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For a fun to watch, all out monster drummer, I like Mike Mangini. Starting out as a drummer myself, my idols were Neil Peart, Stewart Copeland, Bill Bruford.

I've looked at the Scarlett line and I was equally impressed. So much so that when my Layla 3G dies, I'll probably end up buying the 4i4. I can't seem to mentally get it out of my head that I'm going to be increasing my round-trip latency going from a PCI connection to a USB--but I'm sure I'll get over it.

I went through a Waves phase when they were having a major sale. I bought a bunch of Lord Algae ? stuff for drums, vocals, and a loud plug in. I used them on a few projects and might use them again, but since I've purchased other plug-ins that do that same thing, but have more granular control, I don't really use the Waves plug-ins all that much. I did have an issue if I did a VST scan in CW that Waves would always prompt me that it couldn't find a file. All the plug ins seemed to work, so I just added the complaining plug-in to my exclusion list and the annoying prompt went away.

Typical that MS would still make the 'safely remove hardware and eject media' feature an option in the 1809 version when it's no longer necessary. Hopefully their OS isn't going to turn back into bloatware like past versions.

Wow! So, if I've had SONAR for many past versions, I might have all of these plug-ins and instruments! That's a lot of stuff!

Here's a good tutorial I found helpful. The only thing missing is how to print the track when you're all done. I just froze it, personally.

Garage Band, oh wait... Never mind... ? (had to)

I used to have to deal with synth polyphony. When the maximum number of notes was met, the first note played would drop out. Not the same--but reminded me of that.

Super Charger - distortion - FX.

Thanks. I just tried it and it does take a little work, but it definitely helps when you're stuck like I was. I have one or two actual layers singing in unison over the melody, so the added single harmony doesn't sound too bad. When I get closer to the mix stage, if it stands out as sounding too synthetic, I can just sing over the Melodyne harmony. Great tool. Worked exactly as designed.

I'd say use both. Rx is great for clicks. I'd use SF for detailed audio edits.

Hey There I have SF and an older version of RX, I believe v2. I don't think they're the same thing. RX is for restoration and SF is an audio editor. What's in Elements that you use where you'd need to choose between it and SF?

One of my favorite audio software companies, Native Instruments (NI) has a bunch of free stuff. Mostly players and foundational plug-ins, but they have a few other good items for free too.

Hey @scook Do these instructions still work for CW? I went back to the ancient archives of the former CW forum (7 years ago!) and saw that you'd helped me with this same thing in adding SoundForge to my tools menu--but that was for an older version of Sonar. I wouldn't want to mess with my registry if I wasn't 100% sure it was accurate.

Hey All-- Maybe you don't struggle with finding good vocal harmonies like I do, but typically if I can't sing a good harmony over my melody after a couple sessions, I get frustrated and then I know it's not going to end well. I remembered seeing a training video on creating melodies with Melodyne, and I watched a good one last night, and so I'm going to give it a try. If it sounds good, I'll keep it in the mix. If it sounds like a robot, then I'll just sing over the part and it served its purpose of helping me create a good harmony line. Anyone used Melodyne this way? What are your thoughts/advice? Thanks!

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I'm going to be very transparent in my reply. It may cross some people here, but we're all entitled to our opinions, right? I love Apple products. I hate Apple as a company. IMO they are snobs and try to "convert" all their customers into being snobs as well. What do I mean by snobs? "Apple is great. Everyone else (PC) sucks." No, everyone else doesn't suck. Gratefully there are more choices than one so people can choose what kind of computer they want. PC's always have poor performance and Apple's never fail? That is blatantly false. If you believe that you are living in Disneyland. I have many examples from running both PC's and Mac's in a pro studio to know better. They both have their pluses and minuses. -Rant over- Now then, Cakewalk is PC only. You will need to have some way to boot into Windows from your Mac if you want to run Cakewalk. Many people do that--and even some from this forum. They can let you know which tool works best, but it's done all the time. Good luck! ?

I'm not in studio right now, and I've never done this myself, but can't you customize a PC? I mean, can't you add your own modules? Am I way off?

I know the decision was made, but wanted to chime in that I did my homework with my ears years ago. We used the M-Audio BX5's at work and they were transparent, and clean and sounded great. I ended up buying a pair of the BX5 Carbons and still use them in my studio today. I hope your KRK's arrive in good condition. When I used to work in pro-audio at GC, we would get DOA KRK's with each shipment. It was their boxing we think. I do like the KRK's and would get a pair myself, but I think seeing so many arrive DOA put a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe now that KRK is owned by Gibson, they figured out how to ship them properly. Again, it was years ago when I was at GC.

See that little emoticon at the end of my sentence? That means it was a joke. Get it? You posted about the wrong forums being used and I said your post was in the wrong forum. That's funny.

I think this post belongs in the Feedback Loop forum. ?

Blue Cat Audio has multiple free fx plug-ins, but their entire bundle of free plug-ins can be found here.

I think Bandlab's long-term business goal is to contribute to the creation of another major superstar and complete global music domination! (had to do it)

Scoring is also a method of obtaining very sharply defined bends in metal sheets. The angle of the bend is determined mainly by the amount of material removed from the groove. (he he)

Being a CA native and having been through enough earthquakes to just "shake them off" (See what I did there?), I actually got a little concerned when the thing kept going and then got a little stronger. I thought it was time to step into the doorway at that point. Interesting stats I read after the earthquake. Good news/bad news: The good news is there's only a 5% chance of a larger quake in the near future. The bad news, there's a 50% chance of another quake in the near future. Rock and roll!