RexRed

Thanks Jack, great suggestion on the kick! 👍🎶

Hey Cakewalk peeps! Here is a song I am working on. It is in the early stages of completion. i.e. no harmonies yet, no lead guitars, drums might need heavy compression etc... Please offer your honest suggestions they are always very helpful. I hope you enjoy this new tune! RexRed

Okay, I have replaced the song up top with a better version I think. I removed some of the voice doubling so it occurs less frequently and turned the doubling down so it would be less distracting. I found a few errors, I had a doubling voice pointing to the wrong buss. So, when I was turning it down it was not being attenuated. Also, a harmony vocal was going to the master instead of the harmony buss. I balanced the tracks more, I hope, and compressed each vocal in the prochannel of each track. Thanks a lot for the awesome tips Cakewalk peeps, your suggestions are very useful! Please don't hesitate to respond even if it seems negative. Oh and Justin, "slightly longer fade out at the end maybe?" I made the end fade out longer. (thanks for that tip as well)

Hey Jim Fogle, your comment is very useful to me, I believe you are correct, the doubling of my voice is distracting. I will go back in and at least tone the doubling down so it is less apparent. I will let you know when the changes have been made and the song is replaced. Big thanks Bajan Blue for your much appreciated compliments, best to you buddy! PavlovsCat, your comment is superlative! I am truly humbled by such a nice compliment. Thank you ever so kindly! Kevmsmith, thanks as well, I am very flattered by your really great comment and much of the credit goes to the awesome Cakewalk DAW! We music artists have it good! 👍🎶🎹🎸🎙️

Thank you Justin, nice comment! I will fade the end out longer, great suggestion! 🎹🎙️

Many thanks Pavlov'sCat, really great comment! 🎶🎸

Thanks for the awesome comment Jack! 👍😃

3am in the morning, just finishing up. Still a work in progress. Let me know your thoughts Cakewalk peeps! RR

Many thanks Jack! Best to you buddy! 👍

New tune awesome Cakewalk peeps! Let me know your thoughts, good or bad. Lots of love! RexRed

I try that with the reverb, I agree a bit more reverb would be better. Thanks for the tip Bapu! Thanks as well Bajan for the awesome comment!

An auto trim button would be helpful in the prochannel PC76 U-Type compressor. When changing the threshold, an auto gain button to engage or disengage to keep the volume make-up gain steady, this would be very helpful. 👍

Thanks Jesse for the awesome comment. I hope to be a good source of illumination. 💡😃

Yes Tom B the old Command Center is the charm. I found a link on a Cakewalk site where the Command Center would not download. But I Googled "Cakewalk Command Center" and found a link on a Cakewalk site that worked. I installed Cakewalk by Bandlab first then installed the items from the Cakewalk Command Center. Scook you give awesome support here!

WOW! I didn't notice the dropdown under Cakewalk thank you for the awesome help Scook! That should complete my setup! I don't really need V-Vocal at least for now. If I do I will worry about that later. When I opened Platinum, the insert audio track happened instantly. I still have a bit of lag in Cakewalk by Bandlab when inserting tracks but it is much better than it was.

The Cakewalk Command Center worked quite well thanks for the help! How do I get back the blue cat audio effects?

Do I need to activate the MP3 encoder? It seem to be working fine in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

Okay I think I figured out Dimension pro and Rapture they have their own install exe's What about the Cakewalk chorus and the Blue effects and Sonitus? I didn't notice your post SCook. Thanks for the info! I will read your link as well! Best to you!

I would like to install Dimension and Rapture and all of my vsts from previous Cakewalk versions that I have bought. I just don't want the DAWs along with them. It makes me nervous that .dlls and other vital files may be corrupted by the old version installs.

I would listen to it and pick the transient marker that sounds like it is on the beat, move the transient marker to where it seems logical that is should go, move the marker by dragging the diamond in the center of the marker and turn snap off when you need to move a transient marker. Use a metronome to audibly listen to verify. I use Audio Snap only to get things roughly lined up like a live performance (to stretch and shrink large sections) and I add only enough markers, as few as possible. Then I use Melodyne to align each beat more precisely. Audio Snap is to get it roughly in place and Melodyne is to align each beat.

There are a few possibilities. The DLLs may only be pointers to the content and they may not need to be updated. (I could be mistaken.) You could try moving the Kontakt DLLs and then try to update. Last ditch would be to delete the apps and DLLs and see if it replaces them then. Most extreme case would be delete the content, the apps, and Dlls and reinstall the whole thing. I think asking on the NI Kontakt forum you would get a response there as well. I had to redo my HD and Windows 11 so I am currently, as I type this, doing a fresh install of my NI Collector's edition and a ton of other Kontakt VSTs.

My favorite patch in the whole bundle of sounds is in the UVI Synth Anthology where you get about 50 of the best vintage synths and many of their patches. It is from the Fairlight CMI IIx synth and it is called FCX-SIOminous Pad. When this pad kicks in in a song it is so full frequency and warm it can bring tears to your eyes. This pad alone is (to me) worth $240.00 a year to own (not to mention owning a Fairlight...) 😢😃

To anyone who may have purchased this subscription and who is new to UVI instruments. You will notice that you can access a lot of the patches through the UVIWorkstation VST plugin. But, the best way to access all of the patches is through Falcon. Within Falcon you have access to all of the Falcon patches and their parameters as well as the UVI patches.

Sonic Pass Link Considering UVI Falcon is perhaps my favorite instrument, believably equal to VPS Avenger. This is the deal, UVI has a new subscription model! Unfortunately, I own many of the synths here but it is still worth me going for the subscription as well. Sonic Pass 24 bucks a month! (no I don't work for them or get paid for this) You get Falcon and a truck load of perfectly resampled vintage synths, organs and so many REALLY great PRESETS! that are pristine and the best EFFECTS. (especially their "rotary" effect) I bought the UVI Falcon, Rotary effect, Key Suite Bundle, the Synth Anthology, their Retro Organ Suite as well plus, I own almost all of their Falcon expansions. But, 240 bucks for a year for me is still worth the whole ball of wax. I salivate over the FM synths combo! and the patches they go into the music so perfectly. Just make sure you freeze your tracks and then you own the performances forever. This is still worth it to me and I already own the Falcon. Pay the annual subscription and save 50 bucks off the monthly. Let's chat here about your favorite patches sometime soon! This new subscription has only been live for a couple days. I am going to be downloading it when I am done posting this! Falcon alone has unlimited potential. Hope you like this tip!

What? RME is awesome! I have had about 6 or more audio interfaces all the way back to SoundBlaster Audigy! 🤓 Nothing compares to the sound quality of the RME Fireface UCX II... I can definitely hear a difference from the recording of all of my previous sound recorders. Yea, It sucks that it runs kinda hot, (so did my E-MU 1820m) it sucks that there is/was this issue with my system (that seems acceptable at this point). But the fidelity it provides has me at a loss to think of anything else there is that comes to this caliber? Nothing that I know of. I could hear really bad reproduction of my transients in my voice with my other interfaces. This thing nails them. My admiration for Cakewalk and this RME interface far supersedes any reservations. It is worth buying a 2 to 3 thousand dollar rig to make them happy together with it. Just as everything else pales in comparison to Cakewalk. 😃