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The deal this relates to is the "bundle" of all Pettinhouse kontakts. $119 for everything. Anyway, in downloading "ClassicGuitar2" I found a "letter to pirates" text file, it's pretty awesome. Has anyone seen it? I'll very likely post it but I'm not sure I should. Check your recent Pettinhouse extractions, it might be there. It says it was written in 2019. Any thots?

Hey guys, here's another angle on the 50% off everything. The "Bundle Upgrades" are also 50% off! By upgrading to the "MEssentialsFX Bundle" - with the plugins I already owned and a handful of credits and this 50% off deal - I just got MTurboDelay, MLimiterX, MTurboCompLE, and MTurboReverbLE for only $9.50!!! So check in your account under “My Licenses” towards the bottom of the page for your Bundle Upgrade price. You may be surprised.

Unless you forgot to register the Collection like me. Bought it from Koby @EveryPlugin with 8 plugins included, then AR Chambers and the TG Mastering Chain were added before I went ahead with the registration. Sometimes being lazy works out just fine.

I know I suck...but at least I'm trying...LOL I played all the instruments, and sang all the parts (except the Choir -(East West SC - only VI on here), on this... Not trying to exactly duplicate the original, doin' my own thing, but staying with the original "outline", and I know I don't get in here much... too busy finding deals, so feel free to throw stones! 😜

From my archives, Cakewalk 8.0 project remixed this afternoon trying out some new plugins & in CbB.

Update: I took Toms advice and made some adjustments to hopefully help when streaming from SoundCloud. Hope this one is a little better. This was inspired by Kenny's post the other day. He graciously posted the piano backing track that he had played over. I happened to have my guitar in hand, and started playing over it when I was listening to the piano track. That's how this got started. I wanted to just have some fun, but as I got going with the project it just grew into it's own thing. So I made a deadline yesterday that today by noon that would be it! I will make the deadline, but I used almost every minute of it. : ) It's done all in Cakewalk. I used CW, Waves, IK plugins for the fx. I used Jamstix for the drums and that's the stock drum sounds. And of course I welcome any and all comments. I'm here to learn and have some fun. Again @Kenny Wilson, thanks for the inspiration. I really enjoyed doing this. : )

A Flattened 3rd Just a little fun in a a minor scale. Thanks for listening.

I have finally gotten to post the long avaited post about my studio in the new apartment. Who was looking for this again? There were someone I guess… was it me? Anyways. Here it is... I had to buy a new screen to fit into this Ikea thing. Because the feets on my old screen was not adjustable in hight. That was a little bummer. I am also not done with cable management yet.

Hold down the SHIFT key while starting CbB. This should restore the missing files.

Got one too. I'd suggest if you are low on funds get an AAS soundpack like Synth City for Chromaphone.

It sounds like rocket science compared to the last two decades of top ten in America.

Overheard in a bar in Milwaukee in the late '70s... I'm shooting pool with a friend, when 2 young punks walk in and head to the jukebox. When they come across a Jefferson Airplane: Dude 1: Jefferson Airplane? I thought it was Jefferson Starship. Dude 2: Jefferson Airplane was their name before they got their $hit together. Those 2 almost got beaten with pool cues.

Hang in there Ken. Lots of people thinking of you mate.

Um, that's 'cause you are old, my friend. Same kid, couple years and a Pearl endorsement later...

Hard to believe 😝

It's incredible Zo! I lived 10 minutes from it! And was there all the time!

Don't know how i end up taking a virtual tour of Sweetwater , but i swear it makes you wanna work there lol !!

2019, the year we had a summer of Black Fridays.

Thanks for the detailed report. I've been able to reproduce the bug, and will look into it later today. Reports like this are extremely useful to us. It's impossible for us to fix a bug we don't know about, or can't reproduce, so thanks again for reporting it and including all the necessary steps 🙂 Edit: Fixed! Will be in the next release.

https://vimeo.com/349172287/7520be7ea9 At the risk of totally embarrassing myself I'm posting this slide show/video. Back in the 1950's when everything was in black and white and analog, my father made an audio tape of my brother and me singing a couple of songs. I cleaned up the tape noise and then chopped up the audio into short phrases, then arranged them to make them fit the background music I wrote. Might be obvious in a couple of places. All done in Cakewalk. Nowadays your entire life has been recorded from your very first day on earth, but back then it was pretty rare to have an audio recording of yourself. Have to say that my singing talents have gone downhill since then. Audio in CbB Video in Vegas Pro.

