Glenn Stanton

i also noticed since they stopped using the SETI apps on your PC to help, erm, decode space signals, that the newer auto-wreck features on text messaging seems to find and attempts to use words which a) you never knew existed, and b) would never have used in any conversation you ever had but somehow the AI determined it was just the word you needed. so either a) the aliens are already here and running things and use this to keep the masses busy correcting it and leveling curses at it, and/or b) they dropped something into the water/vaccines/etc which make the population so stoopid that we'll never be a threat to the rest of the galaxy...

couple of thoughts -- if you're stuck using the realtek drivers for your audio out, ok, but if you have an IO device which supports better audio, i'd disable the realtek ones. and use the WASAPI shared or exclusive modes (or if the IO device has proper ASIO drivers use those). -- you do not need a MIDI device to play MIDI via virtual instruments (such as TTS-1, SI- instruments like drums, piano, strings, bass) etc (assuming you install the SI instruments that come with CbB). the MIDI on a given track is sent to the VI and then out via your audio output. -- in 99% of cases, people are looking to "disable" the MS GM synth as it has had a lot of issues and none have been given attention... not sure why you "lost it" from an update, but there are numerous OS updates happening and its possible one of those recent ones (e.g. i've had 6 updates in 2 weeks now) which could have disabled it (esp Edge updates are notorious for screwing things up lately)

agreed. realistically, generally the object model is project -> tracks + envelopes -> clips + envelopes -> busses + envelopes -- each with settings, effects w/ settings, plus all the written notes, and then the associated audio and/or MIDI files in formats that are generally well known by now. one inhibitor would be the envelopes data if not smoothed could be significantly sized. otherwise, most of the metadata would be fairly minimal (say <10mb uncompressed?)

and apparently everything you type, every mouse movement (the ink services you cannot disable oddly enough) and any related audio/video/electromagnetic signals (like bluetooth and wifi, NFS, credit card w/ chips, etc) are also all scanned and shared to someone on the internet to "help" make everything better. not trying to be paranoid but the timing of these "features" in windows and apple OSes seemed to coincide with the completion of the massive NSA facility in Utah a number of years ago (when the fort meade facility couldn't handle the load and the old TRW crypto facility with the quantum processor farms (which is why encryption became mostly all allowed back in 1995) needed more storage).

yes, you could have a bunch of instruments all responding on the same or different MIDI channels as well as outputs - separate or combined. even multiples of a single instrument.

part of a series of songs written during my time doing open mics at the Backstage Hotel which was all about creating and performing originals. this one is somewhat like a Romeo & Juliet story, erm, perhaps in reverse? lol. anyways - this is early in the mix process and i have some lead vocal phrasing i want to tweak... feel free to leave some comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------- she thinks about how her life has been insane and contemplates the mysteries of eternal pain she sings her favorite song but then she hums the refrain she dances in the rain her boyfriend's gone away and she wonders who to blame on this date in the calendar she cries out his name to the hole in the ceiling where it echoes through the frame she dances in the rain he crawls up to the surface like a zombie from its bed screams this ain't no way to live to those voices in his head but it's to that distant melody, a secret place he's led he's walking with the dead he rushes down that shrouded lane and he finds a clearing there he sees a lonely figure dancing 'round a candle on a chair it's a losing proposition you get burned if you win the game she dances in the rain he moves into her motion, she swirls to embrace those raindrops sparkle on her beautiful face the music seems fantastic but the song its got no name she dances in the rain [solo] two worlds collide they're not the same he walks with the dead she dances in the rain now miles apart in the same dark room they pull apart the curtains to release the gloom they fall to their knees to that higher power above and they begin to pray they say love shine on me love

honestly, i'm only here for the sneaker ads anyways...

whoa! wait! you have friends? 😶‍🌫️

note: Will's technique of recording the input via the AUX track is how you print the effects on the WAV clip(s). otherwise, just having plugins on the input track does NOT print those effects. if you turn off the effects, you're simply left with the raw input. and which i recommend recording BOTH - so if you find the effect(s) printed on the aux track need to be adjusted, you have the source material to work with... much like re-amping - record your guitars both DI and post-amp / post-effects so you can redo the guitar amping and effects later.

i'd reinstall the redistributables for CW to be sure the Next install (or even some other updates like the MS Edge did a week or so ago) isn't the issue. for me, i notice that the play processing (on my system at least) is smoother and virtually no clicks w/ everything running (AV, network, etc) which in the previous version i had to shutoff while using CW --- however --- i do find the UI seems more likely to lock up if i slightly click on the edge of a control, as if the resolution (i did not change) and thus control image boundary sensing, is more likely to cause a contention on what i was asking the UI to do. so i'm moving slower in the UI now to make sure i'm hitting controls as dead center as possible (and that seems to mitigate it).

