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A user on KvR made a video of HATEFISh Convinced me to buy HY-Plugins HY-SeqCollection2 https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-seqcollectionwinmac/ which is on sale at KvR and ADSR for $39 (try the demo) It's crazy complicated and perhaps not a good comparison to HATEFISh, since simple can sometimes be better. At least for me the demo of SeqCollection2 sold me that the more expensive and powerful MIDI sequencer was the better choice. If you have the full version of NI Reaktor there are a number of euclidean sequencers that can be downloaded from the user library. I've played around with Euclidean Polyplexor v1.5 and it looks like there is now a version 2 (never can keep up with Reaktor stuff) https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/9285/ https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/12031/

So, Zinc only owes you $4? Nice

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! 😜

Here's the problem . . . the content of his letter is basically "hey software pirates, you are taking bread out of the mouths of my children" . .. I'm new to the Pettinhouse libraries, but they sound great, some are at Orange Tree level. And he's a one-man band by all accounts. The trouble is, he really goes after those pirates quite strongly, lots of language, and I'm not sure it's flattering to his company. It's very well written and I agree with his sentiments . . .but it's more of an angry rant and I don't want to create any pr problem for his company. The last thing I want to do is give him less business. He seems like a straight-up kind of dude. So posting it might be a risk. If you have Kontakt, I'd recommend plunking down $119 for a crapton of great instruments (no brainer) and then you can read his rant if you want. I only posted to see if anyone else had noticed it. Sorry to hide everything behind a curtain. I probably should not have posted at all . . . cheers, -Tom

I picked up a very annoying hum in my studio interface. After spending hours crawling under my desk re routing cords, checking grounds in my power panel, the hum was still there. I invested in a good power strip with EMI/RF interference protection. I had my interface pegged as the suspect and was ready to replace it until I remembered my cable company recently replaced the line running to my house. Initially I discounted this as a potential problem because my cable worked fine and all of the connections in the house were grounded to each other. Just so happened that the cable tech called to see how it all went ( they subbed an outside contractor to install it underground). I mentioned the hum issue thinking the whole time it couldn't be the problem. The tech came by to check the work and found the earth ground coming into the house was not ran.He added the ground. Problem went away. I wasn't under the impression that cable lines were capable to transmit that much if not grounded. So if you get a ground loop type of hum FYI don't eliminate this as a possibility.

Sweetwater happened to call me a couple of times following some purchases. Sadly, I will never get a call from Larry for them...

The past several weeks I've been struggling with whether I want to continue to do this. This song came out of that conflict. Frustration becomes art. https://johnbowen.bandcamp.com/track/understand 🙂John B

OK, here I go again! We do not, I repeat, we do not ever say "I know I suck" !!!!! You Do Not SUCK. NOBODY SUCKS. (unless you have a lolipop, or a pacifier, or a teat (don't go there Kenny) in your mouth, then you can say you are sucking.) DAD GUMMIT LarsLarrycc Stop it people! YOU ROCK ***** HARD Great choice for a cover, took massive effort, and I loved it. YOU DO NOT SUCK!!!!! if you suck, then what am I OK, I"M DONE.

Actual Roto Toms Wook....only thing artificial on this is the Choir, and the clock ticking and alarm clock at the beginning, which are samples I dug up...other than that... all real world...and Thanx guys!

Thanks, ZincT! Worked perfectly, got my Sandman Pro upgrade for $4 thanks to you. Love this forum and its inhabitants.

It is the $25 monthly voucher....not $29...

I'll send you mine Fleer!

Disbanded is actually an awesome band name.

Excellent! The telltale was where you were seeing MIDI activity in the system tray icon but nowhere else in Cakewalk.

It was below freezing so wrapping bubble-wrap around them helps insulate them. I also had these pouches I could Velcro to the bottoms that held hand-warmers. I miss those little guys! So much attitude in a little, flying hypodermic needle package. 🙂 They were so fearless that they would come right up while I was out there and even land on my finger. I was right on the migration path and, based on a calculation of how much syrup they were going through daily, the math said I had between 910 and 1,100 birds in my local area! They're not social birds, so the only time you'll ever see this many together is when they're hungry and you're the only one with warm feeders. 😁

Thanks again Starship Krupa! [Solved] You nailed this one fast. Deleted the control surface, then it required CbB to be restarted and all is well! Entirely my fault and thankfully, not the early release!

Keni, this is a long shot, but I recently had the dreaded "MIDI can talk to everything but Cakewalk VSTi's" effect, and what it turned out to be was a rogue control surface entry. I looked at Preferences/MIDI/Control Surfaces, and for whatever reason, the input device was set to be my MIDI keyboard controller, and so Cakewalk was interpreting all of its keypresses as control surface movements. Once I set that device to be what it was supposed to be (my nanoKONTROL), all was well.

