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Well the title probably raised more questions than answers. This is an orchestral piece I'm working on. I think there's something odd going on with SC. I don't pay anyone for exposure, but it appears one of those promo sites latched onto me? I really don't know. Ugh I need to change that grainy pic I loaded. 1st version on a private track. https://soundcloud.com/starise/thy-kingdom-come-1st-version

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+1 on that (d*mn you Larry)! From time to time I use my DAW for making original (not so original) music. Nowadays mostly cinematic/classical style. 4 instrumentals was all it were last year, I really hope I can beat that this year. Edit: And I have started to sell some tracks on Audiojungle. It's hard to get the tracks accepted and even harder to get them sold, but it is a good school for learning to mix and master properly. It doesnt matter if its a great arrangement if the mix sucks, it won't be accepted.

Great! I wrote a song like that once: Are you balding tonight? Is your hair just a fright? Are you sorry you can’t find a part? Does your memory stray, To before you went gray, And your teeth were not kept in a jar? Does the skin on your noggin seem empty and bare? Do you gaze in the mirror and wish you had hair? Is your heart full of pain cause your hair clogged the drain? Tell me dear, are you balding tonight?

GSWITZ-Were you actually able to make the transport work on this unit? That would be very surprising given that the belt probably dried up in all these years. Even if you would've kept using it up until now I'm sure you would've had to replace the belt by now. Curious. ?

Back on topic? I use my DAW to store all the plugins I got on sale but rarely use!

This is the 21st Century, roight?

If I looked good in yellow I'd wear them? Seriously though the family was watching 13 reasons last night and the stuff on the program (in line with the book according to my wife) was really WOW an eye opener. I don't think a little undie joke is that bad. Oh and to clarify, I have two teenage daughters who were like dad we hear and see worse in high school. Kids are always on their phones with appropriate material. I took it in good humor.

Hi guys, I hope all of you have had an incredible 2018 and are looking forward to winding down (if you haven't already) for the Christmas period. For everyone around the world on the BandLab Technologies, BandLab (and CbB) team, it's been a mad 12 months with a tremendous amount of milestones reached, but one of the crowning highlights was of course getting the opportunity to get to know this particularly community better and to bring Cakewalk into being part of our group journey. It feels like only yesterday we were releasing the news, and I hope you guys haven't felt that we have let you down in the months since. We have seen an amazing take-up of Cakewalk since we relaunched the product as Cakewalk by BandLab - far beyond even our own expectations. As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday about reaching 5 million users earlier this month on BandLab - we are humbled by the support, feedback and passion with which you, the community, engage with us, the product and each other. There are too many names to thank, but none of what we have today with Cakewalk would have been possible without Noel, Ben and their desire and vision to be part of the opportunity forward with us here at BandLab. So with that, an early Christmas present we have for all of you is the launch of the new forum! As promised, we wanted to make sure the old format lived on - topics, threads and an incredible resource for anyone getting to know the product. It's not been ideal that we had to turn off new sign ups to forum.cakewalk.com, especially for the massive community of new users who have flooded in around the world to start using Cakewalk - but we hope it was worth the wait. It's a little empty at the moment and is really a clean slate, so please make yourselves feel at home. Forums only exist to serve the community that lives within them so instead of seeding content we thought it would be best to leave it fresh for you to jump in and get comfortable. Instead of the previous situation where nothing can be hosted on the site - we've also decided to launch with everyone having 50MB of usable space per user and there's also a snazzy new BandLab integration (written by Jesse) that allows you to leverage our embeddable players to share your music with other members of the community. Notifications and emails are also all working, though you may experience a couple of emails going to spam, especially if you use Gmail, so make sure you check in that folder if you can't find any notifications from the forum. Jumping in is easy, just like this forum was accessed via a single sign-on Cakewalk account - this is now the case with your BandLab account and you can connect straight through and set up your profile. I hope you guys will like the new home and we look forward to sharing more about the things we've got in the roadmap for the year ahead. If any of you are planning to be at NAMM in Anaheim for the January show, please also don't hesitate to reach out and stop by to say hello! Much love, Meng & all on the BandLab Team p.s please also send your appreciation to @Jesse Jost and @laurent for their hard work in getting this place up and running amongst all the other things they are working on! ------ Why did we create this new site for the forum instead of continuing to use the old one? As I'm sure you'll notice, the new site allows us to develop on a much stronger infrastructure and architecture for the go forward - providing our users the opportunity to create new accounts (sorry!) but also to introduce more forum tools, user storage, Q&A discussions for better technical engagement, community voting and more. The new site also helps to provide a fresh start for the go-forward whilst not destroying the structure of the old site and potentially affecting the value of it as a resource to the community. Will the old forum go away? In a couple of weeks' time, the old forum will become read-only, at which point you will no longer be able to post. However, we feel (and have taken your recommendations) that it remains a vital resource for the long term and we intend to keep it hosted and to remain in its current place at https://forum.cakewalk.com.

