AVID PRO RELEASES NEW STUFF

Well, we expected this, though maybe expected it a bit earlier. Avid is adding what is essentially an Ableton Live Session clone to its UI, available both in the new Pro Tools update and in a free iPad app called Pro Tools Sketch.

The iPad app, for its part, visually looks very much like Apple’s – down to features of the transport bar and insert slots – though it’ll be easy enough to grok for both beginners and Pro Tools users. Perhaps the most important thing is that you can take these Sketches and share them bi-directionally with your desktop Pro Tools session.

And yes, the approach to clips will seem familiar. (Avidton Tool!)

So, yes, this is late, but it’s also nothing to dismiss. For all the gripes about Pro Tools and its market dominance, for a lot users, it’s tough to beat the Pro Tools timeline for editing power. Being able to grab MIDI and audio snippets and loops, bring them onto your desktop, and then assemble a complete timeline looks like a winner. And yes, while Apple was the latest to try to copy Live’s success, this implementation looks a whole lot simpler than Apple’s rendition, which can present a bit of a learning curve if you’re used to how clips work in Ableton Live.

Curiously, Sketch also pops up – with exactly the same UI as on the iPad – as a window above the standard Pro Tools interface when you run it on desktop. The idea is the “Sketch” part of the workflow.

Also, there’s one very subtle detail I’d like to point to in the screenshot of Pro Tools Sketch. It’s almost painfully simple – check the “Arrangement” slot at the top. All you do is drag and drop clips into that, and you get a linear arrangement.

Hey, Ableton: why can’t we have something like this on Ableton Push so we could make arrangement in standalone mode, actually?

Seriously; it’d even fit on that display on top.

Or even on Ableton Note?

Ahem.

So, that covers the “Late to the Party” files. (The tagline is literally “years in the making.” I mean, yeah, we kinda figured.)

Now for the bulging file of “Oh, I guess you don’t want subscriptions?”

Avid has also announced that it is making available the Pro Tools perpetual license purchase option after receiving clear and consistent feedback from the user community.

I’m going to guess I can’t reproduce all that “clear and consistent feedback” here on CDM as, you know, we’re a family-friendly site.

Anyway, any other DAW, this would be less interesting. We’ve seen attempts to breathe some of the Ableton Live magic into other tools, to no avail – the users who wanted that workflow generally made their choice long ago. (If you want to go really far back, we can talk about Cakewalk Project5 in the mid-2000s. And Cakewalk tried this separate-window concept in SONAR, too.)

But I expect Pro Tools Sketch the iPad app and Pro Tools Sketch the 2023.9 feature are important for two reasons:

1. Education markets with Pro Tools are likely to find this useful if they also have iPads or students with iPads.
2. I’m curious if someone will find some interesting use cases for the Clips View and Pro Tools’ bread and butter in TV / film / soundtrack, etc.

Apple platforms certainly come out a winner, regardless. Apart from the popularity of Pro Tools on macOS, now on iOS you’ve got some pretty solid round-trip workflows and remote apps and other tools for all kinds of DAWs, including Apple’s own Logic, Ableton Note (which was just updated this week), Steinberg’s Cubasis, FL Studio, Reaper, and the list goes on.

Also new in 2023.9:

• Export Selected Range (limited to Studio and Ultimate, because… accountants, I guess)
• Drag-and-drop plugin slot reordering (seriously back in the “Late to the Party” folder, but okay!)

Here’s Pro Tools Sketch:

https://www.avid.com/pro-tools/sketch

D ministers

Introduction of the ministers

The ministers is a music team that was inaugurated in the month of July 2017

Set to bring good music and Christ round the world..  
The team is lead by a young upcoming gospel artist known as Don Buchi.  He is also the leader of the well known group D Royal Ambassadors of Christ.

He is the CEO of Don Buchi Entertainment, known for high class event planning.

The team of 10 members is working so hard to rule the gospel music work.
Hearing them minister in a program gave the assurance that we will get the best from them..  

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Court quashes fresh 50-count graft charges against Sylva, others

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By Our Reporter on November 27, 2015 COVER, National

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
A Federal High Court yesterday quashed a fresh 50-count charge of corruption slammed against former governor of Bayelsa State and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva and three others on the grounds that the charges constituted an abuse of court process.
In the fresh charges, Sylva is charged alongside Francis Okokuro, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel Og-
buku. They allegedly used three companies – Marlin Maritime Limited, Eat Catering Services Limited, and Haloween-Blue Construction and Logistics Limited to move about N19.2 billion from Bayelsa State coffers between 2009 and 2012, under false pretence of using the withdrawn money to augment salaries of workers.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed the fresh charges against them two days after Justice Ahmed. Mohammed of the Federal High Court dismissed the 42-count charge of stealing brought against Sylva and his co-accused by the EFCC on the grounds that the prosecution’s application to consolidate the charges against the defendants amounted to an abuse of court process.
On June 1, 2015, Justice Evoh Chukwu, also of the Federal High Court, Abuja, struck out other case against Sylva following the applica- tion by the Ministry of Justice to withdraw it.
Delivering judgment yesterday, Justice Ademola agreed with counsel to the accused persons that indeed the fresh charges against his clients were a clear case of an abuse of court process.
Besides, Justice Ademola held that the mere fact that a court of coordinate jurisdiction dismissed the action had robbed his court of the jurisdiction to adjudicate on the matter.
The court, which frowned at what it described as the desperate attitude of the prosecution to convict the accused persons, said the criminal charge is a complete case of an abuse of court process.

