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Christian Henson's YouTube Channel - Nighty Night!

Christian,

Why not run your current fave monitor as a secondary monitor - but place it directly in front of you in your normal position? Then you can put the iMac Pro w/ it's monitor wherever you like (on your desk, the floor or another room if you are concerned about potential noise?

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Thanks CH!
Very interesting test and very real world-ish IMHO.
I was encouraged the way the "dust bin" hung in there! (have 2012 6 core 5,1 Mac Pro)
Sometimes I think that if I could just get Thunderbolt connections and I'd be happy for a while but who knows what the future of music production has in store.
In any event, cudos for doing this Christian!
 
I was impressed with the 2013 Mac Pro as well.

In light of this, YouTube tempted me to take my even older Mac Pro out of storage when it put this video into my recommended list tonight. The vlogger essentially gutted a 2009 Mac Pro and remade it into a modern day powerhouse for roughly $1,500 Canadian.



Best,

Geoff
 
Very excited for the @christianhenson Toolkit & all the best for the new leadership

Have you mentioned your Video gear in any of the videos? I've checked many but not all so if you have that info somewhere that would be great.
 
For those of us who didn't know you'd become a vegetarian, it seems more like three big announcements.

I was a vegetarian for nearly a decade; and I did a poor job of it, not in terms of my dedication—I was steadfast—but in terms of my food choices. This period coincided with my studio rat era, in which we sent runners out for restaurant food twice a day. I ate a lot of pasta, fast food, and texturized vegetable protein; and I gained a lot of weight. In case you're in a similar boat, I recommend hiring someone to prepare a proper vegetarian diet. Think Dean Ornish diet; not restaurant.

Sorry for the gratuitous advice, and best of luck on implementing your choice. Also, congrats on your CEO hire; and I look forward to watching your new sample library process unfold!

Best,

Geoff
 
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Are you really 40 at SA? Or is 14?
Doesn’t that make SA on top of sample libraries, business wise, with probably East West?
Your business story reminds me of the one of my publisher (books).
 
LinusW said:
I have a few ideas for rare instruments to sample, from folk instruments to special-made stuff.
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Speaking of special made stuff, I don't believe anyone has sampled the instruments that Harry Partch created. But that may be because they were designed to play microtonal scales and usually only spanned an octave or two.

Nonetheless, a sample library of his creations could be repurposed to cover traditional tunings and creatively expanded upon to cover additional sonic territories.

On another note, I'd also bet that you could collaborate with @charlieclouser on a great funk box (mangled sounds) sample library.

Best,

Geoff
 
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Some news:

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The Eric Choir sounds like it's going to be amazing so I can't wait for that but I am very excited to see what comes about with you developing a sample Library in plain sight. I have some friends that have a decent studio with tall ceilings in the live room (obviously not as decent as Lyndhurst - but not many places are) and I have asked them whether they would be up for trying out some recording sessions (they've never recorded audio for one yet) so I can make a sample library so I am hugely interested in this. I know how to map samples to keys (and round robins) in Kontakt but creating multiple mic positions (which I absolutely want to include) is something I don't have any experience with and because I can have access to a decent sounding live room (and some great players) I definitely want to learn more about this to make use of the natural sound. Basically, I'm sure anything you create is going to be a great help for ideas and making my own libraries for personal use/writing is definitely somewhere I wanna be.

Anyway, thanks again for the video. Exciting man!
 
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Great vid as always (from a fellow vegetarian who recently lost 50 pounds, a tip: try the ketogenic diet combined with intermittent fasting; key is low carbs, moderate protein, high fat; check out Thomas DeLauer and Dr. Berg for science-based evidence on YouTube, and the KetoDiet app for recipes).

Thank you for continuing to feed my Whitacre library craving... any day now, right...?

Regarding developing the library in plain sight, what a great idea. Everyone will have their own view of this of course. For me, what I look for in a new library is that it enables me to do something I couldn’t do before. That is, not an incrementally better version of what I already have (I’m sure you weren’t intending this, but another string library would be a good example of this category), but something that adds a new dimension. Not that I think it’s such a great library, but the example of Thrill illustrates the point: the key contribution that library brings is not a subtly better sound, but a novel way of producing and blending sounds that means I produce entirely different pieces than I otherwise would have, because it changes my workflow. I think we are getting to the point that most instruments have now been well sampled, and it’s time for ever increasing natural reproduction not to be the focus - not because that’s not important (it’s THE most important, of course), but because at this point, with so many high quality libraries available, we risk reaching the point of saturation and redundancy. As to exactly what direction this should take, this is where you lead and I follow. Great idea to do this collaboratively - looking forward to the journey.
 
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Geoff Grace said:
For those of us who didn't know you'd become a vegetarian, it seems more like three big announcements.

I was a vegetarian for nearly a decade; and I did a poor job of it, not in terms of my dedication—I was steadfast—but in terms of my food choices. This period coincided with my studio rat era, in which we sent runners out for restaurant food twice a day. I ate a lot of pasta, fast food, and texturized vegetable protein; and I gained a lot of weight. In case you're in a similar boat, I recommend hiring someone to prepare a proper vegetarian diet. Think Dean Ornish diet; not restaurant.

Sorry for the gratuitous advice, and best of luck on implementing your choice. Also, congrats on your CEO hire; and I look forward to watching your new sample library process unfold!

Best,

Geoff
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I think becoming a vegetarian is one of the best decisions one can make in his life. Cooking fresh vegatables in a pan is a matter of 10 to 15 minutes and can be a welcome little break from work . So no need for hiring someone as long as a little kitchen is somewhere in reach I would say. Just to encourage those that can’t afford their own chef
 
Not sure if many people have tried one of these out but I have been borrowing a relatively new Guitar pedal by Mooer called the Ocean Machine (designed by Devin Townsend). It's amazing. Definitely worth checking out and could be an amazing thing to use for a Sample Library. This video shows some of the great stuff it can do (this isn't my video)...

 
@christianhenson I know you're a EX24 guy, but are you planning on doing your library in Kontakt? Seems like it would be more inclusive, and potentially more interesting to see you work through learning that part of the process as well.
 
@christianhenson I'm on a big Parliament Funkadelic binge this weekend and it made me recall your video with Martin Ware and the praise for George Clinton. Between all the weird interesting things Clinton and crew did with sound and your alleged background in porn soundtracks (?!), this could be a perfect storm of funky and weird. Imagine starting out again and you got a brief to score an epic porn, Zimmer meets Clinton, and you had to use the non-epic tools at your disposal. What would it be? It's the P-Fu*k sound! I suspect it leans to the percussive side of things...

In all seriousness (although I was being a bit serious with that idea), I agree with Garry above that the libraries that tend to give our workflows a bit of a nudge and a 180 are interesting these days of library saturation. If it runs on the new Spitfire engine, maybe something that pushes the boundaries of that platform in ways that can't be done with Kontakt? As Garry also said, you lead I follow. There was so much good news in those 5 plus minutes that I'm still unpacking it all, but I can't wait to see what's next...which is my usual Spitfire/Henson mode, anyway. Onward and cheers!
Geoff (the other Geoff)
 
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