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4 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

 

Apple are holding the Smart Instrument MIDI hostage in the Apple ecosystem.  I suppose I could use StudioOne / Melodyne to generate MIDI from audio stems.

I've got Cubasis 3 on my Android phone, but it would be a heck of a lot easier to use on an iPad.  With the release of Logic iPad, maybe it will light a fire under Steinberg to get more resources to enhance Cubasis.

I was watching some demos of Logic Pro iPad, and though it has tons of features, it lacks the cohesiveness, simplicity and charm of GarageBand.  For being a free app, GB is quite amazing for sketching out ideas. 

Learn to play keyboards

A four bar loop is not a song

Don't start a composition with a beat or bass line

Don't produce while you're trying to write a song

Master the things you own

Compose with the instrument you know the best

Compose with an instrument you aren't good at

Start with an outline for a song

I look at this as a paid subscription for a GarageBand on steroids.  Besides the people who are balking at the subscription, there are also those who use Logic Pro on the Mac who are wringing their hands over the interoperability between the iOS version and Mac.  What was their problem when there was only GarageBand on iOS?  Half (maybe more) are using Windows or nothing as their primary computer.  Just take Logic on iOS for what it is.  I'm excited too - what better place to create music than on a couch, with headphones.  You can be with your family and they don't know you are composing a tune 😂

My main problem with GarageBand on iOS is that your Smart Instrument and regular MIDI are held captive in the Apple ecosystem - Boo!!!  Why shouldn't you be able to export that to a non-Apple DAW?

Also re: the minimum hardware requirements - I thought it was any iPad with an A12 Bionic chip and greater:  "Logic Pro will run on any iPad with at least an A12 Bionic chip, including the 8th-generation iPad, the 3rd-generation iPad Air, the 5th-generation iPad mini, and newer models. Final Cut Pro is more demanding and requires an iPad Pro or Air with an M1 or M2—presumably, it's the small amount of RAM included with older iPads that keeps them from running software that much slower Macs have managed to run for years."

Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad as $50-per-year subscriptions | Ars Technica

1 hour ago, paulo said:

Zey vill eat ze bugs and be heppy.

Oont u vill like it

This was fun.  Can you believe, after 50-60 years, and we're still doing minute, archeological, examinationams of their recordings?

The challenge for moving to any new DAW is getting used to the new workflow, menus, keyboard shortcuts, etc.  The best way to go about it is to totally immerse yourself into the new DAW and use only it for about 3 weeks.  S1 has some killer features, but job one is getting the feel of it.  Definitely check out the videos.

On 3/16/2023 at 9:10 AM, Brian Walton said:

Hopefully not considering I'm convinced less than 20% of the user base would ever touch it (even if it was implemented well).  The fact of the mater is the average musician these days - especially guitarists where Cakewalk has long been a target audience - have no use for staff notation editing.  And I think even 20% would be far fetched personally.

As much as I feel for those that do want this as a core copentency in the program.  Cakwalk would be far better served to focus on things that any musicaion can benefit from.  We look at Chord/phrase/melody tools like Scaler and this is something that beginners can use all the way up to more advanced users thanks to advanced chord substituation concepts and composition tools.   Tools like this can help a beginner to even get started and it would be nice to have this type of functionality built into the DAW itself instead of a plugin.  

Not sure if the next update will be a biggie or not, but realistically as long as they continue to keep it free and funtional - this is already a mature platform to work on.  

The only real way Cakewalk could implement true score editing is if they bought an existing package like Presonus did with Notion - starting from scratch would require dedicated staff 😉.  For MIDI editing in notation, things could be a lot worse than Staff View.

Regarding a chord track, I've come to the conclusion thatthe addition of scale capabilities are necessary to properly handle melodies and bass parts.

Hmm...  There must be a new flagship workstation in the offing. 

I am a huge fan of chord tracks in DAWs, however, I realized that scales are just as important as chords, if not more.  I your example, if a melodic phrase were snapped to a chord(s) the, the only notes allowed in the melody would be just those in the chord spelling.  IMO, Cubase has implemented this the most successfully.  You have the option to snap to chords, scales or a combination of the two.

Just now, ralfrobert said:

Just installed V9 just to take a look after two years. I have to say as I am spoiled by using Studio One, it doesn't impress me any more. However, I am very interested in V10, too. 

I'm still getting up to speed with Studio One which is quite impressive.  The big draw for me are its composition tools, like chord track and harmonic editing.  It's a little busy for my needs, but with some time,  it'll be good.

I'm interested to see how they're going to differentiate themselves from all the free / low priced alternatives out there.

Mixcraft 10 has entered private beta testing.

On 12/21/2022 at 6:41 AM, telecode 101 said:

I still think when she left Rufus she went downhill. Her solo records never really did reach the same level of groove with session musicians. 

Our band learned this, but they had problems counting it out, because the bass is on the off-beats.  😏

I find Joe Pesci amusing.

Maybe OT, but to you S1 users, do you primarily hang out on the Presonus forums for questions, or somewhere else?

For example, I noticed when you select a chord in the MIDI editor, and use the chord UP macro button for shifting up chord inversions, after the first time, only the top note remains selected, so for subsequent shifts, you have to re-select the chord.  Where might I get the quickest answer for this?

52 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I had some bestcoinz so.... $114.21 for me.

I'm a little excited for the lyric track.

The coolest thing about the lyric track is that you can navigate to any point in the project by just selecting a phrase.

I also like that you can de-clutter the workspace, depending on what activity you want to perform.

13 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

I will wait till later when it is $79-99.

If you can go up to $99, I say go for the $16 extra from Best Service.

Again, crossing my fingers that my recent cross-grade to 5.5.2 will be eligible for a version 6 upgrade grace period.  Version 6 and a couple of years of updates would be stellar.

23 hours ago, RSMcGuitar said:

Usually there is.

Personus were smart to offer a full 1 month demo of S1 Pro 5.  I tried it and yesterday I buckled and got the S1 Pro 5 Crossgrade from Thomann for $209.  Hopefully it will include the upgrade to v6.  If not, I'll wait for Black Friday upgrade sales.

Is there such a thing as a grace period for getting a free upgrade for a recently purchased version?

I played with a guy who had a 5-string Warwick.  Very smooooove sounding.

On 8/27/2022 at 4:04 PM, daveiv said:

From Acoustica Greg:

 

Considering this has been in development since at least March 2021, I think it's fair to expect some major requested features.

On 6/5/2022 at 1:14 PM, Lord Tim said:

If you just want to run Cakewalk for DOS then the easiest thing is to grab Virtual Box and FreeDOS and run it all in a VM. Then go play Doom  

I checked out Virtual Box - it's very cool.  I was thinking of all the old software which could be brought back to life and then I realized - I'm into making music with best tools possible - why would I even consider going down that rabbit hole?

I remember longing to be able to use Logic PC again, but when you look at it objectively, we have it so much easier today, even with free and almost free DAW software available to us.  

I have been checking the early release forum daily out of curiosity.

Who knows, maybe they have changed the 2 month cadence.  Or maybe this one is going to be a biggie.