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BTW .. @ZincT @Xel Ohh .. If ye guys are ever shopping for a new audio I/F .. as of now I will highly recommend the AUDIENT EVO 4 which arrived to me last wednesday Lets see what @Abhijit Singh says when his one arrives

@Xel Ohh Re Serato Studio .. I will get around to it,Im neck deep in noodling with MPC Beats and CW at the mo .. will let you know when i get around to it tho. Re sampler in Beats, I actually find it good so far, not too complicated. Use as much or as little as one needs I suppose. Did you go the route of export stems out of Beats to CW as I described above ( the explode feature and all that ) .. I think its a good compromise around the Beats crashes in CW at the mo

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Ah well ... worth a try I suppose. It was someone replying to a CW vid review thing on Youtube .. said they had succeeded. You saved me the trouble :D You should have a go off the stems idea I posted above also and into CW. I see lots of possibilities with that. Also that vid I just posted about BEATS built in sampler, well worth a look .. again inspiring for ideas

I might also add .. having watched Ave McRee's vid tute below I can see that MPC BEATS could be the missing sampler inside CW?

@Xel Ohh There is another way around this. Create your patterns and tracks in MPC BEATS. THEN export the individual stems out as WAVs and load them into Cakewalk to arrange and master etc ... To do this - particularly for DRUM LINES you need to select all the drum track individual parts, then go to edit menu, Track and EXPLODE. This puts each drum part into its own track. CLEAR the original drum track ( before that MUTE it and make sure the other tracks played together are your drum track ). Next go to FILE, EXPORT, as audio mixdown. Set audio Tail to ZERO and tick EXPLODE TRACKS. Set the Format, Depth and rate as you like and click EXPORT. Dump them to a folder of your choice. Now open CW and import that lot in and you are good to go to arrange and master and add further to if you wish .. ( Take note of the BPM in MPC Beats too, set it the same in CW ) BTW .. I also spotted elsewhere IF YOU HAVE AKAI VIP ( comes with the MPK Keyboards etc ), you can load that as a plugin in CW and then inside that load BEATS and it apparently doesnt crash. Have not tried it though ..

Yes @Abhijit Singh .. very happy with it so far. Got it for same reason as you - GUITAR, with that DI on the front and hearing good reports from guitarists with this I/F. As they say here in Ireland ( When you get your EVO ) .. Well Wear Another comment I will have about it is, relatively, its quiet weighty and sturdy .. which is assuring.

So my Audient EVO 4 arrived from AMAZON today. All rigged up with my Lenovo Core i5 16GB and 1 TB Hd system. No prob installing though I did come a slight cropper with the FRUITY LOOPS ASIO Driver installed. It caused CW audio engine to drop out with the cursor on constant whirly thing. SO I uninstalled the FL Asio and the Asio4all drivers, SORTED. Works like a dream since then. Downloaded all the freebees that came with it, done via a serial and a pin on the underside of the EVO 4 and then the evo.audio/evo4/download site I am a loopcloud subscriber - one of the freebies is a few gigs of samples added to your Loopcloud account. Only issue with that is more on the loopcloud side. If you already have an account with them it doesnt add the Audient freebie loops so I just emailed Loopcloud and 5 mins later they added it there end. Here is a pic of my system with CW open and the EVO 4 on the right for scale:

As the title says: https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/1852-Vocalizer-Pro Oh and RX 7 Elements comes with it free also ..

@Oscar Garzon Unfortunately you cannot get away from this one. If you are serious about your music .. You will need to get a decent Audio I/F and get away from that basic soundcard you have on the graphics board. No 2 ways about this TBH. Have a look at this thread I setup a while back about Audio interfaces. I was hunting for one myself because my old M-audio Firewire I/F was getting real long in the tooth. I finally settled on the AUDIENT EVO which comes in at around $100. Its an external Audio I/F connected via USB. There are a few decent Audio I/Fs which would be better than what you have and in some cases well under $100. The oldest but still very good if on a budget is the Presonus AudioBox USB 96 which I have seen for about ST£80. Another range that does get a battering both good and bad is the Behringer Audio I/Fs .. eg the UMC22 comes in at ST£56 or the UMC202HD comes in at ST£87 ( both would be well better than that card you are using at the moment ). One of the top makes is Focusrite and the Scarlett Solo 3rd gen comes in at ST£92. All these prices available on AMAZON UK, convert to your own currency. Read that thread above. You cannot as they say make a silk purse out of a sows ear no matter which way you cut it. Nothing you do will make that "audio I/F" you have any better in my opinion and all you will be doing is frustrating yourself no end ... my 2 cents! The two i finally settled on were the Komplete Audio 1 or the Audient EVO. I went for the latter simply because it was available and the Komplete was not. I also went for the Audient EVO because i play guitar for eons and saw many good reviews about its inputs for Guitar and vocals etc. All that info and reviews is available at that thread above to save you the bother of repeating the same thing & once you come around to stop fooling yourself with that graphics I/F you have

Magix Music Maker (V4)

As I mentioned above .. dredging through my past humble bundle purchases and MAGIX MP3 DELUX 19 is in there: https://www.magix.com/ie/music/mp3-deluxe/ That can be installed alongside the current bundle .. if you bought past bundles you might have it already

BTW @ZincT .. I started dredging through my Humble Bundle past bundles and found there: https://www.magix.com/ie/music/vintage-effects-suite/ Just installed them, nice ... might be in your collection too from the past

@ZincT I moved the Loop collections manually as I said, then in the Explorer window in Acid I added the new Loop Collections location as a favourite. All sorted it seems.

