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I'm glad to hear it. I am an Amazon consumer who got screwed over by them a couple of years ago. It happened this way: Amazon have a policy where any 2 people sharing the same address may also share an Amazon Prime membership. Nice for unmarried couples, roommates, whatever. I have a tenant in a cottage at the rear of my property, and he has an Amazon Prime membership, so I signed on to this. He , in turn, has access to the Netflix subscription I pay for. A couple years ago, I noticed that among the scattering of purchases from Amazon, one for the same amount of $14.95 kept popping up. This had gone on for about 6 months. I contacted Amazon and apparently, buried in one of those legalese-filled emails we get about Notice of Changes in Terms to Your Account, was the information that, in order to continue using my tenant's Amazon Prime membership, I needed to opt-in. Failure to do so, while continuing to order from Amazon, amounted to my consenting to having my own membership, at $14.95 per month. If I even read the email, I only skimmed it, because, you know, legalese. I informed them that I did want to opt in to continue on the one address/2 users plan (duh), and not only that, I wanted my money back from the months when I hadn't explicitly opted in to the other plan. No go said they. My bank (Chase), on the other hand, were very accommodating about getting 3 of the months charged back. Yes, part of it was my fault for not reading the email message completely, and for not noticing the recurring charges until it had been going on for half a year. Still, I thought it was kind of sleazy for them to switch people over in this way when who on Earth, if they were eligible for sharing a membership, would choose to pay for their own? It's too bad they pull this crap, because Amazon Prime is a great deal. Either the free fast delivery or the streaming videos would be worth $15 by themselves, IMO. Probably similar to how @Grem feels about Waves: they have a good product, why do they have to be so sketchy in how they go about selling it? I've never been a huge fan of Waves' products. They work fine, but none of the ones I have experience with surpass counterparts from other industry leaders like Brainworx, Meldaproduction, or iZotope, and the single seat license always put me off. Something about them that I think is great is that you can move their licenses around on a generic USB stick or SD card rather than a proprietary dongle.

(deal still works Nov 28) You need to use a credit card for your order at Best Buy, but there will be no charge. Also at Apple, with paid renewal in 3 months. SO- drop your sub a day before, if you are a fellow tightwad. This is good for new OR returning subscribers. I had a free 3 month starting last December. Now I can catch the latest Ted Lasso. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-free-apple-tv-for-3-months-new-or-returning-subscribers-only/6484512.p?skuId=6484512

Hello , We had such a good time with our last collaboration we immediately started another one. This one is just about all SubVibe. All I did was the electric guitar and some backing vocals. I really like the "spire" synth he used on this and our last song. We both shared the mix/master on this , so if you hear any problems or have suggestions , one of us will figure it out. Thank You .. mark https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14641482

Our group from Bordeaux - France ?

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Unless you're a ProTools user, in which case this is likely to be an ongoing frustration. It never bodes well when a company is taken over by a private equity firm, which only cares about profits - not product quality, staffing or customer support. They will slowly drive consumers away (mostly to Logic) while milking existing products for the last drips of profit until they eventually auction off the office furniture. But for those of us happy to live in a Cakewalk world exclusively, then yeh, mostly meh.

I have experienced this error in the past, and fixed it via the installer (\program files\spitfire audio\spitfire audio.exe) as the video above shows. iirc, I found the solution at the Spitfire website. The issue can arise when you install LABS while logged in to Windows under a different user name than you normally use when running your DAW. In your case, it looks like you were logged into Windows as Admin2 when the libraries were originally installed. Then, when you subsequently logged in as "Just Be", LABS went looking for the content in Admin2's user data and couldn't find it. (As a side note, this isn't a problem you're likely to run into with other virtual instruments because most are either not user-specific or they prompt you at install. You've probably seen other installers ask if you want the program to be accessible to Everyone or Just You. Which makes sense for things such as system utilities but not for virtual instruments. If Spitfire assumes a specific user rather than Everyone, that, imo, is a mistake on their part.)

Mr. Bradley, sir . . . I bow to your comedic sensibilities here . . . what a whole lotta' fun. Guitar is super well played, and my compliments to your video costume designer. Like a crazed fool, I just left the volume loud . . . because it just works !! . . . oops, gotta' go someone's banging on my door . . .

