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I spotted him in the wild:

Not only that, has anyone ever noticed that if you spell Uncle E backwards you get cclarry, if you disregard the 2 E's the c, the n and the U? I think we are on to something here

Wilson!!!!!

Here is the livestream replay. Had a lot of fun with this one, as well as some inspiration at the end, Enjoy. Symphonic AI | Animated Intelligence For Kontakt | Sample Logic and Red Room Audio

PET SHOP DRUMS for Kontakt! for FREE! Requires full version of Kontakt. Here are the main features: * Recorded with Studer A812 Tape Recorder * 24bit/48khz * Wave files are included if you don't use Kontakt! * Easy to use simple Kontakt interface! * Many RR and articulations for each drum! * GM Mapped * Kontakt 5.4.3 Available for free at; www.gumroad.com/pasttofuturereverbs Note: Go to their website and type pet shop into the search and you'll find it. We are proud to bring you sounds you can’t find anywhere else. Every Friday is Past To Future Day!

Every day, I go into Google and post the secret codes FORUM and GROUP, but so far it hasn't brought either of them back. 🙁

Uncle E posted on the guitar forum yesterday at KVR, so he's ok even if his site isn't.

Plus you'll need an extra big car to fit KENNYWTELEJAZZ on the vanity plate.

Supertramp -> Miley Cyrus Cannonball -> Wrecking Ball Double Points!

TTS-1 is really the only solution in the box for opening up multi-timbral General Midi (GM) song files... And it usually does that quite well. However, I would use other sound sources if I was creating something from scratch though... AIR Xpand!2 is a good budget starting point for sketching a new composition. Quite a variety of instruments, and the quality usually exceeds that of TTS-1. It even offers 4 part multi-timbral use. Not GM, though. But insert 4 instances, and you have 16 channels of MIDI to work with.

Terence, glad I was there to teach you, son. Sorry they're still busting your b@lls over that whole vegan deal. You just need to catch you the red eye out here to Seattle and I'll grill you a proper steak and maybe a vegetable of your choice but probably not.

In my dealings with him Eric has always seemed to me like he's on my side instead of his own if that makes sense - if a deal can be done, he'll find it way to make it happen. Hope they get this sorted soon. Oh, wait a minute now..........................JRR's missing, Larry's missing.......... Has anyone ever seen them both in the same room?

Thanks for the kind comments folks and taking the time to listen. Really appreciated, Think I will sign off on this one.

JRR got me that great deal on Cakewalk Platinum Lifetime Updates right before Cakewalk's death

Hello I think the External Insert plugin is due for a much needed update to fix its behavior. As of now, and since it was released, it is forcing stereo outputs, and if you choose a mono output, it hijacks the second mono output of whatever pair you selected first. Even if you set interleave to mono, External Insert will remain in stereo. To test it, do the following: -Create an audio track, instantiate an External Insert plugin. -Set SEND of External Plugin to a mono output, lets say "Left USB Audio Analogue 3". -Set RETURN to a mono input, lets say "Left USB Audio Analogue 3". (pic 1) -Create a second audio track, instantiate a second External Insert Plugin. -Now, if you try to set the SEND to the second mono output "Right USB Audio Analogue 3", it just doesn´t show up, it just doesn´t exist. (pic 2) -Even more: now create a third track, and try to set it´s output to "Right USB Audio Analogue 3". Again, it doesn´t show up, as the External Insert just "ate up" the whole stereo pair. This is in fact reducing the interface I/O capabilities to half! And the sad thing, it has been like these for ever, it has never been updated since the feature was introduced at least since Sonar 7 (before the Sonar X days). It is sad too because Cakewalk was (as with so many things) one of the first daws to develop this feature, but it has been left behind. I have seen posts in the old forum about this that were never taken into account, never addressed by the developers with even a mild response. Not to mention the matter of not being able to solo buses with external insert, that also keeps getting mentioned now and again without response. Contemporary developers should take a look at how Reaper or StudioOne have implemented this. StudioOne´s implementation is closer to what CBB´s should be, in my opinion, and for shure it can be done better. Check these videos, one of them from 5 years ago!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_gweD57AQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4dZwNSeZM4 Love Cakewalk, have been using it for more than twenty years, but this feature alone has had me thinking about moving to Reaper. It just can´t be taken seriously for hybrid mixing if my ten I/O interface is rendered half useless and can´t use all my hardware only because the daw´s archaic implementation of this feature. Please Bandlab folks, keep up the great work you have been doing, and take action to fix this long forgotten feature. I know I´m not the only one asking, as there are other posts about the subject. Thanks!

show me your piano roll art btw I wrote a python script to make this

Not a bad suggestion. Basically turning track folders into DCAs. I personally just bus everything that should be bussed together and then you get the same functionality, but with the extra flexibility of the bus (such as plugins)

Yeah. I'd love to see a melodyne style short cut for scrolling / resizing. It's super convenient.

