Glenn Stanton

so, firstly, get your mind out of the gutter ? one day i was sitting in my living room playing my acoustic guitar and the electricity went off. i really only noticed because all of the electrical appliances went quiet, which was nice. about 20 minutes later the power kicked back on. and my TV set and cable box turned on without sound. and it was a soap opera channel... there were two fabulous women on either side of a nicely dressed man, and the brunette was getting all the attention and talking, whilst the blond on the other side was looking for the opportunity to get a word in and get the man's attention. she just had this look on her face like "why aren't you coming on to me since i'm just as, if not more, attractive than the brunette"... i just started strumming a I - iim vamp and using my Neil Young impression, sang "come on to me" and it made me laugh, so i had to make a song about forlorn attention-getting on a social scene. of course, it could be misinterpreted so a group dance may be, erm, awkward... ? major update - basically a complete re-do ?

check your plugins list and then disable it there if it is still in the list, the vst (or vst3) might still be in one of your vst paths (although deleting it from the folder you find it in would likely be better)

of course, after i thought about this more, i realized that RX7 has plugins ? since i don't use RX7 or Ozone in the DAW, i completely forgot about them as plugins... and add them then process them...

i usually do cleanup on RX before i set up the mix project. ? that said, do a search for CW Tools Editor - the option to edit the utilities menu lets you set up an audio editor. close CW. run the tool editor (you need to download it first) save (write) a registry file to your desktop (or wherever you want) then open it. open CW and a project, select the clip to edit, then select your editor from the utilities menu save the file when done.

and if you're bringing your laptop to a gig with power adapter - bring a small UPS to filter to AC noise ?

if you only need the track content and none of the FX etc you can just drag a regular cwp project from the file explorer into the project and in will import the tracks (with their names) into your current project.

or just keep pushing buttons until something happens ?

and perhaps the plugin steady state settings (obviously reporting the settings on automation would likely be wasteful)...

strange. i have images in the start screen, in the source cwp, and in the cwp generated from the template. it's important to remember to always follow the source -> target approach because editing the template directly or saving it directly (typically) removes the image. see example: one saved as template -- the front of the template file is missing the image data. for the second, copy source cwp to target cwt, the front of the file contains the image data.

some of the default or sample projects have images. but most do not.

maybe the earlier version of strum session was bundled but the GS-2 is much nicer in terms of options to tweak. maybe go to the AAC site and see if you have an account there, and if so, your profile would have the s/n(s)...

Audacity has a process which can determine how much of an audio file is "silence". there are some scripts and c# code samples for assessing the same. sadly, my soundforge application statistics does not calculate this... i typically trim front and back ends of the file to 100ms (1/10 second). but if i'm creating a CD (or equivalent) i set 2 seconds front, and 1/10 second back (approximating some of the redbook specs). as far as silence in the file itself - i try to limit it to 2 seconds or less. some streaming sites assume a stream is over after 3 or 5 seconds of silence, so another trick is to insert something above -48db (or what the streaming service calls "silence") to prevent "pure silence" (e.g. in music, fading reverb, delay trails, etc, in dialog, some background sounds - audience noises like feet moving or breaths, outdoors - birds, traffic, etc) yes, a note after removing silence with the time removed would be nice.

i first create my template as a normal cwp file. then once i save and close it, a make a copy and rename it with a .cwt extension. copy/move that file into the template folder(s). for some reason, the save-as template doesn't seem to capture the image added into the notes section. so the "save as cwp -> then copy -> rename cwt" trick works reliably every time. save as cwp -> make copy & rename extension then in the start screen:

i use the chordz (free), ripchord (free), or scaler 2 (paid) plugins for the source. then simply assign the inputs on my other tracks to the source (chordz example). seems to be reliable. one important note - enable the echo on each MIDI track. also, the source has to have check BEFORE creating the source. checking the box later (updating the dialog) does not work...

or add a volume automation on your master buss (output) and fade it there.

if i have the "ask each time" checked = ok, works as expected. if i uncheck it, then add same synth, the options for the automation track are not showing up: with it checked when adding synth:

coolio ?i figured this out a while back -- very annoying... yeah, the images are all under open http vs the site with TLS... so i set my browser shortcuts to only use the http...

one free option (perhaps already mentioned) might be something like Chordz (or Ripchord)? you can record the inputs via the "preview" (and other means) on the keyboard, and create custom chords etc. plus its free ? (as is Ripchord).

no worries. it took me about a year to keep relearning this for the EQ and so i have a ton of PC presets just for EQ and more for EQ + other modules... 2023 -- i promise to clean this up ? LOL

did you share the dmp file with the folks at Mixed in Key?

-- you want to enable "give all keystrokes to plugin" as the default setting across all plugins? meaning when i give focus to a plugin, the default is set to ensure all keystrokes are applied to the selected plugin. i might go one step further - remember the enable or disable mode for each plugin - as well as global default - this way i can decide which plugins will use the keyboard to set values (assuming i can either have a default control to alter, or tab / shift-tab to a control), and others will not respond to the keyboard input (e.g. i want to use a mouse or control surface knob).

you used the overall PC preset (which if you have more modules than EQ, they would be included) for EQ -- it's the waveform symbol ? to the left of the < > arrows --- click on the waveform symbol (help tip labeled in the image as "no preset") and then you will see the popup of the presets + option to save a new one ?

on the plugin window, click on the keyboard icon in the upper right:

click on the "waveform" symbol next to the < > presets.

i've been doing something similar for vocals and solos - a new arrangement for the vocal or soloing tracking, export as audio the arrangement. new recording project (so i'm not weighted down by the source project), record, comp, etc etc. export the vocals / solos. re-import into the master project and reset the arrangement to the primary one. the extra step of another project dedicated to vocals and solos is simply due to machine limits at the moment...