John Bradley

This one just bit me in the butt today, wondered if anyone else can confirm.

I regularly take my rhythm guitar tracks into Melodyne Studio to tighten up the timing. Create a Melodyne region, and then when the editor pops up switch into the Universal algorithm, because I just want to slide the timings around, don't want to see polyphony or anything. Did so today, apparently for the first time since I installed Melodyne 5.3 and Cakewalk 2022.09.

The blobs are supposed to be connected and remain that way as you drag them around. What happens now is an inexplicable mess. This does not happen if you edit the clip in the standalone Melodyne, but that's not especially useful to me. See the two videos.

Reverted to Cakewalk 2022.06, but that didn't fix anything. Uninstalled Melodyne and reinstalled my 5.2 version - that fixed it. I've no doubt that I can re-upgrade to Cakewalk 2022.09 and it'll still work, but haven't actually tested it yet.

Anyway, please confirm if it's not a "just me" problem!

That's assuming normal tuning. 

.012 to .060 would be good (nay, desirable) if the beast is tuned down to D or C#.

SRV used to play anything from .011-.058 to .013-.060, depending who's telling the story. Yes, those are still heavy, but he also always tuned to Eb, so they weren't under as much tension as one might think.

Be nice if it would also host VST2s, but can't complain. Especially at this price. 

Obsoletes a *lot* of things, I imagine. For example, Blue Cat's MB-7 - which gave you up to 7 bands of separate 3rd-party effects chains for $129. This does up to 5 bands, for free. 

And easy parallel-ification of effects, without cluttering up the console with a mess of aux tracks.

Ironically, this is something I would have happily spent $29 for!

Yes, but the 17 saturation plugins I don’t need will be back up to their “regular” price of $49 or $129 or whatever if I don’t buy them right this very minute!

So actually, I’m saving money….

The Johnny Cash version, recorded in 2003 right before his death,  is de-facto the version of the song. Sort of like how once he recorded Hurt, (and whomever made that killer video for it), it was his song now. Sorry Trent, but you know, it's Johnny Freakin' Cash.

Anyway, both Marilyn Manson and myself were taking JC's version of the song as a starting point. 

But the song was written in 1946, and first recorded in 1947 with a very different feel. Good stuff, even if not really in tune with modern musical tastes.

FWIW, I've got Neoverb. Never use it. Just don't see a time I'd want to effectively run a send into 3 different parallel reverbs. Presumably that's an Advanced Technique. Maybe if I did sparse songs (singer & piano/accoustic guitar) having an extra-yummy reverb would be something I could hear.

Mostly I just use Breverb (Cakewalk Edition), as it's good enough for my purposes and light on the CPU. Also occasionally use R4 and/or Nimbus - which appear to be the same thing going under 2 different names, but whatever. And Supermassive for any huge space reverb needs I might have; which are minimal.

Thanks guys, glad you enjoyed it!

Free is free and all, but damn if that isn’t one ugly bit of UI design.

Open the Event List for the track in question.

Using the Event Manager (right click menu) filter the list to just the type of events you're interested in getting rid of. Having a way to deselect all the event types at once would be nice, but it's not obvious there is one.

Highlight them all by clicking to the left of the first event and dragging to the bottom. Do not use Ctrl-A (select all), as that will select all the events in the current track, not just the ones shown in the Event List.

Ctrl-X to cut them. Or select Edit | Delete from the main menu.

As you note, pressing the Delete key only deletes one of them, not the selection – which seems odd and wrong, but it is what it is.

Yeah, I've never sold any of my gear.

Given it away, or thrown it in the trash when it's hopelessly obsolete and irrelevant, sure. But that's measured in decades, not years.

25 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

as it kills off the value proposition of the sales and limited time only nature of impulse buying

Yep. I love the Valhalla plugins, and $50 always is a far more reasonable price model than "$139 marked down to $49 this weekend only!", BUT $50 is more than my impulse buy limit of $20-$30, and without that "gotta act now or lose this 'great' deal" pressure... well, I've only ever bought one of their plugins.

Whereas 2getheraudio has gotten more money out of me, even though I rarely use their stuff these days, simply because of the "name your price" model. I'll apparently buy *anything* for $10!

2 hours ago, wyley said:

That said, the discontinuation of the Forever29 "subscription" and their change to the $25 loyalty voucher requiring a minimum purchase of $75 means that I'll be purchasing far fewer plugins from Plugin Alliance going forward.

