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Check in Preferences->Customization->Display quick. I am not sure if that affects the Audio->MIDI conversion though, but worth try. This thread has a little more info on that specifically. This is another thread discussing the same issue with alternative workarounds, but they are not all simple ones.

I forget where the setting is now offhand, but there is a preference setting to select the default octave. The SI bass needs that adjusted to talk properly with GM format (unless you want to manually transpose each time). Hopefully someone can chime in and tell you where that is at. It has been like that forever (the default) for some odd reason. Quick edit: It is worth mentioning that the AmpleSound Bass P Lite (is nerfed a bit), is one of the best free bass VSTis out there.

Yeah, I was searching for what "Lead Architect" even was, and there is absolutely no information on the PreSonus website about it (yet). As far as VSTis go, I do not find that video demo very appealing at all for some reason (there are a bunch of similar VSTis not DAW-locked or requiring a subscription to use). It did make me find an odd nugget right at the very beginning of the MSoundFactory tutorial video though (never watched it before). The second sentence in the video... "Most likely our last instrument..." It has been out 3+ years already and didn't know that.

I have been fortunate enough not to need a drill press (yet anyway), but one thing I blew off for years and shouldn't have was a table router. For precision edge work (especially bindings) it has saved so much time and effort on doing things I always used to do with hand tools.

I had a friend the same way, he would touch strings and you could almost watch them rust. Something simple like a thin sock with baking soda in it might be enough to neutralize your hands by rolling it around in your palms, but you want the fabric thick enough so it doesn't create a dust cloud on you. The pH is around 9, and it is not abrasive enough to do more than polish something.

It seems highly probable that you may have an installation issue, since as you have seen in videos, the audio->MIDI conversion should just work. Another thing to try is to check out the DAW-specific information on Celemony's support page. If that also fails, use their contact support form on the top of that page... they tend to respond to support questions by the very next day, and Melodyne is doing the "grunt work" for the audio->MIDI conversion so they would have much better insight into the "why" and also recommended solutions. While you are at it, I would throw in, "I am burning off my trial period and unable to use Melodyne because of this, can I also get my trial period reset?" The Melodyne folks are a good bunch, and their product is incredibly powerful, so do not hesitate to reach out the them as well. Quick edit: You can also save a little typing with their support form by inserting the link to this thread if they need more detail of what is going on so they can read it. This link is what I would insert for the original post you made (you can get links to posts by right clicking the post time/date to the right of the author for each post in case you didn't know that).

Exactly, as with most things. Sort of like MS Word... fine and dandy for text... I only get irate when someone sends me a file that the headings are all FUBAR because they copied/pasted from numerous documents and Word pastes that formatting by default. So many programs have features you will never need or use.

This is also the reason why Reaper has one of the most liberal trial policies seen anywhere (by far).

John had mentioned this earlier, but since you mentioned CTRL-drag again (which is to copy) I am wondering if that is the underlying issue. What happens if you simply left click and drag (no CTRL or Shift) an audio file onto a MIDI track? To save time and also test other material, you could also use a simple audio loop from the browser (put something into an audio track first, then drag it into a MIDI track). Does that do anything differently?

This is probably why barre chords aren't as prevalent, since you only need to fret the strings being used and the guitar gives a lot of leeway to get intervals (what the listener picks up on) in various inversions all over the place. Unless strumming or using the full chord, you can get the gist of things often with simple intervals. The neck on my main is narrow, and when doing Bm at times I find myself with my ring finger anchored on the D note (I tend to do this a lot when working in GMaj) and use the tip of my pinky on both the B/F# on the 3rd/4th strings. As mentioned above, neither E string is used, but things like that are more what feels natural to you (probably the most important aspect, by far), and gets the point across. If you find yourself getting into oddball "contortions" just to play, keeping inversions and the fact that those notes also exists elsewhere may be the simpler solution at times.

Was there a MIDI clip created in the track? It is possible the notes created are out of the visibility range, so if there is a clip "without notes" expand the size of the MIDI track, or even double click it to open it in the Piano Roll View

Wow, that would be $1.5B per month with subscriptions... Unfortunately people bragging about "user base" are often on this path but rarely get slammed for it like Frank's did.

