Starship Krupa

Excellent rebuttal/rant. Let the jibba-jabba flow. On the consumer side: Sigh. Yeah. I even agree with what you're saying, coming from your...uh....current perspective. It IS harder in some ways. And we're older and not surrounded by a network of rabid music fans the way we once were. But that's what I mean about having to work. For the kind of music that excites me today, I have dug up good curated streams. It helps that the electronic music I'm into now still has a good current following. Platforms like Bandcamp have blogs that talk about promising artists, YouTube makes recommendations, etc. And for SURE, it ain't always about finding stuff that's current. Some of the stuff that I've found recently was originally produced 5, 10 20 or 30 years ago. It's new to me and that's what I want. Also this tool, Music-Map, is a fun and useful way to find artists who are working in the same genres you're seeking out. Put in anything you want and it will find something that has similar elements. Artist side: As far as the revenue streams and curation and finding audiences and audiences finding artists, we're still in the midst of a HUGE shift. For fans of The Expanse, we're in what Amos called the Churn. An upheaval that some will survive and some will not. Who knows what the future holds? Things can shift very quickly in the entertainment realm. How long ago was it that Netflix was competing with Blockbuster? I say what I say because I'm one of those annoying glass half-full people. Creating a brand and story, well, it's there on Bandcamp and YouTube. Superabbit is a person who lives on an island and makes music. Even that much can be interesting to people. Or not. Musicians becoming rich never happened until fairly recently in human history. Even my idol and namesake, Gene Krupa, who revolutionized playing the drum kit the way that Eddie Van Halen revolutionized playing the guitar (and had as much or more involvement in its development as Les Paul did for guitar). Krupa wound up teaching drums in New York (supposedly Peter Criss was one of his students). Even making a decent living has always been difficult for the majority of players. Coffee house gigs. Teaching. The people we consider the great composers had rich people who just gave them money to sit around and compose. Mozart's funeral? Dusted with lime and dumped in a common grave. Right now you're one crispy critter, and believe me, I've been there, with many formerly beloved pursuits. I stepped away for however long it took to come back to it when/if I wanted to do it for the love of it. That's what I did after my last band imploded. In its meagre way, it was the best shot I ever had at coming up through the old record company/gigging/radio play system (when bartenders and sound people stop you during loadout to say that they really liked your set, job well done). Walked away with my head down, hardly played a note for about 5 years. (I did get what many dudes want from being in a band, a cutie pie girlfriend) Then I happened to buy a house with a rental cottage out back occupied by....a piano teacher. Never played keys before, never really worked theory, but what the heck, eh? It retriggered my interest in music to the point that my next career was starting my own pedal building and amp design and repair business. Also got a sweet musician girlfriend. All of those things are gone now, but the interest in making music remains. The old hippie "if you love something set it free, if it comes back to you, etc." might apply here. Who knows? Do we choose music or does music choose us? It seems it won't friggin' leave me alone.😄

It looks like Cloudflare had some kind of outage or routing problem. I tried going to MeldaProduction earlier and got the same Cloudflare error message. It wasn't very Productive either.

Pity they haven't updated the Blue Tubes collection in this way.

I mentioned/requested this several years ago. With the impending launch of Cakewalk Sonar and Next, can we FINALLY get t-shirts and coffee mugs and laptop stickers? In my opinion, much marketing opportunity was lost over the past 6 years by not having these things. If I had a Cakewalk t-shirt I would wear it everywhere! Best way to connect with other people who are using the program. Laptop stickers, too. I suspect we'd all like to connect with other people around our communities who are using CbB or Sonar or Next. How about it? It ain't hard to do, I went to Zazzle and created one for my own company and it took me about an hour to put together the logo and get them up on the store. And Cakewalk already has the logos ready to go. If you do it through Zazzle, they automatically make the logo available on shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, fridge magnets, stickers of various sizes, a wide array of goodies. Aside from spreading the brand recognition, Cakewalk would probably sell a LOT of stuff.

One that I, unfortunately, suffer from. It is VERY treatment-resistant, as the term goes (as if it's the fault of the disorder rather than the failure of the effort to treat it). My circumstances are, unfortunately among the rare ones I believe you are referring to. And as a recovering substance abuser I have to be really really vigilant about possible relapse triggers. So my treatment is under the care of not one but two physicians.

