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We had a filmteam and they made it on the spot. Church and hotel is in Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines. And yes, I am sooo happy. PS! Had to log in with Google because I have a new phone and didn't have old login at hand. https://youtu.be/z0QBpk6ZU58

I picked up the Simon Phillips packs - but regret it sounds are reasonably decent but I forget have clumsy groove agent is compared to other drum samplers (superior 3). The downloaded clunky and the interface is pretty poor. Edrum/hihat support is circa 1997. Spend that money on S3 packs ....or (a buggy) BFD3 expansion just my opinion obvs but file under “things I will never actually use”

If a woman attempts to cut off a man’s ***** but is unsuccessful could she be changed with a misdaweiner

Hi folks! Recording yourself in a comfortable environment with good acoustics is crucial - but how can you control your DAW? In this video I show how to control Cakewalk by Bandlab using an Android phone! WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/6ndfakrS6Gw

Nice! I got Bass Fingers, Bass Slapper, Clavinet, Electric 200 Piano, Electric 88 Piano, Flow Motion FM Synth and OVox Vocal ReSynthesis for $66 (about £51)! Even less than I thought it would be ?

Got Ovox, Clavinet, Bass fingers and Morphoder for a total of 30$ at Everyplugin!

This is my aggressive, all-brass nonette "Brassilia". (three trumpets, three 'bones, two Fr. horns and one tuba.) Larry Graham Alexander

As @cclarry always says: everyplugin.com for ANYTHING waves related, including upgrades etc etc etc you might be very pleasantly surprised worth an email.....just sayin'

do you mean service center or native access ? I'm not sure service center is still supported. I ask because I find native access one of the best (the best!) of the downloader manager type things. When they introduced service center many years ago I was a bit hesitant but now i really like it. Only negative for me is all the auto-startup apps it installs without telling you - and you have no real idea what they are for. if you are running service center then definitively try native access

Normalize by its nature is a look-ahead process - in fact it has to look at the whole of the clip before deciding its level. While this doesn't make it impossible to make it a VST, it would add an incredible amount of latency. The easiest workaround for this is to either: 1. Tracks: Make a copy of your track, normalize the copy and archive the original; or 2. Lanes: Flatten your comp, normalize the comp clip and mute the other lanes

I was being a little unfair ? - the consoles were $49 last year but as @cclarry and @Piotr point out, if you have a 50 or 75 voucher it’s almost impossible to get a decent deal - the situation is even worse for us in the U.K. as we have to add tax at 20% on top of that not finding them particularly crash prone though ? also if you are gonna buy just one - buy the lindell 80

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The whole NI Service Center is a major hassle if you have to update libraries. It doesn't remember the install locations while Kontakt does. It makes Waves Central look brilliant.

12 months ago these flash sales were $29 - how times have changed

This is my "Memorex". Is it live or is it Memorex? Larry Graham Alexander

Thank you so much

Fantastic Øyvind. Brilliant video and the color grading was excellent. A memory to cherish forever. God Bless you both in your new life together.

Grattis! Ni verkade båda väldigt lyckliga. I hope you’ll have a long and happy life together!

Very well done! Nice score! (And the music wasn't bad either!?) Good luck to both of you. ??

I set up a keyboard command for normalize, and I have another one for gain...speeds things up a lot. But usually, I just normalize to 0 using the shortcut, and then if needed, use the trick I've described previously for lowering clip gain. Granted it's a workaround, but the process is very fast, and was always very helpful to me when doing vocals or narration, where a consistent level is helpful.

I don't think so on the console plugins. They were $300 regular and discounted at around $150 on sale. I think they look pretty good and I have a couple of PA plugins I love but I don't dare use anymore because they continuously crash my sessions. I have so many plugins that it's probably unique to me where their plugins just aren't getting along with some of the other plugins I use, but still they are the only (ok almost only- here's looking at you sampletank3) plugins I own that give me this kind of grief. I'll have to do another ticket with support and see if I can get it resolved because I really like bx meter and bx stereomaker and I miss using them.

