Glenn Stanton

if you're room isn't treated and your ears are not "calibrated" to it (i.e. you mix something on your speakers and take it elsewhere, and it sounds correct), and if your ears are not "calibrated" to the headphones (i.e. you mix something on your headphones and take it elsewhere, and it sounds correct) then you cannot really trust either one. 

with the panels up, did you do any acoustic measurements to get a sense of the listening position response? and then adjust positions etc to get it flatter? 

with the headphones, are you using any software (e.g. sound reference etc) to flatten the headphone response?

did you calibrate the playback levels of the speakers and headphones? say both to 75db? loudness contours of our ears result in hearing things differently at different pressure levels.

not sure if you'd import into EZK more than a single track but it should be possible.

works for me:

the only thing is in a couple of places it get's the chords wrong (e.g. Dadd9 instead of D)

yeah, phishing and other tricks (in the old days we called it "social engineering") are tough to stop, but if you actually have an account with something, then close the message and use your browser to go directly to the site from your own bookmarks or memory. this avoids redirects, etc embedded in the links to near lookalike web sites. NEVER EVER click on an email link to one of your accounts. 

why can't it be a tax write off and to get them to shut up? win-win...  🙂 

WP be like "alt-crtl-shift-K" is "save". can't be more intuitive than that... LOL. i think MS Word still offers WP keystrokes as an option...

8 hours ago, CSistine said:

And technically OS/2 was miles ahead of Windows (in some areas it still is)!

being very primative helped. i know some PC-based "servers" which ran (stable) almost 20 years without being rebooted. but it was butt-ugly and IBM had already lost the lead to MS who got the contracts... the PS/2 otoh when combined with the OS/2 was rock solid, and very flexible and required almost no tools to configure (physically).

also, when you get an email "we've encountered a problem with your account, click here to correct the problem" and other fun phishing content, always, as in ALWAYS NEVER click on the link, and certainly NEVER click on a box that says "Click Here, it's safe" etc. (web page, PDF, etc etc) as it runs a script under your account and then your system is owned. basic web sercurity for the past, oh, 30 years or so...

if you get a message - go to your bookmarks and open the link directly yourself. and then, when the site opens, alway look at the address before doing any other steps.

and yeah, paypal is one of the better places - in addition to a single well protected storage and login (esp if you use multi-factor authentication for every transaction) they have one of the best remediation processes to refute payments made to people and businesses who do the wrong thing.

also, make sure whatever CC you use has a $50 liability limit. so if your debit card does not have that, DO NOT USE IT. most times, if someone is re-using your card (like when you went to the gas station, restuarant, shopping, etc) when you file a complaint, most of the better CC companies don't even bother with the $50. but you want to know at the very least this is in your CC policy...

go to the legacy Cakewalk site, sign-in with your account and you'll find your downloads and serial numbers. https://legacy.cakewalk.com/ if you have issues logging in, reach out to support@cakewalk.com who can assist.

5 minutes ago, pwal³ said:

yeah but you'd listen to it first to get the balances right, right?

oh, that's just crazy talk now 🤪of course you don't simply crank things up until you think you have the balance right. you can of course "mix into" your loudness setup so you're not shearing peoples hair off from too much "sizzle" and "air" as well as creating mud... or alternate things - mix quiet, check loud, mix quiet, check loud, etc etc and of course cross-check on as many systems as you have available - mono, car, VSX, cracked-door while in the kitchen, portable usb speaker, club PA, TV, TV + surround system, cellphone speaker. etc

same way the Beatles did it.

going simpler - you set up a buss compressor, limiter, and loudness meter on your master - set it to get what you want, then export. probably could create a PC preset that loads that and in range within seconds. 

there is the robot.txt but it's more a suggestion than a viable command, and of course the search engine will (or not) cache something for some period of time and then not long beforethat happens, the internet archiver will find it... 🙂 the best bet is to actively maintain content (internal to your site, there should NEVER be a broken link - they make tools for this) and ensure you have any external links from old content mapped to more relevant content (most friendly) or simply provide "not found" (least friendly).

