Shane_B.

He is one of the biggest musical influences of my life. Very sad, but he was up there. Glad we had him for as long as we did.

What bar band hasn't done Bobby Mcgee, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Loving Her Was Easier.

Why Me ...

"Lord help me Jesus, I know what I am."

R.I.P. Kris

😢

Speaking strictly on payment methods, I would rather pay full new user pricing every upgrade than a monthly license. This applies to every provider of a DAW or vst package.

I want to pay for a license to use the software as much or as little as I want for as long as I can keep the hardware it runs on up and running.

I also don't like having to upgrade to the next version. I want to be able to go back to version I invested time into to learn.

Licensing makes sense to people who want to tinker, and professionals who have to keep up to date and get a tax advantage for doing so. (It's technically a lease and that's a 100% write-off)

But for the rest of us who at this point are the vast majority, as true studios have gone the way of the Do-do, it's not a good idea.

As for all the goodies that come with licensing, for the DAW I tried out the monthly plan on, I got zero benefit. I got access to a few stock plugins I already had 3rd party versions of, and a plethora of samples I had no use for.

Options. That's all people are asking for. Don't force us to pay monthly and if we don't we lose access to our work.

Thanks.

Very sorry to hear this. She lived not that far from me in MO. @paulo I was thinking of her and a few others too recently. Wishing things were the way they used to be here.

I hope her husband and family eventually see this and other threads and know how much she meant to everyone.

😥

1 hour ago, craigb said:

Is that whole wheat or gluten free?

So this is what "country" has devolved into eh? Thank God I turned radio off in 1978.

8 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Fortunately, CTL-Z works for every edition of Melodyne.

Which of course doesn't prevent a truly motivated user from screwing things up. I have some old projects from when I was first finding my way around Melodyne to prove it.

I always liked V-Vocal. I got pretty good results with it very easily. Not to say I don't like Melodyne.

I took an old recording a few years ago and did an entire key change on the second half of the song and it's impossible to tell it was done with software.

My problem is I've always had a terrible listening environment when mixing. I could never really hear the full effect of changes until I got in my truck.

I think I'm at least one version behind on Melodyne. I can't wait to get a studio set up, get everything upgraded, and dive back in to it. I'm going to have to upgrade my PC too. Oh darn. 😁

This or something very similar to it is in Melda's AutoDynamic EQ. You can even put an overlay of a keyboard on the screen iirc.

I've used it more for repairing bad samples and recordings I made, but not a lot. It's very easy to mess things up with this for an amateur like me.

2 hours ago, craigb said:

Can of Binaca breath spray (my pickup line was to look at a girl, turn and spray some in my mouth, then say "Hi!" real cheesy - DAMN that worked!)

I prefer Loyd Christmas' method (Jim Carey) from Dumb & Dumber where he sprays it sideways instead of in his mouth. Then say, "Lovely accent you have. New Jersey?".

Both equally effective in the right setting I'd imagine. Lol.

I used to think it was attractive. But being back in NJ after a 25 year hiatus, it's like nails on a *****ing chalk board to me now.

12 hours ago, craigb said:

I'm sticking with Notepad!!!

Yeah, but it's buggy. 😉

2 hours ago, pwalpwal said:

i believe you can get a free 3 day trial (no saving/exporting) but yes you are correct

No thanks then. That's a shame. I was really looking forward using it again.

I will never use any software that I can't buy a one time license for and keep using as long as my hardware supports it.

I've always said it and I meant it, Sonar was always my DAW of choice. I would have gladly switched back to it from Studio One. But not like this.

The second Studio One pulls that, I'll use what I have as long as I can, and switch to something else. 

And if they all go that way, I'll switch back to tape.

I thought it was a joke that Sonar is back so I took a look at their website. Apparently it is back.

The only way I could find to get it was if I signed up for a subscription. Is that right or am I misunderstanding their website?

56 minutes ago, Terry Kelley said:

With the flood of new Sonar users, Bandlab has little to worry about.

Sonar's back? Why didn't anyone tell me?

13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

"Posts for competitive products will be removed."

