Terry Kelley

Oh name names. I can spell. If people start dropping back from the subscription to free, that’s not good. There must be a plan.

Too be fair there were/are singers that can't sing live what they sang in the studio originally. Ignore the "night after night" aspect. Night after night does take a toll even with training and care. The vocal gymnastics in the studio are great but when live deviates too much, well, no ... I would rather they thought about if they could sing it live regardless of singing it night after night. I love Led Zepplin but I never saw them live where Robert Plant was even remotely close to the record even in his twenties (or remember the correct lyrics.)

Yeah.

Starship, I wasn't directing an insult at you. If you believe that I offer my apologize. I was only critiquing the new offering and pondering the reasons.

I don’t think things went as planned. And something else is about to change. The newer Sonar is nice but it’s not must have software. It’s not a “I don’t care what it costs, I just have to have it!” I would gladly pay a subscription for something I can’t live without, but Sonar isn’t it. If a reasonable perpetual license became available, I would consider it. But as it stands, Sonar has its little pluses but I can do everything I want elsewhere. So I watch the show.

That's the reason its now free with a couple of restrictions? Right.

Why

Listen to some Gentle Giant to counter balance it. I have to learn how to work the internet.

Crank him up!

Gino Vannelli still sounds good but he says he used a vocal coach for many years to save his voice. It too will go at some point. He teaches sing now to boot.

What and ruin the illusion?

I get what you are saying. When the lead singer has to shout or talk the lyrics because the can't hit the notes anymore or when they can no longer do either they point the mic at the audience for a "sing along", it's time to stop. This isn't true for EVERYONE. Some singers can decline and still be entertaining. Robert Plant just doesn't sing a lot of the older stuff. Assuming he remembers the lyrics. I understand that some artists sing in the studio notes and phrase that are hard on their voice to do night after night and need to pitch down some but at some point their voice is shot. I don't want my last image of being their inability to sing well. Even one of my favorites - Paul McCartney needs to wrap it up. And I hate saying that. David Lee Roth has to shout the lyrics now because he can't hit the notes. I don't want that memory. Then we have the band where the only original member is the third bass player brought in after they had been around for 20 years but was the only one smart enough to copyright the band name.

So, in other words ...

Yeah, the developers aren’t the bad guys here and they took the brunt of the vitriol.

Nope. Seems Next was supposed to. The Bandlab people here did everything they could to say no without saying no. There wasn’t much vagueness though. They finally had to start locking threads about it. Like this one will be shortly.