Mandolin Picker

Seems to be a variation of a Zoetrope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope). They were popular in the mid 1800s. Video of one in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBg6dAE3mI0

Thanks. I missed the 'Advanced' section when going over this. That will help prevent having to redo settings every couple of weeks. ☺️

I did see the Delivery Optimization options and took care of that earlier.

On 11/11/2019 at 1:29 PM, Starship Krupa said:

And maybe we need to start "riding" it, adopting practices where we check our schedules and go into Windows 10 Update & Security Settings and make sure that updates are paused during critical times. Stop expecting Microsoft to push out stuff that won't break our systems and make it part of our routine to work around them and anticipate the possibility of downtime.

Even Windows 10 Home now allows me to pause updates for up to 35 days in the future, so maybe we need to start using that more.

After this experience we only allow updates from Sunday evening to Tuesday evening. We pause updates starting Wednesday (rehearsal day) and keep it paused through Sunday afternoon. This will hopefully prevent changes from any settings made on Wednesday.

Today Windows did their November update. For the past 30-45 minutes we have been going back in and turning off stuff (again) and uninstalling apps (again).

BTW, how did you get 35 days? Our version only allows pausing of updates for 7 days.

That's cool. Missed that one

Consider that when you go online to update CbB, Windows will also begin to update in the background - whether you want it to or not.

I recently had an experience where Windows 10 updated the night before an event we were scheduled to live stream. The update wiped out the audio drivers. The live stream wasn't accomplished because we had no audio and couldn't figure out why until a deep dive much later. These types of incidents can make a person look very foolish, especially if it is in front of a paying client. An event like this can result in not just loss of a client, but perhaps other legal issues for failing to provide contracted services.

Yes, CbB is free, and they can do what they wish. I still wish they would make it so that you could export a file with the latest info from your CbB install, upload it to Bandlab from another computer that is on line, and get a file back that I can upload to keep my CbB running.

It would also be nice if CbB would provide a toaster message indicating that "Cakewalk will need to update in 30 days" so that you can do it before it goes into Demo mode.

Just my thoughts.......

Just now, Johnbee58 said:

There it is!  Already figured out for me.  I'll give it a try.  Thanks, MP!

🙂

You're welcome. 😊  When you said you had used something years earlier, it immediately made me think of the Sonitus plugins. I wish they would update them as they are really nice.

Included in CbB, is the Sonitus EQ. It has been in SONAR for a while. It has a nice 50 and 60 cycle hum setting.

2 hours ago, CJ Jacobson said:

Yes, I have 2 as of now. Why? Because your audio interface, just like everything else, can go at anytime and if you are in the middle of a session, you need to have a back-up ready to go. 

This is especially true with updates to the OS. There may be nothing wrong with the actual interface, but changes to the OS make existing interfaces unusable.  Had that occur recently with a Win 10 update, and there have been a number of articles recently concerning a Mac update that breaks lots of stuff.

13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

1. Open the file in an audio editor such as Audacity, Wavosaur, iZotope RX, Sound Forge Audio Studio, any number of free or reasonably-priced and excellent audio editors. My favorite happens to be Sound Forge AS, which you can get for about $25 for v. 12 on Amazon.
2. Edit out your breath intakes, long pauses, lip clicks, page turns, mobile phone notifications, whatever

Question - what is it about these wave editors that makes it easier/quicker to edit the spoken voice files?

Curious if anyone is using CbB for recording audio book narration? If you are, any insight into setup, etc. that you found was different from recording music.

Thanks

21 hours ago, Fleer said:

Need a lover with a slow hand. 

Um, that would be Conway.....

Another issue that is raising up is the use of cloud based services to inject ransomware. There was the recent issue in Texas (22 city/county/local government agencies) as well as a number of dentist offices. In both circumstances the agencies/offices were using a cloud based service. The attackers came in through the service and then branched out to the individual offices and agencies.

Remember, 'cloud based' simply means someone else's computer-server instead of yours, and you have no control over it.

Oxford, Alabama - where it does snow on occasion

(of course its gone by the next day! 😉)

5 hours ago, antler said:

Let me see if I understand this: instead of taking a 'dumb' salt shaker in one hand and shaking it over your food; you can now hold a smalt in one hand, and a smartphone in the other hand, and you can shake your smartphone to make the smalt dispense salt onto your food. <sarcasm> I can really see how this makes things easier </sarcasm>

If that isn't easy enough for you, then you can purchase a Smart Oven that can burn down your house for you thanks to its interactive app!

Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees

At least three smart June Ovens have turned on in the middle of the night and heated up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. The ovens’ owners aren’t sure why this happened, and June tells The Verge that user error is at fault.

The June Oven debuted in 2015 as a $1,495 countertop oven* that uses a camera and computer vision to identify food that’s been placed inside. The company raised nearly $30 million in funding and released its second-generation version in 2018 for $599. It’s billed as “seven appliances in one”: an air fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, broiler, toaster, warming drawer, and convection countertop oven. It also pairs with an app that allows people to choose their temperature and cooking settings, as well as live stream their food as it cooks thanks to the built-in camera.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20802774/june-smart-oven-remote-preheat-update-user-error

*That's what us old folks called a toaster oven that you can get at Walmart for $30

And from that great statistician Yogi Berra, "Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical."

Using the latest version of CbB and mine is showing the Video option under Views

1 hour ago, S.L.I.P. said:

Endorsed by Lizzie Borden

1 hour ago, Lee D said:

And while we are on it, the moon landing was staged!

If you want to see/hear something unique, there is a web site that is playing back the entire Apollo 11 mission in real time. It includes over 11,000 hours of audio from mission control. Also has video that is synced to actual events as they occurred. It is a very neat web site.

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

1 hour ago, Brian Walton said:

Not true at all.  

If it was a necessary feature the companies could bank on users paying for upgrades or upgrade plans.

The reality is subscription is seen as a way to require end users to continue to pay even though a large chunck of users do not insist on continuious development at a regular pace. 

Exactly. Subscriptions came about when the various software programs matured. Microsoft did this with Office. I have Office 2010 (use to need it for work) and there is no credible reason to switch to a newer version. In fact, I could probably go back to Office 2007 without any issues. Writing a document hasn't changed in the past nine years, spreadsheets still perform their calculations as they have done for the past nine years, presentations are still using the same stupid animations, and they are trying to phase out their Access database. Why should I upgrade or pay monthly for what I already have, that works, and works well. In fact, since I retired I hardly ever use Office and instead use LibreOffice, the free open source software suite.

My first ever DAW was a nice little program called Kristal Audio Engine or KAE. It was limited to 16 tracks but it was easy to use and work with. Their web site is still up (https://www.kreatives.org/kristal/) and it still works fine on older machines.

This was followed by a free copy of Cakewalk "Plasma" that was on a Computer Music DVD. It was a nice step up from KAE. Later I upgrade to Cakewalk Home Studio, and they even gave me a discount for having Plasma. Stayed with Home Studio for a while, then finally upgraded to X3 and then to Platinum.

2 hours ago, InstrEd said:

Depends on the aPeel 🤣

Like Emma Peel??

Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!!!!

3 hours ago, InstrEd said:

iWish😆

FTFY  😀

51 minutes ago, Gary Edelman said:

. . .I've disconnected from the internet on my DAW . . . .

1 - Should it still run OK & perform like it always had without having to re-register ?

. . . . .

3 - In my situation for simply recording myself is there any advantage . . . connecting to the internet on my desktop?

Any answers to any of the questions or even recommendations are appreciated.

One thing to be aware of is that Cakewalk by BandLab does require an occasional connection to the Internet once it is installed. If the software can't call home, it will come up in Demo mode and at that point you will no longer be able to save any work you do. This is a change from previous editions of SONAR that could operate without any internet connection.

See this post from Noel (the lead designer of the software)

8 hours ago, Grem said:

 

My exact thoughts on DS9 Rain. And I had forgot about Garak until I was watching the episodes of the first season and he was on the third one I think? Something about the way Andrew Robinson plays Garak that makes him stand out from the ordinary.

Mr. Robinson also wrote a Star Trek novel about Garak called "A Stitch in Time." If you like the character of Garak you will really enjoy the book. He traces the history of "Plain and simple" Garak - his childhood, his work in the Obsidian Order, his loves and more. And he writes the book in the same "voice" as Garak in DS9.

https://www.amazon.com/Stitch-Time-Star-Trek-Space-ebook/dp/B000FC0UXU