Rico Belled

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks Wookiee! Appreciate you taking the time to write even though it's not your cup of tea.

Excited to announce the release of Shoogie Doogie's sophomore release: "Colonel Ward's Pumping Station"

We made this here at my place, mastered in Cakewalk, produced in Ableton, lyrics with a heavy dose of ChatGPT, multiple instances of Elevenlabs AI voice, plus Korg Triton Samples for all the groans and yells, with of course Shoogie Doogie MCing.

Oh, and the artwork is AI too! The real place is discussed here:

Lemmeno what y'all think!

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43 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

Fun, funky song, but to me Falafel will always be food.

https://www.tarazifoods.com/shop/falafel-25-lbs/

What do you mean "but"? We can't write songs about food?

Thanks for listening!

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Hello my fellow Cakewalkers!

Wanted to post a new song my neighbor and I made, using AI! ChatGpt wrote most of the lyrics, Dall-E made some of the artwork! It's the first single off our upcoming EP called "Panties and Hot Sauce" which features ALL kinds of AI and electronic stuff.

This song, our tribute to the delicious Falafel, was created in Ableton Live and mastered in Cakewalk. Normally I would transfer tracks recorded in Ableton to Cakewalk for mixing, but we did this REAL fast, so there was no time. I'm still pretty excited with the end result. Let me know what y'all think!

"Bring Back the Falafel" - Shoogie Doogie & CJ Rico

It's actually the opposite: having long hair is a LOT more work than having it short, in addition to the almost unavoidable vanity that comes along with it. Less time devoted to learning about music = worse musician!

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Idiocracy is REAL!

Delay Lama for the win! YEARS ago a friend of mine and I made a video with it:

2 hours ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Nice, I'd bet with decent audio to MIDI you could really get some great tracks and with some basses you probably don't have at your disposal (and if you do have all the basses in MODO BASS at your disposal for real, I'm both jealous and happy for you).

Ha! I don't have ALL the basses, but most of the typical ones! Audio to Midi has WAY too much latency for me, as cool as it is, to play ACTUAL bass, even though the newest "Midi Guitar" or whatever it's called is decent. Pocket is everything and I can feel any RTL that's more than 5ms immediately...

I'm a pro bass player, and I have to say: IT'S AWESOME! Damn, I've produced tracks here at my house where the quick demo done with Modo sounded so good, and realistic, I never even bothered redoing with a real bass.

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They are NOT great, not good even, just ok. Way too much bass, reasonably comfortable; without some EQ on whatever bus is feeding them , they are pretty much unusable for studio work.

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This mic is AWESOME, unbelievable for the price really. I have tons of mics and have been using this one for almost everything for the last couple of years. I've had sax players with expensive Neumanns commenting on how great the sax sound was on some tracks I've done with this....

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I was nominated for a Grammy with the Rippingtons for Modern Art!

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I'm using a 50" LG 4K TV and have for a few years now. It's AWESOME, and allows me to work from further away when I want to, or be up close and get a LOT of info at the same time.

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Too little too late. YEARS of punishing paying customers... no thank you. I started on Cubase on the Atari ST but I will never buy a piece of Steinberg software again.

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Just remember, the process of registering with the copyright office has nothing to do with GETTING or OWNING the copyright, it's literally only registering it. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but you automatically are the copyright holder when you create it. And please stop spelling it "copywrite", it's the RIGHT to COPY thus COPYRIGHT. This world is confusing enough without these common misspellings!

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It would be nice if there were a simple option in the Piano Roll to only show "selected" midi, it could be just a check box in the view options. That said, I've used Ableton EXTENSIVELY, and it has always felt like a toy when it comes to audio editing and manipulation compared to Sonar/Cakewalk. It has its advantages, being able to just grab the tempo while playing dozens of audio tracks and dozens of midi tracks and just speed up or slow down on the fly is AMAZING, but it's no substitute for CbB, it just isn't.

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31 minutes ago, Craig Reeves said:

I swear Cakewalk would be the best DAW in the world by far if it didn't crash so often and didn't have so many bugs. It really is the smartest and intuitive workflow there is overall....when it works. It certainly hangs and crashes far more than Pro Tools and Ableton do, but it's certainly better than both those DAWs in many other respects.

Tha'ts the completely opposite experience from mine. Cakewalk is eminently stable here, as long as I don't use third party plugins, some of which are just badly coded. I've done tons of sessions at studios with repeatedly crashing Protools rigs, my buddy's Logic requires a good 5 to 6 reboots every time I spend a few hours there. Ableton is like Cakewalk for me: as long as I stay away from certain 3rd party plugs, it's quite stable and reliable.

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All I remember is a couple guys I know spending BIG bucks doing a Black Lion Mod on their interfaces (Digi003 I believe) and it making ZERO difference as far as I'm concerned. It was hilarious.....

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I use a 50" LG 4K TV as my monitor and have for a couple of years now. I run scaling at 150% and it looks great!

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It's what happens when your Cakewalk projects are recorded at 44.1Khz but somehow the Audio Interface is running at 48Khz anyway. If you use the interface for Windows Sounds, and not only for Cakewalk, this might happen by simply playing a Youtube video while Cakewalk is open.

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iLok: no way ! I wouldn't use it if you paid me...

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You shouldn't be having dropouts. I can run my dual core i5 Surface Pro 3 at 70% CPU at 64 samples. Something is up....

Have you tried a different USB port? Have you tried disabling power management on the USB port?

Have you take the machine offline?

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I bought a fairly cheap Asus gaming machine with a 45W Ryzen and a GTX 1050, was easy to add a second SSD and 16GB of ram, the whole thing cost me $700 or so.  The thing FLIES and is even reasonably quiet.

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5 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

I'd personally go at least an i7, but if you're just triggering stuff, I think you'd be able to get away with a speedy i5. That said, definitely consult with a specific laptop DAW builder like Jim - you'll get the best advice there.

This here is not really good information. You can't compare i7s and i5s across the board like that. Realize that a 65W i3 is faster than a 15W i7, realize that a modern i3 is faster than an i7 from 7 years ago at the same TDP.

First off, THE most important part of getting low latency is picking the right interface. The fastest i9 with a USB Focusrite is gonna have worse latency than an i3 Surface Pro with a ZOOM UAC2. Really the only affordable interfaces with truly low latency are MOTUs and the ZOOM UAC series.

Secondly, the type of device you get determines the power envelope a processor gets. Ultra Portables have 15W or even lower, gaming laptops are much better for less money. A modern i3 or i5 full size laptop is faster than an ultra portable i7.

That said, after disabling ACPI Battery Control Method in Device Manager, my i5 Surface Pro 3 runs amazingly at low latency, even more so while using the built-in sound, but also with my UAC2. I've done many gigs with it running Ableton Live, hosting Addictive Drums 2, Lounge Lizard, Trillian, Kontakt, Dimension, Rapture all running in real time ALL NIGHT at 64 samples buffer size. Just about any computer you're gonna buy today is gonna be substantially faster than that machine.

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