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? ouch...... if looks could kill .... Kenny

Hi Steve , thanks . ?you got big pockets too.? Hi Bjorn , Wow , very nice complement you said there . I need to get back out in the clubs again . I miss playing Live in front of people . If and when I do get back out there (in my current Geo location) I'm local to you ...maybe we can even meet . Hi Max ! Yes I did have a lot of fun playing over this track . I'm glad by the third mix I got the song in the ball park . I enjoy listening to tunes here myself . I need to make some time to comment on some of the new tunes I have yet to hear. thanks Max . Hi Kevin , As far as my guitar playing goes , I sit in my Lazy boy chair and play for hours ...during that time I come up w lots of ideas , Usually I analyze what I'm playing and just practice what I think will free me up ...sort of like the big picture and It's like my little cocoon ........... Then when it comes time to record I throw myself into it w every thing I got ... I always try to leave my mind out of the equation ...doing it this way for me is sort of like a metamorphosis ..if I want to repeat what I played I have to sit there and learn what I just played ...For some odd reason playing guitar solo's comes somewhat easy too me ...as long as I get out of my own way ....lol Hi Tom , I'm glad you liked what I did here on this tune . Midi Guitar 2 is so much more than just a Midi Guitar app Used stand alone it is pretty versatile as a live performance tool. I love that It hosts every VST plug and VST I synth I have . Not only that , it is capable of creating some very complex signal chains for Midi Instruments and audio combined (Midi Guitar is easily as versatile as Main Stage) . Used in side of a DAW it tracks very well as long as you keep audio buffers to 256 and bellow . I have actually used Midi Guitar 2 as a poor mans Melodyne .. Check this out, both clips are Joe Pass ...I took an MP3 placed it in SONAR ( Pre Cakewalk ) and Placed Midi Guitar 2 on my audio track and had it trigger a VST instrument ... first clip is Lounge Lizard https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13548515 second clip is Joe Pass Virtuoso All The Things You Are ..audio on one side Strumm acoustic on the other side .. This was done in real time as the song played and I did not do any midi or audio editing at all on this file / conversion . I left the warts in there so a person could be able to hear for them selfs how good this plug really is ... There is a part of me that would like to edit-it but man Midi Guitar kept up great https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13311064 I used Joe Pass because he is a true musical virtuoso on the guitar ..very few people play on his level .. I think Midi Guitar kept up pretty good with him ... PS disregard anything that might come up as an auto play after the files I linked .....I have left that site as a ghost town nice talking w you Hi Arlen , You hung in for the long haul w me on this song ...I'm gonna suggest you get hazard pay for hanging in there ? Yeah man I got burnt out putting in the time ....the playing only took a few takes and less than a half hour for the session . The Mixing and all that other stuff ( in my case ) is always the thing that takes me into the championship rounds ... I got my rest and one day back in the gym after doing the updates on my tune ... If I can make the gym tomorrow I may be strong enough to take a Victory Lap ...lol... if not I'm going back to practicing in my Lazyboy all the best , Kenny

OK , here we go again . I remixed the song as I paid real close attention to the low end . After saying "Dang the ending of my song really sucks ...I'm gonna do something about that " to myself . I whipped out my guitar and did something about it . here's the newest mix .....my opening post has same song version I plan on getting some rest , ( been at it all night ) I will come back here and thank the people that helped convince me to keep at it .. till then all the best , Kenny

Hi Arlen , A few other people thought there was something funny going on w the Bass in my other mix . On this Mix I did take a lot of the rumble out in Cakewalk . I think some may be getting added back to my stereo file during the pseudo mastering stage . I kid you not ... I have always created characters or named parts of my solo's and sections of my songs .. Dr Mumbles got sent down the road packing . ? Yes it is true ..my current ending BITES ?I'm gonna have to something about that real fast and real soon ...I just can't take it no more ? I might just end this one with a solo ... thanks for the listen and feedback Kenny

You have gotten good feedback so far . At first I listened w cans and then over my monitors ... I preferred listening over the speakers for sure ...your using so many clean sounds on the gtrs .while listening over the cans they sound alright . They sound even better over the speakers . I can hear and feel the subtle punch of moving air ( In the whole song w all instruments ) Pretty cool song I want to hear where you take it . all the best, Kenny

I enjoyed your songs overall vibe and story . Very fun listen .It brought me back to a time when Rock And Roll was all the New's ,Weather and Traffic Report I ever needed to get through the day ... Kenny

Hi Guys , I just put up a new mix for this song . I had gotten a lot of feedback on the songs rather suspicious low end . Using my Pro Channel EQ I placed some notches in the areas that were causing problems . I had also gotten a lot of feedback on the songs rather anticlimactic trumpet solo played by Dr Mumble's . Dr Mumbles is not a bad fellow but he has no biznez trying to play a hot trumpet solo on my Funk song one hour after getting a Botox Lip injection LOL ... I took his solo out and left some space for the outtro groove . I'm still not happy with the ending ....yet I feel what I have up now is better than what was up before ...it is my desire to give this song a proper decent ending that matches my playing ..( my next goal for this song ) Other than that, I also dialed back on my Mastering signal chain The songs link is the same link as per my opening post , Please let me know what you think ... thank you in advance for your time and patience , Kenny

