Sorry mate but you want to have another look at your maths there because 20% of 6 is 1.2, Even buying 4 tracks at 14.95 and 2 at 11.95, then comparing your saving to only the cheaper tracks, you only save 16.74, which is 1.4 free tracks per purchase
What you really mean is you don't like them but typically you have to say they are shit rather than saying they are not your cup of tea.
Personally I'm not a short track fan but I understand why others do like them.
But then you hate iRacing so will take every opportunity to attack it. Again, personally, if I don't like something I don't read the threads relating to them. I spend my time doing stuff I do like.
I found myself doing more ovals for the same reason as you. Plus the fact that the racing was closer. I find at my level on road you spend so much of a race hot lapping on your own that it gets boring.
Regarding purchasing tracks, I did it a bit at a time (well 3 at a time to be precise) and over a couple of seasons purchased the content. $30 odd dollars per month is not such a big hit as all in one go. Especially as it takes 3 months for a whole season to play out. Also once you have a good amount of content you find you are not looking to spend at all. You just have to resist the urge to buy the latest track etc.
Mixing it on the fly with give you the same problems unless you can completely isolate yourself from the main sound system.
Your best bet is to record the music and mic seperately then mix them together later.
Either 2 recording devices then mix them together later or 2 inputs into some multitracking device/software.
For this of course you'll need a way of isolating the mic from the main mix. Most big mixers have individual channel outs which will sort it but becomes more difficult if it hasn't.
I found that was a graphics issue. While it seemed to run smoothly on high graphics I had the same input lag issues. When I wound the graphics back the input lag disappeared.
You may not agree with his opinion but that doesn't mean he can't have one. You can argue that his opinion is baseless but to say he can't have one is making you look a fool.
I'm not talking about a basic drum pattern I mean a click that it will play to every beat (with a slight change for the first beat of a bar) normally switched on via a button on the transport bar.
Saying all that, if it works for you then it's all good.
You want to hardware monitor your inputs not soft. In XP it was as simple as unmuting the microphone/Line in within the recording mixer. On Win 7, find the input you want to hear, choose properties, then "listen to this device". Make sure you can hear your inputs through headphones before running cubase then they should work fine within cubase too. Your card may have it's own mixer but the principal is the same, make sure you can hear it outside of cubase first. Then turn off the cubase monitoring of inputs else you'll hear the real one and the soft one milliseconds later.
Regarding the click track there should be one somewhere.
Of course not there will at least be another fudge to the ntm making all oval sets useless again and depending on what side the coin falls the skippy will be barely drivable/nearly drivable.
When people make statements like this they tend to forget that you only have to buy the content once. Yes they release new content through the year but nothing like the initial purchase required if you want to run a full 12 week season(s).
One of the things that really annoys me about them. Unless you are reading all threads on the forum or have all staff on your watch list you are likely to miss a fair few posts which can contain important information to you.
I think we'd have still struggled to beat the germans even with out the iRacing cock ups.
Long story short they didn't double check their config files again, just like they don't seem to double check anything or have any sort of QA processes, which meant only 5 from each team were allowed into the finals instead of 9.
There is no way I'd have been racing had we known it was 5 and not 9!
It seems to me the only thing iRacing are really good at and put any real effort into is bigging themselves up. Everything else is just poorly thought out and badly executed.
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Perfect example. Currently on the member page
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This is a professional organisation that gets paid a monthly subscription for providing a service and they can't even read their own text before hitting submit.
I just watched the broadcast of that race of champions thing.
Is it just me or are their broadcasts really so full of fail?
Do they not see how bad they are? Is US Motorsport coverage that bad that they think there broadcasts are OK in comparison?
Sod all this iRacing 2.0 stuff they came out with 6 months ago. This was their best marketing opportunity yet and they blew it big style with such an amateur broadcast.
The Kingsbury (Chuckle) brothers could do a better job (sorry Matt and Ray).
I told myself that I would only buy more subscriptions if I could get another $49 for a year again. Just in time too, my current subs run out on 2nd December.