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I have the 8.5 version of V Vocal installed and  working in CBB (Win7). 

Do you have the 64 bit version of 8.5/X1/X2 installed?

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

A great free instrument. I knew Surge was open source, but is Vital now, as well?

https://github.com/mtytel/vital

For me download is 200 MB, install 300 MB, so I guess it's sample based. Still nice though.

The most simple to use I think is BassMidi, https://www.kvraudio.com/product/bassmidi-vsti-by-falcosoft A multitimbral sf2 player, works much like sfz
and Juicysfplugin, https://github.com/Birch-san/juicysfplugin Not multitimbral (not tested v 3.0 yet).

Bump, and Full Bucket has released a new synth, WhispAir. Really nice with wavetable support.

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/whispair.html

Freeware synth Surge is updated, many new features:

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

New version of the free Sitala drum VST released:

https://decomposer.de/sitala/

4 hours ago, JoeGBradford said:

Is the free version worth the install? Windows tries to block it but I assume that is because it is a new programme

Free version is same as full version, only less presets & wt's. And it loads serum & other wt's. If still not to taste, just uninstall it.
But it's currently updated daily, so you may want to wait a few days to get the quirks out.

Vital is released, including a free version (full version, but limited presets & wt's).

https://vital.audio/

Rather hyped on KVR, but I have no idea yet if any good.
edit: States Win 10, but works fine on Win7 as far as I tested.

18 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

You are missing the presets. Something may have prevented the installer from installing them - maybe a permissions issue.
Reboot your system and rerun the installer (you may have to first run the rollback). You should see a few hundred presets there if it properly installs.

Regarding Prochannel presets:
My local login does not have admin rights. 
When I install latest version, still no presets. Tested twice.
After roll-back, I add admin rights to my account, and install latest version, now presets are there.
 

A long list of free VST instruments:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=475829

This thread needs a bump.
For those of us still using Soundfonts, .sf2 files, there are some nice free 64bit alternatives:

BassMidi Vsti, https://www.kvraudio.com/product/bassmidi-vsti-by-falcosoft A multitimbral sf2 player, simple to use

Juicysfplugin, https://github.com/Birch-san/juicysfplugin Not multitimbral .sf2 player, also simple to use

TX16Wx, https://www.tx16wx.com reads .sf2 and many more formats. Rather complex to work with

Plogue Sforzando, https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html convert .sf2 to .sfz

Sobanth, https://www.kvraudio.com/product/sobanth-by-benjamin-rosseaux Had some crashes with this, but maybe just me

A good source for free synths is KVR OSC contest page.
Long list of synths and the KVR forum thread have lot's of info for each.

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/

There is a UI zoom work-around for surge in Cakewalk.
Use any working zoom host (s.a. Savihost), zoom surge to what you like. Save as default zoom.
Now, when you open surge in cakewalk, it's zoomed correct to that zoom.
 

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

The lack of GUI issue was something that gave me an excuse to delve into Cakewalk's FX Chain Preset feature, which allowed me to take the plug-in I wanted to use, De-Ess, and create my own GUI wrapper for it with a full complement of knobs and buttons. It was really quite useful and worked well and was something I don't know if I could have done in any other DAW.

Yeah, no GUI have kept me away. Good idea using FX chains, they have a few I want to test, De-ess one of them.

Btw I think they are all 64-bit now.

Yes, good list!

I don't see  GVST in the list: https://www.gvst.co.uk/ 

Soundhack http://www.soundhack.com/ have some special ones

I don't use AirWindows, but they have plugs for everything : http://www.airwindows.com/

I use Sitala, free and simple to use.

I use Scook' s "VST Inventory Tool" to locate my VST's. I know he have linked to it here, but can't find it atm.

I'm sure you use SPAN. Using Ctrl + Mouse you can sweep and listen to freq's. Use wheel to change Q while sweeping.

Mid brain doing mid/side processing?

If you see a hand in OP picture, what brain is that?

I reported this on the old forum, so just a reminder:

When saving a track template, outputs and sends to sidechain fx are not saved.
Old Sonar bug, same in v8.5.

Tested on buses and tracks, sidechain is lost.
Looking in the .cwx I see a plug->input 2 ref. so it may be a loading issue.

Is nobody using track templates with side chaining?

Still not fixed as of 2019.07/79

Thanks for comment!

Valid points. I don't even hear the hi-hats, so I have to figure out some better way to mix drums.
Now I know where to continue, many thanks.

Simple EDM all PC made. I play no instruments (have none), can't sing (have no mic), so this is all made ITB including PC generated voices for singing.
And as I have 24/7 tinnitus, much of the mix is done visually. But I'm having fun

Still free: https://www.meldaproduction.com/MConvolutionEZ