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You could try volume or clip gain automation, or simply cut a hole in the clip using the cut tool. If you're automating volume elsewhere, I'd lean towards automating the gain on the clip itself - that way you can change track volume independently:

Ironic that this should come up. I opened up a project yesterday that uses SampleLord on most of the tracks (a 32bit soundfont player) and I was getting crackles all over the place. I was scratching my head until I realised I'd recently done a complete rescan of my plugins, and SampleLord was being loaded using BitBridge rather than JBridge. Swapping it back to JBridge instantly cured it. I've got 16 instances running smoothly with an ASIO buffer of 64 on my Focusrite Scarlett - a buffer of 32 works too, but struggles the extra VST effects. I know I've said this before in other threads, but it's worth re-iterating... BitBridge is a really simple wrapper - all it does is wrap up the 32bit VST and pass the calls back and forth. JBridge on the other hand, has gone a fair way to address incompatibility issues with older plugins running on newer OS's, and has a bunch of options you can set on a per-plugin basis to get around various issues. Another reason I'd recommend JBridge, is that it also does a pretty good job of load balancing between its processes. Even some problem 64 bit plugins can be improved by using JBridge (e.g. UJAM virtual guitarist series). Obviously I don't use it for every plugin, but I do for all my 32 bit ones. Out of the ~1000 or so plugins I've got, there's only maybe been 2 that have not worked well with JBridge - they didn't work well with BitBridge either, and they were pretty unstable running on a native 32bit system in any case. All the rest of my 32 bit plugins work without issue with JBridge, although I have had to use some of the compatibility tweaks now and then. I use SampleLord as my sample player of choice for all the samples I've done of my old hardware gear. I could have made Kontakt instruments out of them, but I've found SampleLord to be way more CPU friendly and has been rock solid for me.

I suggested this a while back. What I do now as a workaround is to store multiple AUD.INI and TTSSEQ.INI files in separate directories. When I want to swap profiles, I just copy them to %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\ before I start Cakewalk. I've actually got this as a shortcut on my desktop to a batch file that does all the copying for me (it also does other stuff like put Windows into test mode, as that's the only way the mLAN driver works in Windows 10). My normal studio setup is a Scarlett 18i20, but when I need more than 16 inputs I swap to my mLAN setup (01X + i88X - i88X).

Have you checked it's enabled in preferences?

I don't hate Waves - I love their plugins, and I actually thought the bass sound was ok. But after quoting me > $1000 for WUP, I'm not buying another Waves plugin while some of my plugins still have updates active. I'm not convinced that updates are that great in any case. I mean what did the upgrade to v10 give me apart from losing 32 bit compatibility?

I think he means mute a cell. There's two approaches to this. You can either mute the whole row using the mute button, or you can change the latch mode. With latch off, you need to keep the key pressed all the time - so if you want it to stop, just let go of the key.

All my jam points have expired I does sound good, but $299 is way too pricey for me.

Have you tried turning the audio engine on & off? Windows quite often forces the sound device to 48Khz, and then ignores requests from Cakewalk to turn it back to 44.1Khz, and it sounds distorted. Toggling the audio normally fixes it.

Yeah, I really like them. But I did a HUGE face palm when I found out their volume was mapped to the mod wheel.

Yeah, it does sound like CPU Conservation Mode. Try hitting the Pause/Break button on your keyboard. On a normal extended keyboard it's next to scroll lock; on a laptop it could be anywhere...

The new Kontakt Play series in NI Komplete 12 do this, e.g. Analog Dreams, Ethereal Earth & Hybrid Keys.

I've got the CZ-3000 and the CZ-1. They're now both in the loft, and since getting Virtual CZ a couple of years ago, they're probably gonna stay in the loft! Whilst I'm tempted to try out the sysx editor features of Virtual-CZ, there's actually no point. Virtual-CZ can sound just like the real thing (without the hiss), or you can beef it up with more layers. Now if only they'd do the same for the VZ-1....

FWIW None of the Antares VST3 plugins I have work for me in Cakewalk, but the VST2's work fine.

I find that's half of my problem though. I get into ruts by thinking, "No, I can't do that - this should really be this chord here so I can resolve to this... etc..". .. or if I do start getting more adventurous, I end up making a rock track sound too jazzy. On some of the more extreme settings in Liquid Notes, it makes some really interesting suggestions - quite often they sound odd on the extreme settings, but every now and then it comes up with a gem. I did actually write something similar (although much, much simpler) around 20 or so years ago. I started off doing the obvious substituting chord IV with II and V with III etc, then got a bit more adventurous like substituting II with IVm6 in 4th inversion etc, but never really took it further. Liquid Notes really takes things to the next level though as it will also change the melody if you want.

This is how I've always done it.

I think you just right click on the "note number" part:

I don't think this is a loss of MIDI connection. I think its more likely that you've got "Zero Controllers When Play Stops" checked: Some VST's, for some crazy reason, have their volume set to react to things like the modulation wheel. Resetting this to zero on stop effectively turns the volume off. When you re-select your preset, this resets all the VST's parameters - including the volume - so it goes back to normal again. Try unchecking "Zero Controllers When Play Stops" in preferences. Note this is a per-project setting.

Click on the track number to select all the clips in that track, and right click on the clip area and select "Bounce to clip(s)".

AFAIK they've not updated this in a while. I got an email from them a while back saying they weren't doing any more development on it for the foreseeable future. They weren't dropping it by any means, but wanted to concentrate on other products. From what I can gather, they've been looking at making some of their existing products standard VST's rather than standalone Java apps. This is probably much more complicated for Liquid Notes, as it would be a far bigger codebase to convert from Java to C++, so they've put it on the back burner.

There's some new effects, a wavetable module, and an updated editor/debugger for script developers: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6/whats-new/ Sooner or later instrument developers will use these, and newer instruments won't work in Kontakt 5. But in reality, I suspect that's a long way off.

Yeah, I've not seen any other software that does what Liquid Notes does.

I got a wonderful home made card from my daughter, and was left to spend the day my favourite way..... in the studio

How about importing by dragging in from the browser?

Does it not just import at the current Now time? Maybe just press "W" before you do the import.

Click on this button at the top of the plugin dialog to give the plugin control of keystrokes: