Keith Wilby

Many thanks, I'll look into that. 

First of all, let me declare up front that I have no musical training at all, I'm completely self-taught, so what I'm about to ask might well seem obvious.

I have Cinestrings loaded up in my DAW and what I want is to play chords with a sustain articulation but with the attack of a staccato articulation. When I select sustain, the sound of the strings gently fades in, but I want it in my face the moment the bow touches the strings.

I hope that makes sense and I'm sure it must be possible but I'm missing something. I have the same issue with other VSTs such as The Orchestra Complete.

Any clues? Thank you.

6 hours ago, KSband said:

What are you using to separate things?

I'm using an online service (I'm not affiliated with it in any way):

https://www.lalal.ai/

It costs money, although not much really considering the quality of the results. You have to have a reasonable quality original to start with but I've been amazed at just how much information it's been able to dig out of mine.

1 hour ago, Supa Reels said:

Bit bass'y

You're right, I'll give that a tweak.

1 hour ago, Supa Reels said:

I'd give 10  (As David Jacobs might say )

I remember him. Thank you 🙂

Delightfully avant-garde as always Jack. Many moulds broken yet again. I really can't fault any of this, well done.

Great guitar sound. I think it clashes with the vocal in places though. Choose your moments 🙂

9 hours ago, jack c. said:

some timing seems a tad off.

I agree. Get that sorted and you're onto a winner 🙂

Some very nice vocals and guitar on this, well done. I found the percussion a little intrusive and repetitive but that's a personal preference I guess.

The "room" I've been playing in of late is marked "Stem Separation" - the ability to isolate instruments and voices from a mono recording. This is the earliest/oldest one I've been able to process in that way. The original recording dates from 48 years ago. It comprised me singing and playing drums simultaneously whilst my friend (who wrote the tune) played the rhythm guitar.

What I've been able to do is to separate all three elements of the recording and use them in the CbB DAW. For the guitar, I combined the two halves of the song and panned each one left/right. For the drums, I was able to sample the snare and bass drums and use the samples in a Superior Drummer 3 kit. I could have used a built-in kit but I wanted to retain some 70s authenticity (maybe I should have lit some candles and turned off the electricity too 😆) whilst keeping the tempo consistent.

I then added some other bits and bobs and this is the result.

I should warn you that the lyrics are ridiculously naïve and overly "flower power", with a couple of phrases stolen from John Lennon, but I've always wanted to "finish" the song and I think I have now. Didn't take long did it?

https://www.bandlab.com/revisions/9749ca7a-c6ba-ee11-b660-000d3a428b97?sharedKey=HjJ-syGph0SZ7u0FN9Tscw

EDIT: I've improved the bass as suggested and added tambourine for good measure. I've also hosted it on Bandcamp because I've mastered it myself and didn't want Bandlab to master it again in order to host it there:

https://keithwilby.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-scented-rosie

This works.

21 hours ago, subvibe said:

FYI its also not the genre i listen to But strangely i like to produce this kind of stuff

for me the challenge is to try to keep it smooth 

That makes it all the more impressive.

I always know that your stuff is going to be a bit off the wall and avant garde and this doesn't disappoint. Overall an enjoyable listen, although I noticed a few timing issues here and there but that might well be intentional.

Good voice. A cross between David Byrne, Michael Stipe and Neil Hannon to my ears 👍

This genre really isn't my cup of tea at all but I can appreciate the skill that went into the production. Well done.

It's a damned sight better than the Xmas song I once tried to write 🤣

Only critiques I have are that I find the intro a bit uninviting, if that makes sense, and I find the mastering a tad harsh, but otherwise, great job 👍

A lot more guitar on this now. To recap, my late friend Rob Rigby wrote this and takes the lead vocal which I have salvaged from an old recording from the 1980s.

Hope you like it, I think it's quite catchy.

https://www.bandlab.com/post/59f0b6f9-589a-ee11-8926-000d3a41ef61

On 12/12/2023 at 12:19 AM, Lynn Wilson said:

If you've got more, I'd love to hear them.

Stand by 😀

Hi Terry, I have a couple of observations. I think some of the drum fills are too complex, and I also wonder how the vocals would sound if you softened your voice a little. By that I mean soften it naturally as you sing, it just sounds a tad harsh to me for the subject matter.

Just my 2p worth 🙂

This genre isn't my cup of tea but, that said, I quite like it, especially the guitar sound which is delish. Well done sir.

The AI service that I've been using to isolate my vocals from old tape recordings has given me a whole new room to play in.

That said, this song isn't sung or written by me, that accolade goes to my late friend and bandmate Rob Rigby who passed away, well, over ten years ago now. This vocal (and intro guitar riff) dates from 1986 when we were in a band together. I was never happy with the band's original version because our drummer had a tendency to race and to put over-complex fills in, plus our "keyboard player" was hopeless, so it's nice to finally get it into some sort of order and discipline.

Comments welcome as always 🙂

https://www.bandlab.com/post/8c0aaeb6-a18e-ee11-b75e-000d3a428fff

16 hours ago, mark skinner said:

I wish I could the voice back I had 30 or 40 years ago .

It's been the holy grail for me. Can't tell you how chuffed I am.

27 minutes ago, Bajan Blue said:

Great cover, excellently done.

Thank you 🙂

27 minutes ago, Bajan Blue said:

what AI program did you use to isolate your vocals

https://www.lalal.ai/

It can work very well but it's a paid service. Reasonably priced I think (I'm not affiliated with them at all).

By sheer coincidence I happened to be working on my version of this Beatles song when I spotted @steve@baselines.com's version.

I think I've previously posted my "archive" tape recording from the late 90s, long before I could use something like a DAW. I've never been able to match that vocal performance, and now, with AI, I'm delighted to have been able to isolate it from the tape recording and use it in this project.

A lot of the sounds come from my vintage Yamaha PSR-SQ16 but there are new drums, bass and strings. Comments welcomed.

https://www.bandlab.com/post/0008bd79-0e8a-ee11-b75e-000d3a428fff

I'm aiming for irreverent humour in this one so hopefully I've not missed. Even if I have, it's a bit of a stomper 😀

https://www.bandlab.com/post/c5c52550-1686-ee11-b75e-000d3a428fff

23 minutes ago, Rain said:

Man, I love the Beatles.

Same.

When I was 5 (in 1965) I used to visit my much older cousin on Sundays. She had loads of singles by, as it turned out, many different artists, and she used to let me play them. As young as I was, and without knowing it, I always favoured her Beatles records. There was just something about them that was different, better. I was unwittingly picking up on the standard of production and arrangements too. There was, for example, only one record that started with, what sounded to me then like "dummmm ... yahhhh" - I Feel Fine. It sounded like Robert the Robot from Fireball XL5 🤣

There was a magic that I detected that wasn't on other records. It wasn't til much later that I realised that these records were all by the same group.

36 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Roughly 5% of the Beatles are clunkers for me. Yellow Submarine, tops that list.

I was surprised to hear the earliest demo for YS was sung by John: "In the town where I was born, nobody cared ...". Could have been an entirely different song.