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I constantly have trouble making a percussion track fit into a mix and feel natural. Maybe this will help? Thanks 8DIO!

This probably brings back lots of memories for you. The song itself is really nice. The breaking up sound is a bit much for me personally. If the sound itself is baked in I might try some EQ work on the guitar track, but that's me and maybe you like the effect. Thanks for sharing!

Nice work there! Both composition and mix.

You really know how to mix well! Nice work, especially if you didn't use Biab and still got a sound like that. I wish I could help you on the video insert here. Usually when I post a link the video automatically posts. Could be a temporary issue with the software.

The song definitely has that MTV vibe. Maybe more aptly a Rolling Stones vibe on a slightly more tame level. Not anything to crit here! Nice work!

The music has a great message. I suggest editing your post so the YouTube link posts here as a video. Not sure why the link isn't posting as a video like most others do here. Was this made with Band-In -A-Box? It has that nice polished studio finished feel to it which is often difficult to get in a home studio. Thanks for sharing!

Tom, This is a well made tune. The lyrics are creative to say the least. I already said too much on another "politically leaning" post not long ago that I probably should have left unsaid. I guess in hindsight music is a good way to release frustration of the "powers that be" . Who needs soap operas? Just watch a news channel. I am primarily a policy directed person and personalities or people a few fries short of a happy meal really don't influence my thinking on laws or policies so long as we are at least headed in the right direction. I see a merge of everything political because the platforms voted on seldom produce the results intended. I have thick skin. I do get tired of the constant pounding a certain fake red head takes. Yes he asks for it a lot of the time. His doody really does stink too.It's a circus....it really it is. People on my FB account just won't give it a rest though.......like how do you want it today T sitting down or bending over? I seldom let it occupy my thoughts. This was a fun look at the whole C-virus political thing done in a very creative way. Kudos for that. One day I hope we can all look back on it like a small bump in the road

Well this was simply an amazing mix. I think it should have more exposure. Seriously makes me want to get a Console 1. Your voice is amazing. Hats off!

bjornpdx , Thank you! I believe it's the "mystical" element that attracts me to some of this. Music with the feeling that there's magic in the air. Does that make sense? JoeGBradford- Many thanks for listening and comments! Douglas Kirby- Thank you for giving this a listen on headphones. I'm glad that the outcome was good. The shaker was a sample. I have a shaler I intended to use but I could not locate it at the time. Hidden Symmetry, I am releived that it came across ok on a laptop. I always worry about my mixes on laptop speakers. Thanks for listening. thegaltieribrothers ( Paul)- Thank you Paul for listening and for your comments on the music. Much appreciated. I couldn't have hoped for more than to inspire a dream! DeeringAmps- At first I thought maybe Marie o'Conor was an well known artist in another country. I'll bet your grandmother was quite a woman. Bajan Blue- Thank you! Wookie- Thank you for listening. Adams? Nice!! The sense of space was made using 2CAudio PBJ. I appreciate you taking the time to give this a listen.

The cutoff was my fault. When I ported to the other DAW I clipped the tails a little too short. Not much I could do about it after that. Lesson learned. I left the timing off a little here and there on purpose. I hate quantization. It's basically the way I played it. Thanks for your comments Tom. That Marie O'Connor is something else. (seriously I don't know who she is)

Not exactly but I play some Jazz. Do you?

Thanks to Mike from Creative Sauce for the video. A few small snags I ran into on folders , installation and scanning with this program. Probably simple things many will not have issues with. Maybe this will help someone else who isn't entirely familiar with how the program works. I installed Miroslav and Syntronic to separate folders. I seen these as separate programs to Sampletank. What was slightly confusing to me is that even though SampleTank and those other programs can be bought and played separately , they can be collectively brought into the Sampletank GUI so long as you scan the folders each is in. So SampleTank really is more than only SampleTank. It's more of a universal hub. I think this should be clarified. All programs can go under the ST GUI so that when you open it they all show up. A few more things. I noticed I was missing sounds advertised as appearing in ST 4 MAX. What they don't tell you is many of the listed sounds are actually ST3 libraries. Since ST 3 appears in the GUI you need to select it for all sounds to appear in the meta data search. When libraries are selected the words will be red. If they are not red you are only looking at the libraries selected and appearing red in the ST browser. What is confusing here is that The sounds advertised under ST 4 MAX are not all under ST 4 MAX in the gui if you only select that library. Just little stuff., but if you don't know you don't know and it probably should be made more clear.

This thread was aptly named "Threadripper" . You guys are tearing this one up🙃

Improvisation is some of the most enjoyable music to play for me. I only had time to sample through this and couldn't listen to the entire 10 minutes of it. I can tell you guys have played together a few times and make a great improv team! Thanks for sharing!

You have a wonderful vocal ability. The music is well done IMHO. A tweak here and there on overall volumes couldn't hurt. Excellent work though!

