John Vere

And he stole it from Latin America? Africa?

Yep. No danger of me monetizing a cover tune. I’m even careful as I make midi tutorials about what I play in the demo. I mostly choose my originals. I have found that the robot detectives don’t seem to spot midi generate backing tracks. They are as you say just way to far off base. And even Dentist offices have to pay for Muzack. My wife worked most of her career in them. In the past you had to pay for a service and it was expensive . Using your own CDs or even the radio was not allowed. Now all they need to do is pay for a Spotify account. I played at an annual local event for years and out of the blue they got a warning from Socan that they need to pay. I told them to tell Socan all the bands only play original music. They never heard a word back. Im almost done with cover songs anyway. Starting to head into the wonderful land of gigs that want original music.

Sorry but there’s nothing even close that is free. Bad advice.

You can use any EQ you want to use. Last time I counted I had over 50 different EQ’s. And they are all free. Last one I’d use is Sonitus only because it is DX now an unsupported format. Not so future proof. And even though I have a lot of choices, guess which one I decided was the best for my use. And the Pro Channel is the perfect place because I can have it first in the signal path.

It would be super popular with people that make backing tracks for live performance as well as Karaoke tracks. It would probably be breaking all sorts of copyright rules but if used by individuals and just at local performances doubt if they would ever be called out on it. I would never use an original version as a backing track but what comes to mind is if you could break a cover song down into a lot of separate tracks you then could then convert a lot of it to midi. Now you can use that to roll your own version and not breaking the law anymore. This would save me a little bit of work. Right now I just drop the original song in a project and re play the parts by playing along with it. It drag the song to the timeline first to create a tempo map. So I can see the stem separation working at least to rip the bass part and parts of the drums. You’ll never be able to turn cymbals into midi properly. Anyhow yes a useful tool in many ways even for real musicians.

Just a warning that 127 max is often not always the best sound from some midi instruments. Like hitting a piano the hardest it can be harsh. Don’t use velocity for volume unless that harshness is desired. Sorry I don’t have an answer but I’m sure there’s lots of options for this like a CAL script or just buy dragging the velocity lines like I do.

Holding Ctrl / drag makes a copy and holding shift at same time keeps its position on the grid.

No we are keeping this a secret. Only regular forum members are allowed to know the secret which is really hard to find because there are only 3 posts a day asking the question. Only people who read the announcements are in on it.

I guess they replaced them with the Scarlett suite but side by side they are very different and the bummer is out of 50 free compressors I really liked that one a lot. It’s obvious because it’s on a lot of my vocal tracks from over the summer. And I guess I must have stumbled on one of the articles with the link back last winter. I just can’t believe I’d loose the installers. But I just got help with that this morning in a PM so I’ll see what happens next.

I'm with you on that one. I never toss out old computers> I either give them away or shelve them. I have at least 3 laptops running W7 and 1 I still use at gigs for playback. I then have a desktop and a laptop running XP. I need those for my old Epson CD printer. I was impressed that I can still purchase the ink for it. Not that I print many CD's anymore. It still has Cakewalk Guitar Studio from 2004 running on it. The Desktop still has the awful Sound Blaster PCI card. And Wave Lab and Cubase Elements 7 will continue to run on my now retired DAW a 2012 HP pavilion i7 4 core. I bet I can keep it running for another 10 years. So there you go Steinway, I'll get 20 years out of your software thank you. That old DAW is actually still a very good computer. I always add newer better components, just put a brand new OS drive and upgraded RAM to 32 GB, and new Power supply. It was just time I upgraded mostly due to video issues. I just pulled the 2 SSD Data drives and put those in the new machine and in just a day and a half it's all working real good. Video editing is mind blowing now, instead of crashing all the time. I will continue using the old DAW to test stuff and it is a back up with all my authorizations still intact. Yes the older XP and W7 computers don't see the internet much if at all. You actually can't open the internet on XP anymore. The internet tells you your browser is out of date. Ya, by over 20 years.

