Larry Jones

I've tried this with YouTube and Soundcloud, and for both of them I just entered the URL of the video or clip, and boom! Embedded. I gather you're trying to do this with a song hosted on Bandlab? Sorry, can't help you there. But maybe if the song appears on a page with its own URL you could try that.

You succinctly addressed the problem. Unless a moderator imposes order by moving things around, restricting access, maybe deleting "irrelevant" posts, etc., "General" and Q&A" might as well be collapsed into one. Why debate something that "ain't gonna happen?" The people at Bandlab are smarter than that.

The grocery store where I get my fresh fruit and vegetables has rolls of green plastic bags for organic produce (which are a bit more expensive), and transparent plastic bags for conventionally grown produce. Customers ignore the color-coding, and the checkers have to look inside the bags to figure out what you're buying. I vote for one kind of bag at the supermarket, and one CbB forum for questions, answers and discussions. Same principle: No one will pay attention to this arbitrary "rule," so why complicate things if it won't make life better? How about dumping the Q&A board and adding one for hardware and third party software?

Signatures are important, for the reason cited above: If you're looking for help, folks will need to know what equipment and software you're using. I do object to sigs with large graphics and/or commercial messages. Really, just include a link to your website, Soundcloud page, Facebook or whatever. I'll click on it if I'm interested.

Great job, Kevin. I think I've heard this before -- if I haven't, it just shows it has a great hook, cuz it's familiar to me the first time through. I'm embarrassed to ask: is there a drummer on this? Drums sound great, human or machine. Classic rock'n'roll mix, everything in my face, but everything clear.

The old forum is a precious resource. Long may it live.

Thanks Dan! I think of it not as a 60s sound, but as a 1960 - 1963 sound. Phil Spector's wall of sound effect, which was great for about fifteen minutes, but wore out its welcome pretty quick. It happened mainly because Phil never met a musical instrument or echo chamber that he didn't want to include on his records. That was my operating philosophy on this one. 60 tracks and four echo chambers. It would have been bigger, but I ran out of time.?

Hey Kevin! I had trouble singing this. I had a complete, comped "high-energy" vocal that would have worked well sunk back into the track, but I decided to go with a gentle, "sincere" vocal. In the end I just had to admit to myself that I'm not the singer I thought I was. Happy New Year!

Thanks you, Daryl. Your own productions are so good that I'm flattered that you listened.

I don't record the way you do so I haven't come across this behavior, but -- since you are say you are hitting "W" and "R" -- I take it you are not trying to loop record hands-free. In that case, a workaround would be to hit "Ctrl+Z," then "W" then "R." Not perfect, but if you've got a flub stub and you know you don't want to use it, this will get it out of your life, leaving however many complete takes you choose to keep.

Beautiful, Will!

Big improvement, Lynn. If I could have one wish, though, it would be MORE DRUMS!

Great blues pickin' and you sing like you really got dem bluz.

Good song, Lynn. In fact, if you didn't tell us what the subject matter is I wouldn't have known, at least for the first two minutes. I think you ought to do a minor rewrite and sing it to a selfish lover. More universal appeal? The drums are very distracting to me, all that fiddling around on the hi hat. The guitars are heavy. I would make the drums equally heavy -- big hard snare on the 2 and 4. The slide sounds great, but it steps on your excellent vocal occasionally. I'd give it a supporting role through most of the song, and then a verse of its own somewhere in the middle, or in the fade. And -- I'm not sure about this -- does the whole thing sound a little top heavy to you? I was wanting to hear more bass and kick. I think you've got hold of something really powerful here!

Thanks Will. Leon has been one of my role models, but I have to admit I don't hear him on this one.

Probably. The company used to be quite generous with freebie addons over the years.

I didn't know disks were even a thing for the past several years. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if you bought recent versions of SONAR, it was all downloads. So you'd need to grab those downloads now and store them somewhere safe.

Scott - I'm sure this has occurred to you already, but Bandlab has 5 million new users. I'd bet at least a million of them have never seen a DAW before, so might be time for a new book.?

I think you should go to your old Cakewalk account and/or CCC and download everything you can find of your stuff. Then you won't have to worry about the Command Center, or hope that someone will maintain it.

Thanks for your input. The original version is here. And that drum programming thread gets my vote as one of the most creative and useful on the old forum.

Beautiful, Jesse! Merry Christmas to you!

Since it's the holidaze, I chose a Christmas song -- "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" recorded by Darlene Love, originally released in 1962. I paid homage to the producer (Phil Spector) by cluttering it up with as many tracks as possible. By the way, I had no trouble with Cakewalk by Bandlab. Everything worked as expected, and I probably will not go back to my SONAR Platinum. And even though this is a Christmas song, presented here at Christmastime, I know some of you Scrooges will comment on the technical aspects. I welcome your criticism. I should note that I used a few of the techniques I learned from this thread to make the MIDI drums sound more realistic. I used Addictive Drums' randomization features, and I played some of it "live" on my Nektar Impact LX61+ drum pads. Anybody notice anything? PS: Crossposting this on the old SONAR Songs forum.

Thank you all. Got it.

Got it! Thanks.

Jesse - I asked this elsewhere, but now I can't find it: What about signatures? They can be darned helpful, and I don't see a way to add them to my profile.