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Wao/J&B/David..thanks for listening...David, thanks again for your helping hints on Synth V ..I think I'm improving with it!

I was so happy to read you’re back online and and now have a back-up plan for the future that I mosied on over to listen to some of your music. I enjoy Country & Bluegrass when you can hear all of the instruments in the mix. Your songs sound professional to my ears and mixing several stringed instruments is no easy task. Great vocals as well. The young lady’s voice reminds me of a young Miranda Lambert and she sings great! Track

All this demonstrates is is that collectively, we aren’t sure. But I won’t fight over it. 😎

We remember this. Below are our comments to the original post as we still feel the same! And we enjoyed following the lyric vid. "You and Gabriela sound very good together! We like the vocal arrangement with the swapping off lead. You wrapped the nice band in a fine mix. And it sounds excellent on the monitors. Lately we can all relate to this line: “Where is rest? From the thunderous noise of the world” Enjoyed it! J&B"

Vivid imagery that had us seeing the knight in shining armor updated to a knight in leather on his Harley. The lovely vocal arrangement made us feel the melancholy of the California dream being just a dream. This one again reminds us of Daniel Lanois productions. The song breathes so well. Love the baritone guitar and that pedal steel so well captures the narrative's vibe. The mix you wrapped it all in is excellent ... that bass cuts perfectly as does the snare. Also thanks for the production info. Terrific, J&B

"I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba" And a great job you did. Your description is easily visualized by the band choice. Really cool. And we always love your open, airy mixes. Feel like we are sitting dead center in the front row. Nice! J&B

For most of this year I've been researching mastering, which I have no experience of, as I really wanted my vocal songs to be of a much better quality, so I've done a lot of reading and watched many videos, but although I've now done many experiments in Audacity and also bought Rast Sounds' Soren AI mastering I totally failed to achieve the quality I wanted. Calling Soren "AI" is a bit of a stretch as one only has 10 genre selections, 4 style presets and 4 loudness presets and whatever variation I tried ended up with a result less good than the original. A very simple wave editor comes with my CyberLink video app and I had better results with just that, but even then I found nothing I tried sounded significantly better than the original. So although I've done a channel-swap and light remix of this song from a year ago, the quality is about the same, though somewhere along the lines I lowered the volume of the organ a bit too much. From last year's notes: "… I discovered Argentinean vocalist, Denisse Ferrara, on Fiverr, and she amazingly supplied 9 vocal tracks for this song. I went for a foreign accent vocal to give the song a 'world' flavour, but the downside of that is that some words become obscured due to accent. I'm nonetheless extremely pleased with the result of these vocals - Denisse has brought the song to life. … In the main vocal track I had to up the gain over some phrases and lower 2 or 3, making 24 changes in total, then in the 2nd vocal track I did the same 4 times. All in all it took me 2 weeks to get the balance of all 9 tracks as I wanted them." Last year I also posted the "[smooth]" version of the song with a different vocalist, but I had one failed attempt with the "[baroque]" with a Fiverr Indian vocalist, then 2 long lasting disastrous experiences with a foreign lady who misrepresented herself as English, then ditto with an American lady, both of the latter 100% failing to understand the exact same instructions which the 1st 3 clearly understood, but long story short I've ended up using the "[smooth]" version vocalist's stem files on the "[baroque]" and it's turned out to be the best version of the 3, so that I'll post after I later post the "[smooth]". Always leave the best until last! As this is a very long intro the full lyrics are on the YouTube post, so please click on 'watch on YouTube' if you're interested. Other than the title and end title images there's only one image in the video so as not to detract from the music and lyrics. Cast in order of appearance: Warm Pad & Strings: Enya44 - Soft Ev. Techno Orche ~ uncredited Kalimba: World Beat 2 South African Dance ~ uncredited Marimba ~ Key Island Groove Quartet ~ Todd London Vocals: real human being ~ Denisse Ferrara Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Band ~ Tobin Frank Drums: Slow County Pop w/ Tenor Solo ~ Brian Fullen Organ: Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Band ~ Gene Rabbai Piano: East Dock Latin Fusion Gtr Solo ~ Jeff Lorber Acoustic Guitar: 3 Guitar Country Rock ~ Tony King Guitar solo: Modern Groove Soloist, Brit Rock ~ Dave Cleveland 4/4 ~ C ~ 95 bpm ~ 156 bars ~ 6:24

Good is good. Great is very good. Perfect is way, way generously good. Thanks! J&B

Looks and sounds to me like that is indeed an Audio RT playing Guitar on that soloed track. Why do you feel it is midi?

Just trying to understand. Is it the melody that is in the wrong position?

Marty...another brilliant write...great title (hook)...you're the "punniest" writer I've ever heard...your vocal reminded me of Roger Miller also a very clever writer...I love the piano part...the breaks...never met anyone who could write great music from the situational stories that are roaming around in your noggin...they're never boring , sometimes weird and always entertaining!

