Byron Dickens

Getting a real audio interface will solve this and 99% of all the other audio problems you are going to run into.

On 12/23/2023 at 5:58 PM, Olaf said:

I said it myself, a few days after the announcement was made that I didn't think Cwk, as it stands today, was even remotely ready to be commercially released. And the thing is, if it fails for a second time, commercially, I think it might be the end of the road. So, hopefully the mystery is about fixing the hundreds of bugs and reliability problems it has - plus maybe a few dozens intuitiveness and ergonomic problems.

Having newcomers that aren't as prone to finding excuses to it, no matter what, out of habit, sympathies or misunderstood gratitude, might be a good idea, in that regard. Cause one thing I've said from my early days with Cwk, about 4 years ago, was that the moment Cwk become a paid application, all that predisposition for lenience will vanish overnight - and it's not doing anybody any favors, as it exists today.

I do believe people on this forum would be good testers, subjectivity aside, but, for one, I've signalled dozens of problems during these 4 years, and none of them seems to have been addressed. Some suggestions did make it, though, and I appreciate that. I still have about 30-40 pretty big issues captured, right now, which I'm not putting out because it would take a lot of time, to very little hope. For instance I can't trust Cwk with my audio clips. I don't think there's worse you can say about a professional DAW. And it crashes a few to a few dozen times a night, for the most diverse reasons. It can't find, now, plugins it had loaded 5 minutes before. It handles RAM and registry entries badly, and there always seems to be some conflict with the video side in the VC redists - to my very limited understanding of media frameworks. That's just counting a few issues. And I do like Cwk, don't get me wrong, I want to work in it - love the interface, the PC, what it can do, the sound, etc. - but objectively speaking. It's got a lot going for it, if the problems were solved, I think it would be stellar. But the problems are great, and have persisted for years. So...

For a commercial release, i believe the most important factor, before any interesting functions, is that it be reliable, and work as intended - basics first - also consistent and intuitive - which it doesn't right now.

It sounds like you have one seriously screwed up system....

... In the Abyss

1 hour ago, riecke said:

The version on sale is Musescore Pro+

That is the service that lets you download sheet music of widely varying quality produced and uploaded by other users.

As Glenn pointed out, the software is free.

Did you try just turning down the offending track?

That's the problem with internet searches like that. You're liable to get a lot of outdated and even just plain wrong information.

25 minutes ago, OPunWide said:

I had found all of that before I posted. I get frustrated with the pdf search, but it works.

Use the table of contents and the index.

Even a powered hub.

Korg will not work properly (if at all) connected to a USB hub.

Being so poor I can't even pay attention makes the decision easy for me....

7 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

Thanks for taking the time to write your patronising internet post.

Patronizing?

You're the one who fiddle-f--ked around blindly for a year with this when the answer is right in front of you the whole time.

Don't get mad at me. Get mad at yourself.

Or maybe your parents should have sued your school district....

On 12/19/2023 at 1:15 AM, Mr No Name said:

look at this completely different issue relating to midi playback which is not mentioned in any manual. plagued him for years apparently.

 

The answer actually is in the manual. But like I said elsewhere, it is a mistake to think it will be spelled out for you in so many words.

How to connect the controller is definitely in the manual for it. How to insert a soft synth, how to route MIDI from it to said soft synth, how to route the output of the synth, etc. its all in there. Volume automation is in the manual.

If you have the volume at 0, guess what the track is. Muted.

The reason I'm dumbfounded is that it should have taken 30 minutes at the most to figure this one out.

On 12/19/2023 at 1:15 AM, Mr No Name said:

I had plugged that usb keyboard controller... it didn't work right off the bat, reason unknown.

I had assumed for this reason the controller was broken.....

Mistake number one. You jumped right to an incorrect conclusion based off of an erroneous assumption instead of testing the controller.

Test. Don't guess.

On 12/19/2023 at 1:15 AM, Mr No Name said:

fyi, I did infact use the help search function for my issue,

the info it gave back was not useful and very basic,

Here are mistakes two and three.

Now please don't take this the wrong way because it is not meant to denigrate you or insult your intelligence because its not just you. It seems like they either don't teach basic research skills in school any more, the internet has made people really lazy or some combination of both.

The problem with the search function is twofold.  First, if you're not sure what something is called, if you don't word it the same way it is in the documentation, or you misspell something you're liable to come up empty handed. Second, if you use too broad or too narrow a search string then you very likely won't come up with good results.

This is why people need to learn how to use the table of contents and the index.

That is mistake number two. Mistake number three is  thinking that the documentation is going to spell out specifically the exact solution to your exact problem as you have described it to yourself.

There is no way the documentation can cover every possible use case where something can go wrong. even attempting it is a fool's errand. There are infinite ways that something can be wrong but only one way it can be right.

Cakewalk's documentation is very good and quite thorough. The information is all there for you to figure out your problem but you have to piece together your prior knowledge of the fundamentals of how it works along with what you just looked up, make logical inferences from there and formulate a systematic test plan.

On 12/19/2023 at 1:15 AM, Mr No Name said:

the problem was inherant in the software for some reason, cause which is unknown.

The problem is not inherent in the software, it is inherent in user error.

On 12/19/2023 at 1:15 AM, Mr No Name said:

I managed to solve my own problem despite reading a "manual" and asking a "forum"

Well, you did, but you didn't.

Wow. Years huh?

I'm just dumbfounded. Absolutely dumbfounded.

40 minutes ago, John Vere said:

That is if you can find anything in the 1,954 pages.

If you use the index, you can narrow that down considerably.

2 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

all sorted, and I didn't even have to read the manual.

Never mind that we've been fiddle - f---ing around, blindly stabbing in the dark for over a year....

3 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

and get rid of manuals, no one should need to read manuals.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.; if you had read the manual you could have solved this in 15 minutes

58 minutes ago, JT music said:

Tunecore usually has good references, its only drawback for me is that it does not pay with PayPal, which is very unfavorable, CD baby is very expensive they charge you even the IRSC codes of the track plus the air what you breathe...

You might want to do some math here....

You can't change the tempo without getting artifacts. Re-recorded it.

You really ought to start your own thread instead of hijacking a dead one that is over 2 years old.

5 hours ago, Tianzii said:

I want to create my new album and I don’t want after a few years to open the projects without being able to load the plugins.

How do you tackle this in your projects? Are you running multiple versions of the same plugin on the same pc/mac?

Finish the project and move on.

Revisiting things over and over is for Wordsworth and Whitman.

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That's where my money is too; some kind of MIDI event way on down the line.

I have a hard enough time just playing  tuned the regular way!

It cost me over a $1k to replace the dual clutch in my car this past summer. And that's with doing the work myself.

I know why car repair is so expensive, having been in the business for the better part of 30 years.

Plumbing I don't get.  In plumbing, you don't have completely new models every few years with constant changes in technology. Nor does it require thousands of dollars in special tools -  the collection of which constantly has to be added to. Nor does it require computerized test equipment and subscriptions to support the continued avalanche of information and software updates as well as ongoing training to keep up with it all.

I should have been a plumber or an electrician. Better money and I wouldn't have had to pour so much of it back into my tool box.

I'd keep that sucker and play the hell out of it.