Never got on board. Thankfully PA (unlike PB) sells virtually nothing I want. Bought Tantra and Thorn, but most of what they seem to offer are emulations of classic analog gear. Maybe they sound great, but I don’t get the appeal of knob-based EQs with fixed frequencies, etc. when things like Fabfilter Pro Q 3 exist. 

Then again, I also don’t get the appeal of control surfaces, either, so it’s probably a personal shortcoming.

A recent project – and it comes complete with a music video.

The Johnny Cash version of the song has a video that was put together by a bunch of ticket-taking celebs sometime after his death. Let’s just say I doubt their sincerity vis-a-vis the message of the song.

That, and the JC version (which is also a cover, btw) didn’t have nearly enough guitar for my tastes. This one has a swampy Texas blues ‘thing’, at least to my mind.

I did the music, production, and put the video together. Friend of mine did the vocals, and a lovely community of like-minded folks contributed the video clips and stills used in the vid. Also, a more talented guitarist than I provided the first solo.

Hope you enjoy it.
 

Hmm. Combined with the ability to bind "Render Region FX" to CTRL+ALT+M (or whatever), yeah, I'll pretty much never need to see the Region FX menu again.

That's a worker - thanks!

(The one that appears under Region FX in the context menu when you right click a clip.)

I use Melodyne Studio constantly, and have zero use for VocalSync, V-Vocal, or Drum Replacer.

I'd like to put Melodyne at the top of the list and/or remove the other three altogether, such that getting to Melodyne's sub-sub-menu (Create Region FX, etc.) is less fiddly.

I'd go so far to say the solid-body electric guitar isn't an instrument at all, it's a controller.

The instrument, the object you're actually playing, is the amp rig and fx setup. And the speaker cabinet and room, if you're playing at volume. The guitar itself is largely irrelevant once it's of sufficient quality that it's not actively impeding you. You can do nearly anything with anything.

Thumbs up on Vital.

I'd seen that video from Mr. Awesome Voice and grabbed most of the things he mentioned in there, but somehow I've never heard of 'Vital' before. 

Grabbed the demo, said "these are some yummy sounds, and I understand the UI without reading anything" and quickly upgraded to the $25 version. Really, really good.

And yeah, I've never gotten into 'Surge'. D/L the latest version every now and then, poke around with it a bit and then forget about it for the next couple of months.

4 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

Both for $19.98

That is one heck of a deal. I got Tantra 2 for $55ish a few months ago, and Thorn for $30, and thought those were good prices. 

And they were, because unlike so many things I’ve bought, I actually use them on a regular basis!

I absolutely hate the way Cakewalk can have multiple overlapping midi clips but can’t display them usefully in the track view. Copy a phrase from earlier in the song and past it elsewhere and you often get visual ‘holes’ in the track view even though there’s no such gap in the PRV.

Problem is exacerbated if “Paste as new clips” is enabled, and it seems to be a default that keeps coming back.

i’ve never wanted overlapping midi clips in the first place, and whenever I get one I have to bounce, resplit clips at the markers, and rename the clips because the name got lost in the bounce.

It’s clunky as hell.

Tantra 2 at $25 and Thorn at $20 are both worth grabbing if you haven’t got them already.

Good price on Knifonium at $25, but everytime I’ve played with it it’s failed to wow me. YMMV.

I don’t get the appeal of analog EQ emulations or console emulations which is great – it’s saved me a ton of money! 🙂

The old Steely Dan trick – a relatively sparse mix with just a few instruments… impeccably well recorded and played.

The songs virtually mixed themselves at that point.

I play a little game wherein I delete each one as soon as it appears.

I call it “Arturia Solitare”.

Cool, I was just thinking “there’s not enough icons on my desktop”…

While I freeze synths as well, typically the tracks I’m freezing are audio tracks with multiple or computationally heavy FX on them. 

E.g. guitars and vocals, both of which get processed entirely in the box, other than a hardware compressor I have on the input.

Yes, I could just go crazy with busses and put FX I’ll want to keep live on them, so they can be tweaked during the mixing stage (eq, comp, delay, reverb) and I do that already. But panning is a per-track sort of thing, and short of creating a bus per track…

Anyway, just a (mild) desire for more sophisticated panning of stereo tracks within Cakewalk, not a huge problem that needs a workaround.

Wish we could get something like this built into the Cakewalk console.

I have V1, but rarely use it, mostly because I freeze everything, and effect freezing is an all-or-nothing deal, so this effect winds up getting frozen on tracks. Can’t adjust the pan later without unfreezing and refreezing.
 

Whereas the Console’s volume and pan controls are always ‘live’.