Larry I gotta give it to you on having the balls to do that song!! I NEVER would have even thought about doing it. I mean I know it and play it. But just would never have really actually done it!! I can see how you made it your own, and that was a good choice on your tone in the beginning. And when you cmae in with the vocals, bout floored me!! That's one good performance!! And the backing vocals really adds to the song. What ever you did with that was really good work. Then the lead. Great tone, great performance. I think you kept mostly to the spirit of the song but I can hear your own touch in there too. Which is a good touch on your part. The end was just as good, I was waiting for the piano to start the next song!! Good job.

I've often used a portable clothes hanger covered in a moving blanket as a movable sound isolation divider. Kind of like these people are doing. Just get a cheap one of these, a moving blanket and some clips!

Little story.... I applied to work there. Got a call a few days later stating that they were going to go with "more qualified" candidates. So I told them "yes, I've dealt with your "more qualified" candidates, and I can see how 30 years in the business would make me "less qualified""! They changed their tune and immediately wanted to hire me... I told them to stick their job where the sun don't shine. That's a true story. If you're going to "not hire" me because I happen to be in my late 40's at the time, then I don't want your job. If you base qualifications on someone's age, and on their paper, rather than on "real world experience", then I don't want your job. Human Resources are usually run by young guys with a degree who REALLY don't know "thin sh*t from Applebutter", as my Mom used to say... I could have made that place a FORTUNE, and they blew it IMO. Too bad for them. I even know the owner, Chuck, to this day...and could most certainly work there if I pressed the issue...but, no thanks...I'll pass...

Hi Everybody, This song is off my album "Orange Vertigo". I wrote it in the 90's, but I never posted it to this forum. Tell me what you think. Thanks, and here it is: https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13524696

You'd think that in a band of over-50s there'd be no infighting, bickering, power struggles and out-of-control egos. Turns out, maturity just seems to be especially elusive among musicians. Time to fire up Cakewalk again. Superior Drummer will never refuse to play a song it doesn't like, complain about not getting the respect it's entitled to, nor criticize Trillian for not playing in the pocket. Kontakt won't mind if its only duty is a tambourine part, won't insist that its talents are wasted unless it's the focus of the song. All of the vocalists (me, me and me) will know the frickin' words, know their frickin' place in the mix and know better than to demand more reverb. Of course, I'll still be rehearsing with my new band on Sunday...

Many good deals https://www.sweetwater.com/shop/imsta-festa-atl-2019-promotion/

OK, you suck I suck we all suck me sucky long time everything sucks

Take a bow - that's a quality job right there - great work. Andy

Hey @Jake I reall enjoyed watching this video. Im actually transitioning from FL12 to Cakewalk and I think it looks really cool and its surprisingly fast compared to FL12. I think that would be because its a pirated version of it (im poor and im sorry for that lol). I didn't hear about cakewalk until a couple months ago and I thought it was pretty cool. So I went and got it Friday I think, and I also started to familiarize it and try to understand it. Im very thankful for this video as it showed me the basics on what I should know on it, so thank you so much for the video. That aside, I do have one question. How in the world do I set up my microphone? I have been trying for about an hour now and I cant get it to work. The microphone I use is Blue Snowball (until I get a new one in the future)

All of them Ab...drums, synth, bass...etc...the only things artificial on the track are the Choir (East West Symphonic Choirs) and the samples of the Clock Ticking and the Alarm Clock at the beginning, which I dug up on the internet, for the intro...I actually recorded most of it a while ago...and came back recently and added the second guitar, and the choir, because it never sounded "full" enough to me... Thanx for the kind words... Gilmour is one of my two heroes....Alex Lifeson is the other!

Well done Larry! Thanks for sharing that! Maybe we should have a thread with other members of this forum could present their work....🙂

Getting the personalities "right"... and keeping them all focused on a single direction is the hardest part. I've been really lucky with bandmates the past 20+ years. I've played in probably half a dozen bands in that time... and I'm still friends with most them. It's not easy to leave good friends behind... but to move forward, sometimes that's necessary. We always try to make it about "the song", "appealing to the audience", trying to strengthen our performance, and trying to increase our draw. That usually keeps things going in the right direction. I've been adamant on keeping the band a 4-piece. Any more than that... and it gets complicated with schedules, etc. We always hire commercial sound. Crossing that threshold made the experience (to me) a lot more enjoyable. We're a cover band in our 30s-50s... so the "rock-star" dream has sailed. We play for fun... and to cross off "bucket-list" items. The band is paid well... but we're not trying to live off playing.

