Tim Smith

Very well put together tune and video. I am not familiar with your other work so I should check it out. I find this very engaging musically and visually.

Sounds very much like Jagger to me both in vocals and in style. The style itself, especially in the verses is, I guess, characteristic of a more mono tone vocal sung almost more like a conversation than the typical rock vocal.

Thank you David for listening and comments. Now I need to see what a sakbut is

From what I read I might possibly have MIDI loop back due to sending midi from both my controller usb AND a hardware midi out into my interface. I must somehow be getting both of those at the same time. The really odd thing for me is I didn't notice any playback irregularities. I only noticed this when I was editing data in the PR.

I have had this one for a few months and I though it was complete. Have you ever gone back to something you did and literally hated it? That's what happened here. I returned to this mix from Oct this year and decided to rework it completely. I slowed it from 120 to 118bpm. I re played the flute part ( on keys) . I replaced the guitar sound. I dumped all of the plugins I used before and decided to change it up. You probably didn't hear the original. Classical music with a guitar and a flute.

I noticed this rather accidentally when doing some small edits in the PR. I'll delete a note and there's another note under it in the same location. There can be up to three or four notes sitting at the same location. I have not noticed playback issues. Can you tell me why this is happening?

The more people that go to this the more encouraged they will be. The only hope is it will be a total failure. Rent to own is one thing. 9.99 a month forever is a long time. I get it. They want a regular more predictable income. I'm not sure this is the way to get it. Is everyone really that hard up they can't save and buy a program?Is this what it's all coming to?

I mix with ATH-M50x which are noted to be a bit heavy in the low mids. I use Sonarworks headphone correction which helps. Still seems to be a big difference in any mix between my monitors using ARC 3 and the headphones. I have posted mixes without the correction and it doesn't make a huge difference for me. Another possibility is I used Ozone 9 piano setting which notoriously thins out the piano because it's made for a full mix. Thanks for your crits!

I have been sitting on the fence with regard to Cubase for a long time. The more developed Cakewalk becomes, the less prone I am to jump to anything else. I have several other DAWs. I tried FL and it just didn't jive with me. .....and maybe this is irrelevant- There was a good reason those guys left Cubase and started Studio One. At that time I had the feeling Cubase was becoming just another suits heavy corporation that were discouraging their talent rather than encouraging it. If Cubase would ever leave their glass house and decide to give a sale that actually looks like an incentive to buy it, I might jump. The core program is ok and the added things it has make it appealing. Many of those who once used it exclusively are moving to programs like Reaper. I see them as another Pro Tools. Too Big for their britches and not smart enough to realize it.

I still keep the whole thing around in case I decide to use the lesser used things at some point. Just bought the update to 12 mainly for the acoustic guitar and a few other things I didn't have. I know 13 is out and no, I'm not superstitious. I just didn't see the need for 13 at this time. This is all opinion and only what I think. I believe NI would have fared better overall if they had simply sold updated versions of Kontakt with their basic factory library. Then they could sell the rest separately. So much of it does go unused on a lot of systems I believe. If however, someone wants a well rounded loaded bunch of different options and has no issue with keeping large sample sets on disk then updating the program every few years or maybe a bit longer might make sense on a deal. Certainly not worth the full retail asking price for most looking to update an existing Komplete version. I am becoming more of a sample library snob because simply grabbing all of the best deals with no real thought as to what they do or how I might use them wastes valuable space. I've pretty much figured out what I really need by now and I'm WAY beyond that as I type this.

Thanks for comments Andy. This is the Concert Grand in my Casio PX-5S. This is what I'm using as a controller right now. I also tracked midi but didn't use it. Probably the thing making it thin is I likely rolled off too much base with EQ. The whole thing took me about 20 minutes to play and put together. Thanks you David. Much appreciated.

I made this yesterday morning in a short amount of time as music for a pre service live stream. This is why it's 4 or so Christmas songs all strung together. I'm getting better at playing, mixing and mastering 10 minute segments of music fast.....I think. I made up the arrangements of these common hymns on the fly. I did not intend for it to in any way be loud so not much limiting was done. I would be interested to hear if you think this needs to be louder for the type of music it is.

