The German ELP! Spartacus and Illusions On a Double Dimple are my favorites 🙂

I’ll definitely check it out, I love British folk rock!

joegyork If you like prog and folk then you must know Strawbs and Gryphon 🙂

Yeah, my point was that country, classical, jazz, rap, hiphop, etc. are not Rock’n’Roll and a lot of true rock artists and acts that belong there are overlooked…my meaning of social engineering is that Jann Wenner has basically destroyed the notion of Rock’n’Roll and just puts in groups he likes.

What I mean is taking an established norm and twisting it in order to appease, thus removing all meaning. For instance Dolly Parton has nothing to do with Rock’n’Roll and ELP do in a very big way, but Jann Wenner has stated ELP will never be in the RnRHOF! I like Dolly Parton and think she is trully a wonderful person but the whole idea is…Read More

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Kansas

Styx

….and other real rock acts 😉

I had hopes that it was going to be a real Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame but it seems to be Jann Wenner’s social engineering project sadly!

Well I enjoyed that all the way through! Well done to all 🙂

I’m gonna give this one a shot, I like to experiment a bit 🙂

I own the ISP3 bundle and am confused by the “updates are free” ethos they employ. For instance when I purchased the bundle(many moons ago 😉 ) 80’s Spaces was not included with the bundle but now it shows as included? I’m wondering if I can just install it with my ISP3 license.

The Beatles

Genesis(Gabriel, Hackett, Banks, Collins, Rutherford)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

ELP

Gentle Giant

I work both ways…I start parallel because I’m always writing but once I get particular pieces I have an affinity for I try to get them to the “ready to mix” stage. I just did that a couple of days ago, I spent all day getting 3 pieces from coming along to finished writing and recording. It helps that I’m always album-centric so the pieces I got…Read More

To be honest I have a Presonus Quantum 2626 TB interface and it works great! With that said the name Presonus in no way conjures up music making to me, just electronic devices, while Fender says music making(albeit with a heavy guitar emphasis 😉 ).

Thanks…I’ve gotten a bit further along but haven’t rendered another demo yet 🙂

I have some old Sonar projects kicking around so I installed Sonar Platinum and then the free version of Bandlab’s Sonar. Most of my stuff was done in Platinum so no biggie but….I found I’m constantly writing new material in Nuendo that is superior to the older Platinum material…I haven’t brought many old projects forward…a lot I’m gonna let…Read More

So, I’m writing new material for the next album and thought I would share a demo of the latest piece, The Alchemist 🙂 I’m not finished writing yet so the mix is a ways off but it should come across fairly well(I hope! 😉 ). Anyways here it is- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight/song/35235643-the-alchemistdemo-wip-122125

I turned on the DAW machine earlier to run updates…I had nothing from Arturia…updated assorted and shutdown. Came back to surf on the laptop and saw Pigments had an update? Then checked email on my phone and Arturia sent an email about my free update…where were you earlier? 😉

A friend and I sneaked backstage at a Rush concert at the Palace Theater in Albany, NY and met Geddy and Alex coming down the stairs 🙂

Went to see ELO open for Kansas and during part of the Kansas show I went outside to the bar…wound up buying a beer for the singer for ELO 🙂

Personally I use CDBaby. You pay for the release once and any monies to be paid out are paid quarterly…for the rest of your life! 🙂 I’ve released 3 albums with them and with absolutely no marketing on my part I get about 100.00 a quarter…last quarter my BMI payment was 100.00 as well. For not pushing my music much that’s pretty good!

I’ve…Read More

Thanks! Just trying to show that sometimes the oldies are goodies 🙂

And by the way…there’s nothing stopping you from doing some prog now! 😉

I have the Deluxe Edition for Playstation but it’s nice to have it on PC as well 🙂

Here’s another one- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight/song/34998449-08-cemetery-skies-murder-crows

At this price you’re crazy to pass it up! 🙂

I use EWSO all the time…I used it here in the beginning and end of the piece. Also Hollywood Backup Singers and Voices of Passion 🙂

https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight/song/34998445-05-drowning-man-halfway-there

You don’t want to know what I paid for EWSO Platinum+ when it first came out! 😉

“VST 2 is not officially supported. VST 2 plug-ins may be loaded (excluding on Native Apple Silicon) when the VST 2 plug-in scanner is enabled in the VST Plug-in Manager. However, Steinberg does not provide support for any issues related to VST 2.”

From the Notes section 🙂

Thanks, I keep trying to wean myself off of Adobe but it’s tough, they’re not the industry standard for nothing! 🙂

I’ve been a BFD user for years and have never had trouble. To be fair I held off on moving from FXPansion to InMusic for quite a while so I probably skipped any issues during the change of ownership. I just picked up Marching Drums for $14….actually for about .34, I had some credit left at PB 😉

The only time I use something other than BFD is…Read More

Yup, all the included plugins open in the DAW of your choice 🙂

And Samorost 3 for android is free using the Epic Games app on android 🙂

Thanks!

One thing to remember is that you do not need to upgrade, you upgrade because you want to 🙂 You can run most any perpetual licensed app for 5 years and it’ll still do what it did when you bought it! I use Nuendo by Steinberg for my DAW….upgrades are generally $199 but there are periodic sales at 40-50% off. One nice thing about Steinberg, buy…Read More

Monument Valley 2 and The Battle of Polytopia are also available to play on android if you use the Epic Store app 🙂 They change them up each week just like the PC versions.

Looks like they are updating some of their plugins and this is one of them. I like the Harrison stuff, I have MixBus 10 Pro but have held up on going to 11 🙂

I have no use for AI in music, I’m able to do everything I want to do, I play guitar, keys, and drums…I mix my own material, etc….and sometimes a little south of perfect sounds more human 🙂 I don’t see the difference between people using loops and AI, either way YOU are not creating, just processing someone elses work! Using AI during…Read More

I used Sonar for years starting with Sonar 8!

Somewhere around Sonar Platinum the program would forget my interface every time I opened it and I would have to reload it…I was on an Echo Layla3G so not a USB interface but I think they made changes under the hood for people having trouble USB interfaces and it negatively affected mine. Moved on…Read More

Thanks Ross 🙂

Always loved that song…not a big New Wave guy but this is one of the few that I really enjoyed! You did it justice 🙂

bapu for The Score! 😉

VI Labs Ravenscroft 275

Heavyocity Ascend(for something different)

Hammer+Waves Acoustic

I switched from CbB(after switching from Sonar)to Samplitude for a bit. Samplitude blows it out of the water as far as capability goes but it was just awkward to use. Soon after a cheap crossgrade to Cubase came up and I started using that and took no time at all to get acclimated. A year or so after that I went all in and went to Nuendo. Now I’m…Read More

I enjoy this one, reminds me of what pop used to sound like when it was enjoyable, thanks for sharing this one! I also hear shades of Peter Gabriel 🙂

Very well done! Covers need that mix of being true to the original and having a personal stamp and you all pulled it off 🙂

Nice one! Lyrics and music work well together 🙂

Cool stuff! I really enjoyed it 🙂

Thanks Peter!

My latest album is available here- billheins.hearnow.com

I do instrumental music and use Nuendo for my DAW. If you don’t use a streaming music service go to the home link on the page to listen for free 😉

1. I live in the U.S.
2. I play guitar, keyboards, and drums. I started guitar lessons almost 50 years ago!
3. I don’t sing and the world is a better place for it!
4. I compose, perform, record, mix, and master myself.
5. I mix genres but mostly classical, hard rock/heavy metal, folk, new age, and old school electronics.
6. Sounds egocentric but I do…

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