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Very well done. This is crying for a solo mid song though IMHHO.

Thanks all of you for listening and commenting. I was a bit tired last evening and I think my ears played a few tricks on me. I have to agree with the mid heavy comments when listening back today. Thank you for confirming that. I will revisit the mix and knock down the mids some. David, the flute player is a big girl with a lot of wind

I had to re read that comment. I thought getting a good blowing was...............never mind? In this case it wasn't a good thing. Glad yer ok there Wibbles.

This is potentially the beginning of a 50 page thread ........we are literally overloaded with possibilities. Some of them very accessible, better said inexpensive. I have to hand it to the programmers. Amazing bunch they are. Thankfully I can attempt to make music and am more than happy to let them do what they do.?

Mr. Wiggley? In truth it's probably that unnamed thingy....they look down and point.

If your goal is to take raw sound waves and make them into a sound you like Absynth has some very deep programming capability. It's an older synth, but you really can't exhaust the potential it has with imagination. The guy in the video owns Plug In Guru. No plug here for them specifically, but he really knows what he's doing . Has made sounds for just about all of the major synth makers. I have all of the others and they are also full of potential in their own way. Many of these simply let you tweak what's already there which is fine...if you want to start from scratch though, Absynth is a good place to start. There are plenty of other newer kids on the block too. Have you looked at Serum? You could literally get lost in this stuff and never come out...endless possibilities, which is why I choose to let the sound design up to those experts and tweak the sounds I have to get what I want. Automation/ tweaking- That's another thing altogether which can also get deep since you program parts midi cc # to controls and this can make the synths come alive in a mix.

This is all very timely because I received an email that I can upgrade my ST4 SE for what I think is a decent price. I wouldn't go to the MAX edition . The middle edition has 100gb of sounds in it. ST4 is a grand improvement over ST3 IMO. I have both. As was noted in other posts on the subject I had some "growing pains" with ST4 crashing Cakewalk. This was because I had an older build of it. When I updated I haven't had these issues. For the asking price of upgrade this is tough one for me to turn down, especially since I recently dug up a few gems in the SE version. I have been mostly a Kontakt user, but I'm more than willing to venture outside of that realm to get what I want. Look at the included effects on offer. Nice! Not sure if I can use the shell as a multi similar to Kontakt. If I can that's another point for me. JMHO. I'm about ready to jump. 139 quid to upgrade to the version under MAX. In the world of sound libraries this is a pittance for 100gb of just about anything you can imagine. Maybe I'm looking at the whole thing wrong. Somebody talk me down

I haven't posted in the songs forum for awhile. It's good to see a bunch of the old crowd still here! I've been on a classical music kick for a few years now and have been slowly working mixes that hopefully don't borrow from other composers and instead are original in construction. This began as a piano composition. No edits were done to the piano which is the DNA of the composition. I posted two sources for this. One on my Soundcloud and one on YouTube to show the notation involved.

I have a special soft place for any of that music that resembles old Beatles tunes. I think this style hold a timeless appeal. Especially liked the naked vocals, the general "exposed" sort of feel this mix has. Where you sing "I" , I wanted to hear some harmonies. You did that in a few places. I think my mind was hearing them anyways because of my memories in similar tunes. Thanks for sharing.

This is a very well done straight up blues song. As such I think the sound can be colored any way that suits the material. Has that retro sound that fits so very well. You are quite talented at all of those instruments and the ability to mix it for the feel you want. Liked the harmonies in "hot dog". Thanks for sharing Freddy! Best to you.

First I've heard anything from you, so I can't compare to the other songs about struggle. This song has what you aimed for in it in my opinion. It's a very upbeat tune. Harmonies and change ups musically keep it going, make this a pleasant listen. I listened with my studio headphones. I tend to hear that high hat a bit much in those. Not sure what a solution would be because I also think it helps to carry the tune along well. From reading others comments it seems to be very subjective. If you're anything like me and something is bothering you about it. I would recommend you do something, because if you don't you'll come back to it and think to yourself that you don't like it. If OTOH you are perfectly content with it, leave it be and don't listen to me It's one very small concern in an otherwise wonderful song.

