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Maybe he meant "Concords" as in the grapes? 😀

I think of a solo as an alternative melody with different phrasing and alternative time sigs.

Just as the title says, I would love the ability to drag, and arrange the tabs in the Multidock

I'm sure most of the power users here know about this, but for those who don't, here's a way of using any VST as if it was a ProChannel module. Here's how I put my Scheps-73 in the ProChannel: An here's a demo on how quick it is to do it: Obviously it's got it's limitations: You're limited to 6 buttons & 6 knobs You only see percentages on the knob display as you turn it, not the actual value. But it's a convenient way to put your VST anywhere in your ProChannel chain, whilst being able to tweak the most used settings.

Yep... I think you're right, Mark. Everything is running smoothly the way it is set up now. Best to leave it as is. The less time spent plugging and unplugging and getting frustrated when it doesn't work, the more time I'll have to make music. After all, isn't that why I have all this gear? 😁

No, I'm not. I'm just bored of the lazy, witless bollocks that passes for 'humour', tediously carried over from the last place. Although I'm actually quite surprised that 'Wong on So Many Levels' hasn't appeared yet. It's only a matter of time.

There's a lady called Molly asking about musical scores further down the page. She's already been 'treated' to the rapier-like wit of the CH.

WE'RE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEXT BIG ORCHESTRAL PHRASE LIBRARY RELEASE OF "INDIE". WITH STRING QUARTET, BRASS QUINTET, WOODWINDS ENSEMBLE, STRINGS ENSEMBLE, MARIMBA, XYLOPHONE, GLOCKENSPIEL, VIBRAPHONE, CROTALES, UPRIGHT PIANO, CELESTA, CONCERT HARP AND DULCIMER. AVAILABLE ON MARCH 28TH. https://www.sonokinetic.net/

It's on it's way by Fed Ex 😀

What?

Sounds even worse to me: This feature requires that the computer is continuously connected to the internet during use.

No, not at all. The ladies are most welcome, however there are some rules. Please note these are all numbered "1". 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down. 1. Sunday = sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be. 1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way. 1. Crying is blackmail. 1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it! 1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question. 1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for. 1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor. 1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days. 1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys. 1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us. 1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one. 1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself. 1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials. 1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we. 1. ALL men see in only 16 colours, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a colour. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is. 1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that. 1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle. 1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear. 1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really. 1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as football, sexual fantasies , or monster trucks. 1. You have enough clothes. 1. You have too many shoes. 1. I am in shape. Round is a shape. 1. Thank you for reading the rules; Yes, we know, we have to sleep on the couch tonight, but did you know men really don't mind that, it's like camping.

You can't help but have fun with this song! 😆

After downloading the zip, unzip the file, the program anywhere you wish and run it. If running the ToolEditor from the inside the DAW (not a requirement), changes will not show up until the DAW is restarted.

Like the optimist thought having just jumped from the top of the skyscraper.............. so far, so good.

However kids have fun making music is a win. I remember a happy day where my daughter and her friends would draw musical notes on blank sheet music and ask me to play it. There was tons of laughing and giggling.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Startgt-New-From-Template-Custom-Icons-m3415439.aspx

Someone else mentioned this as well. Cakewalk is selecting two or more inputs in the midi track. I have to go in and reselect the input I had previously selected and saved. Sometimes all inputs are checked... as many as 10.

Play on your Heart strings? 😀

Yep, iLok 2 works just fine.

Be careful on that Becan BAPU.

0.28.3 now available. I am impressed by the attention to detail that the Kushview developer has. We get an update every few weeks. It keeps getting better and better. If you need a vst host, this one is worth considering. Occasionally, Element Pro is on sale for 29 dollars.

Finding a '76 Les Paul in perfect condition at a garage sale for $50? 😀

I cheated on another forum today... (This is a confession thread, isn't it?)

Muse Score is great! To get anything that does more costs hundreds.

I cheated death today so far

Cheers tom.

Good news! Just discovered that the Komplete Kontrol app included with the free Komplete Start bundle will work with the Waves synths! If you select a single instrument such as Flow Motion in the library panel, then you will have access to the KK preset tags for sound types and/or character. No more tiny pull-down menus!!! https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ Anybody else who bought the Flow Motion, but is disappointed with the lack of a decent preset browser in the new synth? I don't know what is up with Waves, but they are stuck in the 90's with their synth UIs. Still using the old nested pull down menu system! Sheesh!!!

Depending who you are there may be some truth to this . just saying Kenny

how does it compare to Sonible smart EQ2 ?

Dang! Those shifty sales guys at Sweetwater. I was calling for info and the next thing I know he's sending me this one

My first real guitar was a '76 Les Paul (right after a hunk-o-junk Rondo that was nearly impossible to play). I loved humbuckers so much that I didn't own a Fender (or any other guitar with single coils) for at least 20 years... Of course, then I liked them too! 😉 Now, all my customs have both.

