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Running as administrator represents a special case of a general permissions violation issue. In general an application has the same privileges as the logged on user to access a folder. If as ordinary user Fred, you create a folder, then Fred will own the folder (and any new material added below that folder by inheritance) and can then access the folder with full permissions, and Fred can also grant permissions to others to read, write etc. to that location. If those permissions are not granted, then other users cannot access that folder or its subfolders. If Fred is logged in and opts to run an application as an administrator, then the application is no longer running under Fred's account, but under the administrator's account. It surprises people to learn that an administrator does not automatically have unchallenged access to all of the folders on the computer in recent versions of Windows. So if you were an application running as administrator you would be unable to write to or create a subfolder under a folder that had been created/owned by Fred, unless Fred had set permissions for you to do so. It works the other way as well, so that if you created a folder while signed in to an administrator account (John), an application started by logged on user Fred would not be able to write to that folder. I am not saying that is your problem, but it explains why the problem often happens when running as administrator. Check to see what the permissions are for the folder under which you are trying to create the audio folder, and try changing access of that parent folder to full control by everyone unless you have a reason not to do so. https://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/set-file-folder-permissions-windows/

Of course it is unethical to subject anyone to damage from your actions if it can be avoided. It surprises me that no one seems to have tried to fix liability on the deep pockets (typically the venue owner) for this kind of injury. True, the damage is cumulative, not widely appreciated, difficult to link to a particular incident, and partly the result of the (usually) voluntary participation of the injured, but that was the case with the tobacco lawsuits that cost the cigarette companies millions. Liability issues aside, why would a musician want to damage anyone's hearing? It is also a mystery why regulatory agencies that often strictly enforce regulations designed to prevent low risks like fire prevention, ignore this clear and present danger in the "ordinary" operation of a facility. I do not recall ever seeing anyone walking around with a dB meter at a concert, although apparently you do. As a practical matter, musicians often have little control over the volume of the stuff that comes out of the speakers or how close to them the seats are placed, but it is an issue they should raise with the responsible parties if it is warranted. I would think that the partly deaf patrons who often demand that their disability be catered to by amping up the output regardless of the damage it will cause to the still intact hearing of other audience members should also be aware and considerate.

It sounds like this is a Windows problem, since it affects multiple applications. Check in Windows device manager to see if it is shown as working there. If not, then restart the computer and check again. Still not showing--check connections to various USB sockets, direct connection rather than a hub. If no physical connection works, then suspect a driver issue, perhaps as the result of a Windows update. It looks like it is class compliant ie the driver not separately installable, but it might be possible to delete the device in device manager and re-install/plug in the device again to see if there is some type of corruption.

If you reinstalled on a new machine then you will need a new activation file from the website. The serial number is not part of the activation process. The activation request is a file generated by the program which you need to use to get a new activation file from the Cakewalk server. Last time I checked this still worked. If you install Cakewalk Command Center on the new machine you can use that to install Z3TA+2 and it should automatically do the activation as part of the installation. https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013384/Offline-Activation

Are you talking about standard compact cassette tapes with one stereo track running on each side where you turn the cassette over to play or record the second set of stereo tracks. Players for those should still be widely available at most thrift shops or your grandma's basement, although the quality of the tape may well have degraded and you would need to find one with the type of noise reduction used to record the originals. If you are looking for something special with four tracks on the same side/direction of the tape then an old PortaStudio or the like would be harder to find. The issue with those is that many of the original units had only two track output requiring a mixdown to stereo in the box. It may be difficult to pull four independent tracks out without potential synchronization problems when you try to put them back together due to tape stretch or capstan variability. But surely you can find a transfer service that can do something if you are willing to trust your tapes to the mail.

Indeed we are, and about time. The market is pretty much fully saturated, and some of the over $200.00 synths do not actually offer more function or better sound than much less expensive offerings. The technology involved in programming audio applications is not likely to experience a major breakthrough in the near future, while the power of processing is making it easier to get good results with less labor intensive coding. If you are introducing a new synth, and you are not one of the Cadillac synth makers, who command high prices because of their brand recognition, the chance of selling thousands of units at a low price rather than hundreds at a price you think your work and talent deserve, is likely a better strategy. I have picked up several synths at below $50.00 in the past year, and may never make extensive use of them (cheap synths often cost as much time and effort as expensive ones to use), but at least I do not feel obligated to spend hours on them because I spent too much money to justify otherwise. Many of these cheap synths are high quality stuff--the days of SynthEdit amateur work are drawing to a close as more talented developers enter the field. As to Cornflakes, that is a twentieth century distribution system that is not likely to re-emerge. The digital equivalent is already in full swing, with the cost of some of these offerings being no more than your email address and the access that implies to your complete life history. I bought it. I have not yet used it. At least I can console myself that I have donated to help support reasonable prices for audio software.

