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I would imagine any bass using DI with some preamp tweaks should sound better on studio recordings than an amp + mic setup. I heard that they often recorded both, and then binned the amped bass track, and just used the DI.

Speaking of 'installed' vs. 'not installed', has anybody tried installing their LABS on two computers? For example, I installed the entire LABS library on my DAW PC, and all was cool. But when I tried to put some on my laptop, before I did anything, the Spitfire installer over there showed them all as already 'installed', but missing their libraries. Only option at that point is to reset and re-install the libraries. So when I reset a few LABS libraries from the Spitfire Audio laptop copy, so I could install them over there, the same library's install status then changed to 'not installed' on my DAW computer? WTH? It appears that Spitfire Audio is linked to my email & login, rather than my computer ID's. Is there any info about this on Spitfire? ?

Did you open a support request?

Free...

@Asato Maa https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=ExternalDevices.02.html

It would be very nice if IK would just supply a custom installer that let you select the instruments you wish to have installed. As it is now, you just open the IK chute, and it all flows down! As it stands now, I have 418GB content in my SampleTank 3 and SampleTank 4 folders, combined. Some of that could go away, as I never intend to use all of it...

That's the thing with SampleTank 4 MAX. Be sure to install ALL of the instrument sounds.

I had the A300-PRO successfully hooked up to Cakewalk Sonar at one time some years ago, but switched over to Studio One and Ableton Live when Gibson shut Cakewalk down. I now use an Arturia Keylab 61 MKII as my main controller. And still keep Cakewalk around for old times sake and a few old projects. I would say that if you are willing to read the manual, download the driver and control surface plugin from Roland, then configure Cakewalk for it, you should have success with the A300-PRO in Cakewalk. So it's a bit more work than "integrate immediately", but it should still be good for this.

Well good luck in your quest! In the end it is up to you how much time, effort. and money you wish to invest! The comment above from msmcleod should be taken as credible, as he is a Cakewalk staff member.

@Asato Maa See the reply from msmcleod at the end.

You probably should describe in specific goals what you need or expect the MIDI keyboard to do for your workflow. Like I mentioned earlier, any MIDI keyboard will send MIDI notes and CC controls to the DAW and virtual instruments without being "integrated". Make music! But being "integrated" typically means that in addition you will have "mouse-free" access to a control surface with control over the DAW transport controls and track selection, and maybe a few other DAW specific tricks. For strictly DAW control, there is always something like this! https://www.presonus.com/products/FaderPort-8

It was probably already mentioned, but I can confirm that the MPS 4.1 upgrade gets you new serials for Exponential Audio Nimbus and R4. I only got 1 serial for each with the original MPS 4.0 purchase, so now I have 2 each.

Eighty-eight miles per hour!

Very interesting...

I forgot that I had a Flux Center! ?

Designed for Ableton, works with any major DAW https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LaunchK3-37--novation-launchkey-37-mk3-37-key-keyboard-controller The catch is that Cakewalk is not listed as a major DAW here. So you would be on your own to integrate it. Other than that, it looks like a fine keyboard on paper...

Did you buy them?

In my experience, yes! No hassles here! I waited out the new release issues, and waded in after the fixes were in. I have Syntronik 2 CS installed, and all of my instruments from Syntronik 1 Deluxe show up. It works similar to the way ST4 handled ST3 instruments with dual engines. Except that the edit panel is unavailable for the legacy presets in the new Syntronik 2 editor. But it plays both versions well, and you can still open each actual legacy instrument GUI and edit the sound with that.

Correct. I doubt they would ever intentionally drop it. But they showed little interest in updating it, or replacing it with a modern scripting language.

I also noticed that the latest SampleTank 4 now has individual library entries for each of the new synths in Syntronik 2, even if you are just running Syntronik2 CS. You can now easily choose the demo presets from each synth, rather than just a combined list of presets for CS.

@Jim FogleWhy, may I ask?

CAL scripts and Studioware are features that Cakewalk stopped development support for long before BandLab entered the picture. I understand that they are kept around for backwards compatibility, but likely never again to be updated. Personally, I would be afraid that they might eventually stop working...

Don't see that, but they added support for Rosetta back in 9.9.0 on 11/01. https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/ozone_advanced/o-adv-release-notes.html

Yep, just stop the extra NI services, and set them to manual start, rather than automatic start in the Windows services management console. That can be accessed via Windows Task Manager > Services tab > Open Services.

Already got Pumper for free a while back.