Matthew Simon Fletcher

Thanks buddy! Really appreciate your feedback

Think dance metal has a better ring to it! Our album is out on Friday and the rest of it is very different so I don't think that title will stick overall, but I'm sure we'll end up doing some more stuff in this realm one day.

Is that the thing that helps vocalists?
We haven't done any gigs yet but will definitely keep that in mind for if we do - I'm sure some stamina will be needed to perform these regularly

On 1/11/2024 at 4:28 PM, jack c. said:

how is your throat after singing it?nice total job.jack c

Fine but then my personal vocal parts in this track are very minor

Thanks for listening and your feedback buddy!

Greetings friends!

I trust we're all having a good new year

My musical project Disconnected Souls have dropped our 2nd music video in support of our upcoming album on the 19th of January.
This track is definitely one of our heavier ones but there's lots of electronics and other quirky elements to it also.

As always Cakewalk is what makes it all happen ❤️

If you get chance to check it out then I hope you enjoy!

Best wishes,
~Fletch~

Great stuff - many thanks!

Would appreciate you sharing this once done!

Thanks both for your thoughts!

4 hours ago, jack c. said:

nice and real huge sounds.jack c

Thanks for the kind words Jack! Really appreciate you listening to it

Hi guys,

My eclectic musical ensemble Disconnected Souls has recently released a new track called Fragments:

This is a lot less heavy than our other material and I was keen to really have some pop catchiness, despite a lot of other weirdness (bird samples, choir vocals, 5/4 section).

If you get chance to listen than I hope you enjoy! Feedback always welcome.

Best wishes,
Matthew

18 hours ago, Paul Bush said:

Really well executed video , recorded, great production , vocals just a tad too low  , (I bet the guitarst mixed it  ha ha)

cheers once again great stuff

paul

Thanks for the feedback Paul! Very much appreciated

12 hours ago, bjornpdx said:

Nicely done. I agree with the other comments about the voc being a bit too low. Didn't know what was going on in the story but I made up my own.

I once helped a guy make a movie in public areas. Mostly went okay except for the airplanes, the screaming kids and people wanting to know what we were up to. So I can imagine what it was like making your vid.

-Bjorn

Thanks buddy! Will definitely keep the vocal comments in mind with subsequent releases

We intentionally left the story to be quite open in the video as there wasn't a huge amount of timescale to explain it, especially with having some focus on the band also; we didn't want to be 100% theatrical performance or 100% band playthrough, so went with a hybrid approach.

The rough theme was that I/Patrick were a father/son who didn't get along for various reasons and he felt the call of the sea and a longing to leave his life behind. Except the call of the sea was three murderous sirens..

The song title is a reference to a spell in Dungeons and Dragons (which we all play regularly) and has a similar theme around hearing voices luring people to do things.

I was very worried about the presence of the general public! Particularly as I'm a bit of a social recluse. This was why I chose to do it on a Sunday out of season, in the hope that not too many people would be around. Unfortunately it was a beautiful day and there were loads! However people were very complimentary and we ended up with a lot of people taking photos and asking questions. We were eventually asked by a nice member of the council to move on from the area due to not having appropriate permissions, but fortunately at that point we'd mostly finished and he kindly gave us another 5 minutes

Best wishes,
Matthew

On 2/8/2023 at 10:56 AM, daryl1968 said:

wow,  this is epic. Great video too - where was it filmed?

Thank you so much! Glad you like it
It was filmed in Llandudno, UK on the West Shore and Great Orme

16 hours ago, Lynn Wilson said:

This is a delight!  The video is very professional and the song is dynamic.  I like the wide range of volume in this track, as it sounds less "canned", if you know what I mean.  I'm a big fan of Evanescence, so this style is right up my alley.  Best of luck to you all.

Thank you very much for your kind words! I really appreciate it.

On 2/5/2023 at 10:33 AM, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Matthew

excellent track - really enjoyed it.

Only thing i would say the lead guitar could be up a little bit, otherwise a good mix

cool

Nigel

 

Thank you kindly for your feedback Nigel!

I'll keep the thoughts on lead guitar presence in mind  - I was trying to strike a balance between pressence and not wanting it to overpower other textural layers, but I think it possibly could be a little higher yes.

On 2/5/2023 at 11:23 AM, Wookiee said:

Interesting I like the use of dissonant chords in the intro, the throaty screaming? lyrics do not appeal so much, as Nigel notes the lead guitar could do with some clarity. Not sure if it is just me but I think the ladies intro vocal could do with a little lift in volume too.

All in all that track seems well composed and the mix is reasonable other than what I note above here on my Adams.  As ever this is all very subjective it is after all your track and it should sound how you and the band want it too.

Thanks for the feedback - I'm not much of a pianist but I like the chords that ended up coming about through layering in the intro.
I appreciate that the harsh vocals are an acquired taste and that's something we try and balance as we love our heavy music but also want to try and appeal to a wider audience.

On 2/5/2023 at 2:42 PM, KSband said:

Good job on this style of music. Agree the female vocal is way low in the beginning.

Thanks - I find it really hard to tell whether vocals are too quiet/loud and this is something that seems to be different between engineers in the approach they go for, much more so than other instruments. Will again keep this in mind for future tracks. In fact the one we've just been working on has had a lot of and back and forth with the engineer and band as to how to balance male / female / low / high sets of takes.

