Amberwolf

wink wink nudge nudge say no more?

The Next Breath https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-next-breath is a short (presently 1m49s) energetic 140bpm experiment currently using entirely wave sounds, some loops, some single hits, most chopped up and pitched, stretched, some mutilated, etc. Mostly from Ghosthack, BigEDM, BlackOctopus, FunctionLoops (most of which prohibit me naming individual contributors for whatever wierd reason, so just giving the company sources). Once I can figure out how to play the bits I want to play in on the real guitar I'll add those, sort of a not exactly lead, and some synth and piano bits played in via keyboard (or drawn in as MIDI if I can't end up playing them right), it'll be a little different, but probably not by much. Eventually there may be an extended version...but this presetnly is already extended to double it's original length. Version list with changes, edited as needed: 04-06-25: 040125 000001 100027f -- First Public Version 04-07-25: 040125 000001 100042j -- detail edits, some mix changes, added further intro sounds 04-08-25: 040125 000001 100053l -- more detail edits, added a couple of live guitar bits (one near beginning, one at end).. More mix changes. Current version always at https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-next-breath original version still at https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14984630 for comparison if desired

Just in case: In my ancient SONAR the disable control is only available on the actual MIDI track controls (including inspector view of those controls), not on a synth's track controls. I don't use the combined synth/midi tracks so I don't know how they appear there. (and I don't have the modern Sonar to compare with).

If all audio ends up this way, not just the guitars, there is something in your audio monitoring path causing the problem. This could be a ground on your monitor audio cables, or a plugin or console setting within CbB, or in the audio interface settings or cabling, or if you use an external mixer it could be something there. If it is only on the guitar tracks, then it has to be something common to all the projects with the problem, which almost certainly has to be a plugin on those tracks.

Brownouts can happen anywhere that has sufficient loading on the grid. It used to happen here in Phoenix back in the 80s fairly often, then whatever SRP and APS did then fixed most of it, and we only had it happen a little in the early 90s. After that, brownouts virtually never happened until the last few years when it has happened a few times in the hotter weeks of summer each year, with a few complete power failures as well (oddly those almost always happen late at night when there is much less load on the grid). These days I use a laptop so none of that loses any of my work, since it kinda has it's own built in UPS but a friend of mine a few miles away had power conditioners installed in his condo because he didn't want to risk damage to expensive A/V equipment and bigscreen TV and computer, and UPSes on everything important so no data loss (even on hte DVRs) happens. Some people I know from california (don't know exactly where, but more than one area) have had numerous brownouts over the last several years, mostly in summer, worst when there have also been "rolling blackouts".

I wish I knew the answer...but I'm just stopping in to thank you for the original patch way back when.

That last issue sounds like a MIDI hardware driver fault? Which interface is it? Are there any other MIDI drivers installed? (including loopbacks)

I don't think this would make a difference bounced or not bounced, as it doesn't happen to me, but: Not sure if it applies to the newer versions, but in my old SONAR, using the advanced options in the paste dialog, it has: what to do with existing material: -blend old and new -replace old with new -slide over old to make room I always leave it on the first option, as I almost never need to do either of the others.

Long ago when I wanted a theremin sound, I used Mysteron by FxPansion. I had a touch screen monitor back then, which made it pretty fun to mess around with. But you could also use a joystick-to-MIDI adapter and "driver" program like this https://www.fergonez.net/softwares/fjoymidi or others easily found in a websearch. Or a joystick-to-mousepointer program like this https://www.imgpresents.com/joy2mse/j2m.htm

well, it's better than my guitar playing, and the instrument is better than my electric guitar, a modified firstact i found at goodwill... (i don't use it much once i got a used ibanez 6 string bass that i can lay on my lap to play using the closest frets tot he bridtge for guitar parts and then the normal frets for bass stuff but i can only play one or two strings at at ime. ).

Hmm...I'd never heard of it till now, but: https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?id=5897

Look up Real Folk Blues by the same group; y ou'll probably like that too. She also worked with Origa for the Ghost In The Shell : Stand Alone Complex theme (one of my favorite pieces), and at least some of the in-series music.

which is why i gave up on sineplayer; every update broke all of my sounds, forcing redownload of gigabytes of them even though there's nothing different about them and the content and everything else is still there...just the updated version can't find it's *** with both hands.... And if I *don't* update, then they randomly decide to change the structure of their server site which somehow causes sineplayer to not be able to find my content, even though its' on MY system, not theirs, and should have nothing to do with their website...but it does. Their fix? Have me install the update, which still breaks all my stuff and forces me to still have to redownload everything. Screw that. So...I'd rather NOT have updates; I'd rather be able to just sit down and make music whenever I feel like it. .

There's a bunch of ways to do backups, but doing a periodic full backup, then regular (frequent) incremental "difference" backups is probably the quickest. The only catch with them is that if you have a total failure, you have to restore the image, then each of the difference backups, to get back to where you were just before the failure. If the difference backups are not the difference from the last backup, but the idfference from the *full* bakcup, then you only need to restore the last difference bakcup after restoring the full one.

Makes me think of Yoko Kanno And The Seatbelts, here playing Tank (theme to cowboy bebop); she's just conducting here rather than playing or singing.

If it's a VST instrument, intalled in your default VST folder, then you can just run a new scan to detect it and it wil then show up in the list of VST (or VST3) instruments, when you choose that in the left column. IF it's not installed in your default VST folder, you'll need to click the VST Configuration options button and add the folder it is installed in to the list, then run a new scan to detect it.

Drag the clip from the track to your desktop (or other Explorer window), and it should work. (does in my ancient version, expect it still should in modern ones?) Note that when you do this it may take it out of the project (dunno why) so then just use Ctrl-Z / undo to put it back. When I put them into a project I don't use import I just drag and drop them where I want them.

No, it'll be ANFSCD.

This thread is confusing....if the licenses will be deactivated so soon, what would be the point of having them at all? (that phrase usually means that software is designed to phone home and then stops working, in my previous experience).

Is it being bent by CC events or by an automation envelope?

I've found some of the AI imagery outputs I've gotten to be wierd and funny (some of them actually disgusting or repellent), and while I found it fun in the beginning, it's grown frustrating because the programs dont accept common terminology required to tell them what output is actually wanted, and because there's no iterative editing capablity, they all just generate a whole new output based on the updated prompt, so it's not possible to just fix the problems with something that is almost perfect; it just starts over every time, always with something wrong. It's still fun to first see what wierdness it generates from a prompt though. Despite having to manually edit the output I get, I still use it for my album "art" and a few other things. Someday I'd love to create a video like you have, for the various stories of my songs, if there's ever time. Which specific tools / sites did you use; I could at least try them out....

What happened just before this started? Was there an install? Update? Etc? Was there an uninstall? Was there a change in environmental conditions? Weather? Power? Hardware? Cabling?

Is that the *only* MIDI device in either category? What are the other devices listed there? Do they have MIDI functions? What do you see if you select "show hidden devices" in the menus up top?

Thanks--that's better info, though I don't want the choirs, just the individual singers like Laurie and at least some of the others in the Seven Solo Voices bundle. (ok, I could *use* the choirs, too, but....)

In Windows Device Manager, what MIDI devices show up, in the Software Devices category, and in the Sound, Video and game controllers category?