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14 hours ago, Wibbles said:

I grabbed that one too. It's still waiting to be installed. Maybe today's the day. 

 

Let us know what you think one you get it installed . Also thanks for the other synth recommendations .

 

Kenny

Let's face it,  sarcasm and good storytelling is not for everyone .

Kenny

 

PS one of mine I had to slip into the thread

8 hours ago, S.L.I.P. said:

 

Wow thank you S.L.I.P. ! this is  much appreciated . Was that Notes Norton playing the Sax? 

 

Kenny

18 hours ago, craigb said:

Nice deal Kenny!  I actually still think $99 is a fair price, but I love how much things can be discounted because it's essentially a free copy (i.e., no physical gear or packaging required).

I'm slightly worried that, if I do get it next month, that it will cut into my work requirements!  LOL. 😆

Yes Craig I agree w you it is still a very good deal ...

They are a good company , When I bought Voltage product bundles / upgrades  through them , they always applied my prior purchases to the price  of what I'm looking to upgrade to ..

Work requirements 😎🤣 

 

Kenny

8 hours ago, S.L.I.P. said:

 

 I had my birthday last weekend  . I would have been happy if she showed up even if she couldn't sing worth a $hit and handed me a twinky  w a half burnt candle on it ...

Yes !  Very  Do Able

 

Kenny

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

                               After seeing this Fugly   Trick or Treater at his front door on Halloween  and thinking once or twice about hitting it 

                             S.L.I.P. decided to rise above this personal romantic low point and get himself a service animal .

                         After an exhaustive national search  He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt when he did in fact find the right dog for him .

                                                     

                                                   Armed with a fresh unopened jar of peanut butter for his new four legged companion

They both set out on their new found  quest to set things right and to restore his former high standards of posting only cute  pics of do able Ladies for all  his future Coffee House posts

Kenny

                                     This is Beagles Nobel Prize Nominated Taste Captivating  Visual Essay  called

                                     The Advanced Biological Concepts of Procreation  explained in much simpler terms 

                                                   

Kenny

5 hours ago, InstrEd said:

Magnificent or is it 🤔

I'm afraid to inform you that your sarcasm license has been revoked due to Doping charges.
See what happens when you do drugs 🤣

good one 🤣

OK sarcasm alert

 

Kenny

 

7 hours ago, mkerl said:

You what? My first association is a tender and juicy whopper . . . .

Your awesome ! don't forget the Becan

 

Kenny

3 hours ago, craigb said:

Voltage Module Prices

 

Wow!  The FULL MONTY package is only $99!   I may just have to work a few extra hours this month... 😃

Last month Audio Deluxe was  giving  Voltage Module away  for free  (  The Basic)   .  Then Cherry Audio  added the Nucleus bundle for Voltage Module  to sweeten things for free   which I grabbed  ...

Then I upgraded to the version you mentioned ( Core $ 99 .00 ) for 50 dollars ...Cherry Audio was having a sale for 1/2 off

When I bumped up  Core there was  w an add on package w some real cool drum modules and presets from another vendor / synth company ...

Cherry Audio also has a lot of cool vendors that have come up w modules for Voltage PSP

I can't say enough about this synth . it absolutely sounds fantastic ...

if it ever goes on sale again do your self a favor and spring for it ...

 

Kenny

 

 

 

2 hours ago, InstrEd said:

    You know sarcasm is an art-form,   keep practicing 😮

🤣🤣🤣 Gee your funny ..hows that ?

I got your back Craig  ...Don't worry..... Be Sarcastic

Kenny

 

8 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Funny in a way how the old stuff you really had to tackle it to learn it. Now we take all the preset soft-synths for granted. 

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Agreed . I had a SH 101 that I loved , it got stolen and to this day I still miss that little tone monster   .

trying to learn this VST modual synth helps me w everything ...

A real keyboard player knows and understands all the basics on what the oscillators ,  filters   and all the other synth  parts  dodads will do to affect  sound and tone  ....