I'm not posting this for the song or the production - I'm posting because of the guitar sounds/tones. I've been using my AX8 to record some song demos so my brother (drummer) can learn some new songs. This is first one I recorded where I spent a few minutes tweaking some knobs and I'm surprised how easy it was to record some tones that I like. This is soooo much easier than mic'ing my modded Marshall through a 4x12. Here's an exerpt using the same amp and cab sims only adjusting gain levels for mid-gain, higher gain, and then the lead tracks https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13813606 Yes, I still use soundclick.

Last week I mentioned to CD Baby that they haven't had a sale on their standard single song distribution in a long time. Well they listened to me & posted this today! "Start your year right by releasing your first single of 2019 for only $5! Flash sale expires Jan 11! Use code: FLASH5 at checkout" https://cdbaby.com/

There are many ways to play music badly ;) I grew up hearing church music (Roman Catholic) in small-town Florida and the church choirs were always very amateur, omitting the rests at the end of the phrase to rush the next one, having voices that don't blend, and terrible intonation. But they tried real hard and did their best. A couple of years ago I found myself in Montreal Quebec Canada. I don't go to church anymore but I heard they have a great pipe organ there. They do. A great organist as well. And the choir is magnificent, a real treasure. They are on a par with the likes of the Robert Shaw Choral and other top-notch recording groups. I hope the people of Montreal know what a gem then have in their city. If I stayed another week I would have gone to mass again just to hear them. Insights and incites by Notes

Thanks Noel! Nice job! I listen to this genre a lot! I have a GR-50 and wish I could make my guitar playing as good as yours. Always on the lookout for another CAL tool also!

I'd like to see a Techniques forum. All knowledge is good, even if you don't use it.

Same here!

Excellent song, production and video. The video was a perfect match for the song. You also managed to keep it interesting from beginning to end by subtle changes throughout.

I never organized my few hundred plugins. I know what they are and find them easily. I usually just type the name in the browser. Seems like Noel likes me best and built me exactly what i needed. #I'm the favorite

The mt2x isn't mine. Its my friend's. When i made the recording in December of this band... http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20181216_Roadhouse.html The guitarist was talking about how he'd love to do tape because it changes how he feels during his performance. I mentioned it to my buddy and we wanted to try, so we broke out his 4 track to see what we could do. The answer was unfortunately nothing since we couldn't get it working. I don't think given my budget that i can spend money on the tape deck for the flight of fancy.

Mix comes across well here, obviously spent sometime working on this, thanks for sharing.

Maybe alt i does something? Auto adds the gooderizer?

The belts are hard to come by for this machine. Tascam still sells belts (except a lot of their famous 4 tracks built in the 90s (the 424, 424 MK II, Exc, Exc). But don't see many old MT2X belts flying around much. This might help a bit. Even though its related to the MT1X is still pertains. Let me know how it works out. I still use multiple machines several of them on a daily basis because I do transfer work (convert 4 track cassette/8 track cassette/2 track, 4 track, 8 track reel to digital). FYI- Spell check doesn't do to well with the word "Cassette". am I really getting that old ?

Nice tune, nicely played Bjorn.

Me too!

