Alan Tubbs

Massive X is a good and different bass makers.

Are they all on the same midi channel? I’ve done that more than once.

Thanks. I knew it was somewhere under organs.

I wonder when I’ll get an update to plasma by cakewalk, the early looper program. From the beginning of the century. Got it free in one of those English music rags with a cd and then upgraded it so I could do more than 4 or 8 tracks. It would do acidified files before Sonar did, or at least home studio (my next upgrade!). if cakewalk isn’t going to update P5 maybe they could make my old copy of Plasma work today. What did I do with that CD?

Dim pro and rapture Pro are still relavent and have some great presets I still use. I forget if it is rapture or dim that has the “jimmy…” preset which is a go to for organs. There are also plenty of “effects” and evolving drones and legiti-esque orchestra sounds. Good stuff. My minimoog is older yet still makes sounds I use.

Freezing soft synths solves many of these problems. Then you are dealing with all audio.

So we have our official answer to how long cbc? As long as it takes, I guess. Users need to take cakewalk at its word that it ain’t coming for your DAW - yet. And you’ll get warning so you can find another free DAW.

The original Minimoog D is a mono synth, unless the new ones are different.

Compression is only a tool that when used properly can help even out the volume of tracks, busses and complete songs. It can also provide tone, like the 1176 or la2a style comps. It isn’t always necessary but helps, especially in popular music to balance out many tracks. when recording acoustical signals I almost always use a little compression going in.Not much but enough to thicken up the sound, by which I mean lowering the peaks and spikes in relation to the quieter sections (having a transformer in line also helps with this). That signal often gets a second dose of digital compression after vol automation. And most busses get a little more compression that helps, as referenced above, with glue. A little compresssion, applied serially at each step, can provide a strong, solid signal that holds its own among other tracks without extraneous or distracting bouncing of instruments. Even if you don’t have an analog compressor on the front you can still use digital for track and busses. Cakewalk comes with three very usable comps. The 1176 style comp I find good for rock and roll compression, almost like a light switch going on and off. The Opto style comes in useful for lead stuff like vocals and guitars, holding and swelling the instrument out front but in a subtle way. Finally the “buss” comp is my favorite and works well for glue. Ps Another reason that samples and loops sound good in our own productions is that the samples are already comped and eq to fit songs.

Re: the u 87 is a FET (solid state) version of the U 67. Same capsule etc. the original U 87 is called just that. It was quickly superseded by the U 87 Ai. The original unit is preferred by some for tone, but it is down -3dB compared to the Ai. The Warm unit is based on the original unit and needs a good pre to get the most out of it. I find the Warm unit good. It can sound (like the Neumann) strange in isolation but is usually good or great in the context of the production.

I’ve got the Warm 47 and it is pretty good vox mix. The 251 is better still, esp for vocals, tho that is what I’ve heard from others, not from use (tho one studio I’ve used us to have one and it was great on female vox). Chad at signal arts tricks them out as well as makes his own mics. He used to be with warm and helped design their 47. That would be a $1000 solution or so. I’ve been meaning to send in my 47. He has over your budget 47s and 250s he makes but under your budget FET 47 etc. another great all around eq in your price range is the microtech m930. It is made by the Neumann 2nd factory set up during wwii when Berlin was problematic. The ruskies overran it and east Germany continued to make mics with the original m 7 capsule. The m930 uses their modern make. It looks like a baby Neumann but has a big sound. What you put in comes out so much change and I haven’t found anything it doesn’t work on, including vocals. another story is most studios used small diaphragm mics for vocals back in the day, but people walked off with them. They couldn’t do that with 47s etc. and Ive used the small oktava mc 012 for primarily female vox. Works great and is another all rounder for most instruments.

To get to the secret decoder page go to other links home cakewalk. It will lead to a page which has the two “new” DAWs info. Click and read and you’ll have all the information available to those of us outside of Cakewalk authorized folk. hint: the free version of CbB will go away at some unspecified point in the future. Then you have to pay for your daw like regular shlubs, not the special customers you are now. 😉 @

Well, that is welcome. After a couple days doing my morning browsing using the good ole iPad, today cakewalk is signed in with my password. I guess it took some time to get established. Don't know why, but ill take it . Funny stuff in computer land.

I just got a surface pro running windows 11. My music computer and writing laptop are both win 10. My tablet I’m web writing on now Is an iPad. The surface however doesn’t want to accept passwords to get me into bandlab, cakewalk forums, gearslutz . When I checked my Windows passwords listings not only were the passwords correct but there were multiple passwords for the same site. I remember having problems with the two win machines. I used one password for windows itself and another for my email. Those kept getting switched - one would work with mail but not windows. The next day it would be switched. any ideas? Does win 11 not work seamlessly with passwords? Is it normal to have thee or four passwords under the internal listing? I’m interested in any ideas. thanks @

From gearslutz, I mean space. https://gearspace.com/board/new-product-alert/1417163-bandlab-launches-exclusive-music-distribution-more-membership-subscribers.html who knew?