JoeGBradford

Whereabouts in England? It's a long drive from one end of the country to the other 🙂 

Edit - Ah I see you are considering online places

7 hours ago, rayray said:

really,  so i get advertisements for $79 dollar course just to figure out how to use a synth track.  

smh

You have dismissed the best free Cakewalk tutorials available because you got an advert for a (actually very good) course? Perhaps you haven't met the internet before?

Go back and watch those videos - they will bring you up to speed with the basics of what you need to know about using Cakewalk. Along with the advice here they will help you achieve your goals! 

I have PMed you

1 hour ago, OutrageProductions said:

Start HERE  with an excellent series on the basics of the application.

Excellent advice! 🙂 

8 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

“Like A Rolling Stone” - Bob Dylan. Not because of the musical content, but it broke the 3-minute limit on top 40 radio station play.

Beethoven's 3rd symphony, “Eroica” because it initiated the change from the classical era to the romantic era in symphonic music.

 

You beat me to mentioning Beethoven's 3rd! Probably the most significant piece of music in history - certainly in the orchestral genre

One artist who I was astounded by was, the now sadly departed, Martyn Bennett. His album Grit is astonishing mixing sampling, synths and Scottish traditional music to great effect.   http://www.martynbennett.com/Album_Grit.html

Great song - speaking as someone from a northern town in England! 

Thanks for the responses - I tend to do a full system image (including data drives) every few months and that is what takes ten hours (I should do it more often though if I did it would be wise for me to take the suggested approach of just copying the data drives rather than creating an image with all discs on it). I just thought it best to have an image of the whole system but I take the point that I am probably wasting time there! 

Critical data files I keep copies of on a separate large external HDD 

Good point! I assumed that was the case but it isn't obvious! 

Thanks for this - very interesting! My full system backup to a 5Tb external Seagate HDD using the free version of Macrium reflect takes about 10 hours. I leave it on overnight and it is usually late morning when it finishes. So this would speed that up I assume. 

Reading around after seeing your post I see there seems to be risks involved if power is lost but that is an relatively unlikely event

Do others use this for major backup and what has the experience been like?

Will be interesting to see what comes out of this 'interval'

Appears to include a 25% discount for members of the site

https://thecrowhillcompany.com/end-of-season-one/

Thanks - sounds  good! The site must be getting hammered as I can't link to it! As there have been no Sine Instruments for a while I thought they had come to the end of their freebies! 

Good to hear that they have got rid of the 180 day limit! A while back I did plead with them to let me access sounds for free that I had forgotten to download and they did allow me fortunately but it was a bit of a pain!

So sorry to hear of your devastating news. Stay strong - we'll be here for you if you need us

I think it will be a while - hope the force is strong

Hope all goes well! 

I paid £4 to get the Imperial Piano once I realised I couldn't get Guitar Hives which I really wanted. Didn't need another piano but seems a good one for the price!

Hoping for a swift recovery Wookie. Looking forward to seeing you back here when you are ready!

I can't see this thread lasting long but losing Mike who has done so much for Cakewalk is a huge blow. He is keeping a Windows laptop so hopefully there will be more Cakewalk videos but it is obviously going to be a side line rather than a major focus.

22 minutes ago, Andi Rock said:

Yes but not the new cakewalk sonar.  

Yes that is true but I believe the issue was with Cakewalk

You don't - CbB is still freely available

8 hours ago, Andi Rock said:

You have to subscribe to bandlab to activate it. Free 3-day trial.

No you don't - that is to access Sonar - CbB continues to be free

6 hours ago, tom said:

I’ve never fully understood IK Multimedia tiers, I have SampleTank 4 CS so does the $1 deal for SampleTank 4 give me something else? Or is it just the same sampler/player thing without any libraries?

You get lots more instruments than in the CS version. Well worth this bargain price. You should be able to do a comparison of content across the various versions on the IK Multimedia site 

Very sad news

Very sad news
Subscribers should get a refund according to the press release

Sorry to hear that there's more significant work required. Hope you can get that soon