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According to their press release, until October 22, 2019.

So $25 unlocks Pinnacle Studio 23 Ultimate? Not bad at all. Deals from Humble Bundle normally gives you a program version that has already been superseded, but Pinnacle Studio 23 was released only a month ago. I'm currently running Pinnacle Studio 19 Ultimate and the upgrade price for me would normally have been around $75. As I normally upgrade every third or fourth version this Humble Bundle came pretty timely. Of course I bought it. Thanks Corel.

Yup, I know. I was more thinking of sellers like this: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=524581 As it’s a new license the normal iLok transfer fee doesn’t apply, so $25 is money straight down into his pocket. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t know that Digital Synsations is a regular freebie and thinks $25 is a bargain.

Although Windows 7 is no longer officially supported by UVI you can still use UVI Workstation on that OS. While still running Windows 7 I sometimes in the end noticed some unresponsiveness trying to navigate to some instrument’s own Settings and Effects pages, but that was normally possible to circumvent by first clicking on the EDIT, EFFECTS or ARP tab at the top of the Workstation GUI.

It’s comforting that some things just never change. Must be the fourth or fifth time that UVI gives Digital Synsations away for free. And once in a blue moon you can still see optimists over at KVR trying to sell it for $25 or $30.

For the Staff View and Piano Roll View to be enabled in the main menu, you need to have a MIDI track in your project. For the Step Sequencer menu option to be enabled, you need to have a MIDI track selected.

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I’ve had Nomad Factory MAGMA for a few years but had actually written it off as impossible to use (at least in SONAR) because of frequent crashes during preset changes. After any such crash SONAR completely froze up. I’ve also seen problems being reported at Plugivery and KVR saying MAGMA was crashing Reaper, Studio One and FL Studio, so SONAR wasn’t the only one. However, this thread reminded me of MAGMA and made me put this effects rack into CbB to see if the crashes still occurred. In fact, I was certain that they would. But to my surprise it didn’t crash one single time although I must have changed preset at least fifty times. It might be a coincidence, it might be changes done internally to CbB, or it might be because I now run under Windows 10 instead of Windows 7. But the fact remains – I could no longer get MAGMA to crash, at least in my simple bare-bones test project. Ok, so MAGMA v. 1.6.6 still has some problems with CbB: the Play and Pause buttons in the Transport module don’t update when MAGMA is active, the Tempo display doesn’t update to tempo changes and there are probably some additional display issues that I haven’t noticed. But more importantly: the effects were applied and the plug-in did not crash and bring the DAW down with it. Maybe a bit OT, but I thought maybe someone else with the same bad experience of MAGMA would like to know and test it out for themselves.

As you can hear the test tone when pressing the Test button in the stand alone version, the routing should be ok. Maybe you have selected an ADPak (drum kit) which you do not own? Those are marked “PREVIEW” in the AD2 Gallery and can’t be used to play any MIDI files, except for the short preview snippets that are present on the same page as the drum kit itself is presented. Make sure that you have selected a kit that you own before trying to play anything on your Beats page.

The New Plucked Grand Piano for only $8 (regular price: $98) looks interesting; 5GB (Uncompressed) 2.7GB (Compressed). Maybe a bit limited compared to other prepared pianos, but still, at that price. https://8dio.com/instrument/the-new-plucked-grand-piano/ As all 8dio libraries, it requires the full retail version of Kontakt.

Try this. Input is set to Omni. Channel is set to "MIDI Channel 1" and "MIDI Channel 2" respectively. Kontakt is set correspondingly. In Preferences I've got "Always Echo Current MIDI Track" enabled.

Assuming that you've got a Korg PCG file, according to the author here’s a utility called PCG2INS that takes a Korg Kronos PCG file and translates it into a Cakewalk INS file. I haven’t tried it though so I take no responsibility for its function. http://www.synthify.com/Kronos_SW_dev/

With “ghost cursor” I assume you mean the Now Time line and marker being displayed in the Console View? Using the last CbB I can’t recreate that issue regardless what I do. As Starship Krupa says, perhaps there’s an issue with your graphics card? Make sure you have installed the last version of your display driver. Another more far-fetched possibility: I can see that you are using your own theme. Have you possibly made any modifications to the images under the node Theme > Time ruler > Markers? Or specifically to the color “Now Time Marker” and/or the image “Now Time Marker Stop”? That the Now Time line is displayed on top of the Now Time marker is really strange (see blow-up below). To test whether this problem might be theme related, check if it persists even after switching to one of the default themes Mercury or Tungsten.

