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Cinematique Instruments have a new Xmas freebie. It's a taster of the new instrument Mad Libs. (that will go down well with our US cousins?). The freebie is at the bottom of the page and is just a taster. Needs Kontakt 5 upwards (full) https://cinematique-instruments.com/pages_instr/inst_madlibs.php

$75.95 with code GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/tracktion-outersect-modeler

More info on synth at https://www.tracktion.com/products/outersect-modeler

Seems this has quite a history of development... https://outersect.net/modeler/ Rob Rayle's second Outersect CD, God Love the Fool, was released April 20, 2010 on Beats and Pieces records, Israel. The CD makes extensive use Kyma and of the Outersect modeler, a set of microsounds for the Capybara that were coded by Rob Rayle to emulate the expressive characteristics and modes of acoustic instruments using a small number of simple parameters that relate directly to the actions of real-world players.

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/hot-deals Until January 31st

This warning appeared to me yesterday. I logged out and then log in. Solved.

No one from Bandlab ever said that the last free version wouldn't require activation.

Solvent is the solution.

+OrganTeq for Pipe Organs IMHO I'm having so much fun with it.

Funny I opened Facebook yesterday and I belong to a half dozen Cakewalk/ Sonar groups. There was at least 6 posts about Activation and “Help we are all going to die” sort of thing. Then 90 % of the answers were wrong and basically it would seem very few people are in the loop. Please people get over it and get back to work recording and enjoy CbB as it is. And which we have just been told by staff AGAIN that there’s no plans to kill it with out plenty of warning. My guess as someone who has been following progress closely, is this is still a LONG way off. Cakewalk by Bandlab is free and part of your user agreement you checked when you installed it was it will require activation from time to time. There’s no actual time limit it was just randomly about 6 months. The difference is for the last few years it happened every time you installed an update. So most of us didn’t notice anything. There’s no update now so people are seeing the activation message possibly for the first time. What’s the big deal. Takes 10 seconds. You just need to be logged in to your account and it automatically will happen. Go to the help menu if it doesn’t and do it from there.

It looks and sounds (from the demo) lovely but I need to not use the synths I've recently purchased a bit longer before I buy any additional synths that I won't have time to use. One of the things I love about guitar is that maintaining your chops, let alone improving them, takes a continual investment of time if for nothing else to maintain the calluses on your fingertips so that you can bend notes during your solos and not scrunch up your face and look like you're going to cry like you see with some players in performance videos. So my keyboards end up being underutilized...

No one from Bandlab ever said that the last free version wouldn't require activation.

The walkthrough is here

their latest release shifts the focus to mixing, and sees the company collaborate with Coil Audio to produce a plug-in version of their popular CA-70S preamp unit. CA-70S is supported on PCs running Windows 10 or higher, and Macs running macOS 10.13 and above. VST3, AU and AAX plug-in versions are available, along with a standalone application. Authorisation is carried out via PACE’s iLok system, but does not require a physical USB dongle. CA-70S is available now, and is currently (6 January 2024) priced at £79.41 including VAT, reduced from its full cost of £119.51. https://mixwave.com/collections/plugins/products/ca-70s

The great thing was all the give aways they've had over the years. I found a plugin, I've never used or needed, but now that I need something, it was one of their freebie plugins "MetaFilter", that I found that I needed because I couldn't find a tempo based gating plugin that I would want to buy. I actually own that filter...lol. It was a freebie, so I never really gave it a chance, until now. I saved money because I don't need to buy a plugin anymore so, lesson learned. Don't ever throw away a plugin just because you've not found a use for it. Someday, you might find you need it, and when you actually find you own something you need, then you are so much more happy It's better to own something and not need it than to need something and not have it.

The entire post wasn't meant to rebut or even reply just to your post. I just took it as a starting point to sum up my thoughts on the subject. Apologies if it seemed otherwise.

