Keith Wilby

"Using the Mason & Hamlin Model A piano freely available at the pianobook community." Sorry to hijack the thread but how do you install instruments from that site please?

Brilliant, thank you so much.

Hi, I'm using Realivox Blue via the "Kontakt" plug-in and I was wondering if there is a way to control a MIDI parameter in the Piano Roll window. I'm sure there is but I haven't been able to work out how. For example I can add a parameter like "expression" but I can't work out how to control it. Many thanks.

As Sod's Law would have it, I discovered how to do it shortly after posting, and I don't see a "delete post" option 😐

Hi all. I have a drum fill in a song and it sounds robotic because it's played strictly to tempo, as you'd expect, no human error at all. I want to simulate the human error by increasing the tempo for that one bar slightly, then return to the original tempo afterwards. I've tried experimenting with the tempo change menu items but I can never get it to affect just the one bar. Can it be done? Many thanks.

Funny you should say that because, on the "oh yeah" near the end, I had "Road to Hell" in mind. Maybe they should re-issue that

I can empathise with that, it's all very much in our faces, but I liked the idea of doing a rock song on the the subject to counter the commercial offering like the James Blunt song and the Times Like These cover.

Get's my vote. It's a bit odd and I love odd

Adapted from my song "No Win Situation" (on here somewhere) and shortly to be on Spotify et al in aid of the NHS here in the UK. It's my take on how we should be staying safe in these "difficult times". https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/covidsituation-e40fd58a?revId=7853bf49-a08b-ea11-96d2-0003ffd1fc09

Rightly so, it's moody and magnificent. Perhaps a bit of verb on the vox?

Nice job indeed but if it was me I'd quadruple track the guitars and pan them to give it a bit more depth

Thanks, yes I did act on many suggestions made by the folks here. Much appreciated.

Final mix https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/emotionalrain-8243998e?revId=c46bb0b0-ab7c-ea11-a94c-0003ffd19c0f

Completed today using CbB. Comments welcome https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/creaturecomforts20-27edefd9?revId=1d0af4f2-c57c-ea11-a94c-0003ffd19c0f

I agree Tom and I'm on with it right now

You and me both. My late friend Rob wrote the bulk of the lyrics (mine are "you want to live your life ..." onwards), I think he was just painting a picture with words.

Yes indeed

Written in the 1980s by me and a good friend, recorded and mastered this year using CbB. All instruments by me. Hope you enjoy it. https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/emotionalrain-f9560740?revId=3cd420a2-2777-ea11-a94c-0003ffd19c0f

Yeah I've added some bits and pieces to it, it could be good "B-side" material

I found this song on a floppy disk (how quaint) for my Yamaha PSR-SQ16, it dates from the late 90s. Nothing like anything I'd normally do but reasonably interesting I think. https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/sq-16-6589e35f?revId=3f88800b-1c61-ea11-a94c-0003ffd1cad8

Ah yes, of course , that makes perfect sense. I've just tried saving as a "normal" file and my SQ16 quite obediently follows it. Many thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Hi Cakewalk gurus, I'm sure it's me doing something wrong but ... I have an ancient Yamaha PSR-SQ16 keyboard/sequencer that saves its MIDI data to floppy disk (quaint eh?). I can load the MIDI data into Cakewalk and it recognises it and places the info into tracks. All good so far. To get Cakewalk to tell my SQ16 what to do I need to tell each track where to send the data, so I select my SQ16 as the output on each track. Works a treat. Problem is, even though I save the MIDI file with these output assignments, when I open it again the settings are lost and I have to redo them. What am I doing wrong? :o0 Many thanks.

Many thanks all, I'll be revisiting that mix with your comments in mind.

I decided to take a punt at £25, plus the blurb boasted a "14 day money back" guarantee. Tried it and didn't really like it. Very limited preset repertoire and it seemed to introduce distortion unless I started fiddling with knobs (as it were). It didn't do anything I couldn't do by daisy-chaining other plug-ins. This is where reading their T&Cs would have paid off, since they only refund if there's a defect with the product, so what appeared to be a foolproof and risk-free purchase turned out to be anything but. Read those T&Cs folks and keep your $30 in your pocket if you're in any doubt at all.

Many thanks for the kind words. It was a stage mic ... probably a Shure but I can't really remember I'm afraid. One thing's for sure, it wasn't an expensive one