Not me I'm clueless lol to me its like a super big guitar pedal board ...he heh he ...I do know that after attempting to learn the in's and out's of the modular synth signal chain  I do have a bigger set of Balls  lol ( only in my imagination  ) because I'm no longer scared to  go under the hood of any synth I have and mangle things  ...

19 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

 

I remember doing photography with my dad in the darkroom. That was a blast and I sure learned a ton from him.  Kids don't know what they are missing seeing the image appear like magic and learning how to stop the image from being over developed.    My oh  my,  I'm old 🙄

I went to an alternative High School  , they set me loose   with a 35 Millimeter  Camera  , all the film I could use  and  gave me full access  to  the schools dark room  ..

I loved it man ...loved B & W and I wish I could do that again ...

 

Kenny

Yes I have to admit it was a strange install . I let it do it's thing and I figured once I had my licensee also  placed in the  right folder  it would authorize  ..

Not the case I had to run a manual scan in Mixbus 32 C for it to show up and in Reaper I wound up having to go online and paste my authorization link ..

At first it seemed as if it didn't work but after all that Jazz it in fact did work .  Seems worth the  extra hoops I had to jump through YMMV

Kenny

when you say refuses to run ?  what exactly do you mean ? does it show up at all after a scan ? can you register it ?

Kenny

Wow Sweet ,  thanks for the heads up  Larry !

The timing on this is perfect since I just upgraded to Mixbus 32C   a few weeks ago .

 

Kenny

Very interesting topic and thread . One could almost say many of the real Synth Pioneers were hardware or Modual Based ...

I have some favorites from back in the day I may need to revisit and listen to again w fresh ears ...one thing is for sure some of the best music ever made was made on that type of gear .

My only modual hardware based synth  is this one  by Cherry Audio    a software version  ....

learning how to use this thing has been a  real education   ...

I hope to graduate kindergarten on this synth and make it to the first grade by next year      I kid you not this thing is deep ...the sound is awesome

Kenny

All you guys  in this thread are my best-est  friends  ever ...I wub you all ....

 

Kenny

Thank You Noel ! for chiming in and clearing this up . As I said I did get desperate there for a while trying to figure out what was going on .

FWIW , I'm actually happy this happened . I wound up poking around with the Lenses feature (something I never used )., 

Once I got a little familiar w Lenses   I realized that  the current lenses   in Cakewalk are something I had been asking for for years as a Cakewalk feature  ... ( Doh ) lol

Samplitude had a feature I really liked where you could you could set the GUI to various preset environments to keep the tools and the GUI uncluttered  .

 I haven't used Samplitude in a long while ..

It is nice to see Cakewalk has that type of feature since Cakewalk by Bandlab is doing everything and then some for me at this point .

I am so grateful  to the Cakewalk Team !   Keep up the good work  .

Thank you

all the best,

Kenny

After updating CBB a few days ago I was surprised to see another  new update ..I download it earlier today   and let it sit for a few hours because I had things to do in my day to day  .

About an hour ago I decided to do some music in Cakewalk and my whole GUI looked pretty sparse . I was like what happened here .LOL

My GUI  had no transport including all the upper tool bars I had always been accustomed to seeing in the Cakewalk GUI .

 I got pretty desperate there for a moment yet somehow I managed to get a more familiar to me GUI back up in Cakewalk  ...I had to set Lenses to Advanced to  get my old GUI back 

I wonder did I miss some sort of feature notification ?

 

Kenny

I got my left eye on one deal 😛and I got my right eye on another deal🤑 .

Dang  ! my wallet sure picked a great time to be  running on fumes.🤪  

Now I'm sitting here cross eyed 🥺

 

Kenny

So far I 'm really digging the new up date .. WOW !Thank You Bakers !

It has been a while since I studied and read music or did  lessons  w a teacher .

I was very excited to hear about the  ability to see the note names in the Piano Roll   .