Unfortunately, that depends on your screen size, OS and resolution. The new updated version of Windows 10, sizes things down extremely compact. But of course, a wider 23inch screen monitor or 28inch will fit best here.

Newegg and B&H have a dollar difference. Even at this price drive space is not cheap.

The 1970's just called and asked for their idea back. ;)

Why not just use the Normalize command instead of guessing at the amount of Gain? However if what you're asking for is non-destructive changes and the waveform follows along, I agree that would be an improvement.

The part highlighted in red above is where the problems start. Cells, just like most other living things, will try anything to stay alive. When they are deprived of enough oxygen, they begin to use substitutes with glucose being the most accessible. Although I'm NOT certain of the actual process (I'm neither an oncologist nor have I studied this area to the depths I've researched other things), but it's once it reaches the 40% tipping point that the cell begins to mutate. As Starise alluded to, there are usually other factors involved and, actually, this is one of the main reasons targeted, human-created treatments have issues: The body works synergistically, not as a bunch of separate functions. Oxygen therapy is similar to the barometric treatment you get if you have the "Bends" (air-bubbles in your blood supply from surfacing too quick while deep-sea diving). The goal being to enrich the oxygen levels of the cells so they don't need to rely on sugars. Currently, the so-called "treatments" for cancer are the equivalent of setting your house on fire to get rid of termites. There are two main reasons for all the celebration among cancer survivors: The first is the most obvious, to acknowledge those who have fought and won, but the second is to subtly imply that the treatments are effective so people will continue to use them. What they DON'T want the public to realize is that nearly 98% of those that take chemotherapy do not survive! (Here's one report: According to a 2004 report by Morgan, Ward, and Barton: "The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies. ... survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA." See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630849, or https://www.burtongoldberg.com/home/burtongoldberg/contribution-of-chemotherapy-to-five-year-survival-rate-morgan.pdf) Studies have also discovered that at least 80% of oncologists won't take chemotherapy for themselves should they contract cancer. So, like the picture of the Centenarian smoking above, there's always going to be a few exceptions to the rule, however, if you only publicize the exceptions, the general masses (that typically do zero research) tend to assume that the exceptions are actually the norm. This is why, whenever you turn on just about any mainstream media currently, the news is almost always horrible. The reason is almost always a political agenda (I won't go down this path here, but it should be pretty obvious that governments like to create problems that they can solve by taxing and removing freedoms - money, power and control of the masses - same as it's been for millennia). One example was after marijuana was legalized in Oregon (2015). A news report trumpeted the 16 traffic fatalities caused by marijuana and driving!!! What they intentionally leave out is the fact that there were 13 traffic fatalities a few years earlier (2004) that involved marijuana - and this was before it became legal. What they also leave out is how that number compares to all traffic fatalities. For example, in 2016, there were 495 traffic fatalities in Oregon. One look at all the statistics and you could conclude that having only THREE additional deaths that involved (the now legalized) marijuana isn't really all that bad, and, how do we know that any of those wouldn't have occurred anyway if marijuana wasn't present? Needless to say, that's not the message those that control the media wanted to send! ---------------------------------------------------- As a side-note on the original topic, the mind and body are incredible things! I've not only witnessed, but have had personal proof, that so-called "impossible" (per the mainstream medical society) things can occur. Intent is HUGE!!! My Mom flatly stated that she would beat her cancer and she was only one of two survivors for the type of ovarian cancer that she had (the survival rate was only 0.03%!!!). She's going on 91 in May and has been cancer-free for 22 years now. However, the bulk of her current health issues stem from the chemo treatments she had to take back then. The other main component (which applies to many areas of life) is KNOWING. This goes beyond belief. No, I'm not talking about Scientology or anything like that but, what I've found is that too many people feel that there's only one way to do things. I've realized that almost all of the different areas have something to offer, albeit sometimes buried in nonsense. There's a lot of good in both Eastern and Western medical philosophies, you just need to weed out the parts that are either added for "mystical/magical effect" or for profit (i.e., most of the prescription medication in Western medicine which, by the way, the physicians usually only learn about from pharmaceutical reps!). Remember: Your physician is NOT trained in the medicines they prescribe, pharmacists are.

