David Baay

That's great. If she's half as tickled as I am about mine, I'm happy for her. There's nothing like having a long-deferred dream come true. Gotta thank my wife for this one. I let it go all those years partly because I didn't have the the proper space for one, partly because I liked the light touch, always-perfect tuning, portability and recordability of digitals, and partly because of a misconception about how much I would have to spend to get a decent grand. It was my wife who really wanted to hear me play a real piano, and who found the G3 for half the going rate (which is surprisingly reasonable already), and who cleared out a third of the living room to make way for it.

Thanks for the kind words, Kenny. Glad you liked it, and happy to see you still knocking around here, yourself. I plan to be posting some more stuff periodically so stay tuned, and if you hear something you can't resist soloing over, let me know. ;^) Dave

Thanks, Andy. An instrumental melody is more likely as I don't really write lyrics or sing much. My wife is always threatening promising to write lyrics to various of my compositions; I'll keep working on her.

Re-reading the original post, if you have an echo, then you must be hearing both direct and input-monitored sound. Is the direct sound just what bleeds through your headphones directly from the guitar, or are you somehow getting mix of direct-monitored signal from the interface, and input-monitored signal coming out of the DAW?

Unmodified copies of a clip, whether linked or not, will always reference a single copy of the source file, whether it's the original file in a loop collection, or a single copy saved in the project audio folder the first time it's imported. Don't worry, be happy, make music. ;^)

Make sure you don't have any plugins in your project that use look-ahead buffers that induce Plugin Delay Compensation. If such a plugin is on a track or bus that's not in the chain of the track you're recording, you can use PDC [bypass] button in the Mix module to bypass the delay on an input-monitored track that you're recording, but if it's on that track you'll just have to remove it. Common offenders that you may or may not have, depending on how you got CbB are Cakewalk's Linear Phase EQ and Multiband Compressor and Transient Shaper. Convolution reverbs and many guitar FX processors will also induce PDC. in general plugins that need PDC should not be used until tracking is complete and you've moved on to mixing and mastering.

Thanks, Michael. Yeah, I usually don't compress solo piano much, especially if it's a 'sensitive' piece like this. Sometimes I'll knock down the highest MIDI velocities to make a little headroom, and then I'll push the whole thing no more than 3dB into a limiter, and that's it.

So true. When listening to good ones years later I often think, 'Where'd that come from?' The muse wrote it, not me.

Thanks, gents. Glad you enjoyed it.

Mmmm... very tasty fusion indeed. Love it!

Sweet... a Kenny Wilson twofer! Listening to this, methinks another collab might be in order. I have a virtually endless supply of solo piano grooves like this from which you can choose. ;^) Cheers, Dave

Strangely satisfying. I like it!

Nice one, Kenny. The most fun you can have on an elevator with your clothes on. ;^) Glad this happened to be on the 'front page' when I checked in today. Your friend, Dave

Well done, Larry. No excuses necessary. A thoroughly excellent effort, and enjoyable listen. Chapeux!

Hi All, Long time, no visit. I acquired a Yamaha G3 grand piano last year, and have not spent much time with the DAW since. Just having way too much fun playing, and marveling at the expressiveness and presence of this amazing instrument after playing digitals for 30 years! I've not yet endeavored to record the Yamaha (it's downstairs, far from my desktop DAW), so what I'm sharing here was recorded from a Roland RD-700NX. I mostly did this just to capture the MIDI before I forget how to play it as sometimes happens when I improvise something and then don't get back to it for a while. Like most of my stuff, this will probably evolve over time to have a distinct intro, more variations in chord voicing and rhythm, and maybe a proper'bridge' section, but I think it stands up pretty well as is. Double points if you can hear the MIDI editing 'cheat'. ;^) Cheers, Dave

FWIW, I've seen the 'playback won't stop' issue off and on for years with different interfaces (currently MOTU 2408). It's pretty rare (like maybe once every 50-100 sessions) so not a huge problem, and may be project-specific. If Stop at Project End is enabled, it will eventually stop at that point, but I usually have that option disabled, and SONAR/CbB has to be killed because all other options to stop playback fail, including toggling the audio engine off or hitting the panic button . MOTU and my previous interace are PCIe-based, so turning off the interface was not an option, though that might work with a USB/FW interface to kill the audio clock.

Was it in a dedicated project folder, and is that folder gone? Were alternate/progressive versions of the project file saved with different names over time? Does the project show up in your recent projects list? Ulitmately, I think this must be a an O/S file system issue if not user error. CbB pretty much never deletes anything without the user taking pains to make it happen.

I think the idea is that you start loop recording and layering MIDI parts - especially drums, but it could be horn section arrangements or something else - and as you listen to a part being replayed, you decide to delete/add/move a hit before continuing on to record other kit pieces. And you want to do this without stopping the transport so you can hear the results of your edits on the next iteration and add additional parts from your keyboard/controller at any time because you're still recording. The PRV doesn't allow this workflow because it only shows a preview of notes being recorded, and you don't have access to edit them until you stop the transport. Personally I would almost never choose to work this way because the autistic part of my brain gets overwhelemed with the constant noise of playback and can't think straight. ;^) But I understand how a lot of people would want to be able to do this,

Ah, "edit while recording"... that's a different animal. Yes, not possible in PRV currently.

Hey Craig, I think you must be thinking of loop-recording audio...? Sound on Sound recording works great for loop-recording MIDI drum parts. Personally I usually restart the tranport in between takes, but you don't have to.

The most common cause of this is a bug related to changing metronome settings while FX Bypass is engaged. If that's the cause, toggling the FX Bypass button will fix it.

I downloaded the demo of Pianissimo (32-bit only, but that shouldn't be a factor), and reproduced the issue. I ran the same track against True Pianos - Cakewalk, and SI electric Piano, and they both responded as expected. Then I inserted a CC 121 Reset All Controllers, which I thought was what Zero Controllers sends, but, surprisingly, none of them responded to it. Then I replaced CC121 with CC123 All Notes Off, and only Pianissimo did not respond to that. Then I disabled Zero Controllers in preferences, and found that TruePianos and SI Electric Piano still went silent on stop as has been my experience with soft synths. It may well be that SONAR sends All Notes Off on stop. IRC, there are settings related to this in the TTSSEQ.ini and/or Cakewalk.ini. So now I'm note sure how Zero Controllers is implemented. I probably knew at one time, and have forgotten. I'd be surprised if it sends individual controller messages, but it's possible. But the bottom line seems to be that this issue is synth-specific.

Seems most likely it's the particular synth your using that's not responding to CC 121 All Controllers Off. Try putting some other controller in the track that gives a clearly audible result, and see if that gets zeroed. You might also try assigning a forced Output channel to the track to make sure the Zero Controllers message is getting to the right channel on the synth. One thing I don't understand is that my experience has always been that soft synths generally won't sustain on stop even if Zero Controllers is disabled. I don't know much about soft synth programming, but I always thought this was because the synth gets some non-MIDI message directly from the host telling it to stop producing output. For example, a drum synth that has a cymbal ringing on stop will go silent even though drum samples are typically triggered as 'one-shots' that don't respond to Note Offs. So even if SONAR isn't sending Zero Controllers or the synth isn't responding to it, it should still go silent.

For sustained notes 'hanging' on stop, you can enable 'Zero Controllers When Play Stops' in Preferences.

I like to bounce the Master Bus to a track that routes directly to hardware Main Outs, and group the mute on that 'Master Bounce' track in opposition with the Master Bus mute. This allows easily A/Bing the 'Master Bounce' against the live mix to make sure it sounds and looks right (length, amplitude, compression, channel balance, fades, etc). Then you can export just that track, and know that the uploaded file will be exactly what you intended.