AndyB01

I had some offer a few years back - five free cloudbounce mixes. All it seemed to do was make everything louder and also apply a fairly blunt normalisation effect that took away much of the original light and shade. I could achieve a similar result with Audacity. 😂

I wasn't particularly impressed and didn't pursue it. Might have been my inexperience and it might be more sophisticated these days. Can 300,000 people be wrong? 🤔

YMMV

Andy

Very nice Keith - yes vox can come up a tad for me - your higher register stuff is great (as a baritone with limited range, I'm really quite jealous) - loved the organ chops and I particularly liked the rallentando at the end (or is it a ritardando - I'm never quite sure what the difference is) 😉

Anyway - great job - BGVs might be an interesting addition.

Andy

5 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

Note: @mark skinner & @AndyB01 it’s worth a second trip thru for the guitar solo. 

t

It most certainly was - an excellent addition. 👍

Andy

Agree with Mark - this is a strong vocal - you can feel the emotional connection; I felt there was something of a Paul Weller vibe at times (his solo stuff).

Great job all round. 

Andy

Agree with Steve, a change up now and again on the guitar arpeggio would add some variation, but it's a minor crit.

Lovely song as always and beautifully executed.

Andy

Pedro and Juan were lost in the desert, after days without food, they came across a tree dripping with the finest bacon you've ever seen or smelt.

'Look' Juan says Pedro, 'is a bacon tree, we are saved' as he ran towards it desperate to feast on the rashers that hung there.

But before he could take a bite, he was cut down in hail of bullets.

With his dying breath, he rolled towards his friend and cried out 'Juan, stay there my friend, is no a bacon tree...

...is a ham bush 😂

Ah, now that I can help with (I think) - it had me beat for ages. In pad view either use Ctrl-click to select multiple patterns or just lasso around all the patterns you want to play and - there you go.

Also, if you lasso all the chords in your pattern you can drag and drop the lot into a right into MIDI track and a VST of your choice (if you prefer that to using routing).

At least that's how I do it

A

Jerry this is just superb, the light and shade, the articulations of the instruments - not to mention the quality of the composition. Stunningly good

I have learned over many years to both appreciate and love classical music - I really enjoyed this.

Ten minutes flew by - kept me engaged all the way through 

Andy

On 7/4/2022 at 9:08 PM, whoisp said:

Cheers T, I'm going through a uninspired patch lol

Really? Wow - I'm looking forward to hearing your stuff when the inspiration kicks in.

This not my genre at all but I thought it was terrific and sounded great - good vid too - all round great work.

Andy 

John - take a bow fella - this is very good. I have shades of Ant Phillips, (really) early Genesis and Beatles in my head - the harmonies were stand out.

Great work

Andy

@Billy86 Not sure about that - I haven't seen any internal reverb controls within the VST - so I doubt you can tweak them (but I could be wrong). TBH I rarely, if ever, use the internal sounds for a final mix, I only use them for generating ideas and then I route through a more favoured VST.

Andy

22 hours ago, smallstonefan said:

What plans does she have?

Well she doesn't have a musical bone in her body, so me spending more time with my guitar/ keyboard or my hard-earned pension on software and more 'musical toys' probably don't feature.

It's not all bad, she has other qualities 😁

Andy

5 hours ago, smallstonefan said:

I am wondering how many of you planned to do the same thing

I am hoping to, and I'm probably a year or so away from the R word. However, I think Mrs AndyB01 has other plans... 😂

Rex, sorry to hear about your gear issues, can you claim against the credit card Co as a faulty good or is the unit too old for that so you're stuck with a RTB repair?

For some perspective, from listening to your stuff, I reckon you could record your vocals on a 1970s portable cassette recorder and they'd still sound pretty good to the rest of us .😉

I hope you get it sorted soon. Has to be worth a complaint to RME and ask for some compensation.

Top tip: blow some smoke, tell them you're a huge fan of their gear, long time user etc and then how let down and disappointed you are by this issue and the impact on you.

