[jim covington]

John,

Project Manager won’t accept my NEW password (which DOES allow me access to my account… but NOT to the Project manager.)…. what can I do?   Please help me… I have numerous programs from your company that I have not been able to update nor register nor install….. going back for years…. (I originally had Project Manager working a number of years ago… but have not done anything with any programs in years).

Do you need my password? OR ?????  I am in great need of help.

thank you,

Jim Covington

jamesrcovington@gmail.com

Big Bear lake, california, USA

Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

Skyview Records

[jim covington]

my MUSIC computers {my Mac Tower runs maximum Mountain Lion….. my MacBook Pro runs maximum El Capitan 10.11}….   for music are at their limit… and can not update beyond their current Operating Systems…. nor can my laptop update beyond safari 11.1.2   ….. OR…. do YOU know of another way to upgrade Safari so that I can access your website ?

I am so frustrated…. and STILL have 9 programs I bought (mostly through Sweetwater)… that I can’t upgrade through your website…. BECAUSE I can’t get Safari to allow me access to  your  website links…. and it won’t allow me to LOG IN.   Also, I can not access Product Manager….

* * * PLEASE NOTE:   I started with you and your first product almost 21 years ago….  PLEASE HELP ME….. I have promoted your company and products to thousands of people around the world at my lectures and in person (I have been in the recording industry for nearly 60 years [my partners were Eustace Britchforth “Lefty” Baker — in the group ‘Spanky and Our Gang’ AND Bill Broughton studio musician, composer, etc. etc. [brother of BRUCE BROUGHTON ]]…. and remember well witnessing the first automated mixing console over in Rancho Cucamonga with FRANK ZAPPA, and OUR studio in Burbank, at the time, was across the street from Warner Bros [On Olive Ave]… We did projects for most of the major artists and companies in the late 60’s and early 70’s [[example: Johnny TILLOTSON, JOHNNY AND EDGAR WINTER, SPANKY AND OUT GANG, DISNEY, Tv shows on numerous networks- BG and the Bear, Quincy, Dukes of Hazzard, etc. etc…. and WE were the  first studio to BETA TEST the STEPHENS 40 track….  JOHN stopped by the studio and asked us to try it out for a month….. it worked VERY WELL !   At the time, we were  using an Ampex AG4040…… we were ALSO a beta testing studio for AMPEX and STUDER. ]]

please help me find a solution short of having to buy all new computers…

Jim Covington

Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Skyview Records

[jim covington]

However….. the problem with software from East West and the many others…. these are not an EZ fix to start off a mix for the beginner movie or TV composer who is just starting out.

After 47 years+ of spending thousands of hours mixing…. the last thing I want to do now [and I would think a young composer would want to do instead of creating QUICKLY and making money through submissions] is spend more days fiddling around with a company’s dials to try and figure out how I can eliminate their ‘trade mark’ Wall of Sound that is so prevalent in so many of the movie sound tracks released…. in the movie industry, that sound is becoming stale….

There is a need for a NEW sound….

my thoughts are that Toontrack is on the correct path by offering the EZ mix product line….. a quick insert to start the creative touch….

Toontrack…. you cover rock, country, rap, metal, etc. admirably…… but you are lacking the basic orchestra.

John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Bruce Broughton, Danny Elfman, Mike Patti, and the 10’s of thousands of other composers around the world do have their favorite software and settings, but for the up and coming movie score composer who can’t afford $50,000 worth of software to get started….. Well… Toontrack… this is where YOU could come in.

No one else is thinking along this line….. for the beginning movie score composer…..

just some fleeting thoughts…. please bear with my aging mind…

Jim Covington

Skyview Records

[jim covington]

I would request this also. Snare, timpani, toms, other drums, malleted instruments rolls…. using various sticks, brushes, mallets, etc. It seems that the entire orchestral percussion is missing….. hey Development Team are you listening?

…. this is a great idea for you to consider….. to add to your product line.

****** There are a great number of us out there that orchestrate for the movie and TV industry….. PLEASE CONSIDER..

No One has done this yet….. others offer only virtual instruments with TOOOOOOO much reverberation…. yes, I know it is the hot thing right now [Game of Thrones, etc.]…. “wall of percussive sound”…. but, if we had a dry mix…. it would be terrific.

thanks

Jim Covington

Skyview Records

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