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Eddie, you sound like the IT guys I used to work with, "Why should we switch from VisiCalc to Lotus 123; they both add and subtract numbers just fine" and "Why should we switch from green-screen monitors to CGA; we just wanna type memos and stuff" and "Why should we switch from Lotus 123 to Excel; they both add and subtract numbers just fine"



I am actually in somewhat of that school. When you consider the global effects on a corporate network, is there really a reason to change to a new version of anything just because it's a new version? A new version because that evil, soulless corporation that is Micro$oft puts out new versions just to make more money from companies who will not see a benefit?

My company, in June, upgraded to Micro$oft Exchange Server 10. Since then, connections drop and immediately reconnect, the Admins who need to book conference rooms call us non stop because suddenly the rooms are showing up as restricted or not showing up at all, and shared mailboxes vanish or become corrupt. Help desk calls for Exchange issues have increased by about 30%. I have yet to get an answer why they upgraded other than "We want the latest version".

But I digress.

Though, not really. There is a parallel but it still comes down to preference. Stuff like green screen monitors, though I know you were making a point, were safety related, as those CRT screens caused eye problems, emitted cathode rays, and burned out to a point where it was cheaper to replace.

Nobody is saying to stay in the stone age (I never recorded at Bedrock Studios). When the DAW thing started, my question is why you use RB at all if you are going to play your parts in anyway. I don't even know what you guys mean by "tempo matching", though I know what each of those words means. I don't know how it applies. I thought you were supposed to play in tempo and that's how you "matched". Having never used the feature, please do teach me about what that is. My mind is thinking "you pull in a drum loop or a clip of some kind and hit a button and it adjusts it automatically to the tempo of the song", which is available with a right click in RB but called (I think - I am not at that computer) tempo stretching. I use it a lot to line up BGV tracks.

But this cabbage has been chewed enough and it's time to bow out of this one. My life doesn't change with regard to who uses what software, so whatever.