Jerry Gerber

Really enjoyed listening to this song.. Straightforward, nice guitar part, your voice is easy on the ears! Jerry

Hi Tom, I chose 12 poems for an album I did a while back. I composed music for each of the poems. I started another all vocal album this year but due to Covid-19, I can't bring singers and narrators into the studio to record, so I'm working on a new symphony until I can bring people into to the studio. Thanks again for the kind comments! Best, Jerry

From the album In Praise of Poets PLAY Jerry

Hi Lynn, Well, I am glad there a some people who get my music and like it. I think composers like me, who work in the virtual medium but don't write pop-like music, are in the minority. Thanks for your comments! Jerry

This track appears on my album In Praise of Poets PLAY Jerry

Yes, this is correct. No matter what note value is chosen, the snap function is always hit or miss. I find the workaround is to make the staves bigger, this helps. It used to be that when you choose, say, an eighth note, the snap would follow the eighth note and snap into place at the place where you want it to. Does Bandlab read these comments? This issue and the issue where we have to press CTRL-right click to call up the context menu for MIDI editing should be repaired. We should be able to call up the menu just by a right-click, which requires only one hand rather than two... Jerry

That would be the best thing that could happen for the staff view.

Both methods have their advantages. For accuracy I also prefer exporting type 1 .mid files. But for clarity of notation that requires less editing, XML works well . But since I cannot find a way to export more than 18 tracks (the maximum allowed to view at one time in the staff view) I'll just stick with .mid file exports.... Thanks, Jerry

Does anyone know if it's possible to export all the MIDI tracks in a file via XML? I'm finding that I can only export the tracks that are visible in the notation editor, and the limit is 18 tracks. I'm working on a piece that has 36 MIDI tracks and haven't figured out a way to export all of them at once. I thought I had done this before, but I forgot how I did it, if I did it at all. Thanks! Jerry

I believe "orchestrally" is definitely a real word, regardless of what the dictionary says.

Yes, but not for this piece. I use FM8, Massive and Kontakt quite often. I still find FM8 very useful for many different situations. In this track, there's only samples of orchestral instruments. Jerry

Very good! and very true! The "president" is an insane, pathologically lying buffoon. Great job! Jerry

From the album Rebel Planet PLAY Jerry

Thanks Bjorn and Mark. Glad you liked listening..

Hi Wookie, The piece is scored for 8 instances of softsynths: 2 instances of FM8 2 instances of Rapture 2 instances of Massive 2 instances of Tera No samples or orchestral instruments.... Jerry

Hey Tom, I guess electronica is close enough. I know that the timbre you're referring to does have a kind of "bodily function" sound ? ! If it makes somebody laugh, that's fine with me! Jerry

From the album Waves This is a short piece for synths only, no orchestral samples in this one... PLAY Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

True, the time saved, only a second or two, is definitely not worth having an unstable system. I found that 2 of the 3 problems I was having are now resolved simply by turning off fast startup. The problem of Sonar getting stuck in memory also seems to be resolved by turning fast startup off, but not 100% sure, I'll know more in a week or so but so far so good.

thanks scook, but I already have the functionality I want! ?. I've resolved my issue with Sonar Platinum getting stuck in memory, and it's working absolutely beautifully now. I will definitely considering upgrading when there are real improvements to the staff view. Until then, good enough is good enough...

Yeah, I do that too. 1 is velocity, 2 is transposition, 3 is length and so on. But I still prefer to right-click method because I can do it with only one hand, the hotkeys requires the other hand on the keyboard...

I was having several problems after upgrading to Windows 10. Both involved drivers; an ethernet MIDI over LAN driver (ipMIDI and MIDI over LAN) and a MOTU microlite MIDI interface driver. The culprit, I am 99% certain, is a feature called "fast startup", which I didn't know about as I was using Windows 7 for many years and this feature wasn't implemented until Windows 8. After doing some online research I learned that this feature can cause problems with updates, drivers and other problems. If you go to your power settings in control panel, you'll see the function. Turn it off. Power Options-Choose What the Power Buttons Do-Change settings that are currently available-uncheck fast startup. If you find drivers are not loading correctly and if you do a restart (not shutting off the machine, just restarting) fixes the problem, it's most likely because of fast startup. Your boot time might increase by 1 second or so (no big deal) but your system will be stable and drivers will then load correctly from a cold boot. Jerry

Hello, (I posted this onthe Q&A Forum but I think this is the better place to ask this question) I am still running the final version of Sonar Platinum because, in the staff view, I can select a passage and right click to get the menu which allows me to make changes to the MIDI data (velocity, transpose, slide, etc.). In the newest version of Cakewalk I have to press CTRL-right click to do the same thing. I work almost exclusively in the staff view and event list and this one extra step will add a lot of time to my workflow. Any chance you can have the program revert back to the right-click only to call up the menu? Thanks! Jerry Gerber www.jerrygerber.com

Hello, I am still running the final version of Sonar Platinum because, in the staff view, I can select a passage and right click to get the menu which allows me to make changes to the MIDI data (velocity, transpose, slide, etc.). In the newest version of Cakewalk I have to press CTRL-right click to do the same thing. I work almost exclusively in the staff view and event list and this one extra step will add a lot of time to my workflow. Any chance you can have the program revert back to the right-click only to call up the menu? Thanks! Jerry Gerber www.jerrygerber.com

I'm not certain yet, but it may have something to do with Windows 10 "fast startup". I've been reading that it causes far more problems than it's worth, saving a second or two on boot up. Apparently it might cause problems with some drivers loading correctly. I'll know in a few days whether this is the culprit. I'll put the ipMIDI monitor on the taskbar and see if it reveals anything new. Thanks for the tip.. Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

Yeah, I checked. It may be that I need to allow my interfaces (audio and midi) and their USB drivers more time to load before booting up the DAW.