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Before ArtMaps became really usable I would make a MIDI track for the notes performance and another for articulations & controllers. That made it easier to edit the performance by pitch modulation without affecting the CC data. Now I'm 98% in simple instrument tracks cuz I've built over 60 ArtMaps for orchestration.

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I suspect it is one of the recycled Soundspot abominations.

Waves home office is in Tel Aviv, Israel. They have local servers in Knoxville in US, but there could be some hiccups with IP addresses cuz, well... ya know...

Also works for new Saros pre-order

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You can have multiple articulations playing at the same time if you've set the articulation maps up properly. Articulations that are mutually exclusive (i.e. they cancel each other out) should be in the same group. If you have an articulation that can be played at the same time as another, it should be in a separate group. Different groups appear on separate articulation lanes.

Velocity is part of the Note On message and can't be manipulated independently. But what you can do is add a Clip Envelope for MIDI Velocity [Offset], create three nodes to offset the next three fixed-velocity notes to achieve the desired values, and copy-paste the three nodes as needed to affect the rest of the notes. You can leave the Vel+ envelope in place to preserve editing flexibility or Bounce to Clip to write the velocity offsets into the note events. EDIT: Looks like I was wrong about this. The MIDI clip automation cannot be copy-pasted independently of the notes, either.

You select the voicebank and then further down below you find the update button.

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I would do anything for love... a free plugin. But I won't do that. No, I won't do that

It's also worth mentioning that Track Templates are in the drop down on the Media tab in the browser. You can simply drag/drop from there into your project - a massive time saver.

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Not even knee pain?

Just to give some perspective here. The highest frequency a human can hear is around 20Khz if you're 21 or younger. As you get older, this continues to drop. I suspect the majority of users on this forum will struggle to hear anything over 15Khz. 44.1Hkz can reproduce frequencies up to 22Khz (so beyond human hearing). 16bit audio has a dynamic range of 96db across all of its frequencies. Compare this to tape: a maximum dynamic range 55db - with it's optimal frequency reproduction between 120Hz and 800Khz (it starts to drop off either end of these frequencies). Vinyl has a maximum dynamic range of 60db; frequency range is around 7hz to 50Khz (so better than a 96Khz sample rate). However as far as dynamic range is concerned, vinyl and tape aren't even a match for 12 bit audio (72db), which a bunch of budget synths/samplers used in the 80's/90's. Given that most tracks are of a single instrument, it's likely that the required dynamic range recorded on a single track is way less than 96db. Where things start to go wrong is when you mix in 16 bit - then you're dynamic range is significantly reduced. However NO modern DAW mixes in 16 bit. They all use at least 32 bit float or 64 bit float for mixing; only going back to 16bit at the stereo master bus. The advantage of recording in 24bit is you can record really quiet signals with no loss of dynamic range, and no perceived increase in noise. However, as long as you're recording signals at a decent level, there should be no issues using 44.1Khz/16bit for recording.... I mean, it's absolutely fine on CD. Comparing 32 bit to 24 bit is problematic - 24 bit is an integer format; 32 bit / 64 bit are floating point formats. Although you can store higher numbers in floating point (which is why it's great for mixing), you do lose precision at the extremes. For a mixed down song, a 24 bit integer file and a 32 bit floating point file are equivalent in quality.

Whatever it is, it won't be worth it.

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The pro version has been one of my most useful purchases for ages. I have the Kevin and Natalie voices. While I cannot see the vocals making it to one of my final tracks I have found them very useful when writing and for producing a demo track for the real vocalist.

Been listening to this again ... well quite a few times actually. I think, maybe, you two should do more of this stuff, you seem to gel into a complete style of your own and it's exciting to think that you may produce more work like this 🤞 ... One crit though ... printed lyrics 'cause you know ( esp you Lynn ) how much I appreciate them. Anyway it's one of my favs ATB Steve

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

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Syd Barrett - Golden Hair

A sound tech friend of mine showed me this little 4 XLR to CAT6 snake box. I was sceptical but no hum or issues. Dirt cheap too! He was using it for Aux send to floor monitors. Lots of options these days.

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I ran this morning. no issues.

@smde the code ESBNAMM2023 works again. I've just used it and got 30% off for Solaria. Unfortunately tax added 19% back in for me, so it was $74.96 in the end 😭 Still, the best price that I could get for Solaria. Thank you for posting this, @Reid Rosefelt 😊

99$ https://www.soundsonline.com/orchestral/hollywood-fantasy-orchestra

Run the XLN Online Installer.

I have a couple of Shreddage Guitars that print with 5 separate Articulation lanes.

I don't remember it, but I must have set up shortcuts for Lyrics etc. Page 624 in the github docs might help some. https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf There is a floating toolbar, you can use in the staff view. Press the mouse roll wheel. Playscore2 free 1 week trial scan to MIDI or XML (unless you are working from handwritten scores) There is another one for iphone I have used it some, but I can't remember the name of it. Cakewalk can import XML Windows version https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/playscore-2/9MW52N003G4D?hl=en-us&gl=ushttps://apps.microsoft.com/detail/playscore-2/9MW52N003G4D?hl=en-us&gl=us You can do a lot of scores in 1 week! You will probably have to do some corrections, but it's way faster than 1 note at a time. EDIT -> You might look at this one too - MusicReader - It has higher ratings

No problem from Germany

The orchestra is $499, the orchestrator is $99.

