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Links in video description. I only have one (so far) so no idea re the level of hoop jumping required to obtain them, but some look like they might be worth trying.

My thesaurus says a lot of bollocks. No, that's tomorrow.

Based on data mining, for a couple months I was being pitched to as if I was a black person, living in Ghana, who buys mostly through zZsounds and needs cat food. I am also apparently interested in dating African-American single women...all because I spent a significant amount of time on Ghana-based forums while researching the country's possibilities as a good vacation place, bought some cat food for a neighbor while she was sick, and was looking up "street" prices for gear I was reviewing. I guess they also assume that being a "black person from Ghana" but apparently spending some time in the US, I therefore must be lonely, and sufficiently prejudiced that I'm interested in meeting only women who are black. (Never mind that I'm not single.) So I think their algorithms may need some work

Lets keep it civil please!

well.....how hungry are they ? 😉

jamming with stratocaster on two chords

I've always liked odd time signatures in music. I guess it comes from all the Frank Zappa and King Crimson I've listened to over the years. This song grew from the opening guitar riff which is in 7/8. I just happen to have a slew of drum beats in 7/8 so I stayed in that time signature for the rest of the song. My question is: does it work or does it sound too disjointed? Plus, my usual questions about the mix. I'd love your feedback, and I thank you in advance. It can be found here: https://soundclick.com/r/s8e65s

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This isn't a deal, but I thought people might be interested. DSP Motion is a sound effect/Foley generator that works on mouse motion. It's mainly aimed at movies/film/games but it makes wave files which you can use in anything. It doesn't let you load your own sounds, but it has a nice collection of generators (air/fire/metal/paper/etc) some very nice randomization options. About the only thing I didn't like was I can't resize the window. But for $49 it's pretty neat. I have no doubt I'll be using it for my next animation. No demo though. They do use ShareIt for purchasing and adjust the pricing so you pay $49 including what ever sales tax they have to collect. Which is always nice (and yes when you go to checkout it will show a lower price until it adds in the tax). http://tsugi-studio.com/web/en/products-dspmotion.html

I pulled a muscle trying to tap my foot in time very cool mate.

Dang bdickens, you sure can whoop up on those straw men. And I'm actuaLOLing at the flurry of questions at the end of your post. For those of you following at home, the argument fallacies he's engaging in are: "reductio ad absurdum," "straw man," "appeal to authority," and "begging the question." Well it looks like you say it even when nobody has said that. But don't let it slow you down. Continue to attempt to provoke only fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and offer no solutions. You may have a future in television news. No you don't. Nobody in this thread said that (straw man). I know you won't answer this because answering direct questions isn't your style, but since the Internet is such a scary place with all these threats lurking everywhere, and obviously, since you are here you must have a browser and an email address, do you just live with the existential dread and inevitability that disaster will surely befall you, or do you take steps to prevent these awful things you describe from happening? If so, how about sharing those instead of trying to stir up fear? I mean, it does seem kind of odd, you talk about all of these terrible things that happen, and although you are not quoting me, I know I am the biggest naysayer in this thread. I've been Internettin' for 25 years and I don't do it in a constant state of hypervigilance. By rights I should have fallen victim to at least one or two of these awful occurrences. How do you explain this? Is it all done so covertly that I don't even notice it? If so, I must ask again how "dear" the cost actually is, if I haven't even noticed it. BTW, what's your take on those "loyalty cards" that stores like Safeway hand out to give you deep discounts so they can track your shopping habits? My guess is that you think I'm a chump for paying a boatload of money less for my groceries when I use mine because it allows Safeway to analyze my valuable data. But here's the thing about my data: no matter how much money Google or Safeway make from selling what I'm interested in to advertisers, it doesn't come at a cost to me because I can't sell that information somewhere else. In effect, I'm selling it to Google and Safeway in exchange for using their services and getting discounts on my food, and they're reselling it. In exchange for use of this or that, I'm granting them the right to watch what I'm up to when I use their services or shop in their stores. That's kinda the way the world works. I'm ever surprised by people who seem to have only recently figured this out. "They're making money off it!" Well, um, have you been living in Mommy'sMagicPurseLand? Cakewalk seems pretty dang free so far, about as free as a trade show tote bag on the scale of "free." I haven't had to grant them or give them anything meaningful in exchange for the use of it (and I get to keep what I put in it: hmm, good metaphor). We can never go back to how things were when I was a child. I imagine that someday, in order to even have a phone, we'll only be able to go through one government-sanctioned monopoly, we'll have to use their equipment, and everyone's name and home address will be published in hard copy volumes that will be distributed everywhere, in every business and home and will even be dangling from cables in public kiosks so that anyone who wants to will be able to know our phone number and where we live and where to send us mail, and the only way we'll be able to opt out of having our information published will be to pay a monthly fee to The Phone Company. Oh wait.

Stepping into Strummy territory ...

Love Eddie Cochran:

Since the freeware FX thread is doing well, how about we have one for instruments? Razor already mentioned the huge collection available free for registering with Native Instruments, and I followed up with the free Kontakt drum instrument DrumMic'a. If you're into combo organs, the first two I recommend are Combo V and Combo F, excellent modeled Vox and Farfisa organs. The developer went on to work for Arturia and expanded both of them into commercial products. Dead Duck Software, mentioned in the Free FX thread, first released instruments that were the classic mda instruments with nice GUI's, one of which is one of my favorite Rhodes emulations, then came up with their own original synthesizer for last year's KVR competition. Laptop Musician Blog recently released a trio of cool tiny ROMplers, my favorite of which is Padspheres, sort of an ambient-in-a-box. There are also a couple of treated pianos. That's all for now, just a taste to prime the pump. All of my suggestions are going to be 64-bit and thoroughly tested with Cakewalk. The freeware repositories are littered with 32-bit VSTi's thanks to Synthedit having been a dominant development tool for so long, but I no longer even bother with them due to the extra overhead and extra potential for issues. Cakewalk is a 64-bit host and I suspect the developers are no longer paying much attention to compatibility with legacy 32-bit plug-ins. As you will see, there is a cornucopia of 64-bit freeware.

