Glenn Stanton

thanks. i load up SSDSampler and your drum map. i have the theme as Tungsten as well. i'm not seeing a gap above the KICK. 

BUT -- if i adjust the window separations so i see a gap BELOW the SIDE STICK, then i also see the blank lines which you're seeing up top. and if i double click to add a note, it simply adds it to the SIDE STICK row and doesn't create an entry. so there may be a setting [somewhere] which allows entries to be made into the drum map from the PRV? for me - it's not adding the extraneous row, just adding them to the bottom SIDE STICK row.

not sure if this helps or not, but i'm not able to reproduce it as in your first post.

and if the bundle is somehow corrupted, the project is a goner... best best - esp after lots of editing - prep for transfer - bounce to clips from zero. save the project as a new version to create a new folder so only the audio files it needs are included, and then zip that project and file folder. worst case, the zero point WAV files are able to be dragged into a new project and stay sync'd, otherwise the clean files and project will be more reliably transferred because it has only the files needed. of course verify any plugins needed are also available in each machine ?

with practice, this process is only a few minutes to package up, much safer than using a bundle file, and with cloud transfers pretty easy to do.

if it's something you do frequently - maybe setting up a template with more tracks & busses w/ the FX off (and presumably the PC off as well), then remove them as setting up the project. would work nicely also if you need specific track - buss routing configured consistently as well.

CW is software -- so no physical limits except what the machine can handle: throughput - IO, sample rate + word length?, RAM, busses, disk, and CPU all play a role in limiting the IO as well as those of any drivers (like HW specific ASIO - which is what you should be using for a large number of inputs for (supposing) best performance possible). using USB? so USB 3.1 = ok, USB 3.2 = best (at the moment), other things operating on your USB? wireless keyboard, mouse, disk drives, keyboards, etc.? # of CPU, # of RAM gb per CPU core? Perf vs ECO cores? numa channels? etc etc etc

i know people have posted on the forum with 500+ track projects so i'd look to ensure your hardware paths and processes are capable.

On 11/20/2023 at 9:45 PM, OutrageProductions said:

 In all my decades of working on large format consoles, we had to move the chair all the way from channel 1 on the end of the console to channel 72 on the other. Thankfully, someone invented rolling casters. Now I just use a trackball.

you mean a medium format console... the large ones have/had 112/144 channels ? ~14' from end-to-end... lol actually get a 13ms delay when speaking to someone on the other end of the console...

you need one of those 42" 4K units in portrait mode so you can stack your side windows ? 

yeah cheap keyboard - mouse - bad in any mode... i use a Logitech k545 key & mouse - almost never a problem unless the batteries are really low. tried no name, MS, and always a problem. Logitech - no issues. twice the price of the MS budget units but worth it. with my old old (2005) PC i used a hardwired because a) wireless kb & mouse sucked, b) way less interrupts due to the wireless constant pinging... which on an older machine was the difference between the HD working smoothly or not... 

ah, sorry. yes that is odd.  just curious - if you go to a default theme, does that expose the boundaries? maybe your theme is hiding/masking the boundaries of an area?

maybe the articulations space?

maybe share the drum map you're using?

maybe you just need to ensure the kick label is highlighted then add it? you seem to have the note height nice and large. i know for me, that making a slight error on selecting/clicking things, if i'm off even slightly, some weird stuff happens (screen changes, clips move, etc), and things sometimes crash...

9 hours ago, RexRed said:

You think that Mark's drivel was a "great idea"?

I know who my friends are.

when i see arguing on the internet my mind races to the Special Olympics memes from far away and long ago... but it did keep the thread from going to sleep...

that said, your workflow is different than most other people, so it doesn't matter to a lot of people to fix this over other things that need fixing. i agree it should be fixed, and to wit, i'm not a fan of packing takes into a single wav file when if all things were separate files, this would likely be an easy[er] fix since takes and tracks and clips would all effectively be the same thing - individual files - thus more easily handled with code logic. downside - an even more messy audio folder. then again even with the "reduced number" of files using this approach today, directly managing those files is a crap-shoot, so why do it? legacy is why.

what would be interesting is if you shared all the communications you had with the dev team directly, the back and forth where you documented the issue, suggested workarounds, solutions, value proposition for fixing it sooner rather than later etc. so people would get a sense you were doing more than stomping feet on a thread but were actively engaging the dev and support folks.

so yes, when people start shouting their credentials at each other, there isn't much to do except sit back and watch...

edit: also note - there are a lot of intelligent people on this forum, not just a few. so, you know the idea of "walk a mile in those <footwear of choice>" before assuming. serves me well.

yeah, the VST3 specification does not support the use of raw MIDI control like program change - except - vendors can implement it if they want to. most do not and simply wrap their VST2 code with the VST3 API and drop some of the functionality ? like the AAS Lounge Lizard - VST2 => program change - perfect; VST3 => nada. and i've tried a bunch of other products' VST3 VI and the same issue. so now i selectively enable the VST2 version of VI i regularly use and disable the VST3 version (to prevent the masking option) and this has relieved somewhat. Toontrack  is one example of products which are VST3 only and are annoying because of the lack of support for program change via MIDI.

