[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! 🙂

A lot of demo stuff here- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight

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[William Heins]

I’ll definitely check out Redshift! 🙂

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[William Heins]

Check out some old Tangerine Dream like Phaedra and Rubycon! If you want to experiment with drums try mixing the electronic drums with some world percussion rhythms? If I didn’t like your material I wouldn’t be offering unsolicited advice 😉

A lot of demo stuff here- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight

[William Heins]

Gonna be honest here….I really really really enjoy the ambient synthesizer background and melody but don’t care for the “dance” aspect…I have never been a fan of Disco since day one and being old it ain’t gonna change 🙂

You ever decide to do a strictly electronic ambient piece I’ll listen all day!

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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 🙂

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

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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]

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 an app and you can run any version up to the one you are currently running(barring license activation changes). Right now a new user for Nuendo would purchase 14 but have access to 12 and 13 as well. If you originally purchased 11 or older, which was on the eLicenser, you can go back to the first version! The new licensing activation started with Nuendo 12.

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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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