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On 5/8/2025 at 2:32 PM, Milton Sica said:

Can anyone help me expand my information on all the trucks used by Cakewalk for our items?

Also, your post mentioned "trucks", which I guess translates to "caminhão". Of course, it was obvious you meant "tracks", but at first glance the end result was indeed pretty strange. 

7 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

If you have a fake (ASIO4ALL/Realtek/Behringer, et al) driver that says it's ASIO, then you're asking for problems.

For the record, Behringer use ASIO4All for their cheapest interfaces, but true ASIO compliant drivers for the others. Also, they never call their ASIO4All drivers anything but ASIO4All, so there should be no risk of confusion.

Release notes:

1. Support for “Modern Heavy” ADpak
2. Support for “Modern Heavy Beats & Songs” MIDIpak
3. Ability to link Kick to Flexi slot to simulate double kick drums
4. Option to turn on/off Snare buzz from Kick, Tom and Flexi (when a kick or tom is loaded)
5. Tone Designer on Flexi slots
6. Bugfixes, UI tweaks and performance improvements

51 minutes ago, audioschmaudio said:

Depends if you count Prophet V3.

That’s true, I had forgotten about that one. Arturia works in mysterious ways.

1 hour ago, Skijumptoes said:

I could never understand that, I had Spark with the hardware controller and used to think it was brilliant.  Odd move why they removed it, must've been an issue with some underlying licensing or coding perhaps?

Or maybe Arturia thought they could make more money selling it separately. It’s still available for €149, but they’ve never bothered to make a VST3 version. Pretty strange.

1 hour ago, Magic Russ said:

I generally agree but one thing they don't have in this collection is a drum kit.

When I bought V Collection 4 in 2015, Arturia Spark 2 was included. It had been removed in V Collection 5, but was of course still available for those with VC4. As far as I know, that is the only virtual instrument that has ever been removed.

3 hours ago, apoliticalboy said:

You used to be able to download it from roland clan(fan site) -- but I can't find one anymore [...]

I think there still is a Roland FA-06 instrument file on the Roland Clan forum. Have a look at this post from 2015. At the very bottom of that post there is a link to a .rar file which is said to contain the final version of the FA-06 .ins files. Good luck.

2 hours ago, Marc Cormier said:

I JUST retired from playing net last month.  One hip replaced two years ago that feels great, but now have a meniscus tear that won't heal.  I'm 58 now but had the chance to play in a morning pickup with some great Detroit legends for the last 15 years and play goal in 5 alumni games.  I can't wait to sell my gear.  It's hard to look at now.

I found an interview with you on YouTube where, in the first 23 minutes, you talked about your story and the NHL alumni experience. Great story!

6 hours ago, Release said:

Mine was $299.  I had to jump on it.  Way too much fun to be had, even though I have enough sounds to explore for 2 lifetimes as it is.

I have to admit, I did too. Only a few days ago I was pretty sure I wouldn’t buy any more plugins, like ever, but with an upgrade price of €299 for all of this, UVI made me an offer I simply couldn’t refuse.

My upgrade offer is €299. It's a lot of stuff, but do I need it?

Does it make any difference whether you in UVI Workstation have Preferences > General > Use OpenGL Renderer turned On of Off? Also, do you have Preferences > General > UI Scaling and Preferences > General > Script UI Scaling set to some other value than 100%? If so, does it make any difference if you set them both to 100%? Or, any combination of the settings mentioned above?

FWIW, I’ve never experienced this myself and I’ve used UVI Workstation with Cakewalk SONAR/CbB/Sonar for well over 10 years.

28 minutes ago, Paul G said:

Are you saying that every time you open Sonar you have to sign in with BL?

It was like that two days ago. But I tested again right now, and if I enter the 2FA code when first starting Sonar and then exit Sonar, I am indeed able to start Sonar a second time without being asked to log on and go through 2FA yet again. I guess something has been changed on the server since Monday, because I haven’t changed anything on my side. So, hopefully this change of behaviour will last. The constant 2FA nagging two days ago made me seriously start considering my alternatives.

This is getting pretty ridiculous. I've had to do 2FA every time I've started Sonar today. Sure, I have to do 2FA to gain access to quite a lot of sites these days, but that's mostly when I'm out travelling and start using a different IP address. Also, I have absolutely no problem with 2FA when it comes to things like banking or card purchases. But every time I start an effing DAW?

C'mon.

5 hours ago, Luc said:

They have a sale on upgrades and in my case with M1, the price I got is the best one so far (lowest until now was $150 and it's now $132.45).

I think you previously had to own three instruments in the collection to get an upgrade price of $150. For me,  only having two instruments, it was never below $199. So, I'm currently being offered an upgrade to KORG Collection 5 for $132.45. Although it's a pretty good price, $99 would have been better. Hm.

Welcome home, Larry! Hm, haven’t I said that once before?

The voucher amount doesn’t seem to be as large as it used to only a few years ago. I also got a €40/$40 voucher yesterday, but considering my purchases last year, I had honestly expected more. Well, it’s valid until January 31. Maybe some interesting deal will show up until then. Otherwise, it will at least cover the purchase of a UVI Falcon expansion.

