petemus

The Sonic Anomaly plugins are still here: https://vst4free.com/dev/565/ Don't know about the credibility about that site, so download at your own risk. The plugs can still be downloaded, nevertheless, seemingly both 32 and 64 bit. The Bass Professor alone makes it worthwhile; it's ridiculously easy to get a nice, even bass sound from a DI signal, especially with some grit from the Dirt slider. The tone controls are very affective as well. Bass Professor Mark II is one of my favorite bass guitar plugins.

I don't think I will - maybe the RME has something else, feature-wise, to make up for lack of the buffer size slider... ?

Regeneration of AUD.INI seemed to make no difference - I don't think this is worth more tinkering with, especially as I just ordered an RME interface for my home studio. ?

Thanks for the tip, @Promidi I'll try if regenerating AUD.INI makes a difference in this regard...

You can also select multiple tracks and edit clip gain envelopes for all of them at the same time, if that helps any. At least you can create the envelope section for the esses easily and then adjust them per clip, if need be...

Well, it's been like this with a few past "official" releases as well, I don't think it broke with the EA.

Hmm... I'm in ASIO mode, sure. Focusrite driver version exactly the same. CbB is the current Early Access version. Playback and Recording tab looks like this: Maybe it's some setting in the config file? My Scarlett 2i2 should be the default, since I've disabled the mobo Realtek altogether. This is not such a big deal, but I think the slider was quite cool, and I sort of miss it now. ?

I recall this working just fine with some driver version a while back, but no longer with the latest, version 4.65.5: Is this entirely driver dependent or is there an option somewhere to enable it? Is it the same for other Scarlett users as well? I have the Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen interface. -Petemus

Certanly doesn't require any source code to plugins. Its just a matter of routing a selected portion of the audio past the plugin and certain portion through it. A great idea! Biggest problem would probably be where to put the wet/dry control in the UI...

A small suggestion: The current plugin UI container windows waste a bit of screen estate having the normal size window caption, IMO. Maybe we'd be fine with a "tool window" sized caption, which is a bit smaller? Also, the toolbar buttons could wrap to multiple lines, if the window width becomes too small, which as a matter of fact has been requested before.

Same for me, all fine.

I'd like to be able to use a metering VST for recording level monitoring as well. I don't think this is currently possible, or is it? EDIT: Nevermind, I don't know what the heck I was thinking... ?

Ditto!

That also fits the tracks horizontally, doesn't it? I'd like just horizontal fit...

My zoom frustration is not having a "Fit tracks horizontally" command. The vertical fit command seems to exist. It might well be I'm just being bling again and just not finding it anywhere. Having a bit smaller zoom jumps with Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right would also be nice. The way it's now is very coarse.

Have had these for a while. Most of them sound good to me and there's quite a bit of variety. You certainly can get better bass sounds with these rigs than with any bass amp/cab combos that come with TH-U Full, imo.

I'd like to see a feature where you could set permanent export settings per project: export source (track selection), destination (tracks/buses/whatnot), export folder, start and end markers and all that you now need to set every time. The feature would allow you to have everything set so that you only edit the export file name and start exporting. You could have many different settings for WAV, MP3 etc. Another one would be the non-destructive track/clip normalization. mentioned many times here already.

I think this started at some CbB version (can't remember which); prior to that the 32-bit thingies had worked quite well. The clicking mentioned makes most of 32-bit VST instruments I used to use unusable. I'm on Scarlett, too (2i2 3rd Gen), and it might have to do with its drivers as well and not CbB at all. I think I get similarish clicking with Sonarworks Systemwide, when the Focusrite buffers are on the greater side.

I'd like to see a non-destructive normalization function as well. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to calculate the right amount of clip gain increase to set the level curve to the right height...

I have this, too, with Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen. It happens only with bigger ASIO buffer sizes, 1024 samples producing the most annoying stutter and some kind of audio slowdown. I don't use the new Sonarworks Systemwide ASIO mode, but the Windows Audio mode. An upgrade to Sonarworks has been released since I tried, so maybe I should give the ASIO mode another try now. This is not that big of a deal, but it would be nice to be able to keep the Focusrite buffer size at whatever value and not have to tweak it to listen to Spotify or Youtube. The problem hasn't gone away with the latest beta driver from Focusrite.

I think I'll leave it at zero now that it works again. Export can take as long as it likes if it just doesn't crash. ? There were no problems before I started to adjust the buffer value, so I don't think tinkering with switching driver modes is necessary. I might still check again with the larger buffer, if it crashes in ASIO mode. Thanks!

It might just be that I didn't have the slightest clue about what I was doin' with it... ? No touchy-touchy, if no understand!

Thanks again for the reply, @Noel Borthwick! I noticed I said "two bounces got to the end" when I meant "two exports". I can try to fiddle with the settings. The buffer size of my Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen was set to max (1024 samples), when BounceBufSizeMsec was 100. That buffer size is in milliseconds and the Focusrite's is samples - isn't the max audio device latency then much less tham 100 ms at 1024 samples? When the export was crashing, I noticed that before there was any progress shown on the "Mixing down audio" indicator, Cakewalk took a couple of seconds seconds as if it was allocating a big chunk of memory or something. When BounceBufSizeMsec was back to 0, there wasn't such a phenomenon and the mixdown began right away - and progressed to the end.

Just FYI, I got the export working again: I'd changed the BounceBufSizeMsec in the configuration file to value 100 at some point "to improve export speed". The export speed was fast after that, alright, because the export crashed for whatever reason pretty fast right after starting it. I set the value back to 0 which seemed to remedy the situation. Two bounces got right to the end as usual. I needed to disable no plugins in the process. -Pete

Thanks for the reply, Noel! I suspected it would be some plugin myself as well. I had added a couple of instances of MCabinet by Melda, but their stuff has never given me any problems. It's a new one though, so you never know. I'll go through the process of elimination for the latest plugins added and see what I find. -Pete