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Well, I have a few minutes of time to spare while I wait for my floors to dry (I just mopped 'em). And now that I think about it, "time" is the topic I'd like to address. Time in Indaba is a very different phenomenon than in real life (so to speak). For instance, since all of these virtual studios are online, anyone at anytime, anywhere in the world can add a track. So the traditional system of a session involving people meeting at a studio at a specific time is being challenged. Timing is also an issue. Since we're dealing with with a network of computers, processing speed - the time in which it takes to handle digital, musical tasks - varies quite a bit. And I think this is manifesting itself in tracks that aren't quite in sync. If someone sets their multitracker to 80bpm, and someone else downloads the track to her computer and sets her metronome to 80bpm, it often doesn't quite sync up. Different programs and processors interpret time in different ways. Any thoughts on how to deal with this? Finally, since I've joined Indaba, I've noticed that my free time has dried up! I spend so many hours on this site, downloading tunes, working on basslines, that I find I have less time for my studies! Oh well. My hope is that I get enough practice in on my bass that my own timing gets better!