Jerry Gerber

I use Cakewalk exclusively, I've been using it as my sequencer/DAW since 1991. I use Sibelius for scores/parts. I don't play any parts in. I used to do that when I was doing commercial scoring, but I've gotten very fast at using the mouse to enter parts and editing all the needed CCs that I don't bother playing them in. I still play piano though all the time!

Yes, all of the videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/@astromusicvideo

Thanks a lot Treesha! I am glad you enjoyed the music video. Jerry

Thanks Matthew!

Thanks Nigel! Glad you enjoyed it..

Thanks Martin, I'm glad you enjoyed the music video. I've been using the VSL Symphonic Cube for over a decade and will continue to use it until I die. It has so many great samples, quite a few that I haven't even explored deeply yet. I also use: VSL Appassionata Strings, VSL Solo Strings, Vienna Choir, Requiem Professional Choir and East West Choirs (with their word builder software) Jerry

Thanks Steve!

A new astro music video, #13 in an ongoing series.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0B5BNR7zuw Enjoy! Jerry

Thanks Martin!

Thank you for watching & listening Treesha.

An astrophotographic music video featuring the gorgeous astrophotography of Timothy Martin WATCH

I think Martin was right. I forgot to add the volume envelopes to the piece. The dynamics are better now..

Hi Martin, I am pretty sure the dynamics are right for the piece. I'll go back and take a listen to see if I really want to change anything. There are crescendos & decrescendos, I have no idea why you're not hearing them. The movement has a dynamic range of 8.03 dB, which is, I admit, a bit lower than many of my symphonic movements. When I listen to it at a moderately low level, it sounds fine but if i crank it up too loud, it does seem a little flat dynamically. When I master the entire symphony I'll mix this movement at a lower amplitude. The lack of dynamics in the score has nothing to do with the recording, which contains all the dynamics in the MIDI sequence. I don't put dynamics in the score (nobody wrote out dynamics until the 19th century) because there are no players. Same with string bowings and wind/brass breathing marks. If there were players I'd put them in. I know how to do that. But for digitally produced music they're redundant. I wrote a brief article about why I don't put these marks in the score, which irritates a lot of composers who write for live players, but I am not concerned with that tradition: https://www.jerrygerber.com/markings.htm Here's the waveform, you can see it has dynamic range:

This is the slow movement of the new symphony I'm currently working on. It may also become the soundtrack to my next astro music video. It took me quite a while to begin liking this piece as I know the pitfalls of writing an adagio and had to work hard to overcome them. If you want to look at the score, remember to open it in a new tab or it will cut-off the playback of the recording. Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com/symph13mvt3.htm

Thank you Steve!

Thank you Nigel!

Thanks Freddy, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Jerry

I hope not! Thanks for watching/listening Old Joad!

Thanks Bjorn!

Thanks Base 57!

Thanks Martin! I have a 130mm refractor at an observatory in the mountains of New Mexico, about 1000 miles from where I live in San Francisco. I operate the telescope remotely and download the hundreds of "subs" (many frames are necessary as exposure times are in hours) and process them at home. For more detailed info, visit: https://www.astrobin.com/users/jsg Jerry

I hope this 6' 42" video brings you some transcendence, peace and a short escape from the chaos and darkness that politics is bringing to our beautiful world. https://www.jerrygerber.com/video/Across the Universe.mp4

Thanks people for listening, much appreciated. Jerry

Finished the composition/orchestration a few nights ago, completed the score yesterday and the recording this morning. On to the Adagio.. Thanks for listening! Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com/symph13mvt2.htm

True, a company has to make money to keep developing its software, of course. I buy software from a lot of companies, and many have both a subscription model and a traditional model of paying when you want to upgrade. Seems to me that's the best of both worlds for both software company and end-user. I've supported Cakewalk for decades as it's the best DAW ever made. Yes, I've tried numerous others but I've always come back to Cakewalk. I've produced 12 symphonies, 17 albums, 11 soundtracks and countless short works in Cakewalk, I really love the program and wouldn't use another DAW unless I was forced to. I only ask that Bandlab consider offering the software as BOTH subscription and purchase models. In the meantime I am content using Cakewalk by Bandlab as it does everything (and more) that I need it to do. If Sonar is offered non-subscription I'd certainly take a serious look at purchasing it. Jerry Astrophotographic Music Videos