Glenn Stanton

which, on longer or offset clips read "RF" ? and left clicking (assuming that's your button configuration) let's you easily select Copy MIDI and remove/render etc... this let's you quickly step through and render them...

as a note: i purchased some of Bob's expanded styles (circa 2012?) because i needed more advanced time signatures and really did not have the patience to do the silly 4/4, 3/4 mixing of bars. very nice and quality work for a reasonable price.

the "libraries" are usually installed via the NI Native Access app and you configures folder etc there. in Kontakt itself, same configuration for folders. adding custom "libraries" (really instrument folders) you can go to the library page and import content (lower left gear). if the folder list is correct, then rescan each. did you have any directory junctions that maybe are now missing?

depends on the drum track you create in EZD (or really any other tool like EZK and EZB, the Ample series of instruments w/ their Riff section, Scaler, etc etc) the idea is whatever is the length you need for a given section of song divide that by the phrases you need. e.g. i have a verse of 12 measures, and 3 separate drum phrases, so i create a 12 measure track in EZD, create those phrases, then drag that into my MIDI track. then repeat for chorus etc. then either copy those clips into the rest of the song (or use the arrangement tool in CW) to fill it in. for simpler phrases / song structures, the groove clip approach is viable. often times i'll stretch it for the length needed, then bounce to clip to eliminate the looping, and then edit parts to mix it up a bit (crashes, splashes, flams, some tom hits, etc etc).

sheesh, i thought everyone knew these the real fun begins when you fat finger it in lieu of the alt or ctrl keys... let mayhem reign!

that way, beyond the simple captcha, you need some intermediate steps like email verification + profile update - two things not done in the sign up. then post limiting. again the idea is increase the expense of the attack while making cleanup easier. obvious stuff like filtering for garbage thread names (like we see here with lots of extraneous characters typical users would not use). and infrastructure - single session per account regardless of device. this last one prevents many different devices, paths, etc using the same account to spam in an effort to bypass the authentication and manual steps and limited posting.

no i don't think you need to go that far once you have the initial authentication and profile update steps. then simply limiting the number of initial threads and replies will enable basic help and let the moderators cleanup spam threads and related reposts. having multifactor authentication on every login would be painful and not really needed for this venue.

security is more than simply setting controls - you need process as well. authentication of the user and time/posting limits initially. so if you need to reply to an email or text message with the verification code before signing in, and then some profile updates. these two steps are not a hardship for real people but for spammers and bots it has a cost to get around - time, effort, and/or money to program, hire spam teams etc. and limit to 2 topic posts in the first 24 hours w/ reply restricted to those topics. infrastructure (hardware and software) can be used to reduce session re-use in spamming and other attacks. for example, you're login is a singleton which applies to all other activity on the site, multiple logins even from different devices do not count as anything other than 1. ? an example is gmail - i can login in from multiple devices but the session is effectively 1 session for all devices. this way real people can ask for help and respond without limiting them too much. no one should really need to have more than 2 topics initially. then after the post, a minimum 1 reply to a given topic (presumably after someone else has responded, it's not a copy or high % copy of the first post, and there is no "bump" post until after say 4 hours), then can now be given access to post 2 more topics etc and after then after the posting of those 4 topics and minimum 1 reply (like "thanks") to a response on their thread, you can free them from initial "jail" and become proper members. heuristics matter. then removing spam topics is lower cost to the business. no true way to stop all attacks but you can make it more costly to the attackers. secondly if those spammers are using real businesses and/or products in the spam, feel free to have your legal folks (or a friend who has mastered properly scary language) to drop them a note about the reporting to government agencies and pending legal jeopardy. just in case the business actually didn't hire the spammers. those who care may take an interest in helping to stop it.

sure they don't log it... pretty sure many (esp EU or any echelon member states) require it to do business in their country. i love the TV shows where they cannot trace the information. of course they can. now if you want untraceable (but unreliable) then using non-TCP/IP protocols is the way to go although a lot of routers block those, using command protocols to signal get around a lot of that.

i mainly use it to find alternatives to a given song - for instance ALL country songs and ALL reggae songs are 100% interchangeable. if you take a country song and swap the style to reggae or vice versa, 100% fit. every. single. time. ? so a few older numbers i created originally as country songs became reggae because of this phenomena... nowadays i use it to generate some solos like sax where my sax playing skills are, erm, limited. very limited. but you need to spend time going through the different "players" and you need to select a style for the song (as well as tempo and arrangement etc) to finally get to a decent solo that doesn't sound "canned" (or too canned - not the bird). i have had the middle tier of the options for 20+ years now and there are some electronic style (mostly MIDI) which could be useful (if i did those). and it would be nice to get the MIDI from the real tracks because some of the sounds have too much "enhancement" (reverb, distortion, over compression etc) and would be nice to replace or augment easier than Melodyne or drum replacer etc. so -- for BAIB - start simply - enter chords, pick a style, set the tempo, repeats and let it rip. you can get quite far using those, and if you feel the need to tinker, beware... the tinkerer elves were the inventors of this product and it's a deep and wide rabbit hole which may consume more time than is worthwhile. but for learning to build up songs and arranging (like using the various . notation and the ^ lead-in notation) it's useful. for better options on learning to create songs with a lot more flexibility - consider looking into Hookpad. $5/month. http://hookpad.hooktheory.com best $5/month imho. the exported MIDI is generally good, and tons of options as well as a learning tool which is interoperable with the Hooktheory site (i use the free version of that) and a great library of tunes, progressions, and an excellent forum for getting help and discussions on music theory etc (which is imho a better investment in learning music than tinkering with BIAB).

