Mánibranðr Studios

How exactly do you get Aria?

This is very nice. My only real critique is that you could add a short pause at the end of that pitchbent saw climax before the rest of the song begins, so as to give it a bit of a dramatic flair.

Thank you! Those are all good points emeraldsoul, but I made the pianos in the middle third loud in the mix because I wanted it to stay dominant until the final third when things changed over.

Started from a piano track on Musescore that was meant to be a re-composed intro of one of my first songs, a small idea to add orchestral texture evolved this piece into something fully-realized. I leaned heavily on Spitfire Labs' free instruments, while using Kontakt's Factory Selection for the acoustic Upright Bass and Cakewalk's Studio Instruments Strings for the top layer of Violins.

This mix sounds very nice and smooth. It could use a bit more dynamics to emphasize certain beats even more, but other than that it sounds good.

I think there are spots where you're resting on the tonic for too long. I counted 14 bars of straight up I chords at the beginning, which can feel a bit redundant after a while. If you can do something to jazz up the progression like the I-Ima7-I7-IV line cliche, it would keep the listener a bit more engaged.

The mix itself is pretty nice though.

Will they ever be available again? And if so, what is the current timeline and progress for re-releasing them?

There are other options available if you don't have a Hardware MIDI module. You can always use Plogue's sforzando to load soundfonts and SFZ libraries, and use those to route MIDI channels through individually.

You'd be better off if you use Expression instead since Expression scales off of the Volume, which will make it easier if you need to do an overall adjust on the track's loudness.

Yeah...I keep coming back to this. Enjoy!

EDIT : Yeah screw it, I am just publishing it on Soundcloud

Forcing a reset seemed to work! Thanks!

Maybe I am missing something, but I have been missing the option to manually add ProChannel modules to the Pro-Channel lanes for a while and I am assuming that it's a config issue. I had been trying to fix this for a while but with no luck, the only way I could load stuff outside of the default is load a preset that has the module I need and then just live with what else is missing. Anyone else having this issue?

9 hours ago, bitman said:

It fixed itself. Worked all night.

I have a notion the maybe my ada8000s didn't init right as I never cycled power on that rack last night during my troubles. If I recall that was what fixed it before. I do have dumps. Want em anyway? I came here to delete the thread if possible.

A dump file would be a good idea anyways, it could be a symptom of another issue.

2 minutes ago, emwhy said:

Thanks for the offer Noel. I have 3 minidumps.......how do I send them to you?

 

 

You can try uploading to Google Drive or Dropbox and then linking it to them in PMs.

I think I may have fixed this issue. I looked deeper into event viewer and noticed that my Bluetooth driver had also malfunctioned at around the same time, with the same error opcode. Since I don't use Bluetooth on this PC anymore I uninstalled it, along with a bunch of other software I no longer need, and that seemed to make the crash go away.

I also realized that I forgot to launch Bandlab Assistant before launching Cakewalk, maybe that might be causing some of the crashes?

On 5/5/2019 at 11:43 PM, Victor Peters said:

Hi,

I just downloaded and installed Sound Canvas VA and I'm trying to get it to work and play some of my GS MIDI files.

I was able to play MIDI files throught the Sound Canvas VA in Reaper (https://www.reaper.fm/), but I'm unable to do so in Cakewalk by BandLab version 2019.03 (build 20l, 64 bit). I can't find a way to direct the output of the (MIDI) tracks to the Sound Canvas VA VST plugin. I've had a hardware Sound Canvas (SC-8850) in the past and was able to play the MIDI files through that unit, but it seams that Cakewalk doesn't recognize the Sound Canvas VA as a VST-instrument that can handle MIDI data.

Any help to get this working before the trail expires would be very appreciated.

Use LoopMIDI to create a custom MIDI port and SAVI Host to load SCVA. Then on Cakewalk, add the MIDI port that you created as a MIDI device.

15 minutes ago, garybrun said:

Good work on your song!
I tried your project file and it does not crash on my system,

Did you try starting from a later part of the song? I believe I mentioned that the project plays fine if I start from the beginning. Thanks though!

I may have found a clue in Windows Event Viewer which ended up logging the crashes.

So I have been having issues with Cakewalk, in fact it's kind of a brick wall that I'd consider a huge liability.

I have this project that basically sending MIDI data to my SD-50 with the objective of creating a MIDI file that is specific to the SD-50. However, I ran into an issue where if I move the transport past a certain point in the song, it would crash as soon as I hit play, causing the MIDI module and the ASIO driver to hang, forcing a system restart each time. I don't have the time or resources to diagnose this further, and it doesn't help that only an empty dump file was created. I am going to just include the project file itself so you can take a look at it yourselves. I am running Windows 7 x64 with 8 GB of RAM, my SD-50 is being used here as my ASIO interface and MIDI module. Keep in mind, the song plays fine if run from the start, and only crashes if the transport is past a certain point.

TEAR-The 4 Fates.cwp

I'll just link my own topic here instead.

On 2/7/2019 at 6:10 PM, SPAK said:

Might be my monitors but the bass seems too high and it's a bit 'muddy'

High as in too much on the high end or mixed in too hot?

Rock Remix of the Hatshepsut Theme from Serious Sam TFE and Serious Sam HD : TFE which I previously composed in MIDI and then later mastered.

Loop points for those interested in using it in their projects :

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14 hours ago, Wookiee said:

Could this be described as thrash Pop?, interesting stuff, production sound good here.

I describe it as Acoustic Rock, and thanks :3 

I am enjoying the sense of ambience this song brings.

So I found this project laying around in one of my thumb drives, and it was a bundle so most of the stems were intact, which is great because it had enabled me to clean up the mix a bit and add some better mastering to it.

This does have some nice ambience to it, sounds like music to get high and messed up on shrooms to.