Your skepticism is warranted. On the other hand, for a young person who has never bothered to learn to play an instrument by ear, let alone master even the basics of music as an art or study, it is a magical machine that can be used to convince such a person that he is a composer. Having spent seven decades listening to various iterations of popular music, I am increasingly convinced that much of what we are hearing these days is probably being composed on such machines--or using the features of those machines that have been adopted into "serious" DAW's like Cakewalk. For significant linear composing or mixing it is not a serious contender but at $20.00 it would be a suitable stocking-stuffer for the young person in your life who has had to come to grips with the fact that being a guitar hero takes years of effort and is showing itself to be a much less effective strategy for at getting anyone laid, as it is increasingly being replaced by DJ'ing, or joining a crew of a dozen guys roaming around a stage empty-handed to a recorded soundtrack. Undoubtedly it will not improve his ***** [can we say copulation?] life to be able to upload his repetitive if not inane work product to YouTube as an accompaniment to films of himself wearing a massively overpriced pair of Beats by Dre and smoking an unidentified substance, but so long as the cans have closed backs what can be the harm?

This is really too good to be true. I assumed it was an error but, I just confirmed that they are selling the new purchase full version of Acid Pro 9 for $19.99. Magix is index pricing this a $129 new purchase $99 upgrade on their site, and I would doubt it would cost B&H this little. Maybe not worth it as an upgrade if you already own 8, but quite a bargain if you do not.

Open source is not the same as free. I think the developer still expects to be paid to support his work, although he is also running some kind of fundraising on Patreon--which may in fact be the way he is selling it. The free as in free beer projects seem to be: Free & Open Source Along with Element LT, Kushview maintains a number of Open Source Projects... Element LT This is the free version of the Element audio plugin host by Kushview. EDIT: Apparently a Patreon "subscription" is the only way it is selling now. TheFAQ at https://kushview.net/element/download/form/ discusses the current "pricing." "It’s unfortunate Element didn’t survive as commercial software, and the current state of it WOULD NOT have been possible without you. Instead of letting the project come to a screeching halt due to lack of sales… we decided it best to open the source and make it a community project."

http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/reverbs/psp_pianoverb/ Apparently this is free to everyone--not just an update for those who have an earlier version. and a 45% discount on all their plugs https://www.pspaudioware.net/register/store.php

Maybe index pricing. Often a retailer will set an "index price" at which he expects to sell very few items so that he can subsequently offer a "sale price" that will still give him a healthy profit and the kind of volume he wants. This is particularly easy to do with software, since the cost of development is the same for the first unit as it is for the millionth one--effectively once you have recouped that cost any price will yield a profit.

Yep of course done , same thing ...thks By "same thing" do you mean that a new external screen (how was it attached to the laptop?) shows the same streak of dead pixels as the onboard screen? If so then that would indicate the problem is in the signal from the graphics system rather than a failure in the onboard screen circuitry as I first suspected.

Bingo. This type of analysis would also apply to the reason that some DAW's get little love in magazines that depend on advertising to survive. I do not recall seeing as many option packages or aftermarket mods on Gremlins as I did on Continentals--but clearly my memory is not all that reliable these days. That said, I expect that a fair number of CW users are as susceptible to digital& analog GAS, although many will probably wait for the sale price.

Apparently the Catalina audio compatibility debacle presents another opportunity to chum the water in the Apple vs Windows debate. https://www.meldaproduction.com/text-tutorials/switching-from-osx-to-windows

It looks like you have a vertically aligned single pixel failure, which most commonly is a screen hardware failure. Most likely you will have to live with it, unless you want to try an expensive screen replacement.

