treesha

An ambient, washy piece with a bit of turmoil

Great work. all the elements are well done and the mix is great too. The song has a mood and vibe consistent throughout, between beauty and sadness, very nice.

https://youtu.be/XRNfGS8HnKo Hope all is well, maybe we should get Joe from impractical jokers on the case

What version? I havent seen this using studio 5 but not on most recent cakewalk update, still on previous one.

Thanks! I do think of music as my playtime (usually ha) and it was fun to do.

Hi Rob, thanks for listening and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think the drums are ok too, but I know I don't spend much time with drums and don't get creative with them, and in other styles that I write better drums would be a good move. Working on an instrumental piece now and learning komplete 12 and messing around with those drums so maybe that will be inspirational. I'm just not naturally drum inclined. I have sat at drum sets before and wondered how do drummers do what they do? thanks again

Tascam 2x2 meets my needs and i havent had any issues using it with cakewalk

Sounds great. I like your choice of sounds and their effects. Nice movements thru levels of tension and repetition of themes. Good Luck !

Try c:\programfiles\commonfiled\nativeinstruments Thats where mine were installed

Great song ! and you might be leadfoot but the fingers are flying ! I was distracted by what I think is rhythm guitar which sounds to me a bit too prominent and a little noisy, and has a way of interfering with your voice in the early sections, at the end sections it seems more balanced to me and I think sounds better then. Yes on louder vocals and yes on louder drums. Impressive work all around.

Thanks tom and Andy, I feel welcome ! Maybe you missed it tom because of the eclipse? As we all know is was "a little" work on the drums ha so I can try to be more creative and actually do some bigger work on them. I just got and am working to understand Kontakt 12, drum stuff in there that might help, no idea cause this program is so big and already needed support 2x ! so spending time on this at the moment. ugh. Thanks for the listens and comments !

Great first project ! Can we get to the end of the pandemic please ? In the deals section there is a post for ozone elements free. If you don't have it check it out. It has some tools you might like.

Very cool. I especially liked what you brought in just before 2 min and after. I like the bass part and would like to hear that better, not sure if its my listening environment or if the bass sound is dispersive and low in the mix. Just the thing for a Tuesday escape.

Great vibe, really easy to listen to and well done. If I was going to make any tiny adjustments, I would add a tiny bit more highs throughout, and I would turn down the guitar playing lead just a little bit and add more highs to that too so it is prominent via frequency vs loudness at times. Turn up the background vocals a little more cause they are nice. Enjoyed it as is a few times !

It made me happy. Great job. So many unexpected changes and complexities ! Fun song

Thanks Tom and Douglas ! good to be here. Tom, I literally laughed when I read your comment about something urgent going on vs the relaxing tones. Again I learned something new about my process. ha. And I completely agree that the drums in this piece are not very creative. I know, good point. I tend to lose patience when creating drum parts and really have no drumming ability or complex understanding of how they do what they do. I will keep this in mind for the future, and try to make drum parts more creative. Usually its like, that's good enough, move on to the fun stuff. Douglas, I agree it has a soundtrack vibe. I never know what to call instrumental pieces. Rob called his posted piece Bjarn Sails A Darkling Sea - a "hybrid-orchestral" scoring. So maybe that's a good descriptive. Thanks for the listens and the comments, very helpful and interesting experience for me

Thanks David, I think from writing "regular" songs for so long I have a tendency to write instrumentals with parts like verse chorus etc so I do wind up repeating stuff and then making up variations as they come along. I have no training musically but went to college for psychology. My brain seems to rebel against music theory etc education, but I love self-learning recording mixing mastering. I have fun playing around with music and some of the amazing instrument sounds available invite me to play around with them so I do maybe more than I used to. What does brav(e) o mean ha?

thanks Wookiee, i hope to post more. Mark, sometimes somebody says something that is more impactful than it seems on the surface. Your feedback on textures really gave me an aha moment. I never consciously thought of how much i like to play with textures in my art and music, I just play around and like what I like, and had not realized my own inclinations. So special thanks for your comment!

Never put songs online till recently so here goes. Winter Moon - on a hot day but in some ways it feels very wintery during these times. I think this was done mostly with D Pro sounds, and probably addictive drums. The picture is what the Arizona sun has done to the finish of my vehicle ha. I recently self-released a free album called Room for the Weak on treeshadefrance.bandcamp.com. A nod there to Joy Division, Ian Curtis, as the subject matter is about health issues. I put up some lyric videos on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzo25ctptXt5J5X64OgLVw cause the words are important to me. The album has some rock, dub-reggae influenced rock, ambient and humor too. I hadn't tried mastering before so the album is my first try using Izotope Ozone 9, tonal balance control and insight for some guidance. That's it for now, supposed to get Komplete tomorrow so forward with learning that .... thanks for listening, treesha

Turn off all fx button - in the control bar’s mix module, click the bypass all effects button temporarily to see if it is an effect in a project. Also could be related to the input monitoring button or a latency issue that sound like delay sometimes.

Thanks, yes it is set to whole measures so I can cut it right.

Say I have an audio beat that is long and cut out 1 measure of it, then paste it to a new track in the same project. Next I want to extend it using it as a groove clip. I right click and choose groove clip looping, or go into clip properties - groove clip and check the box "loop" and I get this message "Hidden data beyond slip edit points will be discarded. Continue?" If I continue the one measure beat changes appearance and has the rounded edges, but it is now well over 1 measure, say 1 and 1/4 measure so its not usable. I usually wind up doing pasting with the original clip it but maybe its time to ask how to deal with this. Thanks

I like it a lot and think you did a good job of capturing the mood and feeling you were aiming for. nice gift. Comparing it to how some of the izotope reference tracks for hip hop and big lows sound on my system, it sounds good and not too boomy. I like the thickness and drama. I write some instrumental stuff sometimes and never know what to call it. I see you call this piece hybrid-orchestral, interesting.

In the export audio box, under source category, if you choose "tracks" then cakewalk will export each track separately as a file with the options you choose. I think that is what you are asking how to do?

I recently wanted to try online mastering and compare to my own limited skills. So i tried a few songs in a few versions on Bandlab, i signed up for a month of cloudbounce based on reviews, and did 10 songs of different styles in about 3 or 4 different setting combinations (they have quite a few options) and used ozone 9 master assistant with adding my own additional modules like imager exciter low end balance and made some changes to the eq and maximizer settings. My conclusion was i liked my ozone outcomes best but with all the modules available its a much broader bunch of tools. Im pretty new to mastering so just how i felt with little mastering experience. I did a lot of reading about online mastering first, and believe experienced mastering ppl dont think too highly of the ai mastering, but they are experienced. Overall it was interesting to do all i did, listen to all the versions, look at how their eq patterns were etc. I learned a little more from trying online mastering experiments, but will be using ozone.