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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Always enjoy your innovativeness in your music, Chris. The unusual blend of tonalities work well.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: CHRIS_123

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Thanks Chris,

I will have to relay your comments to my wife. She keeps telling everybody that I wrote this song about her. LOL!

indeed, I was going for a more 80s type of vibe. My heart is always in classic rock and always will be.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Only words I can say is, WOW! That was amazing. I love the vocal harmonies.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It would be faster and far less complicated to bounce your kit piece stems out of SD3. Similar to creating a multi channel instrument in logic, he would wrote your kit pieces and buses to different outputs in bounce from there after importing your MIDI into SD3’s timeline.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You can use the envelope release setting to dampen the kick. Using a curved release will create a more realistic dampening effect.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Coolness! Glad to see that you’re back up and running.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

What you can try to do is go into your fresh Logic file and from there open the media Browsers tab. Click on “All Files” and navigate to your old project and try to open it in the browser. If it opens, attempt to import what you can from the project except SD3 and save. Quit and re-launch to see if everything opens.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Basically yes. That’s pretty much the beauty of Midi in that you can apply it to whatever type of kit you’d like.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You may have a either a corrupt Logic or SD3 project. A simple test is to launch Logic holding down Option and then creating an empty project. From there create a new instance of SD3 and save it and then quit and re-launch. If it loads, then there’s your answer and we can look at things from there.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Thanx Chris. 🙂

This entire situation has allowed me to get in touch with a lot of things from spiritual to just plain self-improvement. I think the hardest part of doing this song, aside from kicking my own ass to get it done, was getting the vocals down at 1am while my wife was sleeping (my stepson is usually up gaming with his headphones on, so that never concerns me). Mind you, that may have been tied with the bass guitar (this was part of my improvement initiative) as there many takes to (hopefully) nail those syncopated areas.

Thanx again for listening

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Pearl kick and Ludwig or Tama snare will pretty much give you what you’re looking for. You’ll need to EQ out some of the mid range and add some compression to make it sit in the mix. There are other things that you can tweak from there but I would say try this for a start.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It has little to do with age of the SDX. We are talking about two different sub genres and their producers, along with the studio, equipment, and production techniques. It will all boils down to the type of sound that you want in your song. I have used progressive foundry in a few songs that required hard-hitting drums and they serve very nicely. Both Legacy of Rock and Rock Foundry SDX’s serve me very well in the classic rock type of sound, with the latter being a bit more hard-hitting.

however, I also do not use factory presets as I am often looking for a certain type of mix. I am known to use the ones that I have created as a jumping off point.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

If you Clear all Filters and then click on the Favourite column header it will display all of your favourites.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

On a standard circle of fifths, rather than the enhanced version that is on EZ Keys, you would get a more visual representation of your progression. It takes a bit of practice, but in time you can ascertain the tonal centre out of the visual representation. You can also determine the direction of the progression, as well as derive numerous cadences from it.

The real beauty of it within EZ Keys is the ability to change things around, from direction to cadences in the chord selection tool, which is as mentioned above, a more enhanced version of the circle of fifths. Visualizing the direction of a progression would take a bit of practice in that you would have to not see the relative minor part and use your imagination to map the progression out on the wheel.

When I am not using EZ Keys, I often find myself practising this with a mobile app on iOS called Tonally. It is also a decent song writing up when I am not near my computer.

My only regret is that I wish that I had listened more carefully and applied this when I was taught as a kid.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Are you using a Ross/clean kit? If so, you might have to apply some processing in order to get the results you’re looking for.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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