When I was going through old files searching for tracks to send to Jesse, I came across a song that I never completed. I remember stopping work on it because I wanted it to sound slinky but I couldn't get the sound I was looking for and with out that I could not come up with lyrics. Well, I gave it another go and this is what resulted. I'm not sure it is exactly what I wanted but it is close. Anyway - comments, crit.'s, suggestions, etc. will be much appreciated. Thanks!! MY BABE IS SO SLINKY https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=963481

bout time

You aren't going to explain?

I went ahead and got Acid Pro 9 at Sweetwater with this deal. The price was right, even though it wasn't even an upgrade. 9.0 at least so far has been a lot better than 8.0 was. The VST scanner actually made it through my VSTs the very first time. I didn't have to kill processes/etc. So big improvement there. The UI seems a little nicer but I'd have to run 8.0 to be sure. I also got a coupon code for Planet Producer, though no details on what it is supposed to be for. It did let me buy one of the Sony/SF Acid packages for free though. The loops it comes with downloaded very, very slowly and aren't that impressive, but they seem different than 8.0 I wish they hadn't done the Acid Pro Next thing (the price is way too high for the limited additional features), but for the price this is a much better version of Acid 64bit than 8.0 was. There is a Cakewalk Early Access update. They have been working pretty hard to get it solid. I suspect it will ship in the next week.

Kontakt (even the free Player) can do MIDI out. Options > Engine > Send MIDI to outside world (incoming notes, script generated notes, etc.) The Ample Sound instruments can do this, but they are not multi-timbral. Even the free Ample Guitar M II Lite can send the generated strummer pattern to MIDI. The paid Ample Bass with the Riffer module can send the Riffer note patterns to MIDI as well. Either way you can drive another instrument with those patterns, or record and edit them in a MIDI track. Settings > MIDI out (on/off)

Okay, been looking a bit deeper into this, as it’s made by LA-based developer Jonathan Kranz together with the infamous Mario “EvilDragon”. Now I know why it’s so good 😎

This is what @James Argo is describing When the cursor changes hold down either mouse button and hit the delete key

@cclarry Thanks Larry, appreciate it. @Joad Thanks Joad! @emeraldsoul did a few tweaks..

It's an oxymoron and often run by morons.

Very Nice Grem!

Antler, I love the Wave plugins. I've been dealing with computers for a long time and Cakewalk since Cakewalk DOS. I have a lot of plug-ins that go back to 1990 that wasn't from Cakewalk. I have more Wave plug-ins than anyone else because of sales, discounts etc. Almost every year I upgrade, my computer or had to increase the size my hard drives. I have no problem installing other plug-ins I bought from others, I have a iLok. With Waves every time I upgrade something, they don't use regular VST extensions, they have some special folders, and when it doesn't load Cakewalk can't find the Wave files. I found out when my boot drive failed last year and I thought it was my motherboard, that they only allow you to download their files once a year. So they only option you have is you have to go a year without it, or buy a new one which you may pay more than the original. They also want you to pay yearly for each plug-in you bought for upgrades, and updates for each, and mine come up to over $300 a year if I'm correct. Everyone else, if you change hardware, you either have a iLok, put in your serial numbers go to the website, sign in, if you have to download the program again like Cakewalk and it works, I have no problem. The problem is, that I bought this item and I expect it to be available to me when I want to use it. It takes hours of adjusting to get the sound you wanted and then it's not there now because you altered your computer. They know you are not a pirate because you have to sign in, but if you want to download your stuff again, you have to pay if you did it once that year. So all your 50 plug-ins are dead, for a year unless you want to pay for something you already paid for. Are you willing to pay them $400 after you just upgraded your computer for something you thought you bought and was your forever. You can't make up for the hours you spent customizing settings etc. For me, if I have a problem with something I have to let it go. I feel like I have been robbed, me upgrading my computer has nothing to do with what I purchased from you. If you policies don't agree and it wasn't free. I am not willing to get ripped off anymore, and that's what I feel they did is ripped me off. If that is their EULA sorry if I don't agree and didn't see it coming and it is NOT the norm. I not looking to change their policy for just me, it's not like anyone else's.

