Tim Smith

TBH If I was hungry enough I might eat food from someone like that. In reality it probably isn't as important how many bugs are on the food as the temp it was cooked at. Cook it well enough and it probably isn't going to matter. Several times when I made shrimp I noticed it smelled like ammonia coming out of the pressure cooker. I thought maybe it was something I had done. I did research on it and found out basically if you smell ammonia the shrimp have spoiled, so I bought spoiled shrimp but couldn't tell because the shrimp was frozen. Even then, after eating a few of them I never got sick because the bacteria had been killed. Where people get in trouble is when they handle uncooked food and touch something like a fridge handle or they don't wash their hands. Two days later there could be some pretty wicked little critters growing on that handle or on the counter top where the juice spilled. This is why I try to wipe things down with disinfectant towels. If I go into a bathroom I usually pull my sleeve over my hand before opening the door. Useless factiod- A study was done in both a mans and a women's bathroom to get bacteria counts. Guess which one had the most bacteria? The women's room.

Most of the problems seem to be for those who had "grace period" licenses.

If it was a chef serving me with that face I wouldn't eat the food.

I downloaded it. Just can't open it. Seems to be problem with elicenser server. I throw it my activation code and it say's my product can't be registered. I have an older elicenser, however it has the latest firmware updates. All of my licenses were on it before I did the elicenser maintanence Steinberg requested. Steinberg site seen and registered my dongle. When I go through the grace period check it behaves like my elicense is invisible. 2nd night in a row and I'm tired of messing with this for now.

I don't believe this is the case because I downloaded C12 and it shows up . I can't open it because it doesn't see a license.

This is what I see in my Steinberg Account. Even though it shows I have a license on my elicenser. My elicenser is empty. ...Sorry I am not very good drawing with a mouse.

Standards are not best for competition purposes. Standards are best for self improvement. Take way standards and we have nothing to measure with.

I guess we all had different experiences back in the day. In reading some of your experiences, I see some similarity to the way I see the younger generation and their music. To be fair, there are very talented people in every generation, and like you I see many good musicians buried in anonymity in both theirs and older generations. We have session musicians here who played in bands and are really good at their craft ,Kenny and Batsbrew to name just a few. There are others who come here even though they don't use Cakewalk much. We once had more of those people but they have moved on or they don't come by as much. I wasn't raised in any area where there was any kind of a serious music scene happening. I was in the rural south east US, and you had to invent something there or it wasn't happening. I'm glad I wasn't anywhere near some of it TBH. We still had the music playing from those other places. I came from early music education and played with a bunch of instruments. Not necessarily wonderful at any of them. My mother had me in a Baptist church early on and I think it was a good thing. The music was in contrast to anything else. I am still on violin as torture for my character building. I even hired a skinny German teacher who likes pain and suffering, and who could really care less about humans. I caught the Irish music bug but had a teacher beat the interest right out of me. I also met a person who had a siren voice that attracted people. You think I'm kidding. I think there was a spell on her which might have worn off. The music I was going into then was probably most like "New Age" music because that was what she sang and I decided I liked things about it. After some introspection I realized I wanted nothing to do with "new age" or any "spirit" of this age because I know too much about all of that. I know where it originates and I know where it leads.I know what it claims to be and what it isn't. The tech can surely benefit everyone. 65 year olds with Vienna all loaded up composing symphonies isn't a bad thing. Anyone who ever dreamed of composing their own symphony, have at it. You could attempt to sell it even. I don't chase after any fads. At my age I have realized I can still make music for people my age, and I do, and I get comments they like it. I get more out of that than chasing what's in and trying to copy it. It is getting a little more difficult to find good fairly priced hardware because the manufacturers are making teeny little electronic keyboards and hit boxes. And if that's where it's all going I'll be taking another route. And if my channels all get buried in social media I don't care. I really don't.

Installation issues here. The same ones others had. It was late and I didn't have time to bother with it any more after a half dozen attempts. I was able to install CB12pro. I see it on the download portal. I just can't launch it. When I followed the instructions for from Cubase for maintenance in my eliscenser it basically took everything off the dongle, Either that or the elicense server wasn't resistering it. I'm afraid to check Cbase 11 because users are reporting it's gone too. At the Steinberg site in my account I have the grace period license registered so I'm good there. Tried multiple reboots, Same thing. Ugh.

That too. I think my neighbor gets a johnson using it in the summer. Nothing to do? I know I go blow things around in the yard with that LOUD leaf blower. I swear I've heard it at 8pm. Must be using night vision to see the leaves.

Maybe slightly exaggerated. For me it's the weed wackers, dogs barking, the telephone ringing and wash going up and down the stairs.

I'm doing everything they all told us not to do here years ago. Remember the guy who insisted he was never going to hook up to wifi with his DAW. I'm doing that and everything is fine. I often have browsers and the weather posting on my desk top. Something like that isn't really bothering things much. I'm sure if I pushed the envelope something would give. Maybe this is telling of my work. I don't need much because I ain't doing much.If I need more I'll make it work. That's my philosophy and I hope it doesn't get deleted.? Project on the desktop and I want to order from Amazon? No problem. These things can work. I often leave a project opened on my desk top after I just exported a track and I open up Ozone 9 or TRacks for mastering. I don't close the project until I'm happy with everything. My computer can handle that no problem. It is probably time to clean out some of the programs I never use, or keep them on my laptop just in case I want one of them, but at this time I'm not feeling very motivated. I might not feel motivated tomorrow either.

What? Are you saying you don't believe in lizard people then? ? While I see the truth in that, I still trust what I see when I look at what's happened to music. "Not as good as" is probably too relative a term here. I see the tech as creating different ways to approach music, manyof which seem to leave out creativity in certain genres. Not an always sort of thing or a never sort of thing, but I think it has definitely had an impact of people playing instruments. But we can't stop it, so why am I even talking about it? ? Feels good to observe and comment.

I think Windows defender only drags things down when it's working which isn't often. I just happened to boot up the other day and it was doing it's thing. You would probably see Studio One pulling the system down a lot more if you had a heavy project loaded up.

I guess it depends on project size. It works fine on my medium powered computer 5820K i7 running SSDs. Film composers use Cubase running hundreds of tracks on it. On slow servers- They are likely overloaded as everyone is trying at the same time. If you are unsuccessful, maybe waiting a day or so things will settle down. Your credentials aren't going anywhere.

? Great news! I updated my download assistant last night but wasn't aware 12 was out. I'll see if I can get 12 tonight. I should be in the window to get it thanks to clarry's mention here. This is one of the few DAWS I feel confident saying you don't need much outside of it to do whatever you want to do without investing in 3rd party plugs. Not that any of us would really want to do that. ..................but you know what's probably going to happen after we get locked into 12. *subscription* at least as an option.

I seen the video of this. The birds fly right into that formation. Cool.

Soooooooo..............I gotta watch what I say because a thread I commented on was yanked the other day and I was just trying to lighten things up some. I will just say. No this ain't exactly the old Cake forum. Maybe that's a good thing and sometimes maybe it isn't. Nuff said. I feel bad for anyone stuck in that mess. I'm sure it's going to affect pretty much everything over there. People are saying things and doing other opposite things if you know what I mean. Isn't it amazing how the need for masks basically went away so fast? Just in time for the US SOTU address. Let's see here, Billy is being bad so we're going to take his allowance away. Does Billy care? Thank goodness for satellite internet connections.

I'm sure there is some truth to that lol. To be fair, not all of the old music was great either. The advantage to the new music is they can look at all the old stuff, pick out what sucked and copy the rest (however poorly in a sequencer). OK that statement might be just a little sarcastic.?

I'll say it. No, Most of the music today really is worse than older music. No matter how you cut it or slice it ( pun maybe intended). The MIXES are better.......until the get squashed down into a compressed format. I'm not going to apologize for bad music that leans too much on computers.

I'm sorry scook I wasn't attempting to put you on the spot with this. Thank you for your help here. I can always give it a shot and put it back if there are issues. I just found it odd that all the other DAWS were working and Cakewalk wasn't. No two are the same exactly so that would make sense that maybe Cakewalk is doing something slightly different at startup with regard to the drivers than the others.

I appreciate yours and others input on this. In hindsight really my question was over simplified. I would imagine running audio only would be no issue provided you have a large enough hard drive. A few things that have a high likelyhood of working for a larger project would obviously start with at least a semi powerful machine. A computer with good specs for the work. Not necessarily the best of the best. Secondly, using the built in DAW channel effects are an advantage so far as cpu drain. It is probably debatable as to which is best in any given situation in using built in .vs 3rd party. Some people love the brick wall limiter in Cakewalk. The EQ in it has an amazing GUI as good as most others. I'm sure the built in effects are useful and I have found them to be highly efficient, but not as good as a few of the other 3rd party plugins. That could be said of most other DAWS. In some cases though, the improvements are more drastic. A good mixer could use them and most people would not know the difference. A few plug ins can be real cpu hogs. Abbey Road Chambers comes to mind as one of those plug ins, and even though it gets raves, I can often use one of my other less touted plugins and it works just as well for the mix. Next would be recording resolutions. Big difference between 24/96 and 16/44.1 But yeah, if your in the balloon and trying to gain altitude, throwing weight off always helps- Use 16/44.1 Use the included plugins Separate the mastering stage from the mixing stage Streamline the OS for audio, removing unnecessary programs and tasks. I have had mixes choke at 15-20 tracks in Cakewalk because I had a bunch of heavy plugins loaded and was tracking in 24/48 with a bunch of unfrozen instruments.

Another thing that takes a lot from my cpu is Windows defender. Hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE will bring up tasks. I click on that to see where my cpu might be taking a hit. It's odd that only one of my cores was taking the hit while the other 5 ( 12 total in hyperthread mode) were ok.

I haven't watched the video. On modern music, I don't even know where to begin. We could start with those free midi chord loops I see all the time on YouTube. "Just drop the loop in and you have a hit". 15,000 loops for 15.99. ok