Xoo

Devil's advocate question: if indeed the difficulty is caused by driver model support, would you prefer mono external support and dropping driver modes other than ASIO or not getting mono support and retaining other driver mode supoort (eg. WASAPI)?

My guess would be an overwrite of a core C++ library.  There's a thread here where Noel posted a link to a consolidated C++ library download/install.  I reckon that getting and running that after the driver update may well put things back working again.

Surely complex time would be

7i
8

?

With apologies for the maths joke.

11 hours ago, MusicMan said:

The process for the most part likely would've worked fine and for many people did, if their crappy old eLicenser servers could keep up with demand. We know they normally can't and this time was no different.

Isn't this kind of situation exactly what cloud computing is for?  Scale up when you need it, then down when you don't.  Poor planning as this should have been expected.

@antler Thanks for that!

So thank you to everyone who listened and made suggestions, which I then proceeded to ignore ? But they did make me think about different options which I wouldn't have done otherwise.  The final(?) version is here:

https://www.bandlab.com/xoospacemusic/oumuamua-returning-ab48d9d6?revId=9f1888c5-fa9e-ec11-a507-0050f280e91e

Also check there isn't a highly latent plugin in the affected projects.

23 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

it's happened to everyone who makes music with a DAW, so consider it a rite of passage; your 10 hours may not have yielded a song, but you may now speak with the experience of one marked in battle):

It's happened to anyone who's used a computer...bugs, hardware problems, power failing...

But automation can't (easily) do some of those things - try inverting one side of a stereo audio track/clip (you need a plug-in like Channel Tools).  But I don't think that those should be split out into separate functions - I'd just rename the menu item to something more "obvious" (Channel Tools? :-)).

30 minutes ago, Mark MoreThan-Shaw said:

NI ( glibly ) say  " You can alternatively configure your DAW not to send the standard MIDI commands CC7 and CC10 when pressing play or pause. To learn how to do so, please consult your DAW's documentation. " 

Does right clicking on the volume widget in the controlling MIDI track and choosing "Disable Control" not do this for CC 7?  Ditto MIDI Pan for CC 10?

11 hours ago, Wookiee said:

Strangely I do believe he wallpapered our kitchen prior to joining Vince Clark. Vince was a local lad who had a flat near an old aquatence of mine.

Thanks for the ears and the comment it's appreciated. 

I love little anecdotes like this.  I always find it quite amusing how even members of "big" bands have jobs like this (we used to share rehearsal space with Supergrass, and we found out that their drummer (I think) carried on with his previous job as a decorator/gardener (I forget which now - it was a long time ago!)...).

Just wanted to thank people for their feedback - I've added and tweaked quite a bit of it now.  I need to redo the guitar part(s) so that it's right now, but I've hurt my wrist, so playing at the moment for any period of time is painful.  Watch this, ahem, space ?

UPDATE: Thanks to the wonders of ibuprofen (other painkillers are available), I have an updated version - hope you like it (I'm not sure about the outro guitar part to be honest):

https://www.bandlab.com/xoospacemusic/oumuamua-returning-ab48d9d6?revId=b4a71e8b-bd99-ec11-a507-0050f280e91e

Annoyingly catchy ?

The change in instrumentation both throws and intrigues at the same time.

25 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

Just curious what NBFX Transitions you had/purchased?  TotalFX comes with Transitions 5 Ultimate and wonder if these just replaced the ones you had or if there were none available or you had some missing which you noticed.

It was indeed Transitions 5 Ultimate which I got "free" with MSP 16 - any reference to them in an existing project (in MSP) failed, as did trying to add them to a new project (even though they appeared in the transition menu in MSP).  Even after a reinstall.  Not sure what happened, but my drag and drop reinstated them, so all good in the end.

21 minutes ago, bluzdog said:

Is MS2022 pretty intuitive for someone without video editing experience but is comfortable with Cake and Studio One? Thanks.

Rocky

Not too bad.  There are obviously some differences (that still get me a couple of years after getting MSP16!), but it's not a huge jump in how things work.

Good deal for NewBlueFX.  Note that I already had NewBlueFX Transitions installed, and the new NewBlueFX install broke it.  The solution here anyway was to drag the Transitions folder out of the Common Files\OFX folder, run MSP 16, close MSP 16, move the Transitions folder back into Common Files\OFX and re-run MSP 16.

I'm getting a crash on close sometimes with MSP 16 now which I never did, but I'm not sure if it's related to the NewBlueFX installs.

2 hours ago, sjoens said:

Ooopsy, you're right. But in my theme they are the same. 

I haven't found a way to turn off ellipses but you can turn off Track Separators in the Views > Display menu.

They are in mine too ?

14 hours ago, sjoens said:

The dots appear before the beginning of a clip. They do not appear when a track has no clip.

You can paint them to match the Track View Clips Pane Background.

Preferences = Customization > Colors > Clips Pane Ellipse

Theme Editor = Track View | Clips Pane | Clips > Clips Pane Ellipse

Although to achieve this, you need to make odd and even tracks the same colour, else the dots will appear on one of them!  I'm sure in an old version of SONAR you could turn them off, but I may be misremembering.

21 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Toneboosters have retired their TrackEssentials and BusTools plug-ins and released them as freeware.

When installing, take care to set the correct path to your VST2 plug-ins folder. By default, the installer puts them in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2.

Alternative hack: extract the files from the msi file the installer ships as and just copy the dll's where you want (some/all/none).  Much nicer than running an installer.

And bypassing all effects is of no use if you need to use, say, a reverb for a vocalist or guitar amp sim for a guitarist.

Thanks everyone.  Not quite sure where it will go (much like Oumuamua itself) but there's some ideas for me to play wity.

https://www.bandlab.com/xoospacemusic/oumuamua-returning-ab48d9d6?revId=93aa3faa-ec8f-ec11-a507-0050f280e91e

Suggestions welcome for where it should go (the music, not the interstellar visitor that is Oumuamua!).

Real time serialised?  That would then take 18 times the length of one track.

I do think there's an element of personal "click-ness": does the software work in the way you think it should.  For example, back when I got into computer based music (mid-90s), I tried Logic, Cubase and Cakewalk out. I simply couldn't work out how to get anything done in Logic, and the way that Cubase worked in some ways really grated (eg. Left click for incrementing a value, right click to decrement- this may well have changed in later versions of course!).  I didn't need to look at a manual or the help file for Cakewalk so went - and stuck - with it.  But other people I knew at the time found the reverse...  Horses for courses.

And, of course, Cakewalk is way more functional and rich now (as is Cubase) so I wouldn't necessarily expect anyone to find either one of them intuitive out of the box, just one might be a bit more so than the other to an individual...

7 hours ago, bdickens said:

Same here. I don't really care about keeping the settings; if I want to replace an effect its because the one I  have there now isn't doing what I want.

Me too.