Glenn Stanton

i use my wireless keyboard and mouse. video monitor is a 70" TV so it's pretty visible across the room. the keyboard and mouse can operate up about 30' (transceiver type, not BT).

hmmm. maybe some WAV based samples would be useful? i use some very old soundfont version or these: http://www.compositiontoday.com/sound_bank/percussion/castanets.asp but they might not be of the right quality in a commercial project.

cool thing is that was just their bar rig, their outdoor concert rig is much bigger ?

the "larger" UMC units have their own Behringer ASIO driver (e.g. my UMC 1820 has the 4.59 version ASIO driver) and it works very well.

hmmm. i haven't seen this one before. for me it's the opposite, i have a bunch of wav files - bounced, edit, record, etc and it takes a bit of effort to clean up when archiving a project. i haven't seen a situation where all the tracks all exist in a single wav file - except when you are viewing the "take lanes", all of those for a given track exist in a single wav file (whereas using "takes as tracks" create individual files).

i like the Mp3Tag editor. lot's of features. freeware but also likes donations. ? https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

or worse, Computer Associates. Where all good software goes to die.™

i routinely connect and disconnect from a large monitor and IO to do things in other places. it's an old Dell 3521 but it seems to handle the switching around reliably. i also use it to remote session into my desktop machine (an even older Dell 545) which generally stays connected to its monitor and IO devices. i also sync the cakewalk projects and content folders between them using Google Drive, and my studio design programs and work folders using OneDrive. so far all devices seem ok with all the permutations. a few important notes: no one except me is allowed on my machines. this avoids the "oh crap! i think i broke my laptop, can i use yours? oh crap! i broke your laptop too!" repeating disaster syndrome. thankfully everyone's phone is powerful enough to do their own work on the phone until i get around to repairing their laptop... ? there are no games (except solitaire) installed or played. updates on OS and apps are applied pretty regularly. _anything_ which even suggests misbehavior is uninstalled or rolled back ?

like other UI, CRTL+Z to undo or CRTL+Y to redo, or on similar functions, repeat. hopefully CTRL+Y is not already used by something critical or annoying ?

yeah the UR22 is a nice one, i have a mkII which just is so clean and reliable.

likely answer, someone didn't read the manual or search for answers before posting, then after waiting an eternity (10 mins or so) then decided to RTM or use a search engine (which shall remain nameless) to find the answer in another 2-5 min of "effort". after which their post for help is no longer relevant and thus cancelled via ghosting... ?

just curious - this happens if you delete the track - settings get lost, then a new track to the virtual synth does not then re-establish the settings? or a crtl-z (undo) after deleting a track does not restore the settings?

usually at a minimum i include title, composer, performing artist(s), album (if one), copyright notice, release year, genre(s), and track# (if applicable). if you go to the grammy website and lookup the metadata specs, there is a whole bunch more that could be included in the recordings as well as output files (where metadata can be embedded, or as labels on the media).

Remo on the snare, Evans G1 or G2 on the toms, Aquarian on the kick ? although i just set up a friends kit with Remo all around except Aquarian on the kick, and i have to admit the heavy coated Remo on the toms actually sound nice with the brushes as well as sticks.

i guess Bill figured it was ok to steal some ideas after Apple stole it from Xerox ?

no worries @clovis i'm in the solutions world and the term "real time" is used to great excess to hype things. unless it's in hospital life support or high speed vehicle controls, no one seems to really want to pay for "real time" when you explain it to them ?

actually i'd call "near real time" since there is latency etc which is solved by keeping copies of the work-in-progress in each client connected to the session rather than a true live streaming (where the latency across tracks would be readily apparent). so kudos for making this work! once i saw this, i thought the same thing - BandLab mix editor as a VST... just add your favorite video/chat product and you'd be good to go (assuming the BL does a trick similar with the near-real time caching across clients)

fair enough ? i'm drinking my morning caffeine from a 30 year Tupperware mug which is still going strong ? i have a bunch of the Glaadware so i'll have to try it. one plus is that they're easily replaced and much less costly than a set of new drum heads ?

coolio - i like the idea of the tupperware to introduce velocity ?

yes and no. the center panned stereo phantom image is "essentially the same" as a mono track except that any stereo pan laws in use , phase differences, etc can impact the levels whereas the mono buss/track will enforce a consistent phase and energy level on your mix decisions. a mono pan law in a stereo master field can also be impactful, but you've already addressed any potential phase and level issues by forcing the mono. you can easily test this yourself. setup your bass and kick through mono source tracks and a single mono buss. switch the tracks to stereo and back - what did you hear/measure? then set tracks to mono and switch buss between mono and stereo - same hearing and measures (phase scope)? note: most times, instruments are mono sources like vocals, so unless you're stereo miking the instrument (e.g. acoustic guitar, a three mic drum kit setup, M/S etc) just using mono tracks and audio clips will be best.

thanks! a lot of good information there! one quick note on sources - i find that when i need a quick and dirty "human performance" on drums, i record a few tracks with me just tapping on my laptop to perform bass drum, snare, hi-hat, percussion beats (one per track as the "notes" on the laptop case are pretty monotone) then use Melodyne (or could be any audio to midi convert) to generate a single note MIDI sequence, copy + paste + drag MIDI to appropriate drum(s) on my AD2 midi track, or just use the drum replacer. fast and very human way to get drums going without using anything extra like my bongos or djembe.

yeah, for something like this i would use Ozone and Insight to get the levels correctly set. and RX for noise reduction etc.

well there is a normalization process but its peak level not RMS. there is also the silence process which can readily trim down below a threshold and split clips (or not) depending on settings.

same here - prefer insert via parameters versus dragging. and not just at the beginning but anywhere i'm inserting across the board.

maybe the answer is jpeg ? ?