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Google Christian Henson, that incident is pretty high on the list of hits

So it was YOU! LOL Over the years I have become a fan of gallon freezer bags. They are big enough to hold "sets" of things and I can just label them with a sharpie and throw them in a box without having to dig too much later on. They also keep things from getting dirty or dirtying other things (the freezer bags I consume the most are actually kept in the garage so I don't lose tiny parts or transfer grease to everything).

There was a site posted a while back to give you insight into the frequency response of various mics using the same audio. I forget where it was offhand, but the real takeaway is that frequency response is sort of moot with proper EQ (what that site was actually doing was overlaying the mic-specific response curves over the audio samples). Adequate signal-to-noise ratio tends to be more important so that you can isolate the signal and tailor it accordingly. As long as the frequency content was captured, one can process it at will.

Just to point this feature out without you needing to dig for it, if you right click a MIDI file and "Open with..." Cakewalk without any MIDI output devices selected (as you show above), Cakewalk will open and insert TTS-1 automatically and route each channel to the "best fit" audio for each MIDI channel in the file. That feature has been around a long time now.

This has been able to be shut off in preferences for a while now, but has gotten so many complaints that the pop ups have a "don't show this message again" check box. That said, some of the best deals are via those pop ups (cheaper than other sales). In fact, the pop up I am looking at right now (from PaintShop Pro) is this: Which is the cheapest I have ever seen Painter (the upgrade is normally $148), and this seems to be is for the FULL version. Quick Edit: I had to check that link out... full version is $99 ($330 discount), if you change the drop down to "upgrade" it jumps to $228! I am not logged in, so just being on the Painter page and going to the "Buy Now" button comes up as $99, so I am assuming anyone can purchase it for that price. 2023 was released June 2022, so a new version is coming soon, but that it the cheapest on boarding to Painter I have ever seen.

Definitely check your routing. If it doesn't work with Input Echo enabled (and the track armed), you are probably hearing the audio from your audio interface rather than the DAW when tracking as @rsinger just mentioned. Try arming with input echo on and tweak that till you hear the cab "live."

It has been a while since I have used this, but there is a trick to copy/pasting parts so that they are not linked to the same SS instance. I forget how that is done offhand, but you can link the SS to separate variations in the song (to modify them all as a "group") as well as paste them as simple MIDI clips. IIRC, you can also grab MIDI clips and open them in the SS for editing. BFD also launched a free player that in in the Deals subforum now if interested. A lot of what you are seeking is baked into most of the drum VSTis on the market today, and there are a handful of good free ones available).

Are you talking a single MIDI track or a single audio track here? I cannot think of a VSTi that can fire off multiple articulations in a single instance simultaneously (the articulation is a key switch that drives every note played after it), so the only idea that comes to mind is to load two instances inside Kontakt (one for each articulation used) as David mentioned above. Internal to Kontakt, you can play with routing (and may achieve your goal that way); but "visually" it can get insanely confusing to try to do everything from one track and understand what is going on. You have access to unlimited tracks, which also gives you better control over mixing them later on (example would be if you want to pan the oohs right, but the aahs left when mixing, adjust levels separately, etc.).

On a serious note, there is no denying that there is a Linux fan base (regardless the size), so a larger developer stepping up to the plate to support them is impressive. As someone who only has one vehicle that doesn't fall into the antique/historic class, the last thing I am going to do is sling mud at the people who still make those parts. There is zero requirement to "support" this, but it is definitely appreciated.

This doesn't change any of the other variables, so rather than buying MComplete in roughly 4 years, it would now take 9+ years. My other concern with this path is that it doesn't give credit towards the 50% off sales, so you are committing to full price with no off ramp. While it does give instant access to everything, it comes at a cost. It remains a cheaper path to pick up things during the Eternal Madness/sales (getting credit for each of those), and squirrel away funding to redeem the 20% referral code discount when the bundles go on sale, but that requires a little more planning and discipline.

There are a companies that scarf up OEM releases then resell them, that is nothing new. Not sure about this company specifically though, but it does have a few weird things about it for sure. Many companies incorporate in Delaware (nothing new there either), but as far as a "physical location" listed in Delaware with a Texas phone number comes across as a fly-by-night operation. Delaware requires a representative in-state (there are hosts who literally represent hundreds of companies as the in-state "representative"), so made me wonder if that embedded map is the rep location.