I wonder what the upgrade price to 10 will be from 9 now? Maybe that will not change. Magix kills me with email in my promotions box....I feel like I just bought 9. I have opened it up maybe 5 times since I bought it. I still plan to use it for some quick backing track work. ACID is a very useful program. They are slowly updating it. Works well for what it does.

The GC employee that took my return had the metal head look. Mentioned he had been working there for 6 years. Most of the ones at this location are at the least in bands and can play pretty well. I get the perception they know their guitars. Keyboards maybe not so much. There's a dedicated employee for the recording section. I try to make it a point to treat everyone with respect. I can imagine that if I was an employee and someone walked into the store and began to talk all know-it-all on me. If I was 40 and had picked up the guitar at 15....that might not sit too well. That kind of thing shouldn't go on. I'm sure there are some employees who are green. Doesn't seem that way at this branch.

No wonder the dogs all went away!

Take my word for this.........sometimes it's better to boil the water without a lid. When you go down the rabbit hole it's darned near impossible to turn around. I am a committed type. For better or worse. Two words help often "yes dear". You need to be able to pretend to understand. You give 80 they give 20. When it works, it works very well....when it doesn't..........................................................................................I guess you could bury yourself in the studio. Works for me sometimes. Have you tried any of those dating sites. Do you want to try any of those dating sites? Word to the wise. Don't do anything suddenly. I just bought my wife flowers. She loved it because I don't do that very often. No special occasion, just did it out of the blue. If I did it all the time or only on Valentine's day, she wouldn't think as much of it.

Happy B-day Baps.

You underestimate yourself there man......................I mean, I wouldn't marry you, but they say there's lid for every pot!

I see you must not get by the CH much

See you guys later, I'm going out for a bit while my computer composes for me. I seen this awhile back and I think it looks like a great way to get ideas. ....Yeah Mr. Robot looked innocent too.

Mudgel and marld I think I mentioned my situation before. I went though an "episode" that really threw me for a loop. I understand about getting back into some kind of a routine again. I know we aren't the only ones here. I am aware of several more who had some major life setbacks. life changes. Loss of spouses, health issues, financial setbacks, stolen gear just to name a few. It feels like you're trying to get back to where you were and instead you're dealing with a new normal. The "new normal" seems to take an adjustment for creative types- or anyone. I'm not the same person I was before all of that happened, so I'm dealing with a "different me". The new me doesn't seem as spontaneous . I'm trying to loosen up. I think it comes back slowly though.

Jim that's great! Update.I brought the item back to my local GC. Explained the issue. He still had to plug it in to verify everything I told him. Yep, blown speaker. The refund was made. The person working at this GC even credited me the shipping fees. I don't know what else they could have done under the circumstances. I felt bad that the dude at my local GC was stuck with this. Apparently they have a repair center they crate and ship gear off to. That's where this was headed according to him. The fault lies somewhere else at another GC in the chain. If your reading this and you work at GC, just make sure you check the gear out well before you take it in ? Negligence was involved, but there's no point in going any further. Wouldn't matter anyhow. At my local GC these guys try hard. It's a big organization with a lot of branches. I guess it just depends on the staff and the deal. I guess in the other mentioned cases you guys seem to be counting on inexperience lol....In some cases it seems to be they pay $$ for it. They need this much $$ to justify the sale...beyond that the details could really work in your favor. I have seen them look on the web for pricing on gear, then they pay you less than that to buy it from you obviously. Likely all based on percentages for the buy and the sell. It's a music pawn shop on the used end. Probably less flexibility on the new end.

Missing pug ins? It looks like one didn't scan.

I believe this is a Phase inversion pug in. The reverb looks a little wet though.

I'm still looking. This one seems a little heavy on the cpu.

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