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“So long, Rusty at my side for so long. She don’t care, as to where, she’s got her bone. Ain’t nothing better than bombing along red dirt roads. With your best friend at your side. She’s not trying to catch you out. She’s just a ….. along for the ride.” We have hundreds of miles of red dirt roads in our area and frequently bicycle sections of them. And we've spent plenty of miles in a pickup on them. All meaning this tune is very relatable. Your vocals sound good for a 64 year old. Hey, just kidding they are fine - Janice is 68. ) Great band and regarding your BiaB thoughts … well RTs and RDs are played in a studio by humans - often famous ones. To us, FWIW, BiaB’s magic to make it fit your song doesn’t strip out the humanity.  You did good work with the soloists too. And, man, those video clips were so supportive of the song. Well done. J&B
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When you display the Log Text File does it give you any more details that are not in the popup message?
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Floyd, you and I have talked in a while and I haven't been on here much, but what a great thread! The weird part is even without us touching base in a bit it's crazy how much of what you posted I listen too. PLUS, as a bonus, I got a few new ones to check out from you! Thanks for that! As far as Mike, dude, it's your kind of response that has me not coming here anymore. You came in and made a comment that wasn't to help, improve or add ANYTHING beneficial to a post that Floyd obviously put some time and effort into. You felt the need to make some snide remark, act like you didn't make it, then insult the spirit of the thread. You're a smart dude. Do better, man. Anyway...later for now. The OP was looking for someone to disagree and when I made a small joke about the booze and trucker hats, he immediately unloaded with both barrels dumping on me for things I neither said nor implied. The first person who disagreed was going to get that exact blast—if you don't understand that, read it again. Knowing that his response was pre-planned, I then fired back in return. I could have written a long paragraph on each song explaining my points but I certainly wasn't interested. Just because I found Form and Analysis classes pointless and boring while working towards a music degree doesn't mean I wasn't very good at it—still am. He wanted the fight, I gave him the opportunity to get whatever nonsense he had bottled up out and he did. I should have been thanked but wasn't. I'm ok with that. As for you, I suggest rereading what went down and getting over it.
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You know that we love the topic of your song and your production for both the song and the video are excellent. With the vocalists you chose the choruses and bridge sound magestic. Once again you’ve assembled an interesting and enjoyable band too. The wollimi pine documentary is fascinating and reminds us of what a brief time we are here. The cassoweries were amazing and the doc did a good job of showing our connectedness. On that note (pun intended) we’re going for a hike in the woods! Well done and we enjoyed it all! J&B
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I haven’t read today’s announcement? What I read yesterday was about being able to authorize a reinstall to a new computer, restoring authorizations, stuff like that. I’ll wait until the dust settles. The the only time I authorized Notion 6 was on my 2010 iMac, four computers ago. It opens fine today, knows where all my old files are and pops my license info when I click on Activation. This is the first time I've opened it on my Mac Studio that I purchased in 2023. As I mentioned before, I used Apple's Migration Assistant to bring it over each time, either from the older Mac or a Time Machine backup. The license screen has never appeared asking for re-authorization. However, when I clicked on Receive Licenses on the Software Activation screen, it connected and gave me a Success message. I've not tried it on my Tahoe test Volume yet. This tells me the license file is stored locally and transferred each time. It would surprise me if the same is not true for the PC and once you know the correct file name and paths, restoring it to a new machine should be easy.
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I certainly don't have the pitch detecting skills that this muscian has. And if I think about it, maybe having such skills is a curse because everywhere you go you probably hear music out of pitch. I'm guessing that would be annoying. In high school I knew a fellow musician with perfect pitch. He told me he hated it! He said anything that was off in a band, chorus, or music in general drove him up a wall. He went on to college and we lost touch.
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We’re sorry about the loss of your friend and we hope the songs you made together comfort you. He lives on in those songs and your memories of your friendship and collaborations are surely treasures as they are to listeners. We especially enjoyed “May God’s Blessings Rest on You.” Thank you for sharing. J&B
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Windows PC A Solo 4th Gen Solo Focusrite audio i/face ILoud Micro speakers I use an old Win PC .... Focusrite 2i2 ( 3rd I believe ) ... and my Roland keyboard as speakers. Audacity or Reaper for recording. Works very well and good for an amateur like me.
