John Vere

I think because of the new interest in Tube stuff in the last decade that tubes are now obviously a common item available all over the internet and music stores. It wasn’t like that in the 90’s. For a while it was only Russian made as we were told tubes are not used in North America anymore so not worth maintaining the special equipment needed. In the 70’s you could still find a tube tester and a large inventory in small local general stores. RCA was a common brand. Older Cars still had tube radios. Electohome stereos etc. Then in the 80’s they were much harder to find as consumers all had solid state audio now. In the past I had a tube amp repair shop that’s 100 km away service my Fender Princeton and that sort of died on me a few years ago and I still haven’t gotten around to fixing it. I use my Blackstar ID 15 TV now as well as the 1964 Gibson Skylark which tested out good but that’s been 10 years ago. It only uses 3?tubes so it’s almost cheaper to just replace them than pay the tech to service it. I think the Princeton needs a new output transformer. I miss it but it was used hard for 10 year after the overhaul and started acting up. The overhaul cost $600 back in 1994. So this why I went with the Blackstar. Dependability. Anyhow I’m going to order a tube for the Art and see what happens. What the heck.

@rsinger I think my information was from years ago probably on Gear Space (Slutz back then) and it was a discussion about using the Art Tube pre. If you are familiar with Gear Space you know what gear snobs are all about . But everyone seemed to agree it needed a new tube so I did that. I think I used a Groove Tube which was sort of all you could find back then ( 2005? ) Which also brings up the fact mine might be pretty bagged out after all those years. This thread has me thinking a new 12ax7 might be worth the $40 to see if it would sound better. I tried it with a vocal mike a while ago just for kicks and it wasn't something I liked at all. Anybody have recommendations for decent quality tubes? I'm out of touch with that. I should re tube my Gibson Skylark as well. When I owned the Music store I had a Tube tester the local "TV and radio" shop guy gave me. I have no clue where it went?

@Byron Dickens, @JnTuneTech The OP actually returned on the 19th. I've noticed a lot of 1 post wonders do this. And even some who ask a lot of questions. I called out a person once for repeatedly posting and abandoning the threads and they responded saying they didn't think they needed to bother and that it was none of my business what they do. These days if I see a post count of 1 and someone has already replied I wait and see.

The Art, as I said above is a great tool because it has a huge range of input and output available. Turn it down using its output level, It IS an Active DI, so I don't see the need for an additional DI box between it and the interface. Before you do that try setting it's output lower. Set the input of the Art experimenting with the pad and the input level until the desired sound is achieved without the clip light turning red. Set the input of your interface at about 10 or 12 O' Clock. ( this is a educated guess) starting at zero, slowly turn it up the output level of the Art until the Interface peak level starts to clip and then back it off a bit until there is absolutely no sign of clipping, If the above is not going well, as in, you end up with the output of the Art almost off and the Interface gain at 8 O'clock, then for sure there is a severe impedance miss match. When I used it on a live stage it was always going through a snake to the mixer and that for sure was into a pre amp. I never had an issue. As I said it's great to kick up the whimpy output of passive instruments. I would also run keyboards through it with no issues.

I have an Art tube pre if yours is the same as mine it will have both XLR and line inputs and outputs. Your Audio box has Combo jack inputs which will take all impedances so I do believe if you connect the Art 1/4 output to the Audio Box with a 1/4” patch cable you will be fine. Worth mentioning is the Art actually doesn’t improve the sound and can actually sound worse. But you can modify and make improvements. This is due to the original tube is low quality and there’s really not enough juice from the wall wart to supply the tube. This is why tube amps have massive power transformers and capacitors. I have a bunch of pre amps and DI boxes and the Art is left over from my live sound days. It was a a great DI for live sound because of its wide range of input and output. Perfect on cheap passive acoustic guitar pick ups. The crappy sound is not noticeable under those circumstances but it’s not really a tool I would recommend for recording. I put a high quality tube in mine but it didn’t really help much.

Just go to a computer you haven't installed Cakewalk on and download it and the extras. You can probably do it on the same computer but this is what I did a few weeks ago. They will all be in your download folder one way or the other. Take note that at this point there's no information telling us they will remove the 6 month re activation time out from the final release. There's a good chance they will keep that so they can tell how many people are still using CbB. I think there's no worries about them removing CbB completely in the near future. Only time will tell. Relax.

