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15 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

I'm still rocking an RME 9632 PCI card. This thing is old, I can't believe they still sell it and not only do they but it's also $550 just for the PCI card and no XLR breakout cable - that's more than many new audio interfaces for a nearly obsolete PCI interface. I was gonna upgrade at some point to the RME UCX, though that's about $1300-1400 away for a used one. Some of these newer popular interfaces are pretty affordable, like the IK and Audient stuff. I wonder how they compare to RME's stuff.

I have an antique Babyface, and what amazes me about RME is that they still support the drivers.  Good people.

On 1/6/2020 at 6:44 PM, Christian Jones said:

That's a good combo, and what I'm sticking with. At some point we got to be happy with what we got man. When will we leave well enough alone? Probably not as long as the grass is greener over there 

I think what gets me is the grass over there isn't just greener, but it's more lush and beautifully manicured. 

5 hours ago, DaGeek said:

Too bad they raised most of the prices - cash back may make it $29 again in a lot of cases...

I have a feeling this hits the nail on the head.

I looked for my name on that list but didn't see it.  I guess it was an oversight.

You'll probably get a lot of other opinions. but the Melda M-Eq is very powerful and should be able to do anything that you need.  Unless you think you need more features I'd stay with it. 

Happy New Year, all, from the warm and sunny Mississippi Gulf Coast (just an hour from the French Quarter).   May this be the year that that someone finally releases the Betterizer plugin.

Bolder does some interesting sounds that nobody else does. 

Although this is a music forum I always appreciate posts like this because I do some photo and video work as well as music.

5 hours ago, Canopus said:

You open up the KIT panel and then click the L in the upper-left corner of one of the Flexi slots to load a kit piece. You can optionally navigate between kit pieces by clicking the Up or Down arrow beneath the L button it that Flexi slot to find the one best suited for your needs. That might however be less convenient, unless you have already narrowed in on the type of kit piece using the first method mentioned above.

Many thanks for this.

Merry Christmas to all.  You guys are special.

16 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

Celestial (not 100% sure what this thing even is but apparently I've got to have) - https://www.acustica-audio.com/pages/specials/celestial

What have I missed? Quickly.. I've got projects pending on these plugs, whatever they are

Two best lines on the internet this week!!  You win another free plugin.

This list just proves that it's possible to make great sounding recordings for a song.  These are good days for making music.

43 minutes ago, Rick Derer said:

But before this freezing process, how do I get the drum track from EZ D to Cakewalk? The track is created in CW but when I try recording while playing the drum sound in EZD nothing records. So I am asking for the very basic steps in capturing sounds from EZD into CW.

Got ya!  You need to render the EZ drummer track as a wav file then import it to CW.  Here ya go:

1. Open EZDrummer

2. At the bottom right (at the end of the ruler line) is an icon with three bars.  Click it

3.  A dialog box will open.  Click "Track" at the very top

4.  Click "export song as wav".   Name your wav and make sure you know the location of where your file is exported to.

5.  Once I get the wav file I drag it into the CW project file I'm working on.  I.E. If your song is named "The Greatest Song Ever" drag the wav file into that folder.  That way you will always have the file even if you move the folder somewhere else

6.  Create an audio track on CW called "Drums" and then drag the wav file there. 

7.  Add FX as desired.

If you want to turn it into an audio track just freeze it (the "freeze function is that little snowflake looking icon).  Here's link with some pictures that may be helpful.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X2&language=3&help=Mixing.23.html

If you want to get rid of the instrument track, after you freeze it, you can bounce the audio to another track, then delete the original track though personally I'd just archive it rather than delete it, that way you can go back to it if you want to.

https://www.modernbeats.com/hit-talk/freeze-bounce-sound-using-sonar-8/

2 hours ago, jerrydf said:

The next thing you need to consider is a specific bus for the reverb.  Applying reverb to each track is mostly unnecessary and also a big use of CPU.  The usual approach is to send all tracks (vocals, instruments, etc) to a bus, and place the reverb in that bus.  You can change the send level on each individual track. There's lots of threads on this forum dealing with this in more detail. 

Jerry

I highly recommend this approach.  Once I figured it out it helped both my mixes and my CPU hit.

Man, you are channeling Ray Davies here, with a dose of the Beau Brummels.  I really like the way you handle the vocals.  Great playing as well. 

You're getting a ton of accolades and rightly so!!  This is really a killer track with pro-level arranging and playing.  And the fact you sing so well is just icing on the cake.  Remember us here on the forum when you make it big!

I with all the others: this is full on pro-level in all aspects.  Man, you've got a future.

What's the difference between a frog driving a car and a tuba player?

The frog might be on his way to a gig.

I just took a listen.  That's a beautiful piece.  I think the fact that you pulled it off with midi is all the more amazing.

Thanks, I had looked at in previously, but was baffled (which is easy for me to me).  This was very helpful!

This link has a picture which may be helpful https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X2&language=3&help=Arranging.42.html

Any effect can be added to a track after it's recorded.  After you record your track just drag the reverb from the effects list (on the right side of the screen) into the FX bin of your track (the FX bin is the large square box on your track).  Here's the "official" explanation from CW:

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021665814-Adding-Audio-Effects-

VMS is sale again.  Here's a link to Sweetwater, but I'm sure other retailers have it. 

  https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VRSML1--slate-digital-vms-ml-1-large-diaphragm-modeling-microphone?&mrkgcl=28&mrkgadid=3303549272&product_id=VRSML1&campaigntype=shopping&campaign=aaShopping%20-%20SKU%20-%20Studio%20%26%20Recording&adgroup=Microphones%20%26%20Wireless%20-%20Slate%20Digital%20-%20vrsml1&placement=google&creative=285689013513&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0biL-vmr5gIVhYbACh3qpA1QEAYYASABEgK1OvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hello Guys,

I've been a member of this forum for a long time (I think about 15 years), and I just wanted to commend, and thank you guys, for making this such a great place.  I drop in most everyday, and always find people trying to solve problems and offer helpful advice.  It's really refreshing compared to other internet forums I've visited.  All of the others should come here and take a lesson.  Anyway, thanks guys for your spirit, I appreciate you.