Keni

Hi Gang... I will apologize first for my rant tho I will do my best to contain my anger and frustration... WAVES! Yeah, we've all heard about their sudden policy changes and alterations to previous sales terms etc.... I got another... They just miffed me big time (careful use of words here) A few of their plugins got messed up on my old machine (windows8.1) during the debacle. I'm building my new DAW and transferring licenses etc. After atlking with their tech support a week or so back They re-confirmed my permission to have two copies installed as long as not used simultaneously. So I began the process and all is well on the new machine. Everything is installed and working. When I open Waves central I can see the dual activations for all but 2 plugins. My 2 most important. So I went to the old DAW and needed to run Waves Central which of cou rse proceeded to update itself to a program where they don't support it's operation (requires win10 or above) and it disabled my old DAW activations! Now they are willing to allow me dual activations with one being available on the old machine by using a usb stick but I don't have the available port! Not that can be left in the machine. Because this process will require the mem stick in whichever machine I'm suing at the time. Both machines have only 1 port left. So now I must buy a spare usb usb stick to dedicate to this purpose, and a pair of usb splitters (one for each machine) to get my old plugins running agin on the old machine where they were working just fine until Waves decided to change things... I'm so screaming mad! I guess part of the reason is my frustrations with Apple's unbelievably poor decisions in the design of the Mac Trashcan.... I've been trying to solve the hard drive dilemma for weeks now and I'm close. It's working pretty well, but When I try taxing streams from one usb3 external drive with Superior Drummer Samples on another USB external, things start getting shaky... I found if I move the audio to the system drive it "seems" to behave better? What a pain So many hard drive related problems with the trashcan! but I digress... This is about waves! I really enjoy both the Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin and the Puigchild plugin... I use them both all the time... ...but is it worth the shenanigans that the company continues to roll out in their fear of theft attitude? We all worry about being robbed but there's a point beyond which the protection becomes unrealistic... Like posting armed guards to protect a bubble gum jar??? I know I'm not the first but their' stance on upholding previous deals is over the top! Everyone else seems to be fine with simple native methods or even iLok, but Waves (and Steinberg) have the most invasive, complex, and insulting systems to "allow" users to buy and use their' products... I could buy a Tesla easier! (if I had the money) OK... I'll stop... I just went through some kind of eye-piercing pain during the typing of this... I may be giving myself a hemorrhage, so I'd better stop... Again... I apologize...

Thanks Mark... I was surprised that the shells reside in the vstplugins folder but find the dx in the shared plugins folder... I was wondering what else (if anything) is getting a wrapped version created? Did they get picked up because I added the sahred folder to my scan paths?

Ah, but I just discovered and implemented... dxshell.dll and dxishell.dll Found in my old DAW's Cake VSTplugins... Copied to new DAW and vst scanned... Voila! VST Versions now appear! I guess they're only dx plugins in a wrapper as there are only the sonitus plugins in the shared plugins folder.... Magic! I didn't really care if they are vst or dx... They work fine. My problem is with needing to replace the "vst" versions previously used in projects, Too difficult to establish old settings and replace with the dx version... Much easier if it simply loads the way I originally installed it and I believe this solved that issue! Thanks for responding though...

OK... I think I figured out yet another of my little snags of this upgrade. I have the Sonitus DX plugins... They installed somewhere with X1/2/3/plat But I can't seem to locate the VST versions we were finally given. That's why so many of my songs are balking about the Sonitus being missing... Anyone know or remember? Thanks...

The plague of progress... Keeping our old while moving into new... PITA of the"new" ages. I don't know if I'll live long enough but there's gotta be a better way of dealing with this stuff than the current password/registration/authorization processes we strangle on...

OK... This is a new one for me... Almost like a planned time-out from a demo device... I've tried it now with both amplitube (4&5/vst2/3) and TH3... They are both doing the same so I'm guessing it's some cake/win/drive setting that needs attention? Can anyone be of help? <sheesh>... I was planning on recording this guitar solo to finish this song only to find that a normally simple task is suddenly troublesome... Still breaking in this new DAW and discovering.... issues. Thanks,,, Edit: Just discovered it's happening to any plugin when I enable Input Echo (monitoring)... Cake? This is a bit ugly way to start the day... Edit 2: Now discovered it's happening in this one song... If I use a track in an empty/new song file, Echo is stable... I've tried increasing the latency etc, but it seems to make no difference. I've archived all other tracks to remove the load and it continues to happen... Weird! Edit 3: Ha! Now I've discovered it's something on that track! I created a new track on same song and echo works fine... So I'm good to go... Sorry for bothering anyone bu t it's still something strange... I disabled everything on that track and left echo on but it still blinked... New track? Problem gone! <whew> Edit 4: HA ha ha ha ha... Narrowed it down more. Blue Tube plugin un-noticed and active but not authorized. Came with Sonar Platinum so I'm in the process of discovery/re-install in Platinum using CCC and then try getting it working in Cake By Band... Edit 5: Done and all is well once again in the Nomad-ic world... I do still see 2 plugins in their hu ge list that are still in demo but I doubt I've ever even looked let alone used. I almost exclusively use their Blutube collection...