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Biafra: DSS men want to kill Nnamdi Kanu in detention –Sister raises alarm

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By Our Reporter on November 27, 2015 COVER, National

From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
PRINCESS Chinwe Kanu, the younger sister of detained Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised the alarm over the health condition of her elder brother, saying that personnel of the Department of State Services (DSS) want to kill him in detention.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Sun at her father’s compound in Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State, Princess Kanu said what she saw of her elder brother when she attended his trial in Abuja on Monday made her to conclude that the DSS wants to kill him while in their custody.
“Honestly, the way they are going about this case I’m not comfortable with it because when I saw my brother, he looked like a shadow of his former self. He looked pale and anaemic and he has physical pain as a result of torture, starvation and the hardship he is going through in the hands of the DSS operatives,” she alleged.
“After the court session, when he (Nnamdi) came out, as the IPOB members and the Biafrans were outside the gate while some were in the court premises hailing him and chanting: “Nnamdi, Nnamdi ka anyi ga-eso”, the way the DSS man roughhandled him, he almost fell down. I don’t know what his reasons were, but I’m happy Nnamdi never challenged him.
She said the DSS should know that her brother was not a criminal, but only a prisoner of conscience. “They held him so tight that he screamed and I felt bad. Because his health is deteriorating by the day, I am calling on rights activists, the international crime code, the Amnesty International, the UN and the British commission to come and rescue their citizen in the hands of the DSS. They are so mean and wicked, they will kill him if care is not taken”, she pleaded.
Expressing joy that she saw her brother in high spirits inside the courtroom which she said the family was not allowed to enter if not for the intervention of their law- yer, Princess Kanu said she has confidence that God will set the director of Radio Biafra free in the next adjourned date.
“I have confidence in what Eze Chukwuokike Abiama (God) will do because He is not a man that He will lie neither is He a man that He can disappoint us or deceive us and because His word is yea and Amen and because He is the one that brought His son out, He will not abandon or leave him that’s what I believe in,” Kanu said.
She said it was a shame the DSS that was supposed to serve and protect the citizen, on the contrary, it is torturing and starving them to death. “My brother was assaulted publicly in the court premises and I’m standing here with an evidence to show the world what is going on the injustice and nepotism that is going on in Nigeria. I’m afraid of my live and that of my family with the way things are going”.
Princess Kanu said it was wrong for the Federal Government to have charged his brother with terrorism, noting that this was the height of tyranny. “Will someone help tell President Muhammadu Buhari that this is a democratic dispensation, not autocratic government where he was the General?
She said charging Nnamdi with terror- ism means equating him with Boko Haram members, saying it was the height of injustice and a way to continue in humiliating and assaulting an unarmed civilian which she said was not the right thing to do

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Live in Lagos

It's always said, shine your eye as you come into lasgidi as its called.
Lagos is a city of surviver to all who come into it, but it all depend on you, some come empty and go full but some come full and go empty... some are carried away by the fun n live in the city and at that process they loose focus.

Life is always what you plant you reap.. if you fail to plant you won't reap. But if you plantvyou will reap.
  So many people join different secret family as to make it in this city called Lagos. So hold to God and they are made... while you live in this city Lagos, all you need do is believe in yourself and work for greater hight.
 
  You are blessed of God and no one can change it, except you, so all you need do is remain focused and don't allow distractions and it's family to drag you out for shame.
  For God has given us power to make wealth and prosper in the land.
  The bible said that where ever we go we shall possess even to the gate of our enemies...... so believe and it's yours.

     DON BUCHI SAY SO.....

How singers protect their voices

How do singers protect their voices?

• 20 June 2015
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Professional singers treat their voices a bit like athletes treat their bodies, writes singer and broadcaster Mary King.

The best protection is a good posture and sound vocal technique. Voices always need to be supported by the bigger muscles in the body - poor posture can lead to muscular tension and vocal strain. There are also other factors which might be less obvious.
Singers need to keep their bodies hydrated, so that the delicate vocal folds (or cords) can be kept supple. They would probably drink between two and three litres of water spread out throughout the day. The water would be at room temperature, rather than ice-cold.
A number of factors contribute to dryness, so singers avoid caffeine, red wine and, wherever possible, air-conditioning. Smoke, of course, in whatever form, is a really bad idea.
Hydration in the form of steam (head over a bowl of boiling water, with a towel over your head), is seen by many singers as the very best way to get the folds hydrated, and to shift thick mucus which might clog them up. Menthol products are too strong for the delicate membranes, so singers choose to keep it pure.
A singer's lifestyle is very different from the average person - they need to have enough energy for a performance, but not eat so much that they fall asleep. Eating late at night, however - after a performance, for example - can produce problems with acid reflux.
This condition causes stomach acids to rise up the oesophagus during sleep, backing up against the vocal folds, causing discomfort, and eventually, damage. For this reason also, singers tend to avoid spicy or acidic foods - eg apples or tomatoes - and fizzy drinks, and often sleep with the bedhead raised.
Singers will regularly spend some time on "vocal rest" - total silence, with no speaking for a period of 48 hours, giving their vocal apparatus time to recover. The rule with sore throats, and particularly laryngitis, is no speaking and no whispering - the very worst thing that you can do in this situation.
Singers can be compared to sportsmen and women - they are the athletes of the voice.
Sunday Feature: An Anatomy of Singing broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 at 18:45 BST on Sunday 21 June as part of the Classical Voice Season and will be available to catch up on iPlayer for 30 days. Radio 3 is resident at the Royal Welsh College of Music Drama from 19-21 June.
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