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Jerry! So Good! I only had time to listen to the 1st movement. I don't say this lightly, there are some amazing moments. What notation software are you using here? It's really cool to hear your compositions over the years and hear how the technology is almost catching up to your abilities.

That does explain some of it. But let me give specific examples. 1) I generate video on Kaiber.AI. The other day there was a downloading issue. I contacted Kaiber tech support and they said , yes there is an issue and they are working on solving the problem. The tech said that they were going to keep everyone updated and I should go to Discord. I accepted the invite, got to Discord and the Kaiber AI channel and I have no idea how to see updates or anything but what the latest person just typed. The site is confusing to me. 2) I saw a YouTube video on how Pika on Discord would generate AI videos. I accepted that invite and can follow the instructions and create a video, but beyond that, the rest of the Pika channel is just as confusing. Unless I'm doing that one specific thing, I have no idea what I can do there or what I am doing on the site. Maybe it's a matter of time.

I've been Invited to Discord for a couple of apps. AI related for video...But I just don't understand or grasp how Discord works. One of my invites does generate video , but it's not usable (yet). It's like inputting code. My kids might be coming home next month. (Old Man Rant) Maybe they can explain it to me. I'm trying to remember if forums like this one were just as confusing to me in the beginning...

Very interesting...

Yeah, I do what Craig is describing a lot. Once you start doing it regularly it is pretty easy. Pretty much export a midi track, then export an OMF. Do the reverse in the other app. Open the midi file, then import the OMF. Most of the time I'm going back an forth between notation programs, so I mostly just do it thru midi files. I would think it would be quite easy to create a file format that just combines the two in the correct order. After all, we are working on computers.

So take some advice from an old man with a storied history of scoring to picture...and I've done the lion's share in Cakewalk. Cakewalk's capabilities for scoring as they stand are fine, more than fine. People will argue with me about this, but I have the royalty checks and I don't need to debate this the slightest. If you want to make $ scoring to picture, you need to be prepared to do some editing. Just a fact. So get a simple video editing program and learn the basics. It might just save your life. No matter what DAW you use, there are formats and codecs that work better in that DAW. Editors and clients will send you all different formats. Find what works best and render every cut you get in your DAW's preferred format. When you have a sample to send back to the client for approval, or you want to create a video...do it using the video app not the DAW. I've outputted video files from Cubase, CbB and ProTools. Sometimes the client can view them, sometimes not. When i export out of my video app there is never a problem. CbB renders audio files quickly and more efficiently than video. You want the picture to start later? Slide it in your video app to where you want it to start. I'll admit, this feature is available in Cubase and other DAW's, but that is the only small advantage. And I would warn you not to do that in the DAW. Spend a thousand hours working under deadlines and you will find out why. OLD MAN RANT! PS. Want to look like a pro? When sending samples to clients for approval, put your name and version number on a title card at the start of your video. Include Time code for referencing...that is all

that last meal was just a little over done

Mother nature shaved my head years ago...I've worn a baseball hat ever since. The cold, the sunburn, I don't really care how ugly I look I just wish i had my hair back for the protection. My daughter teases me that I glued my hat on. I hate the thought of doing this, but Bosley might be my next stop... if I could just create some decent income.

I must point out that the written words ..."the Pixels"... can feel much harsher than intended many times. I remember getting a reply to something and they wanted to know why I was so angry at them...I had no idea I was sounding angry. I thought I was being funny. Things can come off differently depending how you interpret the moment. So the apology is always well taken, but not always needed. Best!

Just posting to see what the new me is and looks like.....

So I started reading this thread and was dying to know...did the mixer ever come??? Just finished skimming thru everything and , fheeeew...it final came. Back in the day, I would order something from Sweetwater before noon and it would be on my doorstep the next afternoon around 3. Once in a while I would miss the delivery and would hustle down to the Fed Ex distribution center around 8:30pm (the drivers came back around 7 ish and they closed at 9.) Of course I was literally blocks away from the distribution center. That did have it's perks.

This is outstanding...everything about it.

Pretty dang cool Jack! You always are stretching, which is so cool watch. It reminds me of the interludes Blood, Sweat and Tears use to do in the middle of a set.

Using Synthesizer V with 3 paid, programmable voices and one free "lite" female singer. You can get the "choir" effect by creating 5 versions of the same part and tweaking each of the 5 by programing different types of vibrato, timing, breath, etc...and change the timbre of each voice. Not perfect just yet, but unless I'm hiring a bunch of top professionals, its probably easier and better. I have not been able to get a gospel, or a country, or a blue-eyed soul sound just yet. I'm still working on it.

So I don't think this has been done before. I'm working on a Choir piece for High School students. Song with an AI choir. ...By different I mean post a Choir song! Any choir directors out there? Let me know what you think. It's greatly appreciated! https://youtu.be/UiiE2PPnUJk And can someone let me know why you have to click on the "YouTube" thingy at the bottom to watch instead of the spinning ball? I've seen other Youtube videos just play.

