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My dad said at his 75 birthday meal, "this getting old lark is no fun, in fact it is sh1t", my dad didn't swear. He made it to 85. Wishing you best Dave, hope the solution comes soon for you.

@msmcleod unfortunately that is not the case with all plugins Mark. Arturia's Stage 73 with zero all controllers ensbled zeros the volume to zero and the tremolo as well, which is irritating in the extreme. Same with the Korg Triton and Triton extreme. In fact several of my VSTi's will completely set their volumes to zero. Some even will get pan set hard left. I always disable the setting 90% of the time.

@mark skinner I only listened to the MP3 but the overall balance is much better. It has maintained being very cool stuff, love the cello.

They are an inspiration to me, more the earlier stuff but some of the new line up is getting interesting, they seem to be returning to their roots. Thank you Nigel.

@Magic Russ Analogue Lab gives you access to all their synths but with limited control and no real ability to create totally new voices. If you own the V collections or any of the standalone plugins then you can access the full synth.

All the best Dave, a little of the force to aid the surgeon and your recovery. Furry paws crossed.

Thanks, a little dissonance can bring the more melodic parts to life, the dissonance in this comes mainly from the ARP pattern being played of unusual scale notes. Appreciate your ears sir, thank you for your kind words.

Try Cakewalk.com.

Correct totally random even with plugins from the same company.

Whilst this should be true some VST i's don't appear to respond to MIDI volume changes, unless the volume has been mapped to the correct MIDI CC.

Do you have your projects on a separate disk drive? You will find an immediate improvement in performance if you add a drive for them, even an external SSD or better NVMe drive

Please keep it civil, if you have nothing of value to add, then add nothing.

Gain controls the amplification that can applied in a track to the Audio of either an Audio track or the Audio track of a Software Synth. As such it is something that only applies to amplifiers. Velocity is A MIDI CC control that can be applied to a number of different parameters within a synth. Though frequently used to control the volume of a note, it can be used to open or close a filter, or increase or decrease the resonance of a filter, or modify the shape of an envelope or conture, or any other MIDI CC command. Consequently it only applies to MIDI. They are completely different in their function and there would be no value in what you suggest. At the risk I suggest you perhaps take time to learn the difference between the two. Perhaps also learn about gain stageing in audio mixing and what gain is in an amplifier. It 8s possible to have both a gain control and a volume control in an amplifier. Gain dictates how much increase in power the amplifier adds to a signal. Volume is strictly an attenuator control, it can not increase the loudness of a signal only reduce it. You may like to try using split instrument tracks, these give you an Audio track and a MIDI track, it is my preference which I use for all my projects.

Seems multiple posting of similar links leads directly to a rabbit hole.

You are most kind Mark, thanks for your ears and time.

Oh look a rabbit hole, oops.

Thank you Keith, always a possibility.

The mix sounds fine here Keith, as to the horse no need to flog it, the commentary in the lyrics is valid especially in these troubled times. I do wonder if you might consider an instrument lead in the gaps between verses, just a furry thought.

It doesn't bother me, I just thought you would like to know that it was out of sync even at high resolution.

No issues here, either standalone or in my DAW.

Thank t you are most kind.

@KWILD Not seeing any issues here with standalone or in Sonar with either Instruments or FX from Arturia. I tried Analogue Lab Pro (V), CS-80 Version 4, Emulator II, and the FX Rotary CLS-222 and EFX Fragments My PC spec is in my signature however it does not include my GPU which is an Nvidia RTX 4060 using driver 31.0.15.4601 which I believe is out of date. Regarding your video driver are you using the Gaming driver? Apparently much better results than the standard one.

You will probably get more traction by posting one song per thread, along with some details on the songs story and how you captured it, Listened to the first nothing I could add.

Not bad AndyB01, is it me or does it have a late 60's early 70's vibe? Mix works reasonably here.

I downloaded the file after listening to the MP3, it is very cool stuff, one observation the left channel is consistently louder then the right by a couple of dB's also the left chanel looks clipped in so much as all the peaks are identical but the right is not so. See below.