Glenn Stanton

was Cakewalk a company back when rgc was bought? or did Roland buy them? that may be the difference.

a version 1.0 is usually the reason people are reluctant to completely create a new line of plugins based around it. since it does a number of things (all of which i think are desirable) many plugin companies and developers may not have the drivers to leverage all the capabilities (thus the comment about "new"). multi-threaded. MIDI 2.0, etc all good things really. and did i mention it's a version 1.0 ? i don't think it's "fear", just a matter of prioritising the development, integration, and support versus other things people are asking for.

can't wait to hear that piece ? not to mention dancing to it... lol

if the ASUS ones are actual line level IO, you should turn off any and all effects and sounds. the realtek looks like it's the built in mic only. so, per reginaldStJohn - invest in a decent IO unit with MIDI IO as well (Focusrite etc make decent units for a very reasonable price and you'll be able to have lower latency and real MIDI IO).

coolio thread - reminded me to re-activate (using the offline activation process) my z3ta on my Win11 machine. it really is a very unique synth.

i tried (and tried and tried and tried) over the years to get sampletank to be fully functional and IKM defeated me so many times, i finally just deleted sampletank and all its content. i feel sad because there were a few nice instruments in there, but alas, too much BS to keep it. i do have a few of their other products like MODO and syntronik instruments which are nice, i tried TONEX and removed that after about 24 hours as a waste of life. it's just a weird company where everything is either workable or so piecemeal it simply takes too much effort to keep (or make) it working.

i had something similar about a month or so ago on a plugin i was using on my bass track and could really only notice it once i exported as a 2-track and so i had to trace the crackling and drop out. eventually figuring out it was in demo mode after a recent move to W11... now i've been steadily checking plugins i haven't used in a while to see if they fully activated or not...

i visit the ASIO entries every time i do a major update with my other audio products as they have a nasty habit of re-installing their ASIO drivers (Magix, other DAW products like Studio One, Ableton, Steinberg stuff, etc as well as system updates from RealTek and others). only take a few minutes and keeps the crap at bay... oddly enough, my ASIO4ALL (needed for some standalone products ? ) works flawlessly.

thanks! agreed the MIDIMan is getting long in the tooth but is workable for now. i'm going to check out the MIDITech 4x4 as i only need it for 3 purely MIDI devices (2 keyboards and a drum kit) (the rest are USB native).

in addtion to what msmcleod has suggested. i've only used MIDIMan interfaces for this (4x4, 2x2 and 8x8 versions over time, now using 2x2) but in checking out the Nektar site, it says the device is class compliant - meaning Windows OS (or Apple OS) should detect it. https://nektartech.com/midiflex-4-usb-midi-interface/ USB class compliant (no driver needed) --- so it may be something else causing the missing or unknown device issue - sometimes USB port matters (e.g. USB 1.1 when the device needs USB 2, etc) or its plugged into a USB extender when it wants to be into a direct USB port on the system. i use a site called Device Hunt to identify USB products and versions https://devicehunt.com/ this is one way to check what your device is telling the system, and i also use HWInfo (free version) to see the gory hardware details as well.

using the tool editor you could add your own links to mastering services...

maybe something is retriggering your keyboard and capturing it? i'm not able to see this issue - i capture the chords, place them into the pattern and drag it, no strangeness. maybe you're playing the wrong chords? ?

i think the DDP has to be licensed from DCA so that might be an impediment for including it in freeware (although Reaper has it). not sure. i'm a dinosaur so i have CD Architect and DVD Architect tools from Sony ? although being able to capture the metadata per track so combining it more easily would be a nice start...

are you repeatedly send an email about the same bug? and after the first or few, that they acknowledged you sent them?

i usually try to save a preset to see if the plugin has a preferred folder to store it. sometimes its a CW presets folder (there are a few) and then some have their own folders. and generally i just store them there but make a note so i can back it up (if its not already - for example, a number of plugins use the public account documents folder, others use my documents documents folder - if the latter its always backed up to onedrive, if the former, like other folders, i add a freefilesync job to gather it into a backup folder on onedrive).

