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Every time I go to Seattle, my first stop is a secondhand music store called The Trading Musician. I'm looking around at the effects pedals and I see this box with grunge distortion written on it, and of course I have to buy it. Got this puppy home and plugged it in to my amp and it just about shredded my speakers. So yesterday morning after my neighbors went to work, I played a quick bass riff and sat down to my drums and then set up my Les Paul and jammed out for a few hours, and then I thought what the heck I'd share it with you good folks on the cakewalk forums. I'm playing a Fender P Bass through a Fender Rumble 200 Amp and mic'd up with a SM 57. And a Les Paul into the Digitech Grunge Distortion Pedal: and then into a Ernie Ball JR. Volume Pedal: and then into a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal: and then into my Fender Mustang GTX 100 Amp mic'd up with a SM 57: Threw some guitar chorus to the left because it sounded a little empty. (It's basically a three-piece band) Recorded using Cakewalk by BandLab.

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One of the nicest things someone has ever said too me about my guitar playing took place at a small club I was playing in City Island NY back in the 90's . I noticed a young lady in her 30's who need crutches just to walk and stand . She had came out to see me play every time I did a GIG there which turned out to be about once a week . At the end of this gigs night she hobbled up to where I had been playing in the area where I was now packing up my gear she said " Can I talk to you for a moment " I could see it in her eyes that she was energized and filled with positive mojo so I bent over a little and leaned in to meet her at her eye and height level . She asked me if I believed in Reincarnation and I said" Yes I believe in that " . Then she put a big wide smile on her face and blurted out "When I die I want to come back and be reincarnated as your guitar ." I was like wow ! I can tell she had become super embarrassed because tuned redder than an ripe Apple and I did the only thing I could do . I leaned in and put a hug on her that to this day I wish I could experience again . I felt so much emotion stir up inside me for this woman at that moment in time and I asked her was she local and how was she getting home . She told me she lived around 3 or 4 blocks in the area and she had walked to the club. So I strapped my small Fender combo to my motorcycle and left it in front of the club . The I slung my guitar in a gig bag over my shoulder and walked her home . We stood outside the fence of the lawn where she lived under a tree and talked for hours ....I felt so much of a connection that took place in the moment that to even touch her or kiss her would have taken away from the whole wholesome experience ...I figured she had seen and knew how my fingers moved on a guitar and I didn't want to spoil the moment ! 😉 When the Sun came up I said my goodbyes to her . To this day I have always kept a place in my heart just for her . Kenny Why spoil it

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Thanks for trying to burst my bubble. Unfortunately, this article just confirms my observations. The industry has ceased to be talent/creativity centered and is focused on music as product, where you can: autotune poorly performed vocals; quantize out of time playing; replace amateurishly played hits/plucks with industry standard samples; use all sorts of generators and engines that trigger pieces of arrangement with a single key press. And then there are It doesn't indicate total shutdown of the industry, just the end of the era of music creation as we knew it.

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Same here. I pick 'em up for the WUP.

A couple of years ago I moved to a big city (which wasn't far away) and last year discovered a world of bands, ensembles and solo/duo performers that make the rounds in the various burroughs' community centres. Tickets are mostly free, the most expensive is 13$ in a nicer theatre. Small venues where you can sit 10ft/3m from the musicians if you get there early. Styles can anything, jazz, blues, pop, classical, Caribbean, folk. Mostly local musicians, some with reputations. All original stuff. I've been really surprised and impressed by the quality. These performers are more young than old, mostly in the middle somewhere, so there are still people dedicating thousands of hours of their lives to making very enjoyable music. It's a real privilege to be entertained by them. They make it look so easy but having tried I know I'll never have the discipline or the drive to achieve anything remotely close.