MP3 is a lossy format so each bounce the audio is degrading. badly. WAV. this is the way.

use the CW export function to bounce the tracks. after you bounce your tracks (like in the days of yore with 4-tracks and the need for 20...) you can clear your clips in the project and go into your Audio folder to remove them. then import the exported file(s) into your project (or new one call "myproject-v0###" etc.

or better as gustabo said - upgrade with a large SSD disk

couple of odd ones: Avantone CV-12 - way below budget but might be useful to have in your mic cabinet as a multi-pattern - so maybe a pair. Behringer B-2 Pro - way below budget and not a tube mic. however, i've have had many vocalists (meaning people who can really sing ? ) complement how good they sound when recorded or using it live. i've seen a couple people comment on a B-2 lemon they got, but many more praising it. 

lastly, close to your budget (but it's a Warm product ? ) the Warm Audio WA-251 - i've haven't personally used it but i know a few people who have and for the right voice, it delivers. if i was going to buy a new tube mic, i'd probably start with this one unless i won the lottery and could afford a better one ?️‍?️

no, so far W11 does everything you expect. renaming etc is normal. edit: make sure you have permissions of full control in your documents and work spaces, even if you have RW access, weird stuff could happen when processes with higher permissions try to help out... ? 

for me i have both OneDrive (1TB - $8/month) and Google Drive (2TB - $10/month). so, while the OneDrive is connected to the desktop and documents folders, everything else (literally) is not directly attached - i've had too many file conflict issues with the cloud drives trying to be helpful and fight me for control over stuff i was editing... so now any working folders are located on the local drives, and i use synchronization software to copy updates to the cloud drives. this way even if the cloud drives were to do stoopid, my main work is never directly touched. yes, it means more local space is consumed but not too much, except the actual sync time, because the cloud drives are set to store cloud only and thus the shortcuts they create are on my local cloud storage SSD. 

make sure you're not storing them in the OneDrive  (or other cloud service which is the possible source of the restore issue) - which by default includes the desktop and documents folders. check the OneDrive sync settings. i prefer mine as "PC = master" "cloud=backup & offline files"

9 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

those synth voices sound very good to me - i see a time very soon when you simply will not be able to tell the difference!!

if i spent more time with the envelopes that control aspects it would be much better. there are still some things i'd like to see - the addition of "growl" into the vocals. the parameters for them often have various options for intensity, but still not a definitive "roughness" that would be handy. also even the English libraries (mainly what i'm using) still require some phonomes tweaking or even wholly different words to get it right (for example, "melancholy" required me to use "melon collie" to get it close... ? 

20 hours ago, bjornpdx said:

So are those synthesized voices?  I think you were dabbling in Synthesizer V a while ago.

yes. i'm getting them to "sing" better and better each time. mostly because instead of "micro managing", i let them do their thing and only tweak on parts that need it (phonomes etc) and then use the AI takes (emotive, dynamics, pitch) to see if there are better "performances".  so using this process: note length, timing, and approximate pitches, next melody assignment, some tweaking of timing and other bits, and finally any takes to see if there are improvements to be had. not much (imho) of training a singer to take on a new song they have not heard before and no reference track per se. so it's kind of cool, and of course those voices are way better than mine...

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

What's frustrating is this Computer is only a week old and you would figure a major update would have taken place during the set up. 

true but then you need to get the Edge and A/V updates every other day... not really but it seems like it. plus the latest 22H2 just came out about a week or so ago (at least when i applied it).

8 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Windows 11 on my laptop works perfectly with Cakewalk straight out of the box - no tweaking at all

same experience. once i re-ran all the paid plugin installers, copied over the free ones without installers, and my templates, attached my project & content drives. almost no issues (those were mainly due to updates on the OS and Edge which were solved by installing the CW redistributables)

the MS Edge and Defender products update fairly frequently as do runtimes due to bugs and other software installations. so after i see Edge open with "look at the new AI features we installed to better track you with" information page, the next thing i do is run the CW redistributables installer. ? also after a version update on the OS. sometimes after software updates on  Sketchup.

also, depending on if you used hard or soft directory junctions - if you used soft version of the syntax, they disappear after a reboot...

On 11/18/2023 at 7:15 PM, Miguel Carzola said:

Love it. I love your music. Idea...Have you ever tried replacing those synth strings with organs? I think they would fulfill the function of gluing the arrangement while sounding more natural.  It's just a thought though. I think the arrangement is ready so you can tame the harsh spots you notice in the mastering. Great job

yeah some songs i pad using an B3/C3 organ VI, some i use the strings.

one problem i'm trying to solve - a good cello VI which isn't loaded with the bow scraping etc. yes, a realistic cello with proper set of articulations, but most of them i've demo'd have very loud scraping, whereas when a friend plays her cello (and maybe it's her skills as a trained first chair) the bow sounds are much much less a  part of the sound - maybe it's simply the way they capture the sound or enhanced to make it more "real". but that is one pursuit i'm working on...

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

My last system I almost always installed both VST 2 and the VST3 versions. This time thinking why bother with the VST 2 and I focused on only installing the VST3 versions. Idiot . 

this is why i only exclude the VST2 in CW when i have the VST3 (i can't remember who else said to do that? ?) but always install the all the 64-bit versions - even aax versions (in case i need them in PT) - then if the VST3 is merely a wrapper (without proper memory management that allows it to degrade nicely when it's corresponding VST2 is missing thus tearing holes in protected memory), at least the file is there even if CW has it on its exclude list...

6 hours ago, Promidi said:

This is why I am so glad I can hide specific threads on here.

yes, but can you get away from the notifications that you've been quoted on those hidden threads, or perhaps even liked? ? 

On 11/18/2023 at 6:48 AM, Sal Sorice said:

55" in Landscape, flanked by (2) 48" in Portrait

ha! and here i was thinking my 42" landscape main and 24" portrait side was going to be too large for my desk!

i'm looking to update my monitoring to 1x large landspace and 1x  smaller but vertical - which i'm thinking will be my kontakt, synth/browser, and other vertical areas, lyrics, sheet music etc, and the landscape all my other stuff.