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Hi, Laurent. Bright, pleasant pop. Suno does its usual magic with the vocals. Who's playing the guitar? Whoever it is, it sound good.
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Hi, Steve. It was a bucket of fun listening to you play, and compete with yourself. I hope to see many more.  Working A/C is important! I still remember those summer nights as a child I'd put my blanket in the freezer, and take it out for a moment or two of chill bliss before the heat melted the coolness away. And Northern California is nothing compared to summer in Iraq! 
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Hi, Dave. Nice, wide mix. I love how the intro brings the instruments in. Of course, from that point it only get better. Vocals, guitar, everything - sounds great! Are you bouncing that piano from side to side? So good!
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Hi, Pete. Excellent backing and vocals. Loved the growl on "when that aching". As much work as I've done on my songs, people have mostly said my "throwaway" songs are the best. Go figure. In terms of the mix, the volume and balance are excellent. The vocal lacks a bit of "sheen" - I want to hear a touch of reverb, or something to give thing a bit more sense of space. There are places where I'd clean up the vocal, like "where he's seen thissss before", but I've got a lateral /s/, so I'm hyper-sensitive about stuff like that. A bit of vocal doubling would be nice, but isn't required. I'd suggest having a look at something like Panagement, my favorite free spacial effect. Did I mention it's free? I've got the full version, but I don't think there are any features in it you'd actually use. But I find it's really good at placing things in space, and somehow just making things better. Anyway, nice song!
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Hi, Andrew. It's not my genre, but it nails the feel as far as I'm concerned. And your 12.125 note vocal range was more than sufficient to do the track justice. My own 2 cents - Izzy suggested that manually ducking can give better results than Trackspacer, but Trackspacer is nice because you can have it only take out specific frequencies, so the "pumping" effect is minimized (the sound of one instrument going down in volume when another goes up). But if you buy Trackspacer, make sure you get it on sale! Anyway, nice work.
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Hi, Laurent. As others have said, it nails the groove. Suno did a great job with the vocals and horns. Excellent guitar as well. You extracted the horn MIDI in BiaB? Interesting. Pro mix, sounds excellent.
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Hi, Hans. The orchestra can be hard to mix, but I think it works well with the song. It all sounds a bit jagged and off-balanced (instead of being some smooth ballad), which works especially well. The instrumentation is also interesting, and your voice sounds excellent here. Nice write, effective song.
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Hi, Scott. Cool sound. The BGVs plus the lead gave a Pink Floyd sound, which is cool. Pleasant listen.
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Hi, Scott. I love the backing track - chugging drums and dancing mandolin. That hooked me in, and then the vocal came in - clever write with a strong chorus. Subtle BGVs. I clicked the link to the original SoundClick song, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Looks like I missed it the first time around. Excellent work!
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Try it out on an easier song with a steady tempo. It takes less than 2 minutes. When you use the AI, it does all the work: separating the stems and then giving you control over the master WAV track direct in ACW mode. I thought you were doing it that way. Let's say you want just remove the guitar or bass; you'll need the stems. But if you just want to follow the pre-written chords for a backing track, you don't need the stems, just the chords by ACW. Then you can add whatever style you want, or choose any RealTracks you like.
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Steve, this has been discussed a lot but it is still confusing *to me*. Many folks have posted cover songs to the I Heard it on YouTube forum and the moderators have never pushed back to my knowledge. So the practice is that it's ok. On the other hand, if you click on the Forum Rules link at the top of this page, Rule 9 reads: "Posting (or requesting) links to songs, music or other copyrighted material is forbidden. You are allowed to post links to your own original songs." There is nothing in the Rules that implies that this only applies to the User Showcase forum. Besides, the User Showcase has its own rules posted at the top of that forum. The subject of posting public domain songs has also come up a few times. The general practice is posting public domain songs is ok. But the definition of public domain varies by country, so it's a bit muddy. (Our host is in Canada, so those are likely the right public domain rules to follow.) Plus public domain isn't going to meet the "your own original songs" definition in Rule 9 referenced above. You can always DM an admin. Or just do it. I suspect it's all going to be fine.
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This has been covered in multiple threads in this forum. Without repeating what's already been said and discussed, there are now publishers and sync libraries that are quietly building "AI Assisted" catalogs. Not written by, or composed by AI, but assisted in the process by, AI. There's still a few legal issues to be worked out before those catalogs are going to be mainstreamed. Until then, by all means, it behooves one to know, and abide by, the rules of the game.
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Hi, Ron. Quirky write set to a quirky arrangement. Vocal delivery excellent as usual. I loved the feeling of space in the song. You create excellent pop! Thank you, David. We wear the Quirky! badge with honor.
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Floyd, The remix/remaster is stellar. It has that pro studio sound - not sure what that is or how to achieve it, compression, saturation, I don't know - but it's there. The song, the write, the production, it all grabs you right away and doesn't let go. And I love how you closed the loop for the main characters. Not to mention all the fun stuff that takes place before. That's some songwriting talent right there!
