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My wife has relatives that live in rural Indiana and the internet was iffy at best several years ago. So I can see how Larry's internet service might be hard to come by. Plus he has more important matters then us right now. I'm just letting him know he is missed. Peace 😃

My best compressor for drums and I have way too many. Just did a shoot out with a bunch of 1176 clones and none sounded like the fetpressor.

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I liked the video for its melange of kitchen sink visual themes, and I think whatever mix issues people are mentioning could be solved more simply if you didn't call it EDM. It's a pretty good pop mix, electro pop maybe? Maybe the Addictive Drums hi hats could come across a little cleaner and crisper but as you said you are not being too finicky with this mix-wise, just banging it out, and I think it more than gets the fun across. cheers, -Tom

The originally mix i did was a heavier mix and i then always do a mix with more empathise on feeling and emotion. By far the majority choose this mix for the overall balance and feel than the heavier bass and drum mis, i know what you mean though. If it was more instrumental i would have sacrificed more. I'm just experimenting with adding some type of EDM to my normal guitar songwriting style and getting more technical with cakewalk. I need to improve my mixing and mastering, this is my 11th song using a daw after choosing cakewalk its been a massive learning curve and getting the guitar out after 20yrs. Next project i am not sure what to do, maybe drum and bass or a classical soundtrack.

My favorite fast compressor for vocals. Place in series with an LA-2A clone such as Cakewalk's own CA-2A and you can tame the most out of control bedroom rocker wailing. Also works fine with good singers.

I have some more information on Control Bar/Menu Button's use in Tools/HUD Module (Large). Cell 1 is used when the Smart Tool or Draw Tool are not selected. This cell should be a color that will contrast well with the "default" white text color. Cell 2 is used on the HUD in that odd case where after you click on the duration menu, it flashes briefly as the HUD closes. It also acts as a "pressed" state button in the case where you have neither the Smart nor Draw Tool selected, but press on it. A brief flash again. Cell 3 is not used. Cell 4 is used when the Smart or Draw Tools are selected (which is appropriate, because note duration is meaningless for tools that don't draw notes). It should be given a color that contrasts well with Focused Track Text. For whatever reason, the HUD uses Cell 1 for the Smart Tool. Cell 5 has the usual Control Bar cell 5 duty of getting displayed when no project is loaded.

Hmmm, I think an bot has taken over Fleer's account.

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Point taken. Although it is really hard to live a life without a grain of said snarkiness .

On a more serious note, I can confirm the team is looking into this for the fastest resolve possible because I did relay it (without additional color commentary to the team). As always, reporting this issue to support will help them understand the true impact of this behavior and we always suggest reporting your behavior to the team. The team typically also has some workarounds ready to go. For this issue in particular, you can save your presets outside of the sub-folders for the arrows to work properly for you. Of course, it's just a work-around for now, but hopefully this helps some of your out. Thanks again for your patience.

It is also nonsense to charge $300 for a DAW these days when Cakewalk is Free.

Yes you're right, Addictive Drums hi hats were a problem with fx i was using and i am still getting use to how AD works with its built in EQ etc. Addictive Drums can be quite ***** the way you set them up or have each drum or cymbal on its own track etc. I should have had hi hats on two tracks really, one clean using pro channel eq and one with wet mix fx i used to get the sound i wanted for this track. i should call it electro pop. i see how people think when you say EDM, people associate it with banging kick on the quarter, when this is the sound which suited the project goal. There is quite a few instrument tracks in this one with the vocal in front. I based the levels round the kick which was -12db and was clipping the mix in to many places, i used a drum room bus with the goal of ducking but maybe threshold to low. Mark is right with side-chaining, i need to do more work with side change compression because i did have threshold to low and not done enough with side-chaining which many multi tracks. Not sure which is the best free compression plugin in cakewalk with side chain. The problem is when you hit a piano note, at the same time as a bass note, maybe a chord and kick with a vocal, its easy to clip to often with dynamics of song when its driving. I need to look at side chaining more to trigger for sure.

I also want to emphasize that the mix issue is minor. i loved it as is

I believe you can keep balance and get baas and kick better.

Once you've selected Chords above the Staff, a white area will appear. Clicking in it where you want your chord always starts with 'C'. Right-click the C and that will open the chord library and you can select any chord from it and the 'C' will change to that chord. Drawing the chord on the fretboard will not show you a diagram in the Chords area, but you can find that chord in the library and add it. To keep from having to navigate the library every time you want to add a chord, if the chord is already in your song, clicking on it will select to be drawn in again elsewhere. Otherwise, when you click in the white area it will always add the last chord you selected.

Nice one Lynn, enjoyed the tune & video. Some amazing footage there.

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I agree with dubdisciple that it's good but the drums don't hit hard enough for this genre. The kick needs a lot more level and punch...try layering multiple kicks and then side-chaining the backing track to duck out of the way of the kick on every hit.

