Starship Krupa

I'm not seeing this behavior with Sonar on my system. And it's not standard expected behavior. Please tell us what your display and scaling settings are, as they might be affecting this. Include as much info as possible, including display adapter, monitor resolution, etc.

kHs Gate, which comes in the free Kilohearts Essentials bundle has a bypass that can be automated. There are also over 30 other FX in the bundle. It's very useful.

Whether they fall short is a matter of opinion. I don't agree that they "often" make things sound worse. As with any effect you put on a track, it's up to your ears whether they make the audio sound "better" or "worse." Most of them are pretty subtle, like the console emulation in Cakewalk's ProChannel. Since a well-designed physical analog channel strip shouldn't add much color to whatever audio is sent through it, the same goes for an emulation. The design goal of a channel strip is usually to color the sound as little as possible. Accurately emulating a piece of hardware that is designed to have as little effect on the audio as possible seems like it wouldn't be that big a job.

What are you recording? Music, voice over, etc.? How many tracks?

It's my favorite clip of theirs because it shows them on the threshold, so to speak. They've just made the major shift in direction from trying to be a white blues band to experimenting with the prog direction? "Peak Hour" is sort of a Who-ish track, but "Nights" and "Tuesday" point to where they're headed. Here's another of my favorite Moody Blues tracks. "Lovely to See You" is their most "what if the Men of Gondor had a rock band?" song, IMO. And a beautiful, open hearted lyric. When I started writing lyrics myself it helped show me that writing emotionally honest and vulnerable lyrics, especially positive ones, is really hard to do. In the little sketch at the beginning, it's Mike Pinder who comes in with the "there you go, man, keep as cool as you can" bit. Here's another favorite clip where they're miming for a TV show. Still showing the beat influence, but now has the 4-voice male choir lead vocal, and is a showcase for Justin Hayward to rip an Indian-flavored guitar solo. I love their clothes and hair and the way they move.

You mean video products? Surely Samplitude, Sequoia, Music Maker and Sound Forge would have their futures secured.

AIEEEEEEEEEEE! Justin is one of my few musical heroes I'd be interested in meeting. Oy, that Graeme grudge. I guess he really felt like Mike pulled the rug out. So you must have lived in Santa Barbara? I lived there from 1981-1983. My hippie period. Worked on an organic farm, took LSD, got WAY into The Moody Blues (Long Distance Voyager was just out).

It's kinda turning into a romano clef.

Fears, realized. Why would I want a license that expires after a year? There goes my update-by-Humble Bundle routine....

The thing that confuses me is that since Windows 10 is malware, and Windows 11 is even worse malware, why wouldn't Microsoft want the worse/better malware on the greater number of systems? Or do you suppose that they make more money off of kickbacks from the hardware manufacturers than they do from the improved data gathering? Data mining vs. kickbacks. I'd hate to be the one who had to make that decision over at Microsoft!

That's already my plan. Anyone who wants to freak out and wring their hands before then, go right on ahead without me.

Here's a clip I find interesting, must have been just after Days of Future Passed came out, they seem to be on a European TV show, and from what Pinder is saying to them, the audience must have been rude to them before the tape started rolling. When he asks them how many people can make their dickie-birds go 'round, for the non-Brits, "dickie-bird" is a slang term for....well, say it without the "ie bird" part. Kinda clashes with their mellow hippie image. Anyway, they do pretty well with "Peak Hour," Tuesday Afternoon," and "Nights in White Satin" from the new-at-the-time album. When John Lodge was still able to hit those wailing high notes.

Sounds like one of those times when you know you're doing something right if you're p'ing off certain people.

He's magnetic ink. Huge fan here, both of The Moody Blues and of Mr. Pinder's contribution to same.

I don't need to travel to their world, they seem to be determined to endlessly try to bring it to mine. The point that most don't seem to get is that in order for a switch to make sense, the target OS would have to work better than Windows 10. It's not like Windows 10 is going to stop working. As far as malware paranoia, there's too much 3rd-party malware protection software to even list.

