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Run NA 7.9.0 (2024-03-27) Sonoma compatibility, bugfixes ADDED macOS Sonoma compatibility FIXED On macOS 14, crash when switching Hypha presets whilst Kontakt is hosted in Logic Pro FIXED Crash when opening a Multi saved with Kontakt standalone whilst Kontakt is hosted in a DAW FIXED Visual flickers and crash when multiple Kontakt instances are hosted in Cubase 13 on Windows FIXED Width of Rack View side pane was recalled incorrectly after closing and reopening Kontakt instances FIXED Wave Editor slices are correctly recalculated when switching between Auto and Fixed grid settings FIXED KSP: Crash when UI ID of parent ui_panel is higher than the child ui_panel FIXED API: Console output to VS Code now works FIXED On macOS 14, main menu drop downs had no hover mode FIXED On macOS 14, filename path visible during drag and drop IMPROVED Drag & Drop from Files panel now works between different Kontakt instances KNOWN ISSUE On macOS, CoreAudio device needs to be reselected when updating from older Kontakt versions to 7.9.0. but this is only needed once KNOWN ISSUE In Pro Tools, Kontakt window is cropped when zooming larger than available display size KNOWN ISSUE In Single View, instrument loses focus when clicking level meter or blank space of the instrument header KNOWN ISSUE Crashes when loading content in Logic Pro in combination with the KKS MK3 keyboards, very rare if the KKS MK3 is not connected KNOWN ISSUE Crash on launching Kontakt standalone if Canon EOS webcam utility software is installed

