Amberwolf

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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. 06-17-25: 061325 000001 000097U https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/no-bigger-than-the-space-of-time

Added a new dramatic section to the end 06-16-25: 061325 000001 000071p https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/no-bigger-than-the-space-of-time

No, not really. The "picture" I get tells me that this would be a way to do it, but I probably still don't know what you want, so it's probalby still wrong: If you're just trying to make a template of the gate pattern, you'd probably have to use an automation envelope (gain, volume, etc) that zeroes out the parts you don't want to hear, that simulate the gating. If you have a gate plugin that can output MIDI or automation in response to the gate trigger, you coudl record that to create the automation. Then you can slide that around timewise on the waveform you're processing with the filter, so that it isn't actually gating the way a gate would trigger (because that doesn't work the way you describe), but instead is gating the way you want it to.

I'm not using modern Sonar, but the only times I've seen it fail to indicate things is when there is an issue with the MIDI hardware (or drivers) preventing communications. Usually it's that one of the St Bernards has been helpful and pulled the MIDI IF off the shelf with their tail or nose or whatever and unplugged the USB cable.... If all of the MIDI devices are working, and no issues exist with lost data in the MIDI stream, etc., then it shouldn't be that....

You'll need to describe exactly what you are doing, step by step, when whatever it is that happens, happens, for us to help figure out what you need to do differently to make it not happen.

Same here.

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.