Does Apple's Audio MIDI Setup.app (found in your Utilities Folder) show your MIDI interface/keyboard? There are two windows, one for Audio Devices and another for MIDI Studio. If your MIDI controller does not show up there, then your Mac is not seeing it. Below you'll see mine with the only MIDI device I have on at the moment. ]
I, too, received this offer by email. I took a quick look at MS3 and decided it was a hard pass. Using Scaler 3 in the "crossgrade offer" is disingenuous at best, the definition of clickbait. Save your money.
I don't get why you feel that way. How is this a clickbait? They are different tools with different philosophy. I am not ready to spend $100+ for it, but as owner of Scaler3 license, I might consider this deal.
< I hope that this makes sense > It does. Just for reference, it may be helpful to look at what is already in place. (Attached screenshot for reference.)
"They're buying everything" Sure. The point I was making is that they are reasonably enhancing/developing product line, not squeezing the tricks out of old dogs, as some of the better known hardware + software companies do. Fingers crossed that they will not be evil with licenses like Waves and other sub pushing geniuses.
OK, here it is step-by-step. There’s an audio settings button in the bottom right corner of RB. I clicked that and I see audio preferences. In audio preferences, I have select ASIO selected. On the same page if I click on drivers, I see Focusrite ASIO inputs three and four, which are correct. For output ports I can only pick outputs on the Focusrite. There’s no mention of a headset on that page. Then I close that page. I go back to the audio settings button and this time I look at playback devices. I select the headset which shows up fine on the little Windows menu that comes. There’s a checkmark next that I selected that for playback. When I go to play my work, it still comes out of the Focusrite speakers. It doesn’t come out of the headphones. I know that’s a lot of text to wade through, but I wanted to be complete in the response. Thanks.
I was never really happy with the original version, only posted last February, so I created this new and simpler instrumental, which is over a minute shorter than the former. The shorter time also simplified the video as I didn't have to repeat images other than the original one I also use for the title page. I hadn't intended posting this until much later in the year, but a new vocal song with a trio of female backing vocalists which I hoped to post around the 1st of May has run into some BV snags. Hopefully that'll be ready for posting within a couple of weeks. Electric Piano: Circle Ambient Lap Steel: Jeff Lorber Synth: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Multi ~ uncredited Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ: Blair Masters Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Tobin Frank Piano: Pop Ballad Solo Acoustic Piano ~ John Jarvis *Drums: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Brian Fullen 1st & 2nd Rhythm Guitars: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Mike Durham 1st Guitar Solo: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham 3rd Rhythm Guitar: Granite Hard Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Craig Northey 4th Rhythm Guitar: Granite Hard Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Murray Atkinson **2nd Guitar Solo: Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So ~ Dave Cleveland * I mastered the drums stem in Soren AI Mastering (generally a crap program!) which gave them more treble, but I kept them in as after the first drum roll you can actually hear the crash cymbal crash, which is probably the first time I've heard such in BiaB drum samples! ** The 2nd guitar solo is a hybrid of 2 samples. C / 115bpm / 112 bars / 4:04
Once again superb story-telling and BVs from Joliz. As I commented on the YT post: "Wonderful vibes, vocals, music and video together. Everything a perfect match." Have you actually been to Germany? I was in the Hanover and Hamburg region a couple of times back in the 80s and the first time I saw Hamburg my first words were "Caramba! Civilisation!" as I was so impressed by the layout of the streets and the cycle paths. The Blumegarten park was beautiful - way more so than the big London ones when I lived there - and they had an orchestrated fountain and light show, which was beautiful One early morning on a coach driving down the notorious Reeperbahn a naked female ran out right from one of the clubs, crossed the road and disappeared into another club! Very Hamburg! But I also remember walking by the cafés on banks of the Rheine and I was entranced by how literally blue the water was. … There's definitely a Bob Dean song in there! … Tell Joliz, Ewige Blumenkraft!
I've been spending the last couple of months working on my voice synthesis program. Not that there's much demand for it, what with all the excellent AI trained voices, but since I retired I figured I'd team up with AI and see what I could do. I've got a pretty good synthesis engine built, but I decided to take a crack at automatic phoneme alignment - basically, simplified speech recognition - but it's a hard problem, and LLMs are way too optimistic about their abilities.
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The mood certainly fits the title.
Heh. I resisted the urge to add a bridge using a whole tone scale. You know that cliche, where the harp does a run as the film does a dissolve shot on someone thinking and rubbing their chin.
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It looks like a lot of work, but isn't it great to hear it in print, so to speak?
Yep. It's actually a bit less work than it "looks like", because BiaB did all the heavy lifting. But now I need to write a song without all shortcuts. Thanks for stopping and commenting.
Reading your development summary (yes, I like reading these) and then listening to the song recording, the result you have achieved is impressive. Those voices sound real.
Thanks! You'll notice the summary is - for me - rather short, because I was focused on getting it done quickly. I think I got it out in two days, which is super-fast for me. It helped that BiaB did all the heavy lifting, and there's not much to the vocals. That didn't mean that the lyrics (as pithy as they are) didn't get a lot of rewrites. I can't take credit for the voices - it's all SynthV. I think that's the advantage of writing a song around the voice. I can pick phrasing that works for that voice, and if I swapped out another voice, it would have an entirely different feel. When I picked up Danny, I certainly didn't expect to use his "urban" voice for jazz, but he reminded me a bit of someone I'd heard singing on Mister Rodger's Neighborhood, so I went with that.
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It is good to see you back on the forum and posting your work!
I'm glad to be here. I'd been buried in my vocal synthesis project, but I vastly underestimated the difficulty of some parts of work. I kept telling myself I'd get back on the forum once I'd reached a point, but that horizon kept getting further and further away. So here I am! Thanks again!
Wow, you put a lot of work into this, David! It's a lovely song with a great arrangement and instrumentation. I've never been keen on SynthV vocals, but you've done a really excellent job with the harmonies.
Beautiful instrumentation and arrangement. It again reminds me of the better soundtrack music of 60s movies. Your cruise so well out of your comfort zone!
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But I also remember walking by the cafés on banks of the Rheine and I was entranced by how literally blue the water was. … There's definitely a Bob Dean song in there! 
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