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Bruce are you running version 4.10 ? I think I remember a comment awhile back concerning the graphics in answer to your point 3. That might be a possibility that the GUI is seizing up somehow retrieving the graphics.Just a guess on my part. In my case I was playing midi sending to the C-7 binaural which is also a fairly large sample set. You are inferring that this might also be sample related. I haven't checked ST4 to see if there are buffer adjustments. This could help. I have 16gb of memory and was only running one sound at the time.

I see your points here Tezza and can see that why you view things in this way since you work in a field that exposes you to these kinds of situations. I guess I made a false assumption that we were talking about mentally competent adults since bringing in the mentally handicapped, though no fault of their own or because of their own action has caused them to be mentally unstable and incapable of making rational decisions. This, of course, opens up a whole different can of worms and I think I can correctly say that they would be a minority of the population, yet still a consideration. Substance addiction is probably one of the most serious issues because the addiction is so strong that you need help to get past it. I compare it to the horror movies where someone is changing into a werewolf and they beg to be locked up until it passes. In my opinion they still have free will but it has been compromised by the drugs. Same as excess sugar weakens your immune system, addiction weakens your ability to make the right decisions. I have never met an addict that wanted to be addicted. They want to quit . In this case their free will can't break through their physical dependency on the drug. The part of them that WANTS to quit is their will. The part of them that keeps taking the drugs is probably physical. Yes, there are those who WANT to take the drugs too. This view would argue what part of "you" is really you. I would counter that it's the inner part that decides but can be overridden by external circumstances. If I was an addict I would make the choice to get help. That's free will. Their other choice is to keep doing the drugs and live a very short life. That is also a choice. To be clear, I only blame the individual who is in poverty, could make a plan to get out, and doesn't. No one can be responsible for being born into poverty.People can be responsible for not attempting to get out of it if they can. I don't think there is any such thing as a person who could never make their circumstances better. I'm not saying they could be rich, just better...look at the generations of people who came to the US in the 1930's. That was a free will choice....to get out of their bad situations. The grass is sometimes greener on the other side of the fence. Those first generations that came here worked their a**es off. Lived in pretty bad conditions. By the second generation they had built businesses here and were prospering. Their grandchildren will be wealthy. If a person is born in Somalia, South Africa one of the poorest and most violent places on earth they have far fewer choices. That's a given. They still have choices though. If we were fish, our free will could only function within the confines of our tanks. I'm not going to lie, if I were in Somalia I would be looking to jump to another tank at any cost. Others might have found a way to coexist within that oppressive ecosystem. I think we have to define poverty since there are people here who claim to be poor but have 200.00 shoes on and 100 dollar tattoos who eat three square meals every day. They are classified as "poor" because they live in a section of town that's typically low income. To me "poor" is someone who doesn't have food , clothing or shelter.

Thanks T, I will look at this as a potential issue.

I seen that PSP have had sales for Xenon. I guess it wasn't to be this time

I guess I'm the only one this happened to . Better start checking my system/setup again. The odd thing is it doesn't happen all the time.

Glad you got it working. Had a similar issue with a hard drive install the other day. The SATA cable was bad. The other thing was the computer needed a reboot for the MOBO to see the new populated SATA port.

I'm a little envious that people get off of work with pay. I don't.

Tezza the argument you make seems to make financial security and life status the end all of human accomplishment. The ultimate human goal. It also does not take into account that people in poverty can move beyond it and that rich people can loose their money. It also does not take into account that there are happy well adjusted people who are not rich and miserable unhappy wealthy people. If money and status were the only important goals everyone who has money would be happy and everyone who is poor would be seeking wealth because that's the only way to be happy. Many who are poor don't ever make it outside of poverty, but many do. What is the difference between them? There are various reasons for poverty. Local economic conditions, laziness, poor planning, bad management, addiction. Did you happen to notice that many of these are choices ? Just because one is born into poverty does not mean they are stuck in poverty. What are some reasons people escape poverty? They think outside of the box, they work hard, they seize opportunity. You didn't mention all of the states in between poverty and wealth. Most people have enough but aren't wealthy. This can also be a choice. Wealthy people who are born into wealth can still go out and blow daddy's fortune. I've seen it happen. Wealth is not a determining factor in success, work and ingenuity are. Wealth can guarantee more opportunity if you already have it and use it wisely. This does not negate the potential of the less fortunate. All fortunes were started from nothing. All of that involved choices...................and free will. And yes, making bad choices makes bad outcomes. Irregardless of the choices anyone else makes or what your present circumstances are you can still make bad choices that have bad outcomes. Happens all the time.

