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You still have not specified what you are playing those 30 MIDI tracks through. There has to be an instrument somewhere. Are you using only external MIDI hardware instruments?

I hope that Cake support can figure it out. I don't have any of those plugins to test with. But I do have the Waves H-Series plugins, as well as Waves Scheps Omni Channel, and they seem to remember their settings OK. I use the Waves VST3 plugin versions in Cakewalk. CbB 2019.03 on Windows 10 Pro 1809 with March 2019 updates (OS Build 17763.404).

I believe that what you see in that "Audio > Record Latency Adjustment" is determined by your settings in Audio > Devices; Audio > Driver Settings; Audio > Playback and Recording. If you get that setup correctly you should only see your preferred device in that record latency option. I would definitely weed out and uninstall and 3rd party audio drivers not provided by your audio interface manufacturer or Microsoft. Any time I see "Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver is a red flag! Something you installed may have put that generic driver onboard. Check the Windows Control Panel, Programs and Features, to see if there is an uninstaller available.

It's a good one! But just to be aware, there is a flaw in the Surge Synth UI zoom [Menu > Zoom > Zoom to xxx%] feature when used in Cakewalk. The VST resize doesn't work correctly. But I found a workaround. If you first open an instance of Komplete Kontrol in Cakewalk, then open Surge in that, the UI zoom will work there. I like to set the zoom to 150%. Komplete Kontrol will adjust the UI to whatever scale the hosted plugin is using. Komplete Kontrol is now free as part of the free Komplete Start bundle from Native Instruments. You can add your plugin path to Komplete Kontrol and it will scan and include your existing plugins. Get it here: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ Just think of it as a host within a host. Once you save a Cakewalk project with this setup, it's a snap to use. Komplete Start is worth grabbing for that alone. Plus you do get a few other goodies with it, such as 6 GB of instruments, effects, loops, and samples. Reaktor Blocks, and other Reaktor Player based synths such as Mikro Prism. Also Kontakt 6 Player comes with a few interesting sample based instruments. Plus for FX you get Guitar Rig 5 Player and the Supercharger tube compressor. Cheers!

If you are using 20 MIDI tracks, are you using 20 virtual instruments with them? That could produce a rather heavy CPU and memory load, unless you freeze a bunch of them. Each instrument track may need a separate CPU core/thread to run on, depending on how hungry they are. 20 audio tracks would probably be fine with your computer, depending on whether you were running any realtime plugin effects on them. Audio itself does not require as much CPU and memory as MIDI does with virtual instruments.

I cannot recall ever having a plugin not save with current settings in a .cwp file. Is there a list of plugins that are doing this? Maybe I have just not run across any of them yet. @Sidney Earl GoodroeI am able to save settings no problem with AIR Xpand!2. Not sure what the problem could be there.

Splice now has V Collection 7 on rent to own. $24.99/mo for 20 months. https://splice.com/plugins/38716544-v-collection-7-vst-au-by-arturia Not a good deal, but it's an option.

No news yet, but lots of folks are wondering about this! Great instruments! In the meantime, you may want to take a look at the free Vember Audio Surge Synthesizer. It has been released as free and open source, and is currently being supported by developers on GitHub. Surge has a lot of wave shaping options, and reminds me slightly of z3ta+. It's a subtractive hybrid synth with over 1000 factory presets, and 183 wavetables. Get it here: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

I agree. I usually reserve clean installs for major system rebuilds. The last time I clean installed was when I upgraded to Windows 10 about 3 years ago. Even if I can install a fresh copy of Windows in an hour or so, I am still looking to spend at least a week re-installing, authorizing, and configuring all of my application software. Then there are all of the numerous tweaks I have made to the system to optimize it for audio. Have to figure out what I did and set that up again. No thanks! I like that I can re-image my system drive from a recent image file in about 35 minutes. I take daily, weekly, and monthly images, so it's no biggie to roll back to the last clean one. Even in the worst case of system corruption that I did not detect right away, then having to skip back several image versions to get back to a "clean" one, I could still mount the latest image as a drive after the restore and pull current data from it if needed.

Yes agreed, both working fine here. Check the installation paths and the scan paths as suggested.

