Johnbee58

The past several weeks I've been struggling with whether I want to continue to do this. This song came out of that conflict. Frustration becomes art. https://johnbowen.bandcamp.com/track/understand ?John B

Thanks all. SLIP-Thanks for the link. Mine is Windows 8.1. I wonder if the same applies. I did just yank it a few times and so far nothing bad happened. The drive came with a utility called "Toolkit" but there's no answers there. Maybe I'll just start putting off disconnecting it until I shut the PC down. Probably the safest answer. ?JB

I use an external USB hard drive to back up projects and files. Until yesterday, it gave the option to eject it in the "Show Hidden Icons" area in the lower right of the screen. Now it comes up but doesn't give an option to eject anymore and I'm afraid if I don't do this step I may screw up data on both the PC and the USB drive. The drive is a Seagate and the OS is Windows 8.1. Any ideas? Thanks?John B

No. That's not it, but thanks for responding. I looked in my Power Sonar X3 book and found that it's the clip header. I found out how to make it show up again. Thanks so much! ?JB

I tried all of those things suggested, but nothing worked so I just transferred the MIDI data to a new project. I figured something got corrupted because everything was working: Transport and Slider work, project is audible, aim assist still works. The only thing out of order was the white vertical line that moves under the pointer in the time line. I can put the pointer anywhere and that's the point where the playing starts. But no vertical white line under it to help me line up the clips where I want them. Thanks for all your suggestions. I consider the problem solved. ?

The project must be corrupted, so I moved all the MIDI to a new one. The Now Time and Ruler do work. The white vertical line that moves vertically along the timeline is invisible. Thanks ?

When I transferred MIDI clips from a corrupted project into a new one I must've hit a key that took away the small margin on top of the clip. Now it's just one solid clip and has no margin on top. What did I do and how do I change it back? Thanks! ?John B

Hi On my current project the vertical white line that you use to navigate to specific areas in the transport is not visible. It was yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared. Perhaps I bumped a key that made it happen. The transport does move but I just can't see the white vertical line. Only effects one project. Would appreciate help. Thank you. ?John B.

It's the little vertical white line that moves across the screen is not visible on this particular projects

Yeah. That sounds right. Apparently it's disabled in my project. Can you please tell me how to enable it. Thanks ?

Could be. But the alpha numeric keyboard I use doesn't indicate which one is the scroll lock. Also, the "now slide"r DOES move. It's just the little navigation white line I'm missing. ?JB

Current project- Now slider and the little white line to mark where you are in the timeline doesn't move. The project plays but I can't navigate to where I need to be at a certain time. Didn't happen yesterday when I was working on it. Also, doesn't affect any other past projects or newly created one. It seems to be specific to this current project only. Thanks in advance for help. ?John B.

Thanks Lynn. The dissonance is planned. There's tension there that I wanted. ? How EZ Keys fits into the arrangement is how the piano articulates the chords. I'm not much of a pianist either. EZ Keys comes with a certain amount of "style articulation" presets. You can buy more in the form of what they call "MIDI Packs". You can use the presets straight as they come or you can customize them with your own chord progressions, chop up the bars one by one and kind of "mix n' match" everything until you have your own unique piano part. These, of course, are all fully editable so if your chord progression doesn't follow what the player who programmed the articulation did as far as intervals and such, you can edit the MIDI in the DAWs MIDI editor to whatever your liking is. It's a great program and I recommend it highly. BTW-I'm not an employee of Toontrack, so I'm not paid by them to sing it's praises. I just love the program so much, as well as EZ Drummer. Thanks again, Lynn. I was getting a bit worried about you being gone for so long.? ?JB

Hi! The workaround I use is back up the chord sets and save to an outside file. Then, when you install the update you can load them into the new version. If you have MIDI written on the old (broken) Scaler, you can create a MIDI track and move your MIDI temporarily from the old Scaler version to the MIDI track. Then update to the new Scaler version and move your MIDI from the (temporary) MIDI track onto the new Scaler. I know it's a bit of a PITA. Hopefully they will resolve the problem soon. ?John B

I got an email notification yesterday about a PM somebody sent me. We're moving in the right direction. ?John B

OK. I figured it out. It does back up the chord progression, but not in the chord builder below where you originally created it. The backed up chord progression shows up AT THE TOP area where the Artist, Song, etc field is. I was looking for the saved progression to reload into the chord builder again when recalled. All is good here, but is there a way to easily reload the saved progression back into the builder for, say, if you want to close out of the program having not completed a desired progression but you want to continue building the progression at a later time? To do this now, I have to reload these chords one by one back into the builder. Is there an easier way to do something like this? ?John B.

Allan, Arlen & Bob- Thanks so much for your time to listen and comment. ?JB

By all means DON'T let your loss hold back your creativity in music or anything else you create. The memory of her and the love you had together will more than likely guide you to create something very beautiful in her memory. ?John B

Yeah, this is an issue. When you update to the next version it kinda knocks the entire previous version out of the running, so you get that "plugin missing" message. What you have to do is go into your plug in menu after you update and re load it as a new version. Be forewarned: Back up any custom chord sets you created BEFORE you update to the newest version so you can reload them into the new version. If you don't have your custom chord sets backed up you may lose them when you update. If anybody needs help with backing up the chord sets, PM me. ?John B

I ran up to 1.6 in CbB and Win 10 with no problems. I have 1.8 on my dedicated music PC but have yet to update on my Win 10. I'm not real impressed with the sounds but I got it for chord voicing/progression ideas and for that, it's great! ?John B.

Thanks so much for listening, Steve. I love Golden Retrievers. Such pretty puppies. I must have been so sad to lose them. ? ?JB

Thank you very much, Doug! ?JB

Really enjoyed this. Words are so true. Imagery conveys the idea beautifully. ?John B

The beat is kinda different from your style. Nice change. Not knocking your other stuff though. This is just different. Harmonica and vocal harmonies are a nice touch. ?John B.

Pretty title and tune. Nice Latin percussion going on in there too! ?John B