Why not use Articulation Maps? They'll do the key switching for you, and are far easier to use in the PRV. Once your articulation maps are defined, you can even extract your existing key switches from your MIDI track it'll create the articulations for you. CreativeSauce does a great tutorial here:

Never been a Grateful Dead fan so I was gong to skip this one but have to say I'm glad I tuned in. I love a song with a melody that stays with you and this one certainly does. Great job, Ross! -Bjorn

REAPER 7.02 is available, with the following updates: + Actions: fix behavior of action to paste at mouse position when mouse is over track spacer [t=284042] + Accessibility: fix API issue with MIDI editor last_clicked_cc_lane + Color theme: rename 'Inactive take overlay color/mode' to 'Inactive take/lane overlay color/mode' to clarify that these elements affect inactive fixed lanes (lanes that are not playing) + Comp areas: fix action to create comp area at mouse when track is not selected [p=2725233] + Comp areas: fix behavior when deleting edge between two adjacent comp areas [p=2723290] + Comp areas: fix left-click mouse modifiers to set loop points to comp area [p=2723284] + Comp areas: fix resync button display when track is small or unsynced items are overlapping + Comp areas: handle re-comping media items that are fully faded in or faded out [p=2725217] + Comp areas: respect project item locking when editing comp areas + Comp areas: respect track grouping when re-syncing media items [p=2724215] + Comp areas: when resyncing all edited media items, consolidate overlapping items + Comp areas: when resyncing individual media items, do not resync overlapping items + Comping: update comp areas after replacing media [p=2724687] + FX: fix crash when single-FX-chain mode enabled and dragging FX from chain to nowhere [t=283777] + Grouping: improve behavior of dual edge editing when media items are grouped [t=283998] + JSFX: add options: prealloc=* or prealloc=size, useful if a plug-in wants to force memory to be allocated at compile-time + JSFX: fix bug with top channel in channel_mapper [t=283773] + JSFX: improve watch window filtering, allowing both REAPER filter logic plus expressions such as refs=1 or value>1 etc + JSFX: do not set image dirty when using gfx_measurestr/etc + Lanes: add lane collapse button right-click menu item to disable/re-enable fixed lanes + Lanes: add track setting to show/hide lane buttons (right-click or alt-click lane collapse button) + Lanes: allow clicking above or below lane button to initiate dragging/reordering lanes without changing lane play state [p=2725245] + Lanes: display razor edit comp area control differently when clicking would re-sync rather than comping + Lanes: enable option to record into first available lane even when layering lanes [t=283867] + Lanes: handle section/reversed media properly when comping [t=283957] + Lanes: improve display of lane names in lane button menu + Lanes: improve display of overlapping media items when a fixed lane track is taken out of fixed lane view [p=2723489] + Lanes: improve lane area display and mouse interaction with non-100% layouts + Lanes: improve shift+click selection behavior on fixed lane tracks + Lanes: respect setting to record into the first available lane when recording multiple loops into an empty track [p=2724969] + Lanes: when 'record into first available lane' is enabled, skip comping lanes if any + Lanes: when disabling comping, handle special case where a 2nd empty lane is displayed and autoremove lanes is enabled [p=2725237] + Lanes: when showing only one lane, support switching to any other lane via lane button right-click menu + macOS: fix file extension when exporting mouse modifiers as ReaScript + macOS: fix Sonoma routing window combo box bugs [t=283872] + Media items: actions to set item colors also clear any per-take colors [p=2723344] + Media items: display tiny items on collapsed folder tracks when item selection indicator is enabled + Media items: hide item selection indicator when track height is small + Metadata: do not discard currently-being-edited metadata when the user clicks away [t=284012] + MIDI: fix export timing issues [t=283898] + MIDI: increase retroactive recording history size from 128KB to 1MB + MIDI: when option enabled to set channel for new events when clicking a note, ensure the new channel passes the MIDI filter [p=2723907] + MIDI editor: fix inconsistent text colors of CC lane description + MIDI hardware: better support user-generated reaper-midihw.ini files with whitespace around equal signs [p=2721555] + Mixer: fix embed FX layout bugs [p=2723714] + Preferences: fix changing media item background/peaks display color when theme does not override [p=2725825] + Preferences: support setting track lane buttons hidden by default + Razor edits: support relative snap [t=283820] + Razor edits: if snapping to grid at any distance, also snap to the original, unsnapped position + Razor edits: remove razor edit areas when hiding envelopes [t=284003] + ReaComp: fix reset of RMS size via doubleclick [p=2723224] + ReaLimit: fix 1-pixel incorrect drawing error on odd embedded-UI widths + ReaScript: fix GetSetMediaTrackInfo("C_LANEPLAYS:N") when setting value [p=2724132] + ReaScript: fix setting media item bottom half mouse modifiers from API + ReaScript: GetThingFromPoint() returns 'spacer_N' for spacer before track N + ReaScript: do not set image dirty when using gfx.measurestr/etc + ReaScript: fix gfx.circle rounding [t=284033] + Super8: improve performance when starting recording on multiple channels simultaneously + Super8: use new prealloc feature for improved initial realtime performance + Theme: inline editor and item hidpi fixes, MCP indenting fixes + Toolbars: add preference to disable all toolbar animations + Track panels: refresh when setting/changing MIDI hardware outputs in various contexts [t=280959] + Track reordering: improve folder behavior when dragging over a track that has envelopes visible + Track reordering: make folder-creation drag/drop behavior closer to that of 6.81 + Tracks: if inserting a track at the end of the project and the last track is a folder with hidden collapsed children, add the track outside the folder + Track spacers: fix various behaviors when spacer size is customized + Track spacers: improve behavior when manually adjusting height of track that is displaying big lanes and track spacer height has been customized to a large value [p=2724027] + Virtual MIDI Keyboard: show all available keyboard assignments [t=283801] + Windows: fix RAM use metering on Windows 11 [t=284006] https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