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Count me in, Mario. Busk away and share your posts, Donny.
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At times, I felt I was soaring, and then there were some more melancholy moments that contrasted well with the overall theme. Expertly played and very easy on the ear.
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Feels like walking in deep snow, the sound of your guitar is like the northern wind on a cold winter day. Some discords make this quite an interesting experience. Great dual guitar painting, and acoustic/electric BIAB guitars work well together. The song lives up to its title. Enjoyable blues journey. Janne
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Of couse Rusty that is why I brought this question here.  Now for a bit of the back story... I stumbled onto an interesting opportunity to do some audio editing for a project involving a videographer recording narration of his video (voice over work). I have to be a bit secretive here. This individual is a professional musician who some years back suffered a stroke and lost his ability to sing/speak. He has been preparing a life history video for the past couple years. He is at the stage where he is having a voice over actor come in to record the narration in his home studio. All the final video and mixing will be done in a professional studio. Unfortunately, his home studio was in disarray and not fully installed in the current location. His stroke caused cognitive damage and he was unable to get his gear up and running. He reached out via our local town FB, looking for someone in the area who could help with setup. Now I am not a sound engineer, but I can set up a DAW and associated equipment (which by the way was all pro level gear). I stopped by and got things installed and operational. But his DAW was Studio 1 One version 7. Which I have no experience with. Since he wanted to get recording immediately, I installed Reaper and showed him how to arm and record a track. He took notes but communicated to me that he was not able to run the board due to his illness. Long story short I have now recorded 13 individual narratives with his voice over artist. He has taken all our tracks to his pro studio where they have incorporated them into a master mix. This week he has the camera crew coming to film him in his home studio playing live and needs backing drums and Guitar FX. He asked me to come over to install and setup his EzDrummer and Amplitube plugins. He has promised me he will find some small place in the movie credits to call me out by name for “engineering support”. What a treat for me! I will come back with a link to the project when it goes public. Dan I attended the priemere release of the 90 minute Documentary In search of his lost Cords. This is the story of Eric Kinkel, who is the musician who I referered in this thread last spring. The link is for the Trailer. The entire film can be found on Vimeo. I did some very minor work on the production of this documentary which I had shared above. At the end of the showing, lights came up and the audio was stopped as they rolled credits. Few if any paid any attention to the listing, except me. There near the end of the roll was "Dan Hoch - Audio Assistance." I was so excited! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32177&filename=Screenshot 2026-01-14 115216.jpg)
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I am very intrigued. Can I make my own loops - meaning can I imput a Audio snipet into Elastik and create my own library? How long can a loop be? The video shows Elastik importing loops onto a track, Elastik features you can use to alter the audio output of the imported loops and how loops can be combined to create a finished audio track. The video does not show what changes remain in the audio track if the plugin is removed from the track. Band-in-a-Box also has audio loop creation capability. I believe Tobin with PG Music created a video demonstrating how you can highlight part of a track and create an audio loop. The thought was you might want to create an audio loop to use as a recurring riff. Audio loops are generally short but the length really depends on the audio content and the expectation of how the audio loop might be used. For example a bass drum hit only needs to be as long as one note while an audio loop of an instrument riff might extend for four or eight bars. A loop needs to have metadata. A percussion loop needs tempo metadata. Loops that can change pitch need tempo and key signature metadata. There are good loops and bad loops. Good loop construction considers how a loop might be used, sample rate and how the beginning and end of a loop blends with what comes before and after the loop. For example a loop used in a 44.1k sample rate recording must contain exactly 44,100 samples. Too many or not enough and the loop audio will not match the rest of the audio and get out of sync. Sometimes you will run across audio snippets that don't include metadata. They are not loops but instead are called shots because they are one time events that are not repeatable. Last but not least most of my description applies to audio loops. But there are also midi loops.
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Since I average about 400 streams per song, all I need to do is write, record and post 850000 songs online to make a million dollars....give or take.