I use the old best way a real amp , Glad you enjoyed my playing I would urge you to get acquainted with Midi Guitar and Midi Bass since you already own them . I find playing my guitar along w synth patches helps my overall musicality on guitar ... As far as the sax and what's quirky about the tune in general goes , now that the other thread has run it course I may decide to offer up a hipper mix . On the down low I update some of my tunes on Soundcloud all the time ( as long as I pay up on my SC Pro Subscription LOL ) thanks for the listen I'm glad you like it . My whole thing on the guitar is to play w emotion and feel ...in a perfect world not only would I be a Great Guitar player I would also be a Great Engineer . Since I don't live in a perfect world I will accept being a very quirky guitar player that needs lessons on how to engineer .. thanks for your listen and your feedback , Kenny

P5 is even better when you add some of the stuff that came with SONAR as add on's. Throw in some of Larry's deals and watch out . Kenny

Yes ? I do he was a real Joy to be friends with ☺️ Erica likes guitar . Kenny

I heard Donkeys have an ear about as good as Van Gogh 's . That's why I use the New Guitar Tuner that comes with The Waves Farm Edition Bundle . My guitar tuners ear is very accurate up or down to 0.01 cent and he don't steal the becan . Kenny

I have Project 5 installed on the Win 10 computer I am writing this post on . Before this lap top became a Win 10 64 OS I had P 5 on it in Win 8. My experiences have been good running P 5 on the newer Windows OS 's .That may be due to when I was deepest into P5 I was only using a 32 bit XP P 4 w an M Audio 1010lt. Now I run a Focusrite 2i4 . P5 in Win 10 runs much better for me than it ever did in XP . I have a better machine , I have more ram and an i 3 beats a P4 at the poker table after all the bets are in . Is it worth the trouble ? In my case the yay's far out weighs the nays . I will say that w some reservations ... Just about every thing P 5 could do Cakewalk can do ...P 5 was so streamlined in it's work flow .Most of the features P 5 excelled at are living a breathing in the current version of Cakewalk ..so are most of the plugs , arpeggios , song and patterns , and a number of other things like the Matrix View , just the tip of the iceberg. Cakewalk seems to have more layers of options to wade through itself to get the same results . I have l worked on learning Cakewalk to the point of being able to do a lot of what I used to do in P5 ...it is a steep learning curve imho ...It would take me hours to sit here and do a comparison on a workflow comparison one feature at a time between P 5 and Cakewalk . To be perfectly honest with you I fired up P 5 in Win 10 before I came here today . I find it totally inspiring to use P 5 with many of the SONAR X3 , and SPlat instruments and plugs that show up in P 5 ...P5w more modern plugs and synths kicks some serious colo ....the workflow is simplified and it is easier to get around for FAST down and dirty ... Having said all that P5 on a more modern computer can be a little finicky w plugin scans and may crash more often . this computer has both 32 and 64 bit DAW's and the plugs an VST instruments I do have will scan and work for the most part in P5 ... FWIW I don't use P 5 nearly as much as I did . As far as other options go I have both Mixcraft 7 & 8 pro and they are pretty decent DAW's that can do what P 5 used to do and a lot more ... The only thing that P 5 does that none of this other stuff does is save to PTN files .. any way nice talking w you , Kenny

For starters the Becan could go down with the Ship Kenny

Hi Freddy , I was able to find this w out any trouble .Pretty cool tune .Sounds like old school Rockabilly too me . Nice message contained in the lyrics , Love the way the drums are floating in and out of the mix and the fills you used .. Voice sounds good so does the guitar . all the best, Kenny

Hi David , Thank you for giving my performance a listen ..I love to improvise . Other Improvisers may have producers and personal that wield power and have the final say as to what stays and what goes in an Improvised musical performance. As an unknown Guitar player that holds the rank of serial # 3. 726. 444.519 out of a guitar player pool consisting of 8.935.418.876.445 guitar players ...I can do what I want ? Regarding my Improv's on this song . I played the Jazzy Clean Guitar Parts first . They were done as 2 separate passes in the order you hear them ..The first clean Benson type of thing , then second , the chordal melody . There were no punch ins and they were played totally improvised on the spot ...there may have been one or two run through s before I printed them to my song . Generally when I listen to my first attempts at recording over a song I will listen very hard and be totally distanced from how I feel about the track ...If it does not have what I want to hear it goes in the trash ....the biggest rule I have for the keepers is I always play something I would love to hear ( regardless of who played it ) Next up were the Telecaster Guitar with the organs ... Those parts were also improvised as a song section ...Once again i did not comp or use and punch in's for those song segments ..I played each solo to the song in one take ...This is the way I work and it may not be the best solution for others ..I commit to what I am doing , if I don't like something I played I will redo the whole segment .... I record my guitar this way because I want my solo's to have a sense of urgency w lots of drama and emotion oozing throughout them .. I'm a firm believer in walking on the razors edge when I play my guitar and I play as if my ***** depends on it .. (BTW I have nothing against comping or punching in for a little phrase here and there , I'm just more old school and my preference is to be able to play it to record it ) With synth parts ..of course I rehashed them to death until I found something I could live with ...even of that, a lot of folks don't dig what I played ..oh well there is always next time ... As far as what do I keep and what do I not keep . That is pretty simple . I keep only the performance that tells the emotional story I'm looking to tell . all the best , Kenny