1 hour ago, pwal³ said:

Why are you using non-even buffer sizes?

not me 🙂 the WASAPI shared and exclusive modes sometimes return non-even buffers (e.g . 441 samples) when using their returned scan values, (e.g. they're not on divisible by 8 boundaries)

so i need a way to adjust to an even value so the ***** hard-coding of a synth can operate. 

i can reproduce the EZD 3 (3.0.6) issue - the audio engine drops if i drag the MIDI from a track, but does NOT drop if i drag from the browser. the EZB (1.1.8) - cannot reproduce issue - works either way.

note: this is a new completely blank project. EZD and ESB inserted in synth rack - one audio, one MIDI track per each. same MIDI content from track and browser.

agreed. but a couple of them i use and they're excellent virtual representations of older synths that even a few of my other paid products cannot quite get "the sound". anyways, it's a non-issue for me either way... 🙂 it's there, it behaves well, so i leave it. the realtek stuff otoh... oo la la...

i used to use a similar Behringer 4-ch USB mixer, so unlikely the issue. since you have the metronome off, and you muted the metronome buss, if you're still hearing it, then either you have something running which is producing the metronome (like a virtual instrument - some drum VST have metronomes which play along), or somehow you recorded a metronome on a track which is why you cannot turn it off... if this last couple are the issue you can just mute some tracks to see if that is the case.

11 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

IME, ASIOALL does no better than the officially Microsoft and Cakewalk supported WASAPI Exclusive with the Realtek hardware CODEC. YMMV.

agreed - exception - i use it only to handle synths that break or otherwise refuse to operate on non-even buffer sizes...

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opened yesterday over the peer to peer network via my router from another system

possibly following Noels advice - turn off the network or otherwise hide access to the peer system and reopen the app. if that does clear it great.

another bit of advice, don't open files on peer networked systems 🙂 use your windows explorer to copy the project to your local disk. then open them. otherwise you are (like any other app using network located files) you're at the mercy of the peer system to stream the content. the exception are dedicated NAS services on a high speed network which are mapped to your system as a disk drive (no UNC as many apps fail).

1 hour ago, VISIBLE THREAT said:

My bad I meant mp3 

where did you download the file from?

1 hour ago, VISIBLE THREAT said:

Audio engine seems to have completely destroyed itself

\m/ awesome dude! \m/ (can practically smell the sulfur and feel the heat from here!) 😈

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Problems seemed to start occurring when I downloaded the file and sent it to my phone as an mp4

downloaded what file from where? mp4 is a video format. 

SI-Drums is limited to 2 tracks. if you have or can install SessionDrummer, then you can get the individual tracks needed. check the box that says "all output channels" and the assign the drums in the SD mixer UI to the channels. one MIDI track, 24 audio tracks.

the SI-Drums UI is just a sound player - and selecting parts of the drum to change velocity (or a rimshot) only activate the sound generator / samples. it's not like a keyboard or pads which can provide MIDI inputs to a track that can be recorded. maybe another drum VI could output MIDI but not the SI Drums.

when you say, nothing changed - there were changes made in the project? or just opened and re-exporting it?

as far as trust but verify - regardless of the program - always: listen, proof read, check properties, etc etc to ensure: it's what was expected in all things - the title, textual content, audio content, video content, codecs, sample rates, bit depth, etc etc etc etc. unless this is purely for yourself.

as a working professional, you must check. computers are not to be trusted. especially if you're using any AI products. computers have 4 billion transistors, it's a miracle they even work. and software, well, hoo boy, where to start, but if you want bugs, check out the Mac OS 14.4.1 or the Studio One 6.6... 

20 minutes ago, jesse g said:

I am not that adventurous to take apart my condensor mics, but good luck to you if you do! 😁

don't be a wuss! it's not any more dangerous than BASE-jumping  in L.A. 🙂 lol

my first time: i bought a "not-working" MXL v67 off ebay and was going to use the shell for a clone project, when i opened it, i found a broken wire and the capsule was dirty. so reconnected the wire, cleaned the capsule, and voila, a working mic. after that, one of my regular mics was sounding weird - cleaned it, again it worked out. did it to a few dynamic mics (SM57 and SM58) - nice and clean.  so yeah, it's a bit scary at first but after you've done it a few times and also gotten all your repair manuals so you know how to properly open them (sennheiser, i'm looking at you!) it's fairly safe and the mics seem to enjoy it 😉 

and left-over automation - sometimes shift things around and forgetting about some automation (esp on a buss) can cause the dropouts. there have been a few times when i exported something and forgot i added 4-8 measures and left the volume drop on the print buss at the original location and ended up missing those... took a minute to remember the automation...

4 hours ago, Xoo said:

Top line.

j.k. you need to fade out to fade in 🙂