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Default for non-system drives is off as of Windows 10 (I think). So that makes sense.

Try moving the dll out of the folder, check its 8.3 state in the new folder, then move it back?

Irrelevant for DX plugins.

An alternative might be to use Drum Replacer, and set the threshold so that only the loud 1st beat triggers the replacement, and then set the mix to 100%.

Drag manually then have the "Last Touched" selected and the next ones will be the same length.

MIDI?

Ah, Staff View. Do you not have the same option? It seems to work for me as I'd expect it to.

What is pentagram mode?

In Piano Roll View, middle click mouse and select "Last Touched" from the drop-down:

Fair enough - I'm a bit of a sucker for the same colours on the buttons (like you, I feel it can make it busy).

Why not keep blue highlighting? To me, the line through (good idea!) is good enough - maybe make it more obvious though?

I wrote a song once called "As easy as..." where I just recited pi over an ambient backing. No-one got the joke.

Do you have any FX on the clip? I *think* that that can trigger the interlave change. UPDATE: Not that I can repro anyway. Clip pan envelope doesn't do this either. So I get the same results as @bitflipper

Hidden bus/track being solo'd?

Tick "Show Mono Outputs" on your third screenshot?

Thanks - I did wonder about the bottom end, and have cut quite a bit already (24dB high pass at about 170Hz) and boosted the top a bit, but as I said to Mark above, I'm not sure if I've posted that version yet. The drum tracks are something of a pain to work with - they were recorded at a god-awful studio by a god-awful engineer years ago, and there is more spill than at a baby's tea party. I might try using something like a PulTech emulator to emphasise it without doing too much damage to the rest of the drums.

High Rise.vstpreset Thanks Mark - I'm always wary of over-cooking the guitar and making it *too* prominent. I've tweaked a little since then and scooped out some mid from the synths to hopefully sit the guitar a little better without making it too dominant (not sure I've uploaded that version though!). I've attached the preset for the (VST3) version of TH3: it's the "freebie" version that came with one of the last SONARs (I've since upgraded to TH-U - Overloud get a big thumbs up from me for helping me upgrade years after SONAR became defunct...great support!).

@Wookiee It's from a 1979 album, so a little after your time with them! I've actually dialled back the reverb a bit on my latest mix of it so I'm with you on that - I'll probably redo it a few more times before I'm happy.

Excellent!

Is it a .vst3 file or a .dll? If the latter, I think it needs to not be in a VST3 folder/subfolder but in the vstplugins path.

I've YT'd it with a video: https://youtu.be/nDZRxiDMIIg

When someone posts a deal, could they state whether the product needs an iLok dongle or account so that I, and probably others, don't go down a rabbit hole only to find the product does and it's a non-starter?

I know this has come up before but can't recall the solution, but do check you're using the right "driver mode" for MIDI: MME will work with pretty much everything (apart from Bluetooth MIDI?) so should be the default to use (UWP is the alternative).

And updated with louder/clearer guitar (I cut some more bass from it).

Very nice - we've got a lot of space-influenced tunage going on in this forum at the moment. And I like it.