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Thanks.

I had a case like that too. Many years ago, when I lived in an allegedly nice town (UK), I had my garage burgled and my amp and guitar rack stolen. I reported it to the police, got the insurance to cover it - pretty good actually. Then a few months later, I was playing a gig and the support band (bunch of teenagers) showed up, and their guitarist had...my stolen gear. I checked it out (there was a memory fault on the rack unit, so one memory slot glitched, and I checked it did on his too). He soon had a visit from the local police - he was not involved in the theft, but did have an idea the goods may have been somewhat likewarm, shall we say, and I think it put the willies up him.

Many years ago, when I was a wee nipper(!), I played in a Hawkwind tribute band. One of the songs we played was High Rise (based on J G Ballard's book). I recently decided I'd re-work it, taking the backing we recorded as the tribute band, and putting some guitar solo over it (I've pretty much not picked up my guitar for a couple of years - lockdowns, small child, work... - so wanted to get back into playing with a song I know really well, and I needed to start using some guitar amp sims as I don't have room any more for my guitar rack!). I'm aiming for a Dave Gilmour-esque feel using TH3 (just updated to TH-U but I haven't used it in anger yet). It's very much a work in progress at the moment - the solo was a one-take improvisation, and I know there's at least one duff note in there, with a minimal amount of topping and tailing in CbB. I plan to re-record when I have some more time, but I'm after any feedback around style, feel etc at the moment. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qe5ehml81bm5fqw/High Rise (Instrumental).mp3?dl=1 TIA

4. A**-hole punters (like the one who tried to walk off with my guitar while we were packing up)?

Good call. Although lock up the gun cabinet first.

Good luck - I *hate* recruiting new band members at the best of times (especially drummers!).

AMD does - fTPM. Seems to work on my B450 Gigabyte board (as in, it turns on, Windows detects it, but since I'm not using a UEFI boot for a variety of reasons, Windows can't actually make use of it).

I reinstalled all my packs and they appear to be re-licensed, but the content scan is taking its usual eternity to run - anyone else see this?

It appears to have trashed most of my licenses, so I'd be wary.

Don't ask!!!

Show me where the Bounce to Clip is on a MIDI/SIT clip (like I said, you have to Bounce to Track and get selection right - it works, but isn't as neat as a genuine Bounce to Clip).

Not to create audio you can't - you have to bounce track, and either select the range sensibly before you bounce or chop the created clip afterwards. And the new bounce (export) window makes this process slower than it was (IMHO).

XML in user data foldet (been there since Windows 2000?) would be much better. Structured, human editable and with a DTD/XSD it's validateable easily too.

@antler - my thoughts entirely!

I'd dabbled with their free Wider plugin before and was a bit "meh", but I revisited because of the deal and picked up the Comet reverb: really lush and versatile IMHO. And no iLok or similar required!

OK - I was unclear. You need to select/split at some stage, not just select a clip and bounce that with a right click.

You can't bounce a clip for a VSTi (either as a Simple Instrument Track or separated), at which point you need to bounce the track and then chop up the audio. Not great. I'd really like MIDI clip dragging to work how CbB does with Melodyne and audio clips: drag a MIDI clip that drives a soft-synth to an audio track and it bounces the clip and copies it transparently.

Spear or pepper?

Agreed - right click drag should be the time selection, but the default left click drag should be clips (or user selectable of course!).

Yes assuming you don't have the VMs going to sleep or similar (I have one program - game! - that stops when it loses mouse focus, but yours are designed to run without user intervention so I can't see this being an issue). I'd be more "concerned" about whether the VM can access any physical hardware it needs to - that can be tricky sometimes.

Love Cosmic Dust - I've been playing it and guitar noodling over it and it's just so relaxing.

You can set the default folder in Preferences.

Yeah, but she uses a Mac. Pfft.

It's a control surface setting (WAI = Where Am I) which shows which channels a control surface is controlling.

Or like some.applications have a tickbox to say "Open export locatiom on completion". No need for toast at all then.