Hi, Dave. Everything here works. The vocals are great, and the guitar hooky and memorable.

My experience has been that 14 LUFS is very quiet for SoudCloud. They are apparently one of the few platforms that make no adjustments to what you upload. I'm a big fan of loundnesspenalty.com - free and no signup required and very fast. It only takes a few seconds to see how and if your song will be altered by the platforms. I use this as a basis for all my mastering. A LOT of the forum songs would require huge changes by the platforms as many are very loud. And the changes made my the platforms can introduce artifacts IMHO. You can check it out here at this safe link. https://www.loudnesspenalty.com Here's what our current forum song looks like: Bud

Muzic Trax. (or any lurkers.) my comments... 1..its best to detail your pc config...processor ? etc etc. then on cpubenchmark.net look up your processor. if its old with a low single thread score (i recommend at least 2000 these days..) you might run into probs. also look up its math handling performance. AND 2..run the tests i detailed in pg tips forum in the thread useing an existing pc. frankly my el cheapo new mini pc has amazed me. rb reports over 300 tracks. and latency mon reports it has one of the lowest microsound latencies in the pc market. bb 2025/rb boot up in no time flat. few secs as does win from cold. the biggest problem i see these days is old pc's that are not optimised for music production sooo the whole shebang falls apart under load eg too many tracks/plugins etc etc. anyhoo read some of my tips sometime in tips forum to save me retyping pages and pages. just some ideas. om

Hey Ron this is incredibly cool man. I love those guitar harmonics but I can't believe that you would have the audacity to steal some of my tricks right here on the forum for everyone to see! As my good friend Greta Thunberg would say: how dare you! But anyway man this sounds really good all around in your classic DC Ron kicking style! Really enjoyed it! Fun tune!

Aaaaarrrrggggghhhh. Mike, The tech at the shopping cart company insists nothing is wrong, and points out the scores of orders I'm getting with no problems. So he says it must be something wrong with your system or your security settings. Not being a tech, I have no idea if he is confused and blowing me off, correct, or something in between. So I have a plan. (1) Let me know in a PM or direct e-mail what you want to order, (2) I'll figure out the price and add an extra discount for your trouble (3) PayPal me the funds and (4) I'll send the software as an e-mail attachment. Meanwhile, I'll continue to investigate the problem, starting with my webhost, which I don't think would be the source, but it won't hurt to give that a try.

I agree with Audiotrack. I cannot see that m(add9) chords are part of BIAB's repertoire at this point in time. Have you tried Fm69? While is adds a D to the sound, it might actually sound okay. The other possibility that I can think of is to use Fm, and generate the track. Next, go through and use playable Realtracks to manually add the G note in one of the major instruments (e.g. piano or guitar) for each of the Fm chords that you want to be Fm(add9). The 9th probably won't need entering in all instruments since it is usually better not to double dissonant notes across too many instruments. After you have done this, you could then freeze the track to keep your work.

Brian, quite and elegant composition, and pleasing to listen to. Sounds like it could be the opening movement to a much longer piece. Nice job on the arrangement and mix. Sounds great to me!

I doubt that one platform over another will change the actual results. Both PC and Mac can deliver the goods. There are several Sade Styles in BIAB that might work. The Sax part is challenging to do with MIDI, but not impossible. However, if you can find a Real Style with Sax, that might be a better starting point. I listened to demo samples of _TALK (2024/06 Xtra Pak 18) _COSTA (2023/11 xPro 6 pak) _QUETZAL (2023/11 Xtra Pak 17) All could work with Sade style music. BTW, are you actually using BIAB or are you intending to create your music inside your selected DAW? Anyway, hope this helps.

Mariaedison3 is right in quoting me. RB will separate typeO into separate tracks

Exceptional vocals! Beautiful bossa nova. Professional record quality. Grand merci!

Great song. I can imagine this being performed in a bar and lots of folks dancing. I also listened to "Peltoniemen Hintrikin surumarssi" which is a gorgeous piece of music.

A very 60s vibe to this - indeed very Carpenters - and I really like the chords structure. My only criticism, which is clearly a personal thing, is that I just don't like SynthV vocals. Here and elsewhere where other have used alternatives such as Suno, the vocals sound organic, where for me SynthV vocals don't, particularly the way they're phrased, which is probably down to the singers not being Western.

Really interesting song musically and lyrically, but while this appears to be personal taste I'd like to have heard the vocals a bit more up front.

Alan, I haven’t been on the forum since January, and I have just read your post about Di. I’m so sorry to hear the sad news. From the progress reports you posted over the last couple of years, it is obvious Di put up such a good and brave fight. Also obvious is the love you shared. I hope you’re going ok, with plenty of support around you. You certainly have many PG Forum friends sending their love. Thinking of you, Mike