[William Heins]

That’s actually a great price but I need another DAW like I need a hole in my head! 😉

I’ve been slowly converting old Sonar projects over to Nuendo. I first create an empty project in Nuendo and match BPM, tempo, and time signatures. Next I render out all the individual audio clips and note locations to match placement(you can render out the full tracks but then you may wind up with lots of silence leading to cuts and fades). Finally I copy out the Midi tracks and note the synth and preset for each while noting all the settings. If you run into an older synth that won’t work you can render that track as audio to place beside it’s Midi track in the new project to give you a reference for finding a similar synth sound.

I’m actually using a few old Sonar pieces converted to Nuendo in the new album I’m working on! 🙂

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[William Heins]

Memories of MTV in the early days…well done you’ve captured the sound and feel!

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[William Heins]

As fas as the comment rule, great idea…I’m gonna start after this post!

Influences? Many and none…I’ve listened to a lot of different music over the years but I just write whatever comes to mind…no set plan in advance 🙂

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[William Heins]

Dave Kerzner has also released some great progressive rock music of his own, my personal favorite is New World 🙂

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[William Heins]

Congratulations! Here’s to many more 🙂

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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.

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[William Heins]

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 ludicrous. Sade?? Wu-tang Clan?? Luthur Vandross?????? Go through the inductees list at the website and see all the people and groups that don’t belong there!

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[William Heins]

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!

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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.

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[William Heins]

The Beatles

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

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

ELP

Gentle Giant

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[William Heins]

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 ready are going to be on the next album.

I’ve also started splitting up larger pieces into smaller projects to make the process easier 🙂 At the end I’ll mix everything non-stop whether it’s a day, a week, or a month of work I try to do all mixing at the same time period to get the same “sound” 🙂

Parallel work allows you to avoid burnout and reaching that “Oops, I messed that one up” point 😉

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[William Heins]

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 😉 ).

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

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 die 🙂

I suggest you look into Cubase or Studio One going forward, either program is a definite step up from Sonar and they sell permanent licenses…you don’t need to feed the meter to keep the program running 😉 I bought an update for Nuendo for half price during the holiday sale- 99.99…if I was continuing with Cubase it would have been more like 49.99 or so.

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[William Heins]

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? 😉

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[William Heins]

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 🙂

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[William Heins]

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 heard good things about DistroKid but it’s an annual subscription and that makes me wary, the last album release cost about 40 or 50 bucks and I’ll make that back quick 🙂 And keep making music without having to pay again…and again…and again 😉

If you’re serious about releasing material make sure you sign up for a PRO(Performing Rights Organization) and use that with whoever you release with! I’m retired now so I’ll be spending some thought and time on marketing with my next release 🙂

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[William Heins]

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! 😉

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[William Heins]

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! 🙂

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[William Heins]

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 🙂

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

“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 🙂

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[William Heins]

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 for special circumstances, for instance using 8Dio The New Toms Ensemble. I’m happy with the sound and the adjustments you can make in the Mixer. I prefer BFD2’s interface though, I’m not big on cartoony unicorn GUI’s 😉 I do have both installed and use BFD2 from time to time. I also have Addictive Drums, EZ Drummer, etc. but they don’t get any use!

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[William Heins]

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

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[William Heins]

Thanks!

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[William Heins]

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 🙂

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[William Heins]

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 processing I’m more open to…it’s just not for me.

But to be a complete hypocrite I do use AI in art…I have some 2d and 3d skills but AI is just a faster way to get something almost finished 🙂 I used to use Maya but have been trying to make the switch to Blender and I’ve had Photoshop for ages!

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[William Heins]

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 to CbB but saw the writing on the wall and started testing…first up was Samplitude Pro X4 Suite! Samplitude is a powerful program and blows CbB out of the water as it’s set up for more a professional use…but it was very awkward to use 😉 I bided my time and a good crossgrade sale to Cubase came up and I decided to check it out. I had use Cubase years ago and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to use again. Everything is straightforward and well engineered. I switched 100%! Soon after a sale came up with a crossgrade to Nuendo and I jumped on it!

Now I own Cubase Pro, Nuendo, Halion, Wavelab Pro, and Dorico Pro 🙂 Looking back I enjoyed my Sonar years but I would never go back, it’s nice to use software made by a manufacturer who is all about music whether a DAW, notation, synths, etc.

It always bothered me that Cakewalk never tried to appeal to serious musicians and studios, it always felt like a very good hobbyist program.

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[William Heins]

Thanks Ross 🙂

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[William Heins]

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 🙂

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