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That's why God made acoustic guitars. ?

Like fans? But they require power, too! Ahh, now I understand, you mean windmills! ?

and wind instruments

Everyday is Barnfest where I live. And a brownout is a whole different thing.

Leerdammer, no f...ing way. Leave that for the Dutchies. I’m in sweet Ravenna now. Love those female buffaloes. Edith: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. Me: No f...ing way, woman.

You guys who are living that close to the event horizon are taking a lot of chances. Fleer's over in Europe somewhere eating Leerdammer sandwiches and barking at the moon and he still gets caught in the gravity well!

no more compressors?? that would be major turnaround of the whole market

The ones that I use over and over are Miroslav Philharmonic 2 and Kirk Hunter Virtuoso Instruments and sometimes Halion Symphonic Orchestra. I'm no expert at strings but just use whatever sounds right to my ears in a song (usually pop/rock genre).

Yes, the 2019-07 changelog is pretty large. There has been consistent history of updates and fixes since BandLab acquired Cakewalk. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFOe_zJrd3x2EnaZ_Jc3iSbZPG2WANiCD4_RP83OjlA/edit

Your suspicion is wrong. Just take a look at this months update. It has more bug fixes than I've seen in any update within the past year.

Hi, Gary, Grem and Simeon, Wow, this is an absolutely fantastic and very beautiful piece of music!? Excellent songwriting and arrangement, Simeon's piano performance is powerful and very moving, the instrumental performances and orchestration are outstanding, and Gary's vocals are deep with emotion and really phenomenal! The mix is top notch, perfect for the genre, and radio-ready sounding to me. Wonderful collaboration, guys, and Grem, I'm sure that your friend, Dina is very happy somewhere and smiling about this amazingly beautiful tribute!? Best Wishes, Bob

Session Strings non-Pro is kind of weak https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/cinematic/session-strings/comparison-chart/ Session Strings Pro is pretty decent (and Session Strings Pro 2 is really decent). All of them are more likely better fits for Pop/Rock than Hyperion Elements. While this sale (and the coupon for Micro purchasers) is a pretty good deal, I think it's fair to bet an offer this good will come again. You might have to wait a while but this isn't a one time, once in a lifetime, never to be repeated, not to be missed deal. They will be releasing more Hyperion String libraries, so there will be no end to deals anytime soon. Given you already have micro, I'd say you don't have to get this. Micro does cover a lot of basic ground. Take the time and use Session Strings and Hyperion Micro and work out what your missing. When you know what you really need, deciding on Hyperion Elements won't be that hard. On the other hand if you need/want a Kontakt Player string library and don't require crazy articulations/features this is about the best price/value I've seen. For me it's biggest problem is that it doesn't do anything vastly different or better than every other string library I have does. I have so many string libraries that this one just doesn't shine above the rest for any task. It has potential though and is nice enough to work with it might be a good choice for "I just want a string library, nothing fancy".

Thanks for all the comments on the song. Here is the video and re-mastered.

Uh oh I had better not tell you when I'm there next time (kidding of course) But if you're close too we should have a meetup some time! I go when I can to visit my parents, its quite nice.

Look at you making it easy for me Thanks!

I will check dates and such and see if I can be there! I've always got a place to stay when there, so if schedule permits I may just see you at the next one.

To Mesh, a brownout is AKA, "bad product".

Trust me.

Loving the new Smart Tool options! It's so much easier to fly around when arranging without needing to specifically hit on the upper/lower halves of clips. And that's just the beginning...

I was in Utrecht all last week and only felt a slight dampening of the gravitational pull...but that might have been GDPR at work. Save yourself, Fleer, whilst Lars' power is out!!!

Got it a few moons ago. Great indeed.

With that screenshot of the GUI the Kontakt is pretty much implied. And making libraries available in the free Kontakt Player means paying some serious cash to Native Instruments so for small manufacturers it's quite not a viable option. But Sharine is great, some of the best shakers around.

RexRed I think I commented on the "vintage" sound of one of your previous songs and this one also has that nice 50s or 60s feel to it. You know, back when music was good. Interesting that you manually adjusted the levels of each voc syllable - hey I'm not the only one :-). Enjoyed the song and have to say your singing is ready for prime time.

20% off everything code arrived today....

Ah that's about an hour away from where I was (Fenton).

N.Y. area was hit hard too. I got myself a 25kW Generac to keep the whole house up & running.

This explains the gravitational force exerted on my wallet at peak posting times...you're two miles away.

Larry, I'm in Livonia and we're still dealing with brownouts...but still got SOME juice. Gonna be cooler today. Maybe we should ask Bandlab to donate a generator to keep the forum humming!

and wind instruments and hammond organ! ... ... ..umm... maybe not

No chance. He's a bass player, they're never under pressure. ?

Thanks for the replies/suggestions. Revisiting my various plug-ins is definitely now on my to-do list. Since I only discovered that Cakewalk was very much alive two-days ago, my catch-up list is growing exponentially! I still don't know why I didn't see it on 4-4-2018! (I only saw the web-based thing.) Plans include going back to some C-64/Dr. T/KCS tunes ported to TTS's Cakewalk for MS-DOS ages ago to update some old favorites. Steve

Piano in 162 is a sample library of a Steinway Model B grand piano, available in Kontakt, SFZ, and Korg Kronos formats. http://ivyaudio.com/Piano-in-162

In case anyone else comes across the same log in issue with T&S, the answer is that you have to set up a new account using the same log in details as the old one which then migrates all your old details to a new account.

