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Get Waves Audio TrueVerb for FREE (expires in 48 hours). $99 USD Reg. Price. Okay, who are we kidding, nobody pays regular price for anything from Waves. It's usually $29 USD, perpetually on sale. So, it's still a savings of 29 bucks (USD). https://www.waves.com/account/free-trueverb-dixon-beats

19 free Waves plugins and counting, thanks!

But you can get it again -- I did -- and now I have the latest version without having to pay a WUP fee.

The Schecter is on backorder until late November 2022 and I've done some more research and I've ordered this today: Warwick Pro Series Thumb BO 4-string Bass - Natural Satin

Somebody's been Butthole Surfing this morning... Saw your other post. Rainbow - Tarot Woman

From Zero-G: "On Friday 30th September the incredible Zero-G ETHERA 2.0 will come to a close. To mark this memorable occasion we have 75% OFF and you can download this truly inspirational cinematic vocal Kontakt instrument for just $12.95 [USD]!" https://zero-g.co.uk/products/ethera-2-0

Too bad their crap licensing overshadows the quality of their plugins.

There's a website dedicated to documenting these: https://www.kissthisguy.com/ Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix made a joke out of it and would go over and give Noel Redding a peck on the cheek after delivering the "kiss this guy" line. As a lyricist who labors at least as much over the words as I do the music....I know intellectually that most people pay much less, and in some cases, no, attention to lyrical content, but I pretend otherwise. I guess I write lyrics for myself and for the minority of listeners who, like myself, pay a GREAT amount of attention to lyrics. The words of some of my favorite lyricists have been life-changing, life-saving (and as a depression sufferer, I will say that that is closer to literal than you might think), and have helped form my outlook on life. My childhood was during the 70's singer-songwriter boom, and the words of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot ("If You Could Read My Mind" good lord), Carole King, and others gave me insight into adult feelings and relationships, things to watch for as I got older. It still weirds me out that people treat "Fire and Rain" as this campfire singalong thing when it's about his friend dying from a heroin overdose, the breakup of his band due to drug abuse, and his own recovery from addiction. The "Suzanne" in the song was a junkie girl who he met in rehab at the Austen Riggs psychiatric hospital. When he sings "the plans they made put an end to you," that "end" was Suzanne dying from a heroin overdose. Taylor couldn't even do the song live for years because it broke him down emotionally. Even as a pre-teen, the line "I always thought that I'd see you again" haunted me, realizing that in life, there might be people I'd lose permanently. And sure enough, unfortunately not uncommon in the music scene, it proved prophetic in adulthood. And it comforts me to know that I'm not alone in losing people I love to addiction. It helps me deal with the loss. Going through breakups? "If You Could Read My Mind," "Too Late Baby." Yikes. Cathartic. And, uh, Joni, thanks for giving me insight into the minds of commitment-phobic narcissistic women. Brilliant artist, wouldn't want to date her. 😂 And I encourage music fans who have a hard time making out the lyrics of their favorite songs to look them up and find out what they really say. I say this because it's been so rewarding for me. You can find out that REM's "The One I Love" isn't a love song, it's a vicious middle finger to an ex.: "another prop has occupied my time" are not words of love. People play "Every Breath You Take" at their weddings, completely oblivious to the fact that it's a threatening statement to an ex-lover informing them that he's going to stalk them. I guess brides just focus on the "I'll be watching you" line and think how sweet it is that he's pledging that he'll be watching them forever. The aforementioned Tom Petty was a brilliant lyricist, he's worth checking out in this way. Anyway, having said that, I freakin' love Mondegreens and have plenty of my own, some of which I like better than the actual lyrics. 10CC's "I'm Not In Love" (which, BTW is kind of the opposite of the REM song) in the break where the studio receptionist says "be quiet, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry..." I was convinced that she was saying "break boys, take five." Y'know, talking to the band, telling them to take a break. 🤷‍♂️ Depeche Mode's "Policy of Truth," despite being a favorite song, I still hear it as "all upon a sea of truth."

