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@Mark Nicholson - if you're just starting out, to be honest any decent mic will do. @bitflipper mentioned the BBC... a lot of the presenters are doing their interviews etc from home nowadays. I saw one a couple of days ago (forget which show it was, but I think it was the news) and the BBC interviewer was using an Rode NT-1. This is a great general use LDC mic, and will work well with your Model 12. Assuming you've got a half decent mic, you can get about 95% of the way there with a noise gate plugin, a compressor, and some EQ. If you just want to use what's already "in the box", try the following: 1. Put the "Gate" style dial at the top of the ProChannel chain, and adjust it so it removes any background noise while you're not speaking. If the "attack" portion of your voice is being altered, you've turned it up too much. 2. Have the PC-76 compressor next, and start with one of the vocal presets to try to even out your voice. You don't want anything too harsh here. If you've got the PC-2A, or the CA-2A you could try using that instead. Try altering the input until you get the sound you want, remembering to adjust the output to compensate for any drastic drop in volume due to the compression. If you can't quite get what you want here, or you're finding it a bit too harsh, try going back to the preset and adjust the dry/wet control. 3. Have the ProChannel EQ next, and pick the "Vocals - Broadcasting Podcasting Dialog" preset. For this preset, adjust the low frequency gain to taste. In the past I've had great results with the voice-over preset in Nectar Elements - this was an early version though, so I'm not sure if Nectar 3 Elements has the same preset ( I think it has a wizard instead, which is probably better tbh).

Windows gives an "Out of Memory" error message when a MIDI device is already in use by another application.

Yes - left click! sorry !

This is how I do it: 1. I use the keyboard shortcut to toggle to the envelope mode ( e.g. + [or also \ on a UK keyboard] for track volume, or with SHIFT as well for clip-gain automation) 2. I right click/drag at the bottom half to make a selection. 3. I then right click from the top of the clip to drag the selection down.

There's nothing stopping you using something like VNC though. I've got a small nettop I use in the house for various small server tasks (e.g. email, source control etc). It runs VNC server on it. I've found it's actually far easier to connect to a VNC enabled device with an apple device than remote desktop, and for Windows it makes pretty much no difference. A lot of VNC solutions are free, but if you're accessing it remotely (i.e. from a public network, rather than your LAN) you might want to get a paid version for the added encryption. The other thing that you get with Pro is the ability to run VM's using VirtualPC. IIRC VirtualPC won't run on Home edition. Again, Home edition will run Oracle's VirtualBox without issue... and in fact, I prefer VirtualBox because its USB support is far better than VirtualPC.

When using the PC4K S-Type Bus compressor on a track, and enabling the side chain, it appears for me as the following:

Same here - I notice no difference at all between Pro & Home in CbB, performance or otherwise.

Both - Win 10 Pro on my desktops & Win 10 Home on my laptops.

I had this problem recently - turned out to be the 3.5mm to 1/4" headphone adapter I was using. I replaced it with a short cable instead:

This is not the case. VST's / VSTi's are in-process DLL's, so they run in the same process space as the host (i.e. your DAW). As such, they have the ability to adversely affect any of the threads the DAW is using if they're not written properly. Running it in JBridge effectively hides the issue - in other words, it's messing with JBridge's threads instead.

There's these two as well (DirectX, and VST 32 bit):

This is no longer an issue.

This can happen if you've got a large amount of plugins, or several plugins with a large amount of parameters (e.g. TH3 / THU / Scheps Omni Channel ). This has been addressed for the next release.

Try this setting - it'll keep the audio engine running even when the transport is stopped:

From 2020.11 onwards, BandLab assistant isn't required for updates. It's only required for uploading/downloading BandLab projects (and of course the loop content)... which will likely change too in the future.

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Tools.04.html

My mixes aren't particularly heavy, but I was getting clicks/pops even using a single instance of any of the UJAM Virtual Guitarist range without JBridge. I'm not using 32 bit versions - JBridge also supports 64 bit to 64 bit. Using JBridge just forces it to run in its own separate 64 bit process outside of CbB, which seems to cure it. The UJAM products are the only ones that I have to do this with. I'm also using a Scarlett, so this could be a common factor. The only other products I have similar issues with in CbB is any of the Antares VST3 plugins. For those, I just run the VST2 versions. Many of the iZotope plugins (esp Ozone) also give me grief, but I just avoid them completely unless I'm running them standalone. In saying that, Nectar seems to be fine.

I've had issues with latency (or crackles/pops when the buffer size is anything but massive) with the UJAM Virtual Guitarist synths. I solved it by enabling JBridge for those synths. I can now run them with a buffer size of 64 (32 at a push).

This is totally expected. Both RX7 and Adaptive Limiter are look-ahead plugins, which add significant latency. Every time a plugin is added, the highest latency is applied to the whole project. It needs to do this, so everything happens at the correct time. All DAWs work this way. There're a few ways around this: 1. Use the FX button on the control bar to bypass all effects. 2. Temporarily bypass the effects that are adding latency 3. Click the PDC button on the control bar to disable plugin delay compensation (this will mean things are recorded at the wrong time - but you can move your clips afterwards). 4. Temporarily Freeze the tracks with the high latency plugins on

Have you ran it stand-alone and made sure it's reauthorized?

It's probably tied to your workspace - try re-saving your workspace.

This has a bunch of grooves built in you can drag/drop to your tracks, and is also a great sounding drum VSTi: BandLab Assistant has a bunch of loops you can use too.

For a few years my dad used the Korg PSS-50 for his backing, which I believe used the same synth engine as the Poly 800. I remember being totally blown away with the sounds on that thing. It had a jack input with this really cool stereo widener effect, which I occasionally used with my 4 track as an effect. All the DWGS synths ( Poly 800 , DW 6000, DW 8000, DSS-1 etc ) where very underrated IMO, but I guess Yamaha (DX series) & Roland (Juno / Jupiter series & D series) were huge competition. IIRC the PSS-60 which replaced it used an 4-op FM chip like the DS8, which to my ears was no where near as nice.

It was similar to the Sound Brush - it used 3.5" DD disks, except that it used its own proprietary disk format, and didn't use standard MIDI files (unlike the Sound Brush which read/recorded SMF on DOS disks). It did the standard recording/playing MIDI, but it also had sysex dump request formats for a bunch of different devices which was great for backing up synth / guitar processor patches. The disk format was also specifically designed to support random access using MIDI song position. I used it in an ADAT / BRC equipped studio back in the early 90's to sync up the BRC with all my keyboard parts. You could fast forward to any part within a song, and it'd pick up in exactly the right spot, with all controllers/notes chased in less than a second. For live use, it was mainly for changing patches across my whole rig (it'd support a single program change to send everything out - sysex and all)... but we did have one 20 minute song that had a bunch of extra sound effects and doubled up parts throughout that ran as a sequence. But yeah, I moved over to minidisc in the end too for backing tracks.

On the rare occasions I use USB mics, I tend to go for WDM as a driver mode. The latency is lousy, but it is pretty reliable, and plays nicely with multiple audio devices. Just remember to change the recording timing master to whatever you're recording with. Once I've done my recording though, it's straight back to ASIO.