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OK, thanks for the info. I found Aria and you can install it, but the license is actually only granted if you have a paid license for the product. It's not a freeware product, so proceed at your own discretion. I agree on the TX16Wx sampler. It's under active development and the free version is quite powerful and based on the old hardware samplers. The only limitation I have found is difficulty routing audio to the plugin to do live sampling. So far I can only get that live recording to work in Reaper, due to its flexible route anything anywhere architecture. I don't think it's the fault of the sampler, but rather a limitation of some DAWs like Cakewalk that don't allow audio inputs to instrument plugins, but only to FX plugins. I attempted to configure TX16Wx as an effect in Cakewalk, but no luck so far... The best workaround I found for Cakewalk is to first record the new audio sample to an audio track, then drag and drop the audio clip to the sampler.

I created an account at MakeMusic, but no products or download links were offered. But now I'm all signed up for their newsletters and deals!

I can't find a link to an Aria download. Plogue distributes the freeware sforzando, but I believe that Aria is OEM only from Garritan/MakeMusic. Aria is 16 part multitimbral, while sforzando is not. Both can play sfz instruments.

Bass players will probably love this thing, LOL!!!

Do you have to buy a library from Garritan to get the Aria Player? I already have sforzando from Plogue.

But it has come down by $2 since last year!

I thought so too, until I looked into it. Seems rather limited, for example only major and minor chords following triad logic are supported. See my comments at the old forum: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3802134

What was the fix, if you don't mind sharing?

If you installed an update that crashed your DAW, you might be able to uninstall it. Go to "Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > View installed updates ". To uninstall an update, select it from the list and click "Uninstall".

You can put drums on any MIDI channel. The point here is that Xpand!2 can only respond to channels 1-4, drums or not. My suggestion was to check the pad controller to see what MIDI channel was being transmitted on.

Another thing you may want to check is if you are sending the drum hits over MIDI channel 10, or some other? That was the traditional channel for GM drums in multitimbral MIDI setups. Xpand!2 can only receive data on your choice of MIDI channels 1-4, per part.

Open the MIDI file in the piano roll editor in the DAW you imported it to, and make sure it actually contains MIDI data. If you can see the note data is there, then the clip should be able to play fine. In Reaper, for example, then you will need to either route the imported MIDI track to your instrument track, or place the MIDI clip directly on the instrument track in order for it to play that instrument. Also make sure that the MIDI channel numbers that you recorded the MIDI clip with are set up correctly in the virtual instrument. In Reaper the notes will not play back if you recorded them on MIDI channel 1, and you have the instrument set to receive on MIDI channel 2, for example. You can switch the Reaper editor from piano roll mode to event list mode to see what MIDI channel (1-16) the notes were recorded on.

This is probably the most puzzling thing about that Behringer interface https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/behringer-audio-interface-setup-guide/ "Do I need to use the ASIO4All driver? Although most Behringer audio interfaces have their own driver (version 4.38 as of July 2018), some of the smaller interfaces will require the third-party driver, ASIO4All. These interfaces include the UMC22, UM2, UCA222, and UCA202. Check out our ASIO4All setup guide for instructions on how to install and configure it." Behringer product page with driver download link: https://www.behringer.com/Categories/Behringer/Computer-Audio/Interfaces/UMC22/p/P0AUX#googtrans(en|en)

WASAPI is already included in Windows. Just select it in the driver mode dialogue in Cakewalk under playback and recording preferences.

Check that there is only one ASIO driver installed on that machine. I ran into interface configuration problems with Cakewalk a while back until I discovered that a Steinberg trial had slipped their generic ASIO driver onto my machine. So then I was then unable to select an option in Cakewalk audio devices until I uninstalled the extra ASIO driver. I already had a working ASIO driver for my audio interface installed. Then I found the culprit in Windows add/remove programs, uninstalled it, and all was good again! That may not be your problem, but it is one possibility.

I would follow up on this duplicate deal as I have four duplicates, and one triplicate. But then I would probably feel so guilty about taking the freebies from these nice folks that I would cave in and buy Chromophone the same day.

I believe that drum replacer works with tracks that are already recorded, while I think the original question was in regard to triggering drum samples in real time.

I deleted Cyclone years ago. It was an interesting idea for its time! But I have Studio One to tinker with now. Impact XT would be my go-to for triggering drum samples! But it would be nice if the bakers would add an integrated sampler to Cakewalk at some point! SampleOne XT and Impact XT are good examples for using external samples or ones own samples quickly in the creative workflow.

It works, and get the same results with several other DAWs that I've tried. Have you tried with the keys on a plain MIDI keyboard yet? It also works with the pads on my keyboard. MIDI notes are MIDI notes, regardless of the source.

Sure! Then you could use that integrated Cakewalk sampler to play your own samples with. Oh, wait ...

It is consistently reproducible. It has been acknowledged by the SONiVOX team as a bug. Just insert BB, load a preset, and play a note from your controller. Kaboom!!! It was also observed that activating the MIDI learn button in the BB GUI with your mouse before triggering any MIDI notes also prevented that crash.

I just thought that your criticism of users as ignorant was a bit over the top John, and I was trying to redirect it. But you seem to want to keep hitting that wall. I'm done here.

Everything should work as long as you can custom map the correct notes to the kit pieces in the kit that you have selected in Xpand!2. For example to trigger the kick with a selected pad, you probably need to have that pad send a C1 (at least that works on my system with middle C for reference as octave 3). Xpand!2 shows the kick mapped to C1 in the plugin GUI. You may have to try several different octave ranges, as Cakewalk does not always display notes in the octave where you might expect it to be. It might turn up at C0, C1, or C2 , or elsewhere depending on the Cakewalk preferences. I found it helps if I set Cakewalk Preferences > Customization > Display > Base Octave for Pitches [-2]. The easiest way to find the kick is usually to plug in a MIDI keyboard and hit every C note until you find the kick drum. Or use a MIDI analyzer like MIDI-OX to determine the exact note that you are sending from your MIDI controller. http://www.midiox.com/ As far as setting up Xpand!2, maybe this video will help. It uses Pro Tools as the host in this example, but setting up the Xpand!2 drums is not Pro Tools specific, except at the 3:15 min mark in the video, you will actually find the big instrument preset menu is at the bottom of the Xpand!2 VST interface, not at the top of the plugin window as shown in Pro Tools in the video. The Xpand!2 smart knobs for each layer A-B-C-D will let you see the mappings for the pieces and do some minor adjustments to the kit. Creating a drumbeat using Xpand!2 https://www.lynda.com/Pro-Tools-tutorials/Creating-drumbeat-using-Xpand2/383573/413476-4.html

Maybe you were thinking of Cakewalk Session Drummer 3? With that one you can drag 'wav' file samples from the browser right onto the kit pieces.

Xpand!2's drum kits respond to keyboard notes. The kits are mapped across the keyboard, so it's not really Cakewalk specific. I don't have an Akai controller to test with, but if you can set those pads to send MIDI notes you should be all set.