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Well looks like you found a legit bug. I read this( thanks for your kind support) and I just so happened to have been using my Laptop which as you see in the first screenshot I hadn't bothered to update yet. You can see the option is working correctly as well as the TTS-1 is still the default. So I updated to the last update ( probably a mistake) and now as you say the box is not clickable you just get brackets. So @msmcleod @Noel Borthwick looks like the dude who was told to remove TTS_1 from the list also damaged some other code in the add track dialogue. First shot is before update. Then after update

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Exactly. I remember back in 2004 when I first started using Cakewalk and I tried the TTS-1 back then and decided it wasn’t for me mostly because the bass and drums didn’t sound very good compared to my Korg 05R/W I think the SI instruments were the first new members of my digital band. We often get posts on the forum here from people who are not at all interested in trying other instruments. I think it’s just over their heads to work that way. They are used to using midi players. My most viewed Cakewalk Tutorial is the one about the TTS-1 There’s a bigger fan club than one can imagine. I’m already getting comments from people who are upset. But I just released a second video with info on how to replace it or make sure you will have it available in the future.

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Fixed. -- edit -- BTW, I'm not poking fun at either of you. You're both making some great points. I'm just enjoying the new word.

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Doesn't mean that's the right way.

Neither have I, but a friend in Canada hand builds pedals and he sent me a bunch of them, including the "Clowntaur": Love it. He also sent me a fuzz, which I never thought I'd enjoy this much, a great Tube Screamer clone, and this Rewolver which is a fantastic booster. Put that in front of the green channel on my otherwise generic Marshall DSL and the amp just comes to life. I always felt the green as an "almost" and the red one was "too much or not quite". The Rewolver just gave me me a "that's it!" golden channel. I am not much of a pedal guy, but I'm glad I have these for different types of dirt.

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Also @Soundwise, as an example that great musicianship is still alive and well, just not as popular in live venues and in record sales, I present to you, Polyphia. TIm Henson (the guitarist) represents an astounding level of virtuosity and he's savvy enough to write catchy hooks. Don't go completely sour. Go explore some of the amazing young musicians out there today, you'll be blown away. And I'm sure that you and I can find tons of musicians from the past that we both love too. But the art and craft of music and musicianship isn't dead and gone. Sure, great forms of music aren't popular, but that's been the case for a long time. Young musicians like Tim Henson are taking things forward from a musical standpoint (as a virtuoso guitarist, in his case). I'm certain Jimi Hendrix would love what Henson is doing if he were still around.