@mark skinner @subvibe Another great chill pop song from you two ! Loving the thick textures, and the way the electric guitar blends into it all . . . translates from headphones to speakers very nicely, quite well mixed there. For me, it has a very European and urban feel to it, and a kind of dreamy love theme in the lyric. Can't think of anything else it would need . . . just a really enjoyable and relaxing listen. Bruce

Hi Mark I like this and a very enjoyable listen. Think Barry made some good comments Cool Nigel

Hello, Not sure who is reading this. So it was early on this year when I was remixing some old songs and I noticed sometimes certain tracks with volume automation would disappear in the render with export. Then recently I notice lots of pops and scraps. Today I notice pops and scrapes were making its way into the export. So after some thoughts and experimenting I disabled multi processing. Now the export works correctly, and oddly enough the tracks sound cleaner and the bass is better, so maybe even if it wasn't something hugely noticeable it had some artifacts with multiprocessing. So with this fact one can deduce that either thread synchronization is not correctly implemented or buffers are not allocated and aligned to cache size thus possibly causing corruption when two or more threads performs operations on a cache page that includes buffers from more than one source. I hope this makes it to the developers, I can provide projects that show this issue. If this can't get solved I will have to use a different DAW. I have used Cakewalk since the late 90s and I think it is great until now. Thanks! Henrizzle

Met a nice, new lady recently and while at her place we were letting Spotify play different bands. Like Pandora, it tries to play bands that are similar to the original band requested. I ended up finding a few that I liked and thought I'd share since I'd never heard of them! Note that I like a LOT of genres, but these all fall into a Joy Division / Cure like vibe. First up: Twin Tribes I'll add the others once I figure out which albums seem to illustrate each best! ?

Here's a song (and video) I did this week. The song is the Dead Kennedys' Holiday in Cambodia but with new lyrics about an anthropomorphic poseur dog with Short Man's Syndrome. Obviously. Some songs just write themselves. Also, there's some guitar nonsense.

Still my favorite "famous" interaction though! Getting to hang out with Bob Moog for a night, out in Hollywood. Sorry Eddie, but Bob's got ya beat! ?

Which is Bapu's department! ?

The whole Siouxie, Robert Smith connection was interesting too! Then there's the Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Peter Murphy, Tones On Tail, fun... Joy Division to New Order... There's a few!

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It's the same subscription pitch as ever. 30-90 days free, and then a large enough percentage of people who try either stick with it because they dig the content and think it's worth it or they just forget to stop it. My ADHD-ridden brain is bad with these things. Many such subscription services have gotten a month's payment out of me because I was late to cancel.

Nice. Naming their record Ceremony is definitely showing their hand. I've recently been re-experiencing Siouxsie and the Banshees and realizing what a freakin' musical genius she was/is. Underrated in that respect. Her arrangements with all the tuned percussion were just crazy even from the start with "Hong Kong Garden" with the xylophone. Didn't hurt that she put monster players like Budgie and John McGeoch in the band. I've probably listened to "Cities In Dust" a dozen times in the past week. Before that my vintage tight rotation was selections from the first couple of Tears For Fears albums. Post punk/goth/darkwave is one of the things I'm proudest of my generation (1955-65 births) for having created/innovated. Something about having been a child during the hippie years and then what followed it can send you in that direction I guess. ? Here's a guy who's local to me; when I heard him on the college station in my car, I thought "when did Curt from Tears For Fears team up with Trent Reznor?" (maximum Generation Jones icons there) His production is quite the ear candy, too: Here's something I heard on SomaFM's Beat Blender that you and your new squeeze might like (and congratulations on finding a lady who can introduce you to new music, that gets so much more difficult the older we get). It's from 2006, but to me, if I never heard it before, it's "new":

Once we complete the transition to everything through the PA, that will be trivial to do. Because the mixer is also a 16-channel USB interface, I'm looking forward to making band demos going straight from the mixer into Sonar. But we're not there yet. Bass and guitar were separately amplified yesterday. The previous week we'd had all but the bass in the PA, but the packed room was so frickin' loud that I suspect a mic in the audience would have been drowned out. There was also a second purpose for making this recording. We have no FoH operator so I mix from the stage. That's challenging until you figure out where everything's subjectively supposed to be and can get the monitoring sorted. For example, I learned from the recording that the keyboards were consistently too quiet, suggesting that my monitor volume is too high. It's a process. I've tried to get the singer to give me some feedback, as she routinely wanders the room with a wireless mic and likes to dance with audience members. But she's pretty useless when it comes to anything remotely technical, being perfectly content as long as her vocals are on top of everything. So if you're ever in Seattle, mettelus, please come help. Beer and burgers will be on me.

