Billy86

Same issue here with 5.4.1. Love ST as well; hope they fix soon. Problem is, they rarely email about updates. I still have the 5.3.5 installer, but afraid if I roll back, I'll lose the new SuperPlate I got when I updated to 5.4.1. Will you post if ST contacts you about the fix? Thanks!

Sorry for the delay. Busy day. You can PM me and I can also send you a DropBox link to the 3.7 installer.

Yes. I’m not at my computer but will post something when I am. Also, I contacted them last week about the issue and the tech support person said a fix in Version 3.9 was scheduled for May but is behind and should be available shortly.

Try this: add an audio track. Drag in some audio. Any mp3 with some run time will do. Mute the audio track. See if your simple instrument track will play. I’ve had this issue before and it seemed CW wasn’t reading anything after an initial little blip of Midi if there was no audio. It would blip then simply stop. The added audio track gives CW something to process and should run however long the audio is and your MIDI should play. YMMV.

Thanks everyone! Great advice and workflow ideas. Much appreciated.

I’m prepping to make my first EP – 3 to 5 songs as a “united whole.” Over the past couple of years, I’ve mixed and mastered each track separately as I figured out how to work in CW, without thought to this long-term possibility. Now, I want the songs to have a cohesive “whole” feel… like an album. The mixdowns are all in separate project folders. Some (the later ones) are better than others (the earlier ones). I plan on revisiting each to polish anything that seems to need it based on my current knowledge and skill level. For mastering tools, I’m using Ozone 10 with references to get in the ballpark. I also have Izotope’s RX8 (if that could figure into the workflow). Additionally, I have Izotope’s Insight, which I just picked up at a great loyalty offer price. Great for metering an analysis. Ultimately, I’d like to go through Distrokid to get on the streaming platforms. To help on that front, I have ADPTR Audio’s Metric A/B for seeing how I stack up with references out in the streaming world in my genre (rock) as well as their Streamliner, which helps prep things for streaming with LUFS loudness/dynamic levels, etc. I'm unsure where to start this process. After I polish my pre-master stereo mixdowns, should I pull those into a single “mastering” project, with a track for each, all running through the same session of Ozone? I’m sure, like everything else, there are more ways than one to approach this. Looking for foundational best practices to keep in mind. Any suggestions as to how to approach this maiden “EP compilation” voyage would be appreciated! What a long, strange trip it's been! 😁

As I’ve stated this has not been my experience. I have that checked and the hide/show functionality does not appear the same in those views. Am I misunderstanding?

Thanks. I used @msmcleod suggestion and it worked great.

Thanks! I'll give it a go when I'm at back in the project.

I have a stereo mix down of a project that I’m mastering in a separate project. I’d like to bring in the Arranger track from the mixing project into the mastering project for a quick visual reference to the various sections. Does the answer lie somewhere down the Arranger Template rabbit hole, or is that a different animal?

@msmcleod curious… what about plugin load balancing? Does this not create any parallel (as opposed to serial) processing? Or CPU/system optimization such as BitSum’s Project Lasso or ParkControl? https://bitsum.com How (do?) they impact engine load performance? Project Lasso allows you to assign system priorities to applications when they’re running, which I’ve done for CbB. May be my imagination, but my system seems to be more stable and robust since installing a couple months ago. Example: currently finishing a dense rock project with 90 (gulp!) plugins — at least when exporting my mix a toast notification says ‘flushing 90 plugins’ when going about its business.

Thanks for the attempt. Surprised by the response. Did they say ‘until we get it fixed’?

Thanks everyone for weighing in. I’ll probably take the plunge. Seems like a pretty good deal and pretty flexible across a wide array of usage.

The marketing speak says you can import your own IRs. I have Waves IR plugin, but find it really clunky to use. Anyone know if you can import the Wave IR's, or do these developers typically keep everything proprietary so you can't share things cross platform?

https://overloud.com/products/rematrix Received an email on this. Reg. $239 for $119. I've had my eye on this, but the price was pretty steep. Manageable now. Anyone have experience with this?

Wow! Just wow AGREED! 😲

Good stuff! Thanks everyone.

Anyone know of a resource for drawbar/Leslie settings for classic rock tunes? I’m thinking Deep Purple, Allman Brothers, Yes, Traffic, Uriah Heep, etc. Here’s an interesting related site I’ve found. https://keyboardservice.com/Drawbars.asp

Makes no sense, but wow. Had the same problem. When I’d reopen a project, I’d see multiple plugin windows open on my second monitor before the console view I keep there would quickly open next. Who knew? Thanks!

Don’t know what you mean by “pause key.” Interface is Scarlett 4i4 as noted in my sig.

Thanks. Lots of EQ going on. Mostly Waves SSL plugins. SSL mix bus compressor for glue. No limiter at this point.

@JnTuneTech The entire grid is off. I think it's simply too much processing going on with the whole mix for the display rendering to stay in time.

A possible workaround for sure.

Hoping for a solution for the issue in the accompanying image. Granted, I have quite a few plugins going on this nearly completed mix, but the computer isn’t choking/stuttering at all. I have a fairly hefty computer i9/9900 with all SSDs. I’m wondering if I can somehow offload the video rendering aspect by some adjustment to my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, which has GPU function? Don’t know. Shooting in the dark a bit. But it’s really hard trying to tweak Superior Drummer 3 in the Grid Manager when the playhead doesn’t line up with the actual beat that’s playing.

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