1 hour ago, Deidre Rodriguez said:

Good to know about iLok, thanks! So, I could run World Suite 3 in Cakewalk or do I need to run it in the UVI workstation and then transfer it to Cakewalk? Or is there a way to open the WS3 library within Cakewalk?

The first thing for you to do, would be to install the UVI Portal from here. That’s the software that manages the installation of all UVI plugins and libraries. You can read more in the pdf document here. Skip everything that’s said about about SonicPass, as that’s UVI’s all-encompassing subscription program. Instead, look at the parts that talks about permanent licenses, as I assume that would be the route for you to go in order to get World Suite 3.

As you haven’t got UVI Workstation already installed, you need to install that one on your PC first. Once UVI Portal is installed and started, you can download and install UVI Workstation from there. If you’re using Cakewalk by BandLab, you might choose to install UVI Workstation to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\VST Plugins\UVI. Read more about UVI Worktation in this pdf.

As you don’t have an iLok account, you can create that as well from inside UVI Portal. Look at the instructions on page 6 in the UVI Portal pdf.

If you then would like to buy, say, UVI World Suite 3, you do that at https://www.uvi.net/en/world/world-suite-3.html, or possibly some third-party vendor. Of course, you would need to create your own account at UVI, as this would be the first time. Once purchased, you would then refresh UVI Portal, and that library would turn up, ready to be installed.

Once everything is installed, when you start Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) the next time, it would by default scan your specified plugin paths. If you have chosen my recommended path above, everything should work automatically and UVI Workstation would turn up among your installed plugins.

Then you can simply create a new instrument track inside a new Cakewalk project, select UVI Workstation as your instrument, and UVI World Suite 3 would be available among your soundbanks inside. Double-click your library/soundbank and the GUI would open.

And, hey presto.

15 minutes ago, Deidre Rodriguez said:

I was just concerned with the fact that the World Suite 3 required a UVI workstation and a iLok account (assuming this is an Apple thing?). I didn't want to download it and then run into issues. My band mate who produces all of our music on Cakewalk mentioned looking for things that are VST3 and PC native, which World Suite doesn't seem to be.

UVI Workstation has a very long history and is a well-established VST3 plugin. World Suite 3 is a library that runs inside the free UVI Workstation, much like Native Instruments Kontakt is a VST3 plugin where Kontakt libraries can be loaded and run. Indeed, UVI Workstation requires iLok, just as all commercial plugins have some sort of copy protection, but iLok nowadays doesn’t require a USB dongle. I’ve personally used both UVI Workstation and iLok for ten years without ever running into any sort of trouble. Also, iLok is in no way specifically related to Apple; it works on both PC and Mac computers.

7 hours ago, sjoens said:

And the strange status field hieroglyphics are back [...]

Yes, the Control Surface Status field hieroglyphics seem to be a never-ending issue. I think I’ve mentioned the problem when using the Nektar Impact Control Surface on multiple occasions, but I’ve never got any reaction. There’s probably a null character missing or ignored somewhere, either located in the DLL or in the Cakewalk code.

Today it looks like this on my computer; from left to right: Sonar, CbB, and SONAR Platinum:

Nice, and it’s always good to know when the Control Surface Status is "0□,0¨↑+□□□□,©0□□+□□□□7<□□□”, but I really don’t know what to do with that information. And every time it's different.

The good thing is that it doesn’t have any impact (no pun intended) on the functionality. And, for sure, it does add a bit of crunch and character to the Control Bar.

2 hours ago, Sock Monkey said:

So far this month I've had about 12 crashes. Prior to that it was very very rare!  I really don't usually have any issues with Cakewalk or now Sonar. 

Yesterday both Sonar and CbB crashed on me. Sonar 2024.12 didn’t even start (I tried three times), while CbB 2024.12 did start but crashed as soon as I pressed Ctrl+N to create a new project. So, I updated my Visual C++ Redistributable package from here, and everything just started to work again.

I don’t know if it was the 2024-12 Cumulative Update for Windows 10, or the BandLab installers, or a combination of those, that wreaked havoc on my system, but regardless; the redist update certainly fixed the problems on my computer.

6 hours ago, OliverKool said:

Yes, I do mean a list of favorites. But I also thought that drag and drop would be cool. We already drag effects. 

While waiting for that, you could always create your own Plug-In Menu Layout and call it something like "My Coolest Instruments". That way, even drag-and-drop will work. Something like this:

I try to only update every fourth version or so of Komplete, like going from K10U to K14U. True, that way I won’t get a megazillion of new Expansions each year, but I couldn't care less. It saves me a lot of money.

The only exception was back in 2019 when I purchased an upgrade from K10U to K12CE. The reason being there were indications at that time NI was considering going subscription. As software subscriptions are a definite no-no for me, I decided to get the latest and greatest as a perpetual license while it was still possible. Thankfully, I was later proved wrong; NI came to their senses.

1 hour ago, d-zone said:

where from? The 50% isn't off everything, as the Everything Bundle is showing full price for me.....

The Complete Collection appears to be the only thing excluded from that deal. As for me, I would normally have paid €9.97 for that one missing MIDI Pak, but when upgrading to the Complete Collection, I got it for €6.84. I don’t know why I got that offer, but probably because there was so little remaining.

... and the final deals, covering all the way from EDM through Country to Metal.

As previously stated, all offers in this thread are available until December 2, 2024.

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