Adalheidis Daina Aletheia

Silly but possibly useful batch file to start other things that might be needed with Cakewalk..... This should be edited for your own setup and install directories. This seems useful to me so far, so though I would post. Mine starts REAL (Reduce Audio Latency), the sound control panel, and then Cakewalk. I also added a registry query for the Cakewalk recent files list which shows up in the initial command line. Just a way to one click everything that might be needed. :: Resize the console window. @echo off mode 120,120 :: :: Simple batch file to launch Cakewalk and other programs that may be needed. :: :: @echo off timeout 1 > nul :: :: Launch a program. :: @echo Starting Reduce Audio Latency start C:\Windows\System32\REAL.exe timeout 3 > nul :: :: Launch a program. :: @echo Starting Windows Sound Properties start C:\Windows\System32\mmsys.cpl timeout 3 > nul :: :: Launch a program. :: @echo Starting Cakewalk start A:\Cakewalk\"Cakewalk Core"\Cakewalk.exe timeout 1 > nul :: :: Show registry recent file list for Cakewalk. :: reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Recent File List" /s :: timeout 1 > nul :: :: Wait for user confirm to close console. :: @echo Batch file is now complete. @echo Press any key to close this console. timeout 1 > nul pause > nul ::

Super Furry Animals Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict

Diamanda Galas - 'Saint' of the Pit

Fugazi - Nice New Outfit

Storm - Rain - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

I've never heard of Windows 93 till now. (Hint, just start clicking stuff, the 'Hamster' on the desktop is my favorite so far. :o ) https://www.windows93.net/

Wait, this kind of sounds like... The Pogues

Right before I quit music many years ago, MySpace was a big thing (around 2008), but it felt like a musician dating site or something. (14 years later...) So now many years later there is this whole buffet of places to post your stuff. Just to clarify, I am not referring to the distribution sites like Spotify, Tidal, Apple, etc. or the distributors like TuneCore, etc., but rather the sites we can have a simple page to post our music and or sell it. What are your pros, cons, and thoughts on the various music streaming/posting sites. Mine are as follows, from what I started using. Soundcloud: Visually and functionally from a user perspective, I like it, however, I don't like the following from an artist perspective; posting in reverse order technique to keep things in order (I did figure it out sooner than later), can't disable comments(I just like the choice), they really, really, really want me to go pro, they market towards the 'pay-2-win" musician concept, there is way too many re-posters and 'pay me to like your stuff nonsense'. I don't have a problem with the 'Pro' pay to add more material, that doesn't bother me, and is reasonable for server cost, I could always just delete less favorable material at some point to make more room, or just do there pro ordeal if I really wanted. But if I were to invest in one of these sites, might have to evaluate them all for a bit longer. On the plus side, it is a fabulous place to find obscure and never heard of musicians.. There is some really interesting and obscure musical art on soundcloud if you dig deep enough. I also like how you can tag your material with any genre or even make up one. If your song sounds like potatoes, just type in #potatoes if you don't know what else it sounds like. Drooble: This is my favorite so far, however, there site keeps going down. Was down for a month, then back, now down again as of this post. So, because of that, keeping them on hold for now. Otherwise, I have allot of good things to say about Drooble, I just like how it is set up. Too bad there is stability issues recently. BandLab: I don't like the layout. Visually sloppy and looks disorganized. But I do like the private project function where you can share in progress work with selected individuals. Doesn't seem that great for posting material. AudioMack: Well, you can post allot of stuff, but it is really catered towards specific genres. More than slightly spammed with ads and re-posters, and not the best visually and functionally. I treat it more like a back-up site for stuff. Not enough genre and sub-genre choices for material, have to pick their options for charts/ratings. ReverbNation: Similar to soundcloud in regards to they really, really, really want me to go pro, and they market towards the 'pay-2-win" musician concept. They really want you to buy your way into some hopeful failed stardom, nope, not buying into it. But it is ok otherwise I guess. SoundClick: I just started trying this one out. The navigation and site layout is a bit screwy. There charts thing seems interesting but not sure how accurate it is. I'll need to come back to this one once I get a better feel for it. Not enough genre and sub-genre choices for material, have to pick their options for charts/ratings. BandCamp: I like BandCamp for a centralized location and mostly have it as the purchase site if anyone were to ever actual want any of my stuff. I like the discography and artist page for it's simplicity. That's it for now.