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REAPER 7.12 is available, with the following updates: + Accessibility: improve accessibility descriptions in Preferences/Item fade defaults + Accessibility: improve accessibility for MIDI device list + Accessibility: improve application-key menu behavior in various listviews + Actions: improve some action descriptions for last touched FX envelope + Actions: fix media item quantize action affecting unrelated items on free item positioning or fixed lane tracks [t=289244] + ARA: report selection change to plugins when switching active takes + Automation: add preference to control whether envelopes with a single point are automatically removed when hiding [t=90282] + CLAP: fix pin state loading for plug-ins that change their channel count on state load (e.g. FabFilter) + Default theme: make auto-hide behavior of envelopes and routing buttons similar to Default 6 theme + Default theme: mixer layout B is now a reworked strip layout + Drag and drop: allow dragging FX and routing to tracks in track manager + Freeze: exit comping when freezing a track + Freeze: treat media items on fixed lanes that do not play as if they were muted items + Grouping: increase tolerance for track edit grouping to include items that start and end within 2ms of each other + Initialization: warn on startup if configuration file cannot be written to (avoid unexpected behavior when running portable installation without directory write permission, for example) + Lanes: actions to automatically create comp areas prefer media items in higher numbered lanes rather than lower numbered lanes + Lanes: action to reset lane names will reset lanes named like 'C1' if they have no comp areas + Lanes: add actions to explicitly set (rather than toggle) recording options to add lanes, add lanes in layers, or not add lanes + Lanes: add track setting for media items on higher numbered lanes to automatically mask playback of lower lanes + Lanes: display implied crossfade when a media item is masked by the fade-in or fade-out of another media item + Lanes: do not set new lanes playing when inserting multiple media items and only one lane currently playing [p=2767175] + Lanes: fix behavior of action to comp into new empty lane when comp lane already exists + Lanes: fix crash when trying to insert more than 128 lanes + Lanes: fix pasting razor edits or media items to fixed lane tracks when comping is active [t=289260] + Lanes: fix undo after changing comping lane [p=2734645] + Lanes: handle corner case when auto-removing lane from two lane track with no media [p=2757796] + Lanes: prevent creating comp areas that are fully enclosed by other comp areas + Lanes: respect setting to automatically comp new recording when in autopunch mode but recording does not intersect the time selection or selected items [t=288422] + Lanes: update display after auto-punch recording with comping enabled [t=288667] + macOS: improve peaks drawing quality in Retina mode + macOS: possible drawing performance fixes with M2/Sonoma/Metal enabled + Media explorer: add option to close window on escape key + Media explorer: support enabling, disabling, remapping individual channels for audio or MIDI + Media explorer: support manually entering time selection start/end times + Media explorer: support inserting selected portion of media into existing media item [t=268245] + Media explorer: restore most recently used channel mapping when reloading a file that was previously previewed + Media explorer: apply preview channel playback configuration to media when inserting + Media explorer: disable reverse preview actions for MIDI (has never been supported, but display was misleading) + Media explorer: display channel count for MIDI files (may require re-reading metadata from media) + Media explorer: display preview playback position, length, time selection in beats for beat-based media (MIDI, REX) + Media explorer: display ruler on media preview + Media explorer: fix APEv2 tag after writing new metadata to .mp3 files + Media explorer: fix displaying out-of-tune indicator when pitch detection is enabled + Media explorer: improve display of MIDI markers and cues + Media explorer: improve randomness of action to randomize file list + Media items: fix occasionally not displaying take markers that are at the very start of the media item + Media items: when preference enabled to clamp media item edge edits to source media start/end, and item has multiple takes, clamp to the earliest start or latest end + Metadata: automatically set/clear default image type when setting/clearing image metadata + Metadata: remember last used metadata scheme selection when reopening REAPER + MIDI: fix inserting multitrack MIDI onto existing tracks + MIDI editor: add option to not draw CC events in non-editable contexts + MIDI editor: do not preview note when clicking/dragging piano roll with modifiers that are mapped to 'No action' + MIDI editor: do not show hidden tracks in track list + MIDI editor: ensure double-click on collapsed CC lane expands the lane [t=289393] + MIDI editor: improve grid-line navigation on items with non-1.0 playrates [t=289129] + Mouse modifiers: respect arrange view override when clicking within track spacer or below last track [t=288574] + Notation editor: fix display of ties when note extends past the right edge of the screen in continuous view [t=288216] + Peaks: add display mode to color peaks by loudness (LUFS-M or LUFS-S), or display a colored loudness graph over the media item + Peaks: add option to display tooltip with peak value and loudness, when displaying loudness peaks or when loudness peaks were previously generated and cached + Peaks: add preferences to always generate and cache info for loudness, spectral peaks even if not currently displayed + Peaks: support renaming presets for spectral, loudness, spectrogram peaks + Peaks: support loading/saving/renaming/resetting display presets from '...' dropdown menu in peaks display settings window, when displaying spectral, loudness, spectrogram peaks + Peaks: support retina drawing in peaks display settings window + Preferences: add new Editing Behavior/Automation Items page, move existing preferences there + Preferences: add new Media/Peaks Generation page + Preferences: add preference for fixed lane tracks to enable media items in higher numbered lanes masking lower numbered lanes by default + Project bay: do not report unavailable FX as idle + ReaScript: add GetSetMediaTrackInfo('C_LANESETTINGS') [p=2763381] + ReaScript: add I_MIDI_INPUT_CHANMAP/I_MIDI_CTL_CHAN/I_MIDI_TRACKSEL_FLAG to GetSetMediaTrackInfo() + ReaScript: add Lua usage example for SendMIDIMessageToHardware() [t=276925] + ReaScript: improve default rounding of gfx.roundrect() [p=2768237] + ReaScript: improve support for newer Python versions + ReaScript: update audio status menubar text in response to GetSetProjectInfo_String with RECORD_PATH or RECORD_FORMAT [t=289432] + Render: do not apply dither to the first rendered sample if it would otherwise be zero + Render: fix peaks display when calculating loudness of selected items via dry run render [t=288907] + Render: fix render statistics chart for video renders [t=288336] + Render: respect render settings to dither/noise shape stem renders + Take markers: avoid possible crash when editing or deleting take markers on currently-recording items + Toolbars: update customized toolbar buttons after actions to display various views of the routing/grouping/region matrix window [t=288273] + Tracks: add actions to crop to playing media items (not muted, not on lanes that do not play back, not masked by other media items), or copy playing media items to new track + Transport: fix macOS retina drawing glitch with some themes [t=288253] + Wildcards: add support for $notes wildcard, resolves to the text in the Project Settings/Notes dialog https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

From an email:

Got the email today from Steinberg: "Save 30% on Cubase" Are they hearing the drumbeat we don't? I remember at the time of Gibson saga they were the first ones to "reach out" with friendly offers Bandlab, don't fall asleep, we are counting on you and the right decisions you will make on licensing and pricing.

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Not seen any comment on the latest update yet. New Mercury Classic and Tungsten Classic themes look really good, IMO, and address a number of points raised in this thread.

New release/update. Xtreme FX 2 Sound effects. Upgrade from Xtreme FX 1 for $49. $99 new buyer, $149 regular.

Ample Bass TR6 will be offered for $71.50 (lowest price ever) instead of the normal $119 from today until April 9th, 2024. https://audioplugin.deals/product/ample-bass-tr6-by-amplesound/

It's a reminder that the current lease period will expire in that amount of time based on what we've received from the back end. You're fully activated, it is just saying "if you want to stay activated beyond that, you'll need to renew before that time". It might be worth tweaking the language, we'll look into it.

I've moved to Reflect Home v8 (from True Image). If you create a bootable rescue disk (USB Flash Drive), you can actually uninstall Reflect. You can boot any machine from this disk... and backup/restore with all the primary function of Reflect.

This offer made me curious so I've downloaded the trial. So far it's good. Going to really dive into the MIDI since that's what everybody is raving about with Cubase.

Hi all , another new song . . . it's a collaboration with one of my favourite UK songwriters "Wicked Deeds" (as he's known on Soundcloud) . . . been following him for a few years, and finally got an opportunity to do something together. Just simple, 2 guitars strumming and vocals for now . . . might expand it another day . . .

For those who are interested

Exactly what I saw this morning, because there was a new version available. I downloaded and installed; Simple! t

All that means is we want you to be on the latest build.

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I will do a side by side test. It might have been the song I chose in Mixcraft. So I had the idea of exporting one of my songs with the 5 tracks Bass, Drums,Vocal,Guitars and then Piano. No reverb or stereo effects. Then I'll run this though the three programs. I'm just downloading the one @azslow3 posted now.

Glad to see they're trying to address some of the fears around subscriptions. #3's a smart move too.

Glen Campbell–Gentle On My Mind

Fracture Sounds sent me a copy a few days ago and it is top of its class. I am planning on featuring it this Thursday during Piano Day ;^) There is a FREE Blueprint based on some of their recordings for this one that I haven’t been able to check out yet. Over the past months Fracture Sounds has made a huge dynamic shift and I think it comes from the addition of Angus and more from Dan Keen, they are definitely on an upward trajectory. Stay tuned! Joyfully, Simeon * I have been blessed to have a relationship with the Fracture Sounds team which has allowed me to experience and share their beautiful instruments.

It seems when bad companies buy out good companies this type of decline happens more often than not. I remember when Maxtor bought out Seagate. Maxtor drives were notorious for failing. Seagate were my go to drives for years before the buy out. Sure enough after the merger guess what? Seagate failures began to increase. I had to switch to WD. I expect more declines and issues with NI and Izotope as well as PA over the coming years. Sad stuff. But they'll milk it dry and ruin it for many in the meantime. Profiteering at it's worst. Good luck to us all.

