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Another thing to check is if Windows has been set to use your Focusrite as its default sound device. If this is the case, then the volume level within Windows (the speaker icon on your task bar) will affect the output of your Focusrite. Try setting this to full volume, or setting the default Windows sound device to your onboard sound device.

I'll see if I can make time for this at the weekend.

There's been a couple of times decades ago when I couldn't make a gig. On both occasions I made sure I had a replacement act available, and let the venue know. One of the times they took me up on the offer, and the gig went well. The other time (different venue), they took the opportunity to save having to pay entertainment for the night - but they did appreciate me organising backup.

Are you using the VST3 plugins? Maybe try the VST2 versions instead. There was a post in old forum regarding problems with UAD vst3 plugins in SONAR 8.5: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-85-with-VST2-and-VST3-Settings-m1910165.aspx

This is worse though - it's deleting stuff that isn't on the cloud.

wow - that's some bug!

You need to set the driver mode to ASIO first:

I took the cautious route and have a dual Windows 10 / Windows 7 boot. While I'm using Cakewalk, I can honestly say I notice absolutely no difference to what operating system I'm using, with the exception of dialog headers which are slightly different due to the difference in Windows themes. But everything else is identical. Nowadays however, the only reason I ever boot into Windows 7 is to apply updates/install VST's to keep the two systems in sync. Windows 10 works so well for me, I've really got no reason to use Windows 7 any more. The only reason I keep it, is in case something went wrong with my Windows 10 install, then I can just boot into Windows 7 and continue working until I get a chance to re-image Windows 10 from a backup.

Another thing to look at might be O'Deus ASIOLink. This basically wraps all your interfaces up into one single ASIO driver. You choose your main interface as the primary ASIO driver within ASIOLink, and it accesses the rest using the native Windows ones. Unlike ASIO4ALL, there's loads of routing options, and you can save different profiles etc. You can even route ASIO over ethernet. I noticed absolutely no latency differences between my Scarlett 6i6 (with a buffer of 64) and it being wrapped with ASIOLink. Note however you will still need to make sure that the interfaces are word clock sync'd if you're recording on one device and playing back on another (i.e. if both devices are connected). If you're just using it to swap between devices, you can set up two profiles within ASIOLink and do the swapping there rather than in Cakewalk. I posted a link last month about it becoming available again (this time for free):

No you can't really access them unless it's working. What Roland device have you got? I've got a U220 and a CM64 (basically a U110 & MT32). If there's any patches you particularly need, let me know. I'm crazy busy at the moment, but I'll try to put some time aside to sample them.

I use SampleRobot Pro to sample my old hardware synths. It does all the usual things like automatic loop finding etc, and has an "instrument copier" mode which allows you to define a list of patches to sample... come several hours later, and they're all done. https://samplerobot.com/ It exports to a number of sample formats. I personally use soundfonts with SampleLord, but it'll also export as Kontakt, sfz, TX16Wx as well as a few others. So far I've done my Roland D550, CM64 & JV1010, Korg X5DR, Kawai K1R & Yamaha TG500. Most of my other synths have VSTi equivalents, but I've effectively now got my hardware synth rack running in my laptop.

I only got around to installing this yesterday evening. I was extremely impressed that it authorised itself as part of the installation - so no messing around with cutting/pasting serial numbers

This is a great idea. I've had a few projects' audio trashed in the past where it's got things wrong. This was decades ago, so I assume it's probably working now, but I've been too scared to try it again!

Just looked at the Glasgow showing... it's sold out

None really. All AUD.INI contains is details about your current audio device, and your default bit size/sample rate, and some latency preferences. These can change if you update your drivers. It's a cache of these values, so if the file is deleted, your device will be queried again and the file recreated. TTSSEQ.INI contains the available MIDI devices, which ones are selected, and in the case of MIDI outputs, their order. I think it also contains your MIDI sync preferences. So a bit more "user" data in here, but nothing that can't be easily re-selected within Cakewalk. Again, this file is recreated if it's deleted.