You might like the TETRIS movie that came out recently. Most of it takes place in Moscow and involves a friendship between an American entrepreneur and the Russian programmer who created TETRIS. As part of the business dealings that led to TETRIS coming to the rest of the world and doing more to damage productivity in Capitalist countries than any other subversion could have.😄 I have a love for the Russian people in general just because of how much of the world's bacon their forebears saved as the Eastern Front in WWII. Germany having to fight on two fronts, and one of them being Napoleon's bane. I get tears thinking about the awful way so many of those heroic soldiers and partisans were treated by the Stalinist government. Plenty of them, their only crime was being shown mercy by German soldiers who realized that they were already beaten and let them go after capturing them (imagine being treated better by Nazis than your own government). And then the decades of Animal Farm nastiness that followed. I was first made aware of it via this song by Al Stewart, a favorite of my pre-teen years. It's an ode to those brave boys and girls:

Q: can I mine the Bitcorns on my builtin Intel graphis? I have old Dell's in a closet so I could have a farm. I use my good GT 710 video card for mimecraft and don't want to burn it up. The Dell's have fans on the cpu chip so it shuld be okay?

https://www.westwoodinstruments.com/roots/ I've Bapu'd it and can vouch for its usefulness for evolving dark ambient and cinematic textures. I'd say that between this and Soundpaint's free libraries, you've got ambient drone-in-box. And it looks as if Westwood will be doing what others have started doing and releasing future free Player instruments in this line, so sign up for their newsletter if you want to stay informed. Kontakt-aware peeplz: did NI change the licensing for Player instruments recently? Because I'm starting to see a LOT more Player-compatible instruments for free. It used to be that the creator of any Player-compatible instrument had to cough up a fee to NI for doing so. Has that been relaxed? If so, good idea, because it's an excellent way to raise interest in Kontakt. Always has been, they just botched it. I wouldn't have installed or been aware of Kontakt if it hadn't been for DrumMic'a back in the day. Unfortunately, Sennheiser eventually decided it wasn't worth it and stopped issuing licenses. DrumMic'a was both an excellent free drum instrument and also worked for its intended use as a showcase for Sennheiser's line of microphones.

Peet's Columbian. I usually prefer to grind my own, but for this, I make an exception. Peet's headquarters and roastery is here in the town of Alameda, and is probably the business I'm most proud of being local, except of course for the mighty Ole's Waffle Shop. @craigb So I should take acid before bed to avoid acid reflux? I have some prescription ketamine lozenges, would those work as well? 😄

I recently got Addictive Drums, and was surprised that Cakewalk doesn't come with a drum map for this. Given that SONAR Platinum came with a license for AD, this seems odd. I'm sure someone has already created a nice one, if so, please share it.

If you're able to post on the forum, you have a valid BandLab account, and THAT is the one you need to use when Cakewalk by BandLab asks you to authenticate. Your BandLab account, which you use for the forum, Cakewalk by BandLab, and all other things BandLab, is completely separate from your old Cakewalk account. The old Cakewalk username and password are only good for downloading older versions of the software like SONAR. If you forget the password for your old Cakewalk account, BandLab support can help you reset it.

Yes, and I saw that it settled down. You can now buy perpetual licenses for the other plug-ins.

I envy you if you're able to enter and stay in that zone regularly. It's one of the best feelings there is. With my current focus on electronic music, I've long been thinking about how to do it live. I've messed about with loop and phrase launchers and seemed to have a good instinctual feel for it, but I've not yet made a framework for it that I'd feel confident actually performing.

If you try it, please post back in this topic how it went. I tried BandLab a few times in the first few years and didn't see much use for it for my needs, but I'm sure it keeps getting improved.

As am I, I use SampleTank 4 every day. Trying the standalone is a good idea, you can at least get into the settings from there. I'd say a bit o'Googlin' is in order.

This is relevant to my interests. The MStereo FX are very confusing to try to sort out. I had a piece of mono audio last week that I wanted to stereoize and decided to turn MeldaProduction loose on it. I didn't get any results that pleased me. I get better results with MSpectralPan I'll try MStereoSpread again. My go-to's for that work are Polyverse Wider 2 and JS Sidewidener.

I've heard this before about them and haven't grasped it. Do you mean offering new licenses for 1/4 the cost of upgrade? iZotope is another one for that move. I just look at it as "whatever" and see it as my cheap upgrade. At least they have the Jam Points from past purchases that you can apply for up to 30% off. I see them as Chaotic Neutral at worst. To me personally, Chaotic Good, due to all the freebies they've flowed me over the years.

