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Is the MOTU new? I've been using a MOTU 4x4 without any problems for years. My DAW is Win10 though.

Just within CbB for routing fx. 

12 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

Hey John, are you having good luck setting up and running connect?

I've used it a bit inside CbB for routing fx and haven't run into any problems. That's a fairly limited use case.

I like the Celestion Speaker Shaper, it's my go to speaker emulator. I favor a 1x12 greenback or creamback in an open back cab so I use it a lot. If you like celestions I'd check it out. Two thumbs up. It has a lot of creative potential, but I haven't explored that ...

They should. As I guitarist I use this - 

The idea's the same. Look into how to program it, how to calibrate it, and so on.

Arpeggiators play single notes in a chord. Any order, random? CbB has a built in arpeggiator and there are vsts as well.

11 hours ago, Greg said:

I had a PortaTwo back in the day.  Miss my FSK time code 4 track synced to Cubase on the Atari!

I still have a  PortaTwo. I used FSK to sync to Cakewalk using a Tascam MTS-30.

2 hours ago, Grem said:

I really forget how good Magnetic sounds. Echo sounds great too. As well as all the Blue Tubes. They have gotten pushed to the back of the pile in favor of some of my other plugins, but they still have the sound of quality with them all. 

I agree and the Blue Tubes is where I discovered the Fairchild limiter as well as Pulteq EQs.

Have you optimized it for audio?

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-10/

40 minutes ago, T-Boog said:

Agreed. Btw, I'm a huge EJ fan. And although Ive never owned a Tube Driver, I used to own 2 ADA MP1's and they sounded outstanding. No one could ever convince me that the tubes did nothing in there. It's still the best sound Ive ever had at really low volume... Full of harmonics & sustain. Like the Tube Driver, the MP1 has produced some killer sounding tracks.

I don't understand. I still have an ADA MP-1. It's not a starved plated design. The tubes get 200v. My point is that the transformer for the tubes on a preamp doesn't have to be large. I'm not an ee, but I think the big iron on guitar amps is an output transformer to power the speakers. You don't have that on a preamp. FWIW. 

1 hour ago, T-Boog said:

Thanks bud. Yeah I've heard of voltage multipliers. I also know there's a lot of "tube" pedals where the tube does basically nothing. Snake oil aside, I find the ART smooths out the high end and fattens things up. And if I'm delusional... I'm okay with that too 🙃

If you like the sound that's what's important. IIRC the Chandler Tube Driver used a starved plate design and David Gilmour, Eric Johnson and others used it. The sounds the thing.

12 hours ago, JohnnyV said:

... and there’s really not enough juice from the wall wart to supply the tube. This is why tube amps have massive power transformers and capacitors. 

Just an FYI. Massive transformers aren't required for preamp tubes, note preamps like the ADA MP-1 that fit in a 1 rack slot. Today boost converters have become popular - it's not uncommon to see people boost a 9v wall wart up to the 200v range for preamp tubes. Boost converters are a type of switched mode power supply.

20 hours ago, SongSmith said:

My computer has a small SSD boot drive, and then three other drives. I have literally terrabytes of space, BUT... When attempting to install Cakewalk by Bandlab, there is no option in the installer to install anywhere other than (what i suppose is) the C drive.  Anybody got a fix?

Even when I had a small drive I installed to C:\, but I moved the Cakewalk Projects folder to a different drive. Inside Edit - Preferences - Folder Locations set the path to match. Change the path to Audio Data to match as well. Most samplers I install to C:\, but install the sample libraries to a different drive.

8 minutes ago, Base 57 said:

That keyboard will not play back audio from the computer unless you are using the Bluetooth adapter. The USB computer port is MIDI only. That port is class compliant and should work without any added drivers.

So count me as another vote for watching John's tutorial.

OK, the documentation isn't very clear on what the USB B port does. 

28 minutes ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

A Casio PX-S1100

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

What keyboard are you using?

12 hours ago, JohnnyV said:

OK but That still depends on the ASIO driver. Example. I have 3 interfaces connected but 2 are turned off. They are a Motu M4, A Scarlett 6i6 and a Tascam us1641. I do not get the message you are seeing when I switch between those 3 interfaces.  

But I also have a Soundcraft USB mixer that has an ASIO driver. That device will toss the message you are seeing and it takes going into Windows settings and selecting it as the default device as well.  Therefore this is the particular ASIO driver not Cakewalk doing this. Some drivers are just better than others. Cakewalk is fussy about drivers in some ways but possibly other DAW's would behave the same too. I don't know. 

 

? The message is from Cakewalk, it says Cakewalk in the message title.

45 minutes ago, JohnnyV said:

That’s not up to the DAWS That is in the ASIO specification. You just switch to WASAPI mode and it will work fine. Just be aware that you can’t record in sync when in WASAPI mode.  
 

I didn't write simultaneously. If you use one I/F then close CbB, turn off that I/F and turn on another I/F and open CbB again you get a message - There are no audio devices for the current driver model on your system. I think it would be cleaner/more streamlined if you could select another I/F at that point. One day I'm using one I/F and another day or later in the day a different I/F. 

Handling multiple audio I/Fs. I play guitar and often practice in the box. My DAW and laptop have audio I/Fs, but I also have a Roland SY-1000 GTR Synth that can be used as an I/F. When the SW detects that the last I/F I used is not available it would be nice if I there was a dialog at that point to setup another I/F. And better yet, it would be nice if it was possible to setup default assignments for multiple I/Fs.

On 4/11/2023 at 8:12 PM, Lord Tim said:

 As far as I know, the Quad Capture isn't on the avoid list (someone jump in and correct me, though!)

I'm still using a Quad Capture on my laptop and the ASIO drivers work fine with both Win10 & 11 & CbB. FWIW.

For a windows PC wavosaur is free. If you don't mind paying Sound Forge is pretty good.

50 minutes ago, Steve Patrick said:

Yup...I think most folks don't know the difference between profiling and modeling.  A profile just captures a certain state of the amp/cab where a model is a complete working clone of the original amp/cab.  As a profiler...Tonex is quite something.  Especially at it's price point.  But to me the modelers are much more useful.

 

I agree. I think the pedal is nice if you're playing live and want to ditch the amp or add a couple channels to an amp. What it does it does well and at a good price point, but in my home studio I prefer to use modelers. 

1 hour ago, Milton Sica said:

I understood but, from what I saw, it only works if the iPad is connected via USB.

My intention is to command the DAW via wifi network, ip, bluetooth, etc.

I tend to avoid wifi & bluetooth - there's also Duet, it looks like that works with wifi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqSRSweDYI

I haven't tried it, but I ran across Splashtop recently. 

https://www.splashtop.com/wiredxdisplay

It looks like it lets you use the ipad as a second monitor, but you have the touch screen capabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FxkpIKqsM

2 hours ago, John Vere said:

I realized while making a new tutorial for the Piano Roll view that I for some weird reason have always called it the PVR? Nobody has ever corrected me.  

Looks like a typo to me 😉