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Also, their functionality is superceded by the Sonitus effects suite and ProChannel modules.

Yeah this problem is still a thing, when Cakewalk crashes unexpectedly, which can happen sometimes, it hijacks any Audio or MIDI drivers it uses, like the Arturia Keylab Drivers and the ASIO drivers of my Roland SD-50 making them unavailable to be used in ASIO mode, or in subsequent launches of Cakewalk until a system restart. It also stays a zombie process and cannot be force-terminated from the task manager until I go to the resource monitor and suspend the zombie Cakewalk proccess. This is unacceptable, there should be a way to force Cakewalk to release those drivers upon temination so they can be continued to be used without needing a reboot. This is important, because rebooting is the ultimate interrupt to a workflow, and sometimes when you get into project files that for one reason or another becomes unstable, that can happen a lot.

I know it's late, but I finally tried the patches you suggested and it didn't really work out. Now that I have a better understanding of sound design. It seems to be some sort of arpeggiated synth sequence with a filter sweep on an LFO. What makes this patch unique is that it seems to react to this riff here : In a way where a ghost pattern lasting several bars emerged, with a seeming high pitch spike manifesting every 4 bars.

Oh no, it's all Clean DI. I would know, because I have used them.

I mean, Audio Assault has never did me wrong. I have yet to buy a plugin from them that I didn't like. But this does sound like self-sabotage in that those who buy into it due to reduced price will be the first ones to complain anything goes wrong, scaring off any would-be customers after release.

This is a nice deal for what it does, but I already cashed my chips on the Palette series a while back, so I will not be jumping for this.

I recommend Unreal Instruments to get the clean DI, and then running them through either TH3, or perusing one of the Audio Assault amp sims currently on sale. They work very well and are light on resources. Here is a WIP of something I am working on using the Metal GTX for the melody guitar, Shreddage 3 Stratus 3 for the Rhythm section, Abyss for the Bass, and GGD Invasion for the Drums. I also used AGML II Lite for the Acoustic Guitars. As for FX, I used Amplitube 4, Grind Machine II, Head Crusher and RM-2. https://metapop.com/valerie-grimaude-valens/tracks/compassion-is-the-way-2019-master/98332

Try loading the song into a matrix view and assigning an extra audio track to playing external songs?

There's the Meat Bass from Karoryfer Samples which runs on Sforzando.

Sitala seems to be what you need for Drum samples. You might also want to look at Sforzando.

I just found out about this, but right now, and for a limited time (Obviously) the Waves Grand Rhapsody Piano is on sale for $40, and with an extra $10 off with the code GIFT10.

It's bad though. You're better off using SForzando and the Unreal Instruments free libraries, and yeah sure, it may not be a wall of sound massive right out of the box, but I'd argue that a Clean DI is much better so you can use your own FX Chains with it. If you need an amp, Audio Assault has a Black Friday deal still going on right now.

Have you checked to see if CSC is loaded into the project? You might want to hit Alt+9 to check your synth rack. If it has been loaded, try removing the synth, and reloading it.

I remembered playing around with the demo years ago, good stuff!

It also doesn't help that I grabbed 8DiOboe and was really satisfied with it. I think I'll just save up for the next sale.

Must....resist....GAS You know, that feel where you can just barely afford something, but you know you should be saving? I have that.

It means that the plugin is broken, and you might want to look into 64 bit alternatives.

Like for example, you have clip A which have notes at the low end of the PRV, clip B which has arpeggiation all over the keyboard range, and then clip C which has chords in the mid range, right? Put them in the folder, and when it's collapsed, the clip pane would show data from all 3 clips in one pane. In a similar example with audio files, it will show the waveform preview of all the summed up audio clips in the folder pane. In the case where you have MIDI and Audio data, you could have the MIDI data display, super imposed over the waveform preview.

As the title says, it would be nice to have the option to be able to see the summed up MIDI and audio clip data at a glance when you have the track folder collapsed instead of just blocks of solid colour.

Yep, the M-Audio is the better bet when it comes to keybed and build quality. Casio's keyboards are mostly cheaply with corners cut in order to make it affordable to more people, while M-Audio's equipment is more geared towards professional music production.

Yeah, you gotta match what MIDI channel the keyboard is sending to, to the channel that the instrument is receiving MIDi data from, within the Kontakt interface.

If you need a VSTi to replace TTS-1, I have found that XPand! 2 works pretty well, and it's $5 on PiB right now. I also recommend Kontakt over ST4, simply because a lot of IK Multimedia's practices with the lack of upgrade paths, non-permanent sound pack expansions, and no native ASIO drivers for their hardware or native ASIO support for their standalone software, and outright killing off ST3 CS from access to new customers have made me unwilling to give IK my money. Also, it's a lot easier to build your own ad hoc bespoke sample libraries with Kontakt.

Grind Machine II is really good for getting that rough dirty tone from old metal bands, I also found that Bulldozer is quite nice, since it's also worked on by the guys that made Cabal 8. (They also have a much smaller memory and CPU footprint compared to Amplitube 4)

It is related since we're at a tangent discussing why people subject themselves to loud music, despite the knowledge that it will damage their hearing, which, you know, was what drove the loudness wars in the first place.

I have this free Piano, which is nice. There's also Wolno and the Soft and Modular Pianos from Spitfire LABS. This Spring Piano by Chri Henson and Fred Rembrandt is also pretty good, and finally, there's the Piano in 162 by Ivy Audio. As for paid stuff, I mostly use the Grand Piano patch from my Roland SD-50, the SCVA or the Palette Orchestral Sketchpad. There's also stuff that was included when I purchased my Arturia Keylab Essential that works to that effect. If you're looking for an affordable one, the Mini-Grand by AIR Music technology is around $9.99 right now.