https://purafied.com/ Liquid Death Snare - over 500 Samples of Snare

I've been saving for a couple of years, and yesterday I went out and bought it🤩 Fender American Professional II Telecaster: With a maple fingerboard - V-Mod II single-coil Telecaster pickups. This guitar plays like a dream and sounds great😍and it came with a nice case👍🏼 I'm a happy camper today🎸

Stratos 1977 I spent some time with the new Cherry Elka-X vst synth, trying out the presets and tweaking the knobs. Pretty soon I was getting a Klaus Schulze kind of a sound which I used in this song. It's spacey electronic music featuring filter frequency and resonance tweaking along with the filter ADSR envelope tweaks. It takes a lot of time to hit the right combination of settings to get that Schulze sound. Not totally happy with this one but here's what I came up with. It's more of a backing track. Gonna add some keys on top if I can think of how to do that. As always don't listen while driving or operating heavy machinery. Synths used Arturia CS-80 Cherry Audio Elka-X Omnisphere Thanks for listening/commenting.

Isolated bass and drums from the With the Beatles album. I'd never noticed how often McCartney utilizes chords on bass. Or how tight the bass 'n drums were (listen to the kick and bass on Roll Over Beethoven). Drum sound is clear and present, despite only two mics on the kit. You can really hear the pumping 670 compression on the rides. Great engineering. Keep in mind that this was recorded on a 2-track machine, so most of it is essentially live. Also worth remembering that these guys were all pretty young and still relatively inexperienced in the studio; McCartney would have been 20 or 21 years old at the time of these recordings.

Also responding to @daveiv I never had a subscription to UG, or to MSB for that matter. I purchase individual tabs for the songs I want (not enough on a monthly basis to justify a subscription). I purchased individual UG tabs way back, so I assume they were the same tabs I'd have gotten if I'd had a sub. The MSB tabs I've purchased don't disappear; they're always available. They are normal GP files, but I suspect that Dave is right that any you've been working with disappear if you had a sub and dropped it (another reason to buy the few you really want directly).

Or The Ruttles.

Waves plugins are good. WUP is optional, and the first year comes free. Waves licensing is garbage. No version updates after first year without WUP.

I'm going to guess that nothing from either Yoko Ono or Kanye West are featured here, ya? 😜

So, I spent yesterday evening messing around with Celtic ERA 2, and I like it quite a bit. However, I'm a total sucker for this kind of stuff -- I use these kind of ethnic libraries a lot, and can't get enough of them. So, take this mini-review with a chunk of salt. If you've already got Celtic ERA 1, and you like it, then I think this a great addition for $99. The new instruments are excellent, and I know I'll find them useful. The additional pipes and flutes are especially awesome, with a great vibe and lots of articulation options. I have a thing for wooden and folk flutes -- I must have 20 or 30 various folk flute patches from a whole bunch of libraries, including Tarilonte's other Eras, and they have become a huge part of my sound. Celtic ERA 2 adds some really nice ones, including the Asubia, which Tarilonte describes as a Galician Ocarinne. It's got a unique flavor, and I don't have anything quite like it in my collection. The additional bag pipes are great, and really nicely recorded. Same for the new percussion instruments. They added a skin snare and a tom that sound really good, to my ears, and should be easy to add to a percussion mix. Finally, Tarilonte tossed in a few extra Soundscape patches, which are always a welcome addition. I also like the new interface -- less busy, and much easier on the eyes. So, I think this is a no-brainer upgrade for original Celtic Era fans. If you're new to the Celtic Era library, but this kind of instrument collection would be useful, then you should give this library a serious look. These are great patches, and the instruments on offer cover a lot of ground. Of note: Personally, I find Tarilonte's libraries have a learning curve, and programming them takes a bit of work if you want things sounding realistic. Many of the instruments have lots of articulation selections beyond the basic legato/sustain/staccato options, including various ornaments, trills, slides, and the like. So, to get full value from them requires an investment of time. But if you put in the effort and have the knack for it, the results are usually pretty spectacular. Also, this is an Engine library, and I know some folks really don't like Engine's interface. I'm not exactly keen on it myself, with it's too-small controls and circa-1998 interface. But it gets the job done, it's quite stable on my system, and I really don't find it a problem. Considering how awesome Tarilonte's libraries are (I have all the Eras), it's totally worth the minor irritation. As always YMMV, but I'm really happy I got this one.

Thank you! The harmonica is from ProjectSAM "Swing!" which is so much more than other Jazz libraries. The concept is more expansive and includes got Gypsy Manouche guitars, Fender Bass, Ukelele, etc. I have played harmonica since I was 16 and could have done something close to this, but I thought it sounded really authentic, and that way I didn't have to bust out the microphone, etc. ProjectSAM is such an awesome company. I got "Swing!" and "Swing More!" in one of those NI sales. I believe in making templates because otherwise you forget you have all this goodness in libraries like this with a lot of stuff.

You rascal ,,, had me a little worried .......... Great mix and as said, Pete' should be bloody jealous LOL ..Love ya Man .. Steve

The Specials - A Message To You Rudy

Yez = You

Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection

A recent favorite freebie of mine is Monster Drum. It's sampled, with 20 different kits, from acoustic to electronic.

I'd agree with that. They do actually make a handful of very good plugins. They just don't care to listen to what customers are telling them and persist with their crap licensing and ideas.

I got my licence (redeemcode) now and dl'ed the exe. You dl the trial from guitar pro site and then use Jrr's licence to unlock it.

I love freeee plugins. I should install them some time.

Ten minutes after you should have been in bed by now.

It seems pretty obvious that they were going for something in the vein of Edda Dell'Orso's vocals in Morricone's in "Jill's Theme" from "Once Upon a Time in the West." And I think they've done a pretty decent job. It's a niche sound. It's not the typical thingThis is why their is a discount for Spaghetti Western owners. If you're looking for that sound, that this is kind of a no-brainer. I actually wrote music in this style, before Fluffy brought their Spaghetti Western library out. My piece wasn't intended as slavish pastiche, more of a blend between Morricone, surf rock, and other influences. It was fun to put together instruments from different libraries., just for the fun of trying to orchestrate like him. I used my beloved Solo Opera for the operatic stuff. If I had this new Fluffy library I probably would have mixed it with whistling, to disguise that it wasn't exactly this kind of thing.

50% off if you own Spaghetti Western - coupon code sent by email.

Alright, I bit the bullet on this one. Will see how long it takes to get a Ser #.

This should have been #1

Back when I was starting out, I remember really wanting to own some Waves plugins one day - maybe a bundle even. Things moved on, and I ended up buying plugins from other developers. Might the Waves ones be better, or let me make better music than with the plugins I have today? Don't know, maybe; maybe not. I'm fairly certain of two things though: My overall sound isn't too bad I'm glad I don't have to deal with their licencing/WUP

MySongBook tabs feature (usually) very good transcriptions. A lot of UG tabs have lesser quality transcriptions. I stopped using UG a long time ago. MSB is not too expensive, and they do have a free tab per day (that they choose), which is a nice way to try out a song you may not be familiar with or weren't actively looking for. I'm a bass player, and have been happy with the bass transcriptions in MSB tabs. You can gat to MSB directly from the home page in GP. Worked fine in v7. Even easier in v8.

Beautiful ambiance. I can't believe the "width" you achieve in your mixes. Nice .. mark

Butthole Surfers - American Woman

Arturia DX7V 😂

It always works. Read the manual to get a better understanding to why it works and why it might cause issues at times.

