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Been held back with private matters and its killed my creative process, any suggestions, thinking of blowing up parliament ?

Cheers Andy

Some people did ask what was going on i just said barr barrr haha

Cheers David, clash going back to my very young school days up north there

No such thing as overrated guitarist, they are making music, you either like it or not

The musicians with humor seem to have longevity and don't get denoted when the guys are getting up to humor. I had a girlfriend that always hoped i'd fail, i said i always hoped you get a sense of humor ?

How dare you charge that much for popcorn, i need therapy again !

And i actually want to know what that wet and dry fart sounds like ?

Whole new meaning to wet and dry ?

I want you to act as if your guitar was on fire!

Thanx Lynn hope all is well

Major Marketing screw up i think calling it Cakewalk Sonar, Yes i get Cakewalk Next but Sonar is to tied to the past. Cakewalk Studio or Cakewalk Evolution or Just Cakewalk Pro or something .

The problems here is what comes with the New Cakewalk Sonar, I would have done 3 versions Cakewalk Mix - £99 which would be absolutely necessary essentials, what we got now with the new vector interface and updates (support) They can then offer upgrades and plugs.... Cakewalk Producer - £149 - Maybe something with more new functions, instruments and plugs, they can then offer upgrades and plugs.... Cakewalk Studio - £199 as before but more instruments, plugs and mastering etc But Sonar name, no sorry bad marketing to confusing with old..... Cakewalk Evolution or Cakewalk Ai and give it a basic Ai functions for mastering this is what kids of today want

The problems her is what comes with the New Cakewalk Sonar, i hate the name Sonar should have left it in the past and i don't hate much. I would have done 3 versions Cakewalk Mix - £99 which would be absolutely necessary essentials, what we got now with the new vector interface and updates (support) They can then offer upgrades and plugs.... Cakewalk Producer - £149 - Maybe something with more new functions, instruments and plugs, they can then offer upgrades and plugs.... Cakewalk Studio - £199 as before but more instruments, plugs and mastering etc But Sonar no sorry bad marketing to confusing with old..... Cakewalk Evolution or Cakewalk Ai and give it a basic Ai functions for mastering this is what kids of today want

Cheers Makke

I will write music for anything, does matter what it is and im sure your the same. Done a couple of little things but Rome wasn't built in a day

This is a area i would like to get back into. I lost all my contacts at ITV when the crossover from analogue to digital in UK happened. I changed my work, my mother became ill and i like lost 10yrs before i blinked... I like the causal way you say "just 448 plugins" haha that tickled me but i understand many are instrument and sound plugs not just fx

Exactly, gold is gold and no amount of plugs will polish a turd. I spent one evening with my friend showing him some fundermentlay basics and a massive improvement in a week. He heard so much shit about cakewalk, he couldn't believe i used cakewalk and mainly stock. He bought a mac setup because everyone told him logic lol All my EQ, SAT, Comp, FX Verb and Delay is stock 90%. The only extras i use is a old Boss Studio, with built in pre amp sims and FX so i don't have latency issues for tracking vocal or guitar. i bought Ozone 9 which is simple bus or mastering, Melodyne that i don't always use for corrections and some conversions , old vintage 76 drawer i like the sound of, got great air on it. Yes id like to get RX10, Nectar, Soothe and Fabfilter etc but i only can justify silly money if i had money to burn.

Every Fender strat sounds different, nothing in reality is identical. In the box gives you constancy and all of this talk about the best digital compressors, preamps and FX etc is more about marketing and sales. Ego love sound bites of a famous Neve or Comp CLA 2A or 1176 etc even though like you said they all sound different and often repaired with different valves and transformers etc My point was more about people mixing into some crazy mix bus combination which often does take the life out of those sounds they are trying to emulate and the tracks going into the mix bus or buses going into the mix bus. Like you said, to then claim the plugin not sounding like the real thing. I checked my friend mixing out who was having some issues. A template he download for logic, which i don't use but obviously i know what a chin is to look at what he was doing. He always had comp on the track, then the instrument bus, then his mix bus. So its gone through 3 comps before he does anything and wonder why things were pumping and he was buying silly priced plugins to get this neve sound lol People get bogged down in so much bullshit

Haha Cheers Paul, the 30 second music clip I first was a couple hours jamming and I was not going to do anymore until people said carry on. To be fair it was a struggle and in total four weeks in evenings including some extra hours at the weekends. That is long for me because I like banging stuff out in couple of weeks. I was messing with lots of sampling which was very time consuming with my voice, the side chaining and gating with quite a bit going on round it was tricky, like some people say vocal maybe bit lounder. I was trying loads of things out and got carried away so had to stop. In between breaks (ears a rest) I animated the heart with headphones as I seen it on a tshirt lol, so I started in illustrator in vectors export to animation program to make movement tweaks (I know some basic animation) I did work in video and Sounds engineer for ITV. Was very time consuming so I cut corners and managed all animation with lip syncing in one evening. Did not take that long because I looped little movements and “cut them up and stuck them back together” to make them look different from one 30 second dance sequence, so saved me many hours. I can do good animation but so time consuming. You could spend all year doing a 10 min skilful sequence. Key frames within the video edit was pretty quick layering the animation over the top of my desktop was one evening job. The whole project one month but cut mega corners on the video. I try to set myself time limits with work flow so I always know how long a project will take if someone asks me to mix or master. So I don’t get entrenched doing one thing and getting ***** with tweaks and changes but commit. I could take months doing one song without a video. Sorry long reply

Yes, I worked for ITV and you learn backwards even though I did a degree in production and technology. You still have to start off with formats before anything, 24bit 48Khz for studio and broadcast quality to further understand latency for pre, post and live broadcasts. When you understand what the master, then you understand what you want from your mix. When you dubbing, doing scores, and mixing your own music production to broadcasts or dramas etc you understand all the process but you started in reverse for that specific reason.

Cheers Mark. Week off from music now

Best Monday in a longtime lol

Cheers John, i tried to keep it entertaining so at least i don't waste people time haha