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5 hours ago, whoisp said:

The originally mix i did was a heavier mix and i then always do a mix with more empathise on feeling and emotion. By far the majority choose this mix for the overall balance and feel than the heavier bass and drum mis, i know what you mean though.  If it was more instrumental i would have sacrificed more. I'm just experimenting with adding some type of EDM to my normal guitar songwriting style and getting more technical with cakewalk. I need to improve my mixing and mastering, this is my 11th song using a daw after choosing cakewalk its been a massive learning curve and getting the guitar out after 20yrs. Next project i am not sure what to do, maybe drum and bass or a classical soundtrack.

I believe you can keep balance and get baas and kick better.

I got Rbass free about 8 years ago, didn't pay WUP until this year and only because I wanted interface update. It still worked fine. Waves rarely makes major changes to software. I would not stress it at all. 

I think "best" is not only subjective but will vary based on a number of factors like your skill in sound design and end goals. If your goal is to get out of the box sounds used in modern hit pop songs, Omnisphere is a strong candidate . Serum also goes in that category but will be even more dominant among EDM producers who prefer designing own sounds as opposed to great presets.  If a more vintage sound is your goal, one of the many quality emulations of classic synths may be up your alley.  Right now my go to synth is Pigments 3. It does everything Serum does and more.  Another quality candidate is Vital, which is free and similar to Serum. Another great free candidate is Surge. User interface is kinda blah, but it packs a lot of capability. Bottomline is that best synth is one that is most useful to you.

Watch some videos of creators making the type of music you make and see if there is a common denominator.  With that said, just because the same products come up often does not mean you must use them to get good results. Experiment and best of luck.

This has a very modern feel to it.  Love it.  so clean!

This sounds great, but I think the bass and drums should knock a little harder for this type of song.  remember, this is dance music.  If that thump isn't there, it won't flow with the rest of the songs people are dancing to in the club.  You have a great base.  just tweak that mix to give a bit more thump. It's making me relax, which is good, but a few tweaks to mix and I will be dancing instead.

Maybe it's he fact that i was brought up on old school reggae, but I don't mind the slightly off notes.  it adds a bit of human passion to the song that makes it feel very heartfelt. great job

2 hours ago, Alan Tubbs said:

Since I haven’t really mucked with it, I guess it isn’t what we need for cakewalk. 

It has potential but as is, is more effective for mobile imo.  Like much of bandlab, it favors convenience and ease of use over power user features. 

5 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

Have you had a look at this tutorial? I know nothing, I just remembered this is in the tutorials section. 😀

I have viewed this video. He does a great job. Unfortunately as of the time I posted this, it was not working consistently. I heard the new update works better

And just for clarity, I did not mean that as a slight. I think the target market that the sampler in bandlab is aimed at it is awesome. It's very intuitive and nice for found sound type work

1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

Which in turn is a stripped down version of anything we'd have called a sampler post-20th century.

 

Koala is actually very functional for what it's designed for. It is basically an app version of an sp404. Koala's functionality in sonar would have went a long way in making it more useful to modern pop production.  It's not kontakt, but kontakt is useless for what koala does despite being exponentially more powerful.

It's like a stripped down version of koala. It's not bad at all

On 7/21/2021 at 9:00 AM, Guerilla Genus said:

Good News...!  IF you have the full version of  MPC Software.   Version 2.10 was released yesterday. The update seems to run pretty smooth with Cakewalk. I ran it this Am with no crashes and my test project saved and loaded without issues

I got it yesterday. It's pretty extensive. Have not tried in cakewalk yet

22 minutes ago, scook said:

yes

both Poise and Grace are free

Thanks. Tried grace. Decent but workflow is too meh for today's generation. Poise may be an option

Decisions decisions. You all make great points. 

I'm trying to make some decisions and i need his deal knowledge. 

On 7/19/2021 at 4:59 PM, Guerilla Genus said:

I tried MPC Beats but...MPC Beats is too resource hungry and takes almost 700MB of ram. The load time takes too long and causes too many crashes. I would only use that stand alone mode. An option I found that works is Poise VSTi it is 64bit and has all the functions of the MPC style sampler and its free...if you are interested the link is here https://www.onesmallclue.com/

and a video walkthrough ..

 

 

I remember poise. It is actually free now??

so far in my demo, I noticed two things.  Ezbass seems to have custom note mapping unless it's just me Modo sounds fuller.  I think i will come down to how valuable I find  Toontrack's AI since Modo definitely sounds better

The songwriting aspects of EZbass are kind of impressive.  The two instruments sound good.  Doe anyone have experience with scaler 2 and ezbass? if scaler 2 functionality is somewhat comparable modo may be better value

4 minutes ago, Piotr said:

Modo is not giving you all those great songwriter tools so I believe those two are different leagues...

that's what makes i tough.  just downloaded trial of both

Trying  to decide between this and modo bass

1 minute ago, abacab said:

Good to know. I've never looked at the BandLab app...

I revisit it from time to time.  it has improved greatly.  Maybe the only DAW that works well across phone and computer.  i am thinking of even testing on my xbox too

Nice addition.  reminds me a lite version of koala

I'm hoping that bandlab app getting a sampler is a sign one may come to cakewalk

On 7/13/2021 at 4:19 PM, Waynebo said:

The most useful thing they could re-release is an updated version of Beatscape. A sample player that did time-stretching synced to tempo and automatically chopped the samples and assigned them to keys. 

I'm still bummed about losing access to that one!

I tried hard to like beatsacape but never found i useful. It's not that is sounded bad.  it just had a workflow that was clunky o me

I decided o play with it some more.  I think i may be underrated