I believe that was an intentional change. It was too confusing for many people to have one layout per section. It was done in 2016 or so. Generally layouts are too much work for most people so we switched to the tag based built in plugin categories which is quick and easier to use.

I had a Yamaha and a Vestax. Used my ART SG multi-fx unit for comp, eq, and rev. I have the songs I did on them transferred to digital. Still am surprised what I did with what I had!! But it was all about commitment. Because I knew the more I rolled that tape across the heads I was degrading the high frequencies, I made do. I also practiced a lot before I started to roll tape. I remember doing a lead that I had practiced over and over again and again over the span of a few days. When it came time to record I felt it just wasn't happening. So I did over 5 or 6 re-takes (which was a lot for me back then) and still wasn't happy with what I did. I mean I was p'd off! But knowing that I had to stop rewinding and doing it over or I would loose fidelity. So I quit. Came back next day and listened to it and was wondering why the hell I thought it wasn't happening!! Glad I stopped when I did. It was a great take! I also learned something that day.

Found this internet collaboration the other day. Not mine but a project by Charles Morais Jr. (drummer, age 17) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Charles Morais SR.: keys Jerry Brooks: bass Roger Byem: saxes, myself on guitar. Done in 2005 it says 'still under work' but it was never continued or finished. Still there's some good raw performances from Charles, Jerry & Roger in this working version. https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=1633313

Your lucky you got the tape out. in order to diagnose the problem the tape has to be pulled out (typically to unscrew the 2 housing screws/under the cassette). I've had to do this many time myself, however using a pocket knife is not my first tool of choice. I use a small flat head screw driver the grab ONLY near the pinch roller assembly is, this allows a rocking motion (remember the heads are still engaged). One can then use a finger to pull down the heads a bit and pop the cassette shell out. Just my opinion of course... but the MT2X are not a great multitrack recorder. If its all you got then understandably so, but if ever investing in a multitrack recorder find something closer to the early/mid 90's where they basically ironed out every kink in the transport mechanism. Because that's where 90% of the problems are in these old tape recorder.

I used TDK tapes almost exclusively for general usage, but yes, I got the phazy effect when I used TDKs in the both the MT1X & MT8X. Swapping to the Maxells fixed this issue for me.

Pretty tune Bjorn, flows along very nicely. These aren't real acoustics are they? The underlying fingerpicked one is very realistic, the one playing the melody creeps into 'harp' territory at times. Doesn't really detract though.

I wonder if both sides could be appeased by giving some new functionality to the comping tool? Right now if you select the comping tool, it only works on takes in lanes. If you hover over a normal track (non take lane) with the comping tool selected, you don't get the option to use the tool. Perhaps the option could be added to the comping tool, so that if you select it and try to click on a non take lane clip, it presents a pop up that allows you to select which tracks you will be comping and the output destination of the final composite track. But here's the thing. It doesn't automatically group the selected tracks into lanes. It keeps the selected tracks as individual tracks and gives you the power of comping on standard tracks, albeit with creating a new track to house the new composite. This would allow people to retain any envelope information and maintain any fx or editing choices if they decided to move clips around the track view. Essentially it would give two options for comping, one being the established lanes comping and the new (somewhat old) functionality being tracks comping. For simplicity I think a way to think about this could be similar to ripple editing. Where when you are ripple editing, you turn ripple on, complete your ripple edits and then turn ripple off. Likewise with track comping you could turn track comping on and from that point any selections, splits, clip movement etc. is all non-destructive, you create your composite (or multiple composites) and then turn track comping off. Another thing this method of track comping would allow is easy creation of glitch sequences from tracks or instruments that were not recorded at the same time and they wouldn't even have to be the same instrument as you could select any track to comp with any track.

