Amberwolf

Thanks for listening! Any technical feedback? It's now updated a bit: 06-15-25: 061325 000001 000040j -- mix changes, added intro sounds, accents throughout.

"Still"? This is your only post here, so you're going to have to provide all your details of the history of troubleshooting that you have already done, along with your settings for the system that worked, and the settings for the system that doesn't. We'll also need to know what software you're using, how you have your project setup, etc.

I think you might need to provide a different form of explanation so we can better help you find what you're after: I dont' really understand what you are trying to do, or get as a sound result? How does a gate "move" with a sweeping filter? they do completely different things? AFAIK a gate either lets sound thru or it doesn't, based on things like attack time, etc. A filter lets some range of sound frequencies thru; a sweeping filter changes the frequency range or central frequency, etc. What way do you want to combine those two things, for what result?

Listen to the new epic cinematic hit No Bigger Than The Space Of Time https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/no-bigger-than-the-space-of-time Added another new section to the end, it's now about 3x longer than it started out, and evolves throughout the song. If you don't like it, wait a few seconds. Is still kind of a sketch of what it will become, but it already sounds like something from an epic movie trailer. 06-14-25: 061325 000001 000021d -- first public version; still highly experimental and subject to major changes at any time. 06-15-25: 061325 000001 000040j -- mix changes, added intro sounds, accents throughout. 06-15-25: 061325 000001 000061m -- extended with new dramatic section 06-16-25: 061325 000001 000071p -- added backing synth and other parts, assorted mix and timing edits. 06-17-25: 061325 000001 000097u -- extended with another new section, plus assorted timing and mix edits throughout. 06-18-25: 061325 000001 000106v -- timing and mix chasnges throughout 06-20-25: 061325 000001 000117w -- timing and mix chasnges throughout 06-22-25: 061325 000001 000136C -- timing and mix chasnges throughout

Lots of "plugins" for all kinds of softwware, and all kinds of activations. You'll need to be much much more specific. FWIW, the best people to help you activate a product are the people that sold it to you (normally the company that makes it).

OH, also, you can use "file logger" programs (i forget what I used last time) that track changes in a folder, so you can point them at the temp folder(s) used for installers like this, and log all the files created out of the .bin extractions during setup (which may go away too fast for you to see if you're trying to manually monitor all the folders these tend to create inside the temp folder).

Someitmes programs like 7zip can extract .bin files into individual files, and though they wouldn't be useful for installing they might show you what's in there. Most often they won't extract because it's encoded or passworded such that only the setup/installer program can decode it, but when they do it sometimes helps my curiosity in cases like this.

Maybe the installer runs in it's own OS and comes packaged wiht an emulator to run in windows? :lol: Or it's like so many driver installers...it includes *all* of the software for *all* of hte things the company makes, but only installs the bits you actually have stuff to update, or have a serial number for, etc....

Thanks for listening! Any technical thoughts? (always looking for feedback to improve)

You mention crashing, and staying on, and turning off. These are different things and usually caused by different issues. Is the problem *just* a crash, where the OS stays working and programs crash? or is it an actual OS crash, with an error screen? Or does the computer actually just turn itself off without warning? Or some combination of the above? If there are multiple different symptoms, is there a pattern to which symptom occurs with what operation you're trying to perform with the computer at that moment? Or which program you're trying to use? Etc?

Added cover art: It is still hard work to get what I want out of it, but the perchance.org image generator is generally better (than any other "AI" image generator) at following what I tell it, and most importantly, if I use the same prompt and the same seed number, I can generate as many variations of the same image as needed, slowly refining the prompt to refine the specific image, instead of getting a whole new set of random images every time "generate" is clicked like happens with every other one. The one thing it lacks that would be better is a way to "like" and "dislike" each image out of the set that's generated, so that process could also be used to refine an image down to the art I actually intended to create. The one above took about four hours of refinement (only about 10 to 30 seconds to generate images four at a time, each time, most of the time spent on refining the prompt over and over)...but the first half hour was "wasted" before I discovered I could reuse the same seed / prompt to get the variations, after I found the most hearbreaking variation of the random ones that best followed my prompt and needed a way to just improve that.***** The hardest part was bringing myself to type in and *ask for* an image of an abused animal. And suppressing my tears and heart throbbing when I saw what came up each time. But this is what this song is about, all those lost fuzzy souls out there that aren't lucky enough to escape this kind of horrific monstrosity, and I want those seeing the cover art to feel what the song is about if they don't get it from the song (which someday I want to revisit and "finish", but to do that I have to "show" the abuse in the song itself, and that is harder for me to do than I thought it would be). ****there are a few others that were contenders, but this one most makes me feel for it, want to get it out of there and hold it and make it all better, and I'm hoping that is what comes across to others as well. Some of the others below:

If the systme is actually powering off, the most common two culprits are overheating (fans that are not moving enough air, not working, clogged up, heatsinks or intakes blocked, etc), and power supply problems (bad capacitors, insufficient power to run the system, non-clean-AC-input-power (RF noise, brownouts, poor connections, etc). With laptops, a problem with the battery can cause the system to turn off even if you are not using the battery, if the BMS in the battery thinks it's serious enough and has some form of override control of the system (or the system asks it if such problmes exist and shutdown if they do).