Yes, the free update indeed includes Re-Guitar as a built-in plug-in 🙂

Thank you for mentioning our plug-in. We have posted a couple of re-guitaring demo videos here you may be interested in checking out!

Personally, I'd keep them. You never know when some instrument isn't 100% backwards compatible.

Was that a reward or a punishment? 🙄 (Just asking for a friend. 😆)

I enjoyed the composition - the melody hooked me - nice job - I think it's impressive. As far as it sounding realistic - I think it's close (I'm no expert with classical music) - to me it's the melody/melodies that matter - does it make you feel something. Just my two cents😊

I admire your humility.

I want just describe my experience with situations (and partially found reasons) with something I call "e-noise" (similar to what you describe): all build-in interfaces (Realtek, SB), reacted on (wired) mouse, HDD, load. I could (can) not eliminate that. The level is low, but annoying. In monitors and headphones. Kawai DP (2 wire power cable). Problematic when there is any connection to/from it (any combination of USB/MIDI/Audio). MIDI was cured by cutting ground at the receiving end. By MIDI standard it should not be connected, but most MIDI cables are symmetric (so it is soldered in both connectors). It sounds like my TC voice processor is badly designed, so with DP->TC connected by MIDI, TC XLR outputs start producing the noise. Audio connection is way better with HD 400. No solution for USB yet. Behringer small USB mixer (2 wire power cable). Generate "e-noise" as soon as there is more then just one input and output in use. F.e. USB+(balanced)output = No noise. (one Unbalanced/balanced)input+output=No noise. But USB+Input+Output=Noise. Several inputs + Outputs = Low/no noise, connected equipment dependent. HD 400 helps. But I ended putting second hand audio interface (8x8, Phonic) as a mixer. Roland TD (unbalanced outputs, 2 wire power cable). Was prone to generate noise with Behringer mixer, HD 400 helps. Monitors connected with unbalances (TS) AND balanced (XLR) cables at the same time. Activity on the other cable end (connected/disconnected/connected to different equipment) make no difference. When just one cable is connected, there is no noise. And now some crazy staff I had "pleasure" to observe during my life... mixed "ground" and "zero" in house power net. So at some place(s) they was connected (!). Sometimes indirectly, when "ground" was wired as "zero". That is really dangerous.... some (not music) devices create distortions on some or all power wires UPS/"power conditioners" can smoke and even explode (one has exploded in my hands... I was really lucky, there was no consequences for me). Thinking about it, there was more times such devices coursed fire/troubles then any other equipment. They are also getting crazy when something is wrong with the power line (start switching to battery and back continuously, etc.).

