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Category: Software
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I was looking at the Cubase 15 upgrade from Cubase 14 the other day and decided that I would get that and install it. Sometimes these upgrades do not really introduce much in the way of meaningful improvement, but I was pleasantly surprised. It appears that this is one of Steinberg’s most substantial updates in…
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I really enjoyed this book as I have always enjoyed the music of the Beatles. The full title of this book is quite a bit longer (paid link) The Beatles’ Recording Techniques: Recreating The Classic EMI Recording Studios Sound In Your Home Studio by Jerry Hammack This book is very practical and musician‑friendly in its…
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Something that I have struggled with in the past, and the present too, has been adding drum tracks to music. I am not talking about orchestral music particularly here even though that is the direction I am focusing on mostly nowadays, but on the guitar, bass, drums kind of music, I have been playing around…
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I have spent a fraught week or so trying to get my computer to behave and to rebuild it from scratch. I have been plagued with random reboots, programs crashing, and a complete lack of stability, the usual expectations with a windows computer, but they became so common that it was almost impossible to get…
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I decided that since I have been having a few Windows issues that I would install (paid link) Cubase 14 Pro on to my (paid link) Apple M1 iMac. I know that it has very limited RAM (8GB) and that may cause an issue when using many tracks, but I thought I would just try…
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As a short follow up to yesterday’s post about my attempts to install (paid link) Dorico 6 on my (paid link) Apple M1 iMac I am happy to say that everything went well and was successful. There was a small hiccup with licenses as my Windows PC was registered as having Dorico installed on it…
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I am a Steinberg user, making use of both (paid link) Steinberg Cubase 14 and (paid link) Dorico 6. I am also by force of finances, a Windows user. I have a PC and a Laptop both running Windows 11 and have both Cubase and Dorico installed on each of these. I do however have…
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I have been playing around a little with the MIDI guitar I posted about the other day. It has been an experience, both getting things working, and exploring the software. The MIDI Guitar is the (paid link) Jamstik Standard MIDI Guitar (Black) The software is the Jamstik Creator Software and has a variety of different…
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If you read my previous post about the issues I was having regarding being able to use the Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover Edition from Spitfire Audio, you will know of the untold difficulties I encountered trying to use Native Access to install this. Amazingly I have finally managed to get Native Access to work long…