Jerry Gerber

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

Sonar will be a dead duck too if they are losing long time customers. Cakewalk is fine, yeah, it will fade away one day, and so will you , I and everything else. I've been using Cakewalk since 1991. Your "simple concept" may apply to you, but not to everyone. You should be insecure about an app that is available only by subscription. Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com https://www.youtube.com/@astromusicvideo

Great, that helps, thanks. If and when Bandlab decides to offer Sonar on a non-subscription basis, (many software companies have an option to buy the software or subscribe) then I will consider upgrading. Otherwise count me out (a loyal customer since 1991).

I've been working in Cakewalk since Cakewalk for DOS in the early 1990s. I continued with nearly every upgrade through Sonar and am now running Cakewalk by Bandlab (the free version) for several years. It's long been my DAW of choice even after using Digital Performer and trying Pro Tools and Reaper. Can someone tell me the differences between Cakewalk by Bandlab and the new Sonar? It's more out of curiosity as I don't buy into the subscription model for software. Bandlab is losing customers in my opinion by not offering Sonar in both a subscription and non-subscription model. Nevertheless I am interested in what new features Sonar has that Cakewalk by Bandlab does not. Thanks, Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com https://www.youtube.com/@astromusicvideo

Thanks! I have a 6" refractor, 1000mm focal length, it's a good scope. I scored for film, TV, animation, computer games, documentaries and industrial films for 12 years but lost interest in doing soundtracks and wanted to focus on more complex music that I have control over. Best decision I've ever made, at least in terms of music.

Thank you Martin, very glad to hear you enjoyed the piece! Best, Jerry

The title of this new music video suggests that there may exist consciousness outside of time. We have glimpses of it in our dream life, and in those somewhat rare experiences of "Deja vu". People who report NDEs (near death experiences) often allude to a similar sense--time as we know it has disappeared or taken on an entirely new meaning. PLAY

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Thanks Chaps! No orchestra for me. Getting a work like this played will take more time and effort than writing and producing it. I'll leave that to other composers to pursue. I am satisfied working in the digital medium. Best, Jerry

Well, here I am, 73 years old and I had no idea whether I'd make it to my 13th symphony. The main themes, introduced in the upper and lower strings, permeate the entire movement, with a few "off-road" transitions. Growing old has its challenges and rewards, no doubt. Maybe I'll be lucky and get the other 3 movements done as well. Produced, as all my music is, in Cakewalk.. Symphony #13, 1st movement (open score in new tab, the usual method of automatically opening a new tab isn't working right now)

I finally found the problem and resolved it. Thanks Starship Krupa for steering me in the right direction. The VSL library comes with what's called the Directory Manager. In this utility, is a setting called "Pre-Load", which allows you to choose how many samples from each sample set (i.e. brass samples, string samples, etc., whatever samples you've installed on your machine) you want to load at start-up. At some point long ago I may have changed each sample set to 2048 samples. I forgot about this setting. and had never thought to change this. When I changed every sample set to load 8192 samples, the problem I explained above disappeared. I still have over 19GB of free RAM. If you ever run across the same problem, consider looking at how many samples are being loaded into memory at startup. Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

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Thanks, I appreciate the offer. I want to first talk to Leandra (the singer) to see what she thinks. Personally I don't think it's a problem at all but I don't want others to think it is if it detracts from the piece. On the other hand, my critics are going to be my critics no matter what I do, so there's that to consider!

Hi Bjorn, New technology is making astrophotography a bit easier. The most difficult challenge I faced are the sky conditions where I live in San Francisco, California. Nearly constant fog and wind (I don't live far from the coast) became very discouraging. So I put my 130mm refractor at a dark sky site in New Mexico, about 900 miles from where I live and I control everything now remotely by computer. I don't have to carry equipment and set up every time I image, it's all ready to go on a permanent pier. Glad you enjoyed the piece! Jerry

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Hey Gary, Do you think I should ask my vocalist to re-record the places where there's some clipping? Did it detract from the artistic communication? I'm wondering because if you heard it others with trained ears will also... Thanks, Jerry

A new astrophotographic music video by composer/astrophotographer Jerry Gerber PLAY

Thank yo Starship Krupa for responding. Yeah, other instruments are playing, including cellos and basses before the glitch happens. I'll have to check to see of the articulation that has the glitch was played earlier in the piece. I mean that the 2nd computer is dedicated only the VSOC samples. It's connected via MIDI over LAN, with the DAW sending MIDI data to the 2nd computer which plays back the samples and sends the audio over ADAT back to the DAW. I'll investigate further and I posed on VSL's forum. I am not sure if VSL is even supporting the Cube anymore... Jerry