If you read what they said, all they are doing with CbB is a few bug fixes they had already worked out before they switched over to working on the new products. My guess is that was ready to release back in December. People keep excepting the last update of CbB will have new stuff added?? Why would they do that. You want new stuff? from now on you pay for it and it's called Sonar. The only "new feature" many are hoping for is the removal of the authorization time out. But I wouldn't put money on that either. They still might want to track how many people are still using CbB and not upgrading to Sonar. That is valuable information for a business to have. Say 2 years from now they still see a huge majority of people are still using CbB and Sonar is not doing that well. If it was my business I would most certainly pull the plug on the free version. Next is a totally different kettle of fish and I have a feeling it will be the winner for them. There is obviously a good reason why they want to release everything all at once.

This topic came up just recently. Magic trick- Mix Recall. Like your example of song 10 is your best mix. Save it as a Mix Scene. You drag and drop the Mix scene from it's folder right into the track pane of the other songs and it applies that mix and effects and settings. This only works when songs are more or less identical which they normally are with live recordings. Be aware that Mix recall has a naming system that totally ignores what you try and name it.

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Yes now I remember the reasons I had to use the custom theme was Tungsten had a black PVR I hated and Mercury was just plain terrible. When I tried to use the original Tungsten with the white PVR icons were wrong size. I wonder what we’ll be dealing with with Next?

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I assume you are actually talking about Cakewalk. Bandlab is a mobile app. My solution was to go to the sub forum here and grab a new user created theme I liked. I’m using one made by scook.

Ya I figured there was a way to copy them over but in reality I don’t actually see any benefits in using the VST 3 version right now. I’m sure they both sound exactly the same. When I install new plug ins I generally only install the VST 3 version.

Maybe unrelated but I have a lot of pre sets in older VST 2 plug ins like Addictive drums but then they are not available in the VST3 versions. So I’m still using VST2 for those.

I just ran into this I had to re install it from the web site link. Then it works. It installed a visual C+ that was missing as well. See my reply in this thread

Change the theme for now. A screen shot might help us figure it out.

forget it.

After Sonar 8.5 I only bought X3 Studio and then upgraded to Splat when the offer was just right. I says on my product page that I registered it on June 27 2015. That is the same date as Sonar Platinum so it must have been included. But I seem to remember getting free things as part of bait for upgrades. my dates show X3 Studio Jan 2014 Sonar Professional January 2015 Sonar Platinum June 2015 I distinctly remember save about $300 by buying discounts and then upgrades. I just did the same with Melodyne.

If you undock the multi dock and drag it to the bottom the blue highlight bar will first go between the Inspector to the browser but if you drag it further down it covers the whole screen. Once you have it the way you like it save this as a workspace and it will become the default.

I have Rapture. It was in CCC. My version of CCC must have been outdated because it wouldn't run. I had to do some digging as we are aware the Cakewalk web site pages are sort of a mess right now. But I hacked my way to the download and installed it. Notice it installs a Visual C+ add on which could explain someone having issues if they didn't. But I had no issues and I ran Cakewalk as Admin and entered my serial number and registration and it seems to work just fine. I think it uses the same library as Dim Pro so I don't bother installing it and I just use Dim Pro. I made a TXT document a long time ago with all my serial numbers only a fool would loose track of stuff like that, it's worth a lot of money and one day there may not be any servers to rely on anymore.

That’s why I use overwrite mode.

I just upgraded a Samsung 240 GB OS drive for a 500 GB that cost me $50. Samsung has an app called the Magician that cloned the drive in 20 minutes. You are asking for trouble by installing software on other drives.

To merge midi I simply drag and drop the one clip onto the other in the track pane. Holding shift will maintain its position in time and holding CTRL will copy the data and leave the original we’re it was.

I’ve owned the same monitors for a longtime and those monitors have been in possibly 20 different spaces. Most were less than ideal many were horrible. But I’m sitting 3’ away and I use a lower volume level for critical listening. The Lower the volume the less the room will interfere with the sound you hear. That is why they call them near field monitors. A lot of the focus on room treatment being critical is mostly only true for soffit speakers which are 6’ to 12’ away from you. The room will have way less impact when you know your monitors and what they sound like in any situation. Turn them down to mix if the room sucks. Problem solved.