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  1. It's a great plugin. I couldn't believe they've got a model for my Sennheiser HD201's!  I bought 5 pairs of these just after they were discontinued.

    The only thing is I'm using ARC 2 as well, so I have to remember to switch between them. A few times I've thought "this sounds awful" and realised I've had Sonarworks through the speakers rather than ARC 2 (or vice versa).

  2. 2 hours ago, Sonarman said:

    The biggest lesson I learned in buying a keyboard controller is always try them before buying. If keybed action is something you care about on then dont listen to any opinion coz everyone likes different keyboard action. For eg: There are tons of good review and opinions on the keyboard action of Nectar Impact series and M audio Keystation series and I bought both of these one after the other and totally disliked them. I would say even the bottom range of Yamaha PSR and Casio CTK has much better keys. Now im saving money on buying something else my options are Novation slmk3 or NI Komplete A Series or S series. Which ever it is I'm not gonna buy before I demo them. If you are looking for Hammer action you better off buying a digital piano, the casio privia and yamaya p115 are good ones, even better choices Roland FP30 and Kawai ES110. Always demo before buying.  These dont come with mod wheel and pitch bend though. 

    If controlling CbB with pads, knobs, and faders is your necessity then there is a wide range of options all with soo many pros and cons. The nectar impact is very good in that but the keybed sucks. But who knows you might like it.

    +1 to this.

    Make sure you try them working too, i.e. have it actually playing a sound rather than just trying it out without it switched on.

    I bought a Samson Graphite a while back. It looks fantastic on paper, feels great to play, but every time you hit a key you get a wildly different velocity. At first I thought it was just dirt on the connections, but it's not. It's a bad design.

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  3. A "Catastrophic failure" message is what you get when using COM objects or DirectX effects, and you get your reference count wrong.

    The fact that when you rebooted it worked, leads me to speculate that a process in the background had crashed, and the other process (probably Cakewalk) tried to release a reference from it that no longer existed.

    It's quite possibly the worst error message Microsoft ever dreamed up. How a reference count mismatch can be described as "Catastrophic" is beyond me.

     

  4. I use Crucial for my memory, almost exclusively now.  I've been using them for almost a decade in one system, and since swapped to using them in another after having a bad experience with another brand (I forget what it was). I've never had any issues since using them.

    The website is really good too, as they'll tell you exactly what products will work on your system / motherboard.

    https://www.crucial.com/

    I also use their SSD's. I've had two SSD drives from SanDisk which died, but the Crucials have been running without issue for years.

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  5. The && operator only works on two expressions, which is why they're nested, as there's 3 conditions:

    So if you change "(&& (== Note.Vel 0) (== Note.Dur 0))"  to "(== Note.Dur 0)", it should pick out all notes of a duration of zero.

    You still need the (== Event.Kind NOTE) as you only want it to affect notes.

    So the adjusted code would look like:

    (forEachEvent
      (if (&& (== Event.Kind NOTE) (== Note.Dur 0))
          (delete)  
      )
    )

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  6. I could never get the hang of bagpipes.

    I play sax & clarinet, so I'm used to the note coinciding with me blowing.

    Blowing into a bag at random intervals, whilst using my elbow to trigger the sound was a coordination nightmare. I guess it just need practice... but these things are LOUD.

    Playing the chanter on its own was much, much easier - kind of like playing an oboe though. It was extremely sensitive to over/under blowing - far more so than the sax from what I can remember.

    But of course, there's no drone without the bag.

  7. 29 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

    Thank you Mark.

    Now I just need to figure out what to do with that elegant bit of code!

    I've yet to run a CAL script. This will be my first. Good opportunity.

    deleteBlackHole.CAL

    Put this in your CAL directory (default is C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\CAL Scripts )

    Select your clip, then press CTRL+F1 and double click on this CAL script.

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  8. 10 hours ago, Cactus Music said:

    These stories put me in mind of my old Fender Bassman that had a 2 prong plug.  As most of you will remember how "safe" those were.  But you usually knew when you had to flip the reverse switch as you most always heard a hum. Otherwise you would be blown across the room when you touched your mike with your lips! But one of the benefits was if I turned the amp up it picked up AM radio and I used to listen to it in my room that way. 

    The other thoughts on this topic is how many people these days are freaked out about RF emissions from Smart meters and cell towers. They talk like this is some sort of new heath issue. Most of those old radio towers blasted out a lot more RF energy than a cell tower.  And there also was all the TV station towers which are now gone. 

