Syphus

I'm thinking of backing up (imaging current disk) and giving 10 a try but I need to understand what is meant by "Deactivating" licenses (as mentioned in previous posts).  Are we talking just ILok or all registered (licensed)  Vst's.

I don't want to fight my system to get things back to normal - thanks for info . . .

Syphus

9 minutes ago, paulo said:

31 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Auto Update failed for me, so I did have to download and install manually

You can change the year, you can change the decade, but it seems you can't change BA. 

True -  I think the first couple of times it worked for me (updated from BA) - Never works now - They should fix that . . .  (He said, stating the obvious)

Syphus

2 hours ago, scook said:

NOTE: old posts refer to simply copying and renaming folders to create working versions of CbB. This is no longer a safe practice. To have multiple versions of CbB available online use Launchpad.

@scook ,  Can you explain "what is not safe" about the rename/copy option?  If it exist, point me to the thread that talks about or explain it here.   I have been copying the "cakewalk core" and archiving it and I would like to know how this could muck things up . . .   Thanks "ahead of time"

Syphus

13 hours ago, kday said:

Is there a way to downgrade to a lower OS, the new update is slow acting. The scroll line jumps and skips to the music. I tried editing the latency, but still the same. Didn't do this before the update.

Folks - I read this as a reference to the new update of CbB . . .

@kday - please state what you actually requesting - Cakewalk upgrade OR an actual OS (operating system) update.  It would let members advise you better . . .

Thanks,

Syphus

29 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

 Web back online but their app is offline. What a tease. 

Still not working  . . .   But you can manually download the installer . . .   Have not run it as of yet . . .

1 hour ago, simon said:

I'm on windows and still got the update

Who knows,   As long as it still works  . . .

Syphus

Here is is :

Update to all Products (Except XO) - December 16, 2019

Updated products:

Addictive Drums 2

Addictive Keys

Addictive Trigger

DS-10 Drum Shaper

RC-20 Retro Color

This is a maintenance update that fixes some rare issues resulting in flickering graphics on macOS. Run the XLN Online Installer to make sure you're up to date.

Is there any release notes - as in what is new?

Syphus

OK - They finally pulled the Trigger:

Day 2: Nice Bundle: VocalSynth 2, Iris 2, DDLY Dynamic Delay.

Day 2: Naughty Bundle: Includes: Trash 2, Mobius Filter, Excalibur

Syphus

Interestingly enough,  earlier (this day) the page the link posted above, points to to a page where you can get the Imager V2 (which I picked up).

The next present in the list for "Day 2"  had title of "Open in 1 Day".  Now it says "Two Days" and all the others are weird day lengths . . .   Yesterday I was under the impression this was a sequential "Day" thing (like a count down)    I wonder what they are up to??

Just curious... Anybody else see this?

Syphus

@Oscar Myer

see this link for some info on using AD and dragging and dropping Audio and/or midi

I know this is marked solved, but this might help you and someone else.   I have not tried doing this outside of a DAW.  But I think it should work.

Syphus

See this thread . . .

Hope this answers your question . . .

Syphus

5 hours ago, Freyja Grimaude-Valens said:

Yeah, at first I thought it was a some warm dirty saturation added for character, but after cycling through some presets, I found that the rise krispies effect persisted. The standalone mode also doesn't seem to recognize my SD-50 in ASIO mode.

Did not recognize my focusrite either . . .   Worked in DAW . . .   Still might find it useful somehow . . .     You get what you pay for - LOL

Syphus

I'm glad you brought that up.  Listening to the samples (or it could have been the video), I was thinking that I was hearing distortion and on some patches the "rice krispies" as you described ( I believe ).  Maybe it was noise that they were adding to the patch.  I'm going to give another listen

We will see.  I have downloaded it and will play with it later this week.

Syphus

I have tried this on a few sites and it been a non-valid code on all of them . . .  on the other hand I did not expect this to really work.

You know what they say about "Too Good to be True!" - LOL

Syphus

5 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

It's funny you should mention alternatives to Spacebar for starting and stopping playback and recording. I've noticed that Spacebar seems prone to mis-starts or bursts of static instead of normal playback, whereas using the mouse to click the transport button is less prone. I haven't tracked that down in any detail, yet, but it seems strange.

I saw somewhere in the forum others talking about the same issue using a Focusrite interface (driver update issues).  I myself have experienced this "static" effect on playback.

This has since stopped since I have updated my driver to the "next" to latest version and have not had this happen for a few months.  Perhaps it is your driver?

[additional info]  After the coffee kicked in I seem to recall that updating the Focusrite drive did not go well the first time and I re-installed the driver and rebooted my laptop and then things worked better . . .   Don't know if it applies, but thought I'd add it anyways.

Syphus

That was trippy . . . 

Syphus

I found this very entertaining!  Like antler  said,  Starts of kinda dry, but became very interesting as it went on . . .

