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Omnisphere is 8 channel multi-timbral. The setup part in the Multi tab is to route each channel to a separate audio out, so each instrument track is (a) on it's own MIDI separate channel and (b) on its own separate audio track... but yeah, they're all going to the same omnisphere instance. Omnisphere (which the OP was querying about) is actually pretty good with cores... so one instance works well vs multiple instances.... Kontakt is the same, if it's set up properly. But as you say, you do lose the ability to individually freeze each track - it's none or all of them.

I'm guessing your workspace is set to "Basic" ? (see top right hand corner ) The Basic workspace hide's a lot of the more complex functionality. Set your workspace to "None" and you'll see everything... including the Event View.

The easiest way to do it is like this:

It could be, but it could also be your USB sleep settings. Make sure USB sleep is disabled for all your Audio & MIDI devices. It may be easier just to disable USB sleep altogether in your Windows power config.

I think we're getting our wires crossed here... So if your filter is currently set to CLIPS, you can use CTRL + drag to adjust the overall clip gain envelope if your mouse is on the lower part of the clip. If your filter is set to Clip Gain Automation, CTRL + click will work anywhere in the clip to adjust the overall gain. If your filter is set to Clip Gain Automation, you can make a selection by left click dragging along the bottom of the clip and drag from the very top of the clip (without any keyboard modifiers) to adjust only that selection.

CTRL + drag should work, but you need to be dragging from the lower half of the clip. The next release will have a key bindable shortcut for toggling between clip gain & clips, so watch out for the early access.... shouldn't be too much longer now.

There's two ways of doing this:

This ^^^

I normally click on the track number to select the whole track, then right click on the clip and "Bounce to clip(s)".

Best thing to do is send an email to: support@cakewalk.com

@Robert Bone - are you running a custom theme? This may be the issue if the theme is not up to date with 2020.05

That's already been done for the next release... keep an eye out for the next early access release.

From the File menu in Cakewalk... File->Import Audio CD Then pick your track.

Yep, @John Bradley is correct - reference tracks are just commercial tracks that sound like what you want your own mix to sound like... so just scour through your CD collection (if you still have those) and pick one or two that most closely match what you're trying to achieve.

The short answer is no, you can't do this at the moment. You could get around this by using some 3rd party "Synth Rack" type plugin that will host the plugins for you and make them appear as one.... so it is possible to say, use Cantable to host the synths along with a virtual MIDI / Audio cable (e.g. loopMidi or loopBe / VB Audio Cable). You'd lose a bunch of features like native parameter automation etc (unless you mapped CC MIDI values I guess). You could also get around this by sampling your VST synths and playing them in a single VST sampler. In both the above workarounds, you'd simply use a program change to change sounds... however you need to ask yourself whether it's worth the effort compared to just having another track. There's a third option I guess... create a third MIDI track which has LINKED copies of both the verse & chorus clips in it, and use that one for the staff view. You'd mute this for playback, but any edits you make in it would automatically apply to the original tracks due to the clips being linked.

After 38 years of playing, I certainly should be a lot better than I am ! Keys are my main instrument tho, everything else I get by on....

I have guitar issues from time to time... not so much soloing, but I have a nasty habit (due to lack of practise) of bending strings out of tune when playing chords, or getting mutes/buzzes from not barring properly. When this happens, I record each chord shape / phrase separately, either in different takes or different tracks.... then merge them back in to the one track afterwards. Any odd tuning / intonation / timing issues can easily be sorted with melodyne.

... or use Melodyne ! Fixes all my intonation issues.

No definite date yet I'm afraid, as we've got a major amount of documentation and localisation to complete. I anticipate an early access release to be announced within the next couple of weeks though ( no promises tho, as it's not my decision ! ) I can confirm that fixes for both the snap & the right click issues will be in that release (i.e. you no longer need to hold CTRL to multiple drag or get the full context menu). The downside of the right click change is that right clicking will no longer clear the selection (this was in fact the original cause of the issue). So you'll either need to left click somewhere where the no-entry sign appears, or use CTRL+SHIFT+A to clear the selection.

The fastest way is probably a compressor... however, compressors tend to colour the sound of the vocal somewhat. Equally fast is something like Waves VocalRider (or any of the alternatives: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=521181 ) Personally, I'd run it through Vocal Rider first then add a small amount of compression afterwards for colour.

Forced a complete plugin rescan and it's now working

Have you checked the note off is being received by Kontakt using the MIDI Monitor?

I installed Studio One 5 today. Looks pretty good... but I tried inserting Scheps Omni Channel on a track and it just refused to insert. The other Waves plugins I tried seem to work fine. Any one else having this problem? I'm running the latest version of Scheps (works fine in CbB btw).

The note off's are definitely being sent, however I find a lot of these Kontakt libraries continue to play the phrase long after the note off has been received. The easiest way to confirm this is to enable the MIDI monitor on Kontakt: The only answer is to slip edit the clip more, or see if there's a setting in the Kontakt instrument that controls how quickly it reacts to the note off. For example in Electric Sunburst, the setting is here: