Annabelle

May I send it to you in an Email?

I'm not sure if this will work, but here's a link. Download When You Wish Upon a Star 02, Vocals, Rec (33).wav from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

How about .wav files like this one? I don't think I can attach the file because it's a big one. Is there a way I could send it in an email?

I did have a virus on my music machine in 2016. I wonder if that's what may have happened. Though it seems interesting, as I did format the hard drive that my projects were on, quite by accident in 2015, when I meant to repartition the C:\ Drive which was a Seagate ST3500413AS. That was before I had the virus. My computer got the virus when I downloaded and tried to install what I thought was a legitimate version of Visual Studio Community.

No, I didn't encrypt it with Bitlocker.

I want to make sure this file is not broken. The one that was modified on 3/5/2015 at 7:17 PM is one that I recovered from a formatted partition of a hard drive. Compare this with the one modified on 8/19 2013 at 10:10 PM. I think the one modified on 3/5/2015 is missing some headers. Is there a way to fix that? My Lonely Heart Cries For You.cwp My Lonely Heart Cries For You.cwp

Hey T on Y! I get that same thing in Sonar 8.5, especially when I solo my voice. I wonder if that's due to "bleed". Sometimes it drives me crazy! As I am sight challenged, I wonder if there is a way to fix that. Perhaps there's a plugin out there that lets you eliminate the metronome click noise in a recording.

Unfortunately there's a problem here: 1. I'm sight challenged, so I use JAWS, which doesn't seem to find the master fader, as it only understands text-based icons, and from what I gather, these controls in Cakewalk TTS1 seem to be image-based in some ways. 2. I can't use other virtual instruments at this moment, as my samples and instruments like Kontakt, FM Tines 2.0, StylusRMX, Trilian, and Eastwest Play instruments are on a hard drive that is out of order. It failed when my apartment complex lost power on May 27 of this year. A lot of the instruments on there are ones I've customized. I now have to send that drive into Drivesavers for Data Recovery. Luckily my renters insurance will cover the full price. All I have to pay is the $500 deductible! 3. I'm having a bit of downtime in the studio at this moment, as I just got a new tower, and I need to purchase some solid state drives, one for the Windows 7 operating system and other programs like JAWS and Sonar, and one for my projects.

I'm not even sure where that would be when JAWS seems to point in a direction other than the right one.

I'm scrolling through all the controllers with JAWS, but every time I press the "Right Mouse Button" (Numpad Multiply), JAWS seems to say that the controller I'm on is "10, and it's pointing to "Pan Part 01". Now I'm confused!

The keyboard I have is an Akai MPK25. I don't think it's faulty, because it works with other instruments. Here's an example project with Cakewalk TTS1. There's Always Tomorrow.cwp

I know it's not that, because there are no volume automation controllers in the MIDI. I restart Sonar, then the sound is heard again, but then suddenly turns back to being inaudible out of the blue.

The audio volume goes down to something barely audible. As for the data recovery, I'm sending the drive in to Drive Savers in Novato, California. The good news is, my Renter's Insurance policy with State Farm is going to cover the cost, so all I have to pay is the deductable ($500), which will be paid to my insurance company.

I would put more VST's in there. However, the drive that has the samples associated with those VST's is currently out of order and I need to send it to Drivesavers, as it shorted out when my apartment complex lost power on May 27, 2022. Here, I'll attach an example of the sound it makes when I try to power it on. I recorded this with my Olympus LS100 next to the computer, and powered on from a shutdown state. The drive makes this sound like a ticking clock at the cadence of a North American busy signal, before finally shutting off after 10 cycles of that. Hard Drive Flash On and Off Then Shut Off.zip

The only controllers in the file, a MIDI file, are 121, set to 0, and 64, set to 0. These appear at the very beginning of the file, before you find any music notes.

Any good quality GM synths out there that would sound similar to the Roland Sound Canvas SC8850? I actually used the hardware version in a Music Technology course at Lane Community College here in Eugene, Oregon when I was a student there.

The problem is: 1. I have an older machine, that's why I use Sonar 8.5. 2. I have accessibility software (Caketalking 8.8), which is only compatible with Sonar 8.5. 3. I use Windows 7 without updates on this machine (I know you might say that's a security risk, but it works just fine for me!). Any updates causes instability with the drivers and breaks compatibility with my JAWS (Job Access With Speech) screenreader software and other accessibility programs. 4. The Asio drivers I'm using are the USB Asio drivers for the Focusrite Third Generation Scarlet 18I20, which I know are the right drivers. 5. The buffer size is 512, which is the lowest latency my machine can comfortably withstand (Anything lower leads to stuttering and dropouts).

For some reason, when I go to play a MIDI file with Cakewalk TTS1, after a few minutes, sometimes after a few seconds, the audio seems to disappear. In other words, I turn it back on with the Play button (Spacebar), and what seems to have happened is the audio is barely audible. This only seems to happen with Cakewalk TTS1. Is there a way to fix this? If so, what shall I do?