in my case(s) - clients want the work done in the DAW their project is in 🙂 so having several of the popular ones is the investment i made to ensure i can address those. but if there was a universal DAW project content solution, i would like to be able to import it cleanly, use just the one DAW and export it reliably into whatever format the client wanted. 🧚‍♀️

yeah, it depends on how many tracks you're recording at any one time. for me - i can only do 16 at the same time. so moving them is fairly quick, and regardless, all systems have some latency even if its 2.5ms, when you are adding tracks to recorded material (overdubs etc), you'll still need to accommodate that unless there is something i'm not doing correctly 🙂

most pitch shifting plugins aren't great in low latency mode. i generally track without any plugins and try to use direct monitoring to avoid any latency effects in monitoring. and if someone needs a bit of reverb, i'll use the mixer built-in reverb... 🙂 then just adjust the recorded tracks by whatever the latency setting shows (e.g. if 5ms or 10ms, then shift things left 5-10ms) and done. i've found it just safer to get recordings without any possible glitching due to plugin overhead or even mysterious system occurrences 😉

for jumping though. i simply pop open the marker list (normally at the bottom - this image for sharing idea only...)

now i'm feeling like i must be paranoid with 6 DAW applications... 🙂 really though it's because some clients will only share their project file and related content and do not want to do old school export to WAV and let the mix guy do things... but for me, that's maybe 3 in 10. most will simply export their tracks (WAV or AIFF) and a sample mix or two, maybe some notes on "critical" effects they want.

yes, apologies, "audible bounce"

the SI-Piano or the free sforzando player will display the keys being pressed live or from the recorded MIDI content.

Discord is a virus.

which one? there are so many. several are evolutions of existing ones, and some are simply not workable for professionals so they don't gain traction... in general, to be meaningful, the parity of features across DAW would need to be strongly aligned, and features, missing plugins, etc would need to be handled gracefully, and then of course there are the audio / video / midi / api & content specs that must be supported... imagine a 50 track project with 20 (from 10 vendors) plugins, 10 VI from 5 vendors w/ program switching, audio, MIDI, and a short video, plus copious notes in tracks, plugins, and project level, with heavy dependency on "chord tracks" "arranger tracks" "automation envelopes". heck, most DAW struggle to manage that 100% internally, now imagine how that could be successfully shared across 4-5 DAW vendor products... basically you'd have to dumb down the lowest common denominator - audio and midi only, plugin metadata only, etc so no dependency on actual plugins and VI, and all in XML and/or JSON. to wit: MusicXML 😉

my kids (adults now) use it on their PC and then call me to complain about how much disk time, memory and CPU are being used since it's also trying to act as a sharing service etc. so definitely not good on a PC unless that's all you do on a PC 🙂

"phase" is a somewhat overloaded term - in the DAW (and mix boards etc) the "phase" switch is really "polarity" (or 180° phase shift). mainly it was used as a quick check to determining is the polarity of the inbound signals where correct or if the polarity switch could [crudely] solve a problem. so no, you won't see the waveform shift, but you'll hear it (or not if it has no effect). in complex cases where a multiple input source (like a drum kick with lots of mics and related bleed) some adjustments in timing can improve the phase relationship, but also shift the bleed to where it can sound worse - so reduction of the bleed over is key if actual phase / timing corrections are needed or desired. (to fix this, close mic'ing became popular when using 2-3 mics to record a kit didn't deliver the desired results). i've been using InPhase from Waves to assist tweaking phase things as well as small track shifts (timing w/ 1ms increments) and RX to reduce bleed over. plus a lot more samples and drum replacement 🙂

and as a note: do not install discord on your PC, it takes over your system and is very hard to get rid of without a wipe and re-install of the OS and your apps... the discord web version is fine, and is designed for a younger crowd anyways... 🙂

the only reason i use the loop and punch is doing multiple takes - like vocals - where i have the loop set to give me a measure or two, then the punch for the part, then loop to repeat and add more takes on it. i'm certainly all for an auto-roll though, but being a dinosaur (or a fossile thereof) i use markers and loops to perform the process 🙂

many ways there are... ---- yoda

unfortunately, install updates on CbB always resets a bunch of stuff. one of the reasons i create about a dozen custom workspaces and backups for INI files etc. 🙂 the custom workspaces don't get overridden, and i can tweak as i update my templates as well to better create views and settings for the task at hand. need to edit buss automation? i use the bussview workspace which hides most of the tracks and shows all busses on the "busses trackview" etc. very fast to switch around and reuse. easy to create and save and update as you need to.