AFAIK, Audition CC still has no MIDI implementation so it has very limited usefulness as a DAW, but it does have features that make it a good wav editor (background noise removal, scripts, batch editing, and the like). I sampled a TD-9 sound module years ago and it took me 10 times longer to rename the samples than to create/run a script to isolate/save all of the samples from one massive recording. 99% of those features existed in Audition 3/4 before it went to CC, and not a lot of note has been updated since it did. Out of curiosity I checked program-specific updates on things within CC a few years ago and updates are not overly frequent. The simple fact that a couple apps have free alternatives (DaVinci Resolve for Premiere Pro, and Visual Studio Code for Dream Weaver) takes a lot of wind out of the subscription sails. The Studio One+ is an odd one (someone posted they jumped off and just upgraded Studio One Pro, which was a prudent move). Unless you are doing notation, Notion isn't required, and it will host VSTis to boot, so sound packs are unnecessary... and Notion 6 hasn't been significantly updated in years now. Portions of the FAT Channel comes with Studio One Pro, and it costs roughly $60/year to keep current, but even then SOP 6 might be all most would need for their foreseeable future... as with most things, the 80/20 rule applies, so roughly 20% of a program's features will let you do 80% of your work. When new features begin to fall into the minutiae bucket is when to re-evaluate things. Software is one of the few arenas where a product isn't just delivered (a lot is due to the internet, so they can rely on patches and updates). If people bought a car and the manufacturer said, "Yeah, we didn't think about headlights, but it is definitely on our upgrade radar! Just don't drive it a night." People would freak.

Be sure to match your intended arc to the rollers, then adjust the steps accordingly. The D and G strings are not on the highest point on the arc, they straddle it +/- roughly 5.2mm for that 52mm spread.

Thank you. Your insight into the history of things is always insightful. The open API point I have taken notice to over the past several years. It seems that programs with open API/scripting functionality tend to have a slew of community members actively contributing to the application development, and some of the work those folks have done on their own time is truly impressive. It is always a good sign when apps have menu links to a user add-ons/scripts repository that has been developed by the community (I tend to search for this specifically anymore). Cakewalk has always had people doing similar in the background, but never quite embraced them in that manner; those tools are often littered about in the forums and easy to miss.

Be sure to look at the manual on that MB. The SATA connectors are actually a mish-mash, and I had the P8Z67 in my 2600K. The 2 Grey ones can reach SATA 3 speeds (6Gbps), but the 4 Blue ones are SATA 2 (3Gbps). Those are described on pages 2-21 and 2-23 respectively. They will still support SSDs (your better option), but you will not be able to get anything close to NVMe speeds even with a connector. It is also preferred to plug the two most-used drives into the Grey SATA connections on that MB (C drive and the most used program/data drive). A quick check on that manual seems setting the two grey ones to SATA 3 will disable 2 of the Blue connectors, but I forget offhand. I am "assuming" that external SATA port is a SATA 2, so again the data speed is going to be limited to 3Gbps and an SSD would be better bang for the buck. I carried a 3TB spinner HDD forward from that machine for backups and use external HDDs for backups as well, mostly because SSDs tend to catastrophically fail when they go down. I have not had that happen (yet) and their longevity has gone up substantially, but it is something to keep in mind for backups.

Thanks for chiming in Alexey. Every time Annabelle posts I can rarely help one iota, but it often sends me on a fact-finding stint regarding accessibility. Most resources I find are older (and reference 8.5 or Reaper), but this is the first I have seen reference to OSARA. Is that a simple add-on installation or are there any other hoops associated with getting it online? I have only used Reaper once years ago, so totally unfamiliar with the nuances of it, but admit that it never falls completely off the radar because of ReaCWP. My concern here is for steps Annabelle should be aware of rather than just sending her down a blind path that you "know is not that easy." (No offense intended toward you in any way here).

Without other details from the OP there is not a lot that can be specifically done, but for finished work you want to be able to open in (any) DAW in the future, they should have broadcast wav file exports done on stems (both with and without FX baked in just to be safe). Offloading the tempo map as a MIDI file is also advised. With both of these done, you can load/import into numerous DAWs without much issue. Some features just disappear on load (like VST3s if you open them before X3), but there were a few features added that make the cwp file unreadable if you go back far enough (like Aux Tracks/Patch Points). Stems/Tempo maps are universal.

