RE: Kim on EDP (DelayMode mod!) also starving musicians

["Gary Lehmann" <healthquestrecruiter@earthlink.net>]

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Then Andy came up with a simpler idea that I will implement if nobody
rejects it totally:
In DelayMode, during Multiply, we will consider the state of Overdub,
which means that if Overdub is on (was activated (Hold) before the
Multiply started), the input continues off and FeedBack at maximum
during the whole Multiply (including rounding).
I find it consistent and that way everone has a simple way to do a
silent Multiply. How is that?
-----> http://Matthias.Grob.org

This gets my vote--I look forward to the upgrade.
As far as pro/amateur--this is what I see.
The ones who have to pay their bills by making art are in competition with
the ones who do it for fun. The people who hire any of them don't care 
which
ones need the money, so they hire the ones who charge the lowest price.  So
the musician using modern technology has to spend more money than the
acoustic or traditional one (assuming they don't buy an expensive
instrument) but has trouble making the extra money back from employment.
The amateur is already paying his bills from his "day job", and so money is
less of an issue.  As technology makes it easier for one person or several
people to create a large and interesting sound, more amateurs make it 
easier
for the people who hire musicians to use amateurs.  I am speaking of show
business, of course.  Bottom line is, don't quit your day job (can anyone
tell me where that expression came from--first citation etc.)
Back to work!
Gary