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Terry Kelley

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  1. It's important after any music training to doodle. Don't try and apply theory, just doodle. Make stuff up. Wander around the keyboard. Hum along.  I think that helps keep the creativity flowing and you can use the theory to solve problems, not write a song.

    I have a habit of boxing myself into a corner with chord and key changes and what little theory I know helps me get my ***** out and back to the main theme.

    As mentioned above, someone I know really well is top notch in theory and sight reading. But playing to even a metronome is nearly impossible because that unnamed person wants to constantly stop and replay any bad notes.

    If you do have a chance to play with others, take it. That goes a long way.

  2. I completely understand the reservations about getting heavily involved in software that will stop working if the company goes #!# up or sheds the product due to losses. Like it's never happened before. We will just have to see if Bandlab can avoid the same pitfalls.

    On the other hand, rental is probably the only viable future for Cakewalk/Sonar. So it's best to let it wander off.

  3. 7 hours ago, Sock Monkey said:

    I think I know what caused the crash. The song was Margaritaville. Last January I was looking for a steel drum vst. In that thread Sound paint was mentioned. Also the TTS-1. 
    As you may or may not know, adding the TTS-1 to a project later on in its creation has been known to cause a crash.
    This project has the TTS-1 in the Bottom of the synth rack. 
    I doesn’t seem to crash now. Staff has been in touch. In all my years of reporting crashes I’ve never been contacted later with any reason reports. 
     

    I found that I have to add it early and freeze whatever I played. At some point, it will decided to go south. Noel or Mark gave an explanation of the cause sometime back. I finally switched to the Munt MT32 even though it has output routing limitations and you can make Cakewalk think it's the TTS-1 for midi only files.

    It certainly sounds far better than the original MT-32 since it doesn't do the 14/15 bit chopping stuff the original hardware did.

  4. 21 hours ago, Jeremy Oakes said:

    Anyone who can emerge from Piccadilly Circus tube station in rain, shirtless, with guitar and miming to a mediocre rock track is, imho an prat. I feel he’s over sensationalising things on his website to either get his name/band known. Uses stem separating software on phone videos his « supporters » send him and claims his studies are exact.

     

    I watch him and laugh. He was also on X Factor, topless. I laughed also.

    (You may have guessed i’m’not his biggest fan) 😜😜😜

    J

    Yeah, his performance shtick didn't work out but his analysis videos are very interesting. He's also a quite capable player.

  5. Like the girls playing guitar solos where the dots on the fretboard keep coming and going? The fingering makes no sense in places? Apparently the Gibson guitars with the large square fret markers are easier to keep stable in AI.

    No, that ain’t AI. Right.

    The movie ones were cool at first but quickly became redundant and boring. Only a couple were needed.

  6. Yeah, I’m surprised he hasn’t been murdered by now. But he does give credit to the singing greats. His Karen Carpenter analysis was very interesting.

    I think word of mouth is better than making them add a disclaimer. As one of my friends said, “Well that ruins it for me.”

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