you might own it, but you need to prove it. hence the copyright filing which makes it official. depending on timestamps, self-address sealed postage-marked envelopes, etc have varying degrees of success in proving ownership. the article implies that basically someone streams your material off whatever service you use, relabels it and then puts it up on a paid-per-listen(s) service and subsequently then uses bots to play them over and over in order to get royalties. i'm guessing the 40 second noise thing is something the main services can filter most of them out. and as they decide the get smarter about the IP address or device/account used (like you cannot be in the US and EU at the same time, regardless of TCP/IP routing...) they'll block the bots more and more. until the bot programmers come up with something like, likely hacking people phones/tv sticks/laptops etc to play (silently) using your own personal devices

the separation files are generated and then removed on render. however a couple of factors can play into it. "rarely" in my lingo means "sometimes" and this could result in those files ? and as mettelus mentions - "caching" beyond memory allocation. lastly, i've seen issues with cloud storage where if the cache is in a cloud service folder (like Documents) then it's possible OneDrive (e.g.) backs them up and restores them (you know, trying to keep your files safe and all) ?

depends on the soloist ? i find i have maybe 4 or 5 "people" on the RT side who consistently produce usable solos. but the chord progression and the backing style can impact things as well as tempo. i find myself sometimes going 1/2 speed and making the progressions 1/2 as long and get better results than if i'm using full tempo (even if the tempo and changes are roughly equiv @ half speed). then when in doubt, i'll try some other tools like EZ Keys (MIDI & re-instrument), Scaler, and sometimes, gasp, just play it myself and then edit (and edit).

thanks. i don't use it myself (tried it, found it lacking). i am simple and either use the CbB Matrix for snippets or Kontakt.

maybe share some tips for BIAB - there are quite a few folks on the forum (myself quite a lot) who would like to see how other people are using it beside the DAW plugin. for myself - i'm either exporting stems of Real Tracks performance (solos mainly) or purely the MIDI (also usually solos). depending on the quality of the RT performance, i might use Melodyne to extract the MIDI and re-instrument it.

i keep it on my "quick access" list (along with a few other products which cache renderings in the documents folder - sometime mine, sometimes the "public" user...) so i am reminded to periodically clean them up. ensuring you render the Melodyne region when you're done, the clean up is mostly done for you. if you don't render it and close the project or delete the track w/o rendering it, you get leftover separations.

maybe use seperate tracks? MIDI for the, erm, MIDI source, and an audio one for, ah, the audio (which may then be exposed as a sidechain option?)

it's possible that the couple of subdirectories for the Karzog plugins are confusing things . not sure. i see several of my vst3 plugins have the directory and seem to work fine. those plugins are instruments though, so maybe there is an issue with FX vs VI? @Noel Borthwick

yeah the Karzog support says lot's of people doing it now. so just remove the .vst3 from the folder name and it should be good. the only issue might be when content is stored in the same directory and the path is hardcoded...

no, it's supposedly Steinberg's fault. according to this response from Karzog support: of course, this seems weird as i have at least 800 VST3 and none of them do this poorly thought-out folder naming. @Noel Borthwick @Jesse Jost any thoughts on this?

i know windows can be sensitive to adding known program extensions to folders. not sure why developers do it given the "standard" is Common Files -> VST3 ? but sometimes people get too clever for their own good i guess. for conspiracy minded folks - maybe someone in a competing DAW noticed this defect in CbB and decided to tell all their friends to add the ".vst3" to their folders for "cleaner" housekeeping (wink wink) and then knowing they don't support "free" DAW, that CbB users will be frustrated... ?

couple of thoughts - use Ripple Edit (turn on when needed, turn off immediately after), and use the project > insert time/measures as i think there are more options there. remember to turn off Ripple Edit after you make the move otherwise you can really skew the project... as to why "slide" is misbehaving, no idea, never use it.

so, just like a number of 70's Kung Fu films (as well as any number of PBS translated TV series)... ?

the latest versions of the Karzog plugins use a ".vst3" extension on the folder which causes the scanning of those plugins to pass, but not actually reach the real plugin DLL themselves. i've notified the Karzog support folks. in the meantime, if you remove the ".vst3" from the folder they will work. the VST 2 are not affected as they don't have that extension.

are you using a mixer to record the vocal and listen to the recorded material? if so, you're likely mixing them there and that is being fed into the vocal track. if you have an IO unit with a separate monitoring output - maybe your monitoring is too loud and that is getting pickup by the mic. another option is you have some software mixer with your audio card which is mixing them. and lastly you have something routing into your vocal track from the instrument track that is perhaps your monitoring source. i.e. you want to hear both vocals and instruments, and have routed the instruments and vocals together (like a patch point for example or aux track).