Isn't Matrix a clip launcher? It seems like the biggest missing feature from Matrix is the ability to record directly into a Matrix clip slot.

Hey, staying an absolute lurker for 4 years and breaking your silence to say thanks is a nice step.

Yeah, spend an extra $10 and get all 3 of these plus Miroslav Philharmonik and an insane number of other instruments: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/st4/?pkey=sampletank-4-max-v2

I wasn't asking the question in terms of The Treachery of Images. I know that "ceci n'est pas une derrière." However, since Plato expressed his concept of Forms (timeless, absolute, and unchangeable essences of all things, of which objects and matter in the physical world are merely imitations), it could be said to represent that. In this sense, it could be said to be all derrières or if you will, the derrière. At least in my universe. What I meant was whether this image appeared in an actual advertisement for Velveeta. Maybe in Playboy or Esquire during the Mad Men era? And yes, I'm also wondering whether the model for the upper image in question was represented accurately by the artist, and if so, whether she posed for other works. Because....damn.

While that could be said to communicate the idea that the makers of Velveeta and I have similar ideas of what is delicious, it could also communicate "this stuff tastes like a55." BTW, is this for real?

I guess it's up to plug-ins to wring the coin out of the gr'ups. Look at the way age skews in our own Deals forum. 😂 But it could also be that just about every DAW can perform the task of recording and comping audio tracks. That workflow is pretty similar across DAW's IME; ITB production is probably where the biggest distinctions appear. DAW's don't need to play "my comping is better than your comping," but they need to do it with clip and loop based workflows? John's comment also makes me wonder whether DAW advertising that also featured a photo of a 4-piece band using it might make it more attractive to people who primarily record instruments, help make it the DAW of choice. Show the shoppers that they still pay attention to that crowd.

Trying to imagine what the sister in the photo might consider "good" music made me remember the "beautiful music" radio format that started to die out in the early 80's (which was....hmmm....now that I think of it, right around the time that the "classic rock" format was born. Coincidence?). My mom (b. 1937, "Mad Men" generation), who is now more into smooth jazz and mellower contemporary pop R'n'B stuff, LOVED that format in her late 30's and early 40's. Bless her heart, I thank her to this day (out loud and via our favorite messaging program, Telegram) for the two cultural channels that she kept open my entire childhood and teen years: any (non-pr0n) book I wanted was mine, either as a gift or via library, AND as soon as I got in the car, control of the radio was mine. Hit the programmed button for at first the Boss Radio station, and later album rock FM. The only time she drew the line on the book thing was when I wanted an Alice Cooper bio (she thought Alice-who may be more politically conservative than she is now for all I know-was too culturally subversive, although as a retired teacher, "School's Out" was a turn-it-up). (send me mum healing mojo; she had a fall a couple weeks ago and is in hospital hoping to get home to her husband soon)

Need current system specs. Not that we're looking to point fingers, but with performance issues like this, we need to know better what we're dealing with. OS, CPU, RAM, disk, video, make and model of audio interface is the minimum amount of info I need before I can take a guess or give suggestions. See my sig for an idea of a full list of pertinent system info. Download and install HWInfo64 and Latency Monitor, 'cause we're gonna be asking you to use them. Also, did anything else happen with your system around the time Cakewalk started acting up? System update, install new software (program or plug-in or utility)?

Not a problem here. My only gripe about online installation/registration is that there seems to be a trend with install/update managers (Native Access, looking at you) not to store username or password. So every time I want to check for updates I have to enter them again. I. do. not. like. this. I guess it's to deter people from installing the softwareses on their friends' systems. Protection of the (intellectual) property at the cost of inconveniencing the honest.

That's usually all I'm ever seeking. All external gear I have conforms to Yamaha XG or Alesis mapping.