Maybe we're still settling into the technology, even though it's been settled into its current form (by which I mean DAW-with-plug-ins) for over 20 years? Venus Theory on YouTube is one of my favorite people who philosophizes about the psychological aspects of this matter of everyone having access to a high level of music production technology. When possibilities are endless, when we "know" that there are no logistical penalties for working on a song "forever," when we can fully realize complex musical ideas without having to put together a band, get financial backing, spend money to hire a fully-staffed recording studio, the pressure that once existed to finish things is relieved. It's too easy to fall into a trap of endlessly polishing something as our skills continually level up, our collection of plug-ins levels up. But as you describe, there is a penalty. I can open projects from 10 years ago, but back then I was using iZotope's Elements series, Kontakt Player 5, a whole bunch of plug-ins that if I wanted to fully revisit them, I'd need to reinstall a bunch of stuff I'd rather not have cluttering up my drives. When I got back into working with a DAW, the host I was using was just transitioning to 64-bit and VST3 support. I was having issues with the 64-bit version, and their VST3 support wasn't fully dialed in, so my projects from back then have some dependencies I'd rather not depend on. My expectations need management; I need to work knowing that I will want to revisit projects in the future, and that my DAW system will have changed. I suspect that it may not change as much in the next 5 years as it did in the previous 5, due to my collection of mixing (and instrument) plug-ins having leveled up. I stick to well-supported stuff like Brainworx, Meldaproduction, and iZotope, but there are never any guarantees. My MIDI tracks sometimes make use of things that only Cakewalk supports, like the built-in arpeggiator and MIDI FX, which are DXi. Not many hosts still support DXi (Cakewalk and REAPER do). Cakewalk will likely support DXi plug-ins for a good long time to come (they still ship them), but what is "a good long time?" As you point out in the case of the same instrument plug-in from the same manufacturer, Dimension, things can change under the hood. Maybe it's time to either get into the Venus Theory practice of finishing things whether I think they're perfect or not, and also work with the idea of future-proofing in mind. Knowing that I'll likely want to revisit things in the future. Bounce everything to individual tracks, both with and without FX, etc. I already save every plug-in installer, but there are probably a few that I no longer have due to system rebuilds, disk cleanups, etc.

It is a bit more complex than this, and as soon as you mention "synth" it raises concerns. Each track/instrument should only have its relevant frequency material passed into FX chains. Frequency collisions are commonly countered with slight EQ boosts to instruments that use those, and complementary EQ cuts to everything else (mirror EQ). Another trick is to push colliding frequencies to the sides and leave the focused instrument more center. The goal is to keep frequencies that only add to overall power out of the mix (kills your headroom drastically). With synths in particular... presets are often for demo purposes, cover a WIDE frequency range, and are processed internally to no end (so they sound cool solo). As soon as you are mixing a synth, 3-6dB cuts/shelves to anything conflicting with another instrument is advised. Automation can be your friend to bring things in and out of focus as well, but knocking down "extraneous frequencies" (they do add up quickly) gives you a lot more headroom to work with for the overall mix. The "wall of sound" is achieved by filling the audio stage with relevant frequencies that each have their own place so they can be heard. Synths often "take up everything" so be wary of them (especially presets).

So every three months you can cancel and "return" until they figure it out?

The 40k on the Maag is +7 and the 32k on the 747 is +7 as well.

Still diggin into it, but I wanted to post this, for whatever it's worth... Red is Maag, Violent it 747 with the ugly antialias filter on the top end. The 5k is with both gain settings at +7.

Glad to hear it meets your needs!

Hi Bruce Loved this - remined me of playing in pubs in Ireland!! Great song, well very played and mixed Very cool, as I said before, I LOVED IT!!!! Nigel

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Catchy song, well done.

Ah, the irony.

At least for Windows, there's a separate Activation-program in the installation zip file that you can run to authorize/deauthorize. 3 activations available. If you can't access the system anymore, you're supposed to ask plugivery's customer support to do it (the activations show up in their portal.)

I didn’t except such a Waves of subjects when I posted this thread.

