Wookiee

5 minutes ago, KSband said:

Thanks @Wookiee! It's a Fishman wireless, has a stick on pickup and a controller that mounts to the back strap button.  There is no way I could perform live with it, I get so many glitched notes. Still easier for me to go back and edit out the glitches than to try to hunt and peck out the chords on a keyboard. 

Have you tried Jam Origin MIDI guitar. Version 3 for PC will be in BETA soon. Very different from MIDI guitar 2. Turns your guitar into an MPE controller. Several videos on YouTube worth a watch, no need for special pickups.

This Just fell out of the furry paws.
 

Just Toys Used.

Instruments

ToonTrack

Superior Drummer 3 Rock Warehouse Default Tweaked

EZBass Fretless Rock

Cherry Audio

GX 80

DCO-106

Geforce

MTron Pro IV

OB-EZ (OB E with reduced interface)

FX

Boz Digital 

+10dB compressor

Width

All other FX are stock supplied with Cakewalk or S-Plat

No such thing as a bad dog only a bad owner  

Nice groove, quality Sax work as ever. What do you use for MIDI guitar, do you have a hex pickup or MIDI Guitar 2 from Jam Origin.

I liked.

Mix works well here, very good singer, nicely balanced mix. Not hearing any distortion here, only listen to the original mix in first post.

Production is what I have come to expect from you Steve. The tune didn't do much for me  

1 minute ago, jkoseattle said:

OK yeah, I added a bit because he's supposed to be far away, maybe it doesn't work.

If you want to create distance just reverb is not enough you need to narrow the frequency range as well, i.e. cut the top and bottom ends.

Mix wise it does sound like there is just a tad to much reverb on the "trumpet" compared with the rest of the instruments.

2 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I've running  SONAR Platinum on Windows 11 without issue. 

Same here.

Sorry to hear of your friends troubles, I have been witness to the toll chemo takes. Wishing you, him and his family all the best Dave. 

On 3/17/2024 at 7:44 PM, jwnicholson78 said:

The combination of the sound choices and the pulsing rhythms is really well done.  Definitely has an epic feel to it.

Do you ever layer in orchestral sounds with the synths?  That would be a really tasty addition.

Jeff

Thanks for the listen. I considered myself a synthasist, meaning someone who makes music with synthetic instruments or synthesisers. Consequently I use synthetic strings etc. I don't have any sample libraries of Orchestral instruments, though I do have synths that have samples or particals of such instruments like the M1, Rapture Pro, Synclavier, and the samples on the M-Tron Pro IV from GForce and Melotron from Arturia. I use those if I want a more "realistic" instrument sound, but mainly I look for more synthetic sound. 

I belive it was Tomita who once said, try to get close when synthesising instruments but always add a twist, so the listener knows the truth or something similar. 

Again thanks for the ears, time and comments. 

First I would recommend only posting one track per post you are likely to get more listens.

OP sounds pleasant, what did you use, synths, samples etc, to my furry ears the strings on the left seemed a tad more forward then the others of your orchestra. 

I found the vocal a little forward and seems slightly separated from the backing track. are you using a different reverb on the vocal?

The overall mix of the backing track is not bad. as noted above perhaps over compressed.

Nice Mark, this is the first third party track I have listened to using the ARC Studio room correction Box.

19 minutes ago, Sal Sorice said:

@msmcleod, will things also improve for 4k 3840x2160?

Let's hope so furry paws crossed 

Wrong forum.

2 minutes ago, Tim Smith said:

Heavy metal rhythm is pretty easy to play. Solos? That's another thing altogether.

I did say I won't ask 😀😃🙂

@Tim Smith OK I won't ask 😉

34 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

I don't practice nearly enough to play barre chords perfectly every time, but one thing I have found is that they're not always desirable in the context of the song - so quite often I avoid them, preferring to limit my chords to 3 or 4 strings.

If you've a bass guitar is dictating the root or inversion of the chord, question whether you need the guitar to double that up.  If you've got a keyboard pad going on as well, even more so.

Also from a mixing point of view, having less instruments fighting for the same frequencies can make the whole mixing process much simpler.
 

It seems the trend these days is very much to use triads on only three strings, I see so many rhythm guitarist playing the G & D strings.

1 hour ago, Soundwise said:

Wait! Do you mean, that I also have to actually play the guitar?

Yes!

@Brian Walton Audiority do one call Big Goat, which is nice for 20 Euro's

27 minutes ago, DeeringAmps said:

I’m in the dark here. What is a moon muffin?

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shame on me for asking, but if I visit their site it would probably end up with me buying something I don’t need and won’t use. 🙃

It looks like a big muff distortion plugin.

Nice  

Nice clean vocal, mix seems OK, I did find the bass in the opening minuet boomed a little but that could be my room, I am currently working on that.

On 3/1/2024 at 1:36 AM, equality said:

Cool. I always find myself overwhelmed by the plethora of sounds available in vst-synths. I think you have done some great cherry picking, congrats!

 

Thank you, nice to know you found it cool. There are lots of sounds and most synths can make most sounds. But some are better at some than others the trick is to learn what each synth is good at. Then decide on what you are looking for, bass, lead, pad, purcussion, etc then limit your palette. Presets are good starting points, but always need tweaking to fit the tune and the mix.

On 4/15/2022 at 1:43 PM, Andy Drudy said:

When I use ''learn'' for the transport keys, the keylab does not seem to be sending any midi that is being received.

Are you on a MIDI track? I know that sounds a bit strange but I found that the best way to get it to work, presumably synths respond to the keyboard?