    Greg- The ferrite choke worked for my friend who had the hum in his 2i4. I hope it works for you.  All my USB audio gear now have those type of USB cables. They are a good idea. I even have power supplies ( wall Warts) that came with a choke on the low voltage side. It's a bad on Focusrite's part that they don't include one of these cables as it would seem the right thing to do.  

    Ferrite choke's certainly can help. I actually use one in combination with a ground isolator, as the choke on its own didn't remove all the noise. 

    FYI - you can buy clip-on ferrite choke's to fit on existing cables. Just do a search on Amazon/ebay for ferrite choke, and you'll see plenty of options - be sure to get one to match  your cable thickness. Prices are around $1 to $3.

  9. I've found a few issues with clips over the years. The issues seem to stem from clips on a track all being stored in the one file, and the other clips that aren't selected somehow confusing the operation.

    Here's a thread on the old forum where we discussed it in detail:

    http://forum.cakewalk.com/Issue-when-using-Normalize-in-multiselect-m3763740.aspx?high=normalise

    Normally, doing "bounce to clip(s)" after each operation solves it (as I see you're doing).

    Another thing that helps a lot is to enable "create one file per clip" on the save dialog:

    onefileperclip.png

    Note: For existing projects, this won't affect existing clips until you next "bounce to clip(s)".

  10. 12 minutes ago, Monomox said:

    Do you have the code? I don't imagine that you registered both copies to the same account. 

    I've got two copies of Melodyne Editor, with both registered to the same account, but activated on different machines.

  11. We're all as much in the dark as you are.

    It's just a matter of manually checking for updates periodically. Someone usually will post when a new version appears though, quite often before its officially announced.

    It's only been 6 weeks since the last update however, and if they're working on something big, or a risky fix, it's likely to take longer for a new update.  BandLab have been pretty good about not releasing Cakewalk until they're sure its ready.

  12. IMHO JBridge is FAR superior to BitBridge, as it has so many compatibility options to tweak.

    Cakewalk's integration with JBridge is good to. You no longer have to fire up JBridger to create 64bit wrappers around your 32 bit plugins.

    If you go into the plugin properties (either from the Synth rack, or Plugin Manager), check "Load with JBridge wrapper" and the next time you load it, it will be with JBridge.

    Cakewalk also uses its original VST id, so you can swap between BitBridge and JBridge without it thinking it's a different plugin.

    FYI JBridge can also help with 64 bit plugins, such as the UJAM Virtual Guitarist VSTi's which seem to require a crazy high buffer size otherwise.

  13. This forum disappeared for me yesterday too.

    I normally use Chrome for this forum, but it was telling me the server refused my connection.

    On Firefox however, I got some weird holding page - you know the sort that gives you loads of links to "related" sites.

    I tried flushing my dns cache twice - the same thing.

    I gave it 30 mins, and the forum was back.

    I'm not running any sort of VPN here.

  14. 14 minutes ago, StarTekh said:

    Bobernaut...Having been in the bizz 40+ yrs  I had to learn todo  everything myself : Here is  my current running build list .If you need a updated build list .. just ask !

    Evga DG76 case

    Evga 550w  3g gold supply

    Asus Prime Z370a Motherboard running Bios 1802  asus chipset/inf 10.1.17809.8096  Windows 10 pro

    Intel 8086k processor

    Noctura U14s cooling

    Asus Rog Strix-Gtx 1050ti 4gb OC Edition : Asus video driver :  NV Driver 417,71

    Crucial 2666  2x8 sticks..  CT10998007  that's A single stick ..Buy A Kit ! 2x8

    Gigabyte Thunderbolt Card Alpine Ridge  Driver 16.3.61.275

    Siig firewire card :NN440012-S8

    Samsung Nvme 960 pro 512g

    Crucial Mx300 525 g

    M-Audio firewire 410 running win7 driver

    Universal Audio Apollo Twin mk ll ... Latest UDA updates ..

    This system hauls Ass.. if you cant build it yourself or don't have a Friend with the KnowHow or a local Shop then you have to look at other options !

    Feel free to ask question !

     

    An Intel 8086k... surely that's a typo... unless you're really using one of these old things ?

    download.jpg.34aa7a886e0305909652c518c596de7c.jpg

    [Edit] - WOW I stand corrected... those things really do exist.... that's confusing.

     

  15. After a lot of research, I'm just about to invest in a Rode NT1.  I prefer the flatter response compared to so many other condensers that tend to boost the high end.

    Next on my list is the Slate VMS... but I'm meant to be saving up for a deposit on a new house, and my wife will NOT be happy if I spend £1K on a mic!

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