Hey Tim , It's funny I actually spend a good deal of my spare time chopping up loops and song segments trying to come up with all sorts of wacky sounds and arrangements .. Most of them never see the light of the day...sort of like a musical crossword puzzle for grins and giggles just to pass the time away . thanks for the song listen and having something nice to say about what I did here . Oh BTW , the video you did on your porch brought up some real fond memories for me . When I lived back East I used to ride my motorcycle to a Village on The Hudson River called Nyack . In The Village of Nyack over by the water they had a boat launch and a real cool Gazebo . Anyway I dubbed this Place The Magic Gazebo . In my mind I turned The Gazebo half into a Universal Transporter and a Portal with a direct link to being heard and taken seriously by all the Invisible Powers That Be ... I always felt good when I went there. I spent many a 2 AM there with and w out a date ....I sure miss that place . all the best , Kenny

Is this what you got ? Looks like a real good match for the BeatSkillz Mararja VST I bundle ...(+ other assorted percussion /drum sounds ) One of these days I would like to get a hardware controller for doing beats away from the computer .. all the best , Kenny PS I'm very happy I got this deal .

?Happy Boating Kenny

? good one Kenny

Hey Billy! Don't you wish you were here with us ? ? Kenny

Than You Jerry ! ? Kenny

I think she may have to lift up her arms to get the correct Balance since things can get a little lopsided all the best , Kenny

If we look closely at the versions of the software featured in that bundle we will see much of the software in that deal are a few numbers back .. ex Studio One Producer 2.0 The thing is ....I do remember those deals ...I think they go back to my SPlat days FWIW . they gave me GAS back then at the time .. Yikes now I'm having GAS flashbacks from the ghost of deals past .. As usual , I wanted that deal back then and didn't have the money ..like I still don't ....? Kenny

Most DAW's will give you the option of how you want to load the synth , as a stereo or a multi output . Which is the way it's so posed to be . I installed both the stereo and the multi output versions of these synths on my computer . This is a heads up for anyone that buys this and installs both the stereo and the multi output version on the same machine . In Cakewalk I inserted the BollyMaha 2.1 as a simple instrument ( to take these screen shots ). My first screen capture shows the GUI in Cakewalk by Bandlab ... My second screen capture shows the preset dialog drop down menu . Notice how each preset name has either an (S) or an (M) at the tail end of the description ? This becomes very important because if you are using the synth as a stereo plug w a stereo output you will need to choose the preset that has the (S) in the description . If you choose the ( M) while the synth is loaded as a stereo track all the pads will not sound . I have chosen the preset with the (M) accidentally a few times when I had this loaded up as a simple VST I insert . What happened is only the first pad will sound . All other Pads will be silent . Not the end of The World ...more of a Muse Kill ..until I figured it out ..lol Here we have the BollyMahara 2.1 loaded up as a Multi VST 1 w stereo outs in Cakewalk Here the Pads are mapped out automatically VIA Cakewalk ....I have yet to find a way to have the plug map the outputs to the tracks I want to send them too. While I was doing this post I realized I needed to correct something from my last post . In my Cakewalk browser I have the bonus folder w some midi beats and wave loops The Midi files that Beat Skillz provided as a bonus do not have to be transposed +24 to sound on the correct pads ... The +24 transposition is for all other non Beat Skillz drum and beats midi files .Sadly the transposition thing at + 24 still needs to be done .. Yet we still have unfortunately 2 things ... #1 , when auditioning these midi files in Cakewalk and any other DAW for that matter , the start of the Midi file has a number of bars of the midi file starting w the intro w no data ... something like 4 or 5 bars before a beat shows up ..In Cakewalk it may take about 15 seconds for the beat to play GGGGRRRRRRrrrLOL In Reaper I can see the blank space of the midi file ..In Cakewalk for some odd reason it does not show .... #2 , Here is a screen shot of what happens when I drag a Beat Skillz bonus midi file from Cakewalks browser to the first bar in my time line .. Notice how it placed the midi file at bar 9 point something ? GGGRRRRrrr number 2 LOL .... Anyway I'm not looking to knock the product ...I like these drum plugs a lot . I'm just putting out the info in case someone here goes for the deal and hits the same stumbling blocks I have .. all the best, Kenny

As of right now 12: 05 PM West Coast time there is still 8 hours and change left on the clock to get this one for free w Nucleus and some free modules . The Clock is Ticking Down ? Oh BTW , working w this and learning how to create sounds in a Modular environment wasn't as hard as I thought , if any thing it has helped my ability to approach any soft synth that I have in my rig with much more confidence. Kenny