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Wow! What a fabulous write Sir. Those lyrics are hard hitting and very thought provoking, like others have said, "A Letter Left Unopened" just blew me away. I'm a Brit watching from afar just how things are in the USA at the moment and I truly feel for the 'ordinary American' at the moment, that said unfortunately its not the country facing similar obstacles put there from those in charge. I only hope that wordsmiths like yourself will continue to hold those responsible to account and maybe, just maybe they will listen. Thankyou for this, for what its worth Im putting this in my playlist of top 10 writes.
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Noel, it seems to be very common for musicians to record tracks for use in harsh or exterior environments. One reason I mentioned the possibility is this lets musicians concentrate more on the performance so the audience receives a performance with more showmanship. Either way you still have to be a good musician.
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And last, but not Least; the two Scotties! I bet you were both biting your nails because I hadn't responded to your comments yet! But here I am, and yes, I had to build up the suspense a bit first. Nope, I was too busy with other things again. That's why! Your comments are far too kind to go unanswered ;-) Cool tune Hans. Loved your instrumentation choices. Excellent vocal, lyric and backtrack. Baritone guitar was very cool. Had a look at your youtube channel. Better deal than soundcloud. Not everyone had the soundcloud app installed on their phones so allot of interested people will skip over the song because of that. Youtube will play in the browser on all devices.. Hi Scott, C., Thanks for this brief analysis. You're right, I recently realized that. That's why I've started emphasizing this chanel some more. I always thought everyone could simply click the SoundCloud link and listen to a song. Not so! And their help with uploading your songs to other music platforms isn't great either. You can't access your own song site to group things together or anything. And no one has ever been able to listen to my songs on Apple Music. Apple support sees something's wrong, but can't do anything about it. Cool, cool sound you created...starting with that spaghetti guitar and then the fiddle. Such an unique blend. Another good vocal! Hi Scott, S, The spaghetti guitar... Great name for that vibrato-baritone guitar! The song was almost finished, but then—in the middle of the night, of course—I suddenly thought I wanted to add a violin. That happens to me often with my songs; almost ready for release, and then I suddenly think of something new to incorporate. And then I noticed the song suddenly sounded much more cheerful. Thanks for your compliments! Answering all your comments took me quite a while. I hope I've now learned how to prevent this delay in the future... Hans
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Thank you Rob - very pleased it sounded ok to you, appreciate your nice comments! Carl
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Last year, I tried something new. I started typing in chords into Band in a Box to see if I could concoct a tune doing it that way. I found a few chords that sounded interesting so I went to my guitar to finish the tune. It took several tries, especially the middle break. It's a pleasant tune but not what I'd call a hit. It had the sound of a droning trip in a bus so that's how it became a story about my Greyhound bus trips between Boise and Los Angeles in my teens. I sent my vocals into Audimee, which is royalty-free, and used a vocal called Michael, which is close to my own vocal but more clear. https://www.johnwalradt.com/music/songs/greyhoundbus-master_2026feb02.mp3 Style is _EMOTION.STY (Emotional Rock w/ Strings) RealTracks in style: 995:Bass, Electric, HardRockLA Ev 120 RealTracks in style: 1535:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm PopPowerPushA-B Ev 120 RealTracks in song: ~1119:Guitar, 12-String Acoustic, Strumming Ev 120 RealTracks in style: 2508:String Quartet, Rhythm PopEvenHall Ev 120 RealTracks in song: 3067:Multi[Simultaneous=2] VocalAahs, VocalAahs, RealTracks in song: ~685:Harmonica, Background Pop Ev 120 RealDrums in style:RockHardEven8^1-a:Snare, HiHat , b:Snare, Ride GREYHOUND BUS Words and music by John Walradt Cream colored walls, rows of blue chairs Down and out people paying their fare Security guard squatty and fat Wields a broom to swat at the bats An old drunken man is sitting by me Talking about how it's futile to dream Then he drifts to the night to wash out his mouth with a beer. Can't get to sleep on a Greyhound bus The dusk becomes dawn and the dawn becomes dusk The dawn becomes dusk and the dusk becomes dawn And it blends like a Renoir painting You don't want to have to go home again. Just spent a month with a high school friend Smog in the palm trees, out after ten Boarding the bus with the desert ahead Loneliness creeps as darkness sets in Longing for someone, more than a friend Dream by the window of holding her hand Laughing and sweating, wondering how it would be Can't get to sleep on a Greyhound bus The duskbecomes dawn and the dawn becomes dusk The dawnbecomes dusk and the dusk becomes dawn And it blends like a Renoir painting You don't want to have to go home again. Can't get to sleep on a Greyhound bus The dusk becomes dawn and the dawn becomes dusk The dawn becomes dusk and the dusk becomes dawn...
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Cool tune, dug it a lot. And the imagery was terrific. Well done!
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Thank you Andrew. These changes, fixes & improvements will certainly go a very long way to make the product "world class". We certainly look forward to their implementation.
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Hi Steve, My first suggestion is to use the rebuild button. I notice the error message is looking at storage drive "e". Use the Styles window, the Installation Manager or the Windows File Manager to verify the Realdrums folder is installed on drive "e".
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Be safe out there. The Vercel JS app has some vulnerabilities listed out there (CVEs) in the last year, so .. If it's free, be extra careful (which is why I know the above) /not saying this particular thing is an issue, just saying be safe with free stuff
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