I ran a little experiment over here  and I thought I would post it here in this thread ...

My first screen shot is of a Bach midi file I found for guitar ..Piano roll looks very clean and easy to read ...

( love the idea of being able to see all the notes uncluttered )

 

Then I said to myself " with this new feature we can go way deeper than this "..Hhhmmm how deep ? OK lets scratch the surface ...

I loaded up an audio file of a Bass guitar part in a new test project . Then I turned my audio part into a Groove Clip.

Next I inserted an instance of Dimension Pro  and chose a Bass patch  ...

( in Dim Pro I had to transpose  the patch up an octave for the patch to sound in the correct octave as seen in the following  pic after this one ) 

Next, I inserted my Bass audio track onto the Dim Pro track to perform a simple Monophonic Audio to Midi conversion VIA Melodyne ...

( I have the essentials version over here )

That simple process created a Midi conversion of my audio tracks Bass part as a mid file being played by the Dim Pro ....

Since the audio file was first converted into a Groove clip before conversion everything both the audio and Midi syncs up real nice  ...

Last but not least What I consider to be "The icing on the Cake " of this new feature in Cakewalk

It's pretty easy for me to read this over  standard  notation in  Bass Clef  . Also ,  I prefer the sound of the Dim Pro over the original file ....

FWIW , I happen to enjoy using Cakewalk as a learning tool for all the various elements of music  I may encounter in my musical journey .

I hope someone gets where I'm going with this . Just think of the possibilities of where you can take it !

 

all the best ,

 

Kenny

 

 

On 9/20/2019 at 5:07 PM, SteveStrummerUK said:

 

.... but it was far too hot to venture outside.

 

 

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😂 ouch...... if looks could kill ....

 

Kenny

 

On 9/19/2019 at 12:05 PM, SteveC said:

I haven't been around for a while, but what a great way to get back in the groove.     As usual, your phrasing is just... fantastic.    You've got big pockets, Ken.   😉

Hi Steve , thanks . 😊you got big pockets too.😉

On 9/20/2019 at 7:01 PM, bjornpdx said:

kenny
I just shake my head every time I hear you play and think,  man this guy is good.

Hi Bjorn ,

Wow , very nice complement you said there .

I need to get back out in the clubs again . I miss playing Live in front of people  .

If and when I do get back out there (in my current Geo location) I'm local to you ...maybe we can even  meet .

On 9/20/2019 at 8:07 PM, Max Arwood said:

Nice to check back here in songs.  Glad yours was on the top of the list. Great sounding stuff Kenny!  Ive missed listening for a while. I had fun listening to your song tonight. I’ll bet you had fun putting all this together too. 

Good stuff!!

Max Arwood

 

Hi Max ! 

Yes I did have a lot of fun playing over this track .

I'm glad by the third mix I got the song in the ball park .

I enjoy listening to tunes here myself . I need to make some time to comment on some of the new tunes I have yet to hear.

thanks Max .

On 9/21/2019 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Walsh said:

You blew it out of the water as always Kenny absolutely stupendous guitar playing love the composition. After so many great ideas being strong about like candy I can understand why some folks are disappointed by the fade out at the end. But I've been known to reach into the bag and pull a fade outending here and there myself so I'm a little more accepting. Fantastic work Kenny!

 

Hi Kevin ,

As far as my guitar playing goes ,

I sit in my Lazy boy chair and play for hours ...during that time I come up w lots of ideas , Usually I analyze what I'm playing and just practice what I think will free me up ...sort of like the big picture and It's like my little cocoon ...........

Then when it comes time to record I throw myself into it w every thing I got ... I always try to leave my mind out of the equation ...doing it this way for me is sort of like a metamorphosis ..if I want to repeat what I played I have to sit there and learn what I just played ...For some odd reason playing guitar solo's comes somewhat  easy too me ...as long as I get out of my own way ....lol

 

On 9/21/2019 at 3:58 PM, DeeringAmps said:

Funk Me Up!