Yes, around the end of the year it has the biggest one (after Black Friday). I think it's great!

I seem to remember Scott Garrigus mentioning a 10% discount on all Blue Cat plug-ins; don't know if it's still valid http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/deals.asp#BlueCatAudio

I agree that the work arounds are not that great. I can slip edit (Move the audio within the frame of the clip) in the take lanes fine. However, Moving clips or changing the size of the fades in the take lanes does not work well for me.

don't ask how it sounds

Thanks Paul, glad to hear you liked the violin solo.

I highly advise not to do that. It will only cause you grief (and maybe way too many of your monetary units frittered away).

Sounds just like Coffee House code talk too me ..Decoded that message reads... When in Bapu Land do as the Great Bapu would do 🏋️‍♂️ Hey Bill I hope yourself the upgrade to Studio One 5 ... Kenny

You just saying that or can he really get me that car?

Get in touch with Jim Roseberry who is a forum member here. He makes and supplies PCs mostly to the professional market especially for Audio/Video work. He regularly tests components with Audio in mind and has access to the latest info on what’s the best, best value etc For a modest fee he will give you a list of know compatible products and links to suppliers if you want to assemble it yourself or you can get him to do that for you. Many of us here have used Jim’s services and not regretted it. He comes highly recommended.

Thank you, Simeon!

Also, Uncle E just posted this as part of a reply to another Forum member over at KVR https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=262178&start=37726 You have no excuse now 😁😇

If the price is "exorbitant" then don't buy it. Beyond basic needs, buying things isn't compulsory. If nobody buys it, watch the price come down. Consumers have the collective power to bring about price reductions on just about everything if only they would choose to do so. Because IMO large retailers rely too much on attracting customers by having the lowest price, so they think they can get away with being largely useless in every other respect. Mom & Pop's, as you call them, have to give a better customer experience to stand a chance against the big boys when they can't compete on price. Level the playing field and as you say, M&P's win and the big boys will have to up their game. The ability of a large retailer to undercut prices is IMO not about championing the cause of the customer but more about trying to hoover up all the customers for themselves. The fact that the consumer gets a slightly reduced price is merely a temporary side effect of that greed. As I'm sure has been said many times before, when Amazon is the only place left on the planet to buy things, watch the prices go up.

Personally I'd recommend you keep your Windows sounds and your DAW sounds separate. Avoids sample-rate and exclusivity issues when you're running CW and Windows decides it needs to beep for some reason. Just plug a cheap set of PC speakers into the Soundblaster, and hook your nice speakers/headphones to the Scarlett. If for some reason you want the Soundblaster to go to your good speakers (e.g. gaming, videos, etc.) I'd get a cheap Behringer mixer or whatever, plug the outputs of both the SB and the Focusrite into it, and send the output of the mixer to your speakers.

They are all pretty good, they seem to be at home with guitars, some have a little extra tweakability, I think the Tube EQ, Tube Comp and optical Comp come with stuff like tweaking Tubes, capacitors, Transformer, Light source that give much more tone variation options. I wouldn't say they are better or worse than what you likely already have, but they do the job and they do it well. They are not without issues, not to bad, could be DAW related I don't know, I only use Studio One since 2015, can't recall if it use to happen with SONAR Platinum or not, but from time to time switching to the Passive EQ (If you don't know Studio One, FX/Plugins on a given track are usually displayed in a tabbed window) well the Passive EQ can show up Blacked out, easy to fix, just open again from FX bin, a pain in the ***** none the less, it may happen with others, but far less frequently, Passive is the main offender. If it is a problem with the plugins themselves it will never be fixed, as they haven't been touched for a long time and I doubt they ever will be again, apart from that and the slightly longer than usual loading times there is no other issues really. Would I recommend them to anyone?, I'd tell them what I think and to be sure to demo them before purchasing, what I think could be completely opposite of what they will think. Personally if I had my time over knowing what I know now, I'd still purchase them again, even though PG have shown themselves to be a shit company time and time again, I can still get good things out of their products, and the issues aren't that bad that it becomes a deal breaker. They are by no means my go to EQ's or Comps, but they do get used quite a bit especially on guitar tracks.

