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Would that be the same Zebra3 originally scheduled for release in 2019? I stopped holding my breath for that one a long time ago. Summer of 2023, I think, was the last prediction. Of course, if it ever really does become reality, I'll be first in line to buy it.

Thanks for that link, Kenny. Now we know the name of the invisible keyboard player (Jamie Muhoberac). I get annoyed when a band lip syncs a song for a video, and the producer thinks it's unnecessary to include some of the actual contributors, e.g. backing vocalists, rhythm guitarists, even entire orchestras. If you're gonna fake it for the camera, at least make it a little bit credible.

Yeh, the chick's got attitude, but... is that Tim Pierce on guitar? Also of note: the Invisible Man making his first appearance on keyboards - completely nude!

Exactly. Those poor guys must have been eating cold beans out of a can to make ends meet.

Be patient, it'll pass. The first time I quit, I was on the road with a band and it was often just too much of a hassle to get coffee in the morning (we weren't staying at the kind of hotels that have in-room coffee makers). After a couple weeks, I'd forgotten that I ever needed coffee to get going, either in the A.M. or during gigs. In the pursuit of tranquility, I also find it helpful to avoid the news as much as possible.

My brother in law works for DOT, and often arrives at accident scenes before the cops. Working NYE means you drew the short straw. I don't even know what "neuro dubstep " is, but it sounds like something that's prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Yes, Geddy was quite the talented gymnast, playing the Taurus pedals, synthesizer, and singing all at once. At least nobody's gonna expect that from me. I do, however, often have to perform my own ambidextrous gymnastics, working swell and sustain pedals, switching patches and adjusting the vocal mix and fx, all while standing on one foot. When we use our own stage lights, I've assigned that duty to our bass player because I just didn't have any more hands left. I just told him "red for fast songs, blue for slow songs, red + blue for mid-tempo, add some yellow for the set closer". So naturally we played the whole night with blue lights on, one of them pointed at the floor. Oh well, he'll figure it out eventually. Good thing he's an awesome bass player.

It was good. This was our first time out after a three-week hiatus due to our drummer experiencing sudden extreme pain in his knee. We've had to cancel multiple gigs and haven't booked anything for November, not knowing if maybe we were just - done. Fortunately, his issue was worked out and the places we'd cancelled were gracious enough to re-book us for January. That means we finally have time to learn some new material. That's the downside of playing out constantly - you get tight but the setlist starts to become tedious. A few weeks' worth of woodshedding will be reinvigorating. The guitarist is lobbying to add some Rush tunes to the list. As long as I don't have to sing them, I'm fine with that, given that learning the keyboard parts should take about ten minutes.

"Import as mono" simply combines L and R into a mono stream. It's handy when you're given stereo tracks that aren't really stereo, with the same data on L and R. In that situation, however, I import as stereo, split to dual mono and delete one of the mono tracks. And then gently inform the submitter on how to create mono files in the first place. This avoids potential problems with phase cancellation (e.g. L and R are almost identical but not quite) and the 3dB loudness boost that marled alluded to above. There is no intrinsic function for automatically splitting stereo into separate tracks when importing an audio file. Of course, splitting the track is trivially easy after importing, which is probably why I can't recall the topic ever coming up before. OP, what is your use-case? Are you editing podcasts or something where you have two speakers talking into a single stereo microphone? [P.S. Let's keep the tone civil, guys. This topic isn't worthy of passion. The OP didn't suggest that Cakewalk should automatically do pitch correction on import or something, he just suggested a minor feature.]

No doubt, the best defense against insomnia and daytime sleepiness is maintaining a regular sleep schedule. My normal routine, or at least the one that feels most natural, might seem better suited to a farmer: retire at 9:00 PM, read for half an hour and asleep by 9:30, then up around 4:30-5:00 AM. That works great until gig night, when I might not get to bed until 2:00 or 3:00 AM. That's where the Starbucks Iced Mochas come into play. Fortunately, the exertion from moving gear and performing rapidly metabolizes the caffeine so that it doesn't prevent sleep. Amplifiers seem to gain about 20 lbs by the end of the night. Plus speaker stands seem to magically increase in altitude, such that lifting a PA speaker off becomes more back-breaking at the end of the night. My setup has six powered speakers on stands. What's saved me is that gigs these days are typically over earlier than they were in the past. Where 1:30 to 2:00 AM used to be the norm, nowadays most gigs end around 10-11 PM. This past Saturday our hours were 6:00 to 9:00, so I was in bed before midnight despite a long drive. We've even got a New Year's Eve gig scheduled that'll wrap up at 10:00 PM, due to being on an island and needing to catch a ferry afterward. Perfect. The roads will be largely free of drunk drivers and I'll watch fireworks on TV.

Picture Professor Farnsworth: waa? Where am I? This isn't the cat fancier forum?

