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The thing is the editing is very similar to Cubase's pitch corection where you can go in and tweak and hone - in those examples, the actual settings were the default - all I did were fix a couple of wrong notes in what I played, remove one or two totally, and then shorten or lengthen each note...

I have spent an hour on this. I brought in the instrumental track from cubase. played a pretty feeble melody from memory on the keyboard. It produced a 'la la' version as default. Googled the real lyrics and discovered my melody wasn't quite right - but words sort of fitted, and then I tweaked...

Big boxes, bigger but slower fans. I used to use Carillon 19" rack cases, but they use small multiple fans for getting the heat out and they just got too noisy. For a while I had the PCs in a cupboard in the studio, and fed the cabling under the floor to the monitors and keyboards. In the home...

I've had people in my studio who insist on compressing the input, before recording. I absolutely hate it, because it limits decisions later on - so what I do is set it up so in their headphones they hear the mic compressed, but I record a clean version AND the compressed version. That's a bit of...

I downloaded a demo of synthesizer V studio 2 Pro and thought I'd see how simple it really was, rather than take the word of the youtubers and the manufacturer. It's really intuitive. I found a box marked tempo, another gave me a click. Without even setting anything, it picked up my MIDI...

Hmm .. UK vs US youtube maybe? This ones has more breakdowns of the harmonies in goodbye to love.

Think tribute acts - this was actually an aborted one. We were ready to go and the 'Karen' suddenly announced she was pregnant and was dropping out. She sounded quite similar in tone, but of course not the sound of the real Karen Carpenter. As we had shows booked, I found a replacement who...

This one explains how I created another of the songs - obviously the actual vocal is just a guide and was not used in the actual shows.

I think I might have posted this a couple of years ago, but it surfaced again today - a video showing how we produced the click track for a carpenters tribute show - you can hear how the individial tracks build up.

After some of the chats we've had about software synths and in another, Vangelis - I figured for a bit of fun I'd do Blade Runner. It's rough round the edges, but it was just a bit a of fun - and the synths do sounds quite ok, I think.

Its fine kurth, the point i think is that alternative work surfaces can be more expressive in the hands of somebody who has the skill to use them, but others seem to be reinventions of a piano keyboard, but less capable of expression.i look at some of the walkthroughs Spitfire do on their...

I think I am now over 100! The trouble is, I still grab for the old favourites - AKG 414 and SM58.

This page may help a bit?

I found an example of good non-keyboard playing.

The cheaper computer I have in the office is an AMD ryzen 5 pro with onboard graphics 3.7GHz and has 16GB of RAM. It runs cubase fine - and today I have completed the sample installation - my drive space total is now 10.9TB - Cubase no issues, a bit laggy on premiere with 4K, OK on HD with real...

I know exactly what you mean. Everything is always a surprise!

Thanks for this topic. I liked it. Actually, I remember the original but had sort of forgotten it, so i might actually spend some time on this. I see nothing wrong with long tracks, and the best bit is time gives you the space to develop ideas. Synths with slowly morphing soundscapes can sort of...

You dont exactly encourage responses, by banging on about what you dont want, but i will give you my responses based on my own experience with cubase on PCs and Macs. Your requirements are very, very modest. At home, my Cubase work switched to macs, for no real reason, to be honest, but in my...

No I'm sorry but this is chalk and cheese. He's a competent pianist, but suffers those horrible sounds from the pad. every time he goes back to the real synth, it's sound blows the pad's sounds out of the water. He clearly is very used to the playing surface, but what he produces is simply...

Musical prowess is easy to spot in any genre, even ones you have no real knowledge of. You can play music at so many levels. Sometimes, some gizmos try to sell themselves on their ability to make wonderful music from lower ability. They rarely do.