John Vere

I have 22 finished original songs ready for the world to hear. I’ve been using Sound Cloud and Sound Click to post and listen on my phone and Bluetooth headphones as part of the proofing process. They both offer some sort of fee based upgrades to get paid for ? downloads? streaming? I don’t really care if I get paid but it would certainly be nice if it is an easy option. I'm in the process of researching what is the best system of delivery these days? I’m way out of touch. Most of the bands at festivals I've hung out with seem to use Spotify And the other question is it necessary to properly register your songs these days? Here's the collection https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=1420844&content=music

This is a timely post for me but I have my own questions so I best start a new thread as to not hijack But thanks for the video links.

Using transients is sort of the older method that still can be used but drag and drop tempo extraction is much quicker when it works. And you do need Melodyne installed. I’ll add that once you extract a tempo map an additional step is required to line up the original audio to the grid. Turn on ripple edit. Now select all CTRL A. And drag whole song and line up the first down beat to 2nd or 3rd measure downbeat. Turn off Ripple edit. The whole song should now follow the metronome

Did you know you can drag the drum replacer track to a midi or instrument track? Then you undo the regional effect and carry on. You now have a midi track and can use better drum sounds to replace the audio. You can also Quantize it but leakage from other drum mikes often screws this up.

But only the You Lean meter will analyze a whole file all at once in seconds. All other meters are in real time so you have to play a whole track/ song/movie/mp3 file to get your reading. Best $50 I ever spent. And under testing a bunch of meters they all seem equally accurate as far as LUFS and RMS go, but the You Lean has better peak detection. And you use it’s read out to book mark peaks. It leaves a red dot. This speeds up the task of manually removing peaks. Same with limiters I tested at least 10 and the Loud Max was the most accurate. It’s easy to test limiters and meters. Set the limiter at -1.0 and put a few loudness meters after the limiter in the bin. Start turning up the Gain and observe.

Yes agreed as above good song Idea and structure but the music is totally out of time to the drums. Almost sounds like you added the drums later. If the original part was recorded without a metronome then drag the guitar ? track to the timeline to create a tempo map. Then you can use that to quantize the drums.

Yes for sure and I would say they are defiantly part of my sound. My son has had the honor of playing Bass for Jim Cuddy a few times. I'm a long time Country Rocker at heart. Jimmy Ranken is another person I try to emulate in my recordings. I have never really featured a keyboard in my songs but over time my playing has improved. To the point that I was asked to play keyboard live in a band over last winter so was really getting into it. Once again this leads to me going over all 36 of my songs and redoing the keyboard parts which where sort of mostly lame. My Cakewalk Band which is on almost every song includes the DB 33, Lounge Lizard, True Pianos and my new toys are Glassy and Sweetcase. I'm a huge Wurly/Rhodes fan. I still have Model T on a few songs but it's 32 bit so it makes me nervous. I have it frozen. Good to here that the song is translating to other systems well. That's a huge project of mine that's taken a lot of time to achieve. I'm not sure what You Tube does but it's a down side of releasing music on that format is you sort of loose control, just like MP3 uploads. When I'm, done I will share my workflow in a tutorial.

Figured so. I'm possibly the only person who likes it and uses it. And yes I have a couple of project templates I use but those don't have any tracks. Just my buses. I add audio tracks either using a track template or the add track which as I said can choose which interface input I'm using and the bus. And like for vocals I tell it to insert 3 tracks which is another weirdness of mine as I hate take lanes so I use 3 tracks instead.

@Twub Just for you. I found my video and updated the errors. Sorry you are having trouble installing SSD. Like I said start a new thread this is my last answer on this one.

Mr @Twub I recommend you start a new thread and clearly state what you have done so far and what is not working and including a clear screen shot of the track header with all dialogue boxes showing. At this point it is not clear what to say to be of any help.

I stopped using that method a few years ago I use the Add Track Dialogue. I find it odd that no one seems to be using the Add Track dialogue and still use the old method. Everything is there. All the options. And a huge improvement is choosing input and outputs all at once. Between that and Replace Synth I rarely use the options in the browser. I hope they clean that all up in the new version. Do we really need 10 ways to insert an instrument?