So last night we played a winery. This place has a very nice outdoor stage nestled in an orchard. Probably the ultimate stage, because it's not only large, you can drive right up to it for load-in. If only this gig had happened just one week ago, when we had temperatures in the 80's. But fall has arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and yesterday was cold and rainy (actually good news, as we really needed the air cleaned from wildfires) so we played indoors. The indoor stage was small for a six-piece band. So small that I had to literally crawl under my keyboards to get to my station. Backed against the wall, my amps were way too close to me, such that all I could hear was myself. I'm cranking away, trying to balance the keys with the rest of the band and blowing out my ears in the process. Then the singer turns around and says "we can't hear you, Dave. Turn up!". On the bright side, the audience was enthusiastic and the owners were very friendly. They brought in street tacos. Anybody who feeds the band is always gonna be OK in my book. We gave them an extra half-hour of music gratis.

Last time I tried Valerian root (in isolation, via capsules), it had the opposite effect and got me wired. That was probably 30 years ago, though. Back then pretty much everything got me wired, e.g. Melatonin, which is supposed to encourage sleep but had no effect on my overactive nighttime brain. High-CBD cannabis is the only thing I've found that truly lets my brain wind down long enough to sleep solidly. Now, if only my bladder would get onboard with the plan.

I am on day 5 of a no-caffeine regimen. One day last week I experienced what I can only assume was a panic attack. Heart pounding, shaking hands and an illogical feeling of being in imminent danger, you know the old fight-or-flight response. I'd never felt that before, and it just arrived out of the blue. Could have been at least partly psychological, as I have been under unusually high levels of stress lately. Stopping the coffee was easy. Just switched to mint tea and Lorazepam.

This was the basis for my conjecture that it's an intermittent hardware problem.

I like it. Not just generic rock, it's got a distinctive personality.

Back when I used the TTS-1 regularly, I'd usually add a CC value via the Event List to force any settings. Alternatively, you could add automation to the track to get the same result, which might actually be more useful for things like Vibrato that you might actually want to automate.

My first guess would be that the computer was powered off unexpectedly (e.g. a power failure), but given that the OP has had this problem in the past with other projects, that could point to a failing disk drive or a loose SATA cable. There may be other, unrelated corrupt files/directories that he's unaware of.

Because you have a number of VSTis you might try freezing them one by one until the errors stop. You'll likely discover that it's a particular VSTi that's not able to keep up, or a particular library in a sampler. That, or use the real-time bounce option when exporting. I've had synths in the past that were only reliable with a slow bounce.

Unfortunately, there is only limited information that users can glean from a dump analysis. Specifically, which module raised the error (BFD3.DLL) and the type of error (heap corruption, very common in plugins). More detailed information can only be determined by fxpansion, as only they will be able to correlate your dump info to the exact area within their code that failed. It is always a program bug that causes this type of error (the dll attempted to write to a place in memory it wasn't supposed to), so only the vendor can fix it.

It's not due to any mistake on your part. Presumably, you have dumps from those failed exports (%appdata%\cakewalk\cakewalk core\minidumps); the answer will be in there. Ask the CW folks to take a look at it. If it's a plugin raising the error, they'll be able to tell you which one it is. If it's a CW bug, only they will be able to identify it. If you're impatient and like to solve puzzles on your own, you can always grab a copy of Windbg and look at the dump yourself. Here's an old post I made about using Windbg. Scroll about halfway down the first page of the thread.

Well, this one does have a history. It's a software emulation of the Strymon Big Sky stompbox. I have to say, it sounds way better than any reverb I've heard that's marketed primarily to guitar players. $199. (hardware version is $500)

Dan Worrall posted this review of The Oven today. He had a number of criticisms, but wasn't too hard on it (although I noticed that he didn't buy a copy; says he might if it's on sale). To Dan's credit, he did not use the words "warmth", "depth", "size" or "color" even once. "Sizzle", though, was unavoidable because it's the label over one of the controls. Bottom line is that it's essentially a three-band distortion effect. I'll stick with FF Saturn.

I've seen this phenomenon many times. It's not a corrupt project file. Every time it's come down to a plugin, usually something on the master bus, but never reproducible on command. It acts as though a plugin doesn't initialize properly, because if you bypass all fx and play back a little of the project, it'll play fine, and then continue to play fine after re-enabling fx.

There are some things I just won't buy from Amazon, in particular when I want to be assured of high quality. Example: microphone cables. As some may recall, I have bought more mic cables than usual this year due to puppy-related incidents. I could saved a LOT of money buying them on Amazon, but I'd rather pay 3-4x the price at Sweetwater and know the cable will perform as expected. I think of this as the "Walmart Effect". Walmart's primary business plan is to sell stuff cheap. They really don't care if it's only cheap because it was cheaply made. Amazon customers have a similar expectation that purchasing from Amazon is going to save them money. Amazon has no problem offering low-quality products as long as it looks like a bargain on the product page.