Jerry Gerber

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

This is an older work, produced in 2003 using sample libraries that, to my ear at least, sound pretty good. Not as good as what I have now, but the piece comes across pretty well. Listen The entire CD is here

This is a fast movement from my newest symphony for virtual instruments. Full album available here Play

Yes, I definitely believe that I evolved from primates over the past million years or so. I'm not sure about you though. Denying the reality of your own volition sounds unevolved to my mind. Sort of like a rebel without a cause... Animals do not have art, science, philosophy or religion. animals do not care for their grandchildren. And by the way, I don't eat them and I don't hunt them, I am vegan. Animals cannot know sin, or good and evil. A hungry tiger in the jungle might eat you, but there's no moral or ethical component to the behavior because that's what animals are born to do. But if a man follows you home one evening and stabs you to death for your wallet--that's why humans evolved laws because there's a moral sense in humans that animals either don't have, or have only to a very small degree, i.e. mammalian affection and love they can learn from humans who love them. There's no real conflict between science and spiritual faith, at least for me there isn't. Read a book by the biologist Stephen Jay Gould about the different domains that science and religion operate in. And you've made another wrong assumption: I do know people born in humble homes who became rich (and no, I won't give you their names or email addresses so you can hit them up for money). So don't tell me I just "hope" it's true. I've answered your question. Now please, go debate someone else, I've said all I need to say...

I'm going to wind up my contribution to this discussion now, but if you read my first post I stressed the importance of diet and health. Also, in the 5 factors I stated are important I guess it wasn't clear that education is a part of one's social development. In any event, your argument seems to give scant recognition and little importance to human volition, which says to me you do believe in (if grudgingly) limited free will, even though you assert you don't believe in it... Nice chatting with you! Best, Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

Here are the factors that can determine the trajectory of a person's life: 1. Genetics (nature) 2. Parenting skills or the lack thereof (nurture) 3. Social/economic/political conditions under which that person was born 4. Luck, both good and bad 5. Decisions and choices made by the individual Out of these, the only one a person has some degree of control over is #5. There's long been the debate regarding the influence of nature vs. nurture. I think this debate leaves out a crucial third component, and perhaps the most mysterious of all: Personality. By "personality" I am not referring to the outer garments, the mannerisms, our likes and dislikes, the face we portray to the world. Instead I mean personality in the most profound sense, the fact that each of us is a unique individual, unduplicatable throughout the cosmos. Personality includes values, relationships, aspirations and goals that a person aspires to, it is influenced by nature/nurture, very much so, yet at the same time the uniqueness of personality cannot be dismissed or ignored. The subjective experience of personhood is as real as is gravity, water and stars. And since everyone of us is interconnected, we all have the same ultimate origin, whatever that may be, the sense of "I" cannot be complete without a sense of "us" and "we". Society breeds into us a sense of "they", and some classes add to that a sense of unearned and delusional superiority, for which there is no evidence to back it up. Everything in this world is a means to an end, excepting relationships. True relationship is an end in itself. When the majority of the people in this world get that, and live by that, the world will evolve in ways we cannot even imagine. Or, conversely, we either blow ourselves up or heat ourselves up to oblivion. Nature doesn't care. Caring is a human attribute. If we stop caring, and our institutions continue to reflect that lack of caring, we're doomed. but if we awaken to our true condition and potential, there's definitely reason for hope...