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PS: I haven't used this in years when I was playing around with code to process midi data on an Arduino Mega, but maybe The Hairless MIDI to Serial Bridge might fit into a possible solution that would meet your needs.** Let me add: At the time using an LCD display, two banks of sliders, and some buttons, I was working on a very personalized device to process incoming MIDI and use the assignable / configurable sliders to (a) process the incoming data and/or to (b) generate data (c) to be sent to MIDI devices in real time (on-the-fly data manipulation). Since then I have seen a number of places online that market slider-based controllers that as best as I can tell use microprocessors to do part of what I had been working on. I mention this because if you want to have a device to play the MS GS Wavetable Synth (or something comparable) with a usb controller, I would encourage you to reach out to the developers of those microprocessor controllers. Who knows--maybe there's money to be made! **ADDENDUM: I just booted my 2012 version of The Hairless MIDI to Serial Bridge (but without an Arduino connected to my PC), and (1) the MS GS Wavetable Synth shows up as an output device, and (2) my NanoKontrol shows up as an input device. Maybe it's not beyond my ability to code something with an Arduino to do what you want! LOL Related Discussions in the Cakewalk Forum:

Having done some online research and explored my own PC since you asked about this, I have concluded that either I would need to find some built-in [i.e., Windows] utility/feature or try to write some custom code (which I am not qualified to do with Windows, nor would I want to). FWIW, a year or so ago while test coding something for possible use in a personal/custom module within software that uses Java to develop custom modules, I created a button that enumerates and displays all midi ports seen by / accessible to Java (and hence the software synth). ATM it's just a simple button to display what's available, but both Microsoft MIDI Mapper [Windows MIDI_MAPPER] and Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth [Internal Software synthesizer] get reported. I have no desire to attempt this, but based on what little I know I suppose it might be theoretically possible to create a hardware device that uses a microprocessor as a sort of Midi Solutions type box to do what you want. It is however beyond my abilities to even do a proof-of-concept test. Why do you want to play the MS Wavetable Synth without the use of anything other than what is built-into Windows? Or are you going in the direction of not even using Windows or a computer? If so, and you have a hardware sampler, perhaps you could figure out how the get the wavetable samples and use those. Again, that's beyond my desire (and probably abilities) to attempt.

I would ask AAS directly and mention my reason for wanting to wait.

My original reply (which I erroneously thought was going in the wrong direction and deleted it) included two links to related discussions which might be useful here: Perhaps your Track Control [Widget] preset got changed, possibly manually or maybe by a Workspace. If so, change it to "All." Note: If this is indeed the issue, you can create your own Custom [Named] preset to selected which Widgets are shown by going into Track Control Manager mode.

Glad to hear it's SOLVED!

TY!!! Absolutely! I thought about changing that in the interest of clarity, but neglected to do that. You are 100% correct!!

I did a quick check in Device Manager and the MS GS Synth seems to be enabled on my PC. I am not going to take out my PCI card based audio interface to try getting the MS Synth to work. Maybe I'll try on my older Audio PC which uses MoBo Audio. In the interest of science (and because its for NN).

If you are talking about the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, I'd try using a utility like MIDI-OX. Not sure if it can be played with some tool within Windows itself. UPDATE: I just did a quick test--routed my usb keyboard through MIDI-OX to the MS GS Synth on Win 10 Pro and I don't get any sound. Too much to do today to try to figure out why. Maybe someone else can help. Just found this. I'll see if I can make it work this afternoon/evening.

Personal preference, if I need to tweak a factory Workspace, I rename it to my own custom name to prevent updates/installations from overwriting it. Also, I periodically make backups of all my customized Workspaces. Not saying your method is wrong since we all have our own personal workflow preferences. Moreover, I was concerned that you seemed to be implicitly recommending changing the default Workspaces. Well, on re-reading your post maybe it was explicit--you refer to fixing "all the dumb default settings." For a clean installation, it makes sense to me that the factory defaults would be the same for everyone regardless of personal preferences. Again, for me it's a matter of personal preferences; not being critical of your choices / preferences, just trying to suggest some options that I use in case they help. Above and beyond that, does setting the Advanced Workspace to the All Track Control preset, setting the project to always load the Workspace, and then re-saving the Advanced Workspace get the MIDI Widgets to show the track numbers on the "widget" buttons? On my PC "All" doesn't, but maybe there's a setting I have overlooked.

With all due respect (because I, too, originally inadequately understood the issue as presented here and thought it was a matter of manual or automatic [e.g., Workspace] changing of the Track Control [Widget] preset, but on closer examination I believe the OP's issue is different. For example, try changing the Input to a specific channel on a specific input device. Do you see the channel being shown on the button itself? I could be wrong, but it wasn't until I hovered over the Input Button [Track Control Widget] that I saw the "forced" channel allowed / recordable input channel, or the Output Button that I saw the "forced" output channel.** Another less-than-immediately-visible option is to use the Event Inspector to show the channel of a selection of notes in a clip, etc. but I'm thinking the OP was more interested in the forced channel setting for the entire track. **CORRECTION: See discussion below based on David Baay's point about forced being used for Output Channels and filtered (or restricted) being more descriptive of Input Channels.

Not sure if we have a way to have the channel setting show up in the track control widget box itself; if not maybe that could be a feature request (if the size of the button can handle it). Until then, does hovering over the button show the MIDI channel setting? UPDATE: I looked in the Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide to see if there might be a TVWidget flag that might be available to show/hide the Channel Number, but didn't see one.

Ever since I learned how to use it [Cakewalk's "Shortcut Manager" (aka Keyboard Shortcuts)] it has been a very good friend. Menu Bar > Preferences [check Advanced at the bottom] > Customization > Keyboard Shortcuts Even though it doesn't show the keyboard as a graphic, I appreciate not having that, mainly because I have my PC's keyboard in front of me. It does have a "Locate Key" function which for me serves the same function as an on-screen virtual keyboard. I defer to the historians in the forum to tell us when Cakewalk software first allowed us to manage our [non-reserved] keyboard shortcuts. To me it seems like forever, but I don't have all my old versions installed on my current audio PC.

There was at least one discussion of this in the forum back in March with some discussion of memories / experiences, possible alternatives, etc. that might be of interest to fans of the software.

There's an update as of 2024-12-21!

Not sure if you noticed, but my post was carefully worded to allow for this possibility while at the same time leaving room in case the 3 years later... post was done by a human being. My first draft was a bit on the subtly insulting side, but I felt the way I revised it displayed a politeness appropriate to the holiday season.

https://dawbench.libsyn.com/episode-34-the-art-of-analog-modeling-ii-cherry-audio-reviving-analog-legends

The link in the Original Post from 2019 still works. 🙂

Problem SOLVED?

Holey Moley! In all these decades I never knew what she looked like, but back in the day I loved this song! Great voice on a great song!! Just found her website.

With only three Arturia FX, I also got $59. I thought others with a full FX Collection would have been down to $29.

It will often let us know when there are updates and will sometimes let us install the new versions from the CPC depending on the circumstances. To me having one place to look for new versions and to trigger installations is better than having to do that for several products individually.

Do the entries in the most recent scan in Vstscan.log give any clues as to what plugin might be causing the hang?