Don't write to the Complaints or Customer Service Team, do some digging and find the name of the Finance Director, HR or Operations Director - even the C/Ex or Chair.  These C-Suite folks do not appreciate getting letters from the 'great unwashed' and you're less likely to get fobbed off. Send a copy to all of them!

Oh and no emails - snail mail only - hand-written has even more impact!

I've used this tactic before and it definitely works!

Good luck getting it fixed

Andy

John I really wouldn't sweat this if I were you - I have a desktop and laptop with two SSDs in each - the oldest must be getting on for five years and they've all been rock solid. 

As long as you're buying decent quality, you should be OK. All disks can fail, just that SSDs tend to give no warning and you're not having too much joy with traditional data recovery tools if they do.

This article might be of interest.

Just adopt a solid and reliable online and offline back up routine, then kick back and focus on the music. 🎶🎶 🙂

Andy

Quite the learning curve to get the best from it but worth it I think, lots of helpful videos on YT. Onboard sounds are OK, routing it to your favourite VSTs can really make it shine.

Folks say it can improve your knowledge of music theory too.

For the price I paid, I rate it as one of my better investments. Try the demo and see what you think.

I use it in CbB - no stability concerns.

Andy

Only EzKeys is generating sound. Sounds like you've nailed it there John, might be one I have to learn to live with. 🙂

Andy

10 hours ago, reginaldStjohn said:

It could be related to "zero controllers on stop" setting. Try toggling it and see if it helps

Nope, good idea but not that unfortunately.

Wouldn't mind a discount on fretless or acoustic bass for EzBass #justsayin

Anyone know what's going on here?

Really simple set up - two MIDI tracks: one for Scaler and one for EzKeys. Scaler is routed to EzKeys VST. Four chord sequence from Scaler dropped into EzKeys track. On playback the transport is set to return to start (that's how I set it) but as soon as you get to the track end, there is a massive audio spike of sound; it also happens if I stop the transport during playback.

A little investigation shows the 'spike of sound' to be misleading - it depends on the VST instrument in use. So on pipe organ it manifests as a huge 'hit' of multiple keys being pressed at once however, on piano it manifests as the 'sound' of a sustain pedal being pressed down very firmly. Also, if I freeze the track - no hit.

All of which tells me that this is a spurious bit of MIDI data which is triggering this, I have looked at the Piano Roll and through the Event List and I don't see anything there that shouldn't be - so I'm a little stumped.

Anyone come across this before and know how to fix it?

Thoughts appreciated as always

Andy

Binned Facebook a very long time since, not been back and don't miss it. Twitter also a human cesspit and full of nutters sat on virtual park benches shouting into the wind - best avoided.

What's Instagram?? 😉😂

Good place to have normal conversations with normal people - the pub is as good as anywhere.

Interesting project John - had the feel of an old-school prog rock epic - nice use of silence too and a good mix.

I have a feeling EzKeys 2 will land at some point later this year, now they've done the update to EzD3. I hope so anyway, I need a scalable GUI!!

Good job on this

Andy

Great vid @John Maar thanks, I will definitely check out the channel. I see a lot of creative options here using Scaler for a base chord track mapped to EzKeys and then using the replace midi function to play in the various styles EzKeys offers (depending how expansive your Midi expansion library for EzKeys is).

I have a fair few expansion packs but I'm not in the same league as @Bapu where Toontrack is concerned, I think he's playing a different sport to the rest of us! 😂

Andy

Thanks Tom, I might ty and develop this and cheers JohnB - appreciate the offer. I feel like I am at the bottom of a big learning curve with this one.

A

Definitely prefer mix 1. Steve is right, those harmonies aren't quite right in volume - mix 1 is better. I think the original might have had more than a two-part harmony but I'd have to have another listen.

Your faux 12-string is not half bad. I'm interested to know you did that - just a simple dup track and octave transpose of all six strings?

Last time I did it I used Melodyne on a dup track and then removed all the very high notes to try and get closer to a real 12 string then created a separate dup track of the B and E string notes. Not sure it really worked though, as it's hard to isolate notes played on B And E as you want to duplicate rather than octave them.

I guess the simplest answer is to buy a 12 string. 😂

Overall, good job but you might want to check the BGV levels.

Andy