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I never bothered to get Rapture Pro, as I already had Rapture Classic and Dimension Pro. And now I can use Rapture Session to browse and play all of the Rapture Classic and D-Pro imported presets. But it would be great if BandLab would re-release Rapture Pro.

Check out the free sforzando SFZ player: https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando-banks.html My favorite sounds for it are the free Virtual Playing Orchestra: http://virtualplaying.com/virtual-playing-orchestra/ "This is a full, free orchestral instrument sound library featuring section and solo instruments for woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion."

I think that's about it in a nutshell. The newly produced instrument sample content is excellent! The new instruments have very clear and present sounds, with an excellent on-board FX rack to complement them! The scalable UI is here at last! And the browser improvements are very nice. The various new UI features will make workflow much more efficient. But there seem to be a few issues with usability, that IMHO may relate to the increased memory footprint and the large instrument samples. Hopefully IK will jump right into optimizing ST4 a bit more ASAP, as I feel that they may have rushed this out the door to make the delivery date. I think it will ultimately become a very useful product, once it performs without issues across the board. I have a system that exceeds the IK published minimum specs, and I can crash 3 different DAWs with ST4. But I will say there is still a lot that it can do well without crashing, if I stay away from the memory hog presets.

I was thinking about swapping my 7200 rpm sample drive with a SSD to get things to load quicker. I do like the sound of the new instruments, as they are excellent, but the sample files are humongous. ST3 is running very stable on my system, but ST4 may need a few more updates before it is ready for prime time, and they are currently prepping the 3rd update. ST4 mostly works well, but it's not perfect. In spite of a few minor issues, the sounds are very good, and it almost makes it worthwhile to be an early adopter! Most of the criticism recently directed at IK was related to the manual download and install process of a very large sample collection for the MAX edition. There are 60 content installers that have to be manually downloaded, unzipped, and run to install just the new content (that's 200GB+). In addition there are another 36 content installers for the included Sample Tank 3 MAX collection. The good thing there is that if you already have ST3 installed, you don't need to install that part again. I have heard that IK has realized that they need a better content delivery system, so they are looking into other options now. Many other companies have already implemented online installer apps, so I would expect IK to begin developing a solution soon. The current process leaves a lot of room for user error, for example overlooking sample content installers, or installing them in the wrong path, etc.

It's better to only put the plugin .dll files in the VST folder. Less for the Cakewalk VST scanner to deal with. Any other stuff like preset folders and sample folders related to the plugin should be installed elsewhere. The best scenario is if the plugin has an installer that asks you for the paths you want to install them to. In general, it's fairly common to end up with a plugin .dll itself in your main VST folder, plus the plugin presets somewhere either in your documents, program files, or program data folder, and the samples in a folder on a separate drive where you store all of your sample libraries. But the plugin has to know where that all is, so it's best not to go moving things around after the install, unless you are sure the plugin can find them. You can always keep it simple and drop everything in various folders on your system drive if you don't have other options, but that can fill the drive up quickly if you have a lot of samples, and slow your system performance down.

Do they make those for 1/4" TRS cables?

And another possibility I have considered is that the powered monitors are picking up the computer noise via their AC power lines.

Agree that it needs memory and disk streaming improvements. The plugin itself takes up about 2.1GB empty on my system. Then loading an instrument with full keyswitch articulations takes way too long. Where is the disk streaming?

Dimension Pro is no longer a supported product, and therefore is not ever likely to have any adjustments made to the factory presets.

I have Cakewalk setup so that if I open a "new" project via keyboard shortcut (ctrl+n), it always loads a default .cwt project template that has bus assignments. You can select your default template in the "New Project" tab in the Cakewalk start screen. Your Cakewalk preferences "File > Folder Locations" specifies where Cakewalk should look for your template files. You can make any adjustments that you wish to a blank project (or start with any template) and either save that as a new template, or overwrite one of the existing ones. Use "File > Save As" and select "Template" as type, then select "Template Files" as the Go to Folder", and hit "Save". Just do this once, and then you won't have to go adding or changing stuff every time you open a "new" project. Huge time saver!