This reminds me a recent experience I had just this week.  I was trying to contact customer service of a very large (profitable) corporation and "due to heavy calling" the wait times could be somewhat long.   As I was waiting on the phone, they were playing the lamest background music.  Only that wasn't enough, The music was so over-driven and distorted, that it was unbearable to listen to. 

Long story short, I had come to the conclusion that this effect was done on purpose (my speculation) so that a portion of people would rather hang up than continue to hear it - LOL.  They had to aware of this . . .  (even though this was probably a third party service)

That is what this this reminded me about (except the music was much clearer).  I certainly have had my share of "corporate videos" I had to watch in my lifetime.

Syphus

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(offer end Oct 31st)

https://www.pluginboutique.com/articles/1528

Just saying . . .

Syphus

OK - I'm back . . .

Problem is solved due to several things:

1 - I created some midi (for bass track) using another program that I know the results of.

• had to adjust notes to bring them into VST range - this worked importing the file

2 - Grabbed the midi file from Guitar Pro and imported (using drag & drop method):

• Stripped out the extra data from midi using "Event Viewer"
• Set the VST to ignore NRPN data (per Scook)
• Had to adjust note register (how low can you go - not that low - LOL).  So most of the data was out of range of the VST (my bad @mettelus thanks)
• Hit play and all is good

Thanks everyone for your help/suggestions - Have a great day!

Syphus

I will try to answer all here:

3 hours ago, Promidi said:

After you have performed the import of the MIDI data into the SI bass MIDI track, open the event list view.  Are there any events in there other than notes?

yes tried to look and edit the midi via "event viewer"  there was a "NRPN" at the beginning of the file - I deleted it but the condition persisted.

3 hours ago, MusicMan11712 (aka Dr. Steve) said:

Do you have an audio track that corresponds to the midi track and if so, does the audio volume show there?

This might not be your issue, but in many cases I find it helpful to have both the midi and audio track sliders showing. 

I do not believe it is my issue - the instrument worked until I imported the midi . . .

3 hours ago, scook said:

This would be my guess. Chances are Guitar Pro 7 is adding setup information to the exported files. This should be dealt with by modifying the program's export options.

I thought the same  . . .  unfortunately I  do not see any export parameters with Guitar Pro

3 hours ago, scook said:

Cakewalk sfz engine synths shut down when encountering unexpected data. Once the data is sent to the synth, it will make no sound until the project is shutdown and restarted. There are two ways to deal with the unexpected data in MIDI clips -

1. Open the clips in the Event List View and remove the offending data. Often the data is at the beginning of the clip. Deleting everything up to the first note may be enough or
2. Enable "Don Not Intercept NRPNs" in the VST plug-in properties page for the synth

I will look at this  . . .  and enable "Don Not Intercept NRPNs" and see what happens.  I will also edit the midi first (before clicking  play ) to remove the NRPNs to see what happens there.

3 hours ago, mettelus said:

Another comment to add to the above. The SI bass is also off by an octave IIRC, requiring you to to manually offset it. Unless you also have notes in the higher octaves, it will appear to be playing, but no sound.

not likely in this case as I am using two different VSTs  and both are acting badly with this data

Thanks all for your suggestions . . .   I will working on it later and report back . . .

Syphus

Hi All,

I have encountered this problem . . .   I would like some thoughts . . .

Here is the Process:

1) Create/edit a bass guitar part using Guitar Pro 7 (GP7) and export the midi

2) open a CW session (project) and using the "Synth Rack" create a instance of SI bass with/source midi track.

At this point I can click on the bass string or run the MIDI program snippets on the left side or use the virtual controller keyboard and get sound from the instrument.

3) import or drag & drop (D&D) the midi from GP7

4) When I hit play, the midi track shows activity (VU), but now no sound is produced.

5) Stop play & go back to the instrument GUI (interface) . . . Clicking on bass or running the programs on the left do not produce any sound.

Interesting enough, if I do not import or D&D the midi everything is working as described (I kill the project before hand by closing CW).

Notes:

Sometimes when I try to open CW again,  it will not open and is hanging (still active process).  Killing process allows me to open CW again.  I don't know if it will

kill it's self at this point (process) but something is obviously running in the background of CW.

If I manually enter midi data using the PRV (on the instrument's source track), all is good and I can play the midi notes with sound.

I tried to use the event viewer to see if there was anything weird going on with the imported midi,  but saw nothing.

Tried using another VST (MODO Bass) and reacted the same as described above

I'm assuming the the midi data from GP7 is the problem as this point.  I'm going to go and generate some other midi data with another program and import

it to see if it has any problems . . .

Has anyone out there experienced this? 

Thanks,

Syphus

I got a chuckle out of this one:

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Syphus

Went to look at drive - now "Sold Out".   I got a Toshiba 4T external for about $86 during "Prime Day" . . .

Syphus