Jerry Gerber

I want to do this because when I pin this often-used folder to Quick Access, I can't change the pinned name, which is "user". There are many CW folders that we can move around, in PREFERENCES-FILE-FOLDER LOCATIONS we can change names of some folders and move others to different locations. I actually got it to say Cakewalk Workspaces in the pinned folders (Quick Access) but now I don't know how I got it to work. I bet there's a way, I just don't know what it is. UPDATE: I figured out how to do it: 1. Go to App Data=Roaming-Cakewalk-Cakewalk Core-Lenses. 2. Make a shortcut from the Lenses-User folder on to the desktop. Change this shortcut name to Cakewalk Workspaces. 3. Drag this short cut to the pinned folder on the Explorer folder icon on the taskbar. 4. Move it up or down within the list under Quick Access if you like folders in a certain order. Now, the real folder "user", has the name that CW needs to function, but the name in the pinned list is "Cakewalk Workspaces". That's how to do it without confusing Cakewalk.

This collection of short compositions for the virtual piano is on my album Moon Festival. You can hear it here.

The default name of the folder is "user". If I change the name to "Cakewalk Workspaces" Cakewalk won't recognize the location of my custom workspaces. I want to change the name so that when I use Quick Access in Windows I see "Cakewalk Workspaces" rather than "user". It worked before but now I cannot get it to work. I went into the Registry (I'm fairly familiar with it) to seek out where Cakewalk defines the location for user-created workspaces but cannot find it. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Jerry

Not exactly a pun, but: A guitarist and his wife did not get along well at all. One night, after he had been drinking heavily, she grabbed one of his guitars and hit him over the head. Next, she took his other guitar and whacked him again so hard that he died. But a neighbor heard the commotion and called the police. They came to the house and arrested her. In court, the judge asked her, "First offender"? And she thought for a moment and replied, "No, your honor. First I hit him with the Gibson and then I smacked him with the Fender!" 😜

This is a very high quality CD player. Slot-loading, rack mountable (1 rack space). Brand new, never turned on, never removed from box. Here is information about it: https://tascam.com/us/product/cd-500b/top Retail price = $599.00 I will sell it for $499.00 Email me at jerry@jerrygerber.com if interested. If not local to California (Bay Area), you pay shipping...

Hi All, My 11 year old CD player died and I have an issue. I have the Argosy Halo desk that has racks on it but the racks are slanted about 50 degrees. The CD player that died had a tray-loading mechanism that was slanted and sometimes the disc wouldn't play without skipping. I am not sure if it was because of the tilt or the fact that the player was old. Does anyone have an experience using a CD player on a tilt? Is slot-loading better than tray loading? Thanks! Jerry

Glad you enjoyed it Antler. Thank you for listening.

Thanks for listening Bjorn!

Thanks Per-Erik!

Thank you for listening Jack!

Thanks Bert! Glad to hear you enjoyed listening.. Jerry

Thanks for listening 905133 and Gary Brun!

This is a work-in-progress, the 1st movement which I just completed, is here. All instruments are from the VSL Symphonic Cube.. Best, Jerry

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Glad to hear that!

Thanks Larry for listening! Jerry

From the CD Cosmic Consciousness PLAY May this short piece bring a bit of joy to your day!

Glad you enjoyed the pieces Jesse and thank you for the kind comments! Jerry

Thanks jwnicholson. If you mean record as play them into Cakewalk, no, I sequenced them. I try to achieve a sense of intention and humanness through rhythmic syncopation, tempo variations and always paying attention to strong and weak beats. This approach may not be within your tastes. If you'd like to hear something utterly spontaneous, nothing memorized, sequenced or quantized, here's some free improv for piano and clarinet. https://www.jerrygerber.com/mp3/Austin Gerber Improv.mp3 Thank you for listening jwnicholson, much appreciated! Jerry

These short pieces utilize the Pianoteq 5 VST physical modeling piano simulation. They appear on the CD Earth Music. PLAY

I don't use the bundle feature. I back up the .cwp file in 3 places: on a second internal hard drive, on a flash drive and uploaded to my server. I backup all audio for a project to another internal hard drive, to a DVD that goes into a safety deposit box offsite and to a flash drive. When I finish an entire album, I make at least 2 masters and one goes into the offsite safety deposit box. Offsite backup is always a good idea in case of fire, flood earthquake, nuclear war, alien invasion or asteroid strike. 😁 Studies have revealed that most accidents occur within 2 miles from home, so it's also a good idea to move every year or two 😜

I've received many comments and questions about how I integrate software synthesis, with the many arpeggiation, filtering, envelope and sync-to-tempo options with virtual orchestral instruments. When orchestrating a passage that contains a synth timbre, listen closely to the harmonic pattern and/or the rhythmic pattern that is being expressed in the arpeggiation sequence or filtering. This information can give you both melodic and harmonic clues as to how to proceed with orchestration. Also, it is very common with many synth timbres that the attack times can be very fast, faster than many acoustic instruments are capable of. The solution is to simply delay the entire synth track by X number of milliseconds or ticks (division of quarter notes into 480,. 960, etc.) so that the synths and the samples have better coordination with their attacks. Measures 45-65 demonstrates some of these techniques: Example Jerry

Thanks CSW!

The first song, Dulce et Decorum Est, is based on a poem by the English poet Wilfred Owen. He was killed in World War I after returning to the front from previous injuries. The second song is based on a poem by Enheduanna, who was the daughter of a wealthy political leader in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) about 2000 years ago. I wrote this piece as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Listen

I've been working in the staff view since the early 1990s. The snap issues have all been fixed quite a while ago. Make sure that your snap function is ON and that you've set the SNAP TO or SNAP FROM length to what you want (i.e. 16th note, eighth note, etc.). Remember that the snap function is independent of note values. If you want to enter, say, a 16th note, but the SNAP value is on 8th note triplets, you'll have a problem. What I do is usually default the SNAP value to either an eighth or 16th note and if I need to enter triplets or some other value non-divisible by 2 or 4, I change it. The erasing of notes in the staff view is very easy. just lasso the notes you want to erase and press delete on your keyboard. The duration selection does still automatically change if you touch and click on a note, it will go to that note length and velocity. It has not been removed (I'm using latest version). But you have to turn it on. Bottom of the note value selection list. Jerry