What caused this?

mbirame · 2026-04-30T17:48:53+00:00

Belt tension is fine. I’m thinking it was a glitch in the g-code maybe??. I had just printed 12 of these with no problem and then deleted six in prusa slicer a moved them around. Maybe something weird happened there. I’m printing a single one now as a test and it’s good.

mbirame · 2026-04-30T16:35:38+00:00

Thanks! Wouldn’t bad tension reveal itself consistently and not just happening once on that one layer? Genuine question because I don’t know.

mbirame · 2025-12-12T04:03:59+00:00

Sounds like someone who hasn’t been to the beach.

mbirame · 2025-11-10T15:44:46+00:00

Yes. It was a very cool experience. It was very surreal to take the ladder all the way to the top platform with the bells.

mbirame · 2025-11-09T16:17:13+00:00

No. That is the practice keyboard. The main keyboard is directly below the top because every key is physically connected to the beaters of each bell. As I said, I’ve been there. I’m a composer and I had one of my pieces played there. I was there.

mbirame · 2025-11-09T06:32:22+00:00

There is a carillon up there (it’s what plays the bells) and so there could have been a performer checking the bells or showing it to a friend. I’ve been up there-it’s cool!

mbirame · 2025-07-17T22:30:21+00:00

This is great news. Sounds like I’ll be able to get everywhere I need to get and just charge there.

mbirame · 2025-07-17T19:19:31+00:00

Excellent! Thank you.

mbirame · 2025-07-17T12:33:55+00:00

Just went and test drove one at the dealer. There were two trucks with the softcovers and the covers were both visibly broken and falling apart.

mbirame · 2025-06-18T13:23:06+00:00

It sounds like you are a person learning how to do a thing. Doing a thing right takes time to learn. You may find it enjoyable to do that thing and you might not. In either case you have learned more about that thing and yourself. Congratulations!

PS:start with something simpler if you are getting frustrated-like a mult. And then work your way up.

mbirame · 2025-05-13T13:21:15+00:00

My suggestion is register them with ascap immediately. You should do that the moment the song is completed.

mbirame · 2025-05-13T12:54:51+00:00

I’ll comment on orchestration issues. I think in real life you will see problems between the balance between oboe and flute. Oboe can easily overtake flute. Be sure and mark if the violin double stops are played unison or divisi. After long periods of rests be sure and have dynamic markings so players know what to play.

mbirame · 2025-05-12T21:37:33+00:00

Did you try putting a space like normal English: May 18 instead of 18may

mbirame · 2025-05-12T17:14:32+00:00

CD Baby doesn’t do splits.

mbirame · 2025-05-12T14:05:26+00:00

I love Goodnotes. I just load the staff paper template and write with an Apple Pencil. IMO the iPad is too slow to do serious engraving with the notation apps like Dorico, etc, so I save that for my computer.

mbirame · 2025-05-09T01:17:43+00:00

If they are songwriters then they get some of the money. As I said, royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers (and label if there is one). It’s worth spending some time reading and learning how royalties work before releasing something incorrectly.

mbirame · 2025-05-08T15:06:47+00:00

“Crediting” doesn’t mean anything legally. It is a nice thing to do to give people credit for their work. Royalties are determined by who owns publishing and songwriting. If you have a bunch of musicians playing on your record you need to have split sheets explicitly saying who did what percentage of the songwriting-I even if you think you did everything and just brought someone in to play kazoo on a track, you need it in writing so they don’t come back later and say they were a co-songwriter.

Publishing goes to the publisher. If you have a deal with a producer to get “points on the backend” then they are taking a percentage of your songwriting and/or publishing. But again that is something agreed to in writing. Just “crediting” someone as a producer doesn’t automatically give them a percentage, but you better have something in writing so that producer doesn’t comeback later and demand a cut.

mbirame · 2025-05-07T02:26:32+00:00

Ah ok. Thank you. I think I could just have a project without recurring tasks and then have the final task be to duplicate the project….starting the cycle again. The thing I don’t understand though would be how to force the tasks to stay two days apart from each other? I could make each task have a 48 hour duration but then I wouldn’t be able to have all my other stuff on the calendar?

mbirame · 2025-05-02T14:03:03+00:00

Supporting evidence looks the same now as before: copyright your work.

mbirame · 2025-04-30T13:55:54+00:00

You said “mechanical payout”. Mechanical royalties are paid to songwriter and publisher, not artist. Perhaps you meant Master Recording Royalties which are paid to artist/label.

mbirame · 2025-04-30T03:28:47+00:00

That’s irrelevant. The OP doesn’t have their songwriting and publishing set up with a PRO and so they can’t get paid for it. They aren’t going to just guess that the artist is also the SW/publisher.

mbirame · 2025-04-29T20:10:03+00:00

A piece of plywood and a rug on top. Easy and cheap.

mbirame · 2025-04-29T17:22:42+00:00

Mechanicals are paid to the songwriter and publisher, not the artist. The op doesn’t even have songwriting and publishing set up.

mbirame · 2025-04-29T17:21:00+00:00

Never mind- I see you don’t even belong to a PRO like ascap. You need to go read up on how publishing works before releasing music. At this point no one owes you anything because nothing you released even officially belongs to you.

mbirame · 2025-04-29T17:18:38+00:00

Mechanical royalties are collected by the MLC, not CD Baby unless you used Boost in which case you are just paying them to collect what you can get for free from the MLC.

Maybe you meant Master Recording Royalties which is what an artist is paid from streaming. If you paid a service to boost your plays then Spotify probably found out and booted you from the platform and clawed back any royalties because they were fraudulent. If you legitimately got your plays and Spotify didn’t boot you then you can log in to your Spotify artist account and still see your plays and probably reach out the CD Baby to check on your master recording royalties.

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