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I suppose it could depend on the practitioner, but my tests have always started each frequency inaudible and raise it until I indicate that I can discern it from background noise.

Most professional audiologists will start at low level and move up until you indicate that you can hear it. That eliminates psyco-acoustic precognition. And they will jump around in frequency too. I have my hearing tested every 3 years. I still have 18k in both ears at age 65. Always wear hearing protection around loud sustained noises, and haven't been to a rock concert since 2003. I consider myself VERY lucky!

To be honest, I've never seen this happen in any project. And you did mention that some other/demo/new projects operate normally. I might make a safety copy of this project, then start deleting tracks 1 by 1 to see if it goes away at some point. Eliminate the obvious.

Well... you have me confused... because for the last 25 or so years the PPQ has always been divisible by 2 like this: So if you are actually running at 925 PPQ, there is something other-worldly about your system clock. (Unless that's a TYPO, then your excused 😁)

NI Kontakt (full version) is really good at speading samples across the playable range while simultaneously using FFT to time stretch. But most instruments (with non-constant timbre) need to be multi-sampled at minimum about every 4th or 5th semitone to be even marginally useful. But synth waveforms are usually easy to pitch and time correct without too many artifacts.

I've seen that happen by using an inferior ASIO interface and driver set. Happened in SONAR from X1 - CbB with (some) M-Audio and MOTU FW drivers from WIN7 - 10. Very spotty. Got rid of the drivers and it's been a dream since 2018.

@jack c. NI Session Horns Pro (sax, 1st & 2nd Tpts), Scarbee Jay Bass.

OK. That's officially weird. What happens if you use <CTRL + END> keys? Just for snicks - n - giggles, what happens if you set the Time Ruler, the Now Time display, and the Track View time display to the same measurement: In your screen shot it looks like you may be looking at Milliseconds, not M/B/T or SMPTE. Not sure if that matters. One more query: does it happen the same way in one of the stock themes?

Have you had a look at this setting in the Track View?: [<View><Display><Display Ghosted Data>] When NOT checked and you close an automation lane, it will not be visible over the clip.

In addition to what @scook said, you can also 'pin' the fx/vst window open with the 'push pin' icon in upper right corner of the GUI window.

If you are referring to the play head (vertical now time indicator) extending well past the end of the audio in the song, you probably have some automation that goes past the song, most likely volume CC#7. Look in your automation lanes for stuff that extends beyond the logical audio ending. Easiest way to delete all of that is to engage ripple edit, select all, drag from after the end of the audio to the right where the play head finally stops, delete, then REMEMBER to disengage ripple edit! Playback will then stop after the last midi note or end of audio decay, whichever is longer.

Already there. In most color themes, note velocity (other than the velocity lane at bottom) is indicated by depth of color gradient of the note itself. Higher velo is brighter, lower is dimmer.

@bjornpdx this 4th+ generation rip from CD Baby (not my upload) has really poor quality compared to the original CD release. Out of my hands at this point.

Back in late 2001, I ran across my old keyboard player from when we all were in a rock band in High School in '75. He was so broke that I doubt he could afford to pay attention, but he was always a good song writer and great player. So I drove across the country with a laptop, CW Sonar (v5 I think), a weighted 88 keyboard, MOTU 896, and some vocal mics to capture some songs in the dirt floor basement in the tenement house he was in, pro bono. In less than 24 hours we captured live lead vocal and piano tracks, both audio & MIDI, and then I took the results back to my studio to flesh them out. I called in some chits from all my best session players to do overdubs, and produced this entire record with no more than two players in the studio at a time. Switched between CW and PT several times. This particular track showcases one of my favorite all time guitarists, Arkadiy Yushin. {his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@arkanfusionguitar} Enjoy; Baxter Factor - Stroke of Luck

@Kat Craig In the PI Manager, this shows the location of each and every plug that CW finds. If you don't have the scan folders set correctly, or have stored plugs in other locations, they won't be found.

VacuumPro is shown listed in the Registered Plug-ins of your PI Manager, so it should be there. Looks like you have not built any Plugin Menu layouts tho... Highlight the PI that you want and click on the <Add Plugin> button to move it to the right column and then save the layout. Open CW and look in the Plugin Bin.

Here's a cue kicker for a slow chase scene through the 'burbs between a motorcycle and two cars slated for film release next year. This isn't the exact arrangment for the final, but I had some fun with it. The music supervisor liked the initial sketch demo, so who am I to argue?

Without any MIDI input you are gonna have a hard slog upstream but... open the Piano Roll View (look in the help system for deets) and you can draw the notes in with your mouse. Kick is usually on C1, snares on D1/E1, hats on F#, G#, A#. Etc. Also look in help for 'virtual' controller or keyboard which will allow your QUERTY keyboard to trigger notes (but usually defaults to C4 or middle octave). There are several other ways to do this, I'm just outlining one. Check out this excellent video for the basics:

First thing to eliminate are any TSR applications that may be running in the background of your OS. Network traffic, search indexing, and virus background scanning are notorious for hogging time slices.

Most (but not all) plugins in the FX bin can have automated bypass from a CC# or NRPN. You can also write automation to bypass the entire FX bin.

I'm not familiar with that particular VSTi, but if you hover over the line or any of the preset velocity curve buttons (to the right) and then right click, do you get any dialog or popup menu? A lot of VSTi's will allow you to set CC #'s with the RMB.

If you select the 'instrument' track and play some notes into the VST from your input (mouse clik on the drums in the GUI or play from the querty or MIDI keyboard controller) do you hear drum sounds? Do you have any MIDI notes recorded & visible in the instrument track? Or have you tried to drop a MIDI clip on the instrument track?

To the best of my knowledge, nothing ever came out of the meeting. They were just bouncing ideas around. Jagger & Richards came through for two days once, same thing... no output from our end. But that's another story. But at least I got to meet 'em all.

It was a hot, muggy day in the summer of '97 when (now SIR) Rod Stewart flew into MSP on the Warner Brothers G5, sent the family off to do a little shopping at the MOA, and grabbed a limo to come over to the studios for a writing session with the principals. I met him at the door as he was wearing a straw hat, polo shirt, Bermuda shorts, open toed sandals, and carrying a 'brolly' (like it might rain or something?). Introductions and warm handshakes all around, and then I gave him a brief tour of the facility on the way to Studio Bodacious to meet with Jam & Lewis. Really a genuinely nice gentleman. As I walked out of the room and back to my duties, my only thought was: "jeez... that guy probably spends more on pedicures than I make in a year".

Check this (pardon but let's cover the obvious): Output of track 3 is going to track 8? Put track 8 into record? Any waveform recorded? Have you tried to drag the midi clip (track 3) down to the instrument track 8? Then <Bounce to track> to destination 9 (or next available). Or <Freeze synth> then drag audio clip to track 9 (or next available).