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Such an overlooked strategy! Many musicians lack the self-confidence to play quietly, assuming that they can only win over the audience by beating them over the head. Plus, lowering the volume is the quickest way to tighten up a band. When you can clearly hear one another, you're naturally going to sync up better. Vocals work better, especially getting a proper balance between harmonies. As a piano player, it means my amplification runs cleaner and what comes out actually sounds like a piano. Everybody tends to put more subtleties into their playing, and natural dynamics just happen without having to be scripted. And as everyone has noted, your final assessment comes at the end of the night when the till is counted. If staff can't hear to take orders, that's not good for the bottom line. Finally, let's not forget one important reason that people go to bars: to hook up and to socialize. The band shouldn't be like "I don't care if it's your anniversary/birthday/office outing, just sit there and listen to US!". Those who are actually there to listen will sit up front or dance. The couple in the back with their hands all over each other don't care what you're doing anyway.

I remember as a child reading in the newspaper about a guy who was 120 years old. He was a civil war veteran. When asked his secret to longevity, he said he ate a bag of peanuts every day of his life. Well, I love peanuts, so there ya go. I pretty much each peanuts daily myself. Of course, it just makes sense to learn from those who've manage to live so long. That's why I've been on both the Keith Richards and/or the David Crosby regimens for so much of my life. It's not an easy plan. For one thing, I have yet to bed a famous folk singer, and the probability that I ever will is now vanishingly low.

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MMCSS for ASIO was not an option in SONAR. It was added to CbB because a few ASIO drivers prefer to tweak thread priority on their own and thus conflict with MMCSS. Under SONAR, MMCSS was applied to ASIO by default. I suspect the difference you're looking for is going to turn out to be between the processes each computer is running, and likely it'll be something unconnected to audio directly. It's not that CbB handles buffering any differently.

Melodyne's probably your best bet, since you can fiddle with the formants, which is useful when doing large shifts. Another option, if you have it, would be Kontakt. That would let you turn your sounds into a playable instrument. But I gotta ask: how did you get a 7-octave shift with a tape machine? Best I could ever do was 3 octaves, by recording at 15 ips, playing it back at 7.5 ips and then bouncing to another machine that could do 3.75 ips. I guess you could bounce that back to the 15 ips recorder and repeat the process, but it would sound pretty bad.

Actually, nobody noticed. It just meant I couldn't layer synths and had to revert to using both hands on separate keyboards. Unfortunately, it also meant I had no sustain pedal on one of the synths, since I use one pedal and pass it through to the other keyboard via MIDI. I also use MIDI to drive a VoiceLive box that lets us create 8-part harmonies, 4 real voices over 4 faked ones. It's great on doo-wop stuff.

Listen to Crosby's harmony part in this cover of Blackbird. He was a master of finding the harmonic hole and dropping into it. An inspiration to me, as that's the role I usual fill in my band; I give the others the obvious parts that are easy to remember, and then assign myself all the in-between notes they're not singing. George Harrison was another underrated harmony singer who often sang the most difficult part when they did 3-part harmony.

Got your wi-fi disabled on that laptop?

At last Saturday's gig I had a MIDI cable fail. I didn't have a spare. That's on me. But in my defense I have never had a 5-pin DIN cable fail. Ever. This particular one was 40 years old. So for the first time since the 80's I was ordering a new MIDI cable. Well, I was already on the Sweetwater site ordering a new XLR cable to replace the latest victim of my puppy. That one hurt, it was one of my extra-long ones that go between the mixer and active PA speakers. Went ahead and ordered a pack of 2.

50% of marriages end in divorce. That's a depressing statistic until you consider how the other 50% end.

Oddly, expression pedals aren't universal. I have multiple swell/expression pedals but most are rarely used because they don't work with everything. The one that does get used is a cheap plastic one from M-Audio. It squeaks and it moves around on the floor because it's so light (a constant frustration on stage). But it works with everything (switchable polarity) and can even be used as an inline volume pedal. 29 bucks from Sweetwater. When used as an expression controller, it needs a 1/4" TRS cable.

I've always been a big fan of vocal harmony, and was bonkers over The Byrds back in the day. It was years before I realized that was all Crosby and his knack for finding the best interweaving harmonies. Tambourine Man sounds huge, but listen closely and it's just McGuinn and Crosby. One of the few people in his class in that regard was Graham Nash, so naturally they made a great team. Even when backing Neil Young, who couldn't nail a harmony to save his life.

If you can insert a new instance, then the issue is that it had been installed in a different location when you previously used it in old projects (either the DLL or the sample library). I don't think there is a way to determine where it was previously installed, but if you can guess it there is a way to recreate the old path and redirect it to the new location. Looks like your only way forward is to delete and replace those old instances. As for why it fails to bounce, that's a new one to me. If CbB actually crashes, there will be a crash dump that can be analyzed by Cakewalk. Can you freeze the instrument instead of bouncing to a new track?