Thanks everyone for your kind feedback. I actually now have a remix where I fixed so very very small things that bugged me. First was the very first tick was not loud enough because it was on zero of the time line. I was apprehensive of turning on Ripple edit and dragging the whole song 1 measure but it worked. The other was in the 2 measure of the organ solo I was hearing something wrong. Looking at the midi data I couldn’t see anything out of place. So I thought I’d just re draw the glitch note and after I deleted the note there was a hidden note underneath! That’s what caused the cut off. This is why it takes me 20 years to finish songs. Take Note that I updated the link to on Sept 16 2023 to fix these few mistakes.

I made a complete tutorial about this but I deleted all those last winter. I was re posting but now I'm waiting for the new releases as this version will soon be obsolete. But the main thing to understand about the interface of a digital kit is the VST you use should have a drum map for your kit. You see in my screen shot it is not listed in Addictive drums. Possibly the TD 15 might be OK. But this is important to have to do this. There are custom Drum maps available. The reason is especially things like Hi Hat use special controller events to emulate a real Hi Hats variables. Otherwise your only getting note on and velocity. Hopefully those videos explain that. But the good news is all you really need to do is record your kit to an plain Midi track. Edit any blunders and send it back to the kit and record the stereo output from the kit. The playback will be identical to live sound of the kit with all the special articulations and whatnot. Bummer I see the Drum Modul doesn't have separate outputs for the kit pieces, only stereo. That rules that out, therefore only Midi and using a VST instrument would take you to the next level of having multi track kit pieces. So the workaround for that is as mentioned soloing each kit piece in turn and recording it.

@Colin Nicholls when you posted her name I went- Hey I know her, she's that amazing keyboard player from You Tube. The ones I saw she was playing in a public area and another one I think she was featured at a trade show. Amazing talent for sure. Annabelle, of course you don't probably use You Tube but it has totally replaced television in the modern world so people like Rachel are modern day celebrities. Have you ever submitted a feature request? I guess they broke it with the advent of the Skylight interface in Sonar X1. I myself stayed with good old Sonar 8.5 right up until X 3 and even then I took a year to totally switch over.

I might have about the same but I only use 20 of them! My excluded list is 4x bigger than non excluded.

This is why I recommend the paid version of the You Lean meter. It is the only meter that allows instant results by drag and drop of audio (and video) files to the GUI. There is a free version that works in real time as well but the upgrade is only $50 Can. If your time is worth anything to you this is a very good investment. https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/ I think I already explained clearly my workflow so I won't elaborate. Key point is that if each track has been optimized and adjusted then there would be no need for buses or a separate export per track. It would all be done in way less time. Good workflows are ones that might take more prep work but save time in the long run. That prep work includes a proper recoding environment and set up and the right mike and equipment. If you tried a SM7B you might not need to do any editing. I used to own an AT 2020. It does not work at all for me for the reasons you just mentioned. Noisy.

In my experience with using both drivers a lot, playback of music in Cakewalk would not be any different. It's only recording where ASIO is most important so that new audio tracks will sync properly to the already recorded material. An live recording where there is no syncing involved will also be just fine, But that said if a device comes with ASIO then you would normally want to use it. There might be a situation where an ASIO driver is very poorly written and the WASAPI driver seemed more stable. But that seems like a rare off chance. You're lucky the Soundcraft works with WASAPI, mine doesn't. I've often connected it to other computers and couldn't get it to be recognized by windows until I installed the ASIO driver. A few people have pointed out that my video is W10 and that W11 is a little different. None of my computers will support W11 so I never upgraded. As far as I understand all the setting are still there and the same but it looks different and possibly pathways to settings have changed.

Exactly. It would sort of work if you don’t mind listening to everything late by 30 ms or more. It makes it impossible to properly edit midi and audio with any accuracy. Your better off with a set of normal headphones which is pretty important gear for music. I’ve even bought those $10 one from dollar store that are half way decent.

