Mr No Name

Yes, I suppose you could make a brownish type "sample" take your recorded instrument tracks, convert audio to a midi copy, insert the brown noise into midi and underlay / parallel compress with the original audio and blend to taste.

I wouldn't be exactly sure, maybe you could do it on an effect send and add to taste to your channel, I wouldn't be an expert on noise generators, you could possibly use a waveshaper (distortion) and add to taste to the instrument? maybe something like melda waveshaper MB ? You could easily do it with an analogue synth and a filter, but that's less noise and more waves, white noise is probably the wrong sort of noise to use, brown or pink noise would be better. I'm sure you could do it without using a plugin.

ae you speaking of the Klevgrand Fosfat plugin ? After reading this I had a look into it and managed to snag one from a cubase user, It's quite an interesting and useful plug in, quite versatile, I'd recommend it, I found a use for it as a sort of band selective "ditherer" for a mastering thing. I would definately recommend Klevgrand, they make some great plugins, real high quality, their FreeAMP plug is a thing of beauty, its like turning up the gain on a bozak or urei rotary mixer, a mixture of butter and silk. Amazing stuff.

If they end use of Cakewalk DAW, that will be a very daft move imo. it was designed as a free daw to attract people to the bandlab platform, I can see a Native Instruments/Plugin alliance scenario happening. DON'T DO IT

nice stuff, Kraftwerk meets Jean-Michel Jarre.

I believe there was a cut off point for people to d/l the Cbb DAW for the first time, people who had it had to reactivate it, and if they fail to do so won't be able to re download and install it either going forward? that's how I believe the situation is. But the whole thing is slightly ambiguous.

here's a zip file of some nice wav cymbals I acquired this morning in a sample pack, sound very nice, bit less like generated white noise, may be one there that will do the job. https://file.io/Tw1QOBmGKWVY

I have just read in another thread that it is now on a "free subscription" where you have to renew it on a monthly basis, have the people at bandlab nothing better to do than carrot and sticking people into subscription modelling? why don't they just charge an amount of money and let people have it as it is with no more updates as they want to make it obsolete. what will happen when people maybe are travelling or doing some other thing where they forget about daws or laptops for more than a month. not a great strategy imo.

They are giving away a VCA compressor for free if you log into your account, ends on 31st, an emulation of a dbx 160 $150 from April 1st

they don't sound harsh just a bit " non defined"

That makes alot more sense now with the rest of the track in there for context, nice track sounds very good, can see some long haired rocker shaking his hair about to that. cymbals sound a bit washy in places, only thing I would say.

would you mind putting the whole song on for context?

Ok, I've had a more critical listen to your track, imo, the mix of the drums is pretty good, the bass could cut through a tiny bit better, I made some notes, Start is very good 52secs - 1 min ? 1 min onwards - drum hits need sharper transients, attack not fast enough,bit flabby on timing with bass 2 mins on, drum hits sound faster, sound nice 2.20 some timing issues 2.50 nice feel 3.00 on, little bit off on timing, cymbals too splashy 3.25 on nice groove, 3.40 on nice groove, 3.53 , flabby kick note 4.10 on, cymbals to splashy, snare not timed well 4.30 on , nice ending.

I don't play drums only programme them and edit in daws, but as someone who listens to a lot of music, the drums sound unnatural as if the timing doesn't make sense and doesn't follow the bassline, it may be that it will fit better with the rest of the music you had in the track, removing the other instruments may have made the timings sound strange. ? that would be a very difficult thing to programme in MIDI so fair play for getting it that good.

To be more constructive, try messing with the " groove " tool or the quantization. It's probably alot more difficult to programme complicated drum patterns like that in midi than it is to play it live.

To be polite If I had a band and that drummer came for an audition, he/she wouldn't get in the band.

The thing is they said it would be still available to use, but I have a bad feeling about it, I've had to reactivate twice in a month, used to be only after an update. Hopefully It will stay at once a month, but being the cynic that I am, I have a feeling they will squeeze it into shorter re-activation windows.

I have noticed that there are frequent requests for reactivation for Cakewalk by bandlab, this has to be done within a certain time window, I am assuming if this is not done Cakewalk will be unusable with no way to reactivate moving forward. Is this the game plan to make the free version of Cakewalk obsolete and get the number of users of it to zero, in order to move to a paid version. I can see a scenario where these requests for re-activation become more frequent and the window to do it in becomes shorter, people who don't constantly use the DAW, who might only open it up once a week of so, may get caught out by this and have their "copy " of the DAW rendered unusable and their projects lost? Would seem like a sneaky and underhanded thing to do. Any thoughts on this?

Someone seems to be on the case inventing a similar idea where you can hum your music into a daw and turn it into music via MIDI, like a reverse Shazam. Interesting stuff. https://vochlea.com Produce entire songs using your voice Dubler 2 turns your voice into a real-time MIDI controller, letting you create music you dream of. Sing, beatbox, hum or whistle your ideas and Dubler 2 will translate them into MIDI notes, allowing you to write music at the speed of thought.

here you are folks, just incase you thought I was totally crackers. He says it's done by "AI" but it seems to me to be voice activated MIDI, which is a nice invention. another 3 years it will be in every DAW (maybe)

Have you not seen this new thing where Barry who can't sing to save his life, now can sing over his songs, out of tune, presses a button, 30 seconds later he sounds like Barbara Streisand. There you go, et voila.

It means if you do any singing into the daw while recording a midi track the singing will be recorded onto the midi track aswell as the midi information, I assume the singing will be in midi also, which is amazing seeing as midi stands for "musical instrument digital interface" and has nothing to do with singing. ?

subscription for a daw is stupid unless you run a recording studio and are able to deduct it as a business expense, anyone else who does it is a moron. imo.

you will own nothing and be happy.