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@craigb these days due to major changes here I am TITB. Plenty of advice already given on systems. But if your interested in the modular root, there are a number of options. There is still a free version of VCV 1, but no VST plugin version. Cherry Audio's starter VM modular is frequently free to. There is also a free version of VCV 2 that works as a VST, sorry name escapes me at the moment I will find it and come back. There are a number of other free modular's. Cherry Audio's instruments are extremely usable and favourably priced. As Mark states you need a reasonable powered PC, and I agree with him regarding laptops. As ever happy to help if required.

@RexRed can inquire why two GPU's when so many now support up to 4 screens, even at 4K.

@Bapu Definitely better.

@Misha ironically Cakewalk Pro Audio had a looping function. You could create a single clip and loop it for the length of your song without dragging it out like you do now.

You are old school linear, like using a tapedeck. ? Ableton is very much about building loops that work together. I watch a regular YouTube chap called Synth Seeker who uses Ableton to build Berlin style tunes. Try giving him a view Andy he shows how he builds his music in Ableton.

Annual updates, if taken every year, are a subscription. But I would like to see some form of guaranteed ownership. Unfortunately many products are doing the subscription route. Even Roland's pay-4-life, requires you maintain an account, all be it free, once you have what you want to keep it authorised.

You only have to launch one either Sonar or CbB once to authorise Dim Pro. Once done in one it will be good in the other. It's why I suggested the CCC as that would have authorised everything in one go.

Is Dim Pro Installed? It has an issue with Authorisation which requires you to Start CbB or Sonar as Admin to get the Codes to stick. Be very careful uninstalling anything, BbB S-Plat and Sonar share a lot of directories and if you just do a straight uninstall you will kill the rest. The foot print is quite small. Unless you are low on disk space I wouldn't worry.

Do you have an historic copy of Dim Pro or did you own an historic copy of pre Bandlab SONAR? If so install the new CCC and install Dim Pro from there. If no the tonthe best of my knowledge Dim Pro is not yet available unless they have recently made available.

Thanks to all who stuck their ears in for a nose. I will remember to pay more attention in the future.

Not bad,listening on my old Teac concentrics with passive subwoofer.

Could you not hook a nice big NVMe drive to the Pi to use that as your NAS

Local synced NAS is the answer, I mean you never turn anything off do you?

Thank you sir.

I see @RexRed you went for the minimal storages option just a few terabytes. Looks a good spec. I did initially have an i9 13900K but it went back as I couldn't get an acceptable latency and neither could the supplier.

@RexRed what is your new CPU. I believe mine is in my signature but signatures don't show on my tablet. If not currently I have an i9 14900 K. 8 P cores 16 E cores 32 threads. Noel wrote something about Cakewalk doesn't treat cores differently.

If you take the time to read the forums the simple answer is yes and no. The yes significant part is that in Cakewalk Sonar the GUI is now created using vector graphics. This may not seem a big thing now, but will allow for faster future development, due to us8ng new development tools. The no part is not a bad thing as functionally it is identical to CbB with one small additional the X-Sampler. But things will come to it. No you don't have to be online but will need to reauthorisation/reactive regularly. The answer to that is probably, I never known BETA testers who haven't signed an NDA. But who knows only they do and they can't say anything ?

Thank you.

Check out www.GPU.audio they are already producing FX that run in spare GPU processing capacity.

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@Xoo people forget Xeon processors were always aimed at the server market. Where you don't always need processing grunt just file movement which is what e-cores are good at, i. e. Mundane simple tasks. I used to manage networks and server farms. @RexRed a lot of the advances in AI have been made using GPU technology because the average GPU has a lot more cores than most high spec CPU'S. Have you tried any the GPU FX from GPU audio. When I last investigated unfortunately neither of my GPU's were compatible, since investing in a new PC with a higher spec GPU I have not tried. You are right I think there is a lot of scope for DSP processing on GPU's in DAW's.

Anything that still has a heartbeat ??

I used Alpha PC's and servers, and at one time worked for the company that eventually gave birth to the ARM CPU architect.

The Gull is resting from his success, thinking what could be next. This was totally unexpected I was noodling around with Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular, like you do, and came up with an interesting drone base. Stuck it into Sonar then, added impOSCar 3 along with the OB-X . Then things started to fall into place. Added the DMX for some percussion and the MiniBrute for some basic bass pulsing. Two hours later I had a tune. Few more hours refining the mix total time four hours from silence to this. Thanks for the ears, time and continued support.

Nice to hear Julianna's vocals in this forum again, such a stunning and versatile voice. Nice tune, nice capture.