I also noticed that Udemy is running a sale again for prices that look about the same as BF- ends Jan 11. They don't do subs , but I bought a couple for the first time at $10-12 last sale thought they were worthwhile. Still working through them at 20+ hours each. Then I also got this one just because it's 83 freaking hours and the bullet points were a hoot (not started it yet).

Their free choices are limited. Easy pass. Hopefully I can say that on everything DAW related. Pass-too much stuff. Free? Pass-too much stuff. It probably wont last long but Waves makes it easy.

There is no need to have a split instrument track - just select the region on the track (or tracks), and "Bounce to Track(s)":

Haha! "Politicians, the Dung-Beatles of humanity."

Nothing lame about it. What problem/s does a Linux DAW solve? Latency? Compatibility? Performance? The short answer is none of the above. What is "Lame ***" is Linux as a DAW platform. 20+ years behind Mac and PC Far fewer developers Miniscule user base (Mac/PC DAW user base in tiny compared to general-purpose users. Linux DAW users are a tiny percentage compared to Mac/PC). Low demand (vs Mac/PC) 101 different OS variants Near zero one-on-one support for less tech-savvy users What does a miniscule user-base, few developers, and low demand result in? You guessed it, no significant profit. The reality of the situation is that (especially in today's economy), companies can't afford thousands of man-hours (development)... for something that's not going to pay for itself. If your life-savings was invested in a DAW software company, would you honestly think it a wise investment to develop a Linux DAW? Lets say you've got 10 thousand man-hours in development cost (at $50/man-hour). That's half a million dollars. I don't know about you, but I'd want that $500,000 to generate a decent return on investment. Mac/PC is going to have a much better ROI... because the user-base is much larger (far more potential customers). Say Company X compiled the ultimate Linux DAW. Legitimate support across the many different variants of Linux would be a nightmare (money and time). Why do you think many laptop developers choose to hide BIOS parameters from end-users? It's not because it's beneficial from a performance standpoint, it's to save them from potential tech-support nightmare. If you want to run a Linux DAW "just because you can"... more power to you. For someone who has everything they want/need in a current Mac/PC DAW, where's the impetus to make a (less than lateral) move? Emotional/philosophical reasons aren't going to motivate folks to take a significant step backward. Remember when Mac/PC DAWs were starting to come about? Oh, this new DAW software is going to be the "ProTools killer". Just because someone created an alternative (even if it's completely equal in features/function), that's not enough of a reason to get many folks to switch. Linux as legitimate DAW platform (to completely rival Mac/PC) faces a nearly vertical slope.

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make sure the LUFS meter is last in the effects chain of the master bus after the limiter. Lowering the fader won’t change the readings live. So use the master bus Gain which will. If my project is pushing the LUFS past my target of -14 db I lower the Masters gain and reset the meter as I try different amounts until it’s good. This also results in the limiter having less work to do. Sometimes I lower each sub bus by exactly the same amount instead. Make sure to mute the master to check nothing is bypassing it.

Having the Complete Melda Bundle had taken all the joy out of getting free with purchase Melda plugins :(. Oh well.

Yeah, it's a lot easier to just think about playing an instrument than actually playing it and long enough to get good at it. I have many instruments, real and virtual, that are waiting patiently for my retirement that'll probably never happen, and if it does, I'll hurt too much to play anything for real.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/sonicwares-new-synth-captures-the-gloriously-retro-sound-of-the-sega-genesis Sonicware, the Japanese manufacturer behind the LIVEN Texture Lab and Lofi-12 groovebox, has unveiled its latest synth, the LIVEN Mega Synthesis. The first units of LIVEN Mega Synthesis have sold out, but a second batch will be shipped out on 23rd January. The synth is priced at $239.

I always have had respect for Steinberg but the point is if they don’t update the windows driver then it can be a factor in the buffer issues. Definitely my experience. Same projects same computer Motu M4 has to be at 520 or there’s crackles. Tascam is 1641 runs at 256 Scarlett 6i6 at 256 Zoom L8 at 128 Soundcraft signature 10 520 Behringer xair 16. 256. So in my experience drivers are very important and Mac oriented company’s like Motu seem to fare worse.