Very true and good points all round'. He who dies with the most toys...............................................................dies. My short term goals are to make a living and make music. My long term goals are to retire and make music. If things got really bad, plan B might be tapping keys one at a time on a DAW. I would go out for air periodically and listen to the birds. I might fall asleep. Hopefully I would wake up again and make more music. I guess from a maintenance perspective my guitars are just hanging there. Probably need new strings. Periodically I would likely go fishing no matter what. It also makes a good plan C. The most important thing about planning is to realize they call it a plan because at best it is a novel attempt at something that can't be determined. I don't claim to know even half of anything. Beware the man who knows everything.

There you go Craig. Population control.

Seems you have gotten around in music some kitecrazy. I have noticed some older students struggling to play violin. What is difficult is moving to the next level. I mean, I can play a bunch of folk tunes no worries. In fact I played at a banquet this past weekend no other musicians were there. This was before all of the locks downs came about. Irish banquet, Irish music...they went together pretty well . Ask me to play Vivaldi though and you might as well be talking to a rock. The only thing that concerns me about getting older is loosing the basic abilities necessary. If your hands don't work correctly (athritis) you loose some dexterity and will have more difficulty playing. If your eyes fail you'll have a hard time seeing a DAW or sheet music.Lose hearing capacity and you might loose the ability to hear tones. I also feel that sense of urgency Jim mentioned. I mean, if I'm about dead by the time I get some time free might as well take up fishing. So far I've been pretty lucky. Bassoon hasn't tempted me yet In consideration of just the natural process of aging some can add additional health issues to that. I have seen this take the edge off of determination to play. Understandable why some might consider music making a phase and move on to something else. There have been famous musicians who toured that just quit. Having said that I feel a lot like Jim, that music chose me. Never considered myself any great talent, but I don't think I could stop. MUDGEL, yeah like Jim said, I would give it some time. I wouldn't want to be sitting in the same place several years from now wishing I still had that stuff. I have regretted selling stuff. Yes it's true, I need to be shoehorned into my studio but it's home. We are all different though, so I say go where your heart leads you and don't look back if you do.

I agree. If you have one of these who needs it?

I guess the important thing here Kenny is you found Mr. Wiggley. I compare it to a snapping turtle. He doesn't come out often, but when he does LOOK OUT!

