Byron Dickens

I'm not really one to mourn the loss of something I never had in the first place....

It's only confusing if you make it confusing.

I agree completely. Just because you have unlimited tracks doesn't mean you have to use them all. Just because you have unlimited effects doesn't mean you have to put all of them on every track. Just because you have unlimited possibilities doesn't mean you have to explore them all. In fact, limits are a necessary condition for creation to even exist at all.

I have never heard of any of these YouTube alternatives. The only one I have heard of is Vimeo. They're the largest and they only have a fraction of YouTube's viewership. So that kinda illustrates my point

Really? The forum censorship bot blotted out my use of the abbreviation for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei If you wanted any evidence that censorship bots are stupid and have no sense of context: there it is.

Yes, I live in the US. One thing that a lot of people don't understand is that the First Amendment only prevents the government from interfering with your free speech. The whole Bill of Rights is designed to protect the rights of individuals from government interference. Not from other individuals. So Google, as a private entity, can lawfully practice all the censorship they want. Therefore, the common argument in rebuttal to complaints like mine is "if you don't like it, you can always go somewhere else." Problem is: where? There isn't anywhere else. Not as a practical matter. Platforms such as Google/ YouTube and F-Book are so large and so dominant that they constitute virtual monopolies. Their closest "competitors" have only a tiny fraction of the user base. And if any of them get popular enough, Google or F-Book just buy them up. So, while yes there are alternative video platforms, if you want to actually have a chance to reach a sizeable audience there is only one way to go as a practical matter. I would argue that these entities are so large, so dominant and that people are so dependent on them that they are no longer private businesses but public utilities. The electric and water companies aren't allowed to shut off service to a building just because it is the headquarters for the local ***** party no matter how despicable they are. Same principle applies.

Good song and an awesome video.

YouTube's nonsense is absolutely getting out of hand! My video for Doomsday Prophecy got taken down for "hate speech," HATE SPEECH? It's an instrumental you flipping morons! The only words in the whole damn video are the title and the end credits! Am I so unpopular that my very name is hate speech? "Hi byrondickens, Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our hate speech policy. We've removed the following content from YouTube: Video: Doomsday Prophecy" Well, I think maybe you need to hire some people for your "team" who have at least three functioning brain cells to review videos. The video quite obviously doesn't" glorify" or "incite" anything; it uses historical, archival footage to illustrate events of the type that those of an eschatological bent see as signs of the end of the world.

Now the confectionary posterior morons at YouTube pulled my video. For "hate speech." HATE SPEECH? It's an INSTRUMENTAL, you idiots. Outside the title and end credits, there's not one word in the whole damn thing.

Oh, God! Like getting a text from the bass player 5 minutes before rehearsal saying "I'm not going to make it to practice today. I have a wedding to go to." What? You just found out about this? It came up at the last minute?

Remixed. Reinstated the AWOL low end. SoundCloud for those who might be put off by the video.

Why not? The hottest thing going is 40 year old analog synthesizers or clones/ spinoffs/ reissues thereof. And 40 year old songs are climbing the charts again. Must be something to it....

Hey! This is falling too far down the page! There's still another month left!

No. The staff view is rather rudimentary. Cakewalk is not really intended to be a notation app.

Well, then maybe some education is in order.... Excuse my rant. This is all complex stuff. You can't expect to understand it without putting in some effort.

Nashville tuning is awesome for layering. I went out and got myself a Squier Strat just for that.

I second that. Some things really do have simple solutions.

If you want the lowest latency, you have to use ASIO drivers. Dedicated ASIO drivers supplied by the manufacturer, not ASIO4ALL. ASIO only allows one device at a time. That's not a Cakewalk issue, it's part of the ASIO spec.

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Troubleshooting.01.html

I just can't imagine that this all goes so smoothly and painlessly for me simply because I have such a charmed life.... In fact, I think I should sue William Bell and Booker T Jones for the royalties they owe me:

Hey, can someone tell me why my car won't start....

I guess I've been doing it wrong.... https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/productmanager/

It's only complicated if you make it complicated. Open the product manager, click on the product you want and go make some coffee. In the meantime, the product manager downloads, installs and authorizes it. I don't know how it could be any simpler. What do you want? Someone from IK to come over to your house and do it for you?

Yep. I find the easiest way is to select the node and edit the values just as with automation.

Quality will not suffer.