i use Process Lasso as i can assign CPU affinity, power, etc -- it's much more granular and covers many more options than the Park Control (which is what i started with). so, with CW - i generally don't do much. with my CAD and rendering, the CPU and related power controls make a big difference in how fast i can move around in 3D and render images (even with a nice set of GPU, the CPU still matters because vector programs are generally single process so reconstruction of the vectors as you move (and if you have colors/ texture and shadows etc enabled) it can grind to a halt quickly. CW on the other hand, i set it to use a higher level of processing and it's happy. ?

could you build one (platform) yourself? that could get you what you need at a good price without a huge effort (maybe a day or two factoring in the finish drying time...) they give the dimensions on a drawing: long (long) ago i built a desk for my equipment out of 3 sheets of 3/8" plywood. including the 2 isolated rack units underneath. the rack rails were the most expensive part ?

i dunno. my 4-track cassette Fostex was fast - plop in a cassette, plug in my mic and guitar, tweak the input volume and hit record... 3-4 minutes max ? then each week some cleaning on the head and capstan and all was good ?

@Friv just like the game of Go, you can get started fairly quickly - in your preferences pick your audio IO and your MIDI keyboard. add a virtual instrument (piano, etc), press the arm track to record, press record. play your keyboard. hit stop when you're done. hit play to listen. or if you're doing a live instrument, add an audio track, arm the track for record, hit record, play your instrument, press stop to end it. press play to play it. within, i'd say a few minutes, you'll be live. within a few months you'll have acquired a decent level of expertise to record and mix. within a few years, you'll be really good but still a novice. after about 125 years you'll have mastered all the features... ?

just an addendum - technically you can compile C# all the way down to machine level -- however -- because compilers have limitations, you can end up with a potential for unsafe execution in terms of memory and IO allocations etc. whereas explicitly managing the memory and IO (those being more complex and thusly prone to developer mistakes) can reduce the chance that bad things like memory overruns and locked files etc crash things. you tend to be more safe than taking managed code down to machine level. and when nanoseconds matter...

you could install Melodyne Essentials. or get the next up version depending on your budget (Celemony | Editions https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/melodyne-5-editions). meanwhile if you search online, there are a number of freeware autopitch products and commercial ones as well - Waves, Melda, etc all make autopitch, and harmonizer, etc plugins. free ones: https://www.sageaudio.com/blog/audio-plugins/top-5-free-vocal-tuning-and-formant-plugins.php

try just soloing the track you're working on. skip exclusive solo as depending on where it's applied can lead to some strange routing resulting no sound ? also - have a process for yourself. when i use a region fx, i follow these steps fairly rigorously, first make a copy of the track, then for melodyne = one - create region fx, two - solo the track and do my edits, three - render fx or if i'm not happy, revert. and using small segments like what you're doing is good. one trick i picked up - using the piano or rhythm along with whatever i'm tweaking. with the studio version, the other track acts like the "chord track" for the other ones.

maybe there is some new info? this threads last entry from 9 months? 10 months ago... @jon sasor [cakewalk] is the VS-700 info up to date?

well you could create a while loop which reads in the file content into an array until the app or device crashes... of course, it's more likely that reading the file means getting a file handle which could (without proper care) try to lock the file and in a folder requiring admin permission to lock it, doesn't get the exception properly caught, or worse eaten, and then nulls etc fun for all and so on. that it works on the developer desktop is meaningless. if i had a dollar every time i heard that i wouldn't have to work for a living making sure developers don't do things like that...

hmmm i ran into this issue and remember to install the registration number as admin, so i ran it as admin and it worked fine (two weeks ago). however one other caveat - make sure there is no extra space at the end, and in my case i found the number wrapped in the web UI and was missing the last 4 numbers. easy to fix. and in some apps (not dimension) if i copied the text from an email and there was a space at the end, and not paying attention, some products saw that as an extra character.