Well only thing I found was this which was when I was researching for the video. Looks like last January 6 2023. 19:41:54) *** john vere joined the chat *** (19:41:55) john vere: I cannot find info about purchasing a Red 3 compressor (19:42:47) Craig W: hello there (19:43:15) john vere: yes what has happened to the RED Compressors? (19:43:40) Craig W: let me connect you with one of our awesome customer support team to help you with that (19:43:50) john vere: thanks (19:46:32) John Harper: hey John (19:46:57) John Harper: have you registered a Focusrite device at customer.focusrite.com? (19:48:21) John Harper: I see you have an account with a 6i6, so you can access Red Plug-in Suite here: https://customer.focusritegroup.com/en/my-software (19:48:30) john vere: Yes and it seems it's no long available when you purchase an interface? I have them all but am producing a you tube reviewing a bunch of free compressors (19:48:54) John Harper: it's available for you here - https://customer.focusritegroup.com/en/software/red-plug-suite (19:49:01) john vere: I want to say it's included free but seems that has changed? (19:49:15) John Harper: it's free with registration of a Focusrite device (19:49:49) john vere: OK so you say it's still included when you purchase a Focusrite product to all? (19:50:01) John Harper: yes that's correct So obviously at that point I didn't have the Midnight Compressor. Outlook seems pretty thorough at listing any e mails with the word Focusrite in it. I even tried Midnight and found some band emails about learning In the Midnight Hour. So looks like it's still a mystery where I got it from.

Good one, thanks, of course they would have sent some sort of link. I'll go start digging. I think it was only last year when I was making a video about using free compressors and I stumbled on the Focusrite deal somewhere. Quote: "It is our mission in life to gather to us all that is free for the taking" some unknown plug in hoarder

It was one of many compressors I have and I like it. I have the Scarlett suite installed because I had saved the installers and the serial numbers. But now I'm not sure where the heck I got the Midnight suite from? There's nothing about it on the Focusrite web site. Google search only finds old reviews etc. There was one article with the title Focusrite Red and Midnight suite are now free and a link. The link takes you back to Focusrite and the red suite is the only thing listed. Anyone have a clue ? I spent an hour on this and got nowhere.

It is sort of at the top on the Home Page but hidden in Jesse's post which when I look at it you do not see the word Sonar. What would work is if the forum software had a toast with a "don't show this again" box that presented important updates. Putting them in a thread on a page you might not even open sort of keeps the information hidden. I predict that when the day comes that the free version stops activating this forum will be flooded with threads started by people who have been busy making music and so totally out of the loop. Example I use lots of software that I at one time I joined the forum to ask a question and have never returned. I'm a classic one post wonder on many user forums. That's because I am in the habit of just Googling the question and finding an answer pretty quickly. But sometimes user forums are the only source of up to date info. I can never understand people who ask questions on this forum when Googling the question would have given them instant gratification. Like this one. Try it.

I think you somehow worded that wrong? Or if what you are saying is that generally we should keep updated with both software and operating systems then this is not the case. This is a case of software made for W7, then updated to for W8 and W10 ( versions up to 2015) not running on the a currant OS. Steinberg has been accused of messing with the downloads for older versions on the Web site so that they won't run on newer OS. This makes sense from a money making prospective and I'm not saying it's wrong, it just sucks. This is the same situation as Cakewalk and W7 but in reverse. It's not supported but go ahead and use it at your own risk. And it works. Cakewalk has been over the top when it comes to customer service for legacy products and keeping a huge range of years all compatible. I prefer to support the companies that support me. I got way more than my moneys worth out of Wave Lab and I would upgrade if the price was reasonable. And I looked at the features and not much has changed and absolutely nothing new was added that I need. So keeping version 7 of Wave Lab is not like Using Sonar X2. But knowing my $150 will only last for a few years just makes that worse. My first use way back when was for all my mastering as well as I had the Tool Copy system set up from Cakewalk. But over time Cakewalk and my expertise at using it have made Wave Lab more obsolete. The big reason it would still be my first choice for topping and tailing is the workflow is by far faster than Cakewalk or even other wave editors. With a little effort I can make Cakewalk export the song the way I want the beginnings and endings, it's just you have to go through the whole waiting to render and export that's a time suck especially when you have 100 backing tracks your working with. In Wave lab all your files are in a browser. You select a song, chop chop save done. You can do a song in 20 seconds. Oh well I get over it.