Of course some of the themes have customized track icons. For instance, the ones that come with Gran Vista Black & Blue have a certain amount of non-intrusive plastic glare (what else?). Here are the stock versions (upper) and the modified versions (lower). But admittedly no dazzling color combinations. Rather kind of like restrained.

Interesting, I had no idea that the SI user interfaces could be modified so that even the position of each control could be changed through an external text file. It’s not very often you see plugin developers go to that length to make these kind of modifications possible, but apparently Cakewalk did at one time. Great job, you must have put a lot of time and effort into this.

For the last ten years XLN Audio has made a net profit all years except 2012. And yes, I love AD2 as well.

I see a lot of bear related jokes around here, which I think is both unwarranted and unfair. Let’s not forget that most of the best musicians always have been absolute animals. Cases in point: just think of these two, maybe the best composers ever.

Absolutely beautiful.

Sweet!

I’ve noticed that some graphical elements in a theme are more persistent than you would like them to be. Track icons for instance. If you modify track icons in the Theme Editor, save the theme and then reload it in CbB, more often than not the old track icons will still be displayed. What’s worse, sometimes it doesn’t even help to restart CbB to have them refreshed. I have assumed that this is due to some internal caching glitch, as these modifications sooner or later will show up in CbB. At first it was awkward as I kept asking myself if I'd somehow forgot to save the theme before reloading it, but of course with time I became aware of the problem. Maybe what you experienced was some similar persistency/caching issue.

I think you would normally keep the plug-ins on the C:\ drive, and only move the sample libraries elsewhere. After all, a plug-in normally has a very small footprint compared to its samples. It usually works to move the sample folders, but there is no one single answer. On those rare occasions when it’s not possible to change the location from within the plug-in, you might have to use symbolic links to do it. Search for "symbolic link" in this forum if you need advice on that topic. But regarding iZotope Iris 2 it’s easy: after manually moving your preset and sample folders, just click on the wrench in the upper left corner of Iris 2 and click the Set… button in the LIBRARY pane. After browsing to and selecting the new folder location you’re good to go. But having said that, if you really want to minimizer disk usage on your internal drive, installing the plug-in to an external drive and adapting your plug-in scan path in Cakewalk will most likely work. Just be aware that many plug-ins normally would place your samples in the %AppData% or %ProgramData% folder (or, for very misbehaved installers, in the Programs folder), and if so you would have to find and move the samples manually to another disk anyway.

Well, actually there are. If you select "Lock Module Order", the scroll buttons will be present when the modules overflow the boundaries.

I might have spotted another small bug in 2019.07. There seems to be some problem with the new Lock Module Order and Justify/Center functions. If the modules selected are too many to fit within the space occupied by the Control Bar, you would normally see scroll buttons at the left-most and right-most edges of the Control Bar that will make it possible to scroll its content. And this is how it still works if you don’t lock the Control Bar, or if you select the tried-and-true Lock Module Order option. However, if you select one of the new options “Lock Module Order and Justify” or “Lock Module Order and Center” and the excess modules at the far left and far right partly or fully disappear outside the visible area, there are no scroll buttons turning up. And without any scroll buttons I can’t understand how you are supposed to reach the modules that have fallen off the edges. Or am I just missing something simple? Edit: Having a second look, I now see that you can drag the content of the Control Bar to the left or right to see the modules that have fallen off the edges. Is this by design, that dragging should be used instead of scroll buttons in those two particular cases? If that's the case, I don't know if that was a very wise decision to make. Having two different ways of scrolling, depending on what locking option is selected, is not very user friendly in my book.

I think I’ve spotted one small bug in 2019.07: whereas the new Smart Tool icon in the Control Bar always changes if at least one of its default functions is removed, the same is not true for the floating Tool Window (a.k.a. HUD, which you reach by pressing the middle mouse button). The filled pointer icon is always displayed in the floating window regardless if the Smart Tool is customized or not. I assume this is not the intended behaviour. I already wrote this in another thread as there wasn't any official 2019.07 feedback thread open at the time, so sorry for cross-posting.

Both the Gran Vista Black & Blue and Carbon themes have now been updated to reflect changes in CbB 2019.07 with new buttons for Smart Tool, Smart Tool (customized) and Select. Additionally, the Record button in the small Transport module has now been modified so that it displays currently selected recording mode. Previously the recording mode was only visible when large buttons were displayed. Although this was consistent with how both Mercury and Tungsten displays the small Record button, a forum thread made me aware of the lack of indicators in the stock themes and I saw no reason why not to add it to these custom themes. Download the modified themes from the links supplied in the OP.