@ZincT Looks like not fixed. The got installed under - C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common - Which I suppose is OK if being shared ad used by different win 10 profiles. As in 9 it seems the "Loop Collection Folder" option is present but STILL non-functional as you describe (you cannot enter anything in it). I moved them to a new locations under Audio Data\magix\Loop Collections .. I just had one project done and when opened again I repointed to that folder and saved it, all now working again. It is annoying that programs do this, putting stuff in places you have no control over during install. Another annoying thing about MAGIX is they download all the install software, install the applications BUT then do not clean up after leaving huge install files in under Documents\MAGIX Downloads .. in my case eating up 10GB

BTW if you do buy this bundle .. a particular point about the ACID MUSIC STUDIO 11 - When installed go to the help menu and click on DOWNLOAD INSTRUMENTS AND LOOP COLLECTIONS. You end up with a crap load of extras to the tune of near 4gb of content.

I feel your pain I am transitioning my desktop over to a new ( second hand box I inherited ) .. core i5, 16gb Ram .. Its PAINFUL having to reinstall everything inc all the bread and butter vsts and all that and then relicense them etc. Keeping the PC uncluttered .. yeah, mmm ... indeed, lets see how it goes on my end. I could see myself doing all this in a while again when I get the bobs together for a 2GB SSD to replace the 1GB Sata thats in this newer box. BTW I have tried ghosting and all that, it still is troublesome and can cause issues. Sometimes the long way IS the short way MPC Beats .. as the advert says .. Im Lovin it .. got great creative potential and it finally gets you to start using all those sample libraries cluttering your harddrive that were bought over years

Yes was always curious about VIDEO X .. will be looking at it over weekend and see. I am knee deep in noodling with CW and Reason 11 Intro as a plugin trying the Reason samplers PLUS also messing around with MPC Beats which is real nice with my Akai MPK Mini 2 controller kbrd. I really like the look of the new Akai MPk mini 3 kybrd just out too .. Also have one of these arriving Wednesday from amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B084BGC5LR/ A new AUDIENT product, the upgrade on this .. the ID4: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audient-18-90008-ID4-Audio-USB-Interface/dp/B0107YJU8Q/

Yip .. I was just wondering in basic terms is there much diff tween SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 13 and Soundforge Pro 12? I have the latter installed all the time and use it .. Just installed SF Audio studio 13. In long run I wont need both BUT is there a big diff between the two performance wise etc? BTW I went for the > €23 to get the lot. I find with these things that for that price, even if I dont use some of the software it can come in handy later on for upgrade prices vs buying new. Small money to pay for that possibility in the future

From a previous HB software bundle I have Soundforge Pro 12 and Vegas pro 15. I just wonder would the VEGAS Movie Studio 16 Platinum and SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 13 - even though cut down - be worth replacing the Soundforge Pro 12 and Vegas pro 15? The UIs def look newer as is the case with Acid Music Studio 11 ( Gone is the windows XP look ). In my case I am not a heavy user of Soundforge or Vegas, I only use them occasionally if i eitehr need to edit a sample a bit or open very old vegas files from the distant past.

As an aside and speaking of samplers. Some may not be aware that REASON 11 & its instruments can be used inside CW as plugins. The REASON INTRO 11 is well worth it here because as well as all its included instruments and efx it also has the NN-XT and the NN19 Samplers which will now work inside CW. REASON INTRO is €79, pretty much the price of other sampler vsts on there own: https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/product/reason-11-intro/

In fact @Xel Ohh uses serato sample in Cakewalk and seems to hold it in high regard ( No 4 in the review ABOVE out of 5 )

Also this ... for zilch .. and updated very recently https://www.tx16wx.com/

Another new TUTE for y'all on MPC Beats

Decided to BUMP this because it is now actually available for free from: https://serato.com/studio I spotted this via a recent vid done by @Xel Ohh ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59i6B1p-at8&pp=wgIECgIIAQ%3D%3D ) when he mentioned Serato sample plugin that he uses. have not looked at it yet but i wonder can it be used as a plug inside CW? And as i asked over at @Xel Ohh video comment .. are elements of Serato Sample in this freebie? @Xel Ohh Also mentions this nice little FREE Drum sampler: https://decomposer.de/sitala/