I was just telling someone last week that Blender is probably the most powerful free app out there, with DaVinci Resolve running a very close second. For those not familiar with Blender, it is an incredibly capable 3D rendering program BUT it will intimidate the crap out of new people as many things are not intuitive until you actually do them. For new folks, this Blender tutorial series is exceptional (and relatively short), and walks through a lot of the major components of Blender. He has redone this with each major Blender release and touches upon a lot of tips and shortcuts that are most commonly used along the way to making donut(s). If totally new to Blender, I recommend starting with that series and then other tutorials you watch will make more sense because you can understand what they are doing (not a lot of tutorials say/show the shortcut keys being pressed as they bebop around, so they can just confuse you further). Side comment: you will very much want a mouse with a middle mouse button (many mice with scroll wheels have a button if the wheel is pressed)... Blender is one of the few apps that almost relies on the middle mouse button for tasks. Although you can alter the app to set ALT-left click as the "middle mouse button," having a real one is highly preferred.

Nothing like the firsthand perspective to "experience the music." Probably a good thing Divinyls wasn't at the show! His career got a boost when Dirty Dancing came out, and made me take a look at his older material. RIP.

@Michael Vogel posted his entire archive of CAL scripts years ago. I just checked the link in that thread and it is no longer valid, but someone might still have that file available.

I think what the OP is requesting is also a bit more involved. The functionality of the chord track also includes manipulation of chords, inversions, or changing keys entirely (even to the audio material in all tracks under that chord). From my experience with Studio One, it seems that SOP is very much leveraging Melodyne algorithms to impart this functionality, but it has yet to be implemented in Cakewalk. Working with audio material specifically (loops or similar) that is in the wrong key, but "just snaps" to the chord it is dropped under is a bit more involved, so there isn't a work around for this request; it really does need to be implemented.

I find it ironic that you mentioned both of these. Reason being is that early on in my learning, the power went out (which only happened once when I was at USNA, which is a government facility and never should have happened as the backups failed as well) so I was left in nearly total darkness for over an hour (the rooms did not have emergency lighting, only the hallways and stairs did). That single "Act of God" did more to kick start proficiency than I ever would have suspected... suddenly I was blind and could only rely on my ears and proprioception/kinesthesia (sense of body/hand positions and motion) in order to play. I learned more in that hour than in the prior two months combined because of it. Over a decade earlier, my piano teacher had said "stop looking at your hands" and pulled the key cover out over everything but the very tips of the white keys. That power outage made me chuckle immediately and I said to my room mate, "Stop looking at my hands, aye" and kept right on going. Just turning off the lights at night and intentionally playing in the dark can give a massive boost to skills/senses that truly need to be developed rather than relying on one's eyes.

Barre chords on even an electric can be taxing, so upping the tension with an acoustic just adds to the need for hand strength. Lighter gauge will lower tension (and action) a smidge, but if you are not familiar with doing mods, it is definitely preferable to having a luthier modify things like the nut. I sent @Grem down a rabbit hole replacing his fret nut on a kit he got [we still need a final build version of that guy BTW (I think, I might have missed it)], and he experienced something I never saw or even expected... that nut had been glued in with so much glue on three sides that in broke into pieces taking it out. If the play-ability is already an 8 or 7 from your perspective, the hand strength is probably really it. Most people quit guitar because of the time it takes to build callouses/strength, so just keep that in mind as you go... be sure to stretch hand muscles and give yourself rest periods as you work things out.

Another quick comment, since I have seen fret nuts too high on enough occasions to mention this. Another way to deal with string tension is to tune the entire guitar a half step down, then work one fret higher for what you are doing now (that will address tension, but not action). If the nut itself is too tall, you can also put a capo on the first fret and tune that to standard tuning at the first fret (guitar will still be half a step down) which may address both fret action and string tension. Again, you would need to play one fret higher than you do now for the same results. Depending on guitar model, truss rod adjustments may be possible to accommodate fret action for the the string gauge used, but that is more something to mention at this point.