I have had similar thoughts more about instruments than hardware or software. When I took up violin 4 years ago my plan was to play all my guitars, keys and the violin. Little did I know that the violin takes enormous amounts of time to learn to play. It isn't like something you pick up and just play well within a month. No matter how musically gifted a person may think they are, if you want to play violin well enough to play out it takes TIME. As a result, all of my guitars are of late gathering dust. I occasionally pick one up. Very occasionally. I am still on a keyboard almost every day playing just not as much as I was before. No matter what I take up one is never enough because when you attempt to play acoustic guitar you want a small body, a larger body and a nylon stringed guitar. When you play electric guitar you want several configurations of pickups and types of guitars...don't even get me started on effects pedals, amps etc. Same with keyboards. I have like 3 in the closet and two on my desk. I only mostly use one and I was thinking about getting another with better DAW control. The 2nd keyboard makes a nice place to stack sheet music.When I took up violin within 4 years I now have 4 violins and maybe a dozen or more bows of different types. I have odd stuff too like a bouzouki and a set of harmonicas. To be clear I have never seen myself as a "collector". I simply bought things I wanted to play. Never cared about how valuable any of it was because I didn't plan to sell it when I bought it. I was looking more at function. I did sell a bass guitar, an electric guitar and a keyboard sound module a few years ago, but then I bought another bass lol. I still have several electric guitars too. My older quad core DAW sits mostly gathering dust though I did recently update it to WIN 10 and loaded a fresh copy of Cakewalk in it. Not sure why since I don't use it. If I didn't have a day job I might have more time to play with more of that stuff. As it stands I'm lucky to do a little recording, play keys, occasional guitar aside from at least an hour a day on violin and weekly lessons. Michael, I can't speak for you, but for me I think I've decided to try to keep some of the stuff and use it when I need it and sell some. If I sold some of the wrong stuff off and then later wanted something similar I couldn't probably buy it back for less than I already payed for what I have. I can see maybe trimming a few of the electrics and acoustic guitars back, offloading a few keyboards I never play and selling a few violins so I can buy one better violin. The problem is I hate to sell stuff. Trying to decide what to sell will be difficult. If a person has the room why sell it unless you need the $$? I never went really big on outboard gear with the only exception being mics. I could get pretty good recordings using prosumer interfaces and decent mics and of course........plug ins. I didn't need a super powerful DAW build so I went mid level there with the ability to upgrade the MOBO. A DAW usually lasts me at least 5 years before I see it might need to be updated.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. My recent install of Sampletank 4.10 MAX is somehow not playing well with Cakewalk on my computer. All of my other VSTi are solid on this computer. My setup-OS. 5820K i7 o.c. 4.5ghz, 16gb, SSD drives, Windows 10 premium 64 bit. The stand alone version is ok so far. VST3 loaded and in use.Happened twice after playing the C-7 for maybe a half an hour. Cakewalk closed down and asked about sending a crash dump file. I had maybe 3 minutes of midi recorded. Nothing else loaded in the shell. The midi wasn't important thankfully. I'm not sure where to get the crash dump files. If I can find where they are I'll send one out to CW. The only other track I had loaded in the project was BFD 3. I didn't have anything recorded to it. Locked while playing back the recorded midi. I will be interested to hear if anyone else has had similar issues using ST 4.10 with MAX or other libraries. I have ST4 pointed to only the MAX library in one folder which includes ST3 and CS sounds. I was really stoked about the 4.10 update and hope it's something simple here, maybe with my setup. I have not tried ST 4.10 with any other DAWs yet. When it worked it worked very well. The SSD the libs are on is new. Might be an issue there.

Deleted due to poor taste in humor by my own standards which are pretty low already.

For me a smidgen is a little more than not enough and not enough to be too much. * ducks and runs away fast*

That would be the fair thing to do. They seldom do that. In my case they didn't either. Someone needs to grow a pair....anyways. I'm glad it all worked out and you're back in now. I'm not sure I would want to go back. Let them see how much traffic you likely brought there for them. Then again, why let one individual with a corn cob up his hiney ruin your day.

Gamer laptops make good music laptops "if" they have fast drives. Extra helpful is an inboard M.2 dive or multiple SSD drives. Minimum 7200 rpm. At least a fast usb, like 3.0 all depending on your I/O needs. i7 cpu no or minimal throttling. Probably will prefer it to be plugged into power when in use because many laptops reduce functions on battery power. Another benny to a gamer laptop is they almost always have good video cards in them.

Oh he already has too many people kissing his butt.

Who is Mr Orange??? I have the free will to choose which butt that would be. I think I'll just blow a kiss.

You don't need them. I can empathize. I was banned from the violinist.com forum awhile back. My crime was posting a funny non pornographic picture of a member dancing with a parrot. Bunch of fuddy duddies. I can't understand any sort of reasoning for why someone would be banned from posting deals in the deals area of a forum.??? I appreciate what you do.

Someone said we should all just bend over and kiss our butts goodbye. I tried. Can't get down that far. Can't even see my butt. Well ok I can in the mirror. Mesh....I know TMI. I could however entertain the idea of kissing someone else's butt goodbye. Can't believe I said that.

I guess if we're all going to die we might as well get those cookies and maybe some ................................bacon? If you had only two choices bacon or toilet paper which would it be?