I was worried there for a while. Glad you solved it.

Gary , This is going to be another Killer song from you and the band . It's real easy to see why you want it Hot. I actually like the hotter version better , but you know how loud can influence your perception. Thats a lot of tracks to balance and I know you will get there. The first time thru , my first impression was needing a little "air" in a few spots. I'm on the fence about the trailing end of the "6 feet down" phrase. I would probably play with that a little ?? The main spot that stuck out to me as needing attention was the "very ending" lead guitar. After the ending walk down and hitting hard on the main root note , it sounds resolved as it should be. I think the lead guitar should end at the same spot. It's pulling some power out of the ending. Might sound different if he was on a diffferent note ?? Fantastic song and especially the high vocal sections. Loved it .. mark

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Suzy ! have you heard ? Lucy hired a new gardener . She was always good at finding the right type of advertising for her intended purposes 😉 OMG Sharron ! Things are about to get real good around here . Time for me grab a clean towel , put on my bikini and dust off a lawn chair ! Finally!!! thank you thank you thank you Lucy ! 😊 Yeah I know its not a pun . It happens to be a slow Friday night around here and my imaginary friends are chomping at the bit for a little excitement . Kenny

Run the SDC App to update

Well crafted Mark, and very creative . . . like you made your own au naturale finger drum kit ? Sounds just perfect blended with acoustic instruments. The feel of this is bang on all the way through . . . high fidelity, soothes my ears after a long rough day in my studio. Bruce

This thread is kinda reminding me of how I kinda feel things are changing. Seems things are way slower around here. Have most people just moved on?, like to other platforms, not just DAWs, but to Discord, Facebook Sonar pages or other places? I do owe a huge dept of gratitude to all the Old-timers here. Even before I joined the Forum (i think 2007) I was sneaking around it getting many answers. I have never been good at knowing answers or giving answers, but when I had an issue I could always get great answers here. As a self-employed musician I always worried about being my own IT guy, but between Sweetwater and this forum I had the best tech department anyone could ask for. I mean I KNOW when and how to use Bapu's Am...or a G7(+9) chord...or how to modulate keys...but I was very sketchy and uninterested in things like IP addresses and such. So I hope the new Sonar is inspiring and this forum stays vibrant. It certainly has served me well in the past.

Some of the best utilities come from open source developers. I've used Linux CDs and flash drives to recover files from a Windows system. It falls way short in the world of multimedia and supporting the hardware for those apps. I tried riding that Linux train 4 times and no more for me.

I haven't found this to be true in my case, at least as long as said C drive is an SSD. VSTi's like SampleTank and UVI Falcon that need to load up large samples may make it more of an issue, but even then, everything loads into RAM by the time it's ready for playback. At this point, I don't know WHAT the heck is going on with Chris' rig. The Steinberg is a fine, industry standard interface, and his system specs leave mine in the dust. The various issues point to maybe problems with either RAM or possibly SSD. The other apps he runs are dissimilar from audio software in that their projects don't stream a lot of data from memory. One thing that comes to mind is that as he's doing the things that he does, at first the system is using areas of the RAM that might be okay, but then as RAM use increases, with more plug-ins in memory (Cakewalk also stores its undo states in RAM), areas of RAM that are having trouble start to fill up and cause problems. Or possibly Windows is starting to use its memory swap file in an area of the disk that is having trouble. Similar problem. Running a memory test might flush something out. Running the SSD manufacturer's diag software might also be of value. To fix RAM issues, sometimes all that's needed is to pull the sticks out and put them back in. The contacts can get dirty and therefore intermittent. Reseating them scrubs the crud off. If you're not blowing the dust out from time to time, this becomes more likely. With drive problems, back that sucker up and get it out of there ASAP.