I didn't have time to listen to all. The ones I listened to are all well done. You guys are talented and I hope you can keep working together!

You certainly have captured an authentic Beatles sound! I'm not so familiar with this particular song. Sorry to hear you plans were thwarted. Best of luck to you on this project! Thanks for sharing!

Nice work. Kudos to all! Amazing that people from so far away can work together. Makes me think about using Bandlab more often.

Thank you David!

I am beginning to make a new collection of music based on Celtic music. Sounds better with headphones IMO. It has some acoustic space in it. Any comments or crits welcome! Thanks.

Thank you for getting on this right away! I had the same issues as others which I have reported. I believe I did change at least one sound in KONTAKT but kept the instance. In another case I didn't change anything. When I froze and then unfroze the tracks they were swapped with other tracks. Multiple tracks unfroze when I only wanted to unfreeze one track. The track I intended to unfreeze had no data in it. I attributed this to me maybe bungling up the audio outputs in KONTAKT but this seems to be happening with different VSTi. At least the issue is being reported and you guys are aware of it. Thanks again!

There's a lot of data to ponder when looking at modern computers. A person could read a few reviews online and come to some false conclusions. This is why I really appreciate someone like Jim who has built basically all of the most recent setups and can comment on actual use. None of the choices seem bad per se unless you are planning mixes that could potentially bottleneck one of these computers. I remember one time we had a discussion about how many instances of KONAKT and how many plugins could be loaded on an older i7 computers equipped with plenty of memory and fast hard drives. That number was ridiculously high. Probably WAY more than the average layman home studio enthusiast will ever use. And these "laymen" are often pushing 100 tracks with effects. If you're going for lots of instances of Spitfire and VSL , then yeah don't skimp. It's really two different worlds and most of those people wouldn't be on the Cakewalk forum. Just being honest. We men like to hop stuff up and see what goes the fastest and even us lowly home recordists like to plan for the future. My next build will probably be an i9. I admit to being a little biased because no Intel system I have built ever failed, so I guess I'm a slightly brand loyal for that reason. I still have my old quad core DAW. It didn't die. I had to unplug it after 8 years.

Overall gain can be set using pink noise if you use the K-system. Studio One has a pink noise generator built in. Cakewalk does not but you can get them for free online. MNoiseGenerator by Melda HERE. You can also get a DB meter app if you have a smart phone. Here's a video on getting set up. TBH I have changed my levels a bit and need to do this again. I found a setting over time that worked for me when mastering. The K system is hard science Bob Katz came up with. Bob is a world renowned mastering engineer and I had the opportunity to interview him back when I was podcasting. Bought his updated book called Mastering Audio which he signed! Mastering levels are not the same for classical music as they are for other genre. Classical music is generally mastered for more dynamics which often translates to lower volume. Even if you don't calibrate your system you can put a levels meter like the one in Ozone or TRacks to see what the signal is doing at the master. This is similar to flying an airplane using only the instruments because without some kind of calibration you wont hear the music the way it's coming off the master. Hope this helps.

This is a best solution IMO, to have the main computer elsewhere. Right now my computer is in a Fractal case and I use very quiet ball bearing fans. Noise isn't an issue. Most of the time the temp in my studio is ok all except for the hottest months here in the north east US. Humidity is more the issue. If I don't humidify I'll have 20% or less humidity in my studio in winter months. Computers also make excellent air dehumidifiers. Most residential spaces aren't designed for additional heat load. More often contractors in developments skimp and buy the most inexpensive systems they can put in and still get by. This means most rooms are pushing the limits even with only a few people in a space. A "studio" could be anything from a mixing desk and a PC to a pile of outboard gear, so I guess the needs vary. Anyone interested in the heat load of a space can get heat load calculations. I am building a new studio and that's why I thought about this . I might not actually be in it for another year because it is only part of a larger project I'm involved in. I just bought a dual zone system to augment my main home system. Part of it will condition a large room addition 14ft ceilings large windows etc. My calculation with it was less that 12,000 btus or 1 "ton"of air conditioning. The studio will be in the back portion of a garage I added on to my other garage. The 2nd zone will go there and it will be 9000 btu. Should be plenty for my purposes. I will have the option to put my main computer out in the adjacent garage. The A/C is also a heat pump, but I added hydronic floor heat to the room addition and am contemplating it for the studio as well. Probably wouldn't be absolutely necessary in there. For those who don't know there are professional programs for heat calculations like Manual-J. I used a few online sources to get mine. Everything adds up. Wall thickness, insulation R- value, weather patterns for your area, proximity to sun, windows surface area etc. If you live in a tropical climate you will need a special tropical designed A/C system. They are made to handle more extreme heat. My system is made to go to 120F. That high end thread ripper looks like something I could heat my house with

As a suggestion. Look at heat load too. Might want to add an extra air conditioning duct into your studio. That heat has to go somewhere.