You do not need to pass the KeyStation through the Saffire. Connect them both to the computer separately and follow the advice in the posts above with the Cakewalk preferences window. The Saffire is an audio device (both in and out) and the KeyStation is a MIDI input.

My concern has always been that niche markets can become very limiting, very quickly. After my quest for "No vulcanized rubber, only wooden wheels!" turned my car into a lawn ornament, I eventually caved and got rubber tires

Ouch, I didn't even realize these existed and seems a bit pricier than I expected. Studio One 6.5 just embedded this into the DAW, so that ended up being a wild freebie. Even the SOP upgrade is cheaper than this.

Not sure, why when I read the thread title again it made me wonder what the VSTi is (names are always helpful), but also reminded me of the ones which only process arpeggios internally. If the OP is related to one of those guys, it is another ball of wax to deal with. The OP would need to clarify.

For folks who on boarded with SOP 3.5 during the Gibson debacle and never upgraded SOP, there have been a lot of updates since (track templates was a huge one for me personally). An interesting resource to be aware of is a site called Studio One Toolbox (created by one of the developers) that allows drag/drop conversions of Cakewalk ins (Instrument Definition) files to generate "sound variations" (their name for the articulation maps in Cakewalk). It will also convert Cubase templates and can be a massive time saver for generating detailed articulation maps. That site also is a quick resources to many (374 as of "now") tutorials that are grouped by topic, as well as a free online orchestra to test out chord progressions.

Another quick comment on this since I read the OP title again... there are a handful of VSTis with arpeggiators that only use them internally and will not pass them as an output. I am not sure if the OP is working with one of these though. Some of them with really complex arpeggiators (like Z3TA+2) allow you to drag the arpeggio to a MIDI track as well, which may or may not be an option but would require PRV work afterwards (the arpeggio doesn't follow performance at all doing this). Many internal arpeggiators are fairly rudimentary, so something like Scaler 2 would be another option if the OP is working with one that will not pass arp notes out. Scaler 2 is designed specifically to pass its output and allows for significantly more complex performances.

I would definitely start with Alesis and their forum or even tech support. I would assume that all of their drum modules are configured similarly, and what you need to know is specific to their kits rather than the host (DAW).

Is all good, you actually found it!

^^ Yeah, this has been requested for a long time (song pre-roll). Since the beginning of a song can possibly be jam packed with events, it often manifests itself by dropping the first note(s) in the song. I have also defaulted to starting all projects on bar 2 or 3 just to be sure. That habit is so ingrained now that I do it in every DAW.

Most cymbal chokes that I have seen are often their own key switch (MIDI note) within the sound module. I just took a look at the manual and it doesn't seem to identify the actual switch though, so I am a bit baffled. When recording MIDI into Cakewalk from the kit with the choke firing properly, it should also be recorded. You might need to check the Event List for that track after recording some MIDI to find details on what MIDI the kit is passing out. It is possible (although I would think highly unlikely), that it is only processing the choke internal to the module, but not being able to find info on that in the manual is concerning. I also did a quick search for a key switch list, and it only returned sites selling the product.

Wow, I cannot recall cakewalk itself ever throwing page faults on me, so that is just plain weird to see. Did this also happen with the 22.09 version or is it specific to the 23.09? @Jim Roseberry is a good person to reach out to as well, since he custom builds the newer machines and keeps up with the intricacies of them. I am certainly not up to date with the i9s, but he knows the details for tweaking them.

Even if distributed, there are processes that have to run end-to-end on one core/thread, so you may be seeing one of them. That CPU spike is nutty though, and much like what I saw when my cooler app was enabled (just on all cores for me). You may want to try something simpler at first, like going into the UEFI and saving your current profile, then go into EZ Mode and just set that to normal and see where that lands you on performance. I tend to default to 1.03 for XMP settings anymore, since once overheating begins I have seen a slew of page faults get thrown (LatencyMon will see these too). Once that starts the performance tanks out fast, so you may be seeing the computer trying to decipher the gibberish that one core is throwing at it.

The VST you are sending MIDI from needs to have MIDI output enabled. Once that is done, that should be viewable as an input to any other MIDI track. Here is an old post on it.

I had to look this up since I have seen the name mentioned a few times but never know what it actually was. Looks like a beefed up version of the discontinued Riffstation with a PRV and RMix thrown in (more features than Riffstation had). It is good to see there are still contemporary options available.