Is it accessible to screenreaders like JAWS? Good Heavens I hope so!

Does it cost anything to obtain Reaper? If so, how much?

Out of curiosity, is it possible to open Cakewalk Bundles .cwb, .bun, and .wrk in programs other than Sonar? I'm even wondering this same thing about other files like Protools Sessions and Digital Performer Files. I know those are competitors, but I have projects that I created with those programs, which I'd like to be able to open in Sonar.

I'm not about to give up so easily! I'm lookin' on the bright side and makin' sure I take this to a professional like Drivesavers, who has a 99% success rate. Pretty good if you ask me! I'd even pay $1,000,000,000,000,000 if I have to!

I wish I could post the other pictures. It seems crazy that 4.88 megabytes seems to be the limit for attachments.

I'm planning to upgrade my projects drive, as well as my operating system drive, to solid state drives. I'm even planning to upgrade the tower. Would this be a good tower for the components I have in my current configuration? Here are some pictures of my current tower in attachments. Compare this to the tower I want to have. Meshify C — Fractal Design (fractal-design.com)

Hi, it's Annabelle. I know this might sound like a strange request, but here goes. I have this hard drive that I'm going to send to Drivesavers in Novato, California, and I've let them know that there are Cakewalk Projects on there that I didn't get the chance to back up. These Cakewalk projects, as you might know, have the extension .cwp. I've tried ICare Data Recovery Pro, but it seems to bring them back in sequential fragments, 46 of them for each project. If I send this drive to Drivesavers, would they be able to recover the files intact? If not, can somebody tell me the best way I can recover Cakewalk Projects, and put them back together if they're in fragments like these ones are? Drivesavers did say that they could recover .wav files, which are also included on this drive, but they tell me that things like .cwp are proprietary formats. Now I'm confused! 😕 Yes, the drive is able to be accessed by my computer. I haven't written anything new to this drive since 2018, yet the files I'm trying to recover were discovered on there from 2015 and earlier. Are there any applications that can be used to join fragmented files and merge them into one? Would I have to use a hex editor to write missing headers? If so, which one is best with JAWS? Also, this seems rather strange, but the drive I have seems to only show half its capacity. It's a 1TB hard drive, but only seems to think it's 500 GB. Could that have resulted when my apartment complex recently experienced a loss of power? Drivesavers has been in the business since 1985. Their website is https://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com. I love the fact that the representatives there are friendly, and they seem to have an "It's all about the customer" attitude. The most recent incident happened with another hard drive on my music machine. When I woke up Friday morning, May 27, 2022, I thought I was dreaming when suddenly, I heard it! My samples hard drive, the one with all my virtual instruments on it, suddenly started flashing on and off, and after a few repetitions of that cycle, it shut off completely! Now the samples drive isn't even connecting to my machine. Stranger still, the model number, which I don't remember all of it, but it usually starts with "ST31000", now displays as a number that starts with "STM13". How did this happen? We actually lost power in my apartment complex that day, so I wonder if that may have shorted out the power in this hard drive. I'm hoping I can still retrieve the samples off of there before it possibly goes belly up! It's amazing that that particular hard drive has been with me since the day I got my music machine, September 2, 2011! I've just recently purchased a new 6 TB Western Digital Black hard drive from B&H Photo And Video in New York City for $159.99! Now all I have to do is wait for Markus to come over and help me with makin' the switcharoo when the time comes that he's available to help me put it in. If I can't retrieve the samples myself, which I'm sure most folks will say is not a good idea if there's possible mechanical failure, I'm sendin' the drive in to Drivesavers! Mark gave me a quote that the price will be between $700 and $3900! Sure that's spendy, but it's worth it for me, as a few of the samples on there are ones I've made, and some of the instruments are ones I customized. If Drivesavers can save an entire series of episodes of "The Simpsons" as well as an entire series of raw sessions from an album by The Rolling Stones, surely they can help to save my precious files, some of which aren't exactly replaceable! I hope the noises my hard drives make are not a sign of data damage or mechanical failure. If they are, what shall I do next? If the folks at Drivesavers are able to save every single "lost" file I have, for the love of San Francisco that will be my dancin' day! Then I'll be makin' music like never before! My sight challenged friend, Glenn, who actually builds computers (I know, you might say that's impossible when you can't see), says that the sound my hard drive is making, from the attachment I'm providing you in this email, is the sound of stuck heads. He tried to suggest that I put it in the freezer, but I don't think that's a good idea, as it could possibly introduce condensation in the machine, even if it's in an antistatic bag. What shall I do next? Here's an example of the actual sound from my actual hard drive. I recorded this with my Olympus LS100 field recorder next to my computer, while restarting the machine from a shutoff state. Listen to this and tell me if you think this is mechanical failure that could lead to data loss. Hard Drive Flash On and Off Then Shut Off.ogg