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Cakewalk says I have 487 plugins. Is that too many?

I think that since many newer games have embraced the "open world" or "free roaming" concept, rather than a more linear gameplay, they now require many more GB of scenery and textures for hi-res rendering of boundless realistic 3D worlds. I have found that keeping installed games to a bare minimum of "favorites" or current titles, is the only way to maintain a decent amount of free space. If you have unlimited data and a fast connection, one option is to store the licenses on the game developers platform, and only download and install the games that are currently in use. That way the digital game content remains archived in the "cloud", available to download and play at any time.

You can put just the 32-bit plugins that you use with Cakewalk together in a sub folder within the 32-bit plugin folder. Then provide the path to that special sub folder in Cakewalk VST scan paths rather than the 32-bit plugin parent folder. That way the plugin scanner will only include those selected plugins, and not all 32-bit plugins.

What will they think of next? An electro whoopie cushion? Oh, right, that's already been done! https://soundiron.com/products/flatulus

Ah, sorry! In the OP I quoted the deal timeline as "From April 17th at 10:00 am to April 25th at 03:00 am (your local time)". It is still April 25th here too, but well past 03:00, and the deal is showing as expired also.

I didn't get an email either. I just stumbled across the info at bleeping computer's news. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/gaming/get-assassins-creed-unity-for-free-in-honor-of-notre-dame/

Yep, I had seen AC Black Flag on the Playstation, and it looked pretty cool, so I grabbed it cheap last year for the PC. I loved the graphics for the Caribbean waters and the ships! But I haven't really spent much time with it yet. Now I have both to catch up on. Looking forward to the historical scenery of Paris!

"In light of the devastating fire at the Notre Dame de Paris, Ubisoft wants to give all gamers the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of the cathedral through Assassin's Creed Unity on PC. From April 17th at 10:00 am to April 25th at 03:00 am (your local time), you can download Assassin's Creed Unity on PC for free here, and you’ll own it forever in your Uplay games library. " https://register.ubisoft.com/acu-notredame-giveaway/en-US

Try re-imaging again, and then boot straight to safe mode if you can. Let the repair run from there. If that works, then that would rule out something else interfering, and that default settings and basic drivers are not at fault. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

According to LatencyMon, I got 0.005 ms highest execution time with the Intel Graphics Kernel Mode Driver (Intel HD graphics, integrated). It was also relatively low on the recorded DPC counts.

Deal expires today at 1 p.m (13:00) Eastern Daylight Time (17:00 UCT). KRK ROKIT 5 G3 Powered Studio Monitor, Silver Black Limited Edition https://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid

Macrium also gives you the option to make a bootable USB flash rescue media.

I think that figuring out why you cannot boot with the Macrium rescue media should be priority #1. If you can just figure out how to boot that up, you are almost home free. Macrium Rescue media should work regardless of the current state of Windows on the C: drive. If the bootable media is bad, then you can always re-create that media on another PC. Macrium Rescue is a self contained, bootable "live" version of Windows PE, with a copy of Macrium Reflect onboard. Once you have booted from that, there is no longer any dependency on whatever is on your hard drive. One catch to booting from the optical drive or USB, is that some boot media is set to boot only as UEFI (GPT), or legacy BIOS (MBR). If it doesn't match your current BIOS settings for that, it may be ignored.

You Don’t Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10 "Microsoft allows anyone to download Windows 10 for free and install it without a product key. It’ll keep working for the foreseeable future, with only a few small cosmetic restrictions. And you can even pay to upgrade to a licensed copy of Windows 10 after you install it." https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/ Reinstall Windows 10 "If you're having problems with Windows 10 on your PC or you want a fresh copy of Windows 10 without the clutter of old files or apps, you can reinstall Windows 10 to try and fix your issues and return your PC to a cleaner state." https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4000735/windows-10-reinstall Reactivating Windows 10 after a hardware change "When installing Windows 10, the digital license associates itself with your device's hardware. So, if you make significant changes, such as replacing your motherboard, Windows will no longer find a license that matches your computer. Here’s how to prepare Windows 10 for activation before you make any significant hardware changes. If you didn't prepare before the hardware change, we also provide the steps to help you reactivate Windows 10." https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change