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Clever bittersweet lyrics. Backing band is reminiscent of a cool 70s easy listening sound. Thx
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Andrew, An excellent song and some really nice vocals and production. This is a great sound for you. Love the edgy feel. Bob
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Ron, I think this song is awesome! Love the lyrics and your vocal is excellent. A lot of personality and so natural. You do some great Power Pop! The energy just crackles in this song. Love the arrangement and big open mix. Some very cool layers in the mix as well. I'm all in on your 2026 resolutions. Bob Thank you, Bob. Resolution are always easiest in January. Let's see how I'm doing in, say, April... Ha!
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What??? Do I hear that right he's playing lead, rhythm, bass and percussion lines all at the same time on the guitar! Amazing! Jeff
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Ha! Funny and fantastic tune, Floyd. Love the write. Story songs with a twist are the best. Super lead vocals: Strong and expressive with just a touch of playfulness. Love how the harmonies are panned. Super band, too. Those guitar fills are especially nice. BiaB has some similar fills that are technically just as nice, but Rodney's are of course by a musician who's hearing and playing to the song. Very cool. The BiaB remnants hold their own and fit right in. Nice job with the mix. A lot of entertaining musical detail to be heard, and it's all perfectly available for the listener. A song worthy of the re-mix for sure. Can see why this is a favorite. Same for me!
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Super song, Pete! Lovely, heartbreaking lyrics delivered by powerful but emotional vocals. Wow, doesn't get any better than that. Very tidy BiaB backing track, and that fiddle works out perfectly. The soloists at the end are cool, too. When I read the subject line, I though the song was going to be about Il Duce and the rise of fascism. I like your posted song much better though. Ha!
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Marty, Thanks - much appreciated as always. Bob
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I really like this, Andrew. It's a large and thoughtful production with hooky progressions, and I love those walk-downs and walk-ups behind the vocals, especially in the chorus. Well done! Thanks Scott! Yeah, I was pretty pleased with those ups and downs when the idea came during production - what I might call a creative ‘accident’. Andrew
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Thank you, I jumped from 2024 so missed that last year.
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< The issue: The sound volume of some instruments fluctuates too much between different song parts. > << The need: I want to be able to adjust the volume of guitar 2 IN THAT SECTION OF THE SONG (chorus 1) to be even with the overall volume of the song. So far I have only been able to adjust the volume of guitar 2 in the "Mixer Instrument Tracks" BUT, doing so adjust the volume for the entire song NOT just chorus 1. How do I adjust the volume of guitar 2 just for that specific part of the song (chorus 1)? >> There's multiple ways to address your need using BIAB. Volume automation is one way but there are several different features in BIAB that can also do it. BIAB has an advanced feature called the RealTrack Medley Maker that will not only allow you to balance the volume, but adjust the panning, and mute and unmute, of up to eleven RealTrack instruments at once. Further, because of the BIAB's reading ahead capability to determine what RealTrack data to select for each RealTrack instrument, BIAB is aware of forthcoming outro's of one instrument interacting with the second instrument beginning to play its intro prompting BIAB to automatically create a "smooth transition" between the two instruments. A user can instruct BIAB to apply these processes and it will literally render a finished and arranged track that replicates exporting and editing multiple tracks in a DAW. It will create your arrangement automatically and it can be modified completely to meet the user's arrangement considerations. Each of the 24 Mixer Tracks has the RealTrack Medley Maker. Each of the 24 tracks can hold up to eleven RealTracks, each independent from the other 23 Mixer tracks. Most users don't know they can generate, control, manipulate, and program as many as 264 RealTracks, arranged as they have directed, all in a single render. To load both guitars onto a Mixer Channel using the RealTrack Medley Maker: Select the Mixer channel of one guitar. Open the RealTracks StylePicker, to open the RealTrack Medley Maker; It's located located in the RealTracks Picker under the Settings Button. Then complete your arrangement for muting, panning and volume adjustment in that dialog window and BIAB will generate those two instruments in the arrangement you programmed. I've attached a screen shot example of two instruments playing on the same Mixer Channel and alternating every four bars at first and then having four bars of silence between the two instruments alternating with each other.
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Hope he, Jerry and Phil are jammin' away. RIP Indeed — three keyboards as well. Pigpen, Keith and Brent. Got to jam with Bobby at the Bohemian Grove more than once. Generous to a fault and I'll leave it at that. RIP
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