Bauhaus - Slice Of Life

Music education comes in different formats and fashions, different aspects. And some things work for others and some things don't. Theory/Reading: I always got frustrated with music theory and reading music, I have always been fascinated by it, but never good at it. But that doesn't really mean anything. Music theory and reading music is kind of like mathematics in ways, either it clicks well with you, or your brain says, does not compute. Just one aspect of music. I took piano lessons throughout elementary school but was not so good at keeping up with reading sheet music. but better at it in middle school when I played the flute (less notes to read at one time). If you can't become a child prodigy musician, it doesn't mean you suck, it just means it's not your thing. There is other forms of art and music. Songwriting/Improv: Playing by ear and songwriting or composing without sheet music works better for me. I took a songwriting course at a community college and it was more enjoyable than piano lessons. It reassured me I could write music without being a child prodigy pianist. Midi: I took a midi course at the same community college in the mid 90's when midi and computer software was a new thing, especially for a college course. Now technology is getting involved. Music Management: Also took legal and commercial music management courses. That pretty much did it in for me when we went over sixty page record label contracts where you pretty much sign your life away to a corporation. Those courses showed me the filth that has polluted the innocent self expression of music, and arts. At this point, this thread can go hand in hand with the thread, "Just how bad has today's "popular" music become?" https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/41008-just-how-bad-has-todays-popular-music-become/ Conclusion: Though I am thankful for the educational experiences I did have, I wish I had more options at a younger age for a larger variety of music education beyond what I had all together. And this is an issue with allot things, education, and a wider variety of options than just piano lessons and grade school band. I also took allot of art classes and eventually got my BFA in Design Arts and Art History. But still a worthless degree. Though arts and music should not be worthless, but they are still treated that way. This goes along with again another thread "Education and Music" https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/41116-education-and-music/ Personally, I think both music and arts education should be the only focus of grade school education, but with the capacity of a music and art college and without the limitations of grades and exams. Art and music College should have been our k-12 education. Teaching children to be creative, self expressive, and learn how to work together, but leave out all the competition aspects involved with music and arts. It shouldn't be about competition and who is better, or who can and cannot pass an exam. It should be just about being creative, self expression, and working together. But I guess the politicians never thought about that. They really screwed everyone over pretty good. As far as this theory exam they want him to pass? That is ridiculous. For a music theory specific school, ok, I could see some logic in it. But not music in general. If that is the qualifications to get into a music school now, that's rough. If it is possible to pass it with a year's worth of studying? Yes, it is possible, if he wants to really do it. Anything is possible.

Fugazi - Furniture

Looks like that, but the tempo track doesn't change the actual speed and pitch of the recording. At least not for me it doesn't. Tempo track is for the metronome only I presume (haven't really used tempo track that much).

The time track looks like an automation lane in CakeWalk. You place your your point/envelope where you want adjustments. Move them down, it slows the speed of the track down. Move them up, it speeds it up. Doing either will also effect the pitch. Placing points close enough together will create a tremola effect, kind of like a whammy bar/vibrato bar on an electric guitar. It's not really a big deal as I still like using audacity for allot of stuff and it was the first DAW I ever used. Just wondered about any similarities in CakeWalk. Here is their manual page about it. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/time_tracks.html There is an example of a piece I did in the Songs section of this forum if you need an audio example, it is fairly prevalent in that piece throughout. It's fun to play with for doing weird things. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/40323-improv-piece-part-i-original-version/

Perhaps something like this is there and I just haven't found it yet. Audacity has a type of track called a 'time track' and I use it occasionally. Wondering if there is something in CakeWalk like this that I haven't found yet. If not, then perhaps something that could be introduced. I know Melodyne works with pitch, and can utilize the automation lane, but this would be more for speed (which would also effect pitch).

