chris.r

Wow, this forum's corner turns slowly into some extremely creative ideas incubator .

This remindes me of my beginnings to the pc computer world in early 90's. I had a bursting i386 laptop with 2MB of RAM, 40MB HD and monochrome monitor, I think the proudly maker was called Silverscreen haha, and win 3.1 on it. There was no such thing as touchpad or trackball on it, the mouse had to be connected to the serial port, I mean the old RS-232 serial port. I bought Yamaha MU-50 module at this time and the only way to connect it to this particular laptop was through the same serial port with a proprietary cable, so either mouse or module (there was only one RS port on this machine). Boy, this made me learn all about how to operate windows and it's apps only from the keyboard. I wonder if people realize that you can do nearly everything in windows just by using keyboard. Same goes with cakewalk, except purely grafical fields like in the PRV or plugins GUI, BUT... you can learn how to make all the same things in the Event List instead! Humans are subject to some really sketchy figures sometimes when hard-pressed.

Hopefully with modest PCs you don't see it anymore, at least not that much, but on my ageing laptop with USB-2 ports, playing from ExpressCard audio interface (or even built-in Realtek!) vs. USB-2 audio interface has shown clear difference in terms of CPU usage. I just started wondering how much the windows version itself could make an impact on the efficiency, the tests I have made on XP some years ago. Don't even get me started on the RME thingy, Jim, these guys are like they're playing in their own league! Their Babyface Pro is making some unbelievable RTL figures as for an USB box, in the latency tests on DAW bench. For a moment it's way out of my reach but if given a chance I would pick it reckless any day of the week! ...if going the USB-route.

@Deckardpossibly that's exactly what is happening.

Pretty much this. I figured it out but it took some time, lol. It's bogging me same way as clips vs regions. Some youngsters call them regions without even understanding what are clips. Makes me feel I'm getting old .

There is some wisdom deep in that statement. I'm just started wondering which one is Cakewalk by BandLab...?

With my next studio setup I hope to manage 3 monitors from windows os. Will see how it's going.

Anybody know the download size? Thx

Of course it is! It was just making a casual fun because it happened to sound really funny the way you described it , no jeering intended! Cheers.

An extra 6th monitor in my bedroom with the status bar is a brilliant idea. Thanks!

Beside hidden buffers there's one more factor in play, which is the on-board USB controller (I think it's called hardware controller). PCI card doesn't use any additional controllers while USB interface does have to go through it and your PC have to compensate that with it's CPU power, unfortunately. That's one more extra additional cost when comparing USB to PCI audio interfaces.

thanks

Where to find how long is the sale? Do they sell through shops like jrr, audiodeluxe, plugin boutique?

That's exactly what I have planned for this laptop. The next PC will be Win10 ready, but I'm seriously considering going with 8.1 instead and having all that updates mess off my head for next couple years.

For low budget boxes it's worth taking a look on Zoom UAC-2. Don't own any but heard opinions it's among the lowest latency usb interfaces. Note that it's USB3 specifically.

Since my winXP 2006 Philips laptop (rebranded from Twinhead, some Taiwan maker) and now updated to Win7, I never disabled the onboard realtek, even not in windows device manager . For years I was using it with asio4all with good results (except recording audio obviously), although latency wasn't great, but last few years I've got Echo Indigo PCI express audio card which has awesome latency and great sound, it's literally a PCI card for the laptop. They both live alongside and I can switch anytime from one soundcard to the other. Once I installed the right driver version for my realtek, never had any problems with dropouts or anything. I don't use games other than minesweeper though, lol. I'm affraid Win10 would mess my drivers anyway with any major update, so I'm considering 8.1 as an alternative. It's tough decision and I'm approaching the moment of changing old laptop for a new one, mainly because it's 32-bit only, and then the 4GB memory limit. It still does great for the age, dual core 2x2Ghz is dealing well even with many decent VI's like Pianoteq (maybe not for live use, but for producing does a great job), that's probably why I still don't feel like hard-pressed, but I'm seriously on the fence about Win10.

thanks sjoens, edited...

To convert MIDI to audio you need to select the MIDI portion *AND* it's corresponding audio track where the synth outputs are, and either do 'export audio' in file menu, or bounce to tracks (from track view menu).

Under note pane there is a controller pane, you may need to open it first. Then on the left there is a 'plus' button, click to create new line and choose CC#64. Now by using either smart tool, pencil or any other that will work for the need, enter value 0-64 for pedal up and 65-127 for pedal down.

100% agree Same feelings here. I was even thinking of putting this in the feature request thread! should be built-in the console/pc

Unless he's got another matching material from which he can extract groove and apply it to the intro.

Time to jump on that one, it seems.

Aah the MIDI cable. I was smelling some 3rd party help with it needed. Thanks!

That's because you can unmute it any time during playback and most probably be wanting to hear the immediate effect. To stop streaming a track you will have to archive it.

I usually try not to use quantize unless it feels necessary. And even then I rather stay under 50% strength, just to get the timing good enough to go. Once I reach for quantize I know there's much work to be done, some notes that fall out of window are snapped to the wrong side, I have to undo and correct just the notes and try again, use the best resolution for each song part, and so. Also groove quantizing rules. Had not much experience with quantizing audio but I'd expect similar affliction .