There's no doubt that like every generation, tastes in music and musical instruments shift. So it's not a giant surprise that there are significantly less accordinists in Gen Z than Boomers. But you stated that there's been a decline in hardware and software sales, when both have actually been growing pretty well (with more than 8% CAGR in music software sales over the past few years). I think you're going off of perception as opposed to research. I did some quick checks for research. I write as part of my living, so I regularly turn to researchers and research studies and tapped AI to find research on this topic. An excerpt: "A 2020 YouGov study found that two-thirds of American adults have played a musical instrument at some point in their lives, with younger adults slightly more likely to have played than older adults. A 2023 Gallup poll found that over half of US households have at least one person actively playing a musical instrument, suggesting continued interest in music making. " Now, you then brought up the MUSIC recording industry. That is and always has been a very different story. The demand for live music definitely appears to be much lower than it was decades ago in the US and Europe. Then we have record sales, which have radically changed (lessened) from sales levels a few decades ago. Radio is no longer the main source of exposing people to new music. Spotify lists and video games are. So once again, technology has changed the game. Because consumers are not buying physical or even online music -- albums -- as they did decades ago, the music recording industry is all about volume. I don't know about you guys, but I have friends who had limited success in the music industry and they're not making much off of Spotify and other streaming services, because the money isn't there, even if you're getting 1 million streams a year. It's all about volume. Consequently, it's driven the recording industry to be risk averse when it comes to signing and promoting artists. A few months ago I remember reading a Billboard article that rock was surging in popularity and had become the number two most popular genre in the US. But I wouldn't expect record companies to be signing the next Beatles, Radiohead, Yes, or Steely Dan. They're more apt to sign the next Nickelback. Pop music is becoming more like simplistic ad jingles and I don't see that changing, as record companies know that simple music sells to a wider audience. But you shouldn't conflate musical hobbyists with record industry signigings and promotions. Look at YouTube and you'll see a wealth of young musicians who play at a level the world hasn't witnessed in pre-web generations. Yes, there are not a lot of accordion players, but there are a heck of a lot of incredibly talented pianists, guitarists, bassists, percussionists, drummers, etc. I come from a family where my mother and eldest sister were music teachers. I was trained on piano, organ, drums and guitar. I have a bunch of friends -- just lost one last week who taught music at a HS and jazz at Purdue University -- whose been responsible for some award winning bands filled with talented young people. My son's college roommate (19 yrs old), is a tuba and trombone player who plays at his college's Big Ten basketball games and football games. Both of my two kids were in school band. My daughter is a talented singer and I go to all of her school performances and one of my friend's daughters is a very talented singer ( a HS freshman) who is doing community theater musicals. I have other friends whose kids play musical instruments. So once again, we have the music recording industry -- which I completely agree with you, they are promoting simplistic, incredibly similar music that sounds like it came from ads. But the doom and gloom you're stating about the collapse of musical instrument companies and musical software companies is incorrect. Both are growing. The recording industry is in trouble. I've worked with a bunch of small record labels back in the day and at least some of them are hanging on, but it's really tough. But that's a completely different story than individuals playing musical instruments, and that is growing. It's not all doom and gloom. Except for the music recording industry, that's toast and all we can do is support live music and the artists we appreciate. But if you're willing to dig a bit, you can still find really talented young acts. I've learned about some really talented new acts from hearing the soundtracks to video games my kids play. I live in Chicago and, sadly, even local college radio isn't play young unsigned acts like they once did back when I was playing with our band. So it is a lot more challenging to find new acts. But if you dig, you can find them. They're just not getting signed with major labels like the way things used to be. It's been a over a decade since I first heard one of this band's songs in a video game my son was playing and googled them and became a huge fan. The singer has the kind of vocal talent Jeff Buckley had, with more control. Bands like this are out there. It's just that we don't have radio stations playing them and people going to record stores to learn about them and buy their music.

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I ended up pulling the trigger on "yet another delay".. 🤣 But this one really is pretty cool and a bit different. The video helped me over the line. You might still have a little bit of time to grab it at intro price. Well worth it.

Generally not a fan of internet activation stuff and treating paying customers like criminals, but currently my only dislike with iLok is that not all of the licences allow cloud installs. But I'm also even less of a fan of things where you might be able to lock yourself out of a licence due to a hardware failure or some other random unforeseen hiccup. And apparently the fact that you have to go through the individual companies to get things sorted out in such a case doesn't ease the anxiety. Yet, I think I'm most irked by all the other smaller devs and their own weird online activation systems. I always feel like there's a good chance their system won't work in 5 years when they decide there's no money in plugin world (or the planet blows up/flood fills their basement and they didn't have backups/whatever). Makes me a bit hesitant to bite on certain products I might be interested in if the asking price is more than I'm willing to risk losing. Whoever comes up with the Steam of music software world is gonna win the Noble Peace Prize.

I have a couple iloks, but there are plenty of reasons why I sympathize with the haters. Honestly the only system I like is the one that treats the user as a law abiding citizen and doesn't have some sort of authorization method. But 100% off line with license files and no limited authorizations is also acceptable. Ilok doesn't meet those specifications. I'm sure you have heard the anti ilok rants, you either get it or you don't. It is helpful for reinstalls compared to other similar limited authorization methods.