Yeh, he took it especially hard. I wonder if anyone ever suggested "Keith, maybe you could just play a little slower."

Tbh, I'm surprised he made it to 81 given his history of over-the-top drug and alcohol use.

My nightmare. Just being down to nine usable fingers of late freaks me out. My gear's still in the van from Saturday's gig. I'm scared to unload and potentially hurt my back even worse than it is. I've got until Sunday's rehearsal to get it done, so I guess I'll start today with the small stuff. Bapu helps to motivate me with his gentle reminders that I've promised a synth track for the latest Citizen Regen project. I'm on it, Ed. Soon.

Holy scheizer! I've been through a few drummers, but none of them actually died. Most of them were just doing their best to shorten their lives with drugs 'n booze and stressful relationships. AFAIK, none were actually successful.

So you lost your musical partner as well as your life partner. Man, that sucks. How long has it been since you played? I ask because I did the opposite: I had been mostly inactive (as far as live music; recording had become my primary outlet) before my wife's death, and joined a band afterward for therapeutic reasons. It worked. I have new friends, a reason to practice, and didn't become the bitter old hermit I feared I was headed for. Losing your partner is, of course, hard. But for me it was hard in ways I hadn't anticipated, such as feeling adrift with no purpose and having an identity crisis more typical of what teenagers go through. Getting back into live performance reminded me of who I am. Maybe you should give it a try. Not joining a band necessarily, or anything requiring a commitment. Just attending a jam session, perhaps. Or an online collaboration.

Can you insert a fresh instance of DP, into either an existing or new project?

"Speakercise". I'm going to use that. 18 gigs a month. Cheese und crackers, I can't imagine doing that now, at my age. When I was 25, playing 6 nights a week for 50 weeks a year wasn't a big deal at all. Finishing a gig and jumping into the van for a 10-hour drive to the next one was normal. Red Hot Beef 'N Bean burritos from a truckstop microwave at 4:00 AM, delicious. Now, I play out at most 4 times a month and even that's pretty draining. But it beats going to a gym. You and me both, brother. Except I'd still do it with or without an audience. A month after my wife died, I played New Year's Eve at an Elks lodge to a dozen morose old men sitting at the bar staring vacantly into their beers. It should have been depressing, but staying at home in a big silent house watching fireworks on TV - that would have been way more pathetic. Life with a little music in it is always a little bit better.

Try increasing your buffer size. First thing that comes to mind is that the LP-64 is more CPU-intensive than the Sonitus Multiband due to its use of linear-phase filters. The phrase "some noise" could mean a lot of things, one of which is dropouts caused by buffer exhaustion.

I've not heard of any issues with Hornet plugins in particular, so we'll need more info to help you out. Let's start by clarifying "crash". A screenshot might clear it up.

Good troubleshooting, Sean. If you could edit your topic description to add [SOLVED], that'll help more people find this thread.

I wonder if anyone's ever done an analysis of life expectancies for different musical specialties. Maybe I'm still in mourning over Neil Peart, but it does seem that drummers generally don't enjoy long longevity. Sure, 69 doesn't sound young, but it depends on which side of 69 you're on.

Oh, wouldn't that be sweet. It would have to be able to climb stairs, though. And rough terrain. I'm thinking about the outdoor gigs I've done where we had to lug everything across grass and gravel. This was the best single investment I've ever made. Get the one with the 8" wheels on the front and 10" wheels on the back. It'll roll over everything. Well, almost everything. I didn't see a pothole once and dumped all my gear onto the street. Yeh, but you're probably old enough to remember when PA speakers required two people just to lift them out of the truck. And you'd probably have 4 or more of them. I had bi-amped PA cabs in the 70's with separate tweeters, and those tweeters alone weighed 50 lbs each. They had separate passive crossovers, also heavy, and a massive amplifier. Today, my little QSCs are only 32 lbs each. I never thought that their light weight might actually make them more dangerous, because if they'd weighed 100 lbs I wouldn't have been lifting them by myself. And there's the warning for younger folks who still think they're invincible. Back problems tend to never go away. I had my initial injury at age 30. Like you, it laid me up for a week where I couldn't walk. I foolishly assumed that would be the end of it. But back issues have continued to plague me ever since. I'm sure you're familiar with the Code of Tall Guys, which says that while it's impolite to volunteer to reach something for someone, you can never deny a request. My band's tall guy is also the youngest member at 28, so double the expectations. I try to be appreciative and not holler "hey, tall kid!" when I need to drape a speaker cable on a high nail. I like the kid so much that I will actually pretend to listen when he's complaining about his current girlfriend of the week being an insufferable PIA.