Cakewalk is only concerned about the vst files, not the presets or samples (those are opened by whichever vst you load into Cakewalk). A few things here: The two entries you made with "Spitfire Audio" in them in Cakewalk Preferences for "VST Scan Paths" can be removed. The others mirror what you have in the Spitfire Audio app, so if installed, Cakewalk will find them. In the Spitfire Audio app, if you click on the "LABS" tab at the top, be sure you have installed the instrument(s) you want to use. Also be sure that the "Default content path" (on the left in your screenshots above in preferences for that app) are valid paths... those are where Spitfire Audio app is putting the samples. When inserting a VST Instrument (VSTi), Cakewalk is only opening the instrument itself, and letting the instrument "do its thing" at that point. The simplest method to insert a VSTi is to drag/drop from the Browser on the right edge of Cakewalk (hotkey B opens and closes that). In Cakewalk's Browser you need to first click on "Plugins" at the very top, then "Instruments" directly below that. The Browser will then show which instruments you have installed. Scroll down to "Spitfire Audio" and there should be an entry in that folder for "LABS." Drag and Drop "LABS" to the left side of the Track View into an empty area and you will get the pop up to insert the instrument. To be simpler, select "Simple Instrument Track" in the top left, and then "OK." The LABS instrument should then pop up for you, and you select the instrument/presets from the top of that window.

We can set it in preferences. I chose to work in 16/44.1 because I have only 222GB SSDrive and Im struggling for every free GB. Why that sucks? Would you hear the difference?

So nice! That Acadian sound is really distinctive. Few years ago my wife and I were in Quebec city and came across a couple of street musicians playing guitar and mandolin. We had to buy their CD they were so good. Anyway, your song reminded me of that day. -Bjorn

Bruce , I no nothing about Acadian music but really appreciate the Irish feel. I would love to be able to do the fast reels. I thought this was a Very cool song and I Really liked the instrumentation. Quite a bit different from your past songs. Great job on the entire production. If you ever need bagpipes on a song , hit me up. I've got a set on the wall where they belong. Enjoyed it .. mark

Very nice piece. Captures the spirit of Irish/Acadian music excellently. Well written, arranged, played recorded and mixed????

All the software I use has a" Help" dropdown in the menu bar ( Hint, Hint) This is universal place to find the Look For Updates etc.

Well, let's just say when I turned 16, she hadn't been born yet... ? (One very awesome 42-year old nurse! ?)

hold on let me get up and do a gig.jack c nice

Interesting song, a little different. works here.

That maybe the case. But for someone who has no Waves plugins and wants to know why to skip this, I still say there is no reason to skip it if you have no Waves plugins. I have more then enough comps, eq, and such. I got stuff from Melda, IK, UAD, PA, NI, and more. But I find myself going back to these Waves plugin because they just sound great. Because they sound good.

My bad, I didn't know it was a vendor. I guess the post count should've given me a clue. https://everyplugin.com/platinum.html#product-tabs2 73.99 for me and it's not an upgrade. Do I trust Lucy not to pull the football away this time. I removed Waves from my email list. This appeals to my plugin hoarding but bad business model.

Actually, they are following the Forum rules. From Wookiee: Consequently it is asked that you or your company:- 1. Do not include a direct links in the text body of your posts to your website or products on your website. 2. You can include a link to the index page of your website in your signature but not to specific products. 3. Individual's who find a deal and are not actually selling product may place a link in the body of their post

The biggest boon to me with all the peeps leaving Waves in the dust is that *if* I need support they will get to me a lot quicker now.

Hi bvideo, You can disable the multiprocessing from the advanced preferences menu. In this case the rendering routines are "step locked" as it can only execute serially. You can see in the performance meter there is only one processer in this case and it can no longer render in real time with large projects due to CPU load. It doesn't matter buffer size, I have the offline render buffer set to largest possible. The offline render or "export" does not care about buffer size as this is not done in real time and takes as long as it takes to complete the render. If anything, I think the artifacts will probably be bigger and more noticeable with bigger buffers as they are likely to be buffer sized. 64 bit precision on or off has same issue. I have tried everything, in the end I have deduced the multiprocessing is the problem as I can get consistently a good mix using single processing. I have installed my old Sonar X1 producer, unfortunately somehow some of the plugin GUIDs are different so it can;t find them while they are clearly available in the menu, so I can't just load the same project to get the same mix. It will take me awhile to build the same project using all the same plugins... so I will try that later after I finish some tasks at hand. Currently I am exporting my catalogue of songs using single processing, this is the only way I can be sure there are no artifacts, overall the mixes sound a bit clearer, I'm guessing even when there are no huge artifacts to notice there are small ones that typically effects how tight the bottom end is as low frequencies have long waves and are particularity vulnerable to small imperfections.

Hi all. I have done all the one's I have. Grouped neatly per kit piece. Aliases removed. Checked. But it would be nice if people rechecked them. EZD2 Modern (No alias).map EZD2 Vintage (No alias).map EZD3 Bright Room.map EZD3 Main Room.map EZD3 Tight Room.map EZX Traditional Country (No alias).map EZX Vintage Rock (No alias).map

Mike at @Creative Sauce has a great video.