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  1. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thank you kindly for your feedback Nigel! I'll keep the thoughts on lead guitar presence in mind - I was trying to strike a balance between pressence and not wanting it to overpower other textural layers, but I think it possibly could be a little higher yes. Thanks for the feedback - I'm not much of a pianist but I like the chords that ended up coming about through layering in the intro. I appreciate that the harsh vocals are an acquired taste and that's something we try and balance as we love our heavy music but also want to try and appeal to a wider audience. Thanks - I find it really hard to tell whether vocals are too quiet/loud and this is something that seems to be different between engineers in the approach they go for, much more so than other instruments. Will again keep this in mind for future tracks. In fact the one we've just been working on has had a lot of and back and forth with the engineer and band as to how to balance male / female / low / high sets of takes. Thank you! I'm delighted with how it came together and big thanks go to the videographer, costume designer and band for pulling it together on the day. Llandudno, North Wales. The playthrough part was filmed on the Great Orme not far from the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe as there is just beautiful endless sea! The theatrical part was on the West Shore. I've spent a number of family holiday's there and had a feeling it would be perfect for our requirements. Again thank you all for your kind and constructive remarks - both of which I really value
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    Hi guys, My eclectic musical ensemble Disconnected Souls has recently released our first music video for our track "Dissonant Whispers". I'd describe this as being an atmospheric heavy ballad with some djenty guitar, electronics, orchestral and world influences. Also available at: https://open.spotify.com/track/2grwSgSFgT8J8ADJOTykM6 https://disconnectedsouls.bandcamp.com/album/dissonant-whispers If you get chance to listen I hope you enjoy! Comments/feedback/criticism always welcomed. Best wishes, Matthew
  3. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    I had a chat with the Divisimate team about this recently and it sounds like they're potentially going to resolve this in a future update. Best wishes, Matthew
  4. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Well there are quite a few variables to explore here! I'm someone who runs very large Cakewalk projects with a lot of instruments / plugins (on track and bus) so hence your findings are curious and may have implications for how I structure things if it reproducibly the case. Based on your findings, the initial hypothesis I wanted to test was that there would be a difference in performance between using tracks versus busses. Hence using the simplest test case of 1:1 mapping of track to bus. Using a single plugin I couldn't see any meaningful difference between having this on the track, or on bus that the track goes to. With loading the 15 plugins though it became noticably different, just not the way around I was expecting given your findings! In both of our cases I would have expected that the load would be the same - so hence even though our results were the opposite, they both provide evidence of something unusual going on and I would be interested to see Noel's thoughts on that, in case he thinks it worth following up on. You're right that running 15 tracks with single FX on and 15 tracks to a single bus with the FX would also be good further tests but my results already validate the hypothesis that tracks/bus have different impact in terms of resource usage even when used in a similar manner.
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    So just to clarify you're loading the same number / type of plugins and you're finding that the load is significantly higher when inserted on the buss rather than the track? I did my own brief test using 15 copies of an intensive delay plugin and actually had the exact opposite result - putting them all on a single track caused the usage to be between 6-11%, whereas running them all on the bus with a single track going to it (equivelent set up) only had the load between 2-5%. This is certainly something that could warrant some further tests - my expectation would be that a 1:1 ratio of track to bus should have similar overall load, it shouldn't make any significant difference to the load where the FX is placed, indicating that both of our results are odd. I may be missing something though. Best wishes, Matthew
  6. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Hadn't seen this - looks excellent! Thanks to both you and the op
  7. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    I very much appreciate your feedback Tom
  8. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thank you kindly my friend - I really appreciate your feedback
  9. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thanks for the heads-up - that's quite some negative feedback though!
  10. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thank you kindly! Hopefully a future release will be more to your style - we do have a wide range of tastes between us, so it won't all be heavy
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    Thank you my friend! Appreciate the mix feedback - will pass that back to the engineer as he's fairly new to the game, so will value that! I must admit i'm a big sucker for key changes and so the combination of that and moving to a heavier guitar pattern was something that made me super happy to implement I'm glad you feel it works.
  12. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Some cool atmospheres - great job!
  13. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    This is groovy! I really like it.
  14. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thanks i'll have a listen! Oh small world! Lovely area. Best wishes, Matthew Edit: Oh cool looks i'm already subscribed to you on YT! Very cool
  15. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thank you kindly for your feedback Nigel! Have you got anything to share that I can check out and enjoy? I hear what you mean about the cymbals - we ended up having a fair few mixes on this track as it was very difficult getting all the elements balanced; if we were doing another one I'd probably agree on polishing those a little more! We've been experimenting with a few different engineers, although are trying to do as much basic mixing as possible to really let them focus on the polishing/production to really take it to the next level. Best wishes, Matthew
  16. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Love the atmospherics on these!
  17. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Very catchy and well produced. Thanks for sharing!
  18. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Very catchy! Love the groove. Great work
  19. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thanks for sharing! I'm really enjoying what i'm hearing so far!
  20. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Thank you kindly! Would love to hear some of your music if you make it and have any available We're always really keen to do something a bit different - the balance can be difficult to find between going too out there conceptually/instrumentally and not far enough and creating something that feels like it's been done before. The length is an interesting point - I think sometimes we want to try and cram too many ideas into a song and that can lead to them going on beyond the usual radio length - in fact this track is probably one of the shorter ones. It is one of the things we're really trying to practice improving with newer material. I was really impressed with the video - I put out a call on FB for videographers and had several recommendations for the guy who did it. Affordable, prompt and good quality - so he's definitely being used again! I'm a big metal fan so I love the harsher vocals but we do try and strike a balance - they can be good for conveying specific moods, but wouldn't want to use them all the time. I think one of the big challenges we often have with this musical project is with marketing/promotion - metal is probably the closest but can throw people off due to perceptions of that genre, so it's trying to find open minded people/communities to share it with! Thank you one again
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    Hi guys, My eclectic musical ensemble Disconnected Souls has recently released a new track called Kintsukuroi. I'd describe this one as being a ballad fused with some heavy djenty guitar, electronics, orchestral and world influences. There are some interesting concepts and instrumentation that we explore If you get chance to listen I hope you enjoy! Comments/feedback/criticism always welcomed. Best wishes, Matthew
  22. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    Probably worth trying the import with both AV disabled as a quick test. If that does return speed to normal then you'll want to put some exclusion rules in place for the Cakewalk process and also the music content directories.
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    In your preferences can you also check these settings? For SSD I believe these should both be set to disabled for the best performance.
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    One other quick question - what's your CPU/RAM utilisation like? Are you using a system pagefile? How's that configured if so? Just wondering if there might be some contention for resource taking place elsewhere that could be causing the constraint that means you're not getting the full performance of the disks (as would seem to be indicated if other copies are occuring within reasonable time frames).
  25. Matthew Simon Fletcher
    I'd be inclined to agree with Lord Tim There are a lot of variables here to rule in/out and the OS rebuild will certainly address several in one go. Prior to doing so though i'd run a disk benchmark - this will verify whether the hard disk is achieving the expected latency/file transfer performance for different sizes of files. I appreciate that copying regular files appears to show performance as normal, but there's a always a chance that the issue is specific to a specific block size/configuration. That can then be compared against the figures for the brand new disk type of that model. Also prior to rebuilding the OS, i'd open up the PC and do some cleaning and checking all cables are securely connected. I can understand your frustrations with this one - so hopeful we can get to the bottom of this.
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