Byron Dickens

If you believe that, then it's true. If you believe you can do it, well then that's true too. And if you've decided that you're going to do it, well then nothing on this Earth can stop you. There's nothing magical about some imaginary number on a calendar that marks a boundary past which you can never learn to do something well. The barrier is in your head. One of the biggest barriers, too, in our culture is this notion that in order to do anything you have to do it at "professional level" (whatever that is) or you're "no good" and you shouldn't do it at all. You think you have a terrible voice? So what! I got two words for you: Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is in the Rock and roll Hall of fame. Bob Dylan won a Nobel prize for literature. Bob Dylan is proof that if the song is good enough, nobody cares what you sound like. Look, I'm not saying don't ever use pitch correction. What I'm saying is that there is no such thing as" I can't sing." Even Amy Lee misses the odd note now and again. If you practice so that you can sing in time and in tune then that's so much less correcting that you have to do. Which ultimately makes it easier and ultimately makes for a better end product. There's also no such thing as "I'm too old." I was in my late 40s before I started learning to play drums. I'll be staring my mid-50s in the face in the not too distant future and I'm fixing to start learning how to play keyboards for real. As a matter of fact, after all this I just might start working on my singing too. Because I can. And I'm the only thing that can stop me.

That is operating as designed. Spitfire's libraries, and many other Orchestral libraries as well, use the mod wheel for volume.

Double click on the output.

There's only about 552, 000 GM sound sets out there. Find one that works and be done with it.

I have no such issue. I highly doubt it is Cakewalk's fault. Especially since no one else seems to be reporting this

That's about like when I got IK's total Studio Deluxe, which includes Miroslav Philharmonik, for less than Miroslav was by itself.

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

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