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And for those of you that have an active Groove3 subscription, Eli Krantzberg has released a 2 hour 25 minutes long tutorial called EZkeys 2 Explained. Of course, my subscription ran out almost a month ago.

This, the theme from Schindler's List. John Williams once again. Simply perfection.

I noticed the tutorial on Groove3 last Saturday and also created a thread about it, but alas in the Tutorials forum. Stupid choice, I know. And for the benefit of worthless knowledge, I've made a quick check on Groove3 to see how much coverage some of the currently active DAWS have. Quantities are in number of tutorials available in descending order. Logic Pro: 91 Ableton Live: 54 Pro Tools: 47 Studio One: 41 Cubase: 32 Reason: 29 FL Studio: 13 Reaper: 8 Digital Performer: 7 Bitwig Studio: 3 Cakewalk by BandLab: 1

There’s more than one way to skin a cat. I’ve always filtered by Manufacturer, but that obviously doesn’t work anymore.

That’s odd. When I filter on Manufacturer, Cakewalk has been removed from the drop-down list. Instead they’ve added a Bandlab entry, but that will only show this one recent video "Bandlab Cakewalk: Getting Started". If I instead search for Cakewalk in the Search field (like I did yesterday) I get four hits, namely the four videos I mentioned in the OP. However, if I search for Platinum in the Search field, I will indeed get the two videos you mentioned: "SONAR Platinum Advanced" and "SONAR Explained". So the old SONAR tutorials are obviously still there. Groove3 have in their infinite wisdom just made them harder to find.

I just noticed that Groove3 recently has released a two hour long 26 video tutorial called “Bandlab Cakewalk: Getting Started” (sic!). That’s the first new Cakewalk tutorial at Groove3 since “SONAR X3 New Features” was released some 10 years ago. At the same time, it seems like most of the old Cakewalk tutorials now have been removed, except for the aforementioned SONAR X3 video and tutorials for Rapture Pro and Z3ta+ 2. I think it’s great to see that CbB is finally getting some long overdue attention at commercial tutorial providers as well. I’m actually surprised that Groove3 hasn’t done it before, especially considering some of the rather esoteric videos that has been released there recently.

I think it was $199 from any version of Vintage Vault back in February. Guess it's inflation.

I went to my UVI account to see if I had some special upgrade discount, just to realize I already have Synth Anthology 3. Oh, well. And yes, Synth Anthology 3 includes (at least) all the content from version 2. The new v3 presets are listed here.

All I know is that the Authorizations tab in Toontrack Product Manager under EZK1 is no longer present after the upgrade to EZK2, but if you’re looking for an official statement I'd suggest you ask Toontrack.

EZkeys 1 is still available as a plugin/standalone on your system. But I very much doubt that it's an independent license that can be resold, if that's what you meant.

I really like the sound of the built-in EZkeys 2 Session Grand. It’s so much better than the EZkeys Studio Grand which I already had, but honestly almost never used.

Well, people in that part of Sweden are domestically known not to be stressed or rush into things. Everything has its time. A time to code, A time to test; A time to deploy, And a time to have the morronfika. Little do they know that the natives are getting restless.

Mm, I don’t know. I bought Cubase Pro when Gibson abandoned SONAR and I do regret it. In a weak moment I once even upgraded. But here I am, five years later, still using Cakewalk. Go figure.

You’re not very specific, but as your problems seem to be related to manipulation of the GUI it might be a graphic issue. Massive X requires OpenGL 2.1 or higher or DirectX 9 or 11 so the requirements are pretty modest; it’s hard to believe that your PC doesn’t match those. However, in addition to Mark's suggestion maybe you should try to reinstall your OpenGL and/or DirectX drivers. And if that doesn’t help, maybe checking that your Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable packages are up to date. FWIW, I don’t have the problems you are describing, using Massive X version 1.4.2+254 VST3 and CbB version 2022.11.

Thanks, they’re all handcrafted in Adobe Illustrator. I should know. That knob for example consists of 129 different positions, each one moved 34 pixels horizontally with the indicator turned 2.33 degrees clock-wise relative to the preceding knob, making up an image with a total size of 4386x34 pixels, finally saved as a transparent png file. You really have to think it’s kind of fun to actually do it.

Inserted!

He has? Well, that would explain a whole lot.

I agree, you really should upgrade. But if you’re in a hurry, you might first try to press one of the numbered keys on your keyboard. In case you by accident have changed your screenset by pressing one of the keys 0 or 2–9 (and I'm not talking about the keys on the NumPad), pressing the number 1 key will return your Main Screenset.

Less expensive Behringer interfaces don’t use ASIO drivers, but instead ASIO4All. Unfortunately, UM2 is one of them. If you have downloaded an ASIO driver from Behringer's support page, it won't work with UM2. As JoeGBradford said above, consider using WASAPI. Or, buy an interface that is ASIO compliant. I’ve got two interfaces from Behringer, a UMC404HD and a UMC204HD, both of which have real ASIO drivers.

I picked Ignition Keys, as I wanted something that would run in Kontakt 6. During checkout there was a message saying that the voucher code only can be used once.

I’m not sure what you mean by “SONAR X3 Platinum”. As far as I know SONAR X3 only came in base, Studio and Producer versions. The Theme Editor was released with SONAR Platinum 2016.07, so if you indeed have SONAR X3 and not SONAR Platinum, the program won’t read user theme (*.sth) files and you’re out of luck. The obvious remedy is of course to download the free Cakewalk by Bandlab and its optional Theme Editor and start theming: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

I think you can safely let Softube Central install the VST3 version without any further actions. As I said in my previous post, the VST3 version has nothing to do with ProChannel. The only thing you have to make sure is that a working VST2 version is restored after each Softube update. At this price I’m seriously considering buying Passive-Active Pack myself, but the deal lasts until April 12th so I have a few remaining days to think. Should I buy it, the only Softube ProChannel module I’ll be missing is the TSAR-1R Reverb. Until that one turns up with a big discount, of course.

Yep, for anyone using Cakewalk the thing with the Softube Passive-Active Pack is that it includes ProChannel-modules. There is one problem though; as far as I know the last Softube installer that worked with ProChannel was version 2.5.46 from June 2022. Later versions unfortunately make Cakewalk crash. Softube has acknowledged the problem, but have yet to come up with a solution. Of course, it’s possible to run the latest Softube installer and have the VST3 version of the three plugins being installed, and then manually copy the VST2 version 2.5.46 back to the plugin folder (provided you have the plugins safely stored away in some backup folder). ProChannel currently only supports VST2. I don’t have the Passive-Active Pack, but I do have Softube FET Compressor which also has support for ProChannel. It also shares the same problem, so after every Softube update I have to overwrite the latest version of the VST2 with version 2.5.46. Bummer, but it works.

Well, thank you, sir. The price you mentioned surprised me, so I went back to my AAS account and noticed that the upgrade price from Tassman to CV-2 has been lowered from $59 to $49 this afternoon. Still a tad too much according to me, but definitely a step in the right direction.

I’ve got its grandfather AAS Tassman, with the modules firmly mounted on a black brick wall with Phillips screws, so I don’t need no darn CV-2. Gee, they really knew how to make GUIs in those days. Lots of presets as well. However, Full Magnifying Glass required. As an owner of Tassman I’m actually offered an upgrade to CV-2 for $59 $49. But no, I'll wait for the $9 deal at Plugin Boutique. After all, that's what happened to my Objeq Delay.