"The Count Five" "Man With Four Fingers"

"In her eyes, in her eyes..." "In your eyes, in your eyes."

Of course it is the right thing for some. That is why I said after that statement that it doesn't apply to all and that there is plenty of art and music created with software and digital equipment that is actually really good. And all of us use modern technology as well by using cakewalk or whatever software and hardware we use. And it is a definite upgrade from using an old Tascam cassette tape 8-track recorder for sure. A better explanation of what I meant would be right here on BandLab, just look at the new BandLab SongStarter page, which is a form of software. Ok, so sure, it could be helpful to some, but it seems it is a bit to "here is a web page to do it for you" kind of thing. So yes the software environment can help peoples creativity flourish, I think I meant more specific types of software and hardware that I should have been more specific about. Another example of what I was referring to would be Roland's ZenBeats app. Ok, so yes it could be useful in some cases, but, if that's all anyone ever needs for now on is ZenBeats and BandLab SongStarter, then I would start to wonder. But those are the things being marketed now, all accessible with a smart phone, which brings it into question. So the future of musicians is having nothing but a smart phone? Hope that makes better sense as to what I was trying to say. I edited the original post to correct the wording, that it is specific apps, software and hardware I was referring to, not all of it. And I understand that even criticizing those could offend people since those could in some cases be a valuable learning tool for some people.

My very long edited, two-dollar-cent bill thoughts.... This is such an interesting topic, and something that has been on my mind lately. Especially since I quit music for over ten years and just now re-embracing it. With emerging online apps and smart phone beat makers I wonder if the younger generations have ever experienced grade school band, piano lessons with old ladies that make you hold tennis balls, a mother that was a music teacher, and if they know what I am talking about when I say "Supper's Ready", "JC-120", and "Suitcase Model". From my recent observations, it seems electronic and hyperpop are the two steady flowing genres that keep the attention of the younger generation, and these styles are way too easily created with a touch of few buttons. Some are overly redundant with the lack of creative composition. But not all. I have heard many electronic artist that put more intricacy and thought into compositions than most. There is both allot of electronic and hyperpop artist that have created some amazing pieces, and some emerging and unknown artist that will never be known that really know what they're doing. But in a way, this same scenario is not much different than that of the late eighties and early nineties when the alt rock grunge monotony was flourishing like crazy. It all sounded the same after a while, and my ears still ring today after seeing Jane's Addiction in the basement of an old vegetable cannery on the Nothing Shocking tour. But not all were bad, it just turned into a fad, just like the fads of other generations. But that right there is the same place the younger generations are today. The experience is what we all wanted at 17. And it is the same thing 17 year old's want today. What is cool with all their friends, what's popular. And what’s popular now is really caused by main stream media and the equipment and software companies that are marketing and catering towards that touch and go electro-kid. It's like all the other problems in the world, it’s main stream media and the corporation’s fault, they did it, because they want to make money with their own agenda and could care less about our musical and intellectual experience. If they could kill off everyone that was over forty they would, because they are just evil. And the electro-kid that will believe anything is more prosperous to their monetary motives. Then they will kill off them next for something new. Just like I was shammed in the eighties by Guitar Magazine, flaunting that I would never be as cool as that guitarist on the cover, walking down to the guitar shop everyday as a kid, wishing I had all the cool stuff marketed in the magazine. I'm not even that old yet, but at least had the exposure of a wide range of musical styles from jazz, classical, actual Christmas Carolers coming to the front door(Mom? Why are people singing at our front door?), and my personal interest of prog rock in high school. I just ignored most of the eighties and went back to the seventies. But I did get to see that religious furber of the eighties like at a U2 concert where you don’t actually hear the concert, just the girl next to you screaming Bono over and over as if she is having a two hour long orgasm in your ear. It must have been that "show" experience. And what's hot at the moment seems to be the experience younger folks want. I know I was caught up in the experience mess in 1989, not knowing if I should listen to the emerging 90's music, catch up on the eighties, or just keep learning about the 60's and 70's. So much thrown at me from every angle I didn't know what I really wanted to listen to. I like toying with the “spirit of the age” somewhat, but don't want to just quit music again because it's all just too overwhelming. It's just sad that smart phone music apps are now more accessible than a corner music stores and dive bars. And that Suitcase Model Electric Piano is easier to get through a VST plugin. The real thing is now such a collectors item, the price tag makes today's software look cheap.

