Ross Smithe

Blue Monday! Enjoyed, great work!

Cool vibe, love the twisting rhythmic stabs. Great work!

Fabulous work, great synth textures, fits together nicely. Love when you bring the drum groove in.

Love the tune! I didn’t grow up in UK, but I I can still relate to your lyrics filling in my own blanks, lol! Very nice production and performance as well. Your piano and melodic guitar work are solid.

Great tune! Very nice performance and production.

Are your sample rates mismatched? That can cause issues like what you’re describing. I see your project is set to 44.1/16, what is the interface set to? Check the ASIO panel or Focusrite Control to make sure they match.

Great song, outstanding performance and production. Video was very creative and unique as well. Enjoyed it!!

If I’m understanding you correctly, I recommend getting rid of the daisy chain setup in order to troubleshoot. Plug each kit/module in directly by itself and see if they both respond correctly inputting the note info, or if one is glitching with the long notes (shouldn’t be like that, notes should be short). I seem to remember a previous post when you were setting this up that you said you picked up one of them cheap second hand, I’m wondering if there could be an issue with that module. If they each input correctly by themselves, but then this happens when you daisy chain, then it’s something with that set up.

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:

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.

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.

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.