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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!

I would imagine that in addition to playing style, that playing leads or bass lines should give better detection accuracy than strumming chords. Monophonic vs. polyphonic.

Band in a Box can be another offender, although you have more choioces. Even though you tell the installer to install the RealTracks and RealDrums content elsewhere, if you take the default for the main BB folder, it goes onto (C:). I assumed that would only be the program and resources folders, but it was about another 20GB on my system with the UltraPak version. At least the installer lets you choose a different folder for that at install time. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled the entire thing on my (D:) drive.

Good point. Definitely also clear your Waves Central cache. I always seem to end up with a few GB left in there after I install plugin updates. I am only showing 3MB in there now, but I recently cleared a bunch out of there as well.

2020.11 still good here.

The piano seems to be very velocity sensitive. I would suggest that you check your MIDI controller's velocity curve settings, and the velocity settings in the Cakewalk track. Mine is set to [Vel+ ='0'] there as well. You could also review a MIDI clip that you have recorded and see the recorded velocity levels for that track in the piano roll.

Basically all of the resources that make the Waves plugins tick, for every Waves version I have ever had installed. Except for the Waveshell VST and VST3 files, which are where you would expect them to be, in their respective plugin paths.

Here is a link to a tune by Kenny that he played guitar and guitar synth on. Nice example of good playing and excellent result!

I'm not a guitar player, but do have a bass. Kenny told me about Jam Origin because it has a bass version, and I was asking him if it would do bass. I believe if you buy it, you get both versions.

Well one thing you never know until you try it, but maybe Windows 10 will handle it better? Good luck!

I understand. But in any case your DPC numbers for that driver were way too high, so best to find some way to rule it out via testing, process of elimination.

Why does it need to be an internal card? There are now many very good inexpensive choices in the USB2 interface market. You can set them up to work both with Windows audio, and any music programs you use. Just make sure to use a common sampling rate for everything. Come to think of it, that might be your issue with the current setup.

The only thing I use TTS-1 for is to preview a GM MIDI file. Other than that I avoid it like the plague. Many folks have reported horror stories while using it for production. I'm really not that surprised, as ancient as it is.

One of the forum members @kennywtelejazz here swears he has gotten good results with Jam Origin MIDI Guitar.

I sometimes wish that PreSonus would open up their instruments in the same way. I rarely use them because they are locked to Studio One, but they seem decent. I just don't wish to waste my time learning them if they cannot be used elsewhere. Or having to replace them if I move a project to another DAW.