Martin Schiff

The majority of what I've been doing lately (all in Cakewalk or Sonar) I classify as ambient. In fact, I'm working on a new one right now that I started on a 12-day cruise with my wife. Starbirth Music One of the ways I go about it is to start with an improvised bed that goes the length of time that I want the piece to be, and then I add other sounds on additional tracks until I like the way the whole piece sounds. Pads, bells and other similar sounds are used a lot. I sometimes use nature sounds, but I've pretty much gotten away from doing that lately. Much of my current stuff is ambient space music. I got a Roli Seaboard Rise 2 and using that with the included Equator 2 synth is a fantastically inspiring way to do ambient music. I know you said that you don't want to purchase anything, but Unify from pluginguru.com is a great way to combine sounds into awesome ambient mixes. I use it on everything I do for the past couple of years. They also have inexpensive libraries, some of which are great for ambient work.

I was out of town for a couple of weeks, but I really liked version 8. Nice work!

I was hearing some muddiness in the vocal low end. Just a suggestion.

It keeps getting better and better with each version. I like it. Try a high pass filter on the female vocal to clean it up a bit. -- Martin

Love it!

Thank you for posting this. I am a big Air fan, and this is a fabulous concert.

Very nice work!

I just added the three tracks of Kontakt 7 with the same sounds as above on separate Kontakt tracks, and it works fine with no loud noise. Must be a problem with Unify and Kontakt 7. I will follow up with them. I also noticed that the Kontakt sounds were much quieter with Unify.

I am working on a project in Sonar that has a track with Unify, which contains three tracks of Kontakt 7 from "The Orchestra Complete" from Sonuscore. When I hit the stop or pause button, a loud noise occurs. It sounds like someone hit a piano with their fist, but there are no piano sounds in the project. If I mute the track, it does not happen. The project has only a single track. The same thing occurs in CBB. -- Martin

I agree that the horizontal slider bar in Sonar is hard to see. The first time I used it, finding it was a challenge.

A few days after posting this (and having the headphones for 6 years of daily use), the ear pads self destructed. I was able to buy a new pair on Amazon and had them the next day. Good as new.

I solve the security issue by NOT allowing the NAS boxes to be accessed from outside.

I have 3 Qnap NAS boxes of varying models, and they have all been VERY reliable. I run Plex on one of them and can access my music and some videos that I ripped (and owned on DVD) on my TVs and other devices.

If your data does not exist in (at least) 3 places, it does not exist at all. Sooner or later you will lose it. I backup to a local internal drive, and 2 NAS boxes, AND to Backblaze online.

These are very nice, and inexpensive. CB-1 Studio Headphones by Status Audio https://www.status.co/products/cb1

I really enjoyed listening. It is very Floydian, and I am a big Floyd fan. -- Martin

Great work!

Celebrating with my 96 year old mother later today. Also with my two daughter in law mothers, and my two sister mothers.

I did just turn off Windows Defender as well. I didn't see a great deal of difference, but it might be a bit faster.

Actually, it's closer to 2 seconds.

Bingo! You win the prize. I turned off real time protection in Malwarebytes, and the same project saves in about 4 seconds. Thank you! -- Martin

This was timed with opening the project, and then saving it immediately with no changes.

Each of the 10 tracks is set to Unify VST, which have mostly Roli Equator 2 synths loaded.

I just upgraded my computer to a Dell XPS 8960 with NVME drives and 64Gb of ram in Windows 11. Both the boot/program drive and my project drive are NVME drives and are very fast. My projects with multiple tracks of midi instruments are saving VERY slowly. One that I did recently with 10 midi instrument tracks takes 50 seconds to save to an NVME drive. It loads in a fraction of that time. What's going on, and how can I fix this? -- Martin

I've read recently that Magix is bankrupt. Be careful.