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"Discovery has informed many of its top composers that, beginning in 2020, they must give up all performance royalties paid for U.S. airings, and that they must sign away their ability to collect royalties on all past shows on its networks." https://variety.com/2019/music/news/discovery-networks-composers-music-royalties-1203434924/

Actually I use Keepass to keep track of serial numbers as well. There is plenty of space in the comments box to type in the software title serial numbers etc. and you can load copies of authorization files as attachments. The search function is plenty fast enough to locate what you need. The main advantage is that if someone gets hold of your computer (or hacks it at a distance) the authorizations, serial numbers etc. are encrypted. I keep a copy of the kdb files and a portable version of keypass on thumb drives scattered about--anyone getting one of those drives still does not have the master password but I will have all the useful stuff if the computer is stolen. Of course a stolen computer will not be instantly restorable if authorizations depend on a machine hash, but at least I will not lose my serial numbers. I use a spreadsheet to keep track of everything else, purchase dates and prices, dates an locations of installations, version numbers, remaining authorizations etc. but not the serial numbers.

I cannot decide if sanity finally set in or if I just had already bought everything that looked appealing at sales through the year, but I spent nothing this silly-season. Most of what I considered exciting pricing was for non-music related hardware, and I already have more computers than I need, and still happily use a flip-phone. I did spend waaay too much on music software this year, but on a variety of sales, upgrades and crossgrades at prices that did not make me regret not waiting until what has now become the Black Friday month. By the time Thanksgiving came around I was still struggling to figure out how to use the stuff I had already bought, and dealing with the crushing sense of obligation and guilt that situation entails probably acted as a brake on my greed.

There is a potential reliability issue if it turns out that Cakewalk decides it is time for the obligatory periodic update/re-authorization while you are in the middle of a performance. How Cakewalk makes this update decision is pretty opaque, so if you are not connected to the internet you could find yourself without full function unexpectedly. I am not clear how the clock is reset, which one would need to know if advising you to a strategy like trying to force a re-authorization just prior to the performance in hopes of avoiding the issue. It might be a useful feature to have Cakewalk warn some considerable time in advance prior to requiring connection, or to allow you to over-ride the attempt for a period of time.

Or hold Alt while pressing Tab to cycle through open windows.

And be sure that if you expect to replace anything you have "replacement cost" coverage. It is not that rare for policies to cover depreciated value of some items where the money you receive will be what they assess the value a used item is worth. Anyone who has tried to sell a used_but-new-condition item will tell you that the price they can get is not what they paid for it in many cases. And if they cover the cost you paid for the item based on your original receipt, you may have a problem getting a replacement for an old guitar that you bought forty years ago for half a grand that is selling at auction now for five times that price. In some cases there is just no off the shelf policy that will provide what you need, and special riders or policies requiring professional appraisals may be too expensive to be practical.

The driver is reportedly available for download from the Microsoft cache. If the computer does not automatically download a driver when it is connected, try going to Windows device manager and search for a driver for the device. https://www.roland.com/global/support/by_product/v-studio_100/updates_drivers/83cbc054-52c2-4662-9203-04757fe19c49/ https://www.roland.com/global/products/v-studio_100/downloads/ I have not been able to find the included software as a download, nor do I know if it is compatible with current Windows versions. https://rolandus.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201937469-V-STUDIO-VS-100-V-STUDIO-100-V-STUDIO-100-Software-and-Driver-Installation-Windows- If you have it on a CD, you can transfer the CD contents to a USB flash drive using a friends computer that does have a disc reader, network your computer to one that does or buy or borrow a USB connected external CD drive.

Also be aware that many homeowners policies specifically exclude any items used in a business enterprise, although some companies will include a rider with limits for business property kept in the home or vehicle for an additional fee. S if you are a professional musician, you may have to take special steps to insure your gear. Most other people just have to worry about their home office equipment. There is also sometimes a cap on coverage for items kept in a separate rented storage unit, that is lower than the coverage for items kept in the residence.

Is this just a Cakewalk problem or it occurs with other applications? Download MidiOx to confirm that your keyboards are sending to Windows and being recognized and to confirm the channel they are sending on. Most commonly this problem occurs because you have not configured Cakewalk to recognize these sources as MIDI inputs. In the case of the interface, then the input to the MIDI ins of the interface is generally hidden from Cakewalk, so the interface MIDI out should be the Cakewalk MIDI in regardless of which keyboard is sending to the interface. The other common issue, and one that is suggested by the fact that you can send MIDI out from Cakewalk is that the channel the MIDI in (keyboard via USB or interface) is not the one that your track is set up to receive in Cakewalk.

The question is not whether you are as good as your samples, but rather is your recorded production as good as those done with more expensive stuff. If you are writing and arranging your own work, then the analogy is that your work performed by a mid-level orchestra may not be as good as the same work performed by a world class philharmonic. It is the same creative work in either case, but the performance probably is not the same. Expensive software and hardware in the hands of a mediocre composer/producer is not going to lead to great work, but likely an experienced genius can make a final recording that sounds better with better equipment. But it is not the equipment that makes a genius.