My man, that is bad *****.

I'm gonna have to get me some Midi Guitar 2.

T

Hi Tom ,

I'm glad you liked what I did here on this tune .

Midi Guitar 2 is so much more than just a Midi Guitar app

Used stand alone it is pretty versatile as a live performance tool. I love that It hosts every VST plug and VST I synth I have .

Not only that , it is capable of creating some very complex signal chains for Midi Instruments and audio combined

(Midi Guitar is easily as versatile as Main Stage)  .

Used in side of a DAW it tracks very well as long as you keep audio buffers  to 256 and bellow .

I have actually used Midi Guitar 2 as a poor mans Melodyne ..

Check this out,  both clips are Joe Pass ...I took an MP3 placed it in SONAR ( Pre Cakewalk  ) and Placed Midi Guitar 2 on my audio track and had it trigger a VST instrument ...

first clip is Lounge Lizard

https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13548515

second clip is Joe Pass Virtuoso All The Things You Are  ..audio on one side Strumm acoustic on the other side ..

This was done in real time as the song played and I did not do any midi or audio editing at all on this file / conversion .

I left the warts in there so a person could be able to hear for them selfs how good this plug really is ...

There is a part of me that would like to edit-it but man Midi Guitar kept up great 

https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13311064

I used Joe Pass because he is a true musical virtuoso on the guitar ..very few people play on his level ..

I think Midi Guitar kept up pretty good with him ...

PS disregard anything that might come up as an auto play after the files I linked .....I have left that site as a ghost town 

nice talking w you

On 9/21/2019 at 4:01 PM, arlen2133 said:

Kenny, 

Now THAT'S tight!  See?  All that and now you can do your "victory lap".. 😂

I hope you got some rest man.  I'm sure you were burning the late night oil on that one.

Congrats on making a hit even better!🏆

Hi Arlen ,

You hung in for the long haul w me on this song ...I'm gonna suggest you get hazard pay for hanging in there 😄

Yeah man I got burnt out putting in the time ....the playing only took a few takes and less than a half hour for the session .

The Mixing and all that other stuff ( in my case ) is always the thing that takes me into the championship rounds ...

I got my rest and one day back in the gym after doing the updates on my tune ...

If I can make the gym tomorrow I may be strong enough to take a Victory Lap ...lol... if not I'm going back to practicing in my Lazyboy  

 

all the best ,

 

Kenny

 

 

 

OK , here we go again . I remixed the song  as I paid real close attention to the low end .

After saying "Dang the ending of my song really sucks ...I'm gonna do something about that " to myself .

 I whipped out my guitar and did something about it .

here's the newest mix .....my opening post has same song version

I plan on getting some rest , ( been at it all night )

I will come back here and thank the people that helped convince me to keep at it ..

till then all the best ,

Kenny

 

 

 

 

38 minutes ago, arlen2133 said:

Hey Kenny, 

Got a chance to listen to the new mix.  Low end is still a little boomy (didn't catch that the first time, probably because I was on office cans), but not overpowering...  Rest of mix is better, so it's not so bad...

You DID take out Mr Mumbles...LOL  Yeah, a botox injection just might mess up errthang...LOL 😂

I think the long silence on the ending is a little jarring..  But who am I??  I still enjoyed the song nonetheless and I DO think it's improving with each pass you make... 

Yes, your solos are  tha bomb. 😎

Hi Arlen ,

A few other people thought there was something funny going on w the Bass in my other mix .

On this Mix I did take a lot of the rumble out in Cakewalk .

I think some may be getting added back to my stereo file during the  pseudo mastering stage . 

 I kid you not ... I have always created characters or named parts of my solo's and  sections of my songs  ..

Dr Mumbles got sent down the road packing . 😂

Yes it is true ..my current ending BITES 😭I'm gonna have to something about that real fast and real soon ...I just can't take it no more  😖

I might just end this one with a solo ...

thanks for the listen and feedback

 

Kenny