MichaelJohn

Note- the track has been corrected. The first post mix was messed up, two drum tracks were playing together. The track is now fixed (play in the first post) and now the drum kit is mixed correctly, which is how they recorded it. I did no mixing on the drums. And now you can hear how nice this kit sounds.

I can't play drums, just keys. So I found two midi drum loops in the Cakewalk Content folder and edited them to fit, and added a few extra hits here and there, to sound more human. The bass line is also a midi clip that I made edits with.

I created a short test track using Orange Tree Sample's free Jazz Funk Drum samples. I love vintage jazz kits. This is a small vintage kit using vintage 20's, 30's, and 60's era drums. Perfect for small club jazz piano trio etc. The samples are unedited in any way, no panning etc. Playing with the Plogue sfozando sample player in Cakewalk Sonar. I did add a touch of room space effect. Let me know what you think! Cakewalk Sonar Effects: Melda Production MConvolutionEZ Upright Bass: SampleTank 4 Piano: Iowa Piano Vintage Jazz Drum Kit: Orange Tree Sample's free Jazz Funk Drum samples playing Plogue Kick: 15x15 Ludwig - 30’s era mahogany marching snare with its original calf-skin head on the resonant side; Remo pin stripe on the batter side. Medium DW felt beater. Snare: 14x5.5 Ludwig - 20’s era (rare; with no badge) chrome over brass 8-lug. Fiberskyn Ambassador head on top; Diplomat snare-side bottom. Rack Tom: 12x8 Gretsch - 6-ply maple/gum satin pink flame wrap; stop-sign badge. Fiberskyn Diplomat head on top; clear Diplomat head on bottom. Floor Tom: 14x14 Gretsch - Coated ambassador head on top; Aquarian Classic Clear on bottom. Hi-hat Top: 13.75” K. Zildjian Istanbul 60’s era. Hi-hat Bottom: 14” A. Zildjian Istanbul 70’s era top hat used as a bottom hat. Track fixed on 12.15.25:

This has a more mellow vibe than your usual, I like it. I really like the EZBass Fretless, the main feature imo, which carries the melody at the top. I'm getting more Toontrack stuff soon.

That is a great list of plugins! Had to listen to whole track, and the journey is very nice. And the Asian melody was a nice surprise.

Well finally a new track after what 9 months? As I see on your youtube page. I look forward to every new track and make more sooner please! Dig the 'clean' elect guitar tone in the solo.

Dig this acoustic laid back mood piece! Feels like I'm on a road trip and stopped by a lonesome joint on the way to play some pool or have a burger.

Found two of my short jazz piano trio improvs in a folder from 2013. I made some edits and put both in this one track. About 4 minutes total. Just me playing my Yamaha Clavinova Piano with split keys - upright bass notes on left hand ,and piano keys on right hand. Plus drum track. Hope you like! The bass might be a little hot, adjust bass tone down if needed.

My first patriotic composition I wrote in 2010, for marching band. Shown in the pic is the U.S. Army Ceremonial Band

I like this one a lot. All analog gets my attention! That little bit of live playing you add is just the right touch to add that little bit of extra interest at the right spot, to keep it progressing. Is that 8 channel mixer your max channels for live output? I see you mute, unmute, and move volume sliders on it. This could definitely be played at events. But again, you can't haul a bunch of those synths and drum machines etc to events. You would have to pre-record each part to a DAW to use to playback the music at an event. Only need a laptop with a mixer. Not near as fun as live but you could still punch tracks in/out on the fly from DAW playback. It would be very similar in sound, but not in fun! Adjusting live devices playing back is not what DJ's do. But what I like is seeing the actual synths, drum machines, etc that are making the music in real time! On a DJ playback, what heck synth made the sound? Have no idea. This is almost like live musicians that you are 'conducting'. Instead of recording of them! What would be cool if when a track part comes in, drum or synth, have the camera show it becoming active.

Sunny Day in the City (2025 remix) I decided to try and remix this track I made in Sonar Home Studio in 2005! From 20 years ago! I show about a 1 minute history of my track starting with my first mix in 2005, to my new mix today in Cakewalk BL I also show all the notes playing on all the virtual keys. This is another of my keyboard pop/jazzy kind of tunes. with Sample Tank 4, Arturia Minimoog V and Cakewalk SI-Drum Kit I think the Cakewalk SI-Drum Kit was included in Cakewalk around 2019? For a basic kit, it sounds great to me.

What everyone else said! I like the smooth kind of distortion sound from the guitar. Recording to video to see you two at work is a real treat. What DAW is that on the screens?

Great stuff! Nice collection of keys and gear. Enjoy the aspect that this is live playing of instruments that you have pre-sequenced. Then you mix a live track as they play. You're ready for Tomorrow Land! However, this is not what DJ's do at those music festivals. And you couldn't take all these keys to play at a festival. The dj's are playing back DAW recordings. What you do is real playback and some live performing as well. Those high notes on the synth sound great.

Really nice song and authentic country sound and feel. I can hear Glen Cambell covering this. Enjoyed it!

Jaunty, adjective: "Having or expressing a buoyant or self-confident air" Yep, this does. It really does. I'm sure about it as well. Fun instrumentation. Something got kinda busy, not sure what it was. Guitar? Nice production