I was adding my custom keyboard shortcuts to my new install last night and found the L key was unused by me. So that’s now the Buss pane. Once you do this you think, man why didn’t I do this 18 years ago. Z= open regional effect Melodyne X= Render regional effect V= Save N= Transpose L= Buss pane The Melodyne short cuts have saved me a zillion moves already. One hand over keyboard, one hand on the mouse.

Ok that makes sense. Cubase would have been my last choice if I switched. It’s an expensive option.

Anybody else notice that Steve hasn't been on the forum since beginning of September? I hope he's OK. You never know He might have been 94 years old or something. My other guess is he's writing the new documentation for Sonar and Next. He most certainly new his way around it. I own him a zillion time over he help me out. I noticed over a month ago, but I was just downloading his Tuncury themes and thought of him.

Here's another reason why Cakewalk rules. And why if you even had the tiniest bit of curiosity about trying Cubase.... You can run the latest version of Cakewalk on Window 7. No problem even thought they warn you it's unsupported. I just built a new computer so it has a shiny new install of Windows 11. I like like it, it's cheerful. But! So I'm slowly installing apps and I got to Wave Lab ( by Steinberg) and it installed but won't run. So I googled the question and quickly found out that my copies of Wave Lab and Cubase 7 are long gone not supported. This ended years ago but the old computer they were on was done back in 2015. ( ya about time I upgraded) On the Steinberg web site only very currant versions are supported and even W8.1 is long gone. And they want $150 just for the UPDATE from Wave lab Elements 7 to 11?. I only paid $89 when I bought it. No big deal. I actually only use it for toping and tailing wave files these days. I have my beloved Gold Wave with lifetime updates that only cost me $40 a long time ago. And it don't need no stinkin' dongle. The comments on their forum are not very kind. They are being accused of forcing updates. One guy ask why his copy of Cubase 9 would not install on W 10 and a staff members only answer was " you need to upgrade". Turns out you can of course install it on w10. A forum member help the guy do this. Anyhow I'm so done with Steinberg and now I probably need to go delete there crapfy Generic driver in the Reg Edit app.

Yes me too. But I was thinking the OP might not have been aware of the keyboard hide/show shortcut. Seems like this is why it's available. Need more vertical height, hit the C key. Need to get at a module, hit it again. It's just my habit of using those 5 magic keys to make the track view as big as possible. B gets rid of the browser, I gets rid of the inspector, D gets rid of the multidock ( if your on one screen) and C gets rid of the control bar. The 5th one is Shift B to get ride of the Bus pane. I've always meant to change it to a signal keystroke somehow.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to use the C shortcut? Open when needed close when not.

Isn’t that the Behringer interface that doesn’t come with a driver so they tell you to use Asio4all ?

remove unwanted solution.

This is a mystery because setting pathways in preferences has no actual bearing on how projects function. You can open projects from any drive including a external and the only difference would be the quality of the drive which definitely has bearing on projects performance. The pathways on Preferences are a way to set up a data drive so it will be the default when you perform certain open and save operations The global folder is not something that should actually even be used if you work with the default per project system. All audio is stored in the project folders audio sub folder. I only make 2 changes to the pathways. Projects I change the the root of E drive which is all for Cakewalk and audio recording. I have to choose the sub folder because I have about 6 sub categories for projects. The other pathway I change is I use a Export folder because I’m assembling albums or set lists of songs so it’s my way of organizing files. The rest I ignore because they are unimportant tome. What @Jim Roseberrysaid about running a test on your drive is totally important when this happens. Even fairly new SSD drives can slow down to a crawl. I use the Samsung Magician as most of my drive are those.

Ah. So it was sort of a variation on the second monitor scenario. Glad you got it figured out.