The Corel Humble Bundle deal is back: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/painter-create-with-confidence-encore?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_1

If you are using your ears to determine how "loud" something is, be aware that you can increase the gain at a number of points in your signal chain and make a low dB signal sound as loud as you want. Then when you export a low dB mix as wave or MP3 and play it on another application that does not have all the gain adjustments turned way up, it is going to sound quiet. It was quiet when it left Cakewalk, you just did not notice it because you had increased the volume somewhere in Cakewalk or elsewhere in the signal chain. What are the meters on the mains showing you about your signal? Are you sure you are exporting and listening to the signal at the mains?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01153/full http://www.blesser.net/downloads/eContact Loud Music.pdf

To me TIA is transient ischemic attack. What is it to you?

I just logged in to SoundSpot. No problem finding my product (Union is my only product with them) but" no updates available" is shown and the download is the original 1.01. So different users are having a different experience here.

I have ordered the crew to tie me to the mast and plug up their ears with beeswax.

Toddskins, I took the phrase "hurt their hearing" to be "injure their hearing" rather than to cause pain, but you point is well taken. Ear protection is certainly not the desirable aesthetic criterion for the volume of a performance. Your other point: " A lot of immature people like music LOUD. Probably because they don't know anything about conversation or have anything worthwhile to speak about, i.e. animals who party.," raises an interesting question. Is the performance intended to be the background music for what is primarily a venue for conversation? Clearly a dedicated concert is not, nor is a movie theater. An elevator clearly is not designed as a music venue, and a restaurant probably falls somewhere in between. If a musician is unfortunate enough to be performing live in a restaurant, it is probably tempting to play loud enough to discourage conversation, if not to drown it out. In a free-for-all venue like a hard partying country western bar, it is probably probably part to the ambiance to add to the mayhem with too -loud music. Shouting in such places is probably how people like to communicate, if not with broken bottles and fisticuffs. In places where normal conversation is expected, I would agree that the contracted musician just has to realize that his work is not considered that important by the owners or patrons, swallow his ego and accept the money in lieu of appreciation of his work.

This is not entirely a Windows problem. Unlike the old CRT monitors, the various pixel-based monitors (LCD etc.) have a fixed array upon which the display can be projected. They are designed to display optimally only at their "native resolution" i. e. one pixel in the original map matches one pixel on the display. Enlarging an image in software means that the image mapping has to be recomputed so that it takes more pixels per image. If the original image occupies the full screen (fills all the pixels available) then mathmatically there is no way to represent it using more pixels without exceeding the size of your screen in pixels. That will put some of the recalculated pixels location in the real world to be off your screen, meaning you will need to scroll the screen to see them if you can see them at all. Making a single image on the screen larger requires that the area of the map that represents it must be located, the imgage defined and recalculation applied to make it occupy (you guessed it) more pixels. But the original map only contains the original data, so the new image clarity is limited by the interpolation used to guess where it would fall on the new mapping. It is the same problem you get when you try to enlarge a digital photograph. Within limits the image still appears sharp, but as you continue to enlarge it eventually turns into an unrecognizable collection of squares.

The name is confusing. Perhaps they should call it Acid Pro ME.* *Apologies to the youngsters for an elderly Windows version reference.

M2 is a connection protocol not a transfer protocol. That is the M2 means that the device connects with a different "socket" than a standard PCIe slot. Most, but not necessarily, all devices that connect using M2 will have direct access to the PCIe bus. The M2 connection can also serve devices that use SATA III and USB 3 as a transfer protocol, and those devices will be limited by those protocols transfer speeds. If your motherboard has open PCIe slots there are SSD's that will plug into those without the need for any adapter.

The only generally recognized indication for an SSD is when you have a plugin that you are streaming large numbers of samples in real time from disk. In that case it may show clear superiority in loading the samples compared to a reasonably fast ( 7200 rpm) mechanical hard drive. Many sample players load samples into memory and play them from RAM, which is much faster than an SSD, so once loaded into DRAM from whatever storage, there is no benefit. Are you finding problems with the storage you are currently using or do you just want to buy a Ferrari to commute to work? btw If you are a speed fetishist then you will want, not just an SSD (typically connected by SATA) and go with something that connects directly to the PCIe bus.

That is what they are offering it for to for me--and the only thing I have from Arturia was a miniFilter freebie. So I guess their definition of a customer is pretty broad. On the other hand, I just do not see myself spending any money for another sampled VI at this point.

You mean you should not run as admin. DOH!!! or You should run as admin. DOH!!!

It certainly does. On the other hand if you skip an upgrade you will likely pay $160 or more to upgrade to Pro if you find something useful in the future. If you do not find anything useful it is possible that you can just sit on 10.5 and acivate it when 11 comes out and get a free upgrade then like Sergio did, but that is something of a gamble since they could change their policy in the interim.

This seems to have fallen out of regular distribution. Any legitimate retail copies that are left out there are likely to be priced as a rare antique. It seems to me Cakewalk used to sell it for about $99, but the only source I found for remaining stock wants $169.99 plus shipping for it. That is pretty steep for something that was being given away free as a promo not so long ago, but if someone really wants it (or if they have a valuable project that absolutely requires it to open and modify) I guess they will pay the asking price. Be careful of cracked versions which may be more readily available. Buying someone's used copy will doubtless violate the traditional Cakewalk license terms that prevent transfers from the original licensee.