They seem to have plenty of knee jerk reactions and label things as a no brainer. I tend to trust opinions here.

A few months ago I ran my left hand into the table saw. Luckily, I didn't lose any fingers, but I have limited use of 3 of them. As a result, I can't play guitar yet (not that I was that great to start with) so I took my frustrations out on my keyboard and created this diddy. You will feel the anger, and it will not suit most people's taste, but the anger shows. I am not a keyboard player, I just poke at it.

You nailed it! Love the harmonica at the end! what library was that? t

https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14489071

"If you don't have all the devices you used in the project or template turned on" Thanks but that's not it, at least for the external stuff, everything is always on. I specifically use a multiport midi device to avoid this problem because the ports are always available even if the synth power is off. I will get a look at your post, it might help with the plug in though.

Quite big in Russia apparently, especially with GRU Agents (allegedly). 😉 I don't really get the whole queuing to pay your respects to someone you've never met either. I suspect people get emotional because they project their own experience of loss onto the environment they're in and the whole thing becomes overwhelming. I'm not disrespectful of Her Majesty - her dedication and service is legendary and will surely never be surpassed, but do I want to spend ten days in mourning - not really. Each to their own I guess. Andy

Sounds like a neat idea.

Use AudioSnap, Copy as MIDI: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=AudioSnap.05.html Basically, detect your transients on a track, making sure that there's no rogue notes. Then click the Copy as MIDI icon. In your MIDI track that's routed to Session Drummer, set your Now Time to the start of the project and do Paste. You should have the MIDI paste into that track, in time with the transients you detected, and (if I recall correctly) will be MIDI note 36 by default, which should correspond to a kick drum.

Yeah, each one has a custom GUI and -- based on a quick scroll through the browser -- between 4 and 129 instrument presets each, for a total (at least in my instance, with the factory instruments, freebies and MDrummer content installed) of 3690 presets. The interface for each instrument is customized and generally nicer than the stereotypical "Melda look" bemoaned by many -- though you still get a heavy dose of those knobs and sliders in the FX sections (and the editor, if you have the full MSF). The presets do a pretty good job of exploring each instrument's capabilities, with their own Melda-ish quirks -- some are quite usefully named ("Trombone" and "Growler" in Bones, e.g.), while the character and utility of others is... less clear. (If you grok at a glance the distinction between Hotel 536's "Fortunate clocks" and "Rewarding mist", you're better off than I.) You mentioned elsewhere that "full" MSF allows for new instrument creation. It also opens access to the editor, so any of the factory instruments can be thoroughly mangled and tweaked in pretty much infinite ways. Without the editor, you still get access to the usual parameters you'd expect -- filters and formants and oscs, oh my. With the editor... sheesh, I dunno. You can probably build Skynet. I've only dipped a toe into that level of customization, but it's ludicrous. Just wig-out bonkers.

Transfuser 2?

English not being my native language, LOTS of them, although I got a whole lot better after living here for a while. Things would get a little crazy when we would cover songs and I had to figure out the words - before the days of internet, and without anyone who natively spoke English to help, if they weren't printed on the sleeve, I was left to figure out what I could and extraoplate the rest. Which was embarassing, but, I had to sing something... I remember reading a John Lennon biography in 1990 and the author was saying that in the early days, when Lennon could not understand the lyrics of a song they were covering, he would just make up his own (sometimes completely absurd). That was then end of my complex. The things I sang (and mumbled) on stage from that point on, man... lol Oddly enough, maybe because Diary of a Madman was the very first album I ever bought and it had the lyrics printed on the sleeve, I developed a knack for understanding Ozzy's lyrics. I was fluent in Ozzy before I was fluent in English.

It seems there are so many ways to set your keyboard up for controlling Cakewalk. I learnt from the posts in this thread but went a little different route (Mackie/HUI) when it did not work consistently for me. I made a YouTube video about my solution: Hope, this helps others to find their way through this.