Matthew Sorrels

Please update this thread if you learn more. Switching to using only stereo plugins is a good work around (and may be the best that can be done) but software shouldn't crash and it shouldn't hang, if it is, then figuring out why and (hopefully) getting it fixed will help everyone. Good luck.

I couldn't reproduce it either, tried several mono Waves plugins. Perhaps it's something to do with the audio interface he's using? If Cakewalk hanging is reproducible, a crash dump could be generated which might tell what exactly was hanging. Here's a post that tells you how to make the crash dump using the task manager: If you generate a crash dump of the hung Cakewalk and put it on the net it so it can be downloaded itwould be easy for some of us to look at and tell you exactly what is hanging.

Native Instruments made it way too difficult for non-Player instruments to use snapshots. You end up having to give the user crazy directions (that they never can follow) or you have to write installers (which isn't hard but doing it for both Mac and Windows is a very high burden). So until they change how Kontakt and snapshots work I suspect the pile of .nki presets is going to stay around.

They are using Amazon CDN for file storage and so where you are actually directed to depends on your geolocation (and who knows what else). So I suspect they have something configured badly that only effects people in some countries/etc.

I get the same failure message. I'm sure they will sort it out.

Ask Video (which is also the same content as MacProVideo , SOS Tutorials and most likely a few others due to NonLinear Educating Inc. syndication ) has a handful of newer Cubase 10 videos (made by Matthew Hepworth). I've watched two of them (I have a year SOS Tutorials sub) they are decent but if your goal is learning all of Cubase each of them is pretty narrow (I'm sure they want you to buy a subscription). They have coverage of older Cubase too, but a lot of it has changed so much I'm not sure how useful it is. The courses on scoring and scoring to picture even though done with Cubase 8 seem useful. To be honest I've gotten more out of Steinberg's YouTube videos than any of the online courses I've watched so far.

I got VV1 during the great $99 Musician's Friend super deal back in 2015, so I'm way ahead of the game, but I just can't seem to understand this $199 upgrade price . It looks like all you get is 7 new synths (one of which I own stand alone). This upgrade is twice what I think it's worth ($99) and that is with this special offer. When that offer ends the price goes to 3 times what I think it's worth. I feel the same way about Arturia upgrade. These large collections (I love complete/large bundles) seem to have real pricing problems especially with upgrades. It must be tough for these companies since they are in a hard spot between the individual prices and the collection prices. Maybe I'm just wrong here and the price inflation isn't crazy, but for that much I'm going to buy a whole new product from someone else rather than re-buy something I mostly already have.

That finishes another EzKeys MIDI 6-pack. Maybe I should buy a 6-pack of 6-packs. lol. Looks like there are new updates to Orchestral Percussion SDX also.

Hiss in plugins can often be copy protection, do you have the license (iLok) for Antares Microphone Modeler? Might want to check the iLok License Manager.

Electronic EZX is actually pretty nice, one of my favorite EZX's. If you have any interest in these types of sounds (lots of 8-bit/video game hits/etc and drum machines) this is worth getting. Works well in Superior Drummer 3 too, even has nicer UI than most EZX's.

If you bought the Adagio Violins check your email for a unique to you coupon before you buy this. Says the coupon expires fast (48 Hours) so don't miss out. Edit: Blog post perhaps explaining the crazy coupon (which may only apply to people that bought Violins as an $8 upgrade from Anthology, like I did) https://8dio.com/2019/05/20/adagio-anthology-owners/

Melodyne Essential has never been free, but it has been bundled with lots of products over the years. Including paid versions of SONAR. Now that CbB is free there isn't a version of Melodyne included (since it would most likely require Bandlab to pay Melodyne per copy).

The crossgrade license is just a discount, the license looks exactly like a normal Cubase license. So you could re-sell it, but doing that requires shipping your dongle (or a extra dongle you purchase to transfer just the license you want to sell, if your dongle has multiple licenses). Steinberg has a resale wizard to walk you through all the cases. But here's the page that describes selling Cubase 10 Pro on a eLicenser by itself: https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/knowledgebase_new/resale_wizard_software/registered/usb_elicenser/single_license.html

Just fair warning, solid state type drives can/do fail/lose data too. Doesn't have to spin to fail.

It comes with 660 MIDI files of Epic/Trailer style percussion. Single playable instruments as well as a loop player. They used to have a working demo version that was pretty nice (but I can't seem to find it anymore, so that may not help you very much). I was planning to buy it at a full price but their shop kept wanting to charge me VAT and Time&Space's check out insisted it needed to be shipped, so it fell off my radar. I think it's worth $11.55 (my final price after Paypal currency games) -- assuming you already have full Kontakt and need epic drums. If you ignore the price I think the sound is pretty good and the rhythms (the MIDI files match the loops played with the instruments so you can re-sequence them) are very usable. The only thing wrong with it is VSTBuzz is making you use this Pulse downloader http://www.pulsedownloader.com

Have you registered the eLicenser on your account? I have a tab for eLicensers that shows my eLicensers (the dongle and a computer with nothing on it) and a tab with software that shows all the software (and those entries list the eLicenser it's on). If that's not right you may want to contact them.

And it makes a directory with a crazy quote sign as part of the name. Which I think is a mistake. I was able to rename it but I don't think they are testing much on Windows. But I got this for less than $12 USD which isn't too bad (I had been wanting it for a little while but Audiority has always been a bit flakey).

I own Volume 2 but for some reason their website only show an upgrade price from Summit Audio Grand Channel ($449). Don't think I'm getting a customized deal there. Good news is you no longer need Gobbler, they have their own installer. Bad news their own installer is alpha on Windows. It seemed to work for me and updated all my Volume 2 plugins (that were installed with Gobbler, which I've now uninstalled and will never bother with again). Doesn't seem to allow you any control over where things are installed though or what things. The help says it gets the locations from the system registry (which is always a crap shoot). You can also download individual installers (from the website or the new Softube Central app) and run those. Which might be better if you don't want the ProTools plugins/etc. Volume 3 adds four new plugins: Parallels, Harmonics, OTO Biscuit, and Transient Shaper. Will have to see what the actual upgrade price from Volume 2 is, but I may just pass. One nice thing the TSAR-1R reverb includes the ProChannel version if you are still using CbB/SONAR.

I think you just toggle the edit arrow on "Edit VariAudio" to off and it commits your edits. Maybe. You can also use the Flatten option under Process to render VariAudio and Warp. I think you can also toggle the VariAudio edits on and off with the strange zig-zag icon next to VariAudio. Really wish it had some context sensitive help.

Each monitor/speaker set has 8 effect inserts and the whole mix has 8 effect inserts. So you can have effects on just one headphone (say the vocalist) that only gets some of the tracks from the session and different effects on your headphones and speakers. Pretty much any kind of routing you can imagine with multiple outputs is possible. The documentation is pretty weak though. I'm pretty sure I may be doing it wrong, half the time when setting up the control room you'll end up with no output because of all the connections. Since my headphones share output channels with the room monitors I have two separate control room presets, not sure that's the best way to do this or not. In theory if you had your headphones on separate outputs you could have two separate monitor setups with sets of effects for each. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm doing it wrong since I've got the Sonarworks and Wave NX plugins on the Mix inserts and not on the monitor inserts. Something I may need to look into.

Yes you can setup the Control Room for your monitors and your headsets with separate versions of Sonarworks for each (I have the headphones and the speaker version of Sonarworks) and switch the profile when ever you need to. it takes a bit of work to setup the Control Room the first time but it's just one time pain.

The in-situ video player above won't play any sound for me (I can see the video) but I was able to save it locally and hear it that way. You might want to try a different metronome sound. Some of the one's that come with SONAR have bad timing. There was a set of better ones on the old forum. I have that same loop (from The Loop Loft's Dry Drums Vol 4) and it plays in sync for me if I use ping hi/ping lo. Route the metronome to a new aux track and record it (be sure to turn the metronome to play during recording) and see what it's generating. I don't think any hardware/audio interface settings will effect the metronome timing. The 100% showing on the clip seems a bit odd (I don't get that when I drag it in) can't remember what it means, but perhaps there is some stretching enabled. May want to check the clip's properties very carefully.

It appears I bought it back at the end of April? Completely forgot about it. I just gave it a few seconds just now. It's about what it says it is. EDM/Dance synth with a bunch of MIDI and an arp feature. Kind of a poor man's Rob Papen product. I paid $11 with Virtual Credits discount. WA (I think it stands for What About) makes some decent stuff in the EDM/Dance genre. I think I bought it because of the MIDI, which since I have in my MIDI Loops Commercial Purchased folder I'm guessing I extracted them somehow from the product. 1887 MIDI files for < $20 isn't that bad a deal.

I believe you can hold the unregistered serial number and use that to jump ahead if you wait long enough. People certainly have been doing it with Cubase, I don't think Wavelab would be any different.

It is my understanding that a higher Cubase license authorizes everything below it. So with a Cubase Pro license you can also run Artist or Elements. But you have to have the eLicenser to have that Pro license. And I don't think you can register the new license without having an eLicenser. Cubase upgrades also remove and replace your old license completely. My Cubase 9 license is gone. Padshop and Retrologue 2 won't start in CbC on my machine without the Cubase 10 dongle. (and crashed right after this dialog even)