I'd like to see a non-destructive normalization function as well. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to calculate the right amount of clip gain increase to set the level curve to the right height...

Hey JohnB . . . yes, I remember that Rodney King LA moment, seems so long ago now, and I really appreciate that your lyrics are so positive. Musically , it swings a lot more as it goes along, nice touch with all the horn parts, a very well detailed arrangement.

I was talking about the waves ... i hope ik will not go convo on everything , the tapes are a pain because they sound great and can t be used that much until you prioritise or bounce .... can t afford to have amplitude and reverb doing the same , i skipped the brian may because of cpu hit , shame so it sounds great ...

I have that Melda super duper verb. I will probably learn 3 Draws before I figure that one out.

I don't think that I'd buy this even if I had the 30% of Jampoints,.. That STILL makes it $100, and those days for me are over. I'll wait till a sale, group buy, or some other CRAZY DEAL, because paying full price, or even intro price, especially at IK, is a waste of money...

Your songs are so well constructed and sound beautiful.

I do this often manually on a bunch of audio clips that should have the same loudness, either before I do comping (I avoid to be misled by loudness) or when I construct a track out of several recordings. It is very labor-intensive! Most of the time the normalization to peak is absolutely unsuitable because the clips have too much difference in loudness range. It would be great to have such a Normalize function in 'Process > Apply Effect'. Otherwise the current normalize function could be extended with a choice of the target (peak, LUFS integrated, ...).

Great work on the keys , loved the chord structure and especially the breakdown when the muted trumpet comes in. Vocal harmony was fantastic. You hit me with Steele Dan several times in this one. Nice and uplifting , Great job .. mark

Hey John, The message/story line here is great; the lack of rhymes in most of the verses; its really about the message. Love the drum track, excellent bass line; however (boy I hope I don't have this wrong) it would really "shine" if it was played and not a midi track. I "play" in bass lines on the keyboard a lot, but sometimes I gotta pull the bass down off the wall and play the bass line. Overall, "thumbs up" man, I like it! Tom

Hi back at ya! Jaymes got old and can't take the buffoonery any more apparently. He still contributes on the occasional song though (adding some great videos too). Hopefully, he'll find being old gets boring and come back. ? As for the hairy Prince and his misbehaving wife, my last name might be very English, but I'm 100% American, so I can only laugh at the situation (and feel sorry for Canada)! ? I bet you're glad the weathermen around here are both alarmists and alarmingly WRONG 90% of the time, ya? Ten days ago the forecast was for about a foot of snow between Tuesday and Thursday, but all we got was about 1/32nd of an inch - LOL. I'm still glad I chose to stock up on supplies and stay home all week. Even in the best weather, the loons around here are horrible drivers!

A few days ago I stumbled on a post here by @sadicus that referenced a problem with the CSTranspose MFX screwing up key-switches and realized that a lot of VST's would have a similar problem, so I updated the plug-in. It now lets you specify a key range. Only notes within the range will be transposed. If transposition would move a note from inside the range to outside, it will be filtered. This effectively isolates the "music" keys from the "control" keys. Note: The Range setting is not part of a Group so each instance can have its own range regardless of the Group setting. You can drag the arrows on the left and right or use the mouse wheel while hovering over the note indicators to change the upper and lower limits of the range. Alternatively, you can click on a note indicator (its background will turn orange) and tap a key on your Midi keyboard. To make life easier, when you set the range for a VST, save it as a preset! Download it at Viramor.com Let me know if you have any problems...

