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Ho hum - I was optimistic there for a bit!

So it did work and then stopped working?

Suggestion: untick "Use MMCSS" in Cakewalk's preferences. There is some - ahem - disagreement about whether the driver or application should control use of MMCSS (Steinberg, MOTU and - from memory - RME all say it should be the driver, so I'd argue this is correct), and I wonder if there's some conflict here. It's only a guess mind!

Remember also that plugins can be excluded, which this doesn't take into account: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\ExcludedPlugIns CLSIDs are used.

Add/edit the following to aud.ini: [Video] VideoEngine=0

I do agree it's over the top (you'd not necessarily want to sandbox every single plugin!), but the principle is correct, no? If not, then where is it wrong?

Interesting comments on this from the developers of Ardour: https://ardour.org/plugins-in-process.html

To me, this sounds like you have the tracks going to 2 destinations simulataneously (master and direct to the hardware), and if the master is then also going to the hardware output, then potentially you are going to get some phasing (you shouldn't, but there may be something else afoot here) which will affect the sound quality in the way you describe. I may be misunderstanding your routing however.

4 - 0.5 = 3.5dB; 4 + 0.5 = 4.5dB. Seems to make sense to me.

It overrides if and only if the setting in Preferences isn't the default - it's not obvious (not totally illogical, but not exactly clear, since you don't know a colour is set to the default without clicking the Default button!).

And thanks to this thread and both of you, I can at least now run a dark PRV myself (no wonder I've never liked most people's themese :-)).

@Starship Krupa: I still see the different left/right pane backgrounds with v2. If anything, they're more different now:

@Colin Nicholls: that's the ticket. Not sure i) which colour setting it is there (I can dig sometime) or ii) why it behaves in SPlat when we *didn't* have the dark colours implemented in the same way. Nor, for that matter, iii) why Mercury doesn't use the (whatever it is) colour in Preferences, but other themes do... And there's something else at play since it doesn't "work" for my own custom theme (one based on Canopus' Lead)...and it looks like a bug. Black Keys Background(s) settings appear in both Theme and Colour Preferences and both seem to work... - Pick something silly for them in a Theme (I picked pastel green and pastel pink for obviousness) - Fire up CbB using that theme and you'll see the Theme's colours respected: Tasty. - Open up Colour Preferences, change Color Category to PRV and select PRV Keys Background (Db/Eb) and pick your favourite different colour. Like mud brown: So, which one actually takes precedence? It seems that if the Colour Preferences option is anything other than the category default, it uses that, else it uses the theme, but don't quote me on that! It seems to behave the same way with the (PRV) Grid Background setting too. No wonder it's confusing!

Cool. I will check with restart, but I don't think it's that. UPDATE: It's not. It's fine in SPlat (final version), but Tungsten et al in CbB throws those horrid black lines for the black notes.

I do know...I just.need to find it (again...I keep forgetting). Weird about the PRV, but like I said, I've had it on every dark/Tungsten theme forever (SPlat days IIRC).

Is there a common plugin you use? I've mainly seen this when a plugin has "issues" with being unloaded. Try with a totally blank project to see if you have the same problem?

Apart from the PRV (which is unusable in virtually every theme*, Tungsten included, so I can't blame you ?), this is really, really nice. My other minor nitpick would be to make the 2 colours below the track view panes the same so it jars a bit less. Something like: instead of: * I can't see how anyone can find this bearable:

HDMI cable to a monitor?

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I found Odin2 a couple of days ago - very nice (and, of course, free): https://www.thewavewarden.com/odin2

Guitar solo in Comfortably Numb (Delicate Sound of Thunder) - first time I heard it was almost tear-breaking.

What do the meters say? Is this just something psychological going on?

I feel like this is not disimilar to the sampler FR...there are 2 different "requirements" that are getting conflated and confused. The existing Drum Maps in CbB are really "MIDI Output Mapping" - the fact that they can be used for drum mapping and drum note naming is almost coincidental - and as such (as @scook pointed out above) make sense to remain where they are, as part of the track settings. Now having their UI improved is a different matter and probably one where we would all agree that improvments could be made (we'd probably argue about how of course :-)). Remember that this feature comes from a time when multiple, external MIDI modules were often used to create a full drum kit (I had 2 Alesis D4s and a DM5 at one stage, so I've been there!), so is focused on that kind of setup. Then there's the new requirement (as I understand it) to be easily able to set the names of notes in the PRV for a single drum soft-synth (be that dedicated or sampler based). Mapping across ports and channels and notes is pretty much irrelevant and the Drum Maps are absolutely overkill - and not in the sensible place. So I think this FR should be thought of in this context and trying to link it in with Drum Maps is a red herring. Note that there is VST2 (and 3?) standard functionality for a soft-synth to expose note names to the host - very few do this, which is a pity (fxPansion BFD 1 and 2 do this - even for the DXi version of BFD 1! - as does Cakewalk's own Session Drummer 3, and even fxPansion's venerable DR-008 does, but I gather not many more do).

Ah yeah - forgot that step!

a) Yes ? b) No c) Alongside (and keep installed plug-ins assuming you set VST scan paths correctly)

Yes, but it's not trivial: - Open regedit - Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Recently Used Plug-ins - Delete any subkeys or values under this key - Right click on the key and choose permissions - Untick Full Control (ie. leave it with Read as the only ricked box) for the user you've logged in as - Click OK - Repeat for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Recently Used Synths