I’m still struggling to finish this win10 on Mac Pro Trashcan. I’ve found two satisfactory external drive devices to suit me but wondering if other than the obvious easy exchange of drives. Is there a speed difference between two such devices claiming the same ports? I got a bay which was not my first choice but it turned out defective anyway and I've discovered they have a drive dock which I tend to lean towards that they will exchange for me. They both claim TB2/USB3,1 connectivity (20GB/s / 5GB/s)... Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated as I must decide and return ship the bay within days... They also have a replacement power supply for the bay if I decide to keep it...

So why not default to the best! I use 320! BTW... CD Architect has easy ISRC codes, but only for CDs...

a penny from me? I think it a wise decision to include very popular common set of file specs as to make interchange between any 2 DAWs (eventually) able to invisibly, seamlessly exchange media between systems... An obvious limitation is always the ownership of 3rd party plugins to be common across these systems which is unlikely, but a system of markers containing specs of the original plugins settings... Does any of these file standards do this? I'm sorry, I digress... ...an any case I'm completely in favor of Cakewalk adding AAF support. It can't hurt, only help?

OK... I think I got it! I just found the folder and the path location. I see how it works... Thanks again!

Thanks Mark! Wow! That’s a great new info find. So to see if I understand. If I supply a specific drive path in the registry (per plugin) I can have local drive storage of presets instead of (or in addition to?) the registry. That could be handy. Thanks again. 🙏 As it happens, other than my own current need/interest, one of my best friend/clients is going thru some kind of presets issue I’m supposed to address (remote - he's in Florida and me in California). This might help! Hmmm. Just an afterthought. Do I replace the preset path with the path itself or add it as data fir the preset path key?

Thanks Glenn! I didn’t think of that! ...nose on my face. But this won’t include presets saved in the "Cakewalk Plugin Presets" box at upper left of each/all plugins, correct? Because that’s really what I’m looking to do.

I know each plugin has it's own potential presets, but if we're using the cakewalk preset dropdown list in the top left of plugin window, is there a pc location where these can be found for transfer to another machine? It's really not much of a big deal as I rarely use presets for eq/comp/etc, but a few flange presets and things of that nature... At the moment I'm goign back and forth between machines/rooms each time I encounter one of these needs. It would be very comforting if there's a way for me to copy them all as I did for templates and the likes...

Thinking about it... I do have a K2500RS buried in storage. If I had the strength to dig it out...

uh-oh! I tried to buy it, but I get "the seller is on vacation" and store closed until with no return date. 18 people watching (including me) and only 4 copies remain???

Thanks for this too Tim. I’m checking it out for future use.

Hi Mark... Just providing an update. Lord Time found the post in the 2022.11 Early Access... It is implemented as a reg entry. Tim provided the link here

Relief as the toast fades quickly into the digital sunset! Thanks you one and all who tolerated my mania with re-discovering this small but comforting issue. ...and restoring at least SOME of my faith in a little sanity!

Ah, nice... I just reminded myself about the registry. I didn't think to look there where I'm sure to find it on my old DAW! Thanks!

Thanks again Tim... Mow I've gotta find what to do with the reg files. I'm so burnt right now I can't remember so I'm searching...

Outstanding! Thank you, m'Lord! 🙏 I'm so relieved I can’t tell you. I’ve been searching the closed forums but didn’t think to try 11 as the feature appeared earlier. Next time I'll know to extend my look beyond in both directions. 😄

Thanks! Nice idea. Could you point me to info on how to capture video of screen portion? I’ve not done that before. That machine is locked with win8.1 I truly am beginning to question my sanity. I remember doing the edit and even needing to go back and fix a typo! ...and I export constantly! My workflow is in shock from the return of this... and to make is more difficult, my old daw is awaiting a replacement interface as I re-purposed my Audiobox 1818vsl to my new DAW. So that machine is only using the realtek driver for the moment, so I’m not sure what to expect...

Thanks Andres... This is amazing! I'm a little "scared"... On my old daw, the toast fades after a few seconds. I specifically remember (I believe it was from Noel, but it could have been Morten). Gave us an ini command to add to the ini file. I keep trying to spot it and as of many hours repeated searches... I still can't be sure. I've seen some differences between the two ini files (old and new), but they don't seem to apply. Could I really be losing it THAT badly? Have I been unconsciously clicking on it all this time and convincing myself it's been fading out? I guess it's possible, but somehow I don't think I'm that far gone yet... Someone else must have implemented it other than me. I can't believe that of all the others who wanted this that I would be the only one who used it? Sleep isn't gonna be so good tonight...

Ok... editing didn’t change it's status no I feel I must bump...

OK... This is starting to feel like a twilight zone episode. Everyone is responding to me as though I'm crazy, but I remember it clearly and it's working on my old machine! So somehow I applied the command that changes the behavior. I've searched both ini files and I can't figure out which (if any) addressed this. I'm fairly certain it was Morten, no Noel who delivered it to us near the end of 2022.2 (2022.9?) testing when the new export dialog was introduced. I've searched the Early release forums as well as I can and I can't seem to find it. Please. Someone remind me of how to do this. The problem was being forced to click the toast message to remove it, so a setting was given us so that it would fade instead. Please?