4 hours ago, Kevin Perry said:

Such a high quality video - where did you film it?

I think the song is great too; my only (personal taste) "criticism" is that the click of the kick drum could be dialled back a *lot*.  It dominates a lot of the rest of the rhythm in my opinion.

Thank you! I'm delighted with how it came together and big thanks go to the videographer, costume designer and band for pulling it together on the day.

Llandudno, North Wales.
The playthrough part was filmed on the Great Orme not far from the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe as there is just beautiful endless sea!
The theatrical part was on the West Shore.
I've spent a number of family holiday's there and had a feeling it would be perfect for our requirements.

Again thank you all for your kind and constructive remarks - both of which I really value

Hi guys,

My eclectic musical ensemble Disconnected Souls has recently released our first music video for our track "Dissonant Whispers".
I'd describe this as being an atmospheric heavy ballad with some djenty guitar, electronics, orchestral and world influences.

Also available at:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2grwSgSFgT8J8ADJOTykM6

https://disconnectedsouls.bandcamp.com/album/dissonant-whispers

If you get chance to listen I hope you enjoy!

Comments/feedback/criticism always welcomed.

Best wishes,
Matthew

I had a chat with the Divisimate team about this recently and it sounds like they're potentially going to resolve this in a future update.

Best wishes,
Matthew

Well there are quite a few variables to explore here!

I'm someone who runs very large Cakewalk projects with a lot of instruments / plugins (on track and bus) so hence your findings are curious and may have implications for how I structure things if it reproducibly the case.

Based on your findings, the initial hypothesis I wanted to test was that there would be a difference in performance between using tracks versus busses. Hence using the simplest test case of 1:1 mapping of track to bus.

Using a single plugin I couldn't see any meaningful difference between having this on the track, or on bus that the track goes to. With loading the 15 plugins though it became noticably different, just not the way around I was expecting given your findings!

In both of our cases I would have expected that the load would be the same - so hence even though our results were the opposite, they both provide evidence of something unusual going on and I would be interested to see Noel's thoughts on that, in case he thinks it worth following up on.

You're right that running 15 tracks with single FX on and 15 tracks to a single bus with the FX would also be good further tests but my results already validate the hypothesis that tracks/bus have different impact in terms of resource usage even when used in a similar manner.

So just to clarify you're loading the same number / type of plugins and you're finding that the load is significantly higher when inserted on the buss rather than the track?

I did my own brief test using 15 copies of an intensive delay plugin and actually had the exact opposite result - putting them all on a single track caused the usage to be between 6-11%, whereas running them all on the bus with a single track going to it (equivelent set up) only had the load between 2-5%.

This is certainly something that could warrant some further tests - my expectation would be that a 1:1 ratio of track to bus should have similar overall load, it shouldn't make any significant difference to the load where the FX is placed, indicating that both of our results are odd. I may be missing something though.

Best wishes,
Matthew

38 minutes ago, David Baay said:

This menu display quirk indeed goes way back and is pretty consistent. I reported it in 2013 (!) with a recipe that had it showing not just the previous action but going back four actions.  That recipe still works. I also noted in that report that a Delete event is always displayed as "De&lete" with an ampersand which also persists to this day. 

Ah cool - sounds like you've already got a working test case then
Still if any other evidence is needed I'll happily go and put something together

On 12/12/2022 at 2:36 AM, chris.r said:

I can confirm getting it on Win10 too. Can't say if it happens every time or randomly as I developed habit of ignoring the displayed action and just carefully checking everything I undo (typically with keyboard shortcut). Quite possible the issue goes back up to Sonar times. Bit freaking indeed  

I can confirm that I also have seen the undo action displaying incorrect information and this can be confusing; i.e. it will suggest that it's doing the change previous to the one that it is actually doing.

If you undo and then redo and then look at the undo activity it will be correct

@Noel Borthwick - is this one you've seen before? Happy to try and get together some more evidence around it when I next have Cakewalk open.
I don't believe it's consistent, but I've definitely encountered it a number of times across different projects/builds.
 

On 4/21/2021 at 5:01 PM, Rogério said:

That's great!

Also check my Humanize Plus I made some years ago.

 

Hadn't seen this - looks excellent!

Thanks to both you and the op

6 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

👍

I'll echo a "bit on the long side", but nicely done.

t

I very much appreciate your feedback Tom

24 minutes ago, freddy j said:

Not really my style of music but I certainly can appreciate the talent involved in the creation in such a piece.  It certainly emotes considerable drama and emotion.  BTW, being one who is exploring the South American AfroBeat style  -- song length is certainly not a problem with me.

Thank you kindly my friend - I really appreciate your feedback

Thanks for the heads-up - that's quite some negative feedback though!

13 hours ago, MarkusClinus said:

Not my kind of music, but you can't deny the talent - great players.

Thank you kindly!
Hopefully a future release will be more to your style - we do have a wide range of tastes between us, so it won't all be heavy

28 minutes ago, Hidden Symmetry said:

Hi Matthew, thought the track had a cool vibe. I'm listening on cheap cans but the mix sounded good here. I liked that transition at 4:43, wrapped up the tune nicely.  -c

Thank you my friend!
Appreciate the mix feedback - will pass that back to the engineer as he's fairly new to the game, so will value that!

I must admit i'm a big sucker for key changes and so the combination of that and moving to a heavier guitar pattern was something that made me super happy to implement I'm glad you feel it works.