Amberwolf

FTFY

For those following: their new reply said that maybe their shopify system hasn't updated yet because the ad should go to the sale items, if anyone wants to verify if it gets updated and post here. Personally, I think that these sorts of things ought to be worked out before "release" of the public-facing site, or at the very least someone at the companies doing them ought to verify they're working as designed. But it seems to be common at many companies for this to not be the case.

FWIW, they replied that the sale price is only on selected items (which their title bar doesn't say; it implies that they're all on sale with "INSANE HOT SUMMER DEALS! (deal timer) SOUNDS FOR €9.99"). But the page displayed when clicking *on the sale ad bar* doesn't show those items, it shows everything, making it even less clear. From another part of their reply, the "free" items are apparently free if you want them to be, after you jump thru the hoops of following specific instructions on each item's page and adding a code it shows there to the cart, etc. Even if they're a good deal, I'd pass on the whole company if they're going to be that confusing with a simple sale--I can't imagine how bad support or even the actual programs would be. If a buyer has to ask how to get the sale and what's on sale, that's a pretty complete failure of website design and sale implementation.

That last should be read with the voice of Margo in The Magicians....

I sent them a message about it, too, but just for those reading the thread: I don't think their site is correctly setup...even the "free" stuff lists prices, and I don't see any prices that come out to €9.99 in USD on things. For instance, clicking the sale timer at the top of their pages takes me to a page that shows and the "free stuff" page https://sounds.eduprado.com/collections/freebits

Perrhaps a good UI change to prevent confusion would be to force the currently selected driver (or the first if there is more than one?) to be what shows in that dropdown when it isnt' being dropped down.

FWIW, I sometimes see a similar type of patterned interference occasionally on my laptop. On mine it will be a single square of the pattern, somwehre random on the display area, or a set of such squares. Just enough "noise" to make that area unreadable/unviewable. Originally I thought it was the graphics card or driver; it happened both on the built in LCD and on an external monitor connected to either the VGA or HDMI ports...but when those connectors began to fail and to be able to see anything (why I have the external 32" / 42" monitors) I had to use an external USB video card (Targus Displaylink, and a different brand DL before it with different drivers). The problem persists with all of them, and even with differnet monitors. And it happens in almost software, but most commonly with things that display pages of text (book readers, notepad, browsers, etc). The only two things I don't think I've ever seen it in were SONAR and Notepad2. I've never found any replication recipe for it, no specific environmental condition, etc. No specific software; the only common hardware is the laptop mainboard, PSU, as even the ram has been changed out when I removed boht originals to max it out at some point. So....while I don't have a solution to the OP's issue, I will sympathize with them....it's pretty annoying when youc an't see / read things because of such a thing happening.

I'd prefer not to have to do it manually. While it's technically interesting to learn the process, it's tedious and wastes time I could be doing other things with. (I have six hundred bajillion ideas and hobbies and things I want and/or need to do, and time enough for *maybe* one half of one of them. So nothing I do is very good, as I don't really have enough time to spend on any one thing...I spend the most time on music because it's such an integral part of "me". ) I don't presently have anything that supports sidechaining (not sure if my ancient SONAR itself even does), at least not that works in that ancient SONAR. So antyhing I do dynamically has to be done with manually created automation. It certainly sounds like it would be ideal for what I want to do (if you've listened to any of my tracks I'm sure you can hear the problems I create for myself with overlapping bands of sound). The spectrum analyser itself would be very useful, because with my tinnitus and associated hearing problems, there are things I can't hear as well, and some I simply can't hear at all, that then cause me to mix and EQ wrong. I"m trying to learn how to compensate for it, but it's tough, since right now I have to depend on other people to tell me what is wrong with something, then try to see what they hear, and learn how that looks so I can then look for it to catch it on my own. Voxengo's SPAN has helped in a few cases to see things, but it does not seem to show an accurate spectrum; the bass end either shows way higher than it is, or way lower, based on feedback I get from the tracks I mix trying to use it to see what I'm doing. So.... I've been using Audacity's built in colored-spectrograph track view to look at exported tracks from SONAR, but it still doesnt' mean much to me, I'm still learning how to associate the visual of it with the sound I hear; it's very difficult because to me sound is sound and visual is visual and while I can make them synced or see them / hear them as synced I can't really "grok" them together as one thing. (probably the same problem that keeps me from being able to "read" musical notation--I can transcribe a piece of sheet music into a MIDI file within SONAR, more or less, but it doesn't mean anything to me, sound wise--the markings are not notes, not sound, not audible, even watching the staff view as the tracks play....). Since their FAQ isn't clear, I sent them a message asking how their plugin authorizes, whether it works on it's own on a completely offline system, has any form of manager or other non-plugin stuff that it needs, autoupdates itself, etc., because none of that is allowed on my system. If it is like any good well-behaved software should be, then I'll try their demo out and see if it does what I expect it to from this thread's info (and that it truly is well-behaved), before I spend some of my limited grocery money on it. The question sent to them will also test out their support system, as the way they answer (or if they do) will tell me about how much help they'll be if I have a problem, and whether I would want to deal with them or not. (they probably won't hold up to my ideal, as most don't; ATM Cakewalk's support holds the prize, with Grin Tech ebikes.ca second place).

I really appreciate the details on what it does and how it works for you--that function is almost certainly something I could use, as I'm still slowly learning how to make holes for things to interact without stomping all over each other with just a static EQ, and have barely begun the process of learning how to automate the EQs to do this throughout a "song" to make holes for whatever the prominent part is in the others that are backings for that section of the "song", as I switch around which thing is the "lead".

aaannnd...what is it that it does so well for you?

Do you happen to have experiences using any "noise removal" tools for essentially isolating out something like the tiny sounds a dog makes from all the environmental noise that will virtually always be included in such recordings***? I have an emotional-support-wolfy-robotics project that needs to use a huge variety of these sounds, with as many versions of each as possible for what amounts to "round robin" usage (though not that technology). Some of them I can record locally from my current St Bernard, but the rest have to come from existing recordings of other dogs I've had or recordings of real wolves I can get permission from others to use for this. ***because you can't really take them into a studio and expect them to interact and behave "normally" while you try to record them doing all the things dogs do, including all the little greeting noises, sleeping noises, etc etc.

While I don't know waht's causing it, I think there is an "undo view change" in one of the menus, and it should have a keybinding, too (but I don't recall what it is). That would at least put your view state back. (might take more than one operation of it). EDIT: What I suspect is causing it is accidentally starting your click -drag just outside the borders ofa clip, so you are somehow engagng a zoom mode instead.

Unless it's changed in the modern versions, it will have some output set. If you require a MIDI track with nothing on it to do this, you could install one of hte virtual midi cables out there, and point it to that. As long as you don't then use the other end of that cable anywhere, it's just a "blank port" capping off the track. If you don't want any of the track's controls or clips to affect anything, just using it to store things in or do edits in, you could archive it (which at least in old versions didn't lock the contents, just didn't process any of them for output to the rest of the program/etc).

What is "rte"?

I think it's THU rather than TH3, if that matters. There's at least one recent thread here somewhere detailing the stuff in each tier.