Starise

3 hours ago, Toddskins said:

7 moons, eh?  I'm looking at their website now.  Apparently they don't get distribution out to the midwest, neither stores nor restaurants.

7 varieties of grapes, sounds intriguing.    How expensive is a bottle?

I can pick up a bottle for under 12.00 US. Ships from Ca. I'm surprised you can't get it in the midwest.

Just to be clear I am not a trusted source of info on wine.  It was the offered "house wine" and I tried it. I tend toward the reds more than anything else.   FYI, doesn't taste as good after a week. Could probably be said for any wine. Sadly I have a half bottle that's stale. Someone else mentioned Apothic Red, so I tried it. Not bad either.

12 hours ago, Toddskins said:

Those tiny cups!  Yeah, I don't get it at all.  And if you ever go to a Dim Sum (one style of chinese restaurant) they serve hot tea in small cups, too.  

I've often (I'm sure there are thousands of people who) wondered how to invent a coffee mug for restaurants, that would allow the patron's coffee to remain hot at their table.  Lids, cup warmers, etc.  Most places don't put the pot of coffee on the table, i.e. IHOP, whose coffee is pretty horrible.  After my second or third cup of coffee at a restaurant, I start to slow down and the coffee starts to cool in the cup.  Yuck.  I make a habit of asking for an empty plastic soda cup to pour my cold coffee into.  Adding hot coffee to warm/cool coffee is awful.  And if they pour coffee that is warm, I ask them to make a new pot.

I tip well as a regular where I go, so they generally don't mind me.  I hope. 

I like my coffee very hot.  Normal hot is not good enough.  Which is why I add boiling water when making the Americano.

I have liked the restaurants that leave a whole carafe. I often empty it. No need to wait on the waitress to come back around.  Lately if it's in the evening I'm more likely to go for a glass of wine....but there's always that back and forth going on in my mind, like if I'm going into the studio or practicing my instrument after dinner should I go for the wine?  The answer is mostly no if I need to practice.

I'm more flexible if it's only mixing. If I was already in the studio before we went, anything goes and I might go for a second glass of wine, then I get that "look" from my wife because A. I might get tipsy and B. Wine served at restaurants by the glass is expensive. If the wine is REALLY good I might take the second glass and try to tolerate the wife stare. The last really good wine I had was 7 moons. They served it at room temp which seemed to make it taste better. Coffee, like wine, demands some self control LOL.

I'm like a heroin addict with coffee. I like the good stuff. I look for and buy the good stuff, but in a pinch I'll drink almost anything black that says "coffee".

I have been known to drink some pretty disgusting coffee if it was all I had.  The absolute worst I have drank....as in, that was more than kinda dumb, is that dry instant stuff they call coffee. I'm not sure it really is coffee, sort of like imitation butter. They should call it, " Almost Coffee".

I was glad Meng? Hope I spelled his name correctly, took Cakewalk on. Apparently it was part of a larger business decision. 

I am thinking that by now, we would probably have had the additions to Platinum as extras to purchase unless something is amiss concerning  the original transaction that may have prevented that from happening. The legalese of it might be holding them back, or it could be a simple as things were misplaced or lost during the server takeover. I really don't know. I mean, I could live without those extras. It's nice to have them in Platinum if I want to use them. Not a deal breaker.

I'm actually surprised we haven't had more of those kinds of comments given the fact that Cakewalk can now be had by anyone which includes those who are not gifted technically or rather might not have bought it otherwise. 

Things have changed. 1st graders now have smart phones and know how to use them. They grew up in a software world, so maybe Cakewalk isn't really much of a challenge to them. Nice that Cakewalk has the included guide and now a .pdf download. I see technical fires regularly put out upstairs. More helpful than some paid software forums. 

I seldom ever see the attack designed to look like a question any more. I hope they can keep it that way. Overall I am VERY pleased with the direction CW is taking. Instead of a sinking feeling that things are "going south" I have a sense of moving ahead and improvement coming from them. I know it's only software, but it's good software and I am glad someone took it on as something to improve and maintain....still for free.

