is the meaning of this'? Because some of my nightmares end up playing out in real life, sometimes.

**Mia** · 27th September 2023, 5:37 PM

I try not to let them bother me but when it's a nightmare where I find a suicide note written by my passed brother.. like why the heck do I have to dream such messed up crap

And it's like 3 times a week or more. I just want a semi-normal dream. I used to love sleeping but now it's the worst part of my day

**Different** · 27th September 2023, 7:07 PM

(27th September 2023, 5:37 PM)Mia Wrote: I try not to let them bother me but when it's a nightmare where I find a suicide note written by my passed brother.. like why the heck do I have to dream such messed up crap

And it's like 3 times a week or more. I just want a semi-normal dream. I used to love sleeping but now it's the worst part of my day

Sounds like the demons are trying to mess with you. I find what really helps is meditation is repetition of hearing someone through ASMR telling you how important you are, and nothing's gonna get you. If you strongly believe that stuff, then it might end up being true.

**Different** · 27th September 2023, 9:24 PM

I've never seen someone this happy before...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tFfwYjd0m8c

**Adulock77** · 27th September 2023, 9:29 PM

(26th September 2023, 6:54 PM)Different Wrote: Thanks for sharing that site with me! I never knew they existed until you mentioned them. It looks like they have a bunch of really cool sound packs and plugins on their site. From what I'm noticing, it looks like you have to download their beta pack, then make a song out of that pack, and submit it to them. Sounds like a neat challenge in exchange for authentic musical equipment.

Now as far as the duration limit goes, I would probably keep it between 3-3:30 minutes. Unless, you're singing or rapping over the song, or you've got something that's really good up to a point where it can even go 4 minutes. Overall, keep it under 3 if it's something that's just plain and simple.

No problem. They have some GREAT freebies that I'll suggest you get them as soon as possible if you see one of your interest. Sometimes they remove them due to the packs being too old or for a limited time only. They also give away discounts of 5$ or sometimes even 10$ with a special code when you subscribe to their newsletter (which I took FULL ADVANTAGE OF in the past xD) to make purchases of 25 dollars or so a little better.

**Adulock77** · 27th September 2023, 10:07 PM

(26th September 2023, 6:59 PM)Different Wrote: You're a life saver, homie! I'm always looking for drum packs that comes with a bunch of preloaded drumbeat patterns, drum fills, variations, and so forth. I'm very talented with melodies, and chords are something that I'm learning to improve on as well. But, drum patterns, I suck at those. I think I'll take your advice and go for the Kitton 2.

Now since you said you've got some really cool, royalty-free drum shots that you've collected over the years, sure I'll take them from you ? Currently, I use Heat up 3, but I'm sick and tired of having to refresh my demo mode every 30 minutes, then when I reload the DAW session, I have to memorize the settings all over again.

Should we exchange emails in PM or something?

Yeah get Kitton 2, is awesome! I just used ML Drums yesterday and I forgot that not only it has a lot of CPU usage, it also takes 4 minutes to load (On my DAW anyway, might be better or worse in other DAWs)

Kitton 2 is fairly light on the CPU too.

And yeah we can exchange emails for that, I'll let you know. I have to set it up :]

You have to refresh your demo version every 30 minutes with all settings gone? Yikes... have you thought about switching to LMMS or FL Studio?
The demo version of the FL Studio has zero time limit, gives you all plugins (with many of the fancy ones having a silence drop every 30 seconds which is fair, is just there to test them), and the only limitation is not being able to open your own projects after saving them. Aside from that, you have access to EVERYTHING. It's insane!

And LMMS is an open-source free DAW that I've heard nothing but good things about for years now.

**Adulock77** · 27th September 2023, 10:40 PM

(27th September 2023, 2:55 AM)Mia Wrote: Well, not my grandpa passing away and my body aches. That part has been awful.

So sorry to hear that... just remember that life sometimes challenges you in any way possible. And each one of those challenges can and will be beaten and conquered. Also, a bad time is something that happens... but never remains. Good times will always remain. Those are the moments you should look forward to and the reason to keep going no matter what is going on now.

**Different** · 27th September 2023, 10:48 PM

(27th September 2023, 10:07 PM)Adulock77 Wrote: You have to refresh your demo version every 30 minutes with all settings gone? Yikes... have you thought about switching to LMMS or FL Studio?
The demo version of the FL Studio has zero time limit, gives you all plugins (with many of the fancy ones having a silence drop every 30 seconds which is fair, is just there to test them), and the only limitation is not being able to open your own projects after saving them. Aside from that, you have access to EVERYTHING. It's insane!

And LMMS is an open-source free DAW that I've heard nothing but good things about for years now.

Yeah, Heatup 3 is a pain in the ass when it comes to figuring out your settings on the plugin. Fortunately for me, I've already bought the producer's edition for FL Studio, 4 years ago. So yeah, I used to experience the pain of not being able to open my projects after closing out on them ? It used to kill me to, man, because I had to leave the project open until tax returns came xD.

This was also back when I had my old HP laptop and every time I ran 3rd party plugins, or too many, the CPU would overload and start to static. On the other hand I also use Logic Pro X, and I have a Pro Tools subscription. Btw, what's LMMS? ?

**Mia** · 28th September 2023, 3:51 PM

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? I just want a picture of a god dang hotdog!