JoeGBradford

Check out these free sample sets / instruments Also DSK make some ok orchestral and other free VSTis https://professionalcomposers.com/best-free-orchestral-sample-libraries/

If you want to play samples in a midi track you need a sampler or use a virtual instrument which already contains samples of the kind you need I'm not an expert on samplers so others may be able to help better in respect to that. I just use virtual instruments and audio loops there are plenty of free ones around

Some good pointers there Starise - as I'd had previous with using Sampletank 4 with Miroslav libraries I got the way it was working. My main problem initially was that I 'misplaced' the installers for the ST3 libraries and tried to install myself - wasted a lot of time until I found the installers further down my extracted folder!

With the audio samples in Bandlab Assistant I think you can drag them straight into an audio track in your project With Virtual Instruments like Loopcloud Play and Drum you insert them as a virtual instrument It would be worth taking a little time to read the manual and watch more of Mike's videos which will help you further There is a downloadable pdf version of the manual here https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

Loopmasters have a bass and drum smapler instrument and access to some free packs - google Loopcloud. Also there are some sample packs in the Bandlab Assistant - at the top click on Sounds

Mike from Creative Sauce gas done a video about the package. Not watched it yet but will be interesting to see what he thinks

Fair comment

Creative Sauce

I was going to suggest that one too. Mike's videos are excellent. Worth watching all of his Cakewalk ones

Interesting to that Christian from Spitfire is behind Pianobook. I really like his videos. Are all the samples there Kontakt based? - I don't have full Kontakt so wouldn't be able to take advantage of them if so. Having said that I have just got Total Sampletank Max which has enough sounds for me to be getting on with

oh I like that! Well done!

Very nice - I'm a folk music enthusiast so good to hear!

To be serious - I was fairly cynical initially and was hoping still to go on our holiday to southern Italy in early April - then I saw the coffins in Bergamo (a city I have visited and love) and realised how dreadful this thing is. Anyone suggesting that people should ignore the lockdown whilst the death rates are still rising is irresponsible at best and evil at worst. Stay safe everyone - this is a good community we have here and I don't want to lose anyone from it ❤️

Nothing that a gargle of Domestos or Toilet Duck won't cure according to the Great Leader 😉

I'm just waiting for you to mention the 5G connection 🙂

There'll be an element of natural selection in this. Those of us who are able to and are sensible enough to stay locked down will live longer than those who choose to ignore lockdown. My heart is with those essential workers who are having to risk all to keep up fed and safe. Those who choose to ignore lockdown will have many of those people's blood on their hands. Fortunately in the UK most people are being sensible and although we have an appalling Government at least we don't have Trump spouting his mindless and dangerous drivel! Surely now people will get rid of him when they have the chance?!

My biggest live music regret was going to see Genesis in Leeds rather than Pink Floyd at Manchester. Genesis were basically a pop band by then and only did a short four song medley of some of their classics 😞

Good choice. I was listening to David Gilmour at Gdansk last night. Not sure I've seen this one. I've got the Pulse DVD - a different gig?

Fitzroy - I don't understand what is 'meh' about helping the most disadvantaged in society? Unless of course you prefer not to?

Without wishing to get too political, and not a comment on the legality or otherwise of JRR selling to the UK - I should mention that, unlike some others here, I have absolutely no problem in paying taxes - except that we have a very right wing Government in the UK (well not as right wing as in the US of course!) and some of my taxes tend to go towards making rich people even richer! So given this option to avoid VAT I took it knowing it would give me a little more money to put towards the causes I support which are helping the most disadvantaged in society. 🙂

Thanks I'll give it a try! I assume I go in by clicking the Edit Config File button?

I've been having some recent issues with crackling when playing VSTi's and have adjusted buffer size to no avail. My thread scheduling model is set to 1 - would setting it to 2 help? I have a quad core i5 2,500k at 3.3GHz & 8gb RAM What does the thread scheduling model do? Cheers

Cheers Peter appreciate your presence here

I've had a crash with ST4 in CbB when auditioning sounds. I'll see how it goes.....

Yep if I hadn't got it for the cheaper price I probably wouldn't have bothered at the IK price - even with Jam Points it would have been around £150 - £160 and I was mainly interested in ST3 Max & Miroslav (I already have Miroslav CE)