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Ok, just completed a test on my latest BiaB song. Geez, it worked GREAT. Let me sculpt the mix to my taste: a bit more snare, a little less ride, quite a bit more splash...and it all sounded perfect. On soloing the stems, did not detect the "cut off" issue on this particular drum track: Everything decayed quite naturally. A few notes: This is not a real time tool. You run the VST in record mode in your DAW to produce the stems, and you control the stems on subsequent replays in your DAW. The time to render the stems is not instantaneous. Probably took three minutes on my three minute long song. The processing power required to render the stems is unlike anything I have ever run on this PC. The Windows Performance Monitor indicated I was running at 75% capacity and my fans were SCREAMNIG. I'd never even HEARD my fans before in the year I've been running this relatively powerful hardware DAW. So I'm impressed so far. Definitely worth a trial if this is a feature you think you'd use. Did not try the revoicing or other features. Doubt I'd ever use them but I'd encourage anyone interested to test them out.
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" There's an issue described in their FAQs with higher frequency stems being cut off too soon, but I'm not sure how prevalent or noticeable that is." I'm guessing if they voluntarily acknowledged that it must be noticeable Just a guess 
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All pg users... review of audient id 24 interface... https://audient.com/landing-pages/julian-krause-id24-audio-interface-review/ JK is a tech reviewer of interfaces. (full disclosure i'm a user of one of audients humbler interfaces... do your own testing....the audient id 24 is above my pay grade...lol.) NOTE...if one is in the market for a new interface BUT WANT HIGH GAIN MIC PREAMPS...i suggest you check out SSL range of interfaces with 72 db gain apparently....these have got a good rep apparently...but always do your own testing. ALSO NOTE...some interfaces only offer a global setting of 48 volt phantom. one reason i like my audient is i can set each channel independent of the other including mutes etc etc. so check this out in any interface your looking at. hth...ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN TESTING. om
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Lee, Thank you - that is very kind and we both appreciate it! Bob
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Thanks Ezekiel! I had not heard of Julee Cruise - thanks for the steer. I love this kind of vocal
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Just visited the Restem site and read the (very concise) manual. Basically, the VST breaks a drum track down into seven stems that can be individually controlled (bass, snare, toms, etc) for volume. That would be a pretty cool RealDrums enhancement for sure. There's an issue described in their FAQs with higher frequency stems being cut off too soon, but I'm not sure how prevalent or noticeable that is. There's a free 14-day trial on their website, so I may give it a go...
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Hi, Sören. That's some nice guitar playing!
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Hi, Arri. Another tune I hadn't heard before. Nice rendition, and thanks for the background story as well.
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Hi Ron, An incredibly energetic song, with many tongue-twisting parts in the lyrics. Very funnily done and well sung, nice melody! For a moment I thought "take a bow" was meant for your president, but apparently not... I did have to scratch my head for a moment at this lyric: "The limousine has like ten flavors of seltzer water And a driver on bail for vehicular manslaughter And enough headroom for all the Harlem Globetrotters" Couldn't get what it really meant, even after the translation in Dutch, but I'm pretty sure it was funny! Hans Thank you, Hans! So to break down the three lines of the bridge you were asking about into plain (but American) English: 1. The limousine has an amazing selection of mixers available in the built-in bar 2. The limousine driver has been criminally charged with killing someone with a car, presumably the limousine 3. The limousine has a raised roof tall enough to accommodate the tallest passengers, for example, The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team Funny interpretation about our "take a bow" and our president, but...no. Ha!
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Arri, this is quite a rousing rendition: Well done! Cool vocals. Harmonies, too! Fine playing throughout as usual. That tin whistle playing the melodic lines in the right channel is very cool. Don't recall hearing BiaB do that before, but I like it.
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Sören, this sounds great. Super vibe and very smooth playing. Nice mix, too. Good luck with that motorcycle thing! When I turned 65 I bought a guitar that I didn't need. I may still have it, but can't remember... Ha!
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Love this. Super melody, great vocals, spiffy tin whistle. Any song with an accordion is going to grab me anyway, but everything about this works great. Many of us are of a generation where the radio was our only link to the wide, wide world of music. I miss the ritual of the radio. Elvis Costello's "Radio, Radio" performed live on Saturday Night Live in 1977 changed my and my brother's lives. Nothing to do with your song. But your title alone made me tingle a bit.
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I have spectral layers and it crashes any DAW I try to use it in.
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Re your current love song - I forgot to ask this in my response to it - are you an American who married a German gem? Nope, I'm German who married a German gem (with Italian roots)
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Awesome abd beautiful vibe from the get-go! Very, very impressive soundtrack-like arrangement and as always I love those Swam woodwind instruments. "IMHO this is your best yet", but if I listened to your whole repertoire I might think it wasn't!  Thanx so much Chay. I also like those Swam woodwinds and actually all of the Swam instruments.
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Oh, you naturally did a better job than Nature this year. Your tune suggests all the magic in springtime growth, and (as always) you do it so brilliantly. Those titilating oboe and bassoon parts blend so well with the magic strings. Man, you really are a genius, Mario. Thanx Marty. I'm no genius, just an old hacker of a guitarist trying to expand his repertoire.
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Hi Sören! I like the downward bass line and accompanying instruments in the verse. Both sections of the the song push the listener into the other section, and then repeat. It sounds very captivating! Andrew
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Hi Vic! You’ve written a real melancholy sound for this song, and along with the repetition of ‘radio’, coveys the longing of the songwriter - almost like pleading. Well done. Andrew
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Hi David! Good one! Not enough songs exist about personal accountability. I like the gradual increase throughout the song, and the backing vocal ‘ahhhs’ in the chorus. Andrew
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Well I like these sounds so much that I made a screenshot of all the instruments that you used so that I can use them myself. 😅 Really well done, it's got a very movie-esque or cinematic quality to it, I.e. I think it would be great for sync. I think you're getting better and better at this as you go. The textures and layering choices of the instruments and overall production quality on this one is very impressive.
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Joking aside...if there's a way to easily turn a RealDrums track into volume-controllable stems, I'll check it out. It might not be the first choice for someone on a budget, but Steinberg's SpectraLayers does an excellent job of breaking down a drum track into individual stems. I use it all the time. They offer a 30-day trial version.
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Man, I loved Country Joe. Maybe I listened in state that was difficult to discern but it sure sounded good to me. What I loved about that era was that every single band had it's own unique sound, and CJ & The Fish was one of my favourites. I always hear the ocean in their music. Joe was a brilliant and very poetic lyricist and among my favouite tracks are the "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" album's title track, "Pat's Song", "Magoo" and "Janis" which flows beautifully into the instrumentsl, "Easter Jam". From the previous album "Section 43" is also an excellent instrumental, and a from a later album - I have it but can't recall the title, maybe "Together"? - "Donovan's Reef", from which are these superb lines: "It's all a mystery, the pages of history Oulastred the things that I most held dear." Though that doesn't apply to CG & The Fish and so many other bads from the 60s! 
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