What Do You Use Your DAW For?

[bats brew]

[Keni]

I use my DAW to get into my HOUWS!

[craigb]

[Notes_Norton]

12 hours ago, Bridget Murphy said:

Thank you for sharing your story. Do you have experience in sampling concertina?

My Yamaha VL70m Physical Modeling Synthesizer has a nice Concertina. I use it from time to time. But no, I've never sampled one.

The PM synthesis is great for emulating. Rather than sampling, they actually use computer models so although sometimes the tone isn't spot on, it makes a better expressive emulation. Sadly the VL is no longer in production, and nobody I've found does PM as well as Yamaha did.

 

Notes ♫

[Bridget Murphy]

13 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

My Yamaha VL70m Physical Modeling Synthesizer has a nice Concertina. I use it from time to time. But no, I've never sampled one.

The PM synthesis is great for emulating. Rather than sampling, they actually use computer models so although sometimes the tone isn't spot on, it makes a better expressive emulation. Sadly the VL is no longer in production, and nobody I've found does PM as well as Yamaha did.

 

Notes ♫

I see. I've heard some synth do concertina but with that stint of techno music/sound.

[Starship Krupa]

Bridget is the queen of topic necromancers, but y'know, it means that she's at least using the search feature and reading the topic.

I've seen enough "why aren't my VST2's showing up in Cakewalk?" one-post wonders to last a very long time.

[craigb]

I tried searching for all of Bapu's posts but, for some reason, I couldn't even find more than 10 or 15 thousand! ?

 

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[mettelus]

23 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Bridget is the queen of topic necromancers, but y'know, it means that she's at least using the search feature and reading the topic.

That is far better than the alternative IMO. Typing the same answer to a dozen different people asking the same question over the years has gotten a bit old, but part of that was also because the search engine wasn't the greatest. There have been a lot of helpful posts over the years that have just faded into oblivion and are very difficult to find.

[Starship Krupa]

10 minutes ago, mettelus said:

Typing the same answer to a dozen different people asking the same question over the years has gotten a bit old, but part of that was also because the search engine wasn't the greatest. There have been a lot of helpful posts over the years that have just faded into oblivion and are very difficult to find.

Yer tellin' me! I hate to see people in distress over their music software, so I try to help, but really, even a Google search for answers to some of these perennial questions will yield results from this forum.

The search engine here is not as bad as the one on the old forum, but yeah, it has issues with trying to find relevant posts. It very much favors recent topics over relevant ones.

One I detest is the one at the KVR Forums. If you try to search for MModernCompressor in the MeldaProduction forum, the search engine kicks it back with a message saying that the search term is too common. Really? I think I'm the only person who's ever started topics on it over there. @mibby can back me up.

[craigb]

Yep!

[Bridget Murphy]

On 1/4/2019 at 12:05 AM, Notes_Norton said:

And he has a point, but perhaps because he never played MIDI. Also we all have a tendency to look at other performers through musician's eyes, and forget about how our audience looks at us.

As a sax player who doesn't play trumpet, trombone, harmonica, concertina, clarinet, flugelhorn, and a dozen other instruments, I enjoy playing different sounds on the wind synth and it gives our duo tonal colors and variety that they wouldn't get if I only played sax and guitar on stage.

Speaking of guitar, it's my 7th instrument (8th if you count vocals) and I can still do some thing solo-wise on the wind synth that I'm not able to do on the guitar yet.

Also, there is an art to emulating other instruments with MIDI. If you play that sax patch like a piano, no matter how good the tone is, you won't convince anyone that it's a sax. You have to recreate the nuances of sax playing, which are partially governed by the advantages and limitations of that instrument. If you play a piano patch like a sax, it won't fool anyone either.

Not to say that these are wrong things to do. If you want a piano to have sax-like qualities in your song, go for it. It just might work fantastically.

Learning to emulate other instruments with MIDI, including my own primary instrument, the sax, also taught me a lot about coaxing expression out of 'pure synth' patches that don't emulate anything specific.

For those of us who make their living playing music live, we must remember we are in show business and we must also remember to see ourselves through they eyes of whatever audience we find in front of us at the moment. If I thought making my guitar do a nice kazoo solo and it would please the audience, I'd do just that. And once you have the audience on your side, they won't mind at all if you occasionally throw in something that is exclusively for yourself, as long as it doesn't stray too far away and/or is at the right moment.

Insights and incites by Notes

Thank you for sharing. I hope we can hear your works.

[Pollux]

Lately I've been using it mostly for decoration

[Bapu]

On 12/22/2018 at 11:49 AM, James G said:

For recording my music.

Fascinating eh?