I'm clapping, I'm clapping... Well done! t

Not at all what I expected. You knocked it out of the park! 👍 t

It's been over 2 years now since BandLab picked up SONAR and dusted it off and returned it to life as Cakewalk. Along the way it acquired a lot of long-requested what I call "convenience" features, things that aren't that flashy, but that greatly improve ease-of-use of the program on a daily basis. I'd put things like the Ripple Edit Button, Smart Tool configurability, note value display in Piano Roll and Staff View, Channel Strip colors, etc. in that category. Recently, though, we saw the introduction of a major new feature, the Arranger Track. Quite powerful feature with many possible uses. One issue I've run into, and it's a luxury problem to be sure, is that I've never used a DAW with one. My suggestion: Cakewalk has never updated the demo projects it ships with. Considering the ephemeral nature of popular music, 2 1/2 years is a long time. I'm pushing 60 and I'm not even into exactly the same kind of music I was when I first started using CbB. I've shifted more in the direction of EDM production styles, less so the traditional rock band format. So how about we get at least one new demo project, one that utilizes the Arranger Track? I don't know how this was done in the past, if Cakewalk, Inc. put out a call for submissions with the winners getting compensation and exposure, but, however, it can be done again. I would like to use the Arranger Track to the fullest extent of its capability, but frankly, I've never had a DAW that had one before and I'm not sure what all I can do with it. Demo projects are good for things like that.

I'll need to discuss this with the team. It sounds to me like the only change that is needed (on the surface anyhow) is to stop right click from clearing the selection and selecting just the one note. This is in effect what pressing CTRL is doing: it's keeping the selection. This is why releasing CTRL half way turns it into a move operation. CTRL allows you to start moving the whole selection - if CTRL is still pressed at the time you drop, then its a copy, otherwise its a move. @jieva - this is also why holding CTRL changes the context menu, because it isn't clearing the selection... allowing the "selection" based context menu to show. The question is, how the majority of staff users will view such a change? If users have been used to knowing that right click & move will always move the one note, it might be very annoying if it starts moving the whole selection. I'll talk with the team and see what they say.

The Beatle's Rubber Soul album was released in both Mono and Stereo versions in the US. Stereo was some tracks full left and other full right with almost no center. Even then it felt very strange to hear vocals and bass hard panned. I read someplace that days were spent on getting a mono mix right but sometimes less than an hour was spent on a stereo mix. Back in those days mono was the preferred mix for popular music and stereo the preferred mixed for classical so no one cared about pop music stereo mixes.

I'm really skeptical about Guitar Rig 6. Guitar Rig 5 came out in 2011 (?) and the added amp models weren't competitive even back then. I've seen a lot of references to job postings at NI over the years which mention GR, but not a lot of deliverables.

I have no idea what genre this is in. I write what I want to hear and others can classify it any way they want to. I've had companies online selling my albums calling them "dance music" 😜 I actually believe that all the music in the universe comes from the same source and each and every musician is trying to interpret it and feel it based on their own experience, inspiration, training, culture, etc. Thanks again for listening! Jerry

Law of Unintended Consequences... 👍 👍 t

Check your email for 'sent from' "jrrshop.com - sales". I did and everything that I have bought from them has been successfully registered with the vendors. But I really hope that Plugin Boutique doesn't ever go away. I have a crap ton of installer instructions and download links in there... 😁

I don't get why they have such bad luck with their websites. This stuff has been going on for years. They have such great customer service brought down by terrible servers. Remember that time they were down pretty much the whole month of November? That couldn't have been good for business.

Guys!? Seriously! SIX posts and NO links? What would Lars say?? (At least @Reid Rosefelt posted a video...) https://focusrite.com/en/plugin-collective https://blackroosteraudio.com/en/products/magnetite Too bad for me - I bought this a few months ago when it was on sale at Audio Plugin Deals. I got it because I like the VR-PRE73 so much. If anyone is NOT on the collective and wants it for what I paid ($20), hit me up with a PM. I don't need 2 copies. 🙂

"Full Kontakt required" 😛

Thanks Paul - yes @Leizer did a great job on the violin. Unfortunately portrayed by a little pig in my video but we have made up since

Found this one today! Link to 200+ VST Plugins

Hi Aidan, Here's a simple example... - Start a new CbB project - Add an instrument track e.g. TTS-1 - Add Reason Rack Plugin instrument track - Open the rack plugin and select "add other device" then select the Dual Arpeggiator. Also check that Enable MIDI Output is enabled on the VST menu. - On the TTS-1 instrument track enable input echo and select it's input to be from Reason Rack Plugin 1 MIDI Omni - Select the Reason Rack track and choose a suitable ARP preset then play chords on your MIDI controller You should now be able to hear your chords arpeggiated!

If Cakewalk closes (not in task manager) all file handles will be released. While the app is open its possible that a file could be still open if its still referenced in the clipboard. i.e. if a clip was copied you can close the project and still paste it into a newly opened project.