I thought this was very cool.

Wow, very soundscape/cinematic. I really liked this one.

Nice Wookie!

I wouldn't even need a paycheck, just let me take stuff home!

@Lemar Sain can you upload and send me a link to a crash dump for this? Also if you can include the project file with instructions to repro it will be useful.

Hi Freddy ! thank you for the song listen and kind words . Joad , A volume pedal is a cool thing to have ...I need to get one someday ...till then, I will continue to just use my pinky. ( on the guitars I have that will let me do it that way ) . glad you dug my geetar playing ... Hello Grem , Glad you gave this one a listen and dug the sounds ... I put a lot of thoughts into things long before I even touch my instrument .. I live w a track primarily w my ears and heart only . I listen I listen I listen ...then I listen some more . If I dig the track enough I create a story and make a loose plan of what I might play ...then I will experiment and play over the parts of the song that may give me a problem ... Don't get me wrong , I also will play over the parts I like , the thing is I don't like flying high on my guitars fret board and then hitting a section of a song that takes me out into a back alley , beats me up and then tries it's best to mug me ... To be perfectly honest I don't really care what guitar I'm gonna play or what type of gear I'm gonna use ..all that "stuff " is there is to serve me , not the other way around... I generally have one or two guitars out within arms reach at all times . Thankfully my super large dog does not think they are his personal chew toys ... Depending on what Guitar I have out will determine whether I will use it or not . In this case I had a solid body and a Jazz Box out ...that's what I used ... As far as guitar synths goes , I have older tunes out where it is all heavy synths and textures ...Now a days I tend to use my midi guitar playing in more subtle ways .. In this song the most obvious guitar synth section was the section you pointed out. Then there's the 12 string on the other side ( left ) My Bass playing was on a 4 string ,yet in those sections my guitars counter melodies were analog Jazz box right& Gtr Synth left ... anyway that's all care to share for now , have a good one , Kenny

The forum needs a police !

I had to exclude (black list) the Sektor VST2 in Cakewalk for that reason. The VST3 worked fine. I upgraded to Sektor 1.3.2 today and the VST3 continues to work fine. Give that a try!

Okay, I've uninstalled the early release and reinstalled back to 2019.05 . . . but this mute button issue still exists. I've now discovered this is actually an issue with my controller keyboard, when unplug it, Cakewalk MUTE button works as expected. Sorry, so this is not an early release bug, it's something with my keyboard controller. Off to troubleshoot.

Very nice tune & vocals on this. I like that electronic groove, how it moves the song along. You could try an alt. version with the drums playing more of a half time feel, maybe more an acoustic drum sound keeping the electronic for that break section. Good job.

This looks like a great opportunity for those looking at Sonible’s smart:EQ2 and smart:Comp. This sale offers a bundle for $129 and my email listed $116 as a subscriber. check it out. https://audioplugin.deals/developer/sonible/

Vocals are great. The arrangement is pretty cool, and I agree more variation in the drum programming. Just take the hi hat out every so often? Something like that every once in a while. In the first minute of the song, it's a whole minute of vocal verses. I wonder if sparseness might be a benefit? Sing a verse, have a verse of instrumental groove, then back to singing a verse. Just a thought. cool stuff. cheers, -Tom

That's coming in the next update.......

Kenny

Totally Charming. Well done!

Brian hit the nail on the head.

@Sleetah2000 - apologies for the long delay on this. Things have been really hectic lately. Here it is: http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/Synthbass3.zip

Very nice discussion everyone. Eye opening to say the least. Thank you.