{"id":83,"date":"2011-05-19T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2011\/05\/19\/May-2011"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:32:00","slug":"may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago I finished the drums for “Painting Abstracts” and moved on to the piano. I’m using Modartt’s Pianoteq Play<\/a> instead of Truepianos<\/a> this time around: for some reason it just seemed to work better. Both VSTs have a fine selection of “pianos” to choose from, but Pianoteq’s “K1” model seemed best. There’s a jazzy middle section coming up, however, that might prove the selection and see whether it sticks.<\/p>\n

Last weekend I took a break from Abstracts and worked on “Strange Finale”, loading it up into Cakewalk’s SONAR X1 Producer<\/a> and seeing how it behaved. Before long I was completely comfortable with the newly revised “smart” tool in the MIDI editor, and only once did X1 crash, taking out my recent edits.<\/p>\n

Much has been written<\/a> about the mad, crazy, and user-annoying changes between SONAR 8.5<\/a> and SONAR X1<\/a> so I won’t re-hash them. Suffice to say, I am not a fan of X1, and I’ve been cautious about using it full time for my projects. It’s a very buggy release, but in Cakewalk’s favour, they have been releasing regular patches to deal with the most troublesome niggles.<\/p>\n

I just wish I could get SONAR X1’s “smart” editing tools into 8.5’s robust and stable UI.<\/p>\n

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In other news, lousy blog spammers still get through the captcha gate on this blogengine site, but it seems managable. I’ll keep comments open for a while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago I finished the drums for “Painting Abstracts” and moved on to the piano. I’m using Modartt’s Pianoteq Play instead of Truepianos this time around: for some reason it just seemed to work better. Both VSTs have a fine selection of “pianos” to choose from, but Pianoteq’s “K1” model seemed best. There’s a jazzy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}