Starship Krupa

By Benn Jordan (he humorously addresses his initial perception of the program):

In 1975 I was 14 and happened to catch this weird UK band on In Concert. The guitar player was made up like a mime, the singer was 40 if he was a day, wore jeans and a striped t-shirt under a pirate coat with tails, and prowled around the stage like he was James Dean or Humphrey Bogart. Blew my little teeny bopper mind. People from across the pond will know right away I'm taking about The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, and they came to mind as of late. It's who I got into when the rest of my class were into KISS: I bought the live album that had just come out. They were, among other things, an instruction in how lyrics don't have to make a damn bit of sense as long as you deliver them with emotion. That thing that he and the bass player and guitarist do where they all put one foot on the monitors and lean forward, I was later slayed by Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone doing that in sync, as their entire stage schtick.

At the height of the COVID pandemic, apparently Clapton came out as anti-vaccination. I saw a meme that suggested that maybe he'd be enthusiastic about taking it if it were named "George Harrison's Wife."

I give this joke *** out of ****.

One of my favorite songs ev-ar. Warts and all it still leaves Clapton's cover in a bloody battered heap. The absolute coolest thing about the song, the hypnotic slap-damped guitar rhythm, Clapton both got the timing slightly off and played notes on that stroke instead of completely muting it. I remember hearing Cale's song on the local FM in high school and just being mesmerized by that rhythm guitar, sly, like the guy was playing it with a little wink, never heard such a simple rhythm guitar part say so much. It felt like having the coolest guy in the school do that thing where someone reaches across your back and taps you on your opposite shoulder, then give a smile and nod after you fall for it. Or like that little mute was the moment of in-ha-lation. When I read that Clapton had covered it...I thought "I bet he gets it as wrong as he got 'After Midnight'), and I was correct. So much so that I. Can't. Stand. to listen to either Clapton's version or any cover that imitates the way Clapton played it, which, once his record came out, was ALL of them. NA-na nuh Na na-NAHH. Do not play the "na" in red under penalty of lame. Cale's solo also cuts Clapton off at the ankles. I agree that if he had access to Joe Osborn (which according to those credits he did), why not get him in for an overdub? Google says he was a Wrecking Crew guy and he played the cool intro on The Association's "Windy" (as well as the rest of the track). The mess that wound up on the released record sounds like a scratch track. I hear even more f-ups on it than you listed. That damn rhythm guitar keeps such a lock on my attention that I never heard it before. Maybe the story went something like "When we went to mix, somehow Joe Osborne's bass track had gotten lost, and my scratch track was all that he had to work with."

That's odd, MeldaProduction headquarters is in Prague.

Good lord, pseudopop, have you actually played Doki-Doki Literature Club? I'm about what I'm guessing is the halfway point, and mind:thoroughly blown. I think it's doing a disservice to the game and prospective players to post a full game play video because it's the sort of thing that is best enjoyed going in knowing as little about the specifics as possible. So don't watch the video or read too many reviews if you plan on getting it. All someone needs to know is that it IS a horror game, although of course the graphics and ad copy make it look like something else, which is part of the point. If you like creative headfracks that subvert expectations, that color outside of the lines....you may find it to be a masterpiece. I will spoil it enough to say that "experience the terror of school romance" is creatively misleading. I would just hate to see anyone who might find this sort of thing entertaining pass it by as I almost did because they thought it was going to be a humorous take on how scary it can be to deal with romance at an early age. Although it is kind of about that, but with not very much humor and plenty of real horror. I've never played a game quite like this one. I have never run a computer program quite like this one. This is....brilliant. It's like if someone made an academia manga in the style of House of Leaves.

Hmm, I dunno, wasn't the original purpose of Eurovision to promote friendship among European countries in the wake of WWII? If the US and Canada are invited, there's another pretty large North American country that would be left out, Mexico (yes, Mexico is North America, not Central America). I bet Mexico could come up with an appropriately insane, over the top contender. I'm still p.o.'d about the UK choosing Katrina and the Waves over Do Re Mi (featuring Kerry) in 1997. "Yodel in the Canyon of Love" is a stone classic.

He's not "unsung" to me. Not only for his work on Steely Dan's records, but also on Christopher Cross.

Yes. Base octave for pitches is Preferences/Customization/Display.

I'm going to wee-wee into the windstorm here and remind that the OP said that re-recording is NOT an option. Maybe the vocalist is no longer available, maybe the OP doesn't have a TARDIS, whatever. I don't know of any freeware plug-ins that are designed to do "de-clipping," but there are commercial ones, the first that comes to mind is iZotope RX. They're all pretty pricey. So the thing is to weigh the cost. Is it worth it to buy an expensive plug-in to fix this one track (presumably you won't make the same mistake in the future)? Another option is a free demo. iZotope's products do have free demo periods, so you could get RX on that basis and test it out on this problematic track.

I went through the same thing when I went looking for it. I would have expected it to be in with the MIDI settings.

Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to be an apologist; in my perfect world, Sonar will get comprehensive theme editing so that we can have skeuomorphic images or flat as our hearts desire. As I said, "whether we like it or not." My preference is for at least a slight bit of shading, it gives the eye something to "grab." I was just musing out loud about why the trend may have happened. I use iOS devices, and I remember when Apple dumped iOS' skeuomorphic look in favor of a flat look. It's been a long time for that, and a whole new generation of people who don't even remember what iOS looked like back then. It remains to be seen whether the current flat and dark trend in UI's will stick, or whether at some point skeuomorphic and shaded will be a cool retro look. In the meantime, Mixbus ain't so expensive. 😏 Also, I meant to caution the OP about putting too much time and effort into learning Theme Editor. The feature will not be included in Cakewalk Sonar. Considering how many themes I created, how much time and effort went into them, you can imagine how I feel about that. Theme Editor became a pastime all its own, and a valuable one, as it really made me up my pixel editing game.

No.

Unfortunately no. And doubly unfortunate for you, the Sonar UI is specifically being changed to be more flat. Whether we like it or not, that's the trend in UI design, and Cakewalk was falling behind. The trend doesn't surprise me, we're collectively getting more used to using computers to do things that we used to use physical objects to do. For instance, with the Step Sequencer, there's no reason for the pixels we click on to make a cell active to try to resemble buttons we would press in the physical world. Most people using a computer step sequencer will by this time never have touched or even seen a hardware sequencer. If we're not already, we'll soon be at that point with mixing boards. There's no practical reason for a Console View "slider" to look like we'd be able to grab it and move it. The original reason for it to look "real" was to give us a feeling of familiarity and comfort when transitioning from a hardware mixer to a software one, and that reason is (no pun) fading away. Maybe that's why simulated woodgrain has fallen so far out of fashion: having lived with higher quality plastics for so many decades, we no longer need to see "wood" as a point of familiarity and quality.

There is not, however you can drag individual tabs outside the Multidock and arrange them as you wish. So you could have one window with Console, another with Piano Roll, or one with Event Viewer and Piano Roll in the Multidock and another with Console. And so on. The thing you can't do is have two windows with multiple tabs.

I suspect that it's CPU power, not memory, that is limiting you here. As already suggested, use Task Manager to make sure that there are no unnecessary other programs running while you're working (browsers love to eat up resources). Also, check Preferences/Audio/Playback and Recording/Plug-In Load Balancing. That can affect system performance under the load of multiple plug-ins. Usually enabled is better, but in some situations, performance will be better with it off. A valuable resource for getting as much performance from your system as possible is Pete Brown's Windows Audio Workstation build and tweak guide.

I think it's actually a great name, already sounds like it should be a household word.

Swatches fans, remember to download the latest version, which includes 10 or so patches from this pack, free.

I have to wonder about the name of Rebelle (say it out loud). Phonically, it sounds as if someone was being cheeky in regard to "Rebelle" vs. "Corel."

In order to do it (that is, make graphical changes to the theme rather than just color changes), you must use Theme Editor along with a graphics editor like Paint.NET, Photoshop, or Paint Shop Pro. The best resource for learning how to use Theme Editor is The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer to Theming Cakewalk. Once you have Theme Editor set up, when you find the image(s) you wish to alter, you can launch your graphics editor directly from Theme Editor, make the change(s) and then save it back to Theme Editor. Theme Editor stores the color settings and images in proprietary files with the .STH extension. Near as I can tell, the step sequencer buttons in SONAR 7 don't look a heck of a lot different from the standard ones in the current Cakewalk. If you read the bit in The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer you'll see the result of some serious spelunking I did in regard to figuring out which of the 12 cells of the Step Button image go with what button states in Step Sequencer. You can weigh for yourself whether it's worth it to try to approximate the old ones. If you get stuck figuring out Theme Editor, we will try to help get you unstuck.

To be fair, if you're doing video editing, a nice graphics card is a good investment, same for painting programs like Painter and Rebelle. I have Painter, and its complex brushes and Wacom support get smoother the better a GPU your system has.

Prepare to have yer mind blown. In the TTS-1 UI, click on the rectangular button at the top of a channel strip: That will bring up a dialog that will allow you to choose from hundreds of sounds, including multiple drum kits, which come complete with all of the percussion instruments you see on that GM note list. That said, if you like TTS-1, wait until AIR's XPand!2 shows up on sale for $10 or less and get it. Over 2000 sounds, including the aforementioned drum kits, and they're better sounds. It was the first virtual instrument I ever bought and I still use it. Whoa, yer in luck, Xpand!2 is currently available in a bundle for $9.99. I'll vouch for DB-33 as a decent tonewheel clone: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/81-Bundles/58-Instrument-Bundles/7743-AIR-Legends-Pack

Definitely the comfiest cans in my collection. A VO actor friend of mine describes them as "they feel like kittens on your ears."

It looks like Rebelle has come up in Humble Bundles in the past....I'll snag it if it does again.