This actually raises a serious question about the viability of Cakewalk. I would have expected that by now every kid with an internet connection would have downloaded CBB--if only to see how good free software could be. Such a massive user base should have pulled the plugin guys into testing their stuff on CW and proudly advertising their compatibility. The money to be made with a free DAW would seem to be in supplying plugs, and frankly I have been a bit surprised that Bandlab has not put major effort to distributing Cakewalk compatible, if not Cakewalk specific, stuff. In fact there does not seem to be a major effort to push Cakewalk to the masses at all. Free software might not generate enough revenue to justify the expense of advertising it. Perhaps that is to save support costs on software that is not generating any direct income. Perhaps it is generating enough indirect advertising revenue to justify its existence as a BandLab front end. As has been the case for years, the actual number of users of the product seems to be a state secret. I can understand why you would want to keep low numbers secret, which makes me suspect the numbers are in fact low relative to the not-much-if-any-more-capable and much-much-much-more-expensive alternatives. Without a general consensus among the add-in development community that Cakewalk users are a major market there is little incentive to even test their products with it, let alone support compatibility issues.

That is not the first installer I have found that makes me chase down everything. The current version of ioBit Uninstaller will allow you to monitor the installations of most software so that you can find where it writes changes. The free version does so if you manually start the installer from within ioBit. It is annoyingly nagging, but well worth the price.

Melodyne 4.2.4 download page has Windows and Mac versions. btw If it contains Cakewalk specific fixes does it not follow that there is a Windows version?

https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/index.htm https://music.tutsplus.com/articles/working-with-internal-audio-routing-jack-audio--audio-20601

You will want to buy (or at least decide on) your motherboard before you look for storage (unless you plan to use SATA mechanical drives only), a cpu, or memory--these items must be compatible with the MB. The best prices can usually be found on components that are about a year and a half past their release date. you cannot future proof your build by buying state of the art technology--it will be out of date in a year anyway and you will be paying a premium for bragging rights about something that is so new no one has found the flaws. If you buy really old stuff, you run into the problem that compatible parts may no longer be available, or are priced as antiques. I have always bought parts separately for my builds when they are on sale.

A 32-bit OS is not aware of or able to load 64 bit programs--so it is going to assume that all program files are 32-bit and just use a folder named "program files"--there will be no folder for 64-bit programs, so distinguishing two different program file folders by storing 32-bit programs under "program files (x86) will not occur.

So how "thin" does that ensemble sound performing live in a room? In the not so distant past, such events were recorded in real time with just a couple of strategically placed microphones and two tracks. Those recordings did not sound particularly "thin." The magic of sound massage available these days, and our addiction to that magic, makes doing something like that seem unthinkable. If you plan to try to double some of the instruments, you could use more tracks to create the impression of a string section playing unisons slightly detuned and time offset using more than three stereo tracks. But you can get the same effects using plugins on each of three tracks. The advantage of at least one track per instrument is that you can apply effects to each instrument independently, although there is some risk of making it sound like they are not all in the same soundspace doing that. In any case you can get a "fat" sound with no more than three tracks if you want.

Clonezilla is definitely not for unsophisticated users, and the last time I used it was not even able to compress disk images meaning the backup partition had to be as big as the original...OK in those days that mattered. If you are looking for free, but not requiring a computer science background Easus ToDo Backup (limited feature free version available) is an easy to use and effective option. If you do not want to use another OS to do the backup, and are willing to take the time to understand its workings Windows still has its own System Imaging feature built in. It can also backup copies of files using File History, but I have rarely used that feature, and find the simplicity and security of managing SyncToy gives me more confidence. In the past I have had the experience of Microsoft failing to support its own features in new versions, although they typically would hide a utility in an online download source that could extract the old stuff to the new version if you looked for it.

Typically USB audio devices, including microphones and headphones, each use their own audio driver. If you are using standard ASIO drivers, you are going to be limited to only using one device at a time--that is an ASIO limitation not a Cakewalk issue.

Laptops in general can be more of a risk than desktops. They are more likely to contain non-standard parts, or to use solder instead of sockets, so do it yourself repairs may not be practical (or even possible). Touch sensitive screens are another area subject to wear. Often even the manufacturers will just toss them if they are returned for failure under warranty. Return and warranty with a refund option are a bit more important, and I would be very reluctant to pick one up at a flea market.