Starship Krupa

Unfortunately I am quite capable of missing something in plain sight. 🙄This feature also hasn't been around long for me to get good at. The only thing that comes to mind is that I somehow had another category or categories already selected, which could mask the presence of what I was looking for. Maybe it was a fluke.

I found that too and actually sent them a ticket. Got a nice response saying that it was a great idea and that they would forward it to the ideas people. Then I found this mere hours after this pleasant exchange😣: Either I need to get good at navigating the search function or BandLab are QUICK about following up on users' good ideas.😄 How did I miss this? Well, I've had trouble with finding things in the sounds collection. Not trouble that I can fully articulate at the moment. I need to spend time with it and see how I'm missing things. There's some interesting stuff in here. It says there are 142 sound effects and Foley collections, and each one seems to have about 100 sounds, so maybe 14,000 individual sounds in this category? I'm kinda blown away. One of the membership benefits. Takes care of my sound effect library needs right inside the program.

Company who pulls stupid crap like this needs to realize: everyone was doing just fine before your fabulous and indispensable service came along. Not only since people started editing videos on our computers, since we started making and using computers, but the millennia of what is considered human history and before that. Fine. We flourished even. And if your service vanished tomorrow, or if it had never come into existence in the first place, nothing would be different about the world, nothing. I create videos on my computer, I spend at least 10 hours a day in front of an internet connected computer, move terabytes of data around and I never heard of either of these outfits until now. That's how essential they are to this heavy computer user and content creator. It's amusing to see them get called out on their silly (and not necessarily enforceable) EULA's. They know instantly what impact it has on their business by analyzing traffic to their servers. Oops! Wah wah waaaaahhhh.

Don't be. Several years back, Apple decided to bring a HUGE amount of engineering effort to bear on the issue of processor power consumption and heat generation. They came to the conclusion that the best way to go about it was to develop their own CPU's. So "Apple silicon" was engineered from the very start, ground up, to be more efficient. Microsoft is only now getting serious about Windows on ARM, so they have some catching up to do. Multiple DAW's including Sonar, now have ARM builds. So perhaps in the near future, the answer to what would be the best tiny Windows DAW computer will be "one with an ARM CPU."

Maybe this wasn't the best place to ask this. The collection is produced/curated by BandLab. Is there some way to send requests/suggestions to the BandLab powers that be?

Maybe a modifier key. Like if you invoke the command while holding Alt, it applies trimming before sending it?

Same person I submitted them to. Morten Saether. AFAIK, he's still in charge of documentation.

The longer a document has been around, the more the author(s) and users become blind to errata. After the first CbB Reference Guide was published, I was still new to it and created a document where I could write down errors. Every so often, I'd PM a list of them to Morten Saether. The great majority of them got incorporated (some of them were my own misunderstandings). I stopped after it stopped feeling like such a "target rich environment." Maybe became blind to whatever's still there, or just never accessed those parts of the manual. So my suggestion is to note and submit whatever errata you find. The guy in charge of documentation is good about fixing them. The more eyes on it the better, I think.

Hmm, merge/tie notes. I like that idea.

I, too, like being sure which type of plug-in I'm using. And I favor VST3 plug-ins. VST2 technology will fade away sooner than VST3, and any plug-in that I only have in VST2 form is on the older side. Some people start a project, finish it, archive it and go on. Some people, like me, have dozens of non-completed projects that we revisit when we feel like it. Starter ideas, ones I couldn't figure out how to finish, etc. Right now, my composition method starts in the box, with soft synths and creative FX. The DAW is effectively my "instrument." So it collects ideas just like my piano or guitar. With the DAW, it's easier to save and remember. I can work on an older project, I can search them for ideas to combine, etc. So plugin longevity is important. Newer is better, "still supported" is best. Let's hope that whenever we get access to custom color schemes, we're allowed to set these colors.