I see your point here. The classic definition probably no longer applies. It's funny. Depending on what hat you wear you might see it differently. A couple of things come to mind. Just stuff that has accumulated in my grey matter over time from various experiences that probably form my opinion. Here are just a few- Someone on a music writing site is looking for someone who can either take their music and make it sound better or "audio engineer" it. These people clearly don't even know what a DAW is. They just want someone to "do that stuff". Make them sound good. One person I worked with didn't really have any talent...sorry,. the truth hurts. Someone who attended college and graduated with a degree in music theory and has dedicated themselves to write music to be published for orchestras. These dudes are up on music theory and they at least see themselves as professional score writers. Some of the stuff they write is admittedly "out there" to anyone who has been trained in the western music system. This is often because they are attempting to make some kind of statement. They often use free programs like Musescore and their material has that clunky midi feel to it when you hear it. These guys are an eccentric bunch. They don't know a DAW from their butt though. Another person grew up on computers and took to software like babies to milk. They know every single thing you could imagine about some DAWs and a few things you can't imagine. Most of these types can't write any kind of music that stands out. Me? I do a little bit of a whole lot of nothing but it's all fun. I like to work through problems in software and come to solutions. I can often hear music in my head or construct music.....I'm not a computer expert, but I can usually make it do what I need it to do. I have a computer related day job. I am a musician using a computer to assist me in making music not a computer user trying to produce music using a computer. Make sense?. So yeah, I admit I'm biased to some degree. I don't think someone with no musical talent is really capable of composing and I don't think many talented musicians can produce music. In between there somewhere are those who can effectively wear both hats to various degrees of success. Others who are talented musically in a technical way but can't make anything anyone wants to hear to save their life. It's easy to import a midi and work it into something for me but I don't do much of that because it isn't as fulfilling as making something from scratch. Often it isn't nearly as good as borrowing loops/midi. That's just a personal thing for me...I could give a few examples of music I did like that. You can wear both hats if you have the aptitude to do it. I think we have a lot of guys here who can.

To me, a composer is someone who writes musical phrases for one or more instruments and puts them together to form a piece of music. A producer is someone who takes a composed piece of music and targets it for the application: maybe suggest some additional percussion if it's for an action piece; maybe strip it back a little for something emotional; maybe add some special reverb in places for epicness.

I have a background in film making and ran a production house for a while, also a short film group that also made some independent features. The discussion of "the Producer" was always being discussed. Basically, it worked like this, those films that had a Producer attached got finished, those that did not have a Producer attached struggled or failed. In film, the relationship between the Director and Producer is what drives everything. I would think of composition and production representing the Director and the Producer. The composer is the Director, assembling and creating everything and that's where it ends for most people doing music. They then struggle to finish and market their productions and in reality, it's too much work to do both jobs and most people just can't change hats like that. They are different personalities. We came to the conclusion that unless there was both a Director and Producer attached to a film, no-one else was interested in participating, no crew, no actors etc. These days, most DAW oriented musicians are trying to do both jobs and that will never work as well as having a dedicated Producer overseeing your work. If you are serious about your music, you need a dedicated Producer involved, someone who is not you. The Producer's primary roles are to see that everything runs on time, on budget and that the work is finished, polished and marketed.

Bump for Barry!

My product is compost. Is that close enough?

The thing is.....I have heard some great composers who didn't have mixing/production chops. So no, production is not composition but in this day and age composers need either someone who can do it or they need to learn to do it. Makes all the difference online (where most music is heard nowadays). Also, it is possible to change composition with production now.........they pretty much go hand in hand IMHO.

and vice-versa......

You're right; it's not, but it may or may not include it.

David Lol, I love that word, smorgasbord!!!!! Thanks for the compliment, appreciated Nigel Hi Gary Thanks for the comments, appreciated - as to the video, i think instrumentals are more difficult to do - when you have lyrics the video can interpret those and make some sense - with an instrumental, i suppose you can only interpret a feeling??? anyway it all becomes much more subjective and I can totally get where you are coming from Again thanks for taking the time to have a watch and a listen Cheers Nigel

As a vocalist, cant hep feeling absolute respect ... this work ( and what I've heard on the Tube etc ) pulls me back to the times I was young enough to feel free ..... Thanks ..Great job .. ( and count me in for a fan )? ATB Steve