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I'd say just don't run administrative system functions and try to run any programs. When I want to perform any maintenance, I do it as the last thing to ensure I don't touch something that may get in the way. Sucks when that kind of thing happens, but I don't know if it is CbB's responsibility for that - though I can see the usefulness of it telling you it can't find your existing paths.

@Lord Tim Love it! Been to ProgPower a few times (I live in Atlanta), and for anyone else reading, it is a GREAT event ...Glenn is only doing a few more years of it, and the bands are top notch. I wish I was there the year you played. Small world!

I don't have no CLAP(plugins)! ...sorry, someone had to.

Why!!!? Why??!!? I need better gas mileage. What grinds your gears on the roads?

A sophisticated troll, but a troll nonetheless.

So, 130 audio tracks on old hardware and Win8.1? A lot to ask, regardless of your DAW choice. Also, WHY 130 tracks?

What do you use for imaging? I use Active Disk. I have a external 2TB that has rolling images, but a 1TB drive I am backing up, that is 250GB tops when I take a backup image. If you have bitlocker on the drive, it will do the ENTIRE drive, and not just the used part of the partition. I keep samples and such on another 2TB nvme on the motherboard.

At this point, you can get a really good 1TB nvme m.2 for under $100. Hopefully those days of space concerns are GONE!

I've noticed historically that the processor is the last thing to worry about if you are fairly current. The bottlenecks, for me, were always memory(now I have 64GB) and drive speed(spindle, then sata), I now have multiple NVMe drives. YMMV.

Is there some reason to stay on Win 8? I'd run and not walk from it! That said, hopefully you fix your issue.

I'm thinking of the main riff in the song Empire particularly. Maybe it is just me, but a great brand to be compared to.

That sounds REALLY good from an engineering perspective! If you threw Deep Purple and Queensryche in blender musically, you may come out with something like this

Always quality tunes @batsbrew ! Bass sounds a little low to me, and this one seems to need to be beefed up with a layer or two more IMO ...if you want the minimalist feel, then I retract my statement

Agreed.

As an IT guy, I HATE/DESPISE upgrades. But I wouldn't mind starting a new box with an OS ...just that 11 does not do a thing for me operationally. The look of it reminds me of a bad Mac OS. But 2024 sounds like the year! Shoot, we still see threads on this forum for Sonar 8.5 on Windows 7 because it still works for them. Amazing really.

@EpluribusUnum Glad you are STILL getting use out of those. That was a great unit for me for 10+ years! I wish they had made a newer version, I think there was a market for it.

I'm trying to process this. This is way beyond this guitar player's understanding! But I appreciate you doing this!

I was working on this yesterday and made progress, but still am curious to some things. I added the instrument per @tecknot , and that worked fine. I was able to get the midi how I wanted it. My problem is isolating the single pieces in a track. AD2, and maybe I have an old drum map or something, but it seems just to give me Overhead L or R as the only working option in the slew of tracks. I tried ALL the inputs for the tracks created, and cannot isolate any drum or hi-hat/etc - which is the same issue I have with BFD3 as well. Also, how would I convert to audio permanently?

That's why I am a guitar player I want to create the drum patterns through MIDI on AD2 or BFD3, so I want the midi grid to do that. Then once that is done, I want to separate those drums in to their own individual audio tracks and process how I want. Messing around on my own, I feel like I am close, just not every step yet.

Here is what I want to do: I want to separate all tracks of AD2 in to their own audio track, which I do know how to change the inputs(but no audio). I want to see the MIDI, and then convert each source to audio and have it in the track (keeping the mid in a midi track). I see in the Happy Go Lucky song template, there is all the midi data in one track, then it is separated out to audio - also, want to keep it in a DRUMS track folder. What is the most efficient way? Pic 1 looks like the master MIDI, Pic 2 is audio of Kick/Snare/etc Thanks in advance!

@Chandler: You are developing guitar software? Do tell!

I enjoy the way this tune built up. The beginning was not indicative of the song as a whole stylistically, and I dig that.

Good hook! Love the vocals. They strike me as if Tori Amos was European with a splash of Shirley Manson!

Still relevant enough... https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-10/#Power-and-disk-optimization If you do these things, you shall be in a good shape.

Harmonies are king for me, and you do a great job on those. For me(and I always get vilified for it), I'd bring the vocals down slightly so you get a little more of the music. Also, I like vocals a little more wet - but I don't have your voice, so..... 🤐 But that is nitpicking, and this is another solid song!