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The Devastator2 freebie deal expires on Jan 14th. https://focusrite.com/en/plugin-collective

This all seems to be sorted by following msmleod's procedure described earlier: Add Kontakt as the first instrument track to Cakewalk. Setup your instruments in Kontakt with their respective outputs enabled (Run the outputs batch script to add the outputs) Add the remaining instrument tracks one at a time to Cakewalk (Use "Append Instrument Track" for each of the instruments). Note: I am using the latest Kontakt 6.4.2 Player.

It appears that you are still using Kontakt 5, which if I remember correctly, had different versions with various output configurations shown in Cakewalk. This was improved to a single version for Kontakt 6.

You didn't mention the brand and model of the new computer. Sometimes manufacturers of off-the-shelf computers add resident programs that run in the background to make support easier, but could possibly be messing with real-time audio.

Genesis Live At Wembley Stadium 1987 - Invisible Touch Tour! ? Drum duet with Phil & Chester begins at 1:26:00 (this link is saved at that time stamp). Must see this!!!

Is there an EZD pack for that? LOL!

Yes, Chester, the "other drummer"! Great guitar solo on that tune! And I always wondered about that song title, so I looked it up... "The title is a pun on the estuary of the River Forth in Scotland, commonly known as the Firth of Forth". ?

I once watched a drum duet performed by Phil Collins and his Genesis tour drummer. Two drum kits. It sounded like a single drummer with 4 arms and 4 feet. They were that tight! Totally frickin awesome! ?

I would suggest finding a demo of S1 5, or signing up for one month of PreSonus Sphere for one month at $14.95 on the monthly plan, which gives you unlimited access to all of their software. Just be sure to cancel before it renews for another month! Try it out and see if the v3 issues are resolved... just make sure to make a copy of any projects tested in v5, because any that you save there cannot be opened again with an earlier version of Studio One.

The Yangqin from NI sounds great, but I have no idea how to play it properly...

I ran across this post at HP Support: HP Spectre x360 - 13-aw0111tu - DPC Latency and Realtime Audio Issues https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Audio/HP-Spectre-x360-13-aw0111tu-DPC-Latency-and-Realtime-Audio/td-p/7534940

Try losing the HP "Command Center". Often times the unnecessary "extras" that are preinstalled by the PC manufacturer can interfere with real-time audio. That is why some music production folks feel it worth the effort to wipe the drive of a store bought PC, and then clean install Windows from scratch, using Windows Media Creation tool, and not the manufacturers system recovery.

élastiqueAAX is a time-stretching and pitch-shifting solution for Pro Tools. What dat?

You can find z3ta classic in this installer included in the Platinum Instrument Collection.

Here are my standalone installers for Z3TA+2 and Dim Pro shown in my Command Center. Z3TA+2 was standalone purchase, while the Dim Pro license was included with Sonar Platinum.

Thanks for that tip! When I followed the method suggested by msmcleod to add instruments one at a time, everything lined up OK channel wise, but I noticed that I was only getting sound on channel 4 no matter what I did. I had inserted 4 instruments as a test. So then I saved and closed my project. When I re-opened it, everything was playing fine!

@msmcleodThat method does work great! At first I wasn't sure if you meant that initially you added a "simple" instrument track for the first instrument, but I did that and everything else fell into place. ? Keeps things nice and tidy in the track view and console (no extra MIDI tracks), with every thing lined up channel wise between Cakewalk tracks and the Kontakt multi. Plus you can have the MIDI data for each instrument on it's own track. I never tried the "Append Instrument Track" feature before, but that seems exactly what it was intended for. ? Thanks!

I'm using Kontakt 6.4.2 Player.

That seems to be what I got as well. The track assignments in Cakewalk don't match the newly reassigned outputs in Kontakt. But the right sounds come out. I see that the channels in Cakewalk stay as they are, and the ones in Kontakt get switched as far as the channel names. So in absolute order of 1-16 they are correct. I opened up the same test multi in Studio One to compare with, and see the same thing in the default channel order over there. It's apparently the way the plug-in communicates the internal channels to the host when it is inserted. Then when you update them within the plug-in, the host stays the same.

Or until we are all dust in the wind...

Carry on wayward son...

And a tip... You can save your Kontakt multis within Kontakt, and recall them later in another project. They are portable and will follow the plug-in. If you save your Cakewalk multi setup as a project template, you can also recall that later. Save some work!

@msmcleodThanks! I might have done that, and that's what finally got it working last night... I think it may have been the shot of Jameson that got me over the hump! ?

Ahhh.. the joys of analog! But with the advantage of saving and recalling your presets...