Byron Dickens

My suggestion is vocal coaching and/ or singing lessons. I'm not being snide, either. All these tuning plugins work much better if they don't have to work so hard. They are best employed to nudge those two or three notes out of an otherwise great performance that are slightly out of tune back towards where they belong. Ultimately, it is much faster as well. Singing in time and in tune is not hard. It is a natural part of the human voice. The problem is that people are told that singing is such a difficult thing and open to only those blessed few touched by the hand of God. They are told this so much that they end up believing it. It's really only a matter of getting out of your own way and allowing the notes to come out. ALLOWING them, not making them. Something that has to be relearned after believing for so long that you "can't sing." And I say this as a non- singer. I really have no desire to be a singer. I don't particularly like it. But I can. I'm not very good at it: I don't have much range, power or breath control. Because I don't practice. But I can do it. In tune. So can you.

TTS-1 & V-Vocal are notoriously problematic, so rather than deal with the aggravation, people like me just ditch them and use something that does work. And therefore our advice is to do likewise. Fighting with things that aren't working, and that many other people have issues with as well, is just not productive. I get that some people might not know; that's why they ask. Others are just trying to save them the frustration.

DX plugins are obsolete. Time to find replacements. I can't remember the last time I used one.

Edit: undo.

Be careful about telling the truth about this. Some SJW here tattled on me for the same thing & I got a nasty gram from one of our esteemed moderators.

Vista was untenable when it was first released....

There is, but as has been pointed out, what timing and velocity variations are introduced by human drummers are intentional and consistent instead of random. Having said this, the Humanize CAL works best with very small values. What you can do is leave the kick right on the beat and then nudge the snare slightly behind or ahead of the beat as is appropriate for the feel of the song. Then, you can apply very small amounts of "humanization" to them and then somewhat more to the hi hat & ride. Also, when quantizing, you often get better results by reducing the strength and not quantizing too rigidity.

ASIO4ALL is totally unnecessary. I am about 99.99% sure that Focusrite supplies their own dedicated driver which is what you should be using with the interface.

What audio interface/ driver are you using?

Jamstix: https://rayzoon.com/ And, like John mentioned above, I like to build tempo variations into the song.

Beat me to it. I don't know why ASIO4ALL even exists any more; it is totally superfluous.

How do you stand such horrible working conditions?

1: SONAR doesn't exist any more. It was replaced by CbB over three years ago. 2:http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=SurroundMixing.15.html

What do you think a software tuner on a computer would be?

Nope. No longer available and hasn't been for a long time.

XP????? Home Studio 9????? Yes. You need a new computer.

I'm not sure where this came from; John Lennon never said anything of the sort and in fact had nothing but praise for Mr. Starkey's playing.

While we're on great drummers: Nicko McBrain Scott Travis Chris Adler

I'm not waiting for a better sale. I'm waiting to save up the pennies. I'm one of those weird people who insists on not carrying debt.

I'm probably gonna have to wait 'till BF; a Korg Minilogue on eBay took a big chunk of my stash....

Not true. When I looked at the page where you submit the song, it showed that you could link to a YouTube video, etc.

Have you done the obvious things yet like turn the interface off and back on or reboot the computer?

The number of participants almost always skyrockets towards the end. For those with that concern.