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Sometimes life just gets in the way. Worth the wait! Drop a "like", let us know you're out there... 👏 t

👍's t worst thing a good dog does is get old on ya. and I've had my fair share...

I'll echo all the above. 👏 t

Nicely done Ron et al! 👍's 👏 t maybe time for an original?

So, you're MIDI based; right? MAC or PC? Why? If you are running a MAC and doing MIDI based music, get Logic (some will offer other choices). Pro Tools is NOT a MIDI program (some will disagree, but they are WRONG!). If I ran a MAC, Logic; pure and simple. (frankly, if/when SONAR quite working, I probably would have gone MAC. fortunately see below) PC? this IS the CakeWalk forum so DUH! You pays your money, you takes your choice; oh WAIT! Cakewalk is FREE? yup t

Welcome to the forum. Open Preferences. Hit P on the keyboard. This is a Per Project setting so you must have a song open. Cursor down to Project>Record You want to use Sound on Sound (probably). Experiment with the various settings until you get it working like Guitar Tracks. (assuming that's what you are trying to do) HTH, t lots of Toms on the forum, the old man used to call me "little t"

I'll hold the like for the final mix. t

Yep, welcome. Lots of good advice above. Best way to learn to mix? Lather, rinse and repeat... In a word; mix! t

Garage Band or Band in a Box? I'd like to hear one of the country tunes. t

Fat and Sassy Jack, thanks for asking... t

Interesting, not sure what I would do with this if I'm sitting in the producers chair. Would I stick with a kind of spoken word minimalist solo artist, or flesh it out Americana style? t Just a thought/suggestion: not sure you'll get a lot of action with a download. Look into SoundClick maybe, I think its free. Quite a few forum members use it.

Somehow I missed this the first run thru, glad it came back up. 👍's t

You can say that again! Like the breakdowns that bracket the solo (kind of a "middle eight"; that counts 10 was it?) So big 👍's and 👏 t

Got by me, even with the “heads-up”. 👏 Jerry 👍’s t

Jesse, you've been busy. Good work all. I have nothing cleaver clever to say, so I will sigh sign off... t

I like the bluesy riff in this one Jack. If you want to take this from "demo" to finished work; I think you need some live guitars. Maybe a "grinding" B3 would be a nice touch. A little "spit and polish" on the lyrics and I think you have a tune here. t

EZD2/3 and Superior 3, I always have the toms on one stereo track, and the Overheads are on one stereo track. Notice that they are spread across the stereo field in the EZD2 mixer. In the console view you can see I have a preset “pop rock toms” in the pro channel. I tend to gate the “ring” out on the toms. In this shot it’s not “active”; ?. This tune did have the drums “frozen” so the bounce must have sounded “right”. You can see I did work on the kick and snare post freeze. In SD3 and EZD3 I have the ride on a separate track as well, it’s “heresy”, but all the bleed with “live” drums drives me nuts. Back in the day I was playing guitar and/or singing. I can/have track drums, but an “engineer” set up the mics and got the levels in the ballpark. Way above my pay grade. All I had to do was arm and press “R”. 🙃 Again HTH t

👍 that causes an issue; doh! Been there, done that 🙃. As to the EZD mixer, here's shots of the EZD Mixer and the Console: probably pretty typical in my work. HTH, t

Working in EZD2's Song Track works just fine, until you want/need to freeze the drums. Then you have to move the midi into a midi track. If your computer is having no issues with the VSTi's in the project, leave the midi in EZD2. I break EZD2/3/SD3 out into 8 tracks (in the folder DRUMS) routed to the DRUMS Buss, and do all my mixing in CbB. But it "works" either way; personal preference. I have projects where I've combined midi in the track and midi in the EZD Song Track. If I'm having no latency "issues" (when I'm mixing I always max the buffers) I don't bother freezing. HTH, t Just a note here, EZD3 is a significant improvement over EZD2, well worth the early discount. Pretty sure Black Friday, or maybe some earlier discounting, will see similar pricing... Jump in, the waters fine!

I have the “old” Babyface in the office rig. Yes the breakout is “klunky”, but it is “rock solid”. If I was setting up an occasional “mobile” rig I could make it work, but I would probably find a better solution if I was “mobile” on a regular basis. HTH, t

Yeah, but the tone is great! I'll echo all above. t

Agreed! 👏 +1 t

Yes, hold the Shift key when you open the project. Cake will let you open only the plugins you want. It can take awhile to go thru the list. Hopefully the offending plug will come early and then you can “Yes to All” HTH t

Touching Freddy, really nice! t I think I'd up the verb on the guitars a bit. PS: congrats on the anniversary. We’ll celebrate 49 in November.