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    Tracktion Universe 2021 - Live Updates and Q&A [not a deal]

    in Deals

    Posted

    We’ll be joining the creators of the immensely popular Waveform DAW for a post NAMM Q&A on Thursday 28th January 2021 at 6PM GMT. Discover what the Tracktion team have planned for 2021 and have your questions answered from the developers and CEO themselves.

    {replay on YouTube]:

    Waveform 11.5 update will be free. New F'em Synth is nearly ready after a year...

     

    Misbehaving MIDI

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    Here is a new attempt, done with the TTS-1 instruments using the original GM file without edits. In all fairness to TTS-1, I thought I should give it an even shot with my last attempt where the TTS-1 instruments were substituted.

    Used separate audio outputs from TTS-1 for the guitar, bass, and organ, and put 3rd party FX on them. Guitar: Amplitube 5 > Fender 2 - Clean and solo [4x10 '65 Super Reverb]. Bass: Amplitube 5 > Bassman Round 1 [Fender Bassman 300], Organ: IK MixBox  [Rotary].

    Used a console plugin on the master bus to level it up. IK Lurssen Mastering Console.

     

    Believer TTS-1 + FX.mp3

    Looking for Electric Guitar Solo Samples

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted

    17 hours ago, msmcleod said:

    The best results I've had for guitar solos, believe it or not, is from Band In a Box. 
     

    I would agree with that plug for BIAB. Plug in the chords, choose a style, and generate from RealTracks.

    Since a solo generally follows a scale, a pre-recorded solo loop would be fairly limited in use, unless it came recorded in every key (not counting whether you would plan to transpose/pitch shift the audio somehow to match the other tracks).

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    Dimension Pro, Rapture and Z3TA+ installers needed

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted

    @Aksel HolandI caught that you were looking for OSX installers. I'm not aware of which instruments were available for the OSX, but the info below is what I know about the Windows versions. Z3TA+2 and Rapture Pro may have been released for OSX, as they were the last two stand-alone instruments being supported when Cakewalk was shutdown.

    As far as I recall, the z3ta+ was always bundled with the Sonar installer, and Z3TA+2 was always sold separately. Rapture (classic) was bundled with X2, X3, and Platinum as a separate installer. Dim Pro was bundled with Sonar 8 thru Platinum as a separate installer.

    If you migrated your old Cakewalk account to the single sign-on account between 2014 and 2017, support should be able to loop you back into your account. If you missed that window, I don't think there is anything support can do. BandLab support has access to the more recent Cakewalk.com accounts.

    You would still need the original product serial numbers and registration codes, even if you were able to obtain the installers.

    AAS "version 3" products unusable; AAS support unresponsive???

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/thread-stack-size
     

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    Each new thread or fiber receives its own stack space consisting of both reserved and initially committed memory. The reserved memory size represents the total stack allocation in virtual memory. As such, the reserved size is limited to the virtual address range. The initially committed pages do not utilize physical memory until they are referenced; however, they do remove pages from the system total commit limit, which is the size of the page file plus the size of the physical memory. The system commits additional pages from the reserved stack memory as they are needed, until either the stack reaches the reserved size minus one page (which is used as a guard page to prevent stack overflow) or the system is so low on memory that the operation fails.

    It is best to choose as small a stack size as possible and commit the stack that is needed for the thread or fiber to run reliably. Every page that is reserved for the stack cannot be used for any other purpose.

    A stack is freed when its thread exits. It is not freed if the thread is terminated by another thread.

     

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    AAS "version 3" products unusable; AAS support unresponsive???

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    If you're up for some deeper diving, and want to take a look at the threads, handles, DLLs, stacks, etc. involved with Cakewalk or any other executing program, check out Process Explorer by Microsoft Sysinternals. Maybe a clue to a misbehaving process lurking somewhere?

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
     

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    Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

    The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

    The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

     

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    AAS "version 3" products unusable; AAS support unresponsive???

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    1 hour ago, Christopher Theodorou said:

    Hi, if you see my other thread, I'm experiencing a lot of instability with Chromaphone 3 and Dimension Pro. I don't suppose you have Dimension Pro in the project? I am currently in touch with Eric at AAS about the issue, but they need Dimension Pro to proceed!

    You were using CbB 2020.09 when this first occurred. The error experienced by DimPro, "Exception code: 0xc0000005" is a memory access violation, one of the most common errors on Windows.