The excitement of a new Sonar version "later in the year" has drifted into being a bit tired of waiting. If I will be compelled to switch to a competitor due to price or a subscription model I would like to get the show on the road. I have been playing with two other DAWs and they would serve me fine if staying with Sonar isn't worth it. But I am a private user, not commercial. Me remaining "faithful" isn't going to help any company. But at the same time I don't want to miss a potentially awesome DAW update. And all of this while I stare at my stack of Cakewalk software starting at the DOS 1.04 version. So I sit here tapping my finger on the desk waiting.

Only a member with 6 posts would bother to post this. The usual posters in deals never post this.

I can still load old WRK files made over 20 years ago in CbB 2023.09 Build 75

https://www.soundonsound.com/news/spl-launch-vitalizer-mk3-t-mixdream-xp-mk2 https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/vitalizer-mk3-t https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/mixdream-xp-mk2/ The latest additions to the SPL product range offer upgraded versions of two of their popular analogue outboard designs. The Vitalizer Mk3-T enhancer and MixDream XP Mk2 summing mixer have each been treated to some design enhancements, and now come in the same neat black finish as the rest of the company’s Studio series. The Vitalizer Mk3-T and MixDream XP Mk2 are available now, priced at $1099 and $1499 respectively.

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YES. THIS WORKED. YES.

I believe they send "crossgrade" codes to all their customers. I don't own the 8Dio versions and I've got a lot of them.

Total Pack for $668.39 and MasterComp for $40.99 https://everyplugin.com/deals/shopby/manufacturer/pspaudioware.html

Changes within the app facilitated that BandLab Assistant was no longer able to do offline Activation for Cakewalk by BandLab. There was no bad intention involved. The new method required for this just hasn't been formally released yet.

Dang, you attracted some heavy hitters to this topic. Mark is a Cakewalk developer and Craig needs no introduction. It does sound like there might be some driver or other messing things up. Your system is a generation or three further along than mine, and I'm not seeing any performance issues. If you look in Mark's sig, he is a Cakewalk developer and his daily driver studio PC is an i7-3770. So the specs of your system are not the issue at all. You have plenty of horsepower for anything. nVidia's products seem to be the choice for DAW work, so likely no problem there. Yes, do as Craig says and disable the nVidia HD audio driver in Device Manager. Steinberg's audio interfaces and drivers are also excellent. The Cakewalk audio engine is the baby of the head developer, and he has given it many tweaks to increase the performance. The difference between what it was 6 years ago and now is stunning. I can't remember the last time the audio engine stopped for me. And buffer underruns seem to be mostly down to what plug-ins I have loaded up. So how to find what's bogging it down? The favorite tool for doing this is LatencyMon. You run it for a period of time (I usually just do a few minutes) and it will tell you what processes are having the biggest impact on latency performance. Then once you've found what process it is, or are, you can go from there. Years ago I was having glitching issues and it turned out to be my network card driver. I had gone to Intel's web site and downloaded the very latest driver, and it turned out that the (older) Dell driver worked much better. No doubt when you were searching, you came across various recommendations about BIOS settings and power plans, those are good to investigate as well. Pete Brown, Microsoft developer and Cakewalk user, has an excellent guide for tuning Windows for DAW use. As for the future, I've tried the Sonar beta, and saw no difference in performance whatsoever. Chances are by the time of release performance will have gotten even better. That's usually the way it goes for betas vs. releases. The biggest difference is that the UI looks slicker and more contemporary.

Dear Jesus! How many times does it have to be explained to you whiners that: 1) "Lifetime updates" means the lifetime of the product (or the company.) Not your lifetime. 2) The company that made the "lifetime updates" offer DOESN'T EXIST ANY MORE. It was dissolved in 2017. Therefore there is no one around to honor it. 3) BandLab did not buy Cakewalk, inc. There was no Cakewalk, inc. to buy (see 2 above.) They only bought the intellectual property. Yet they still gave you 5 years of continued improvement and development FOR FREE even though they were under no obligation to do so.