Title says it. When I'm at the Start Screen and click on "New Project," the stock templates that come with Cakewalk have these lovely hi-res photos of mixing desks and so forth. When I alter them and save them under different names, I get a plain generic icon. I want to assign the purty ones. I know how to add my own pictures for .CWP files so they show up in the recent projects screen, but I want the nice vignetted pictures on my templates, darn it. How do I work this?

This early sounding Ringo Beatl Ludwig drum library is for Kontakt (+ WAV files), the demo video is nice and it's for only $15.... Page: https://gumroad.com/vintagedrumsamples

The effects of a bad economy are not applied evenly. Premium ice cream, for example, always does well during recessions. I might not be able to afford new tires for my car, but dammit I can still enjoy some ice cream and I'm gonna splurge on the good stuff. Music software similarly falls under the category of inexpensive luxuries. I can't afford a new synthesizer, but a sample library remains in reach. It just won't be the full VSL suite. Sure, we could conceivably get to a point where collecting Kontakt libraries is no longer feasible due to NI's greed and/or mismanagement. But if that happens, another platform will appear to fill the void. Remember, Kontakt wasn't the first sampler, just the most popular. It could fade away. Remember when WordStar, Lotus 123, DBase and CP/M ruled their respective markets?

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You can set the CC to any number between 0 and 127, you're not stuck with just those values. At least, in my experience. I should mention, you can go into the piano roll view and change sustained notes from there by simply grabbing the edge of a note(s) and dragging left or right (as needed). Hope this helps.

I ended up buying an Alesis QS8 in the nineties to get back into playing the piano and I was in heaven. Headphones on I could play when I wanted and not disturb anyone.

Thanks! I knew there had to be a way. This is why musicians should not design software. Or skyscrapers, for that matter.

Love the tune, Keith. But yeh, gotta agree it's too loud. My ears are surely not golden these days, having been tarnished by too many decades on the stage, but even I can hear the distortion. Tom, I understand; you're a guitarist and tube devotee, so distortion is your native ecosphere. Tom does understand the math, though, and he's right about limiting for MP3 encoding. Mathematically speaking, you can only guarantee no overs in an MP3 by setting the hard limit to -3 dB. That's a little extreme, though, and -1 dB should soften the blow a lot.

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Go ahead and rub it in some more!! : )

Price is now $99 - still a good deal, but not as good as $29

What is weird is that these sort of time signatures do something to my brain and seems to irritate me, Anybody else get that? I like the guitar work and your vocal Lynn but I cant listen to it all. I remember thats how I felt when I first listened to Jessie's music.. but now for some reason I like it and have got used to it and can see the creativity in it. Need to try and listen more.. Gary

Hi Lynn Like this and a great job - vocals and guitars really cool And 7/8 not easy to make it sound this good Nigel

I've heard of snares that sizzle before! Didn't realize this is what they probably meant. 😁

I believe the artwork (F in the image below) in notes is used for projects and project templates When I added artwork and saved the project template under a new name, the image appeared in the start screen.

Huh.. I'm torn between the thicker line and the "C"

Did a quick Demo run and it sounds pretty good...

Not me either. I emailed a while ago and asked about it but haven't heard back...

I couldn't help but chuckle at the cameraman's attempts to give the drummer and bass player some equal time. 😁 (I'll also never understand what makes someone as cute and talented as she is cover herself with ugly graffiti... *Sigh...* 🙄)

I believe Emeraldsoul has been around here for a little while, so you may be well aware of this. Jim has been the popular builder around here for a long as I can remember. This is for good reason. Jim doesn't just order parts, put computers together and call himself a builder. He is primarily a DAW builder and he knows what he is doing. Though I build my own computers, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for a PC DAW build. There are a long line of very contented customers here. Jim doesn't overtly advertise. Check his sig if you're looking for a computer set up for DAW work. I don't think I've ever seen Jim push his services here, but everyone knows about him as one of the very best. He has built for some pretty important clients.

Are all MIDI data for the TTS on one track or multiple tracks? Select all the tracks that the midi data is on

I'm not so sure....I saw some people buying things that clearly were not real deal s in his absense. It was shameful really. 😆

"No Pain For Cakes" - The Lounge Lizards

Hey THANKS! Mark.... Guitar was Variax with the Helix rack. My 5th CD is complete just trying to figure out distribution this time around. So many options!

How come you didn’t send us a discount code for that free deal?!

You're looking at the Bus Pane that has been expanded to fill the whole project screen. If you hover your mouse near the top just below the timeline the mouse pointer will turn into an up/down arrow, click and drag the Bus Pane view down. Also at the bottom of Track/Bus headers is a little arrow where you can toggle between the Bus Pane and Track Pane. Cheers

Honesty, I can't remember what I was doing twenty days ago 😞 I should keep a dairy, perhaps. oh, wait, that's for milk and stuff...

Big thumbs up for the Tyrell N6 from u-he... Great sound, quite a few free presets available, and it's skinnable. It's not quite as good as Zeta+2, but it's really close (and free!) It's a" must have" freebie. If you find a sound that seems a bit flat, just turn on the Chorus at the bottom and instant epic fatness 😍