Liked REM back in the day. "So. Central Rain" is my favorite song of theirs. Those lyrics. "These rivers of suggestion are driving me away."

THANK YOU! This has long been my line. Old farts go on about how the top 10 these days is such total crap compared to when they were young. Oh, you mean back when "Having My Baby" and "You Light Up My Life" went to #1? How many Led Zeppelin songs made it to even the top 40? "Whole Lotta Love" and how many others? Finding cool and interesting music has always taken effort. It's actually so much easier now to find exciting music than it was back in the day when the only way to have your music heard nationally was to please both corporation-owned record companies and corporate-owned radio stations. Yeah, we had "freeform" FM stations, but much of their programming was also playlisted. Sure, maybe you'd see a review in corporate-owned Rolling Stone or Spin or whatever and check it out, but that was it. All the rest of it had to come via word of mouth, record store clerks, indie labels we trusted, later, college radio, going out to shows and liking the opening act, sitting through half a dozen MTV videos to find something you liked, etc. People don't remember but it took WORK. But today we're in a world where, thanks to the internet, I can sit here at home, create a song, and put it up for sale. And I get to keep 90% of the money rather than the 10% artists used to get from record sales (if they were lucky). And as a consumer, I have access to so much written information and recommendations based on my tastes, either curated or by algorithms. College stations are still around, and I can listen to every college station in the world if I want to. Even YouTube recommendations are a good way. I clicked Watch on YouTube on the Lenny Breau video and got 2 documentaries and a TV performance. Keep clicking and the algo will point you at similar artists. And, friend recommendation, anyone who liked the Lenny Breau song should check out the all-but-forgotten Sandy Bull. So ahead of his time. When was the last time you asked a friend if they were listening to anything new and exciting? I throw it in other geezers' faces: if you think "today's music" sucks, it's not the music that sucks, it's the lack of effort you put in to seeking it out. Don't stay in your Spotify comfort cocoon. When people get older, we tend to seek comfort more than novelty. Finding new music that moves us takes us to new places, emotionally, culturally, and that's risky in a way. And if you hear a bunch of meh music along the way, well, we've always had to wade through stuff that didn't move us to find the stuff that did. In other words, don't stop rockin'.

Follow the path of many of us aging indie rockers and get into electronica! j/k, also n/k I am devoted to electronica, and it moves my heart and soul in the way that good instrumental music always has, from classical to jazz to surf rock to Eno-style ambient to industrial noise to 90's Aphex Twin-ish stuff to 2000's glitch and 2010's synthwave and so on. You can even be hella old and play live, just put on a helmet like deadmau5. Well, actually, in electronic music, the younger punters don't seem to care about the age of the artists as much as rockers seem to....

😲 So in effect, right now you can get a (non-upgradeable) perpetual license for Studio One Pro 6.6 for $134. And that license comes with a year's access to all of the Studio One+ content and services. And I had thought I did pretty well to upgrade my free-with-interface Studio One 4 Artist license to 6 Artist for $49. With Sonar not yet fully released, this is THE deal in DAW's at the moment.

Sure. I think you can get it for $199. Better to go with this sale, use some Jam Points, and get it for $50 like I did. If it's just the improved engine you're interested in, you can upgrade to the ST 4 engine for free by getting SampleTank 4 CS and using it with whatever 3.5 instruments and sounds you already have.

One of the reasons I call it (Miroslav) "of value" rather than "good." It would be much better if the documentation just gave descriptions of what abbreviations they're using for naming the various articulations. Also, SampleTank's categorizations in its patch browser can be sort of arbitrary. It at least allows you to favorite, which I wish all instruments could do. Patch naming and browsing ain't so hot in SampleTank in general. And with this package there is SO much stuff. Is that true for packages this deeply discounted? I don't know. I figured it was a strategy to wring the last bucks out of a package and get a bunch of users who might be interested in the next version. But it may be more the former than the latter, 'cause now that I think of it, since they give the engine away and only charge you for the libraries, selling the next "version" makes less sense.

I guess my request for more info got lost, but I picked up on that. For me, it's usually the headphones that are more revealing, but I guess you have some very revealing monitors. Of course check the silly stuff like tone controls on the monitors if they're active. Don't ask how I know this, but it's possible to accidentally adjust them when moving the monitors around or giving them an experimental tweak and then getting distracted and forgetting to put it back. Mixing-wise, when I get certain frequencies poking out (with vox it's usually in the nasal regions), I use the sweep method to home in on them and then cut that frequency.