I guess I found a second wind 😂. It's all in good fun. Perhaps I twigged that you were an okay bloke who could take in new information. 😊 So. Since you mention concerns about the quality of the product going forward, there's an odd thing about software quality, and it's one of the reasons I've been so stalwart about defending BandLab's licensing Cakewalk as freeware. 20 years ago I was an in-demand software QA engineer, worked at some of the biggies (Adobe/Macromedia, Berkeley Systems, Informix). One of the biggest reasons that I left the field is that I came to the insight that there is an inherent disincentive to quality in shrinkwrap software (which means the kind Sonar was, stuff bought by regular consumers). Back in my day it was sort of an "elephant in the room." Nowadays books and articles have been written about it, and I hope at least that companies know that they need to be aware of it and try to safeguard against it. The big problem is that what sells licenses, and this includes new licenses and upgrades, is new features. Protest all you want otherwise, but that is the truth, we all, and rightly so, in my opinion, consider bug fixes something that we shouldn't have to pay for, at least not the cost of what the usual shrinkwrap upgrade goes for. It's part of why companies are trying to go to a subscription licensing model: once a product gets to a certain point of maturity, having to grub for licenses by coming up with a dozen attractive whiz-bang features every 6 months can become unsustainable. It may be that the market becomes saturated, it may be that there are only so many features that can be added, whatever. But that's getting ahead of things. For the sake of our model, let's look at "coding" as a black box that we pour money into and get software out of. And coding bug fixes costs the same as programming new features. Now if we switch our Coding black box over to bug fixes, it's the same as turning it off, because bug fixes don't make us money. However, even turned off, we're still pouring money into it. We're still paying the programmers and all of the other infrastructure that supports them. So bug fixes cost money! From the point of view of short sighted managers, and short sighted managers are unfortunately everywhere, they're even bad! If you fix the software that people already have, they won't want to buy the new version! And in defense of management choices, how many of us can say, if presented with a choice between the company surviving (and supporting the user base and the families of the employees, shareholders, etc.) and squashing a few bugs, what the "high road" would be? I observed the effects of this directly, in my teams. My "producers," that is, the managers in charge of each title, got bonuses for shipping the title on time. "On time" was more critical in those days when software was sold via physical media. It would be introduced at an important trade show and have to be on the shelves at the big stores the next day. What that meant, effectively, was that if I found a heinous crash bug 24 hours before we were supposed to go to manufacturing, sure, I'd be a studmuffin hero among the QA team, but up the chain the thanks would get less and less hearty. So I'd be the pariah for being good at my job. The better I was at my job, the more money I cost the company, because I switched the Coding Black Box over to fixing bugs. Who wants to cost a boss you like and are trying to please a $5000 bonus? Now here we are, with our case of Sonar. A venerable shrinkwrap program's company was dissolved and the program itself sold off. Some of the former staff were hired back to continue work on the code, and the program reissued under a different name and licensing scheme. The parent company has a diversified portfolio in the music field, including instruments and an online DAW/musical social media site. Cakewalk is positioned to continue as an updated version of Sonar, as well as function as an offline front end to the musical social media site. The company also has freeware DAW's for iOS and Android that function as front ends to the site. (everyone knows this, right? BandLab already had two freeware DAW's in the marketplace before they put out Cakewalk) What does this mean for the quality of the software going forward? For a single copy of Sonar, Cakewalk was paid hundreds of dollars, which went to pay programmers, QA engineers like I used to be, people to administer the beta program, artist relations, endorsements, power lunches with Microsoft insiders, etc. That was an incentive to put out a quality product. Nobody would buy it if it wasn't any good, right? Now anyone can download the whole thing, and BandLab gets diddly squat. Revenue is zero whether anyone downloads it or not. Where is the incentive to improve it or fix bugs or add features or do anything at all to it? There's no threat of failure if it stinks, no reward for success if it's great. There's neither carrot nor stick, so what makes the donkey do anything? Okay, remember our black box, "Coding?" It's smaller now, but more efficient. The new owners only hired back a small percentage of the old company's staff, and I suspect programming is done in home office(s). They don't have to throw as much money into the box because the infrastructure is shared, smaller, etc. Support is web only, no phones. There is no sales staff, etc. Fewer licensing fees to bundling partners. On and on, the costs that were once involved in making the old program are much reduced. The new company is diversified and has deeper pockets than the former owners. As freeware, the program no longer has to sit up and beg for new license fees. There are no license fees to beg for. That means we can do whatever we want with the black box! In my experience, programmers love being given the chance to go through their code and fix bugs. They tend to be picky and focused about their work in the first place, and who likes having something they made out there in the world with obvious flaws in it? It would be like a mix engineer shipping a track with a big plosive pop in the vocal and not being allowed to fix it and having to listen to it over and over. Noel and the other programmers may be exceptions to this, but probably not. This goes for optimizing as well. Just like us, they look at it and think "I could do that so much better if I could take another pass at it." Well, who's got the keys to the black box? And a loyal user base would usually rather have the smaller features they've been begging for for the the past 3 years than some new thing that only 5% of the people who use the software are going to touch. Case in point: those note values in the Piano Roll would not sell a new license or upgrade to anyone, but they are really nice to have, and it would be a pain not to have them. The interleave indicators are another. Rename Clip. Ripple Edit button. Export Module. Plug-in Manager. Fast VST scan. All these "little" things that when added up, make Cakewalk feel like a "deluxe" version of the program I downloaded in April 2018. But added up, could you even call it Cakewalk 2.0? So there you are, Andy, that is my essay on why I think you have nothing to worry about, only things to look forward to, with a freeware licensing model. It's not something that reduces resources, which therefore reduces quality, it's something that gives the people who produce the software more freedom to make the program better, with "better" meaning what most of us would like it to mean. Faster bug fixes, features added that tend toward the useful rather than the flashy, and integration with a forward-thinking online collaboration platform. Oh, also we don't have to pay any money for it.

If this was the old Cakewalk, you'd want 13 - a Baker's dozen!

I am not going to show my wife this list!

My grandson can whiz though scales and arpeggios. When he picks up his guitar that's what he plays. I asked him to play a song. He started playing bits of a guitar riff from a tune he liked. Then I asked if he knew one melody to any tune. He knew none. Long ago I told him the key to playing music is to know music and how people understand and perceive it. I said he should learn as many melodies as he could and be able to play them in a singing style. He did not do that. Well all I could think of was an analogy of being able to build a house and everything it involves and having many many tools and not know how to use them. No matter how many tools you have to build a house, until you know how and what it takes to build that house you not going to have a house. He smiled shook his head yes. When I left the room he resumed his speed scale workout