I have something like that and I believe I have it tracked down to the analog cable path from my audio interface outputs to my studio monitors. I should probably be using balanced cables there. Either that or the monitors are picking up the EMI directly. The noise I hear appears to coincide only with moments of heavy disk drive usage. If I disconnect my monitors, I cannot hear the noise using my headphones in the audio coming directly from my audio interface phones jack. And there is no audible sound coming directly from the computer. In my case that pretty much eliminates ambient noise emanating directly from the PC, or noise in the digital audio signal path.

Probably start with this video tutorial, then substitute Garritan for the synth used in this example. 19. MIDI Synths - 13:03 The full video series playlist is here:

That's probably one of the main reasons I plan to keep it around! Studio One can't do that sh*t!!!

Well it was designed for players, rather than sound designers. It is not intended to be a fully modeled emulation of a vintage synth. Arturia , possibly a few others have already done that. The sound is very good and playable. The samples came from the real things, and the guy in charge of the sampling was an original designer of the Andromeda hardware synth. Plus there is still quite a bit of flexibility in the Syntronik filters, modulations, and FX, if you want to make a sound "yours". If you look through the preset notes in the browser, there are presets with "raw" oscillators (saw, pulse, etc.) that you can use for your own sound design, but the only way to get to them is to load a preset. There is just no selector in the edit screen to access them directly. It's a limitation of the SampleTank engine, apparently. And did I already mention that it sounds good?

ST3 free will support the Syntronik content. They upgraded all versions to 3.7.x to make them compatible. Don't bother getting too excited about the oscillator editing though, as it is very limited, in that you cannot actually select any oscillators. What they did was give users access to the oscillator functions that are presented in the Syntronik user interface. But the new effects and modeled filters are a good upgrade to the ST3 engine. Although it's mostly about the filters, envelopes, and LFO's for editing synth sounds. While you are at it grab a copy of the 3.7 PDF user manual for details...

I run Sonar Platinum on an old laptop (not my DAW) using the on-board RealTek audio chip for playback of virtual instruments. I am running Windows 10 on it with the free ASIO4ALL, with very little latency. I'm not set up for recording audio with it, but with a compact keyboard and headphones, it makes an OK traveling companion to play some virtual instruments on. If I was actually going to use the laptop as a DAW though, I would at least invest in something like a small Focusrite Scarlett USB audio interface. https://focusrite.com/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-2i2

Syntronik instruments work in SampleTank 3. The advantage to that is you can create 16 part multis in ST3, and combine Syntronik instruments with SampleTank and Miroslav instruments, for example. Make sure that you are running the latest version of SsmpleTank 3 v3.7.3, as IK did some updates to the ST3 engine for the Syntronik library in ST3 v3.7.0, such as: New Channel Strip effect New Ensemble effect Added Oscillator editing on the Edit page Added 6 new analog modeled filters (C-Type low pass, R-Type low pass, O-Type low pass, high pass, band pass and notch) Improved resonance response on M Ladder filters Added Overdrive parameter for all filter types General reliability improvements

The built-in content blocking in Firefox should work if set to block trackers. Else give Privacy Badger extension a shot. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/ Or other common ad blocker extensions like uBlock Origin or Adblock should do it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ These extensions are also available for Chrome in the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus-free-ad-bloc/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en-US Or Edge: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ublock-origin/9nblggh444l4?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/adblock-plus-free-ad-blocker/9nblggh4r9nz?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

The built-in content blocking in Firefox should work if set to block trackers. Else give Privacy Badger extension a shot. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/ Or other common ad blocker extensions like uBlock Origin or Adblock should do it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ These extensions are also available for Chrome in the Chrome store.

Seeing forum ads in MS Edge and Google Chrome on Windows 10, as well as Chrome on Android. Adding the free Privacy Badger extension to Chrome on Windows seems to stop them. Plug and play, no configuration, stops trackers. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp?hl=en-US I have the built-in tracker blocking enabled in Firefox, so I wasn't seeing ads there.

Device type/browser used for viewing forum?

Loads of ads, but nothing intrusive using Google Chrome on Android. Nothing using Firefox on Windows 10. Ad free! Under browser privacy options in Firefox. I have been using the custom setting to block trackers in all windows. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking

I think Komplete Start would be ideal for new NI users. Probably not much new there to risk existing full installations.

Always match all memory sticks.

With sampler instruments you need to do 4 things. Install the VST Install the sample library Tell the VST where the sample library is Tell the DAW to scan for new VST plugins