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    We need a new VST instrument inside Cakewalk

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted

    I'll say this again because I have all of the old Cakewalk Sonar plugins. I love some of the old instruments too! They are cool for nostalgia's sake, and many of them even still sound great!

    But I have a hard time justifying the hard drive space to keep them around. Time has marched on, and there are much better VST instruments available, even for free now!

    If you want more, just go out and download the free plugins that are available, or buy professional plugins if you can afford them. Cakewalk as a core DAW is the best free DAW available anywhere. A lot of the previous purchase price for Sonar was tied up in premium instrument and effects add-ons. So just roll your own bundle now, and you are all set! :)

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    Cakewalk TTS 1 synth goes mute and sometimes continues note play like as if its hanged

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    8 hours ago, PremJ Hans said:

    I'm aware of Native Instrument and Spitfire freeware's. And for TTS1 there's no separate client agent thread running in the background, like if I'm not mistaken, there's NI agent thread runs in background in processes for Native Instruments. 

    The Roland Sound Canvas VA plugin is probably the closest GM plugin to TTS-1. You can buy a lifetime license for the Roland Sound Canvas VA (GS/GM) plugin for USD $69 through the Roland Cloud (free version, no subscription required).

     

    Cakewalk TTS 1 synth goes mute and sometimes continues note play like as if its hanged

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, PremJ Hans said:

    I use light weight 16 channel GM like TTS1 for preparing a initial structure, as its lightweight and doesn't occupies too much of ram.  But I don't finalize my project with TTS1. I replace it with good sounding instruments VST's and then bounce it to audio.

    Like I can create orchestral structure through midi notes and then later replace TTS1 brass layer with Spitfire brass.  :)

    But you said earlier that TTS-1 no longer works correctly with your workflow. And since it is no longer maintained by Roland, you will need a replacement, correct?

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    Crossgrade from any DAW to Studio One 5 Pro at 33% OFF

    in Deals

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    11 hours ago, InstrEd said:

    I say you pick your poison and learn all about it to help safe yourself in the event of a DAW meltdown  🤣

    I agree! That is why in addition to Cakewalk (user since Cakewalk Pro Audio 9), I also have the full versions of Studio One 5, Ableton Live 11, and Tracktion Waveform 11.

    OneKnob Filter by waves - FREE

    in Deals

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    3 hours ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

    Please stop scaring people about WUP and possibly missing on deals

    TLDR for those who don't already know the details about WUP: Get the freebie and ignore all the talk about WUP. You'll get the plugin and a year of free updates, after a year there are no more free updates, but the version you have will continue to work the same as it worked before.

    With all due respect, it's not a WUP scare tactic. If you can do without support and product updates after a year, WUP is totally optional.

    I have only WUPped once, and that was a good deal IMHO to get the resizable plugin UI's and the modern preset browsers. But I will probably forgo WUP in the future...

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    OneKnob Filter by waves - FREE

    in Deals

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    2 hours ago, antler said:

    Just something to be aware of: as far as I understand, your plugins will continue to work after your one year of WUP ends, but you will not get any further plugin updates or any help from support. This is probably not much of an issue on Windows, but Macs seem to have a tendency to break all software on every OS update.

    Mac owners can probably afford WUP! 🤣

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    Computer shuts down?

    in Q&A

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, Martin Musik said:

    This works every time. Sadly i can't find any additional information. Not even a blue screen.

    Follow the link  to Tenforums and ensure that your PC is NOT setup to restart after a "blue screen". You want it to halt so that you can note the error code...

    If you are not getting a blue screen (aka: typically a driver failure), then you more than likely have serious hardware issues with your power supply or motherboard.

     

    Best soft-synth?

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted

    If you are not really looking for sampled or modeled instruments, I would go to Pigments 3 or SynthMaster 2.9 first, because of their multiple synthesis  types. For ease of programming, then definitely go Pigments! They also include many presets that can be used as is, or use them to learn the synth and create your own.

    If you would consider a virtual modular synth with unlimited possibilities, then I would go to to Cherry Audio Voltage Modular Core (with 105 modules). Comes with various vintage modules, but from the module store you can add FM, Wavetable, Granular, and with mix and match filters, envelopes, arps, sequencers, FX, etc.

    So you can build almost any synth you can dream of with Voltage! https://cherryaudio.com/voltage-modular

    I have dozens of other soft synths, but I would consider most of them only good for one or two things. The 3 above suggestions should cover almost anything for me, so they would be the best synths for everything. The rest of my synths are to be used as needed based on their individual strengths, or specific types of music.

    But sampled and modeled synths are also sitting fairly high on my list, so I don't exclude those possibilities 😉.

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    French Horn VST....

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    23 hours ago, msmcleod said:

    There's also Sonivox Orchestral Companion Brass, which has solo brass instruments, including a french horn.

    It goes on sale quite often ( I think I paid about £5 for mine), but I can't see any decent deals ATM.

    I forgot about that one! I have that orchestral companion bundle, but it lost a home on my disk when I needed the space for SampleTank 4 Max, and a few others.

    If you can get it really cheap, the samples are decent (24-bit dual velocity) with 6 keyswitch selectable articulations, and it's useful in that regard. So, if you just need a horn, then sure! 👍

    Just be aware that the plugin UI has a very basic, single instrument window for one preset at a time, with no multis (which might be an advantage regarding CPU). It needs 15GB free space for download and installing (5 GB download + 5GB for the unzip folder + 5GB for the permanent sample library). iLok license manager required for activation.

    The product is also apparently no longer being developed, yet still for sale. So wait for a deal! https://sonivoxmi.com/products/details/orchestral-companion-brass

     

    Cakewalk TTS 1 synth goes mute and sometimes continues note play like as if its hanged

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    15 hours ago, PremJ Hans said:

    ok! its a scoring project with tempo changes and yes I loop sections to compose. If its a known issue then nothing can be done. Thanks

    If you need 16 channels in a plugin, then either NI Kontakt 6, or IK SampleTank 4 would accommodate that, provided that you can live without GM compatibility. The free Kontakt 6 Player will run  many of the various  instrument sample library titles published by NI in the NI store.

    If you still need GM. the Roland cloud has a virtual GM module ROMpler plugin, the Sound Canvas VA, that you can buy a license for.

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    AAS All That Jazz

    in Deals

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    1 hour ago, marled said:

    If you listen to real good band songs (old or new), then you can hear that each of those top musicians knows that he cannot play something in already occupied frequencies and sections. Thus they deliver subtle additions to what the other band members play. It is the proficiency to supplement and not compete what is already there that makes great songs!

    Point taken! Don't know if classic rock is your cup of tea, but I was always amazed by the rock trios ZZ Top and Rush, and how 3 dudes with 3 instruments totally put up such a huge wall of sound!

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    VST2 get along w/ VST3

    in Instruments & Effects

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    I don't use Omnisphere, but as with any plugin that comes in both VST2 and VST3 versions, you can choose whichever version of the plugin instrument you want to insert.

    Then your MIDI controller input can be routed to whatever active track has your instrument (either VST2 or VST3).

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