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Wow! Love the acoustic work and the superb lyrics. Heartfelt tune. I've been in that position many times. ?John B

Thought I was listening to "The Exorcist" there for a minute! 50% scarier, huh? Let the little gremlins that knock on your door that fateful night hear it. ?John B

Very nice poppy tune, Doug. Definitely radio ready. ?John B

I heard this song in a movie from the 1970s. Richard Harris sang it with Samantha Eggar. One of the lines that stuck in my head was "I had a lady fair. Eileen Aroon". When I saw the title it struck me "could that be that song"? and it is. Never heard it as an instrumental. Very pretty. ?John B

Love the driving bass and drum beat. Singer is extraordinary. Excellent production in both song and video. ?John B

Thanks @daryl1968 , @Douglas Kirby & @garybrun! It took me hours to record the vocal because I couldn't stop crying. I think the best songs by any artist are the real ones. ?JB

Well then, there you go. This guy answered my original question. In the past I used Samplitude Music Studio (version 2013) and Mixcraft (ended at version 5). I used mostly Samplitude but then I ran into a problem with it that even their tech support couldn't handle, so that's when I bought into Cakewalk (started @ X3 Studio). Once I was past the learning curve (thanks largely to you guys on this forum ❤️) I got along real well with it. Then last year, with CbB I had to learn a bit of new stuff and now I'm OK again. But I'm not a professional like some of you guys are. I'm just making music for fun. ?JB

So? Are you condemning Cakewalk or praising them? In the first sentence you're "burning" them for screwing over their entire customer base and in the last, you praise them for giving away something. I don't look at Cakewalk screwing us over when the end result was that all of us, and then some, get to use a benchmark DAW that supposedly offers everything a musician could need FOR FREE. Although the outcome could've been different, I think it turned out to everybody's benefit. ?

The video is fantastic! Tight band and excellent vocalist. ?John B

Obvious you put a lot of heart and soul into this. Lovely atmosphere. ?John B

That somebody would actually pay a significant amount of money for a DAW when they can have Cakewalk for free begs discussion though. I have heard many people on this forum say that Cakewalk is a true professional DAW. If so, it should offer just about everything an music artist should need, or at least make everything possible available. I'm curious why somebody who has CbB for free would pay so much money for something else. If that's the case, Cakewalk must be missing something that Pro Tools and Cubase aren't. ?JB

Yeah, that's been proven.? Unless they both have something that CbB doesn't offer. ?JB

This is just the cutest song! Troop and Camo are both too adorable for words (I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ dogs of all kinds), and if your studio is a "shoe box" mine would probably be a "sardine can". ? Thanks so much for sharing this! ?John B.

@Wave Function-Thanks so much. I lost my father early in 2018. Since I lost my wife in 2014, I lost both my Dad and Mom, my brother and two uncles who I loved very much and in January of this year I lost my beloved puppy. I don't have much family left, but I still have the memories of all the fulfillment those people gave me over the years of my life. I'm sorry for your loss of your dad.❤️? @bjornpdx-Thanks! If you listen close you can almost hear the tears. ?John B

I can't really say I know what to make of it, but I guess I'm old fashioned. I think you'll be very comfortable here because many here like this genre. I'm sorry to say it's not my "cup of tea" but if you're looking to do something like ambient sound work or video game stuff, yours is a good as any of that type that I hear. Good luck with it. ?John B

About two weeks after I met the girl who became my first wife in September of 1979, I wrote this song on a 12 string guitar and put it down on a cheap reel to reel recorder. She loved the song and I always wanted to re record it better but I never had much of a chance. Even though I had advanced a bit in home recording by the 2000s, I never re did this. In January 2014, after almost 34 years of marriage I lost her to ovarian cancer. The grieving period was horrible. After the initial shock I soon settled into a depression made worse by the deafening silence and realizing I would never hear her voice again in this world. That was the worst part of the grieving, suddenly not hearing the voice of a loved one I heard every day for 34 years. I finally recorded the song two months after her death as part of the grieving process. I lost the original tape years ago, but the song never left my head. Last week, I found the original MIDI files and vocal track that I made in Magix Samplitude Music Studio in 2014, but it had been so long since I mixed it I had forgotten how to navigate SMS and through all of the missed updates, it didn't run the same anyway, so I exported the MIDIs out and re created them with what I have today with my Cakewalk set up. I know the vocals in this are rough, and I was considering re recording them, but realized that for as bad as they are, they capture a time I never want to forget. I was extremely depressed when I sang this in early 2014 and I'll probably never capture that feeling again. In my voice here you're hearing all the heartbreak. I ran some Melodyne over the real bad spots, but I want this as part of my memory of her. We had a beginning, a middle and an end of our relationship. This song captures the beginning and the end. The picture was from a photo booth on our honeymoon in Niagara Falls, Canada in July of 1980. You don't know how much I wish she could've heard it this way. I wrote it as an up tempo pop song. Here, I adapted it as a bluesy ballad in 6/8. I hope you enjoy this. ?John B https://johnbowen.bandcamp.com/track/the-only-right-thing

Thanks all. She is sadly missed. 2019 just hasn't been the same without her. ? ?JB

Funny but I never tried that. You learn something new every day. Thanks MM ?JB

Thanks for the video. I know this can be done. It's kind of like what I'm doing with Audacity except using Cakewalk instead. ? I did try enabling Automation Write on the Master Buss and tried bring the fader down manually, and it did work. I'm just wondering why it didn't create an envelope like it does on the other audio tracks. Sometimes when I use track volume automation I like to go into the track and fine tune the volume at different places (ride the fader) making edits in the envelope. Is there a way to do that with the Master Buss? JB

Thanks all!? I've always wondered about the Master Buss fader. That would seem like the most logical way to do this but it doesn't produce a track, so there's no line to manipulate. Am I doing this right? Is there supposed to be a line? ?JB

How do you do a whole song fade in/out in Cakewalk? I've been doing it using Audacity, but how is it done in CbB? Thanks ?John B

Journey indeed. Sounds like you put an incredible amount of planning into this. I enjoyed the journey. ❤️John B

This is one of your best, Fred! Love it. Everything goes together nicely and your vocal harmonies are superb. Very entertaining piece of work from beginning to end. Also love your self description on your SC page. Sounds like somebody else I know. ??John B.

It's a love-hate relationship with me too. Thanks, Freddy!

Back in July I wrote an instrumental for my late puppy girl. I just recently made a slideshow video with all of the pics I had of her over the 15 years of her life. You see her in my avatar. Now you get to see more of her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWxq0byw_U ?John B.