Hang in there Ken. It's tough for sure. There really aren't words for a grief like this. It just hurts. You will get through it. No, life won't be the same. I'm sure she would want nothing more than for you to go on and live life to the fullest. I'm sure there's a lot of life left to live. Best to you. In my thoughts and prayers. Don't hesitate to PM me if you need someone to listen. I'm no expert in this but I can sympathize and listen.

Unfortunately this is for Pro, not Standard which usually goes on sale for around $29.00.

Actually, I think Projectscope will tell you what version is used in your project. See the link here in the old forum... http://forum.cakewalk.com/ProjectScope-helps-find-CWPs-and-keeps-them-organized-updated-to-Producer-Edition-m3218609.aspx?high=projectscope

Beach Boys, only cooler. I admit I was waiting for a proper cracking snare to come in at some point. The brush on the cymbal kept its loudness throughout, and I think once you establish that, it could be dropped a tad in volume, maybe as the vocals start. Just a thought. You are a great songwriter. Awesome fade out, really slow, fits the song perfectly. cheers, -Tom

All of the CM series use the cleaner output circuitry, and it is comparable to the U220. The MT32 / U110 are pretty noisy. What they didn't do however, is fix the bit quantisation issue. The LA synths are 15 bit, but shifted left in a crude attempt to make them 16 bit. The result of this is digital clipping at normal volumes once you start adding sounds. Some sounds will clip on their own unless the volume is dropped drastically (e.g. Strings 3, which I used ALL the time). Luckily sampling has solved this issue Another difference between the MT-32 and the CM-32L / CM-64, is the CM series has the SN-U110-11 Sound Effects card built in, and mapped to the higher notes on channel 10. The CM-32L / CM64 also has twice as many PCM waveforms as the MT-32. Apart from the cleaner output, the only difference between the U220 and the U110 is that the U220 has the SN-U110-08 (Synthesizer) and SN-U110-09 (Guitars & Keyboards) cards built in. IMO these were the best cards available, so it was a good choice to include them - some great Jupiter 8 & D50 samples on there. I was using both these cards with the CM-32P / CM-64 at least a decade before I finally got a U220. AFIAK there's no real relationship between the Sound Canvas samples and the U series ones. To my ears they sound completely different. The only exception is maybe some of the SN-U110-11 sound effects (e.g. rain, train, machine gun etc), but even with those, some of them sound different. The JV and XV series synths do have some D50 samples in them, which sound pretty good. I almost got a MGS64 at one point as it claimed to emulate the CM32L, but all it does is remap the GM sounds to the MT-32 patch list. The MGS64 is just a 64 note poly version of the Sound Canvas. I built up quite a collection of 80's/90's Roland gear over the years: MT-32, CM-32L / CM-32P (both were sold and replaced with a CM-64), D110 (with PG-10 programmer), U220, D550, JV1010 & XV2020. The D110 gets bad reviews for some reason, but it can sound fantastic if programmed properly. It's sounds nowhere near as good as the D50 / D550 though.

I can verify you can fit all the gear for a seven piece band, including drums, FOH mixer, and complete PA, in the back of a 1966 Ford F150 with a steel camper shell. I also attest that you will get 6 miles per gallon. Color = primer gray.

The simple truth in these statements. You have to make sure you make time for yourself to grieve. I remember the Church Parish Nurse telling me that the more you feel the pain means the more you loved that person and the longer your grieving will be.

I like this too. I agree with the Nilsson vibe. Just a nice really laid back vibe for sure. Nice mix, clean throughout. Good vocal performance. It does kinda have that effect!! Didn't think of this till I saw his response.

Hypnotic...I liked it.

My sincere condolences to you and your family Ken. Make sure to take care of yourself.

Very nice!

Enjoyed it, nice laid-back groove. It has a bit of a Nilsson vibe to it.

Don't buy comp which will do everything by itself instead of you It could stop you from buying more compressors

Breathtakingly heartfelt. Definitely brilliant!

I LOVE the Cars! And this definitely has that 80's vibe! Nice Kakku!

Dave, I didn't know you played bass.

Please people stop 😫 😛

Very nice tune ,very good performance by all the musicians ,nice video and nice mix.( Some tones reminded me some Pat Metheny's progressions ,and from my point of view it is a cool thing). Thanks for sharing . All the best for your music . Olivier

That's because I used the Google Docs "Publish to the web" feature, rather than sharing the doc. Any updates that I make to the doc online get updated to that link within 5 mins. So it is a "live" doc. I can also pull a download version from it in several formats, xlsx, ods, pdf, html, csv, etc.

Hi Kakku. Sorry I missed this posting. Have been quite busy and have started to go through posts. You style always makes me think of the 80-90's which was my childhood 🙂 I think your mix is a little harsh om my speakers. With synthesised music there are so many frequencies and I would find it very difficult to mix. @Wookie is good on sysths... maybe he can chime in. All the best.