An extensive "theme editor" as CbB had will likely never come, and I don't have a problem with that. I leaned so hard into it because it was fun and the older button iconography rubbed me the wrong way. The buttons have been mostly fixed. I just want to be able to set colors. That's it. I don't need to design my own sets of buttons and controls. I'm in the aging eyesight crew, finding Sonar to be less and less legible and finding myself going back to CbB or even SONAR for some operations. As for how the devs are making their color themes, I suspect that there's a table that maps screen elements to color values. Put in a new color number and the corresponding screen element changes. For a dev to do it, they have to alter the code directly, which requires the administrative overhead of checking the module out, la la la. It may be that they are going to come up with a dialog in the new style for color assignments, it seems unlikely that they would try to reuse the old custom color dialog. And a color picker dialog is surely lower priority than sexier dialogs that users will access more often, like the new Track Manager. Maybe it would be part of a whole facelift for Preferences. The way to make it higher priority is to post right here in this forum, so well done to everyone who has. IIRC, the earlier Theme Editor evolved from an in-house tool that may never have been intended for end users to get their hands on. Would explain the....idiosyncrasies of Theme Editor. It was a lot of fun, though, and I loved having that level of customization available. Themeing became a whole other hobby, and I suspect more people have used the themes I made with Theme Editor than have listened to my recordings....

So I guess I was right about that. The "minimum requirements" are more about the (over)use of plug-ins than about the DAW itself. Heaven knows, when a n00b wants to fix something, the first thing they reach for is another effect plug-in. When I revisit my own early projects I'm astonished at how many friggin' plug-ins I thought I needed. Or actually did need. Also, in the hours and hours I've spent watching YouTube tutorial videos, I don't know if I've ever seen one that got into freezing tracks. Which is a pity, because it can extend the useful life of older/low spec systems, or let me be productive when I can't be at my usual DAW computer. 25 plug-in laden tracks become 25 audio tracks. We don't even seem to recommend it much here on the forum. WTH happened to track freezing?! Cheap RAM and faster CPU's I guess. Maybe I'll recommend a "track freezing" tutorial to one of our YouTube people....but it could just be my own perception that they are few. I think it could be valuable for "expectation management" to educate n00bs about track freezing: either cool it with the plug-ins or learn how to freeze. My frugality expresses itself in a preference for plug-ins that don't gobble resources (also tuning my system like it's an F1 car). MeldaProduction FX and AIR synths are staples around here. I also like A|A|S synths, but even they are not terrible when it comes to resource usage. Especially if you knock down the voice count on those loooooonnnng factory pads.

I've had to do that a lot in the course of my life. My deadpan is too good, I guess. I'm not actually a pedantic know-it-all, I just pretend to be one for comic effect! My story and I'm sticking to it.... I do actually love New Order and wasn't kidding about "Perfect Kiss," though. For the record (no pun).

Jeez, 9, I thought I was the one who overthinks things.😄❤ My thought process went something like this: "Hmm, 9 says that 'Mississippi Queen' rules because you can see the guy smacking out a straight 1/4 note ride on it in the intro. Well 'Perfect Kiss' has the lead singer take a cowbell solo with the camera zoomed into his face and the instrument in question. How can I respond in the silliest way possible?" I was being "snooty" about the relative difficulty of the cowbell part and Jonathan Demme's choice of shots. As in "oh is there now, well take a look at the ahhhtistry on display in this video."

De gustibus. To me, "Perfect Kiss" is a towering anthem and I hang on every note. I've watched the video so many times I have things memorized, like where Bernard takes the cowbell solo and where you can see the Joy Division gig flier. @User 905133, the part I'm referring to regarding cowbell starts at 6:30, after Steven's frog solo. Bernard takes a lead on it, a nice, complex rhythm striking two different parts of the bell, giving it an agogo flavor. I was going to post LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk is Playing at My House" for another great cowbell solo, but I watched a live video of it and Murphy uses an agogo. I had thought he was doing like Bernard and hitting different parts of the bell. Here's the live version. Notes: holy mother of pearl THIS is how you start a live set Nancy Whang should have received a special Grammy for Best Use of Rock and Roll Hair in a Live Performance for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbNTGCB_vg