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LOL... I heard someone saying that I should finally grow up ?

Thanks... well that's a bummer

This made me remember that PA updated some plugins quite recently and I should go check if they added preset manager in their vst3 version. That shouldn't be a problem if there was just a handful of them on the market but I did a clean windows install a while ago and promised to myself this time, for plugins, to go only with the really needed ones. So far I'm on 923 count and had to take a bit of fresh air.

I assume you know this already but you can click on metronome settings button in the transport module in control bar right under metronome during record button or right click on any of the three metronome buttons to quickly bring up the properties window.

In all honesty, kids are the main reason why I spend time mostly here on the forum and not doing music

I use both ways. I like to throw singles on my tracks as if they were like those typical rack gear in the studio. On master bus I often use suite for the serial/parallel chaining, it's very easy to experiment and exchange modules on the fly. There are some dope presets for many applications in it, some of them already my favorites that I only tweak a little to get the sound.

My experience is that VST2 version do have preset manager implemented but not vst3. I would prefer to use vst3 version but that issue is making me keep using VST2.

Pretty sure it could last another 10mins as a chewing gum and they will ask for more.

Love that idea! Plus I don't get it how iRig stuff being a hardware makes it disqualified as a free item. They could keep charging us for shipping at let us have more fun.

Yes I agree but it can happen if you suddenly end up with an addition of two new sweet little vivid toddlers to your family that constantly suck out over 80% of your life you just leave your life as is and come back tomorrow... maybe. The tabs were incognito, I formed a habit to open 'temporary' websites in incognito to keep my little ssd in sanity because I hated how chrome wasted the space with gigabytes of browser data after just a few months. Personal workflow.

Thanks, it's nothing about the GUI. That appears to be on the plus side actually

Honestly I'm glad it works for you. I can't leave the session open for a while because I've already lost some data in an unsaved work-in-a-progress documents or lost previously opened tabs in the browser when Windows decided to reboot after Microsoft pushed new update. It didn't even care to ask for saving any work. Never used to be like that before. They somehow stopped to care for the user as much as for their own product.

Only I find it kind of a bummer that the best deals like the MODOs or Hammond are on level $199 or higher and the hardware stuff is around $150 but hardware is excluded from the free products? That forces us to jump in twice if someone is for, say, MODO bass and an irig keyboard. Powerful minds must have thought about this group buy rules.

Bottom line is that we can't configure and use it the way we liked it anymore. We have to use it the way someone serves it for us. Windows is no more a subject of merchandise, now we became the subject of merchandise.

If someone has just a few plugins I can see how it can quickly become a tedious task. Shouldn't really be on the user.

I'm on Pro, I realize there are some possibilities to dive in the policies but I'm not a power user and since the updates are forced anyway I took the approach of doing the least amount of changes and not having to re-set everything over and over again. My typical style of utilizing the OS is set and forget and I'm used to have a session opened for days if not weeks while at home. Also I bought a nice and robust HP mini desktop with an intention to use it as a host for software instruments on stage without having to draw along any monitors or pointer devices, it could work by using Akai VIP and a Vip enabled keyboard but the blue screen quickly blew the whole idea out in the air. What a bummer, very unprofessional as for Windows Pro. Actually with Win10 all of this is not possible anymore. I could keep using win7 or 8.1 but there are some compatibility issues starting now so I'm puzzled. Looks like sticking with the inferior (for me) Win10 is the way to go in a long run. I may separate the on-stage task for another box with Win8.1 on it and stay on 10 at home but that's another money spent unnecessary. Hope you starting see how all of this add up and quickly becomes a pain to deal with in my case if I want a quiet ride and peace of mind. Never had any security issues on Windows 7, XP etc. Since Win7 I stopped using 3rd party antiviral software, just a scanner on demand once in a while.

no , but I only have 3 plugins to top up my bundle and T-racks is kind of simple to deal, you can go to the plugins folder and just delete anything you don't own then rescan and you're good... wouldn't know how to deal with same task in Amplitube

In T-racks suite there is a setting in menu to filter presets by owned modules. Not seeing anything like that in Amplitube.

I would love to agree with you but I cant. For me Win10 is a creepy creature that is constantly reshaping itself to something different in front of my eyes and sneaking in new problems every other week. It can't stay the way you set it, it wan't respect your preferred ways of utilizing operating system and if you refuse to creating microsoft ID it will act like an adware throwing a blue screen of 'welcome' in your face. My bad luck is that I'm forced to keep using it. /end of rant

Controller names are just a standardized names, they can serve different purposes in virtually every synth. Maybe you mean that we could create separate controller names for each synth and save it as a controller definitions? As for keyswitching I heartily hope it's already on the todo list.

And if you prefer to keep it tiny and your system in sanity, something like Blue3 is better in every aspect. Every means sound too. And I was a hardcore fan of NI B4 until I met Blue3.

Wrong forum.

It almost asks for a thank you for the 'uplifting' words... yet something feels strange about saying that

Oh there is a way to install just Cakewalk without Bandlab Assistant and logging in. You would have to visit a coffee shop with internet, install Bandlab Assistant and login there, after downloading anything you like just copy it to your flash drive and bring home. After you finished installing Cakewalk you'd need to go back to coffee shop for an offline activation file. Oh and I wouldn't call all of this a save way unless you're armed with the best antivirus packages on the marked. I simply choose to stay healthy within my own laptop boundaries. And I hate adware too but thankfully Bandlab Assistand is adware free.