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Comment on Updates! by Motor Vehicles

Motor Vehicles — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:56:14 +0000

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Comment on Episode 6: Two Mallet Exercises by Charlie Nesmith

Charlie Nesmith — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:06:43 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on DTX900k VS AD vs SD by Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:05:08 +0000

Hey there! Perhaps I could do a video on this! That would be fun. I’ve seen a number of groups around here use electronic sets. Some use a mix of real cymbals with fake drums. Thanks for the comments!

Comment on DTX900k VS AD vs SD by Toby Fairchild

Toby Fairchild — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:43 +0000

Nice job! Since most of us percussionists wind up doing drumset to some degree I think it’s a very good and appropriate post. Might you care to do a video explaining how you have everything hooked up and routed? How are you getting the midi cables interfaced with your laptop? Do you have to go in and assign the pads any particular way so that the pads correspond with the proper sound in the DAW? Is there much latency? Could you use this setup live? Those types of things I’d love to hear your take on. Quite fascinating, actually. Thanks again for a great post.

Comment on New Laptop Rant by dgaking

dgaking — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:00:50 +0000

Thanks for the info. I plan to buy a MacBook Pro later this year. I am going to look at upgrading the RAM and HD.

Comment on New Laptop Rant by Charlie Nesmith

Charlie Nesmith — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:57:15 +0000

So Cody from GFXCardStatus replied to an email of mine and said that the next release will have an option to automatically change over to the beefy card when a monitor is plugged in !!!!! So awesome. Less clicking for me. But alas, won’t change my battery life while at school.

Comment on New Laptop Rant by Charlie Nesmith

Charlie Nesmith — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:06:18 +0000

Thanks for the nice words! I have 4 cores and 8 gigs of ram. I’m not familiar with the 2 gig per core rule, but if that counts for virtual cores then I suppose I would need 16 gigs of ram

Comment on New Laptop Rant by Toby Fairchild

Toby Fairchild — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:56:38 +0000

Hey Charlie, Thanks for the great videos. I love them and have turned a number of my students on to your blog. One thing worth mentioning about your video rendering with your new core i7 that may be similar to what I later discovered with mine is that the amount of RAM in a laptop is not sufficient for the computer to be able to push all 8 cores past a certain moderate threshold. In other words, the bottleneck that I found with regard to having a similar problem was that my 6GB of memory wasn't enough to satisfy 8 cores. The guru's at Creative Cow told me that ideally 2GB per core at least was recommended or else my cores would definitely idle a bit because the ram will be maxed out. And when I look at my cpu/ram performance monitor while rendering that's pretty much what I'm seeing. Again, may or may not be the case with your situation but I thought I'd give it a mention since you situation sounds similar to mine.

Again, love the blog. Keep up the excellent work!

Comment on iPads + Percussion = Awesome by Tom

Tom — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:23:40 +0000

Awesome group, dude! I like the arrangement, very C Nesmith.

Comment on Episode 7: Four Mallet Grips by The Marimbalogist

The Marimbalogist — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:13:17 +0000

Thanks! Nancy is great and knows her stuff. I’m shady on the finer details of the traditional grip, but I’ve always been really impressed by people who use it. If I had more time on my hands I’d love to learn it sometime