ChatGTP is just a great thesaurus... I love AI, but that is all it is.

Is this not the greatest forum ever?

Thanks for the idea. I'll check it out, I think the OS could be 3.11, it is something in the the 3's. But I really don't think there is a physical way to network on this laptop (Gateway... back when they made really good laptops) except perhaps out the parallel port that as now, is configured to handled the midi/sympte card. All of which still works very well.

I purchased a year's subscription (really 12,000 credits) from Kaiber.ai to generate the images. I actually have a well paying project that needs images (I'm teaching middle school kids how to score to picture) and it more than justifies the $120. So I'm going to take advantage of that and use the subscription for projects like this also. The video editing program is a lite version of Vegas Pro I purchased many years ago. I imagine that AI will have drastically changed by the time (one year) my credits for Kaiber.ai run out. Thanks for the compliment. The future IS gonna be weird for those who don't jump in. I've learned that the hard way a couple of times over. I saw it in the 80s when I midi allowed me to grab lots of work from the old guys in the biz. I saw it again in 2000s when computers, social media and the internet took work away from me when I did not embrace the new technology. And so I'm not going to fall behind this time. You shouldn't either. Jump in and hand on!

Man, I forgot about all this. And the fact that the disks are magnetic. I've seen what happens to audio and video tapes over years and it's been almost 30 since I put that rig together. I'd better fire up that laptop and see what loads before I invest in this thing.

Both, I do want better notation tools. But the argument I hear a lot is that are many who don't read music and CbB is will never be good enough for publishing. Which is fine. But inputting midi data using Staff View can be an advantage and possible for people who don't read music all because of the great Piano Roll View in CbB... and having a better Staff View will pay off in the long run. And the long run is coming up fast!!

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Hey, so many years ago I made the argument that the Bakers should pay more attention to Staff View. My argument was that technology will inevitably change, DAWs will change, but Notation will stay constant. Notation will be the bridge to the next technological advances (plus the fact that millions of children are taught notation all across the world, it's a universal language and a hugely, big(ly) market to tap!) So now it's happening, AI is here. Programing AI voices without notation is possible, but way easier to do with notation. Light years quicker. Good luck to those who don't use it. AI or notation. The thing is you don't have to be able to "read" music per se. You can create in Piano Roll View and input lyrics in Staff View. Then off to AI. That is all

Thanks treesha! So the short story for how I use AI to create vocals... I use a program called Synthesizer V, I purchased that and 3 different voices that where programed to work in it. Synth V works much like a DAW and similar to Cakewalk's Piano Roll View. You export your vocal as a .wav file and import it into Cake. After that it's no different than any vocal track you or I might have recorded (except it's clean of noises and in-tune! :) ). The long story...Synthesizer V is a great program, but composing in it can be painful. You draw your notes/melody in Piano Roll View then type in lyrics. Which is all fine and good until you start tweaking and experimenting. Then you have to wait for new audio every stinking time to be generated and becomes time consuming. The easiest, best way is use a notation program to compose, export a midi file, import that into Synth V. Then 80% of your work is done and you need to adjust pronunciations etc. It's kinda funny 'cause I speak with a Chicago accent and try to get the singer to say the words the way I hear them. They seem to have more of a British accent so like the word "Dance" sounds very prim and proper. I have to spell that word "Daaance" to get my Chicago-ism. Even if you don't read music, you should be able to create your melody in Cake's Piano Roll View, then look at it in Staff View and input your Lyrics. Here is where the rub comes. Cakewalk will export lyrics with midi, but the words don't line up correctly all the time. So I end up exporting a XLM file out of Cake and into Sibelius (a notation program and the midi/lyrics work well). I tweak a little more, just things that I know will work better in Synth V. Then export midi out and into Synth V. If you are going to do multiple tracks, say with background vocals, I would highly recommend that you use a notation app to start the process.

I have around 50-100 songs I wrote (using the basis of underscores I composed for TV Docs) that I did almost 30 years ago. I always used words to help create my melodies, would write the lyrics in my down time and thought they might be useful to have in a Library someday. I never completed production of these songs because getting a Pro singer to do them was too $$$ and too involved...and I was not skilled enough as a mixer. I had my daughter sing a lot of scratch tracks when she was a teen and the ones I did produce where a disaster. But now things have changed! I've learned how to open up Counsel View of CbB! And I now have an arsenal of AI singers to throw at projects... And I can use AI images to create videos that compensate for my lack of editing skills. The video is ruff at this point. I will replace all images with 4K versions. My computer gets bogged down trying to edit hi res images. **for some reason it appears the only way to watch this is to click on the "Watch On YouTube" button on the bottom. Let me know what you think. Should I keep the notation score on the bottom?