MisterX

I don't care, 'cause Im a Cakewalk user, writing about Cakewalk issues on Cakewalk forums, not Word Perfect.

That's a convenient way for offline users, indeed, but it doesn't answer the question of activation requirement per se, in case BandLab is (knock on wood) dead someday. Or if they drop Cakewalk's developement for whatever reason. I mean, how can we be sure that we'll be able to work on our projects later on?

As to VSTi electric basses you may try one of Amplesound ones (119 $ each): https://www.amplesound.net/en/index.asp or some of Kontakt instrument libraries (99 $ each) like Scarbee: https://scarbee.com/collections/basses or Ilya Efimov: https://www.ilyaefimov.com/products/bass.html All 3 have audio demos on their sites.

Sorry, didn't know that. Next time I'll use a train to draw an analogy.

Didn't have a single software compatibility issue on my Win7 audio system so far. I'm OK to stay on Win7 "forever", 'cause what I have is more than I need, anyway. My only concern ATM is that it may be hard to find a decent Win7-compatible mainboard once mine is dead. but I'm already working on it.

if an operating system requires 150 security fixes yearly (let alone hundreds of other ones) it's quite far from perfection. At least to me. As for system updates - it's an arms race, indeed, and that's a good reason to stay offline with a music production machine, regardless of system used.

Sure, our cars need some care & maintenance from time to time, but certainly not every other day for 10 years or so! Unless they're seriously broken by design, that is.

Would you consider a car that requires security related fixes 150 times a year to operate properly SAFE? I wouldn't. I'd rather consider it poorly designed (or made).

If Win 10 is more secure than their previous systems (Win7 for that matter), then take a look here: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=windows+security+update+windows+10 and ask yourself why Microsoft already had to release several hundreds security updates for it, and still releases about two dozens every month.

I"m quite sure that VST3 was supported even by the ancient Windows XP: https://www.steinberg.net/en/newsandevents/news/newsdetail/article/fabfilter-releases-vst3-plug-ins-453.html

Yeah, telemetry would make my offline system so much smarter...

Does it mean that an outdated CWBL version can't be activated untill it's updated to the most recent version?

Direct link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160318133334/http://dsp.mutagene.net/programs/2WarpDelay_v1p2.zip Website copy : https://web.archive.org/web/20170503163413/http://dsp.mutagene.net/?pid=projects

Is this offline activation permanent or does it require periodical reactivations, just like the online one?

for Native Instruments Kontakt: 1 Native Instruments Cuba (very good sound, internal pattern sequencer, however not as many instruments as Toontrack has) 2. Samplephonics Afro-Latin Percussion (good overall sound, but single layer instruments only, therefore poor dynamics) 3. MAudio ProSession Producer Afro Cuban Percussion (quite old, but still a decent library) 4. Muletone Audio Travel Congas (congas only - as the name says - but very nice) for Toontrack EZ Drummer 1. Latin Cuban Percussion EZX2 (this one I do not own, so you'll have to aks others or judge yourself from YT clips for example) 2. Latin Percussion EZX (Pros: versatile, wide range of instruments, included midi grooves, etc. Cons: somewhat muffled sound to my ears, especially in the mix, so it may require some tweaking.

Binding CW (via rewire, perhaps?) to Passportmusic's Encore would make my dreams of efficient notation workflow come true. Very fast, light on resources, stable and versatile notation software with decent MIDI implementation. Well... thanks God dreaming is not forbidden (yet). Or is it? 😜

You may try this freeware: https://audiogridder.com/how-does-it-work/

It's not a foobar issue, it's this "ASIO Proxy" (3rd party) driver to blame, I guess.

If you have a program called "ASIO Proxy" installed on your machine you'd probably notice, that your CW is freezing for 40-50 seconds. Not instantly - it happens about 45-55 seconds after CW launch. After that CW unfreezes and you can work normally. Until next CW launch, that is...or until you change anything in preferences in current CW session. So guys, if you want to avoid this problem simply uninstall "ASIO Proxy", at least while working with CW. Strangely I've had no issues with "ASIO Proxy" on other DAWs or audio programs; seems like it's just Cakewalk, that hates it so much My suggestion to CW devs will be to EXCLUDE either: 1. reading of Registry entries for this driver, which would make it non existent for CW (since it's completely useless for CW anyway) 2. loading the driver itself (foo_dsd_asio.dll and/or foo_dsd_asio_x64.dll) 3. both of above I'm not sure if it's already possible, but in case it isn't - I'd also suggest to implement a function in future CW editions to let users choose which ASIO drivers to exclude / load on CW startup (be it from within preferences), should other ASIO drivers conflicts arise. I mean totally exlude from loading into CW, not just unchecking in audio devices list, as this driver freezes CW even if inactive, see screenshot. PS. 1 "ASIO Proxy" is kind of dedicated ASIO (?) driver that helps foobar reproduce DSD streams on DSD capable DACs. For more see: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/foo_dsd_asio/ PS. 2 Respective locations for "ASIO Proxy" dll files may be: a) for 64 bit systems = c:\Program Files (x86)\ASIOProxy or b) for 32 bit systems = c:\Program Files\ASIOProxy PS. 3 Location for "ASIO Proxy" Registry entries for both 32 and 64 bit systems is: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO\foo_dsd_asio] Regards, and happy unfreezing MisterX