I wah-na be ewe when I gross up, mayte.

[Notes_Norton]

10 hours ago, Bridget Murphy said:

Thank you for sharing. I hope we can hear your works.

I have some samples at http://www.s-cats.com

or https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/cats.html

Same page, but those with https only will need the second link

The samples are old, from around 2005. I suppose I need to make some new ones, but I'm busy gigging

Video:

https://www.nortonmusic.com/catsvideo/index.html

Audio

https://www.nortonmusic.com/mp3/sophisticats128.mp3

And for work I've done for Band-in-a-Box

https://www.nortonmusic.com/styledemo.html

They are intended to be generic background styles.

 

Notes ♫

 

[Bridget Murphy]

15 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

I have some samples at http://www.s-cats.com

or https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/cats.html

Same page, but those with https only will need the second link

The samples are old, from around 2005. I suppose I need to make some new ones, but I'm busy gigging

Video:

https://www.nortonmusic.com/catsvideo/index.html

Audio

https://www.nortonmusic.com/mp3/sophisticats128.mp3

And for work I've done for Band-in-a-Box

https://www.nortonmusic.com/styledemo.html

They are intended to be generic background styles.

 

Notes ♫

 

Thanks again, I'll have some more to listen to.

[Notes_Norton]

12 minutes ago, pwal said:

you must be the last website on earth that's not https 

The http://s-cats.com is only something that redirects to my Norton Music website, https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/cats.html

It seems foolish to me to spend money putting the money on the S site when it immediately switches to a site with the https

So the site is https, but the pointer to the site is not.

As long as you don't have the add-on “https everywhere” on your browser, you will never notice it.

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Funny story. When getting the pesky little S, and wanting to register the S to my business site, my webhost put the application to a German company that authorizes and either approves or disapproves it. They are the ultimate authority, and if you get their approval, every anti-viral or browser extension will not reject your certificate.

After my application was sent ... ...

They rejected it saying that Norton Music isn't a real business.

I referred them to my website where you can buy things, and it also seamlessly links to a secure, well established shopping cart site. Didn't work.

Tried proving I have a Visa/MasterCard merchant's account. Zip

Gave them a link to my Authorization.net account where they authorize Visa/MC cards online. Nada.

So I sent them a picture of my Florida state sales tax license, plus my EIN number for federal income tax (Employer Identification Number). No dice.

I sent copies of sales invoices when I sold my Band-in-a-Box aftermarket software to customers in the 1990s. No good.

Next, I sent a copy of a voided check to my business banking account. Didn't work.

About a week later, and probably over 30 hours total hold time (with lousy on-hold music and constant “your call is important” interruptions) and another few hours actually talking to a human, I'm at my wits' end.

I'm asking to speak to a supervisor – and another – and another. With their thick German accents, I'm having trouble and asking them to repeat a lot, and I'm getting more and more frustrated. I have a lot of other work to do, and it seems like my life is now a futile attempt to get that all essential S at the end of my http.

Finally, I get to a guy who says, OK I did a Google search, and your site came up, so that proves you are a legitimate business.

• Website - no
• Shopping cart - no
• Visa/Mc merchant's account - no
• Authorize.net account - no
• Florida Merchant's sales tax account - no
• EIN number for the USA IRS - no
• Sales invoices dating from the 1990s to the present - no
• Business checking account - no
• Google search - YES!!!

Go figure.

I spent hundreds of dollars plus 10 dollars a month to get this "business” S because the lesser priced ones are sometimes rejected as unsafe by those with the strictest protection on their browsers and/or anti-malware apps. All the "no“ answers above take a piece of the money I earn for every sale I make. But the FREE google search finally means I'm really in business.

Sometimes the world doesn't make sense.

 

Insights, incites, and unintentional humor by Notes ♫

[craigb]

4 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

Sometimes the world doesn't make sense.

 

Insights, incites, and unintentional humor by Notes ♫

"Sometimes???" ?

[Notes_Norton]

27 minutes ago, craigb said:

"Sometimes???" ?

OK, most of the time.

[Notes_Norton]

4 hours ago, pwal said:

nice hobby tho? ?

The Visa/MC merchant's account issuer, Authorize.net, web host, shopping cart provider, insurance company, business bank account, state sales tax authority, and the IRS who make a share of everything I sell doesn't think so. They all want to be my silent partners.

 

[craigb]

3 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:

The Visa/MC merchant's account issuer, Authorize.net, web host, shopping cart provider, insurance company, business bank account, state sales tax authority, and the IRS who make a share of everything I sell doesn't think so. They all want to be my silent partners.

 

 You bet your S they do! ?