Ross S

Good work, very unique and creative! Very progressive-rockish vibe, Definitely evokes a mood of tension, in a good way. Enjoyed listening!

Great work, excellent performance and production! ?

Free pitch correction/shift plug-in- Grallion 2 by Auburn Sounds: https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Graillon.html

I use this plug I all the time and it’s fantastic! While you’re at it, check out their other free plugs also (i.e. Panagement 2). All really great!

Heres a video of how to use it in Cakewalk: 

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

So are the people at the companies who actually make the software lying?

Related question: Is there something about Fourier, Nyquist, and Shannon's theorems that prevents programmers (and/or their programming tools) from making mistakes when creating software that uses them?

What "error?" Where did I say the sound source was "immutable?" You must have missed the part where I said this:

I think my only "error" was in overestimating folks' reading comprehension. ?

What do you think I'm trying to accomplish by doing this? I don't have some theory or other that I'm trying to prove or disprove. I just thought of a repeatable set of steps that I suspected might yield interesting results.

The idea of this is to mess about in a deliberately non-rigorous, non-scientific way and see what happens. Then maybe I can draw a conclusion or two based on the result. Maybe not. Certainly not a scientific conclusion, but maybe a practical one. I'm always fascinated by posts where people are finding that (for instance) their rendered files don't sound like their music does during mixing.

I like to try things and observe the results. This can be puzzling to people who prefer to already know what the results will be, but I find it fun and often even educational.

Here, the objective is to see what happens if I take 4 DAW's, use the same soft synths playing the same arp patches on them, with the same mixer settings, and render out the files. The operative words being "see what happens." I know the renders are going to come out different. I'm wondering how different and in what way(s).

Interesting experiment you came up with, now almost completely overthought (i.e. Fourier, Nyquist theorems, etc). Agree, seems like some people need to take time to read and dicern the point before jumping in. Carry on, will be interesting and fun to hear your results!

This is outstanding my friend! Really great job on the performance and production. And don’t be insecure about your voice, it really fits this Lennon-esqe style, and you covered this one well! I listened to the old one as well, and you did improve this mix, the vocs definitely stand out better. ?????

This is fabulous! Really cool vibe with the uke, catchy melody, all around great tune! Your performance and production are outstanding also. The meat is definitely there, look forward to hearing it in the completed form! I want to go to the beach now, lol… ?️?????

This is really outstanding, my friend! I’m really impressed by your songwriting sensibilities, as well as your performance, and production. All really top notch (really liked your vocs especially)! As far as additions, I think you want to be careful not to over produce it. It’s really good as it is, the production kind of fits the heart and message of the song. Anything you do add, keep it subtle. Soft laid-back drums would be good, possibly a more pronounced piano/electric piano track, background strings, and maybe mandolin tremolo in the chorus?? Just some thoughts. Anyway, again great work!

If you want to assign an instrument definition to a  DTX drum kit/module, you will need to download the .ins file. I think you can download it here from Yamaha: https://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/ProductMedia/MIDI/InsDefs-2.exe

Backing track is great and fits the video well. Creative concept, love the retro ads!! ???

Very nice tune! Catchy hooky melody, good clean mix. Great job!! ???

Fabulous work! Great tune and video. Definite high bar production value. Congrats on your album success! ????

Groovy tune! Interesting progression and changes, clean production. Great job ????

Outstanding synth textures! Great job ?✌️

If you want to use the SI drums, set up a new instrument track with the SI kit itself as the instrument, not TTS-1 with the drums as a plug-in as you have it. Then on that track, open the GUI, select a kit in the top drop down on the left, then pick one of the genre/beats below that and drag some beat clips onto the track.

49 minutes ago, Salim Reza Newton said:

How do I remove all the NVidia audio devices? I'm a newbie. Please tell me how.

You don’t need to remove them, you can disable them and see if that helps your situation. Navigate on your computer to Device Manager, then open the “Sound, video, and game controller”drop down. You should see a list of the sound devices that are installed on your computer. You can right click on various ones and disable them. If you do that and it doesn’t help, removing them completely won’t make any difference either. Troubleshoot it this way, but I have a feeling you’re going to continue to have problems with this until you invest in a dedicated audio interface. Cakewalk is a professional level DAW, and works best with optimized and dedicated ASIO sound drivers. Also, an external interface running the sound will free up your system resources and help with latency. You can get a basic interface like a Presonus Audiobox for $100.

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

This is one of the few MIDI "cables" that will probably be fine - cheaper ones are a waste of money due to the buffer issues I mentioned in an earlier post.

However, you will still have issues when using more than one of these: neither you, or Cakewalk will be able to tell which is which, and unless you leave them permanently plugged in to the same USB port on power up every time, they're likely to randomly switch around as Windows decides which order they should be in.

With the set up I was describing, he would only need one of these cords for the PSR keyboard. The other two newer keyboards (Motif, Tyros) would do their MIDI in/out through USB.  He would then select whichever one he wants on each MIDI track. 

Honestly this seems like an unnecessary over complication of the situation. Why don’t you just connect the two newer keyboards, the Motif and the Tyros, directly to your PC through USB MIDI (just have to download the USB drivers). Then use something like a Roland UM-ONE-MK2 (see pic) to connect the older PSR keyboard. I know for certain that the Motif has a virtual editor that you can also utilize if you go in through USB, not sure about the Tyros. If you just do standard midi cables, thru a hub or whatever, you won’t be able to utilize that tool.

Do you have multiple takes on your midi track? Have you checked your take lanes? If you’re in comp mode, it could be causing that. If it’s sending properly when you’re in piano roll, it most likely has something to do with your clips.

I recently completed this cover of Pink Floyd’s Nobody Home from The Wall. All done from scratch in Cakewalk by Bandlab, except for the background sounds at the beginning. Wanted to see how close I could get to the original, just for fun!

Thanks for listening/commenting, feedback always welcome!