Amberwolf

Now if I can just get someone to take them, especially the piano.... (hopefully someone from one of the places I "know", like this, will want them, as I'd rather do that than complete unknowns like craigslist / etc).

This clown (me) makes fun *with* all this crap.

I can't tell any distortion from the rest of the audio; it's all heavily distorted to my ears; I could only listen to a few seconds around the 15 mark because it is way too much for me to take (I'm autistic and the rapid pounding distorted noise like that is terrifying to me). But if you are getting distortion, the usually problem is input levels that are too high. If your M-Audio is like m Fast Track Duo, it has a clipping light (red) on each channel by the input level knob, and is green when there's signal but no clipping. Any red light seen means there can be distortion in the resulting audio. It can also be levels within the tracks or busses that are too high in total. If you get it primarily when recording along with other existing tracks, and if you mute the other tracks and it goes away, you just have your track levels too high and theere's just too much total audio power for the bus(es) being fed to the master. You'd need to turn all the track outputs down proportionally, which is easy to do in Offset mode (O on my keyboard in my ancient SONAR), then select all the volume controls in a quick group, and decrease them all by however much you need to until the problem goes away. When it is not levels that are too high, it is usually driver latency / buffering. I use the ASIO driver from AVID (since the older M-Audio driver doesn't work in Win10 but the Avid package 1.0.4 one does), and can get as low as 7.3ms using 44100 sample rate and 320sample buffer size in the Fasttrack ASIO control panel, even while running a few dozen FX and multiple instances of Z3TA2+ and other synths, and still record stereo (or dual-mono) audio with input monitoring thru the track and bus FX. The ancient (decade old+) laptop I use is the Lenovo ideapad 300 with only 16gb ram and a spinny HDD (not ssd, though i have one for backups I don't record to it). If you have any other ASIO drivers on the system (like ASIO4All, Steinberg ASIO, etc), they may cause problems and not let you use your real ASIO driver (or cause it to behave incorrectly), so I'd remove all of those and scrub the system of them if you can.

Since you're not using Sonar or Next (nest?), what program are you using? What does it's manual say those codes mean? (we can't look it up because you didn't tell us which program, etc). What audio interface are you using? What driver are you using to run the audio interface? Which driver mode are you using? What latency is the program set to use with that driver? What resolution and bit depth are you recording and playing back at? What effects, if any, are you using on the tracks, in the project, etc? Are you doing input monitoring within the program to hear the recording realtime? Are you playing back other tracks while recording? Do they have effects on them? Do you have any high latency plugins requiring a lot of CPU? Etc.

Available for local pickup in Metrocenter area of Phoenix, AZ, USA. Free to good home, though I'll accept any money thrown my way for them. Piano is mostly tuned, but after you move it, it will need retuning. Comes with an unused tuning kit; there are free phone apps you can use to help you tune it. It's a Kimball 404P #T26204 probably from the late 1970s: Amberwolf's Music Studio Technical Stuff Piano is very heavy, over 400lbs, bring at least two strong people to get it into your large transportation device, or all your stubbornness; I won't really be able to help much. (I originally got it here by myself in a bicycle trailer built / rebuilt for the purpose, but I wouldn't recommend it The SB Cruiser : Amberwolf's 2WD Heavy Cargo Trike & Dog Carrier ). Upright electronic organ is much lighter, don't know the weight but one person can move it relatively easily. It has MIDI output, so can be used to control synths, etc on a computer or other MIDI capable hardware. I've not used the organ since getting back here into the house after the fire (it was a replacement for stuff lost in that fire so I could keep playing music). The piano I very rarely use and it's large and I could use the space for a workbench in my bedroom to work on wolfy-robot-project stuff instead. Piano when hauled home (hasn't changed since then, except for a bit of toothmark work on hte left front leg by either Peebs or the Schmoo when they were puppies, but that doesn't affect it's sound or structure. The organ is presently behind my brother's art stuff in the storage room, so I can't access it to get better pics. This shows the console and keys, the stuff on top is not part of it (though I'll sell the Yamaha TG33 in the middle if someone really wants it; I know they don't generally go cheap). I think it's the Discovery version, don't know the specific model. These are some pics from a Reverb.com page listing for what looks like the same model

