Thanks.

I never minded the delay until I started doing this fake disk.

The delay in auditioning a style isn't bad if I'm doing one song. So If I try 10-15 styles it's only a few minutes delay per song, 5 minutes at the most.

But the "Real Book" has hundreds of songs, so add a few minutes per song and multiply it times hundreds of songs, and we're talking some serious time.

I guess leaving everything on the external drive was just 'old school' from the time when internal drives got filled up too quickly and external archival memory was even more limited.

I remember the first external 40MB hard drive I bought. It was huge, bigger than an old phone book and about 4 inches tall. When turned on you could hear the disk spinning and accelerating up to speed. Wow! I'm glad those days are over.

I recorded audio on a Teac real to real with only 4 tracks, bouncing until the tape hiss got unbearable.

BiaB was very limited in those days too. As technology marches on, so is our capability to do more complex things.

It's a wonderful age we live in. These are the "good old days".

OK, I'll quit rambling and get back to work.

Thanks again for the help.

Notes

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