    Dimension Pro is no longer sold or supported. It was replaced by Cakewalk under Gibson with Rapture Pro in 2015. Support for both definitely ended when Gibson shut Cakewalk down in 2017.

    There is no guarantee that plugins that have reached end-of-life will be supported on any current DAWs. That's probably the reason your attempts at getting support for it are reaching silence. I'm sorry to hear of the troubles, because I like DimPro too. Fortunately it hasn't crashed on me yet.

    (NOT A DEAL) Native Instruments announced the sale of the company to a technology investor

    in Deals

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Starise said:

    I'm in full agreement abacab. It's a great program I would consider better than merely a sketch library. I have it and use it.?

    Gotcha! Amadeus is a very good value. And it's even fun to just open the full orchestra patch and play it with your keyboard. A full orchestra layered under your fingers!

    I also have Overture 5, and this library was created to provide an upgrade from the General MIDI factory sounds it contains. If you open a new score using an Amadeus template, it loads all of the instruments from Amadeus with Kontakt plugins running in the background. No Kontakt UI at startup unless you wish to open it.

    If you open the Overture 5 template for a "Full Orchestra" you get a score preloaded with 21 Amadeus instruments. Now that's intimidating for me...a blank score with that many empty staves! ?

    (NOT A DEAL) Native Instruments announced the sale of the company to a technology investor

    in Deals

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Starise said:

    The better libraries give you more articulations with more mic positions. Sometimes better samples.

    But you can't buy them for $99 either. Some folks only need a library for sketching ideas, not for a final production. So a quality, inexpensive library with a light footprint is sometimes all you need.

    Hobbyists and amateurs often don't need to, or can't afford to, spend money on "the better libraries" to make music.

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    (NOT A DEAL) Native Instruments announced the sale of the company to a technology investor

    in Deals

    Posted · Edited by abacab

    30 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

    If I had deep $$$$ I would get https://www.vsl.co.at/en/VI_Series/Symphonic_Cube    ?

    I brought Staffpad and think I will try one of the Spitfire add-ons as needed in the future. I have some Gift cards to the Microsoft Store.  Why couldn't I of won the billion dollar lottery last week!

    I have only very humble needs in the orchestral library arena. I'm a noob in that respect, just getting my feet wet. :)

    For example the built-in PreSonus Notion 6 instruments are mostly good enough for what I need, but they are locked into Notion. So if you use them in Notion and then move your song MIDI from there to a DAW for example, you lose your sounds (and yes I'm aware of Rewire, but don't like it).

    My efforts to find a one-stop solution to that ended up with why I am using Kontakt Player. Notion allows you to add 3rd party libraries via VST, so if you assign those in instruments in Notion and then send the project over to Studio One 5, you will have the same plugin sounds all set up automatically in S1 using the same library.

    The library I'm using for that is a budget sized one called Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra, produced by the Sonic Scores - Overture developer in partnership with Indiginus. The library runs in Kontakt Player and is $99 for Overture customers, otherwise $149. I got it for $99.

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    Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra
    $149

    An entire great sounding orchestra, with sounds that have been proven on countless productions, media
    and game scores for only $149. What's not to like?

    Covering all the essentials of the orchestra, Amadeus includes– strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion,
    keyboards, guitars and more. Everything you need for creating quick sketches, orchestra, film, and game
    scores is at your finger tips. The library has been designed to load fast and provide authentic sounding
    instruments, allowing you to create incredibly realistic scores.

    Amadeus is compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

    https://indiginus.com/amadeus.html

    https://sonicscores.com/amadeus/

     

     

    AmadeusMain-1.png

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    (NOT A DEAL) Native Instruments announced the sale of the company to a technology investor

    in Deals

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

    I already had Miroslav 2 full and I'm not a guitar player so I didn't really see the need for the Amplitube collection at this time. 

    What I could use in the future is the next level Orchestra but I'm not ready to spend $$$ for it at the moment. Have two daughters starting College. One this Fall and the other the following fall.

    What do you mean by "next level Orchestra"? Spitfire or something like that?

    AAS "version 3" products unusable; AAS support unresponsive???

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

    I just tried it in Mixcraft and there's clearly a memory leak. This was using Swatches, VST3, with Multiverse/Minor Atmo Chords, a Chromophone sound.

    I made a 2-bar MIDI phrase and set it to loop. Memory usage of the Mixcraft.exe process jumped by about 1K every time the loop went around.

    I tried your test with that patch in Chromaphone 3 in CbB, and the memory never changed during the loop.

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