Thanks Bjorn! I guess it all depends on the material you are trying to make. Shevannai is similar to Mimi Page. The differences as I see between them is In Shenvannai there are more soundscapes which I don't tend to use because I like to build my own. Not sure if this is a typical thing with Edward's libraries- The included soundscapes don't mix well because they often have off tunings that cannot be changed. They are ok stand alone but not as a part of a mix so much in my opinion. The speaking phrases are definitely more geared to "elf" material in Shevannai than in Mimi Page. Not that you can't achieve similar in Mimi Page. In using Shevannai sometimes the samples hesitate almost like I have terrible latency. This does not happen in Mimi Page. They might be much larger samples. I would not buy Shevannai paying full price. I think it is a value on sale. Not sure what you mean?

Nice work there Paul.

It was mostly the harp in Aramadeus Orchestra.

Hi Larry, Thanks for your honesty here. It would not take much for me to totally scrap the flute and this just about pushed me over the edge. An explanation on the length. I seldom make anything this long. I made this to fill a 10 minute gap in a pre service live stream where they show online slides before the main event, hence the length. Having the music makes sure the audio part of the feed is working before we put the main feed online. The whole thing took every bit of maybe an hour to make at most which included the mastering and mixing. I could have saved some time had I left out the flute I think @PhonoBrainer was onto me already. Thanks to the rest who took the time to listen and comment! @antler @David Sprouse@jack c. and @Larry T. I find these comments very valuable in my mixing!

I think I popped for the 49. At the time it didn't seem like a bad deal. I wouldn't say it's "new and improved" it's just different. More tools in the box. I am still able to use both 1&2 no problem.

@PavlovsCat this is a great idea. I don't have much to contribute that hasn't been mentioned. Spitfire felt piano is great for low key music. I second BBCSO Discover. I eventually upgraded still have discover. Ample Guitar lite is a very believable acoustic guitar that's free. Anyone who has watched Creative Sauce will find freebs in some of his videos.

The forum goes deep and has been around for a long time. Several of the old timers have likely moved on to populate cemeteries here and there. I am now an old timer who was once a youngin' . I would say this is a community and not a forum in the sterile sense. No other DAW has this tight of a clan on a forum period. Trust me I've checked em all out. We lost several when Cakewalk was in trouble but some of those guys still come back here on occasion. Now I see new faces. Well ok. Not faces but you know what I mean. I hope it keeps the vibe.

Bars or anywhere else people get loud are good places to break into playing out live. Nobody s really ever paying any attention to you and most of them don't hear you. It is truly just background noise. My vote for the loudest place I've ever been in around here is PF Chang's believe it or not. No live music in there. Just a whole bunch of people all talking at the very top of their lungs. No carpet on the floor. Acoustics are terrible highlighting the effect. I had to yell for the person next to me for them to hear me....and so is everyone else.

Hi Paul, As a person who was sincerely trying to offer the best info I possibly could based on what I know. I still pulled that answer out of my butt so to speak. I hope the concept at least helped some. I simply see the ear as a pickup device which in your case is lacking in some areas and needs correction. Whether the correction is in two steps: Hearing aid>Headphone correction........................or one step. Headphone correction for flat response based on your ears. To me this would be the most comfortable. In any case I'm not sure how we could get away from two curves. Certain frequencies may have been especially hyped in the hearing aids and they likely were going for intelligibility as a goal over a flat response. ....and I hate to say it- if certain parts of the ear are 'dead' to certain frequencies, then nothing is going to help that. It's easy to suggest having this info but probably much more difficult to accurately obtain it, and this is such an individual thing that one case won't be like another. I hate to suggest augmenting with visual representations of the audio like a spectrograph, but maybe that would be helpful? The thing is you won't know if you made a good mix. You will only know you made a mix that sounds good to you. The real proof is to see how it sounds to others who you totally trust after you think you have it ironed out. Good luck!

Never heard your music and I don't know what you wear. I will say I've seen some very famous sloppy dressed musicians and it seems to actually work in their favor.

This is a typical Irish session for me most of the time. lol.

Here's one I made as intro music to a web feed. I am considering either completely removing the flute or re writing the flute part.

Thanks guys for listening and comments.