CJ Jacobson

Yes those are ways to add effects. also, you can add to buses as well and use the sends from each track to send to a bus with effects on it. This is useful for when you want more than one track to go to the same effect and for parallel compression.. As far as using the 'Process Effect', I would not use it. Why destruct something when you can leave it as non destructive and still get the same results?

Do you have volume envelopes enabled? Its probably that, unless there is a cake-ghost in your project!

What are your import settings set to? It needs to be set to change the sample rate to the sample rate of the project, as you cannot have 2 different sample rates in a project. So maybe that is it, as i'm just guessing as the info is lacking a bit...

If you want to do that, you have 2 choices. You can get a speaker switcher that switches between your studio monitors and PC speakers, if its external speakers and not laptop speakers. note you will still need to turn your audio interface on. I use the Coleman SPK5+1 switchwer. Its great, i can switch between 5 different pairs of speakers and a sub. if you want to use your PC's built in sound card, then you need to enable it and disable your audio interface No, speaker choice has nothing to do with sending project via email. To send music files, i use hightail.com. i can send up to 2 gigs for a small yearly fee. As far as you posting music to a forum for people to hear, you need to publish it and provide links to it, like soundcloud..

Nothing is free. You will pay for it one way or another. Not saying they do this, this is just an example of what can be done: Maybe they are taking your profile info and selling it. Don't worry, you'll pay for it . even if you are unaware of it ?

Does that level work for you? That is your answer.. You can also import a CD in your genre and see their levels. Never do anything by default. The manual knows nothing about your song. If you are red, you are clipping. Never just do what a manual says without using your ears and eyes. Matter of fact, just use your ears and eyes to determine the correct levels. Its the only way to do it.

Never trust, always verify after the final mixdown. This doesn't just go for quantizing .this goes for everything in music and life...

You need to remove them from the vst folder its scanning. if you wan them off your PC, then you need to uninstall them and make sure all paths are uninstalled, including plugin templates.

You are not missing nothing. You can configure it anyway you want. you can choose to have any template loaded or not. You can choose color schemes, or not. In other words, its all up to you on how you want it to look.