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@Ross SmitheThanks, Ross for listening and your feedback. I took your's and Phonobrainer's advise and lowered the lead vox track a bit. Take a re listen if you can. ?John B @PhonoBrainerThanks for listening and your feedback, Tom. As I told Ross, I did a remix to lower the lead vocals a bit as per your suggestions. Please have another listen if you have time. ?John B

Thanks, Ross. I agree with you on the vox level. ?John B

That's when they can stick this industry where the sun don't shine as far as I'm concerned. ? Besides, At almost 70 I'm getting too old for this anyway. ?John B

I updated from 7 to 12 last year and paid $200.00. It's an amazing program but I only use it for the Rack Plugin. The Record portion doesn't have Auto Punch and I use that quite a bit. If I would've remembered that fact I would not have upgraded. When I put that on the Reason talk forum I started a small war because there's one guy who insisted that auto punch is over rated and those of us who need it are flawed in some way and there was another guy (not me) who was adamant that he was wrong and condescending, not in what he said but how he said it. Just for kicks I went back in this year and brought the subject up again and those two guys started battling it out again. Some things will never change. ? ?John B

@bjornpdxThanks! I appreciate your listening and feedback. ?John B @Supa ReelsThanks so much, Steve! ?John B @whoispThank you for your feedback. I appreciate it. ?John B @MakkeThank you so much, Makke! ?John B

Sounds GREAT! Are you using Session Horns Pro? ?John B

They should hire you to score the next Star Wars movie. Intense! ?John B

A variety of different sounds and moods here. One of your best, Jack ?John B

@jack c.Thanks so much, Jack. ? @Bajan BlueThank you, Nigel. ?John B @KSbandThank you KSB ? @DeeringAmpsHypothetical pain. I like writing songs like that. ? Verb on flute is actually from the Reason Rack plugin. Their stock half rack reverb Thanks, Tommy.? @Lynn WilsonThanks for your kind words, Lynn. You're always so encouraging. Also thanks @mark skinner for checking this out. Thanks all! ?John B

This is of the quality of the Windham Hill label. Very professional. Relaxing and contemplative. ?John B

@PromidiYeah, there's an idea. ?? ?JB

A very amusing outlook from the point of view of the "critters". It's not hard to imagine they are probably thinking these thoughts. Well produced. Great work by all involved. ?John B

Great instrumental tune. ?John B

Warm and quaint. Very moving. ?John B

Very effective. They should've used it. ?John B

Kontakt Player is a huge memory hog, especially if you have multiple instances open in it. I could do it with one instance open routing multiple MIDI channels but that takes too much time and I get tired of having to look up how to do that every time I want to so I just open each instrument in its own KP. ?John B

Sorry. You asked that before SDD is approx 1/3 full.

16 gigs exactly but with all of the Kontackt players and Trilians etc. opened up it sometimes gets above 85% and things go south from there quickly. But this particular session was only at about 50% memory use at the time. Also, I should clarify that this anomaly happens intermittently. It doesn't happen most of the time. I have been able to complete the session but after the errors started I began to cautiously save more frequently. It never ever happened before the other day and that's what puzzles me. ?JB

I don't think Trilian is the cause either. Their techy said all the diagnostics were correct. He wants me to send him some system data (Memory, etc). Now that I have the project in question backed up to an external HDD I can try what you suggest. So far, this only has happened on what I call the bass session. My workflow is that I divide my projects into separate instances of Cakewalk to save memory (which I don't have much of). IOW, the first instance I'll do drums and keys. Then I'll do vocals over them and when I get down to the "heavier" memory intensive parts (like bass and Kontakt player things like strings or horns) I'll make a session just for those eliminating everything else but drums and keys. Then, when everything is completed I transfer everything from MIDI to audio waves for the final mix. This anomaly happened only on the bass "session". After I completed that session I started a new session for strings (about 5 channels of Kontakt Player) and there were no problems on that. Maybe the bass session is just corrupted? Thanks for your help ?John B

OK. I did these things. At first I didn't see all of the files listed in the drill down until I showed the hidden items. Then there was Roaming between appdata and Cakewalk, but I filled in those gaps myself. ? There are 9 Cakewalk.exe*******.dmp files but none of them say "Crash" in them. Are they all crash dumps? There are 2 that are time stamped for 5/24/23 and that's what day these crashes happened last but I don't remember what time they happened. There are also several .dmp file that are time stamped from various other days and times (some going back to last March and September) and I don't recall any problem happening before 5/24/23. Secondly, I opened the Audio Configuration file. There wasn't any ExceptionHandlingSeverity so before I go on with your instructions I want to be very clear about what I'm doing. I've never been this deep into the program and I don't want to screw anything up. So, I see an Edit Configuration File tab on the upper left. When I click it it opens a Word Pad document. Is this where I'd add the ExceptionHandlingSeverity? If so, how would I set the value? Are you saying that doing this would cause it to warn me before a crash happens? Thanks so much. I appreciate your help intensely. ?John B

A melodramatic thingy in 3/4. Hope you enjoy. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14602623 ?John B

I love the message in this song. It is awesome what time does to us, both physically and mentally. This will be the 50th anniversary of my high school graduation and looking back, I can't believe that almost an entire lifetime has gone by. The music is superb and your video work brings back memories of my own youth. ?John B

Unusual and pleasing. I especially love the vocal effect thing and the percussion. ?John B

Cool! You've given us an audio-visual tour of your music creation system. The heart character is very entertaining. How creative! ?John B

You really threw my ears for a loop about midpoint. I seriously thought that chime-guitar thing was something going on in my house! You have a unique style there that is both interesting and lovely at the same time. Thanks for sharing this. ?John B