Love this stuff as I’m into cinematic sounds and these are some of the best. But on top of that, at last great cinematic libs with a top class GUI. Sweet to work with.

Good news, the bakers were able to reproduce on a 3 monitor setup like mine!

Wow, I think you knocked this one out of the park. I particularly like your vocal delivery, and harmonica. The arrangement is simple, but it allows all the performances to shine. All your work paid off!

Laid back sunny track. Your singing is expressive- I can feel what you're feeling. Its all good. Cheers, Bert

Deal is still on. Good through July 22nd.

Wow. The vocal delivery was so authentic and emotional, without being sappy. The video supported everything. And the string parts were really strong. Nice job! -Tom

Hey Rembrandt eat your heart out . My pic might only be a still photo . As we all know . I don't rank as high around here as CC Larry does . Yeah that won't stop me because I'm still going to Wally-world to get a frame for it and hang it on my wall right over my fireplace . Now I can spend all day looking at this cool looking synth and get nothing done ? All kidding aside I did enjoy the videos Tracktion has up on that synth ... Kenny

Nice old-time feel and sound. Solid performance

With this release we focused on allowing lanes to be used as an arrangement tool in addition to comping. Ideally I think the feature could be called something like "track lanes" as opposed to take lanes now, since its not restricted to the recording workflow. You are free to use lanes as a scratchpad for different variations of track ideas whether they come from actual recorded takes or from other sources (clips in project, imported files etc). With the enhanced drag and drop and copy paste functionality all operations are now fully integrated with lanes so should work seamlessly. When dragging in other data you can choose to disable the comping features and arrange the clips in any manner before you decide to start the comping process. You can also choose to layer and have audio clips in lanes sound simultaneously if that's what you want in this workflow. In fact for those who used the old pre-X series layers, you should now be able to do all of that and more by using the tools appropriately. There are also big improvements to automation lanes and clip envelopes when doing copy paste between tracks or lanes that should make editing with automation lanes a smoother experience. Additionally thanks to a report from one of our users, we fixed a longstanding issue with recording in take lanes that would end up with incorrectly cropped clips in lower lanes. Overall we hope you will find arrangement and comping in tracks to be a much more enjoyable and intuitive experience in this update. Let us know if you see any issues.

Somehow you have a Willie Nelson feel to your vocal. nice track.

With the LX, it helps to clarify what model you are talking about, the older LX61, which I have, works fine for me but I have seen some complaints regarding integration with Cakewalk about the LX61+ which is the newer model, they are pretty much the same, except flashing leds and a couple of other things. They do use different integration files from Nektar though. I also have the GX61 (new model) and that has very different key action to my LX61 but it could be the same as the newer LX61+, I don't know. I find the LX (older version) to have easier to play keys that seem to have lower travel (synth like?), I can do a run more easily and reach for more complex chords and play them cleanly. The GX seems to have more travel and stiffer to play (more piano like) which makes these things more difficult for me. I have shorter fingers though. For me, same as using .10 gauge strings vs .09 on my Strat. If I use the GX and .10 gauge strings on the Strat, it takes more effort and my fingers tire more quickly. I've opted for the LX and .09 gauge strings which is like coming home, I can play both instruments all day without thinking about it.

Great work on the video Gary. You really brought it home with this.

??????? absolutely brilliant...I’m in tears.

Yes, I have seen that on at least three occasions I can recall. Once it was a defective power supply. Once it was dust-clogged fans. The third time it was defective capacitors on the motherboard (if anyone remembers the Dell fake-cap episode some years ago). So yup, it's hardware. First step: open your computer and give it a thorough cleaning, especially the power supply and CPU fans.

No comment on the vocal @AndyB01 (well know fact Wookiee singing kills all none Wookiee life forms within a Par Sec) I like this it has a very heartfelt delivery, I am obviously hearing the remix, though you have said it still needs a tweak or three. Will keep the furry ears on the lookout for such.

Okay, for anyone who is having trouble with this plug-in, I vastly simplified the routing over what that guy on YouTube does with his Aux track and all that mess. Just make two instrument tracks, one for Instachord and one for the synth you want to control with Instachord. Configure Instachord's Input to your MIDI keyboard. Enable MIDI output in Instachord. In Instachord's Output, go to Selected Track Outputs... and choose MIDI, and select the synth you want to control. In the synth you want to control, set your Input to Instachord. I had to set it to Ch. 1 to get it to work with the Virtual Controller, but YMMV. And that's it. Just 4 steps. No Aux Track, no Sends, none of that weird crap Mr. YouTube has you do. I'm still kinda underwhelmed. You select a chord with the left hand and then get all notey with the right hand. Maybe I took too many piano lessons for this to seem like a big deal, or maybe I just need to fart around with it. I already know how to improvise over a scale. It's kinda fun, but not OH MY GAWD THIS IS A GAME CHANGER.