My question is, does this happen if you only use the one laptop? I now see that deleting the whole of the Aud. in would be a mistake for this one reason. It would trash all the ASIO input/output assignments. I haven't done my old laptop I use just for playback on Win Amp. It has an up to date version of Cakewalk installed that I used 2 years ago to record a live band. So I have a multi input template still available that should open and be ready to record 14 tracks. I will need to get my Tascam interface back from a friend I leant it to a while ago. But when I do I'll test and see what happens. First I'll clean out the obvious garbage and test. Then I'll delete everything and test again. I will also test with the newer laptop I will be using at the end of September for a live recording session I have booked. If this is true then my new quote for using ASIO devices live will be; Always have all devices connected, powered up and recognized as the device by Windows,( Check the system tray ) before opening Cakewalk. Do not delete the driver information in the Aud,in file or you will loose channel assignments.

They will always tell older folks that they need hearing aids. I took the test at the request of my wife when she was being fitted for her 3rd pair. This is a very expensive handicap! They give you a print out that shows your EQ curve which for us audio engineers we can fully understand what that is. My results look almost exactly like my wife's! A drop off beyond 800hz that falls off the scale. But- my wife is very hard of hearing. I will agree my hearing is fading but not any where as bad as hers. If she is not wearing them somebody can be ringing the doorbell and she won't hear it. Lot's of examples of how my hearing is possibly still at 85% but hers is probably as bad as 50%. I can hear a high pitched whine from dimmed lighting! So why the same results and advice to purchase a pair. I play in a duo with long time music partner Curt. He's still a smoking Banjo player as well as he plays bass in a 12 piece R&B band. He is like my wife and has used hearing aids for over 10 year now too. He is the guy who asks for the floor wedges to be on the edge of killing you. He insists on using vocal mikes in the front room for rehearsals. His newest aids have a special EQ setting for music which he say's is working a bit better, in the past he couldn't wear them as it sounded awful. We can't convince him he needs in ear monitors! At least bass is an instrument that is usually easy to hear on stage, but he always wants his amp louder than the sound man and band mates do. And Banjo's are REAL LOUD. but he still struggles in coffee house acoustic gigs. With his aid in! We also have a close friend Michael from Arizona who spends the summer here who finally bought new hearing aids. Last year we noticed he wasn't understanding other sides of conversations and had a bad habit of always going " Hmm, and uh Hau" you talked. He was a social outcast. He had cheap hearing aids that obviously were not working. He is like a different person now. What I learned from these 3 people is that you need GOOD hearing aids. Some brands just don't work as well. The good ones are well over $3 grand in Canada. Michael and my wife are now using Oticon aids. Curt bought his from Costco as were my wife's last pair, and seems they are not really working to me. A hearing aid is an overpriced In Ear monitor ( headphone ear bud) with a built in mike and pre amp. The good ones have processing which is very basic EQ. Which brings me to my other experience with hearing loss. I worked in a Care Facility for 6 years. Hearing aid don't go well with dementia. They will take them out and loose them in a short time. For our events we bought what are known as "Pocket talkers." A set of cheap airplane style, foam headphones paired with a body pack with a mike and a amp built in. The price range of these goes from $30 to $1,000. We found a brand for $150 that were outstanding sound quality. I highly recommend these for people who would still need a boost for things like church services. Better sound quality at a fraction of the cost. Sorry for the long story but I sort of needed to qualify my answer which is "no" Your brain adjusts to deficiencies as we age. Our studio monitors have been with us for a long time and we learn to know what a good mix sounds like on those even as our hearing declines. And any set of good studio headphone will have way better sound quality than even the highest priced hearing aids.

Normally over a 5 year period Sonar updates and whatever we probably saved well over $500 or more. Isort of remember reading this back then but key points I now understand are the implications that now have come forth And the PS. About baking something special

All covered in my videos. The one about the multi dock shows you the tricks. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox&si=qyN03b6MOWh18Ns3

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