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    Nice article on Cakewalk and BandLab

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

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    I used to keep altering a misleading Wiki page which left out a very key event in a certain Victorian's life, and someone kept altering it back to suppress the facts.  We played ping pong for a while then I gave up.  I'm sure the other party was a descendant of the Victorian person in the entry who wished to whitewash their legacy.  An example of how and why Wiki can be abused and be unreliable.

    Vocal Take (What Am I Doing Wrong)

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    Lou Reed.  Marianne Faithfull.  I can name many others who can't sing for toffees, some who virtually 'talk' instead.  What they all have in common though is that they understood that, but still wanted to express themselves musically.  So they worked on sculpting what noises they could make into being 'quirky' and making songs and music that suited that matched their limited warbling abilities.

    I played in bands for years and always got shirty with individuals I felt could sing, say, backing vocals, but claimed "I can't sing."  This was almost always code for "I don't want to embarrass myself" and "I can't be bothered to try".  I would then go on to give them a few tips and force them to darn well contribute, like others in the band. 

    Capitalise on what you can do, and do it with verve and commitment.  That will come through in the delivery and be picked up by the listener, who isn't expecting Pararotti - it's pop/rock and almost anything goes.  If, however, you sing reticently, that will also be picked up by the listener and they'll be distracted from the lyrics and  won't want to stay with it.  

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    Melodyne and Cakewalk

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

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    🤬 Sadly, on my sessions with CW today the old problem reappeared, i.e. Melodyne not remembering the default algorithm so I have to select Melodic every time I open it to work on a clip.  Very bizarre how it ramdomly 'fixes' itself and then unfixes itself.  👻

     

    Melodyne and Cakewalk

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    4.2 is working for me today, i.e. it remembers my default algorithm, melodic. 

    I don't know if it's a temporary thing, or something to do with a W10 update or whether the bakers fixed something in the last CW release, but usually the behaviour on my set up was that Melodyne would use the default algorithm when first invoked in a new CW session but when I used it  subsequently  in that session I had to select the algorithm manually.  Today all seems to be working as it should.  I'm not getting excited yet, let's see what tomorrow brings first!

    Something stirring at XLN Audio (at last...)

    in Deals

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    'Quickness' is not necessarily the midwife of creativity, rather it's a function of the age we live in.  If only the great painters could have knocked up masterpieces in minutes rather than months or even years, think of all the extra wonders we would now have.  😵 😉

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