Robert Bone

Howdy, Eric. I waited for almost 90 minutes, and I just checked and it showed up in Native Access, so go twitch in a corner for a bit, like I did - and it WILL show up. I am sure it is because their site is getting hammered for this and other holiday stuff. Bob Bone

Been more than an hour. I will check back tonight.

Well _ I will give it a while - it has been at least 10 minutes thus far, and it does not show up, nor is it showing up when I look at the My Products under my account online. I keep refreshing Native Access, but not there yet. I imagine a boatload of folks may be doing the same thing as I, and that the NI site is just real busy.

Just saw your reply - I am hoping to get patience for Xmas, but would like it now. hee hee

I clicked on the Get RAUM link, then went to Native Access, it is not showing up as available to install.

Never mind - I see solved in the subject line. More coffee, coming up

Just want to make sure - everything is working now? Bob Bone

I have always closed Cakewalk/Sonar prior to changing the ASIO Buffer Size, so the buffers get refreshed. Bob Bone

I have no solution for the current issue - thought I would pass along what I do to avoid that kind of loss. I create and keep a Project Notes folder within every project folder, and in addition to any text or Word docs, with notes, I also create and maintain a doc that contains info on what instruments and presets are used in the project. I also sometimes save off presets for those that are either tweaked to the point of being difficult to replicate, or were created from scratch. (an example would be a complex layered sound, that uses multiple tweaked instruments from multiple plugins - very difficult to have to recreate). The above info has come in handily, for the same kind of issues I have had with 'dead' plugins - it at least can help me recover to a point close to what is needed to be able to continue working on a project. I am sorry I don't have a solution that recovers the info on this particular project you are having this issue with, but hopefully for you, or others that come across this post, it might help recovery efforts for some similar future issue(s). Bob Bone

Huh??? Wow - the original post did specifically mention Dim Pro - wow. Well, that explains a lot, I suppose, and is pretty funny, actually. Bob Bone

I do not seem to own that expansion pack - which is odd, because I have loads of them. I actually do not have Dim Pro installed, because I have Rapture Pro, and that plays all the Dim Pro sounds, in addition to any Rapture Pro sounds. I tried to load the two customized patches you posted above, but they do not seem to play in Rapture Pro, on my system. Bob Bone

Seems fair to me, to try to help out - I too have asked folks to identify a patch for certain sounds - the gear the band or artist was using didn't seem capable of producing a sound I was clearly hearing being played. I often try to precisely match the sounds - and instruments used to produce them, when covering songs - like from Genesis or Pink Floyd . Since I too am asking folks to help me research sounds - it seems a completely reasonable thing to help others with that same task. Bob Bone

I went through hundreds of presets and my brain melted. I will continue in the morning. Bob Bone

I concur on the filter sweep. I use a similar sound very subtly underneath everything else, in a Genesis cover version of Misunderstanding. It is not on Dim Pro though. I too am looking through my Dim Pro sounds, to see if I can find something that might work for you. Bob Bone

Is maintenance up to date, on Windows, as well as system drivers and such? Audio interface? BIOS? If any of those plugins can run in stand-alone fashion, do they open up properly outside of Cakewalk? Do you have any other VST/VSTi host program, like another DAW, you could try to open them in, to see if they work OK there? Bob Bone

WAHOO!

If you still have ASIO4ALL installed - You might want to try uninstalling it, and then check your driver settings in Cakewalk, to make sure everything is set correctly for your other audio interface, and see if that helps any. Also - after trying the above - you might consider seeing if your issues go away when you bypass any effects that are loaded into your project - you can do this by simply hitting the letter 'E' in your project, and that will toggle on/off any effects loaded into the project. If your issues go away with the effects bypassed, then you will want to see which one or more of your loaded effects (in the project - not all the ones installed on your computer), are causing your issues. After testing with the effects bypassed, if you hit 'E' again, the effects will once again be available in the project. Bob Bone

This plugin seems to have 32-bit and 64-bit versions with its download. Is it possible you are running the 32-bit version? If so, perhaps it doesn't play well in a 64-bit host.... Just curious Bob Bone

Gotcha - I just wanted to make sure I understood which sound you are looking for. I will circle back and take a listen and look, sometime in the early afternoon. I am knee-deep in getting a bunch of remote-recorded drum tracks merged into the master versions of their projects. In addition, it looks like I am at least 2 quarts low on motor oil, by which I mean coffee. (having a slow-motion morning) Bob Bone

I have not checked it out - I have a bunch of really nice pianos, and any one of them is better than anything anyone recorded on since the 60's, so I kind of slacked off on trying to get the next best piano library - I actually just recently canceled my EastWest Composer Cloud X or Plus or whatever their super-sized one was called - it was 5 mic positions and 48k x 24-bit - I just pretty much use the ones in Kontakt, that came with Komplete 12 Ultimate. Those sound great. I might go check the Embertone one out though, to hear what 32 velocity layers brings to the table - Bob Bone

Are you talking about that weird little chirpy lead sound, or the pad sounds underneath everything else? There are about a dozen additional people credited on that track, playing all kinds of different instruments and some backing vocals... In the video, I see a Prophet, and a Kronos - and I guess the guy plays that weird lead sound on the Kronos. It is a bit hard to figure out because they aren't really playing what we are hearing.

YUP - fingers and brain are still kind of working, so I have THAT going for me.

AHA AHA AHA AHA! NOW I get it - (I have understood all along - I just mean I figured out why I had nothing happen when I would press the bound key). SOOOOO - I had used an out of the way key in my original binding to the View the Plugins shortcut. The key I used was the '~' key. But, as luck would have it, I am blind as a bat these days, and even though I correctly bound that very same '~' key to the shortcut, well, it turns out that my grizzled gaze couldn't tell that I needed to use the $(*@$(*)*&& SHIFT key to actually click the '~' key - I couldn't see that it was some other stupidly small character I haven't seen in probably a good 30 years...... I found this because just for grins, I used a different key combo CTRL+J to be the bound to View the Plugins, and then it started working - dutifully pulling up or collapsing the Synth Rack's loaded plugins. So, I then went back to my original key the elusive '~' key. THIS time, I literally put the computer keyboard up close enough to where I could make out that I would need to hit the Shift key to actually click on the '~' key, so it had been working all along, and I apparently just went ahead and aged a bit, and well, that's what happened..... After lamenting my turning 60 recently, I can indeed say I am no longer in the Dunno camp, regarding View the Plugins. Of course, all of this typing has worn me out, so I think I shall curl up with the cats, and surrender to a nap. Bob Bone

Sure - except I do not see any such result - I see absolutely nothing happen when I press the bound key - and I triple-checked that I am pressing the key I bound to the View the Plugins shortcut. So - I remain Dunno - perhaps even Double Dunno. Bob Bone

Well, I still am in the Dunno camp - as I still have no idea what the View the Plugins keyboard shortcut does - so please tell me how to get it to do something when I click on the keyboard key I bound to it. I was also aware of the plug-in manager being external these days, I just was trying anything I could think of to see if I could see if View the Plugins did anything. I was flailing - Thanks, I will sleep better tonight, knowing the answer to this. Bob Bone