Apparently this has been going on for a while but I learned about it just now: Cakewalk (formerly Cakewalk SONAR) was sold off by Gibson Brands and now lives with BandLab, who have decided to make it available for free, with no limitations (except I think some third-party addons were removed). Liter...

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So in case anyone else has been missing the "new posts" link near the top, it's still available using the "quick links" menu right below the logo.

Lydian has its place. Not in my music collection, though... I was trying to find an example but I don't have any. Here's a real song written in Lydian (with brief intermissions that depart from it): SINl5JY7LhI IMO it works best as a temporary mode to contrast against something more straightforward ...

To be fair, in the two hours I spent on it I probably could have recorded better vocals, too. I have the luxury of being able to go back and forth between recording and engineering, unlike most "serious" productions.

So here's my original Song Fight submission: http://www.songfight.org/music/ocean_of_love/jankrueger_ool.mp3 And here's the new one where I used Melodyne (and did some mix tuning in the past year or so): http://static.music-jk.net/attic/ool_melodyned.mp3 The untreated vocals: http://static.music-jk....

Yeah, I'm with Lunkhead here. My view is that the "X scale starting on note Y" serves as a good explanation of the origin of these modes, but looking at how each modal scale compares to others is a lot more illuminating. Ionian = major scale Lydian = major scale but with augmented 4th Mixolydian = m...

Update: I spent some more time with Melodyne on the same song I mentioned before. Turns out that the note detection isn't the problem so much, it's that Melodyne (and every other tool I know) doesn't always deal with sliding pitch changes in a productive way and can end up missing note transitions, ...

Want to actually listen to all of the standard modes in action? Here's a video of a guy doing some short guitar jams in each of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwaeBUYcO5o
Intro to actual examples starts at 4:20.

Yeah, Autotalent is quite decent in the realm of free pitch correctors, but IMO pitch correctors really only start getting interesting if they allow you to choose your own edits (e.g. Auto-Tune Pro, Melodyne, VariAudio, Waves Tune). With a fully automatic plugin like Autotalent you're completely at ...

Regarding thoroughly bad/mediocre vocals: I still think Autotune and friends make all voices either sound almost the same, or just don't make enough of a difference to make the performance tolerable, unless you invest so much time into it that you're basically re-sculpting the vocals in post-product...

Before anyone looks too deeply into the free Pro Tools, these are the most important limitations: - maximum 4 input channels - maximum 16 tracks/instruments - no local saving of projects, only cloud saving, limited to 1 GB - no revision history - no track commit/bounce (freeze is supported) - no inp...

Since no more songs seem to be forthcoming... reviews! Yay! Forgiveness by Pigfarmer Jr (suggested by inflatable vegetables): nice song, slightly repetitive but still acceptable. Pleasing arrangement, drums maybe a little too weak in comparison to everything else. The only thing that bugs me is the ...

Cool! I've added the song to the CoT archive. Including a nice mark of shame.

PS. I changed my mind. Marks of shame will exist only in future CoTs.

I'm in! Hopefully the timing is going to work out, I'll be extremely busy during the second half of July...

Good news! The website is now complete and contains all the songs submitted to me. 11 out of 15, could be worse.

https://cot.music-jk.net/circle/cot7

Two more songs from CoT VI have surfaced and are now added to the archive. If you happen to be reading this and have songs that are missing from the website (even if you already sent them to someone else; all of that has been lost), please let me know and I'll add them. https://cot.music-jk.net/circ...

I'm always amazed by how clear and loud (well-mixed) some of the recordings are. HOW do you get them to sound so good?!?!? Mine sound like they were recorded in a basement under a sackcloth by comparison. :oops: You've already gotten a fair bit of feedback on that. I just listened to your recording...

fluffy wrote:Its automation interface (drawing/editing automation curves) was terrible.

Can you elaborate a little on how it compares to, say, your favourite DAW in terms of usage? I've used REAPER a lot and now I'm kind of wondering whether I've been limiting myself in terms of automation without noticing it...

Not sure if there was a more recent thread for this... sorry to bump a 5 year old post... but I had no other way to contact my homies in #SongFight!... my firewall security is on lock down and I can no longer connect to IRC. I'm pretty sure it's just blocking the port that mibbit is using, but I'm ...

Also here's my song which I hadn't posted yet because I'd been hoping to simply include it in the finished CoT page:

http://static.music-jk.net/songfight/20 ... t-read.mp3