Sometimes due to household disturbances, this is a funny exaggerated representation of me trying to write music with pets and other sounds. No sound proofed room available, so I have to deal with it sometimes. Sure I'm not the only one that relate to this. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Beethoven Sketch (funny if you haven't seen it)

At 0:11 there is this Tim Burton feel with the bells, but then I never hear it again. Perhaps play with that aspect more? And at 0:27 it has that feel of music from the Matrix films, perhaps pump that up more as well. I was wanting Tim Burton to enter the Matrix, but he never quite made it. :P Anyway, those were the two parts that stood out for me.

So I think my overall feeling of remaking improv pieces is, meh, not so much. I like all the original ones better, mostly. There is some interesting aspects to re-recording improv with more structure, but just doesn't have that original dirty in the moment aspect to it. The random pitch change effect was still done again with an audacity time track before final render, still haven't found the best way to reproduce that effect in Cakewalk yet. Fun process though, onward to new ideas and experiments. The original post was, The new re-recorded version is, https://soundcloud.com/adalheidisdainaaletheia/04-social-deconstruction-hurt-and-peg-haft-a-side-does-it-hurt?si=44418d7e4923417ca8fb893ef7409db1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing or at https://adalheidisdainaaletheia.bandcamp.com/track/04-social-deconstruction

I liked it. My first thought on genre is 'soundscape', but could be placed in several categories. Davinci Resolve is great, should go hand in hand with Cakewalk. I think making both music and videos to see what you like and don't like is a perfect process on that personal path of self expression. Similar to what I'm doing at the moment, I quit music altogether for ten years, now getting back into it, see what comes out, then go from there. If we don't like creating what we are creating, then it starts to loose that genuine self expressive aspect. Work on the stuff we like and feel connected to, and perfect that, even if it seems silly and stupid at first. But if we don't like what we create, then try something new.

I was actually debating on adding some contrasting section for the remake version, I'll see what happens. I mostly just sat down and started recording on this one, pure improv. Though it is recorded as three separate tracks playing off each other, I can easily play the whole thing as is in one track. It was a part of an experimental songwriting method of composing through improv recording. I liked how all the pieces came out so went ahead and posted them. I am wondering though how much more I would want to change this one since it is the only piece so far that I didn't add keyboards to. Fun process regardless.

I'm really enjoying Cakewalk, just realized it was available recently. So much fun. Been using Audacity for some time now and will continue to have many uses for it. Yet there is so many more options now with Cakewalk. I play a lever harp, and do some keyboards with it. This piece is harp only and one of the first things I did with Cakewalk. I ran this one through Audacity before rendering to add a "time track" to get that detune pitch change effect throughout. I am working on a remake of this one and haven't found a suitable option to replicate that within Cakewalk. Melodyne theoretically could work with an automation lane for pitch, but haven't messed with Melodyne on the harp yet, could get really weird, but I'll try it out. I'll post the remake whenever I am done with it to compare the outcome and see how the automation lane will work. The entire B-Side in this set of recordings is in the process of being remade as an A-Side. (If wondering, no not flat, harp tuned to A=421.6 Time signature roughly, 23/4 tempo around 104.) https://adalheidisdainaaletheia.bandcamp.com/track/b-04-hph-session-02-01-2022 or https://soundcloud.com/adalheidisdainaaletheia/b-04-hph-session-02-01-2022-adalheidis-daina-aletheia