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I got in on ST4 Max at the pre-release price, upgraded from ST3. Now with Total Studio Max crossgrade, the group buy with the MODO's and Hammond B-3X, I have pretty much everything IK now. Even added Mixbox and Sunset Studio just for grins! ST4 Max certainly has the sounds! Still only using NI Kontakt Player for a couple of paid for libraries that only run in Kontakt. Don't really see the need for the full Kontakt at this point, however I might grab it on the next sale just in case NI decides to go to subscription only.

Yup, because everyone knows that we really need another money pit!!! ?

I am running Chromaphone 3 successfully on CbB 2020.11, Windows 10 Pro 2004, 16 GB Ram, i5-9600K. I have the full collection of sound banks installed for that instrument as well. Using the NKI preview versions, as I occasionally use Komplete Kontrol. I have no suggestion on how to resolve the issue, but am just adding this info to mention that it does work for me, and so I suspect it's probably not a widespread problem. My normal procedure if I suspect a conflict with a plugin is first to try it with another DAW. There are some free ones you can test with. And if it was a widespread issue, AAS support would probably be all over it. If it's a "bug", it's most likely what is usually referred to in computer science as a "corner case", which only occurs under specific conditions. And those conditions were probably overlooked during testing.

I imagine that NI has too big of an "economic moat" for most competitors to cross in a cost effective way. I wonder which earns them the most revenue, their hardware, or software? Since NI Kontakt is essentially "the standard" for most commercial sample libraries, I suspect that even if NI were to fold (not likely), somebody would buy up that product line.

Probably a device problem for the dropouts, as they are often driver related, but you won't be sure until you rule everything out. That headphone thing sure is weird, but if you eliminate everything you may figure that one out as well. It almost sounds like a faulty electrical ground somewhere. I run a Z-390 board myself, and it is rock solid on Windows 10 2004. It also ran well with just the Intel graphics before I added an NVIDIA GPU. I get very low numbers on LatencyMon, and never any dropouts or static, assuming I am running with a reasonable ASIO buffer size. I also use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. But if you have been at it for weeks, it's time to start breaking it down. Process of elimination and good old troubleshooting 101.

Session Drummer is not included with CbB. It's definitely part of an old Sonar bundle. The SI instruments are a separate download available in BandLab Assistant.

Pull the GPU cards and test with Intel graphics only. Post your LatencyMon reports. If that doesn't help, then your best bet would be to temporarily disconnect everything that you don't absolutely need to boot the computer and test, for example bare bones with just a monitor, PC keyboard, mouse, and audio interface. If good, then start adding one thing back at a time, testing each time, until the problem returns. If it does, there's your culprit.

But I am curious about what changed in the AAS Player, as he was reporting audible changes in the Chromaphone sound banks. I would think that would only be possible if the Player was using the Chromaphone 3 sound engine now. And would you have had to update the Player to enable that change?

That makes sense because the Chromaphone engine was just updated to v3 with two synth layers and new features, so they remastered and included all v2 sounds for it.

That's weird! I downloaded it from the forum to test and it plays back ok on both Windows Music, and on Android.

I grabbed John's .mid file and opened it in Cakewalk with TTS-1. I left the MIDI as is, and replaced all of the TTS-1 instruments with other instrument selections. For piano, bass, and drums, I used Addictive Keys Grand, Ample P-Bass Lite, and MT Power Kit. I cheated a bit and used SampleTank 4 for the guitar and combo organ, and threw Amplitube 5 on the guitar and bass. Then ran it though a mastering console plugin on the master bus to level it up before exporting directly to MP3. Quick and dirty result: Believer.mp3

I've also noticed that some Steinberg demos install a generic low latency ASIO driver that can try to replace your interface's ASIO driver in the DAW.

And they will stay that way, as I do not want to bork up my Waves installs. I think that overall the Waves plugin architecture is a delicate train wreck in motion, and I don't care to upset the balance by deleting anything. Waves can kiss my a**, but I do intend to keep using the plugins that I have bought. Besides, I moved that Waves folder to a secondary drive that has hundreds of GBs of free space. This topic was about getting the sh*t off of the [C:] drive, so mission accomplished for me!

I've been holding back on buying into Kontakt, but now hoping for a better deal! I have a couple paid for libraries running in the Kontakt Player version that I would like to keep running. I expect the company to be around in some form for a good while, as NI are an 800 lb gorilla in the industry. But the real question may be, will their creative innovation be in any jeopardy with the new overlords? They might just be in it to flip the business to the next highest bidder...?

If you are dying to pickup a good virtual analog synth this weekend, I would instead hop on over to Waves and pick up Element 2 for $29. https://www.waves.com/plugins/element#future-trap-bass-element-synth-tutorial Deal ends this weekend! I picked that one up on sale a while back, and it's now among my top 3 virtual analogs!

Did you see the movie "Ford vs. Ferrari"? That's essentially what Carroll Shelby told Henry Ford Jr. when asked to build the world's fastest race car for Ford. ?

Also look in places named Avid, Digidesign, Steinberg, etc. for duplicate VST files. The key is to note any folder names of companies that you have never installed on your machine. And some installers even place ".aax" plugins in a different path by default, in addition to the VST paths you provided at installation. I think that some companies just assume you must need Pro Tools plugins, so they stick them in "Avid" for some reason.

I found this video which has a fairly good explanation of how to adjust sensitivity of Jam Origin for best results while tracking. In this example he is using a standalone Jam Origin instance as a MIDI input to the DAW. He covers alternate tuning, transposition, and monophonic vs polyphonic modes. Then in the 2nd half of the video he demonstrates playing it using a Prophet Synth, Keyscape Piano where he plays chords on a piano, and also an Omnisphere Pad. The use of MIDI effects like the harmonizer is interesting! He shows that there are sometimes stray MIDI notes to clean up after recording, but he doesn't quantize anything because he is trying to capture the human performance. Probably worth a watch if you are interested in audio to MIDI with a guitar.

I've used the paid version of Waveform since v8, plus the free versions of Tracktion 6 & 7. Once you're in with the paid version, upgrade pricing is quite reasonable, especially if you are patient enough to wait for it to go on sale. Nice to see that the free version is now using the same code base as the current release, instead of past versions.

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I think the upcoming 11.5 version will be free for 11 Pro users.

Hi Kenny, nice to see you are still hanging out and making great music. I really like these new tunes! ? The topic of MIDI guitar came up here and so you got mentioned as a practitioner of this mystical art! Good point about strumming chords, as that is probably the holy grail of audio to MIDI note recognition.

I've seen a case of Cakewalk itself taking a long time to open, no project involved, and not counting the VST scan. In my case, I tracked it down to using the old Sonar Platinum path for project templates, instead of using the Cakewalk Core path. This only started happening recently after I saved a new project template from Cakewalk to the Sonar Platinum project template folder. I had always been using the Platinum template path since installing CbB. I copied my project templates over from Platinum, and changed my Cakewalk preferences to use all Cakewalk Core paths. Now Cakewalk opens almost instantly! I really don't understand why that made a difference, as both content paths are on the same SSD drive.

The new guitars in SampleTank 4 Max are nicely sampled! American Strat full keyswitch & 3 pickup settings (6.1GB), Les Paul full keyswitch & 2 pickup settings (4.7GB), Pedal Steel, also a couple fingered and picked acoustic steel string guitars (each sample set 2-3GB with full keyswitch), and a fingered nylon (3.2GB). SampleTank 4 SE does contain the Les Paul full keyswitch, and picked steel and fingered nylon acoustics. And none of them sounds like a harpsichord!