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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.

The DVI adapter won't carry audio, just the video. I used DVI for years between a PC and my living room TV and had to run a separate audio cable to the TV. But in your case not an issue since you probably don't want audio running to your monitor anyway. HDMI is very similar to DVI, but doesn't include audio. For the drives, I wasn't meaning they were actually SCSI drives, but for some reason they are apparently using the ATAPI driver (nothing else on-board seems to be), which I wouldn't expect from a typical IDE drive. (In fact, some early ATAPI devices were simply SCSI devices with an ATA/ATAPI to SCSI protocol converter added on). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface

After you ruled out the optical drive as using SATA, and from what you said about your older HDD's being connected by PATA (parallel ATA) ribbon cables, I suppose that the HDD's may be the reason that driver is in use. In my experience, have only seen ATAPI used with optical drives, but if those old drives are using internal SCSI, that may be why. ATAPI allows for SCSI commands over ATA.

You can get a DVI to HDMI converter for $4.69 + free shipping from Newegg. https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-ea-ad-dvi2hdmi-mf-dvi-to-hdmi/p/N82E16812119962.

Ampire, Pedalboard, and Fat Channel have all been available as VST3 for some time via PreSonus Hub. The Analog Effects were just added.

Yes that works if you are a Pro user. Add "Analog Effects Collection" to your cart for $79, login to your account, at checkout you will have a coupon added that makes the total $0. Complete the purchase. Then launch PreSonus Hub, and "Analog Effects Collection" will be added as an available install! Make sure to close Studio One before running the install! They are then available as plugins for other DAWs.

I have the A-300PRO, and yes it is a hassle to set up. The A-PRO series was originally produced by Roland back when they owned Cakewalk years ago. But to my knowledge that was the only purpose built keyboard controller series ever made for Cakewalk. There are other keyboards that will work, but all will require some user configuration. In any case, if you are comfortable setting up MIDI CC's, and using MIDI learning, you should be able to get some satisfaction from any generic MIDI keyboard. It seems that generally hardware manufacturers only supply plug and play templates for some major commercial DAWs. Check their specs carefully for compatibility.

No problems here at all with v12. Win 10 Pro 2004, Intel Core i5-9600K, 16 GB DDR4 2666, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Gen 3 ASIO, Samsung EVO 860, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650.

Only suggested that as a test. Troubleshooting 101. Gotta rule it in or out somehow. Mine is SATA. His should be too, just by looking at the mobo specs. Mystery is why is the ATAPI driver being loaded. Maybe it's Win 7 thing that needs ATA driver support ? I don't see ATAPI on my Win10 here. Could always rename the driver and reboot, see if the drive still works. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/890GX Pro3/index.asp

The ASRock site says the 890GX Pro 3 mobo had this for onboard graphics: I would pull the NVIDIA card and try running with the onboard video, at least as a test. You would do better without the DPC numbers shown for that NVIDIA driver. Here is my LatencyMon Driver Report. Notice the NVIDIA Kernel Mode Driver highest execution time is .17ms here:

I spotted that ataport.sys on Michael's screenshot too. The DPC numbers look way too high for audio. ATAPI devices include CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface I would see if there is a way to disable your optical drive in the BIOS, or at least in Windows device manager. Maybe even rename the driver to ataport.bak extension to keep it from loading when Windows boots up.