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Grem

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  1. All that is needed for those with no telescope is a pair of binoculars. Find a nice relaxing place and sit back and enjoy. Watching the moon with a pair of binoculars is nice, and all that is really needed for most. At the different phases of the moon you can see the lighted tops of mountains/craters in the dark areas of the moon. Look along the line that separates the dark/light side of moon and you will see it. And it changes each day. Really fascinating stuff.

  2. 14 hours ago, David Baay said:

    Or you can select the track or any lane in it and Ctrl+click any selected segment with the Comp tool. Both methods will heal all splits in all takes. To heal a single split just select any two adjacent clips, and Ctrl-click one of them with the Comp tool.

     

    I was going to tell him about your first suggestion, that's what I do.

     

    But your second suggestion is news to me! : ) Thanks David!

  3. Ag

    3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    If I stop the recording, top it, and start over, it will of course leave a stub clip. And then when I start recording again and Cakewalk comes to that point in the tracking, it will stop recording in the current clip in the current lane and start a new clip adjacent to the stub clip in the previous lane and continue the recording in that clip.

     

    Now I am understanding your situation better now and I agree with David on this. That ain't right. It shouldn't be doing this. I am going upstairs and see if I can replicate your issue also.

  4. Here is my work flow. I give this example to try as show how Take Lanes work very well and without any of the problems encountered in past posts.

     

    I have my song that I am going to record vocals on. I set up the loop points  on the first verse. Start loop point a measure or two before the vocals are to start. End loop point just a few beats, maybe a whole measure after the first verse ends.

    Then I set up Punch In/Out points within the start/stop loop points. So what I have setup is a repeating section of the song that auto punches in/out. Then I start to record as many takes as I feel is getting it done. Sometimes 5-8, sometimes as many as 20-25. It's never the same. Nor does it need to be. But every take recorded will be the same length.

     

    Now I move on to the Pre-Chorus/Chorus and set up the same type of loop points and auto punch in/out. And then I record. And here is the part that Noel was talking about I believe. When I start recording, it places the takes in the same lanes as my first verse takes. I can do as little or as many takes as I want. If it's less, then there will be empty lanes left over. If I go over , it just adds lanes as needed. And because it does this, I can record the whole part on the same trk and not end up with 100's of lanes on one trk, which would happen as many of my songs have three to four verses, three or more chorus, bridges, outros on and on. Me doing 20 takes for each part it adds up.

     

    Then I move on down the song till I get it done. I do this for the vocals, the lead/rhythm guitar, bass guitar, what ever is needed.

    Then I come back and comp a rough take to use as a guide to record the other parts. Once I have the whole vocal/guitar part like I need for that phase of the song, I flatten the comp. The great thing about flattening the comp is that as the song progresses I can go back anytime and un-flatten it, and I can see which takes I used, because it was remembered and reapplied when the flatten trk was undone.

     

    It really is a great system that I don't want them to change (and hope they don't).

     

    Now I haven't even explained how I can go through about 20-30 takes for each part of the song like it was nothing. Then add that I do this for the vocals, bck voc, rhythm /lead guitar, bass guitar (which sometimes is well over 150 takes) and you begin to see what a time saver this is. :)

     

     

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  5. Fist time I saw Clapton I was thinking there was no way this guy is gonna live up to all the hype I have heard and read about him.

     

    When he played 'Wonderful Tonight' the hair on the back of my neck was standing on end. I leaned over about halfway through the song and told my wife about the hair on my neck, she turned and looked at me with a surprised look and said, "Mine too!"

     

    Never felt that before in my life. Nor since.

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  6. Thanks Steven for the info. I forgot about this happening.

     

    I have a telescope and have always liked looking at the stars. But the moon is my fav. I can just watch it again and again. I have watched the lunar eclipse back in the mid/late 90's or early 2000's. Just can't remember when. But it did last much longer than I anticipated. Was a very stunning sight to watch the shadow move across the moon surface through a telescope.

     

    So with this lunar eclipse, I will be on my days off! Just hope the weather cooperates here in southern Louisiana.

  7. I really thought STTNG was heads and shoulders above the first series in terms of acting and story line.  In fact, I think all ST series after TNG was very good as far as acting went. Deep Space Nine is under-rated in my opinion.

     

    I had forgot about Wings!! Will have to check that one out too!

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  8. I know some of us 'donated/contributed' to the cause when they first got CbB going. But since then I have not seen any effort to collect any type of compensation for products related to CbB.

     

    Something has to be up their sleeve!!

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