I use a Mackie BigKnob in the studio, which serves my needs most of the time. It's only when I'm constantly swapping between headphones & speakers that I'll create extra buses. If I'm only checking headphones now and then, I'll stick both ARC2 & Sonarworks in the master bus and just toggle between them.

I think John meant to say "There select in the Master Fader section Bus and next to it select 1.": Otherwise, it'll control the left volume of your soundcard.

MIDI tracks by themselves do not produce audio - they need a synth (either a soft synth, or hardware synth connected to a MIDI port) for the MIDI to "play". Depending on how you've imported your midi file, TTS-1 is normally loaded - but as I said, it depends on how you imported your midi file. Do you have any synths in your synth rack?

FWIW, I've been offline forum-wise for the past hour, and the only reason I saw this post was because I got an email notification...

If its for just for getting ideas down, then I think any old headphone mic should do, but obviously something like a dedicated singing headphone mic designed for live use would be better (like Shure's WH20XLR or PGA31). However I suspect your singing will be affected more by the fact you're lying down, than the mic quality. As an alternative to doing the singing yourself, you could maybe try this: https://www.plogue.com/products/alter-ego.html I used this when I got a chest infection and lost my voice for a while.

I originally got it for use with the V-Machine: It came as a bundle with Extreme Sample Converter, which in itself is a fantastic utility for converting between different sampler formats. I just got used to using it, and as it's never caused me any issues and as it was designed for the V-Machine, it has incredibly low CPU & memory usage. It's also one of the few sample players that plays stereo soundfonts properly, but it also supports . I might contact the developer and see if he'll consider doing a 64 bit version.

Have you tried deleting AUD.INI and TTSSEQ.INI from %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core ? AUD.INI in particular stores details about your audio devices, which may behave differently after upgrading to Windows 10. It's totally safe to delete these files, as they are re-created automatically the next time you start Cakewalk. The only thing you'll need to do is set your Audio device preferences again within Cakewalk, and choose your MIDI devices. The other thing I'd suggest is re-installing your Audio drivers. If you do this though, delete AUD.INI again.

No, I meant exactly what I said, "BitBridge is a really simple wrapper - all it does is wrap up the 32bit VST and pass the calls back and forth." It works fine in real time, but it offers no additional optimisation or tweaks for changes in the operating system. Bear in mind that a lot of 32bit VST's were developed for Windows XP, on much slower machines. A fair amount of them used "illegal" windows calls or shortcuts to improve performance. BitBridge makes no effort to try to address these. I suspect if you ran these plugins on Windows XP 64 bit, most of them would work perfectly using BitBridge.

The "value" essentially comes from scarcity, in the same way gold is valuable because it's rare. The mining part involves ever increasing complex computations, where when a particular criteria is met a new bitcoin is "found". As everyone who uses bitcoin has a complete copy of the block-chain, everyone knows the number of coins in circulation, and finding new coins to add to that circulation is becoming harder & harder. The complexity is at such a level now, that the cost of electricity required to mine a single coin vastly outweighs the monetary value that coin has. This was true even at the point when bitcoin was at its peak at $15,000 per bitcoin. Mining "farms" of computers are now generally powered in places where they can get free energy - i.e. where there's a solar farm, wind farm, or geo-thermal generated electricity. I guess that's why this malware exists - they basically want to you to pay the energy bill.

Yeah, it's just cracked software, not legit stuff. I question the point in mining in this way though - bitcoin hashes are so complex now, even the most powerful PC doesn't compare to dedicated mining hardware. And that's when the PC is dedicating 100% of it's CPU to mining. I had a couple of USB mining dongles for a bit (like about 5 years ago), but the energy costs due to increased complexity have long since surpassed anything I could earn from them. Slightly OT, but the most ingenious thing I read about was a guy who extended his water PC cooling system under the floorboards of his house so the energy wasted mining actually heated his house for him!