BTW I did open a bug report with Cakewalk over this issue and they said they are looking into it. Root of issue is change in VST3 spec. Spec NOW specifies the usage of the “MyPlugin.vst3” folder as ‘a bundlelike package’ containing the plugin and all additional resource files useful for the plug-in. In previous SDKs, the VST 3 plug-in was defined as a single dll file with the .vst3 extension. This has been deprecated since VST 3.6.10. You can move the whole MyPlugin.VST3 folder, for example into subfolder for organization, but extracting the plugin might cause issues. In some cases (like with United Audio VST3s) moving the embedded plugin out of its .vst3 folder will break it (UA plugins loose their skins). Currently the VST scanner doesn’t account for VST3 plugins transitioning from the pre VST 3.6.10 spec to the current.

As Larry said, Midi is unparalleled. I also think that Cubase has the best support for external hardware of any DAW.

Meanwhile, that cloud sub just gets better and better…

Welcome back, I think. In 2020 you wrote: Now you jump onto a thread from 2021 with: It seems you came back to complain about something not covered in the post from 2020. Why?

The solution to get Psyn II to display in Sonar is to disable Enhanced Display Scaling in Edit > Preferences > Customization > Display | Enhanced Display Scaling (requires restart). I’ve seen other display issues that can be resolved by not having this option enabled, but that’s a discussion for the Beta forum.

I love celestes, but I already own several celeste libraries I'm very fond of. The demo does sound beautiful and I think this developer has proven themselves to be a very talented, high quality shop based on tbeir freebies alone. Maybe I'll pick this up down the road. I'm sure it would be a nice addition to my collection. I'd love to hear from anyone who picks this up.

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Nice. Yes this notification is now masked during app startup. What happens is when the sample rate changes some ASIO drivers request a driver reload leading to that spurious notification.

Using my soprano, alto and tenor saxes, fretless jazz bass, midi guitar, Ezdrummer3.

Moonlight Celeste The latest edition to our sought-after range of cinematic keyboard instruments is the Moonlight Celeste, an iconic sound from classical music and cinema. $39 intro price https://fracturesounds.com/product/moonlight-celeste Runs in the Kontakt Player

Here, here! left comment & like at YT. (am I sounding like a broken record here?) I am bound and determined to make this the “default” action every forum member makes… t

C'mon, what teeth are for?

What'd they break this time?

That's common ins the business world. There are plenty of people who helped founding a company and leave because the goalbecomes where 99% is about profits and the 1% is about the service they provide.

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@John Vere . . . perfect sounding mix, very balanced . . . mandolin and vocals really hit the spot !

Thanks, Tom for the listen and the comment. And thanks also to your influence, I have taken to commenting, liking and subscribing on others YT feeds more often. Thanks for the effort! jeff

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We’ll this is a hoot a-nanny! Liked and commented at the “click”! 👍 ‘s 👏 t

Not bad (I did leave an expanded comment on YouTube.)

The universe is being kind to me and this pain will be relatively short lived! 🙏🌈 We just bought a house in Portland after 9 months of searching and the studio room is beyond anything I had hoped for. It'll be many months before we move and then I can start the studio build, but I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED!

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This is a timely post. When I tried to insert a TONEX plugin, CbB displayed the "... plug-in failed to load (80004002)..." error. The path for TONEX is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\TONEX.vst3\Contents\x86_64-win\TONEX.vst3 . "TONEX.vst3" is the DLL name and is part of the file path too. I used the registry trick to clear things out. Then did a VST rescan, and it fixed the problem. I updated my Eventide H9 plugin bundle. Of course, it has the same error others have encountered. I'll try your temporary move suggestion to fix this these plugins. Hopefully the Cakewalk Bakers are aware of this issue. Thanks for the tip!

I like Movavi a lot, but my needs are basic - pretty much simple edits for online teaching that I do. It's not especially 'handy-holdy,' and I appreciate how fast it renders (compared to Magix, especially!)

Oh I got it free too. Didn’t know you could use it for reverb removal. I’ll try it tonight. Thanks for the info!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Izotope has gotten worse in support. They need to get their domain back instead have the NI link. It has created login problem. Pretty sad when people mess up simple stuff.