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For a long time I use successfully a Behringer UMC404HD on my laptop with ASIO. And I don't have problems either if I use 48k in Cakewalk. It is as John says, most Videos use 48! But if I open a Cakewalk project with 44100, then the videos in the browser have no sound as the OP mentioned. By the way the Behringer UMC driver and the interfaces are really good. I have also a PreSonus Studio24c and its performance is terrible compared to the Behringer. With Presonus I have always to up the buffer size to have no issues!

Yes, IF there was something new that I really wanted! ? But for an impulse buy almost $40 (with 25% tax here) is too much IMO. Anyway with almost 10% inflation there is less money available for plugins!

I had about the same feeling. But the Wibu CodeMeter did even NOT install on one of my systems (I guess because my temp directory was on another drive). I re-downloaded and the same thing (something about an invalid configuration in a file on the temp, created by the installer itself)! As you said all very unprofessional! ?

What I really like with Arturia is that they have the product "Analog Lab" for those lazy people with not so much synth knowledge like me ?. I prefer using presets and only do minor tweaks, so why should I spend my money to buy a full functional synth? (Except Jupiter 8, because we had once a real hardware in our band in the 80s, I could not resist to buy it).

I am really not thrilled of the newer PA direction! (in respect of vouchers, prices and new products)

IMHO iLok is much better than most other machine dependent authorizations! With iLok it is at least clear what you have to do in case of a problem (it is a standard), almost no provider specific handling! And even if a provider disappears, you still can move your authorizations! When I had problems with my laptop's Windows installation it was a nightmare with all those different machine dependent authorizations, each company has its own rules (de-authorization, number of authorizations are unknown, information not available, ...). And if you have authorizations on a iLok dongle it is even better in case of system problems, 'cos it is not affected! Okay, still I prefer real offline keys (offline serial or offline file)!

Well, there's a lot of AI (most?) where the "I" is not really what it promises! ? This is not only true for music plugins!

This makes me totally skeptical if a company does say something like that for their own product(s)! Most of the time I concluded that the product is rather stupid instead! ?

IMO this is a way to dramatically expressed! ? If a part has clippings for very short sections, then it can be repaired with tools like De-clip in iZotope's RX or the De-clip of the Restoration Suite of Acon Digital. Though, in one of the phonemes above the clipping seems to be very bad. But even in such situations I had some pretty good results. The limit for De-clip operations is probably when a passage of several notes is clipped all together. Yes, I also agree that sometimes re-recording maybe a good option. But there are situations when a) it is not possible to re-record or b) you don't want to re-record all (of some reason) and then it is also difficult to match the old recording (if you don't know the exact positions, distance, environment). But sure, it is a good practice to record generally less hot! ?

I still think that it is a problem if the number of portals/assistants/hubs/managers increases (more and more companies go this way), because the update surge is immense (the portals are updated too often, more than the plugins) they almost never have a good solution for the installation on more than 1 system (download on each) many run only online, no offline variant each one has its own rules, configuration and issues (the Tower of Babel) they bind you to 1 provider their installation doings are almost never transparent (what they do on your systems) they don't support a good way of backup they clutter your Windows system they don't do proper uninstallations some require huge installation times in addition to the downloads (e.g. NI) and I am sure there are some more annoyances All in all, I doubt that they really make the life of the musicians easier, on the contrary they generate us a lot of trouble! But YMMV as always! ?

Thank you Base 57! This works great if I drag a single clip to the browser! Even the volume for mono clips does not change, as it should! ? On the other hand if I drag multiple clips at once there are the following problems: The length of the saved clips are all according to the longest one! In this case strange names are generated: "Clip-<track name> <track number> (<count>)" But nonetheless this is the best solution when you drag one by one to the browser. ? The only caveat is that also in this case a "(<count>)" is added to the name (must then be removed manually!).

It seems there is no reasonable way left to export mono clips (so that you can use the clip name as part of the file name). ? Thus I will use the old manual way to export clips without changing loudness: Select and export each clip separately with "export tracks" setting (and almost anything disabled) and enter the file name manually! Meh!

I think, sometimes gates are very useful for special mix purposes. And there are very clever ones like e.g. Box Digital Gatey Watey, but I have a couple of others that are also not bad (like Unfiltered Audio G8). But their usage with side chain input is often not so trivial, that means obvious (for me by all means ?).

What a complicated install process for something free! (install only with portal, serial number and native access) Meh, I will pass on it! ?

I guess it only runs with the dumb Presonus shell! This one is a real time eater! I have only 2 plugins of them installed on my laptop and the shell takes so much time for scanning (it doubles almost the scan time in CbB) and I have hundreds of other plugins! I hate those stupid shell plugins (also the Waves one), they are only for the laziness of the developers. There is no real advantage for the users! That's why I abdicate Presonus plugins, although I own some.

Okay, now I have investigated a bit more! I was wrong that it was ever working in the new export dialog. I found out that the problem has been introduced after CbB 2021.04 (in 2021.06), i.e. in 2021.04 it runs without issue (and I guess in all versions back to Splat)! I played around with that. But somehow I could not get it working (without +3dB loudness increase)! Maybe I am a bit dumb! ? Please, can you explain more precisely what you mean?

The only strange thing is that this works in Splat up to one of the latest CbB releases (with the new export dialog)! ? This was an EASY way to fix the +3dB hassle with mono clips!

I guess you mean the ones with the big purse! ?

It seems that I have a new issue, or is it that I do something wrong? I select 2 clips (one in track1, the other in track2), both tracks are mono (and also the clips), and I try to export the clips with "Split Mono" setting to avoid a +3 dB loudness increase. The result is an error message "An internal error occurred while processing the mixdown.". This happens on 2 totally different machines both with the newest CbB (2022.06 build 028)!

Cool guitar! But I wonder why the color is called Inverness Green? Once I was in Inverness (long ago, when I was young, at the time of my avatar photo), but I did not see a comparable color around there!

The plugin standard or another meaning? ?

IMHO PA is dead! I don't see anything that reminds me of the former PA!

Oh well, I have it already! Did not get it! Shame!

So it's not really free!

I agree that it should be possible to choose at least the subfolder name in VST3! But in general I think that the concept of one central VST3 folder is not really a clever idea! For example all those plugins that are bound to one single DAW (like TH3 to CbB), I don't want that the other DAWs include/parse those plugins, because they don't run there anyway! Or I don't want that the audio editors have to parse instrument plugins, it is meaningless! So I really wonder what the Steinberg guys have reflected (nothing)?