While I've experienced this, I'm not fully convinced this is a problem with the format itself (pointing instead to developers not doing it properly) as there are far too many VST3s that do work just fine.

This will need to be non Bluetooth. And possibly between the guitar and the headphones this could cost $500. Proper Wireless is not cheap. Avoid anything that is as it will be disappointing sound quality. Hardwire is for the most part dirt cheap. It can be as simple as figuring out how far it is and making a 3/4” hole in the wall. Then use long enough cable to go directly to the interface. In my original studio I bought these metal wall plates that were sold with either a pair of XLR or 1/4” jacks. Some I had a both XLR and then a 1/4” TRS that I could use for headphones or Balanced amp outputs. I had these in the isolated Booths an a few scattered around the main room. Those were run to the control room using bulk Beldon cable. This was all done during construction. I still have the box of cable and a bunch of the wall plates. If there’s an operator in the control room this is fine. But if you are by yourself then you could actually bring the audio interface into the other room and use a long enough USB cable. But then you need control of Cakewalk too. For headphone extension I just buy off Amazon and have had good luck with the cheaper stuff. I just buy the 1/8” ones as most of my headphones these days can use both. For guitar if the run is more than 20’ you might want a DI box and run XLR.

Right? Gene subscribes to the notion that any publicity is good publicity.

Genuine Soundware has just launched VB#-II 2023 edition. It is a free update for current VB3-II users and also includes the companion iOS version (still in progress). More info here: https://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=44 Check out my Joyful Journey here:

To quote Kenny Loggins' theme song from Caddyshack: I'm all right, don't nobody worry 'bout me

If our species is remembered in any way . . . let it be for our cognitive capacity to change our minds, and for our behavioral inclination not to.

Trying to be cautious, for many years prior to the formation of a certain organisation, there were no real countries in Europe and the Middle East. There were tribes that controlled areas of land but borders and definitions were extreamly flexible. When the Romans conquered a tribe their area became another part of Rome. Consequently your thought on "before that" is far more accurate than most probably realise. That certain organisation has caused more trouble, war and death than many tyrants.

I look at this list and go who? I look at it again and go what!? I look again and go why?

I do what you are asking for. I have a cakewalk song with 1 track. That track has 5 sends to 5 reverb/ echo buses. When I save it as a track template and insert it into a song, it creates all 5 buses with each reverb/echo effect with all the plug-in settings just the way yiu want them. Also all the buses that those reverb/echo tracks use, plus the Main bus , Master bus and effects buses. All I have to do is just delete the track and all the reverb buses and sub buses and master buses stay and are ready for use. I have another with saturation buses that I am tweaking now. I have another with my version of a bus compression technic by Michael Brauer called Brauerizing. It is my version of multibus, multiparallel compression technic. I have also use a bunch of FX chains. FX chains can contain any vst, not pro-channel related at all. Some of my FX chains are just a Renaissance EQ and a Renaissance Compressor. Some are complex like my snare with Pro-Q3, Rbass, Vitamin, Kiive Xtressor, SPL Transient, Root One, bx_subsynth and Denise-Noize. I don’t usually use all these on every snare. I just turn them off and on, and tweak them till I like the sound. When I’m finished I delete the ones that didn’t fit this song. I don’t just have one reverb bus template. For instance I have several reverb/bus templates for different styles of music. I have some with Elvis style slapback echo and some with Acustica’s Lemon set to super long echo. Some of those are so long I think they bounce all the way to the end of the next song lol!!! These bus/track creations is how you build “your” sound. This track/bus templates will save you a ton of work a stimulate your creative juices. All this and we haven’t even talked about fancy routings that can be included in these with Aux buses and patch points. Then we have Cantable and waves Studio rack. Now the routing can look like a 10 story office building network phone patchbay.

Neither code work anymore. If I am not making a mistake, I think, the person from eclipsedsounds said in the video that ESBNAMM2023 is good until the end of this year. I was planning to buy their voices later in a few months. I think now I will wait for next time.