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An additional $10 value!!! For the amount I used those presets/modules, I could have saved some money (plus 3 years worth of market gains). 😞 Seriously though if you don't have IKs Mixbox and would use it, I found it handy for trying things out.

It should stop it from being routed out of the track, but shouldn't stop it from it being recorded . . . Verified (as expected) with my quick test project. Condition 3: (a) Controller sending MIDI Note Data on MIDI Channel 2 AND (b) Cakewalk Sonar set to record MIDI Channel 2 Data from All MIDI devices; Track 1 (MIDI Track) - Mute is not activated. Result: MIDI Data is recorded on the MIDI Track on Track 1 and the Instrument on Track 2 containing the sound source plays the Note Data being set from Track 1 because it is not muted. THE TEST: Turn Mute on [i.e., activate Mute] on Track 1. Repeat the exact same recording. Viola!!!! Incoming MIDI Data is (a) seen by the MIDI Track and (b) recorded, but (c) since it is not echoed to Track 2 (the sound source) there is no sound to be heard (or recorded on Track 2 IF that record had been set). Ergo: "It should stop it from being routed out of the track, but shouldn't stop it from it being recorded . . . " = TRUE!

IIRC Mute on a MIDI Track prevents the MIDI Note Data from being routed to a sound source. So far as I recall, it does NOT prevent the MIDI Note Data from being recorded if the track is set up to record MIDI Data on the MIDI Channel you are using to send from your controller to the track. I can't double check this right now, but you can. I misspoke. I just did a quick test: Condition 1: Controller sends MIDI Data on Channel 2; Note Data not recorded. Condition 2: Sound Source Track added to project; Incoming MIDI Data routed to Software Synth. Notice: Track 1 showed that there is incoming MIDI Data, but (1) there was no audio coming from SI-Electric Piano 1; and (2) no MIDI data was recorded. The small/short lines at the bottom of Track 1 made during the recording shows that there was incoming MIDI Data. Notice that based on my setup, the MIDI Data from the controller (1) was not recorded and (2) there was no MIDI Data coming from my controller and going to the Soft Synth.

I saw this. USynths are not my top-tier choice, but I find them fun to play to come up with ideas. I can do them right if I feel the musical material is good enough to develop or just have them as fun improvs to enjoy.

I haven't loaded banks into z3ta+ [version 1.5, IIRC] in a while, but the problem sounds familiar. I vaguely remember (not even 50% sure) finding the new location for the banks. IIRC (not even 50% sure) there was a change in Windows [security / protection ] that protected the location where banks were saved to / restored from. If my brain still worked the way it used to, I might be able to sort this out. I am not sure I reinstalled z3ta+ after my C Drive reconstruction, but I will look. Bad news for me: I found the 1.5.3 setup file, but now I have to find the original CD and hope I have the serial number! 😞 I used to save everything, but I no longer can remember where anything is. 😞

Years ago to get the names of my hardware into *.ins files, I would used notepad [basic Windows text editor] to cut-and-paste and edit the names of the hardware's presets (and other settings) from the manual. I usually started with a manual that was the most similar to my hardware. For Roland's old Intelligent Arrangers (CA-30 RA-30), I typed in / edited the arranger functions (including the names of the styles if I recall correctly), but I believe the newer arrangers are a little bit different. E-A7 Style List After looking at the pdf, I am not sure if you can switch / select styles from Cakewalk the same way tones / patches are switched .

This is good do know. Thanks.

It's been less than a weekend since the Original Post! I replied on the same day as the post. Everyone else replied on the same day, too. The original poster last visited the site on the same day .

From the Reference Guide: Based on this, if someone wanted to request that the Cakewalk Project File Format be changed to be able to save some sort of pointer to a custom workspace in a personal workspace list so a specific user's Workspace could be reloaded when a project was loaded, I think that would have to be a feature request. JMO: Although I might personally benefit from such a new feature, based on my reading of the community, I don't think it would be a good use of limited resources. Plus, implementing such a feature might risk some (or all) of the customizability we presently enjoy with the current Workspaces feature. For me, I don't mind selecting (or re-selecting) workspace as needed. Personally, I'd sooner put in a feature request for a hierarchical file structure so I can better organize my Workspaces.

Let me try it this way: (A) "Apply [a specific, per project] Workspace [when my specific project is loaded]. NOPE; doesn't work like that. (B) "Apply [a global/default/stored from previous usage] Workspace [at the time when any project is loaded]. As far as I can tell, it does indeed work this way. [I could be wrong.]

For the same reason why I also thought it didn't work right: My so called "intuitive understanding" was just plain wrong. As Glenn correctly reminded us, Workspaces work globally. When I re-read the description several months ago, it I realized it was accurate. At one point I drafted an explanation of where the misunderstanding comes from. I don't remember where I saved the draft, but if you quote it and provide the source, I can try to reconstruct it. To me when I thought about a Workspaces as a Global UI element preset (settings/configuration), it no longer made sense that changing a Project would change my Workspace. If I want to change the Workspace (a global set/configuration of elements and functions), I change the Workspace. Ergo, I concluded that "Apply Workspace on Project Load" is not done on a per project basis, but I if I changed a workspace without saving it, the existing workspace would be the same when I loaded a new project. BUT, if I had "Apply Workspace on Project Load" my existing workspace that wasn't saved would change to the default Workspace I had been using. This is not to say that a feature request might not be appropriate, but I decided it is not a bug nor inaccurately described. Several months ago when I decided not to put in such a feature request, I decided not to write this all up because it would confuse people who didn't use (or know how to use) Workspaces. Sorry; this is an attempt to reconstruct why I decided the best solution for me is just to re choose my custom workspace when I loaded a project if. Plus, although I had given up using Screensets intentionally once I got into using CbB, I decided I needed to start using them intentionally again only this time in coordination with Workspaces.

Yup! When I thought how Wokspaces work globally, that's what made me realize that my misunderstanding (per-project restoration) was just plain wrong.

I asked because I ran into issues myself and decided that what I thought would happen with "Apply Workspace on Project Load" is not the way it works. I would have to go back and check again, but IIRC I thought there was a 1:1 correspondence when there wasn't. In other words, I previously thought that "Apply Workspace on Project Load" saved a specific Workspace with each Project and then discovered that's not the way it works.

If you then recall the Workspace you created a second time (using the Workspace Drop down selector at the stop right) does it show up as expected or do you still get the Factory Mix Workspace? PS: I assume you are not using the Free Tier.

I don't recall ever using the RXP, though I probably tried it at some point. I do recall rex files, but other then trying them out, I didn't use them intentionally. My current storage drive (which has backups of way too much stuff) shows I have RXP dlls with 3 different dates/sizes: 9/13/2005 2,824KB Version 1.0.0.12 12/19/2007 2,872KB Version 1.0.0.15 12/30/2011 2,872KB Version 1.0.0.15 If there's something I can look up or run with these that might provide useful info for you, let me know. My XP PC is no longer working, so I am unsure if that has RXP.dlls other versions. UPDATE: Evidently one is in a current VSTScan Path. It looks very familiar and I do recall trying it out a few times, but not really using it. Hope this helps.