Jerry Gerber

I know, of course time is valuable and should not be wasted. And the generally accepted meaning you gave is right. But still, from my perspective one can be replaced, the other cannot, so for me personally time is more valuable because while money can be gained and lost, time only moves in one direction...

The saying "Time is Money" never made any sense to me. The huge difference between them is that money can be replaced. Time cannot.

This is a short piece for this album: http://www.jerrygerber.com/virtualharmonics.htm PLAY It's scored for string orchestra and 2 instances of Z3TA-2. I hope you enjoy listening! Jerry

Oops! I forgot to mention the singer and lyricist's names! I wrote and produced the song, Lee Gregory is the tenor and Lisa K. Buchanan wrote the lyrics... My error...

My friend Art Austin is one of the few classical musicians that I know who is a fantastic improviser. We get together from time to time, when there weren't any pandemics, just to play. Nothing memorized, nothing notated, nothing agreed upon, not even tempos, keys or chord progressions. We just listen to one another and respond. I find that improv is the time to give expression to the spontaneous musical impulse, the most direct and immediate form of musical expression. As a composer, improv often serves as the place where ideas are discovered and turned into composition. Composition is about structure, refinement, development and organization, improv is about music-in-the-moment-- and nothing else. I hope you enjoy listening. Art Austin, clarinet Jerry Gerber, piano PLAY

This is a song I wrote and produced quite a few years ago, my wife wrote the lyrics. I may get around to re-mixing it to improve the relationship between the vocal and the instrumentation even though I already released this track on a CD years ago... PLAY Lyrics by Lisa K. Buchanan Sung by Lee Gregory

I would add where the politician gets their money from. That directly relates to how and why they set policy. By previous actions I assume you also mean voting record, which is essentially a history of their policies. We'd better quit while we're ahead because when the conversations turn political the censors begin their censoring!!

Buffoon is spelled incorrectly.

To make a mix that sounds good on other systems you have to mix on really fine, and usually very expensive, speakers. Computer speakers just won't do it. That's what pro monitors are for: To get an accurate image of the sound, warts and all. That's desirable, because if you can't hear what's wrong you can't improve it. I hope you listen to a lot of classical (not film!) music and study scores. When I finish a symphony it usually takes me about 2 years working on it every day. Much of that time is spend in MIDI programming--attacks, releases, velocity and cc7 or 11, moving notes forward or backward away from the beat, sample-set choice, etc. It's time consuming. You have to think how a player would attack a note, express a phrase, create gesture and intention. Using lots of tempo variation, even slight, also helps. The problem is that a computer can play perfectly in time. That easily degrades into a mechanical, artless, lifeless sound. It's up to the musician to counteract that with techniques to bring expression, randomness, clarity and a sense of human intention into the MIDI sequence. I'd start with basic classical piano pieces, i.e. Bach inventions or fugues, and learn that way. Taking on producing The Rite of Spring requires not only an incredible amount of time and energy, but also top notch gear and a lot of knowledge of music. If you have that, go for it. Here's a masterclass I did a few months ago on this topic: http://www.jerrygerber.com/soundbytesinterview2019.pdf And here's a new symphonic work you can probably learn something from: http://www.jerrygerber.com/symph10complete.htm Jerry

It's a wonderful and clever parody. It's a song....

Great, thanks! For some reason my eye didn't catch to tabs at the very bottom... Best, Jerry

Thanks everyone for taking the time to listen to this piece. And thanks for the positive feedback. Jerry

Hey there! I hope you're all safe and staying sane and staying crazy! With MIDI tracks, it's possible to move an entire track forward or backwards in time using the Inspector View. I think the only way to do this with Instrument tracks is to create 2 tracks, a MIDI track and an audio output track. Am I right? Does anyone know how to move an Instrument track forward or backward without actually moving the notes off the beat? Thanks, Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

I think the passage you're referring to is at measure 31. Dune, a soft synth with ARP comes in and then is joined by Massive, another soft synth at measure 33. A 3rd synth then enters at measure 35, which is a Cakewalk synth, Z3TA. No oboes or bassoons in those measures. The score is in my original post so you can check the orchestration at those measures. Glad you asked! Best, Jerry

I know that many of you around this forum are mostly into pop and rock music, but for those who enjoy instrumental non-pop music, I am posting my entire 10th symphony. I hope you enjoy listening. Best, Jerry

This new work is music set to a poem by Los Angeles poet Cathy Colman. Body Politics Best, Jerry

Thanks for the compliment Tom. I've never considered myself a mastering engineer in the sense that I don't offer mastering services to others. I master my own recordings because I know what sound I am going for and pretty much know how to achieve it. When something doesn't sound right to my ear (after I am satisfied with the composition, harmony, counterpoint, form, etc) it's usually a sequencing, orchestration and/or mixing issue. If I fix the problem successfully at the stage where the problem actually occurs, there's not much to do in the mastering stage other than a little EQ, maybe some stereo imaging and if needed some multiband compression to keep high frequencies from becoming harsh at higher levels and/or bass tones from getting too boomy at higher levels. Since I am no longer doing soundtrack work and am focused only on making CDs of my own music, I don't worry about how my music works over TV or other mediums that don't concern me. This too, makes mastering less complicated. Best, Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

Poetry by Wendell Berry Soprano: Janet Campbell Composed and produced by Jerry Gerber PLAY

I checked to see if any tracks were archived or muted, and if any clips were muted or linked. I didn't see any. Is there a hot key that mutes all the clips at the same time? If there is, I may have accidentally pressed it, but I don't think that is even possible..

Thanks Matthew! That did the trick. I was editing the wrong icon. I imported the midi panic icon from another theme and it solved it... Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

No, this theme was created by scook.

I have a .cwp file that has about 14 midi tracks and a few audio tracks. After rendering the MIDI track to audio I decided to go back and do some more editing. But when I tried playing the file with the audio tracks muted, none of the MIDI tracks would sound. If I used the scrub tool in the notation editor I could see and hear the music, same with playing a track on the keyboard in real time, the right instrument would be triggered. But when I pressed space bar the file would start but no sound. Nothing was muted, no tracks were archived. So I opened two other files and they played back fine, which told me no issue with hardware or even Cakewalk. So I then created a new file and copied and pasted the tracks from the file that would not sound and lo and behold everything is working normally. I wonder what could have caused this, it appears to be a corrupted file but I have no idea how it got corrupted. Any ideas? Best, Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

Hi, I want to change the background color of the transport module in the control bar from deep black to a lighter grey because the little MIDI icon for turning all notes off doesn't display properly in one of the themes I use. When I open the theme editor and choose that background and lighten it, I save the change and then save the theme. But when I open it in Cakewalk the same pre-edited theme keeps appearing! I'm not sure I'm even editing the right background (I'm choosing Viewport Background) but even if I am not, none of the backgrounds change after saving and opening in Cakewalk. Does anyone know why this is? Thank you! Jerry

Thank you for taking the time to listen! Best, Jerry