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Also, their functionality is superceded by the Sonitus effects suite and ProChannel modules.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

1 hour ago, Tezza said:

I couldn't find any clean DI sounds at unreal instruments, it was all full on heavy metal sounds, I generally don't use that style of sound. I am not sure what is available in the free version of Kontakt as I have only the paid version, in that, I can select something like Jazz guitar and select a pickup style, turn everything else off and that gives a clean DI sound, not unlike when I plug my actual guitar in, in fact that is what I use to create the DI sound, I model it on what my actual guitar sounds like plugged in. Then I can feed that into Guitar Rig into twang for example and with some FX. The end result is that nobody I know can tell it's not a real guitar, mixed in with real guitar, I even get confused which is which. But this is for a specific style of sound, finger or pick picking cleaner Jazz style, with a little dirt and strummed chords, some heavier distorted block chords etc.

I've not tried getting metal sounds out of it, I don't think it would do those that well.

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

On 12/3/2019 at 12:17 PM, David K. said:

Hey guys, 

I have a Dnd podcast and use cakewalk to  record 4 inputs using a 404hd interface, amd while we talk in our sessions we have music on in the background, but in cakewalk the music is being recorded through vb audio out into a cakewalk track (basically any audio from the pc is recorded) but my main goal is to have a key press so i dont acidently screw up the recording and just am able to change the music to fit the setting (village/ dungeon/ mountain pass) with a simple key press. Any ideas?

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.

On 12/8/2019 at 12:28 PM, Tezza said:

The free version of Kontakt has some guitars in it if you like programming midi guitars, if you use the basic guitar sounds and disable the processing of them in Kontakt and then feed that to something like guitar rig, they can sound alright.

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.

9 hours ago, Rick Derer said:

I opened a previous project and Cakewalk Sound Center is there and creating sounds as expected but now the M-Audio isn't showing up.
Should the M-audio show up on device manage in Windows 10? 
This is very strange. 

Update: I have rebooted and check my projects.  I have 2 projects. First one has M-audio for input and Cakewalk Sound Center for output and everything is working fine.

The second one does not allow me to select Cakewalk Sound Center for output. I have checked preferences and don't see anything different for these 2 projects? Is there another place to look to add Cakewalk Sound Center?

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!

1 minute ago, Fleer said:

More than a feeling. 

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.

8 hours ago, ZincT said:

Requiem Professional is now live at $88 (down from $598)! Sounds really nice (does anyone who owns it have a view?)

https://8dio.com/instrument/requiem-professional/ 

They have also added "Free You!" -- https://8dio.com/instrument/free-you-cloud-collaborationfor-kontakt-vst-au-aax-samples/  which is 11.2GB (compressed to 4.5GB) of Textural Sounds by over 200 Sound Designers.

Must....resist....GAS

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

4 hours ago, Rick Derer said:

What does it mean if Cakewalk Sound Center stops appearing as one of the output options? This was working but when I came back the next day it is no longer working.

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

3 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

@Freyja Grimaude-ValensI'm not understanding your suggestion can you clarify or elaborate in more detail?  Maybe you can can post a screen shot of how the GUI presently looks and a mock up of how the GUI should look after your request is implemented?

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)

3 minutes ago, craigb said:

While true, this isn't what was being discussed.  Loudness wars in terms of albums means losing all the headroom and compressing everything to mush so that the wave form looks like one big sausage.  This topic is about playing live at a volume that is known to injury the ears of the listeners.

That said, here's another example of what you're talking about:

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.