This is Aftermath of Sunlight's companion track, still a WIP, feedback welcome https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15023943 or https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/pre-cast-shadows-aftermath-of-sunlight-pt-2 (same version at both) It's built on the idea of part of the percussive section from Aftermath of Sunlight from this thread https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85139-aftermath-of-sunlight-wip-feedback-welcome/

Added to Bandcamp page https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/aftermath-of-sunlight Gave Pre-Cast Shadows (Aftermath of Sunlight Pt2) it's own thread: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85204-pre-cast-shadows-aftermath-of-sunlight-pt2-wip-feedback-welcome/

I think this might be covered over here unless I am misunderstanding? https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/84440-dearvr-plugins-now-free/

Nevermind.

"gotta catch 'em all"?

So Bandlab over here: https://www.bandlab.com/download can open Cakewalk files? 😕 AFAIK Bandlab is a completely separate thing from Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB), and the OP simply said Bandlab in the post I replied to, so I distinguished between the two of them in my post to see which they were referring to and make sure they use the right one.

How about we just go back to the simple serial number thing. Type it in from your box or purchase email, and off you go, never to worry again. No internet needed, no oops the server is down so I can't do my work that doesn't actualy need internet, no oops the ocmpany went out of business so now my thousands of dollars of software/synths/soundsets/plugins/etc. is garbage and i'm out of luck.... Anyone that actually wants to pirate something is going to do it, any group that wants to release pirate versions is going to do it, and the only ones that are stopped by any of this nonsense are the legitimate users.

What do other programs look like when you open them? Also, keep in mind that Bandlab is a completely different thing than any Cakewalk product, and probalby doesn't open any of your files. You could try Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB), whcih is the successor to what you have there, and should open your files, but since your graphics zoom settings are part of Windows itself (or your video card's control panel software), it's probably going to have the same issue with any program you use on there until it's changed back to normal. I don't know if you ever use it, but Windows10 (and up?) have the magnifier tool, which you can engage with the windows logo key and + or -. If you accidentally held these down or hte keys are stuck on the keyboard, or you have a helpful cat or dog like I do then you could try these to unmagnify it.

Sounds like the driver for your audio device has a problem of some type. Most built in soundcards have a control panel to turn various options on or off, including things like auto-level or surround sound or extra bass or other assorted options. These usually show you the status of the jack(s), if they are connected to anything, etc. Some that have only one jack can use it for headphones or a tiny headset-type microphone, but this has to be switched in that control panel as it doesn't always (sometimes never ) autodetect the change. What driver are you using in Cakewalk? This is in your audio settings; I don't know the specific menu you'll need to go into to see this, but there are various threads about drivers (ASIO, WASAPI, etc) with screenshots and such to show you what the page looks like. If you're not sure what to look for, you can screenshot what you see in your settings by holding your Alt key and pressing PrtSc (printscreen), and then coming directly to your post here and holding Ctrl key and pressing V to paste. If you can't fit everything on one screen, you can do this as many times as needed.

FWIW, the logo is clear and simple...but all I can see in it is bV I don't see any "s" or "S". If I *really* stretch it, I could imagine someone might see 5V Then again, i'm autistic so I don't see what normal people see (or hear, feel, think, etc) anyway.

Are your headphones USB, with their own driver? Or are they standard headphones that plug in to an audio device with a 1/4" or other type of standard TRS plug?

Which website is it from? If it's something from the manufacturer site, it would probably have sent you an email with the link to the file and any info necessary to install it.

THanks! THough at this point it *is* just about all atmosphere and sound effects. :lol: Ya know, I tried to use that as the category to put it in but it wasn't in the dropdown... It wasn't too loud, or bassy, this time? A slightly remixed version 052325 000001 000073u is here: https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15023945 BTW, this (Pre-Cast Shadows) is it's companion track, still very much a WIP more even than Aftermath of Sunlight: https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15023943 It's built on hte percussive section from Aftermath of Sunlight; so far only has the first minute or so of what will be something longer. Most likely these will become a "single track' at some point, or a matched set, or something...whatever they call it in real music when there's several related pieces of music that go together but can be listend to separately. Movements?