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Have nothing against Eventide, but yep, this my first bad experience with iLOK. ?

I'm hopeful that is the case! ?

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Just discovered this morning (on a Saturday), and emailed them. I'm hopeful that they will get around to it in a couple of business days next week. The real test will be the iLOK licenses on the same machine that belong to AKAI Professional and AIR Music (both inMusic Brands now). We'll see how responsive their support is... I would obviously have de-activated all of the iLOK licenses prior to attempting a hard drive swap on my cheap laptop (no names mentioned) if I had thought that would kill the laptop. Had no idea that would be terminal! But due to the cheap hardware design and no access cover on the bottom, I was required to remove the keyboard to access the drive bay. Now the keyboard has come free and also detached the ribbon cables from the system board, which appears to have damaged the ribbon sockets, so no way back. I have an external keyboard, but the power button is on the internal keyboard. So now I have a new(er) laptop, a (refurbished) Dell, with an access cover on the bottom. Lessons (expensive) learned. ☺️ I still have a few SONiVOX iLOK license activations stuck on the old laptop, but not sure they are really worth recovering. We'll see how AKAI and AIR respond first...

Yes, you have to have an iLOK account and at least use the software iLOK manager. I just installed Eventide Shimmerverb and had to go through that bit of activation hurdle again. And I also discovered that my 2nd activation for Eventide Black Hole that I was using on my (now dead) laptop is locked up. iLOK won't let me deactivate a license from a machine that I can no longer access. Bummer... iLOK says that I must contact the software publisher to request a license deactivation if I cannot access the iLOK software on the machine with that activation. Waiting... ?

Here's what I got when I started the download process: 1, Downloaded the 'VG-CARBON Downloader.exe'. It went to my 'C:\Users\<username>\Downloads' folder. 2. Ran that file, and it dropped a 2.5GB folder named 'Virtual Guitarist CARBON' in the same downloads folder. Inside that folder is a 'Virtual Guitarist CARBON 1.0.1 (497).exe' and three related .bin files. *** Wait for the downloader to finish checking files after the download is complete . The downloader dialog may be hidden behind other windows on the desktop. *** 3. The folder will now be 4.1GB. The downloader was apparently uncompressing the .bin files in that folder. No clue that was happening obviously. 4. Now run the .exe file! The VG-Carbon Setup Wizard will launch. It will default to your VST folder for the plugin, and for the content it will default to Program Data on your 'C:' drive, but you can browse to another drive if you wish. Let the installer finish. All good here in the DAW. Lets rock!

Kind of difficult to use a promo that excludes sale items when all the good stuff is already on sale! ?

Thanks! That one caught my eye, and I watched a few demo videos, including with some sweet piano! It's on the wish list now! But I also noticed a huge sale on the EASTWEST Spaces II Convolution Reverb. At $133.99 (marked down from $299). That looks like the lowest price ever for that! http://everyplugin.com/spaces-1858.html

I picked up the Eventide Blackhole reverb for cheap a while back, and I love that one! And just grabbed the Eventide Shimmerverb on sale this week (everywhere for $39 or less) but at Plugin Boutique it came with PIB's free giveaway bundle with any purchase this month that includes the UJAM Carbon guitar. Going to try it out this weekend! But I'm not that familiar with the Eventide vintage gear, so would be interested to know about any "must haves". ☺️

The initial "download" is just the download manager for that particular installer. It does not install itself as a software manager for UJAM. Just installs the specific product. I have several UJAM titles and each of the new items have a separate "installer".

PIB also has Eventide Shimmerverb on sale for $39, and I was already thinking about buying that elsewhere. But not any more! Now with Carbon in the free bundle! You can even use PIB Virtual Cash that you have to improve your discount, as long as it's not 100% of the purchase price.

In this video (at the beginning) Daniel, the trailer creator, explains how he created that synth sound with Carbon.

Leslie looks cool!

I think the term "sampler" that is often used in a generic way is ambiguous and frequently leads to confusion where a diverse, multi-generation, music making audience is concerned. There really are at least two main types of sampler in use these days, plugin VSTi samplers, or fully integrated samplers. For an example, PreSonus has clearly made the decision to fully embrace this integrated sampling path, much to the derision and disdain of their traditional DAW users. But apparently the company has noticed the generational shifts in music production, and has attempted to offer something for everyone. They apparently have been listening to their users. My take on the folks requesting a "sampler" in this context are talking about an integrated tool for live sampling, sample triggering, and sample mangling in near real-time as part of their own creative musical workflow, and not necessarily playing back a sampled instrument created by someone else. Cakewalk still has trouble sampling "live", even with a 3rd party sampler. Yes, you can drag and drop samples, but that's not the same. Maybe they should fix that first. I'm sure that those who keep making these requests are well aware of the commercial 3rd party mega "sample library" instruments, but those don't operate as efficiently in this type of workflow. Maybe it's not right for you, but probably time for you to watch some YouTubes about the subject, as a lot of modern music production is done "in-the-box" with samples. But I do agree that those expecting BandLab to develop this and give it all away for free are probably expecting too much. There is a reason that DAWs that have all of these features cost money. They have paying customers who are funding the development bill. BandLab probably needs to focus on their precious commodity, and keep improving the core DAW. Cakewalk is free, but I doubt that they are operating a charity.

Fully integrated sampler in PreSonus—Studio One 4: SampleOne XT Fully integrated drum machine/sampler in PreSonus Studio One 4 Learn Studio One 4 | Impact XT - In Depth | Part I

Chord track -global like this, changes applied to chord track applies to the entire song: Studio One 4: How to Use the Chord Track

Thanks for the memories! I had forgotten all about Dick Cavett! But not about Abba!

The bakers are probably working on this right now in their "Area-51". As a follow-up to the arranger track... Just speculating, of course... ?

I agree that would have been most helpful info in the original post for those trying to assist, as well as those who may be searching for similar answers in the future. You may want to edit the thread title in that regard. Glad that you finally got it sorted out!

Yes they have to manually recover your password at support. The automatic password recovery reset at the original Cakewalk site no longer functions, since it can't send out a response email.

Now the only question is do I really need anything else from IKM? Already have SampleTank 4 MAX, Syntronik, Miro 2 CE. Already have plenty of basses and drums, so not really sure that I would use the MODO's all that much...

The Sonar 7 installer should supply both versions. I believe that the only reason to install 32-bit Sonar would be if that is all your hardware will support, or else maybe if there is some 32-bit VST plugin that doesn't run correctly with the built-in BitBridge in Sonar x64. CbB (x64 only) also has BitBridge, if needed. I used to install both 32 and 64 bit versions of Sonar 8.5 and X1 on my 64-bit system. But in recent years have not bothered with Sonar x32.

OK that makes more sense! Really a perpetual license, but with a subscription for support and updates. I tried Acronis many moons ago when I installed it on my Dad's PC. I set up a hidden restore partition (Acronis Secure Zone) with a custom baseline system image, so that if he ever needed to he could restore the system back to "like new" with one button push. That was back in the Win XP days, and from what I can see you have to use bootable rescue media to restore disk images now. Back then there was a key that you could hit during booting that launched the Acronis rescue environment where you could restore an image from the Secure Zone. I liked that feature best because he was not that tech savvy, and I was providing remote support from over 500 miles away...

It expires?

BandLab online and Cakewalk By BandLab are still two different products. It remains to be seen what integration, especially regarding instruments, will follow...

If you have $200 burning a hole in your GAS pocket, maybe there are other deals elsewhere that are more worthy of your hard earned cash. ? I know, freebies are irresistible, but even so there is still an up-front cost...