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Roberta & Donny...

What, maybe something like 'Annie Get Your Gun', or 'Fiddler on the Roof' ?

I like him... I think he plays great, entertains well and is top draw at promoting his product. His playing is articulate, tight and certainly 'on it' as far as groove goes. He has a musical brain that phrases well and to my ears, he does sound like he knows what he is doing. A lot of the material on his albums I find a bit lacking, boring even, but they were from his early days. He's probably matured since then. Good luck to him, he's certainly a hard worker!!... I happen to like his Fretless playing and at times, I find his musicality and technique are top draw (IMO of course).

Freddie also played Bass on 'Loco in Acapulco' from the 'Buster' album. The great Gene Page wrote the arrangement and conducted on this one. I might be mistaken, but I thought he also arranged 'Two Hearts'? The string arranging does sound like his style.

I really like the "Musician Behind" videos presented by Mason Marangella on his 'Vertex' channel. He gets to chat with some of the great musicians from the golden session era. The chap has great ears and asks all the right, nerdy questions. This one with Freddie is another gem. The Lee Ritenour video is also worth a watch and listen.

I don't really use Audacity much, but I have just installed the very latest update (V3.6.1). I'm using Windows 11. I imported a drum loop into Audacity, then copied it onto another track and I had no problems. It worked as expected. Also, I chopped the original loop into various clips, then copied and pasted them into a new track and once again, all worked as expected. It looks like the Windows version is okay.

An excellent freebie from Sonuscore. An Orchestral library that works in the free Kontakt player. A smallish download of around 4 gigs and personally, I think the library is worth checking out. Link: The Orchestra Elements I've linked a couple of walkthroughs below:

Steve Ferrone has a terrific cover band...

I've still got that album!! There are a few catchy 'Sexy' Disco arrangements and orchestrations on there. Apart from 'Short Shorts', I'm not sure what that was all about. Mostly arranged by the 'Godfather of Disco' arrangements, Vince Montana. He was a member of MFSB as well. Talking of Sexy Orchestrations...TSOP.

Ah, okay... For any W11 users, I've been using it for a couple of hours with no problems at all (Nuemdo/Cubase). It has a very low CPU hit as well.

We all like a freebie and this one is pretty mad. "Introducing Influx – an instantaneous “Sonic Retox” engine featuring the powerful FLUX resonator module, complete with Low Pass and Tube distortion capabilities." Download link: Influx - FKFX (fkfxaudio.com)

Or, maybe he missed his Twain.

Especially, 'Time Out Of Time'. I like Cyndi Lauper (or have liked in the past), but that performance was quite a car crash in places. Shame really.

Ewe Steger as a soloist.... And then the duo with his wife, Heidi.

WebSampler in a VST... $10.00 from WXAudio Plugins. You can record YouTube audio straight into your DAW. A look at what's going on is in this Video below'. Link for the product: WebSampler | WXAudio Plugins

Michael Jackson "ROCK WITH YOU" Original Studio Multirtracks (Listening Session & Analysis) Not too long, it's just under 25 minutes long.

I have only just upgraded from SpectraLayers 10 to version 11 myself, so I have been watching videos on what's new when I stumbled across this channel which you might find useful. It's about 20 minutes long with the fellow doing some comparisons, and he's also put together some audio cleaning in action, specifically voice related.

Yes, if you talking about the displaced note on (off) beat four at bar 38, it's an engraving error. Bar 36 is correct. (I think we can forgive him a dropped natural).

Sorry, I wasn't advocating using Nuendo, it's just the DAW I use and it was just an example. Certainly SpectraLayers is worth a look for Standalone use. The new version 11 is excellent. To be honest if it is something you will be doing on a regular basis is might be more cost effective than going online with AI. I think even the 'Elements' version at £68 should more than cover your needs. What Is New in SpectraLayers 11 | Steinberg Also it might be worth investigating 'RX 11 Elements' by 'iZotope'. It is on sale at the moment. Both SpectraLayers and RX Elements have a lot of online tutorials and are perfect for content creators for quick fixes with good results as a opposed to in depth audio editing. RX Elements | iZotope Good luck and I'm sure others will be along with other options worth considering.

I use 'SpectraLayers' in and out of Nuendo for this type of thing. My wife does a lot of media voice over work and she's also out and about working on peoples various live Podcasts where there is often back ground noise. I'm not sure Logic has anything like this yet, but Steinberg has a standalone version of 'SpectraLayers'. Also there are various plugins about that do a decent job of audio cleaning. Otherwise, its a case of getting you hands dirty and chopping into the audio, removing noise between words then using various EQ filters to brighten up the actual audio. I'm sure there are plenty of YouTube videos using Logic demonstrating Audio/Voice cleaning. Probably any easy way out for you, if you are not skilled in Audio editing, would be to try some of the online 'AI' websites who specialise in cleaning up Audio and voice files. (maybe do some Google searches?). Usually you can get a few free attempts before committing to purchase of subscriptions. My wife's friend who works on some of the same projects as her uses this company and she is quite happy with the results she gets. LINK: AI Voice Cleaner & Background Noise Remover

'Woodland Piano'. Although free, there is also a 'Pay as you want' tab. You will need the full version of Kontakt for this library (there is no player version. If you play Piano/Keys you will find this very nice to play, also there is a walkthrough video on the download page that is worth a look. It comes in at just under 2.5 gig for download. Link: Woodland Piano

Haha, yes, of course...I had heard the TB sessions quite a while back. But that was only after the 2003 remix release. You have probably seen the video below from the 'Tom Bell listening sessions' then? If not, here you go. If you watch over on YouTube instead of viewing from Basschat, the rest of the videos are there on the right-hand side column.

Without derailing the OP thread, that sounds like a different mix than the shorter version I posted. Is that the original version you were talking about up thread?

I heard some EW&F this morning. I had forgotten how groovy they really were. Great playing, tight horn arrangements and terrific vocals.

A great tune and TSOP thing going on, but it would need to be simplified and trimmed back to play live for a five piece. There is a lot going on Orchestral wise with the string pads and runs, Brass swells, Flutes and Harp glissandos etc...It would certainly keep a Keyboard pretty occupied! Mind you, it might work well in a raw arrangement, although the Orchestral backing helps detract from the repetitive nature of the song