That will definitely be in the next version... not too hard to implement. I use GPO5 a lot and need the controller events (modulation, expression, pitch) to follow the note movements. But I'm slow ?. I'm also trying not to step on any commercial developers' toes, like Frank's MIDI Plug-Ins (who has a great humanize plug-in for sale that adjusts controller values and a lot more). BTW - TenCrazy.com has some interesting free MFX plugins, and AZSlow has an MFX plugin that allows you to write scripted functionality in a language called LUA, He has a great site... I've learned a lot about MFX and Control Surface programming from reading the posts on his forum (somehow he types with a Russian accent ?). Not sure if either of them doing any current development related to CbB, though. Oh, my comment about "Might be tricky to implement as a real-time effect , blah blah blah" doesn't really apply. For some reason I was thinking that Groove processing would need to take into account large blocks of music to fit phrases to the selected, uh, groove. A couple measures in the buffer should be enough to adapt the data. Plus, I build a private cache of the supplied buffers for historical reference.

I have a Fostex 250 4-track that I paid $950 bucks for way back in 1984. The switches were always wearing out--got them replaced about 2x each. It was non-functional (not playing the tape) for about 15 years because of a worn out drive belt. The belt is just a frickin rubber band, rather small, but no one had the specs, so I had to wait years until some guy in UK, the only guy still making them, decided to sell to USA again. Got some old stuff to digitize! I actually hated those 4-tracks.

I have an MT2X that I haven't turned on in years. I'm afraid to. What tends to go in old cassette decks is belts. They just turn to this black jelly. Good news is that you can usually get belt kits on eBay. The only thing is that you need to either be able to install them yourself or find someone able to do so.

Wow that was my first official studio recorder. I actually made a lot of money with one. But that was because it was new, and I kept it very clean, demagnetized and all that stuff. I also used only one type of tape which I guess was TDK but not chrome. Chrome tape was known to trash the heads. The DBX noise reduction was the big issue, It made vocals sound phazy. I certainly would not every use that again. If for some weird reason you think it will sound better forget that myth. Sure a 1/2 tape running at 15ips sounds cool, but anything done on a cassette?? waist of time. Now A Yamaha MD8 that sounds good!

In some ways, maybe. Perhaps its more just trying to take a shortcut to get the same results. Folks who make a living at music usually can afford the time to practice and to learn and apply the right techniques. Others of us, perhaps working at a regular job, may be able to get a little bit of time to practice a couple of days a week, if we are lucky. Recording, that may only be at night when everyone is asleep (as it is the only quiet time in the house) and since I have to get up early the next morning to go to work, I get only one or two takes in. The tech provides a short cut that helps me get to that 'on tune' sound. But the tech can only go so far. In my case, I'm now retired, and while I have the time nothing will improve this old voice of mine. So even if technology can put it on key (I consistently sing slightly flat no matter what I try), its never going to sound good.

You can use CTRL + click to select multiple plugins in the browser, then right click to assign them all to the same category. Also, the category is not just a drop down - you can type into it to create new ones.

That looks like an old MT1X. I had one of those, and later upgraded to a MT8X which ran at double the speed. The increase in fidelity was significant. And when you consider that it was using half as much of the tape width for each track, that's saying something.

Very evocative and a pleasure to listen to, Bjorn. Well done.

Ultimately it will. When layout management is rolled into the buolt in browser we'll deprecate the external plugin manager app.

Because some of us old-timers are creatures of habit. Plus there's not much need to "maintain" the utility, since its functionality hasn't changed and may not ever need to change.

I like this a lot Bjorn! Sort of a combination of English pastoral and Celtic folk.

There was a girl who played piano at my church when I was a kid who my dad used to refer to as "Elbows". Tis all I'm saying on the subject.

Plugin Manager is not really being maintained these days and it hasn't been updated in a very long time. We plan to ultimately depreciate it from Cakewalk. Its only provided for legacy reasons. The only reason you need to ever use it today is for creating plugin layouts. Everything else and more can be done much more efficiently directly within the Cakewalk plugin browser tab, including scanning from preferences. What is the reason you still use plugin manager?

Can we talk about bunnies now. I'm all monkey-ed out

I like monkeys

Very restful music. Love the sound of an acoustic guitar. Matches the theme of the poem well.

This is pretty. Like the poem as well. This is the type of music I hear on channel 10 all the time, PBS

Becan sucks ....me into a world of pleasure and colorful brain waves.