Albatross wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 9:43 pm AI doesn't make music, it just makes something that sounds like music. A bit like me taking a picture of the The Mona Lisa and saying that its art; its not art, its a photograph of art.

A nice analogy

The pillaging of art

On the arrangement side of things, I would avoid doubling the vocal line with the piano notes e.g. around 1.06 and 2.29. I’d stick with just piano chords there.

and is it one of those dratted download managers that are more pervasive these days. I find them to be an improvement, they show you what you own and which ones need updating or repairing. I’m with you MOF. It makes keeping plugins up to date an easier task and especially helpful if installing your ...

Jim Malcolm (Scottish singer)

Cakewalk by Bandlab is a completely free DAW and is Windows only. There is soon going to be paid version called Cakewalk Sonar. I would recommend that you download and try out Cakewalk by Bandlab while it's still free. The free version will continue to run, but will not have continued support. You ...

+1 for Melodyne.

Highlight the clip and open the Inspector (keyboard shortcut i) Click the wavy line soundwave icon at the top and you’ll see the clip name on the top line.

I thought that they had discontinued it but you are right, it appears to still be available from https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk?lang=en unclegemima I had wondered if you were confusing ‘Bandlab’ with ‘Cakewalk by Bandlab’? They are two separate programmes. Cakewalk by Bandlab is a fully f ...

Mind you,... I tend to sol-fa along to anything I hear. But hey ho. :D That was what this guy said :D He could immediately sing anything back in sol-fa apparently without conscious thought, it was inpressive. Just a thought, it's basically the same for melody as Nashville charts are for chord ...

Strangely, having not even thought about Tonic Sol-Fa (apart from remembering that the young, English, Gypsy Jazz virtuoso 'Reme Harris' name was inspired by the system) for many years I was at a beginners improvising workshop playing rhythm guitar for my mate who was running the session and one of ...

It's still in very common use in France but on a fixed basis (as far as I can work out), i.e. Doh is always C, Re is always D, etc. I discovered this when I was asked to play at a wedding in Lyon and was presented with a chord sheet just before the event without any letters that I was familiar with ...

I really like letters and numbers to identify notes. I don't like Do, Re, Mi, Fa, etc etc. So I'm cool with the letters and numbers. Anyone here still use sol-fa these days? It’s still my go to method for working out melodies. As a means of hearing something and being able to write it down quickly a ...

Of course when mixing we spend a lot of time ensuring that competing frequencies aren't obscuring each other and causing trouble - kick and bass being obvious contenders. Even so I quite regularly find that when bouncing down a mix and looking at the waveform, there's often just one or two peaks ...

I know that the Heritage Audio Baby RAM is passive, but has anyone used this unit? I swapped out my Drawmer cmc2 for the Heritage Audio Baby RAM. I had ground hum issues through my monitors with the Drawmer and instead of faffing about, decided to go passive (The Drawmer also had a scratchy left ...

Thanks for the reply Hugh. I’ll be interested to try that out with my KH 310s too and see what the result is. I have a similar set up to you (without all the fancy stuff I hasten to add! :D ) My music area is a little bit larger (around 5m x 4m), similar desk size and two screen monitors side by s ...

Hugh Since there has been mention of the Neumann KH 310a speakers. In your article about your own studio (SOS June 2020), I see you have your KH 310s placed with the bass woofers to the outside: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/studio-sos-making-small-room-sound-good The manual suggests the ...

I’ve found Acon Digital’s Deverberate to be useful. You can try before you buy too.

https://acondigital.com/products/deverberate/

Here's my favourite:

https://popaudio.co.uk/products/

It stays put.

May I suggest that you do, at least this once? Spend some time getting a balance you both enjoy; you might even like it! … and if possible, that both of you use the same make/model of headphones (closed back preferably). You’ll still have good eye contact too. Before dismissing the notion of hea ...

I find Pianoteq a bit strange. Sometimes it sounds a bit clanky to my ears. Same here. Hard to pinpoint, but it doesn’t sit right with me. Something about the overtones? I keep returning to the Galaxy Vintage D. It’s pretty old now, but I find it sits well in a busy mix and stands alone well in som ...

Have a look at Cakewalk by Bandlab. It’s a completely free fully featured DAW with notation capabilities: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk I rarely use the notation features personally but it would do no harm to try it out as it costs nothing. For notation my preference is Sonic Scores O ...

resistorman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:51 pmYes

Thanks resistorman

I hope I’m not hijacking this thread, but as the topic is on recording guitar, I’m wondering if I may ask a question? I’m not a guitarist, but my usual setup to record an electric guitarist is: 1. To use a DI box to record the clean guitar and use the DI box thru to send to a guitar amp and record th ...

Jez Corbett wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 4:59 pm I've been avoiding dongles for some time now, as I work on lots of different machines in different places.

You’d need to be sure that the ‘machines in different places’ have a reliable internet connection too.

Hi MarkOne I can also confirm that the Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 does maintain its settings in standalone mode. You adjust the settings to standalone when it’s connected via firewire and it will keep those settings when disconnected. I use my old Saffire for extra ADAT channels via my RME Fireface ...