Ah. I see. They're preventing everyone's new interests swiftly by daw-blocking us.

I just checked out their website. 

They are really putting the final nail in the coffin.

You won't be able to reactivate it as of 8/25 if you need to reinstall it, get a new PC, etc. etc..

They are offering a massive discount to crossgrade to the competitor they recommend though. If I were in Finale owners' shoes I'd do that immediately and get it over with to nip that learning curve in the bud as soon as possible.

Sorry to hear this is happening. ☹️

This guy's channel has a lot of AI altered vocals of songs. This video explains how he does it and shows the software he uses. Please skip past the first part to where he gets in to how he does it.

Basically he sings the lyrics of one famous song to the backing track of another famous song and uses AI to alter his vocal track to sound like someone else.

It's pretty good but you can tell it's AI. I imagine it will be impossible to tell in a few years once the technology is improved.

Imagine our daws one day being capable of offering you the option to make your voice sound like another singer. A licensed add-on you would pay for that offers you famous singers voices to choose from, built in to the daw one click away.

I was happy with dos 6.22 and the supplemental disk.

On 8/15/2024 at 2:25 AM, craigb said:

Still waiting for Studio Two...

I'm still waiting for Sonar 9.0.

This reminds me of that show ...

"Could the ancient Egyptian pyramids actually be built by ancient technology passed down from the Ringo Nebula some 40 trillion light years away,  or did a giant race of Bigfoot like humanoids from the core of the earth lift the billion ton rocks in 2 days. Ancient alien theorist believe both!".

Cue the guy with the blown back hairdo and the Peruvian rocket man necklace.

8 hours ago, paulo said:

IIRC they made something or other only available to subscribers rather than regular licence holders. I didn't pay that much attention really because the DAW that shall not be mentioned is too fugly anyway.

I just thought it was funny that the OP decided that this was a heinous act, yet decided that a better option was to switch to a sub only DAW that stops working if you stop paying. 😀

Thanks. And I agree with the fugly part. 

I won't use anything DAW related that requires a sub.

I'm not against subs, I'm just against the people that want to force you in to them. That whole slippery slope thing. They can be great and have their place, as an option ...

15 hours ago, paulo said:

 

After reading that thread this morning, been up since 4am, I'm left scratching my gray haired balding head. Fake accounts, name calling, arguing, asterisks galore.

We ask a question wondering why some things got deleted, there's some deep, inciteful, friendly conversation and we get the 🪓.

I think I'll go listen to some Yoko Ono albums to cheer me up. Lol.

Anyway, back to my original question, please, can someone tell me what happened that was so bad with "them". Nothing has changed that I can tell.

Did someone steal their sweet roll? (Gamers are laughing).

6 hours ago, mettelus said:

They recorded Yoko Ono in 1970. Some are still not over that one.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_recordings_made_at_Abbey_Road_Studios

Hey, at least she had some #1 hits out of it.

Seriously though ... she does have some #1 hits. Look it up. I lost all faith in humanity when I saw that. Lol.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono_discography

8 hours ago, paulo said:

 

Can someone please tell me what they did that what so awful?

Yeah, but I hear they only record in 16bit.

They should try 32.

15 hours ago, craigb said:

A few thousand posts have magically disappeared from the Song Association Game thread??! 😮

Other things are going missing too...  What the **** is going on here???

I don't know. I try to avoid the ban/delete/censor/mod intervention side of it anymore and just try to be as vanilla, harmless, non-confrontational, and agreeable as I can and I have become, comfortably dumb. I mean, numb.

It ain't what it used to be and it never will be again. We've literally turned in to a bunch of aging men screaming at the kids to get off our lawn. But the kids are far worse these days.

I got a post deleted and I was banned one time over something that was taken wrong by a few people here and it was reported. Many years ago. Me and the other person I said it to were both banned. We emailed each other and laughed and said what the heck just happened to us.

Anyway, I stopped trying to figure it out and caring a long time ago.

Or, it's some kind of technical glitch and humans weren't even involved.

Either way, it's all good. Don't care anymore.