Dust is the enemy here. They make record cleaner. Years ago when I listened to records I never cleaned them....and yeah, I would get those pops and clicks. Pretty common actually to get them here and there. I admit to not taking very good care of my records back then.

I always liked the sound of LPs. I have an old turntable in my attic. I'm pretty sure the belts on it melted because of the heat up there. Could probably be revived. My plan was to get it working again or get another turntable. There was a window or opportunity where vinyl was cheap and accessible. That window might be narrowing. In some places you might stumble across  great deals on good records. If you already had an old record pile laying around I guess you are ahead of the game. Playing records takes a little bit of know how concerning what can happen if you use the wrong needle, to know which rig to get to have the best sound within a given budget. Those cheap little players you see at large stores probably aren't a very good listening experience.

To me CDs still are pretty good. A lot of the upper harmonics can likely be EQd away. I was looking at the Bose systems and ended up buying  this KEiiD to put in my kitchen. Close to Bose in sound. 

Don't laugh until you hear it , it's a Volkswagon head unit modified to use a remote and fitted with speakers.  If and when I get my turntable working I plan to plug it into this. 

Thanks for the FYI on Mixcraft. My upgrade from Pro 8 is 39.00 not 29.00.  Not a bad deal at all. I like that Mixcraft is making some decent changes.

I will probably upgrade even though I only used the program a few times last year.  I know I won't use it much this year either, but I keep several DAWS to have around just in case there's that time when you need something that might be in the loop library, or if I make another video and want to use it instead of Vegas,or anything else that maybe one can do better than the other.

I like vocoders and buying a decent one would probably cost me more than the price of upgrade. The GUI looks a lot better. Like Kenny mentioned ( maybe in that older post) Even Ableton doesn't have the  dual screen when working on both tracks and loops construction view....not that I even do much of that.

I don't think it's because I couldn't do well using Mixcraft as my main for most things, it comes down more to me knowing how to use Cakewalk the best out of all of them which is why it continues to be my main DAW.  

I remember buying this when everyone questioned the future of Cakewalk and the then Sonar Platinum. A few members here also bought Samplitude. There was a good deal on it at the time. Also a decent DAW for what it does. I wonder how many have shelved those and gone back to Cakewalk as their main?

Toddskins, you have a good system down.

I used my Espresso machine this morning. Over in Italy they are accustomed to cups the size of doll house cups. A basic espresso is 4oz.? 

I have to set my machine for maximum which is 8oz. and make two to get enough to drink   

I like the pour over contraption. 

During the week I'm lucky to have 25 minutes from rise time to leaving. Just not enough time to do anything other than put something on a timer or a machine that makes  coffee or espresso fast.

When mixing in the studio I have to lay off the coffee if it's in the evening and I'm trying to come up with anything musical. Strictly mixing is another story.  A cup in the morning and maybe one more mid day. If I get time in the studio I try to stay alert but not amped up. 

Great idea scook.  

It's a little bit alien to me mainly because I started using a hardware mixer and always seen the Cakewalk mixer as a software equivalent.

Thank for this.

I'm pretty sure that ACID Pro likes to use the User folder for loop storage on my C drive. 

Video really ate a bunch of mine up. ..........also recording in 24 bit instead of 16bit. 

Well .......................it's pink. It has feathers and it sings. 

I'm trying to mentally process the rest of it.

Consider this a non comment.

Kenny, Thanks man! 

This was almost certainly the issue since the very first thing I did was import midi. Apparently the midi default does not include a master. I seldom import midi most often playing it in. This is why I had never experienced it before.

Now I'm curious as to the rational behind it. Seems that when using only midi a master isn't expressly necessary. I can't think of a case where midi isn't eventually routed through audio? Unless possibly it could be sent to another DAW  or drive hardware synths. My guess would be that the team left it this way because you wouldn't need to remove a master if you were doing something differently, like sending multiple channels through a midi interface and on to hardware to be then sent as audio to pretty much anything else. Hearkens back to the old days when this was how it was all mostly done.

