Base 57

Everly Brothers 

Little Susie

11 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

One of my buds has a Yairi and it frets SO easy.  I don't have a Yairi, so I need to play this thing.

Find someone local to you to set-up your guitar. Inexpensive guitars can be dramatically improved with proper set-up. If a guitar is difficult to play, it is more difficult for you to improve as a player.

I'm not sure this counts as a critique of the music but, in early 1984 we had just finished a gig down in Cutoff Louisiana. A group of guys approached and informed us that if we didn't keep playing, they were going to turn over our truck. We declined.

So, a bunch of them lined up next to the 22-foot U-Haul and started rocking it. I doubt they would have been able to actually turn it over but, we played another couple of hours. 

Afterward those wonderful, enthusiastic people turned out to be very generous tippers.

4 hours ago, norfolkmastering said:

So instead I want to record a MIDI track (maybe using the virtual keyboard) and simply tap out the tempo using my mouse.

What you are looking for is called "Fit Improvisation".

Look it up in the reference guide. It is much easier to do than explain.

6 hours ago, Bapu said:

I use Microsoft Start as my main news feed

The Cakewalk Forum is my homepage. 

Life is too short for any of that other b******t.

Yes.

The Track Inspector has a notes panel called "Description" in the Properties tab. And each take lane has one as well.

32 minutes ago, Grem said:

And if the owner (forget his name) is in there you can strike up a conversation with him

I am planning to go see Melvin tomorrow.

C&M is a great store with an awesome staff. 

26 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Isn’t there a bug with bouncing tracks that adds 3db of gain?  

Bounce the Clips not the Track.

Bouncing the track may change the Interleave which could result in the 3db increase.

Track Templates are available in the Browser.

This already exists.

4 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

Acronyms require subtle elucidation.

Amicably synonymous sobriquet.

Sorry couldn't help overhearing. 😶

My beer is getting warm... I should probably go.

Look into "Groove Quantize". 

Cntrl-C to copy the reference clip. Then select the clip you want to follow it and use Process-Groove Quantize. The clip you copied will be on the clipboard as the default Groove File.

It is very unlikely that the tempo actually changed. What changed was your perception of the tempo. The tempo seemed correct during practice, but in a performance environment your perception of the tempo was that it was too slow.

Changing the buffer size will not affect tempo.

Cakewalk will not allow a sample rate change if there is audio in the project. If there is no audio, then changing the sample rate will not affect the tempo.

2 hours ago, StratosWave said:

when the data from Midinous comes into Cakewalk it only plays on the most recently created instrument track.

Be sure that Input Echo is turned on for each instrument track.

27 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

That's what I meant.

I knew that.  I believe John, Byron and Glenn knew that too.

It just seemed like the OP was not grasping the concept and needed a more direct answer. 

There are no rest icons in the PRV.

Blank spaces are rests.

Clips with a musical timebase will play in the Matrix at the project tempo.

Lost to Scook again 

Step Record 

37 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

until all of its 9-lives are dead?

That is a different cat. These guys keep closing the box and then reopening it because someone told them that a cat in a box can be alive or dead.

28 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

I think all of the whining by people who feel they were cheated by Gibson and should be compensated for that by Bandlab is pure selfishness.

I agree.

Between Cakewalk for DOS and SPlat lifetime, I bought at least a dozen top tier versions of Cakewalk software. The cost was waaay over $1000. I believe that I got every penny of my money's worth.

My only gripe is this big tease. 

37 minutes ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

I'm missing what CbB is

Cakewalk by Bandlab

1 hour ago, rsinger said:

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

That keyboard will not play back audio from the computer unless you are using the Bluetooth adapter. The USB computer port is MIDI only. That port is class compliant and should work without any added drivers.

So count me as another vote for watching John's tutorial.

7 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

on the road to extinction.

And Kenny is playing the soundtrack.

Good Times

3 hours ago, Andres Medina said:

Finally, I personally think that this software was rooted in a particular moment of time and technological advance - perhaps filling the gap between analog recording and digital recording- that inspired certain design that has further developed across decades. But the roots seems to be in a transfer from the analog paradigm into the digital world, which I think was very successful.

Yeah, that.

FWIW, I don't find CbB to be clunky at all.

I should add that I like all of the DAWs I've tried. Multi-million dollar studios packed into a $2500 box. 

Amazing 

2 hours ago, scook said:

Isn't that how all evaporative AC basically works? 

No, not really.

Technically, an AC unit is not blowing cool air into a room. It is removing heat and humidity then transferring it outside. Adding humidity to a room is going to make it feel slightly warmer unless the fan is blowing directly on you.

If you live in a very dry climate, those ice blowers may work ok. But in a humid climate, like here in South Louisiana, the last thing you want to do is add humidity.