RexRed

Happy 2023 Cakewalk peeps! New tune for you! Critiques welcome! Lots of love in the New Year!!! 💗💝😘🌹

The song has been published! Thanks for the love and help on this tune awesome Cakewalk peeps! 😘

New song version Cakewalk peeps! I just finished this new version of this song! I added harmonies, a harpsichord, some EPs, a lead guitar part and tons of time mixing/mastering. I have for a moment considered this song done until i thought of giving it some electric guitar clean rhythm to accompany the acoustic guitar rhythm. Something for tomorrow maybe. You can hear what I have done so far. I did lower the reverb a bit as well. Should I add some drums maybe? Please let me know what you think. Thanks peeps!

Wow! Lots of really helpful responses! A lot to consider, I will take all of these suggestions and give them some thought. I have a few days before I plan to publish the song. Thanks for the compliments, especially the one on the oscilloscope lol 😁 I will let you know when the song has been replaced with a newer version.

Brand new song, still working on this one. I needs critiques and suggestions. I thought I would give you a listen into this new piece. It still needs a guitar lead in the middle of the song, some harmonies and a few other instruments to embellish here and there. I hope you like this awesome Cakewalk peeps!

Okay, i figured it out, I had to switch to advanced workspace from basic. What a relief! 😁

I installed the latest version of CBB on my friend's Windows based Dell laptop and then imported an mp4 video and there is no video option in the view menu. The video shows up in the track video view but the detachable video view is not showing up as an option in the view menu. I imported the same file on my PC and there is a detachable video option and it works fine. Anyone know why this video option is not showing? Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello Andy! The premiere is today, it is published but I can go back and edit the guitar and make a second version at some point. Thanks for the compliment on the our voices. I wonder if the song is a bit unfocused where there are too many things happening at once and they are not defined enough. That would be something to experiment with as well in a future version. There are a few tracks that you can barely even tell they are present. This song took a lot of time, especially the pedal steel parts (two weeks to complete). At one point I just became convinced it was done. I hope my intuition on that is correct and my fans enjoy this addition to my other music. Cakewalk was a breeze working in as usual! Here is a video of us laying down some tracks here: Best to you awesome Cakewalk peeps! RexRed

This song is getting published tomorrow morning on YouTube! The last song I sang with Chad got over 1.5 million listens on YouTube. We have done three songs together. Best to you Cakewalk peeps! 💖💖💖

Beautiful, both mixes! Sultry and superb with a sublime James Bond/Dick Tracy theme feel... Great! Nice fidelity in all of the tracks, it seems they need to find their own place and that is what makes a mix like this a real challenge. 😊

Hello beautiful Cakewalk peeps! Here is my new song titled, "About". This song may have a day or so before it gets published. Your suggestions and comment are welcome! This is my buddy Chad Erican who sings duet in my song, and he also plays the lead guitar and some of the rhythm guitar tracks. Then I set about the gargantuan tracking, editing, mixing and mastering tasks... The lyrics to this song came to me in a dream, I woke up with the title and the first 4 lines in my head. Fifteen minutes later, I had written the rest of the song. Thanks for the listens peeps! RexRed

Thank you Nigel for the lovely compliment on my song. All the best to you buddy! ...and thanks Gary for liking my tune as well! 🎸👍

Hello awesome Cakewalk peeps! Here is my new song just made it! Let me know your thoughts and critiques! Much love peeps! 💖

Aww, many thanks Nigel! 👍😃

Many thanks for the awesome comments Cakewalk peeps! 😘

Thank you Wookie, I appreciate the compliment very much! I just a moment ago uploaded a new version of the song. It is 7am in the morning, been up all night working on it. I changed the piano to a 12 sting solo I played in the instrumental portions of the song. Now matter what I did the piano just would not fit right. Let me know any more critiques no matter how small. 😁

Hey Andy! I spent about 5 more hours on the song tonight (until my ears were saturated again). I added some chorus to the piano, it helped some... I also changed the drum voicings as well. I added some heavy compression to the drums and convolution reverb settings as well. At least the drums meld into the song more rather than just sit there. Maybe the piano needs an octave lower as well. I will think about it, It need something more maybe. I've got a day or so before the song gets published.

Hello HockeyJX! I will go back in to the project before publish and try and make the drums more present, and I will also look at other drum kits to spice it up thanks for your input, it is very helpful! Nitpicky comments are exactly what I am looking for! 👍 This song really challenged my ears, during the mastering phase my ears became useless. They were so fatigued that everything sounded harsh and flat. Having good meters were very helpful in that instance. A few days later my ears can now pick up where they left off. The trick is to bring out as much detail in the lead instruments as possible without it sounding brash.

New song awesome Cakewalk peeps! Critiques are welcome! Best! Rex

Wow! Your comments are all very nice, I am very honored by these flattering remarks from Cakewalk people whom I truly admire! I went through and found the harmonies that were off and I think I fixed them. As for a harmonizer, I do not use one. I am fortunate to be able to hit a lot of really high pitches with my natural voice. I am really glad you have liked this song and I hope my latest edits have given the song the attention it has really required. I thank you for the really kind comments and I am also very grateful for the honest tips that help me exceedingly great to get these songs right before they hit the streaming services. Love and big hearts to you all! Sincerely RexRed

Bajan Blue, I am still working out the harmonies at the end. Some of them may have shifted to the wrong step. I will go over this song one more time before final publishing. Thanks for your input, it is very helpful. 👍

Hey awesome Cakewalk peeps! Here is my latest song, I hope you enjoy this new tune. Lots of love and best to you! Rex

You know that is what I was thinking about was copyright protection. I do recall Izotope Nectar blanking out parts of the audio in Cakewalk when a plugin was present and not authorized. So they have ways of shutting off the audio passing through them when not enabled or authorized. Sometimes it can be as simple as not having their app that authroizes them in the terminate and stay resident startup apps dock by the Windows clock. There is a lot of piracy so I don't mind them trying to guard their product from theft as long as it does not become a pain trying to use their product legally.

Thanks Noel, you were right. Well, this is what happened. I took my M.2 Windows 11 OS chip out of one motherboard with an AMD CPU and placed it into another motherboard with an Intel CPU. It booted up perfectly without any noticeable hitch. Until I loaded Cakewalk. Then I noticed the freeze-ups. When I went to insert my (numerous VST) synths I realized they no longer were valid due to ilok associations. I had to request the old PC be disabled and then reauthorize them all. Now Cakewalk plays fine! YAY!

Load balancing causes play freeze. When I play my 96khz 24 bit projects with load balancing on Cakewalk will stutter drop out and stop. It never used to do this before. If I take load balancing off it plays fine. Any ideas on this? It doesn't happen on 48khz 24 bit projects. Even when I change my RME Fireface UCXII interface latency it still freezes.