Thanks John and Reginald. I have used Cakewalk for a long time and never opened the program with no master bus.  Maybe this was a template that was omitted with the current build as part of the default launch?  I right clicked the screen before I posted here and seen the "add a  bus "which I regularly do when adding group reverb. Had no idea I could bring in any bus and label it as master routing through it..... seemed very odd to me that my  master just disappeared.

The fix seems easy enough though. Thanks!

I loaded up some midi tracks. Routed those tracks to separate Kontakt instrument tracks each with it's own channel. I successfully froze the midi to audio. My template is the tracks view and console view on another monitor. I have all modules in console view checks as visible. All of my midi/audio tracks show up but no master bus. This is the first time I have ever loaded a project without the master showing. and no clear way to put it back.

Thank you Matt !  Pretty cool idea to have the batch file setup in this way. I snipped your post for future reference. I will be downloading MuseScore  as my  XML notation to midi tool.

I dug a little deeper.Unless there was a programming change in Cakewalk since the Sonar days. I don't believe Cakewalk can do this directly.

Musescore  is a free 300mb download. It will export XML  to midi. Looks like a viable option.

XML looks to be mostly a generic notation exchange solution. I don't think it is high on the priority list for many unless you make  notation.

2 hours ago, InstrEd said:

My eighth grade teacher through a typewriter at a student. Now she would be fired. They made her principal couple years later LOL

She  must have missed. Typewriter throwing skills were a little off. Maybe they promoted her for the attempt?

So far I made it into the afternoon and everything is ok. Bayoubill must be good luck. I rubbed his post.

YAY.............I think.

It is the  Friday the 13th .

Yesterday looked like a full moon. 

Thanks Jesse. That link isn't working over here for some odd reason. The top is made of rather thin plastic and I suspect I squeezed it too hard when I removed it causing the crack.

There have been some real "characters" on the site in the past. Some have been booted or lost interest. No drama queens but I think we had a drama  king or two. Some of them were really interesting.  I wavered between wanting to kill them or laughing at their comments. Some of them were a genuine PITA. One in particular comes to mind.  For the most part I think it has been a great transition. The people who wanted to leave left, the people who didn't stayed...everyone is happy. Almost.

I never liked being in the position where I was watching two ......or three? people go at it and betting on which one the mod was going to pull first. Blow, counter blow, blow, counter blow....yawn.....get the popcorn. I don't enjoy that.

There are some real dedicated guys here who go out on a limb to help others upstairs. It's better now. Wouldn't you agree?

On 12/10/2019 at 2:55 PM, InstrEd said:

I was a good student but my daughters are in another league. Hope these grades and clubs pay off for them with some scholarships.  When we go to parent teacher conferences we bring our daughters along. Quite a few teachers tell us they are to hard on themselves. We tell the teachers don't tell us tell them that, we know.  Want them to get good grades but not obsess about them.   They both are both competitive, I keep praying they don't burn themselves out.

School has changed so much. My principle had a boat paddle and she could really swing that thang.............ouch.

That one looks very similar to this one. 

I have it. Unfortunately it developed a split right down the side of the lid after a year. I never dropped it?  I might try the one you mentioned. thx.

I think you'll be happy with the JB violin. The main issue I had with using it was getting my latency down pretty low. I worked around that by using a lighter violin vst for recording and swapping it out later with JB.

One thing that keeps me in line is, there's always another sale right around the corner...............and my C drive is full. I have a new drive and hope to get it swapped by the new year.

So I'm working on a project that is being exchanged in xml format viewed as notation. What I would like to do is import the xml files as individual midi tracks.

Otherwise I would need to put each note from each part from the notation into piano roll view one note at a time, or play it in and make corrections if necessary.

Would be less time consuming if I could simply import xml and convert to midi in Cakewalk since there are lots of parts, match the parts up to instruments and build on that mix. 

Any advice on the best way to go about this? Thanks.