No, not any more, I do follow it though after using it from Pro Audio 9 through to sometime during SONAR Platinum, I think they were still using place names as part of release names, not sure, midway through 2016, anyway. Mainly here for the 'DEALS' subforum, although I do inject a bit of 'humor' where it fits, and after jono's description above, I thought why not . . . That's one thing I always found even on the old forums with the brethren, no sense of humor, and if anyone dare say anything but praise towards Cakewalk/SONAR, they react as if someone has pissed in their coffee or had 'relations' with their wife. They need to learn to laugh a little, not be so sensitive, it's only a computer program, I don't get all this emotional attachment to companies and programs, as soon as I find something that in my opinion is better than anything I am using and I get confident with my proficiency with it I'm gone, no regrets, no tears, it's just a computer program, not my Grandmother or my Wife, or my only child. Sorry for the rant, and taking up your time, I do look forward to when 'Sonar' drops and seeing what it's like, I'll likely just look on from the sidelines first and see what's what, then if it pricks my interest/curiosity, I'll install it on my test machine and take a real look at it. Don't think I'll bother even checking out 'Next', but you never know, there is still time to impress 😁 I'm not looking for another DAW, but I think it's best practice to know whats out there etc, just like I'm doing with my Drum vsti, I have no intention of leaving BFD3, but I still check out everything just in case, so I'll check out that new 'DW' thing. May your toast never burn, and your coffee be hot 👍

Also in the Roman Empire there were some old men that had pointed out the decline before it actually was true! Sometimes it would be a good idea to listen to wiser old men/women that have a great picture of what is going on! 😄

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Hey, I think you know from our conversations, I was enjoying nerding out on this stuff. And you can poke fun at me! I do it all the time. I don't think there was any drama. I was just trying to provide some friendly encouragement that despite both Soundwise and I being in agreement that most pop music today is formulaic, over- quantizatized and over-tuned, that young people actually still are playing music, that physical musical instrument sales and music software sales are both up. That while the music getting put out by major labels may not be to our liking, that there is still some good to great music being made by young artists and some of them are innovating and pushing instrument performance and technique to new levels. Yes, they're not getting signed on major labels or played on the radio or top Spotify lists or getting millions of streams per month, but they're out there. As Soundwise pointed out, what was once mainstream is now niche. I think that's a true statement. Although, the truth is, great music often historically hasn't been the popular music of the day. Look back at the charts from whatever you consider the golden era of music and you'll find that some of the best music of the era wasn't the most popular and things have gotten worse in that respect, IMO. So I agree that the best music being produced today is more difficult to find then in past generations. I suppose I'm a bit inspired to have posted, coming from a family of music educators and having recently (last week) lost a friend who was a music educator and musician I used to perform with. It makes me tuned into what younger generations than me are doing musically and informs my perspective and keeps me from being jaded. My points weren't about drama or tension. They were to encourage based on Soundwise and I sharing a mutual love of music. Hopefully, @Soundwise sees it as such. Despite not loving my sentence "not to go sour"! (Which, BTW, meant "let's not be too negative about things," as there's a lot beyond pop music to be positive about. I suppose it is a bit risky to use slang in the forum as terms can have different meanings and connotations depending on regions and country.)

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Hi John, thanks. I added studio to my post. I have some other vsts acting weird too, blank gui, addictive drums error msg. So probably just me. I will likely uninstall and reinstall cake tomorrow and try again. I have very slow internet sometimes things dont download well!

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Lynn, I always listen to your songs several times to appreciate the accompanying bits you do so well (and maybe steal them 😁) No exception here and I agree with Daryl about the chorus which is still playing in my head hours later. Great job. -Bjorn

It is free compressor day. I have this several times over but will take the free WUP'ing.

I singed up and got their free pedals. Even got TheKlone pedal which required giving my email and was sent a link of it. But I did not receive another email for a drumkit vst. It's not listed on their site and when I search on google only this forum comes up when I search "Neural Drumkit Lite".

I just listened to this over on that social network that we go to.... Brilliant mate. Love it. The chorus is amazing and I wish I wrote it

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Track View -> Options -> FX -> Show Assignable Controls, On... Assignable Controls will show up under the FX Rack bin, four parameters... Right Click the parameter that you want, go to Group ->... Select the Group you want for every FX you want to control... Now all parameters in the group will be able to be controlled as one... If the parameter that you want to edit is not listed right click on any of them and Reassign Control ->... There is a bit of a bug in the grouping... Seem first time you edit not all plugins will update, but after that they all do... Also on my PC if I try to group DX - FX, like the Sonitus Compressor that you have in your screen shot, when I right click the parameter to group Cakewalk crashes to the desktop every time...