Thanks msmcleod! Exactly the simple answer I was looking for.

if you're in the uk/eu then that's because hulu license a bunch of stuff to amazon prime, i think

Thanks Glenn. I'm definitely going to use this in the mean time. The wildcard naming/export system in Reaper is one of the best things about it, would love to see something similar implemented in Cakewalk, massive timesaver.

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On a serious note I do hope our King got the shot, considering where his travels were taking him. We need our Deal finder to come back and feed our addiction 😆 Really Lar these relatives of yours need to move to a town that has some decent internet service

Come on, Lars, we’re going crazy here

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Alright here's the deal with this plugin cutout that's driving me nuts. It happens when I move the plugin on the chain (FX bin) while it's open. I've manage to pinpoint that out - however as soon as I stop playback and and start play again - it works again. Also, If I close the plugin it cuts back in. So please I'm asking the staff to look into this to see if they can reproduce this. It doesn't happen every time and I'm lost for words. I literally spend the entire day installing everything again. I thought it was a windows update issue of some kind and did my studio system over - just to run into this right now again! Finally prove! Issue.mp4

You know that you secretly want to WUP. All the denial is a sure sign, LOL! 🤣

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With all due respect, it's not a WUP scare tactic. If you can do without support and product updates after a year, WUP is totally optional. I have only WUPped once, and that was a good deal IMHO to get the resizable plugin UI's and the modern preset browsers. But I will probably forgo WUP in the future...

@Noel Borthwick Please, can we have the option to change the default behaviour of waverform and background colouring? I'd love to have black waveforms on coloured backgrounds, instead of the default coloured waveforms on dark backgrounds. It's a pain in the ***** to change it manually on every track. Thank you.

More like old peoples' problems.

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Just as long a that new keyboard they have the working up and down . I'm been telling IK to make but don't make because they will tempt me too much. Ik look what you have done to me. Okay this time you don't get Sampletank 4 Max with Keyboard purchase you will get the whole T-Max or Amplitude bundle. Heck why don't you just toss both of them in it while you're at it. wink, wink, nudge nudge

IMO Strum GS-2 is not so bad, I like it! But I set almost all effects to off for a freeze and add them later with other plugins. But in general I think there are too many instruments (guitars, drums, ...) with effects and patterns that are too busy, too wide to be easily integrated in a mix! Most of them sound awesome if you play them alone (that's good for marketing!), but they are terrible in a mix, you have to thin them totally out and move them to the background and this sounds awful! E.g. Ample guitars are great instruments, but their patterns, riffs, etc. are not well usable in a song, absolutely too busy! The same thing with effects in drum instrument presets and patterns (AD2, NI, ...), they sound skillful if you listen to them alone, but for a mix I set most of the effects off and thin the patterns before I bounce to audio. Also EZKeys is like that, most parts are too busy to be used in a song as addition to other instruments (bass, guitar, ...), unfortunately! If you listen to real good band songs (old or new), then you can hear that each of those top musicians knows that he cannot play something in already occupied frequencies and sections. Thus they deliver subtle additions to what the other band members play. It is the proficiency to supplement and not compete what is already there that makes great songs!

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Legend has it that there was a mythic figure named Larry who at one time frequented these forums. The old tales describe an ancient shaman who was rumored to be a prodigious finder of almost supernatural deals. But that was such a long time ago. Nobody believes those old stories anymore...

Larry, hope you come soon. Some of the regulars are starting to look at other deal sites….we are descending into chaos

I appreciate all of you doing tutorials for cakewalk. We all have much to learn from each other. Here's another smart guy who does tutorials on making RnB music using Cakewalk: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnitedDestinyEntertainment/search?query=cakewalk Have fun

How strange to ban someone who takes a huge amount of their time, for no personal gain, to provide a helpful and useful service to other forum members.

I just sent this to KVR DIRECTLY... I just got this message from KVR: You have been permanently banned from this board. Please contact the Board Administrator for more information. Reason given for ban: I can't believe that you are not a dealer... I think it's time to end this abuse of the Sell & Buy forum. I have NEVER been a DEALER of ANY kind. THIS is WHY you don't make "forum members" Administrators!!! They make "judgement calls" based on their "personal assumptions" and their own "Biases"!!! I am NOT, nor have I EVER been a "Dealer" of ANY kind!!! I've been a member of this forum for YEARS!!! Also a member of several OTHER forums. I have NEVER abused your forum, but apparently you have "Administators" who believe that they have the RIGHT to "ban" members based on their OWN biases and personal assumptions! I have followed the rules of the forum, and 100% positive feedback in the Feedback Forum for my posts, and sales, which are NOT from a "Dealer", and I should NOT be punished, and banned, based on your Administrators "assumptions" of "I can't believe you're not a dealer", and THIS administrator should either be DISCIPLINED or REMOVED from their position for ABUSE OF AUTHORITY, banning someone based on their "Assumptions" Sincerely, Larry W. Shelby