Behind You Lie Many Unseen https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen Evolving cinematic track, 3:42 long. The Elven rock hard in the last minute. 04-25-25: 042425 000001 1000034n -- First public version

Did the plugin update itself (or was it manually updated or changed) between the time it worked and the time it didn't? Did anything else on the system update itself (or was manually updated or changed) between the tiem it worked and the time it didn't?

you set each device to send on a diifferent channel, and the daw to receive on a correspondnig channel for teh orrespondnig track

Oh, also, when I've got the basics of a track laid down for a synth that gets stuck notes, I do the freeze as well. But then I clone the resulting audio track (not the midi part) to a new audio track including events and properties and effects, etc., then mute or archive the synth track. Then I can work with the rest of the project, and if I only need to do simple cutouts or volume changes on that synth's audio I can do that to the audio clip, and only unfreeze the synth to edit specific note changes, add controller data, bends, etc., then refreeze it. If I have certain edits already complete as audio edits, I can then mute the ranges of the new freeze that I've already done in the first one or that didn't change, and then mute all the ranges of the old freeze that changed in the new freeze. (or I'll even mute the MIDI clips in the ranges of the old freeze that don't change, so they don't even generate new audio). So that's one workaround for synths that can't be arsed to shut up.

For me, with synths like those made by RGC (Z3TA, etc) the problem is caused by the way the synth is designed to expect note-off events, vs the way SONAR sends them. SONAR sends note offs as regular notes with zero velocity, but some synths don't accept that as a note-off, and expect a real actual note-off message. THere are some other threads and posts about stuck notes that may have more details, but IIRC there is an option in newer versions of SONAR (and maybe CbB) that allows note offs to be sent in the other way, or maybe it was that the panic button can be set to send a note off message for every note rather than a global all-notes-off message (which some synths don't accept). If none of these things fix the issue for your synths, then you may need another way to send the note off messages or to stop the synth output. In my ancient SONAR I don't have the modern options (which is why I don't remember what they are ) , so for Z3TA note hangs, for instance, I can toggle the built-in arp on or off and back again, and it will stop all notes. But that has to be done in each instance, so I leave the UI open almost offscreen with just the arp button edge showing. (I could probably setup a remote control for that button but never tried). The thing that normally causes the stuck notes for me is that I stop playback before the end of the note on that synth. If I stop between notes, they don't get stuck.

04-22-25: 042025 000001 200049h -- added accents, emotionalized ending https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-beaten-dog 04-22-25: 042025 000001 200054i -- added backing sounds 04-22-25: 042025 000001 200058j -- cleanup and timing

04-21-25: 042025 000001 200042g -- extended, clarified, enhanced, filled. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-beaten-dog

FWIW, there is a feature request in for this, and some discussion of possible implementations, including how an MFX might be able to do it if someone were to write one. (other than the bluecat) There is also another thread that has methods to actually do this listed (but I haven't tested them), starting on this page And there are other threads discussing it, some of which are in this search https://discuss.cakewalk.com/search/?&q=multiple midi&type=forums_topic&quick=1&search_and_or=and&search_in=titles&sortby=relevancy

04-21-25: 042025 000001 200030d -- corrected version https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-beaten-dog Something went wrong somewhere with the previous version, and all sorts of bits got mixed up in where they should have played, so the previous version is garbage. I should've listened to the export before uploading it. Been fixing that, new much much better version now, (I listened to the export to make sure!) you can tell what's what now.

If they did that here in Phoenix all he would've found were some little mummies, explaining why his "radio" only rattled....