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If you are right, I hope they also have z3ta+ 1.5 or its fx processor functionality included with any successor to z3ta 2.0 they do. BTW, on my PC z3ta+ 1.5 also and z3ta+ 1.5 fx also work under Windows 10 Pro. I also hope they take a suggestion I made a few years ago and to acquire E-Mu's long-abandoned Emulator X3 and to update it to meet the needs of everyone including those who have been advocating for a built-in sampler. Yeah. I lot of us saw this potential. There might even have been some user discussion about it.

OK. I'll give it a try: Maybe those who keep beating the same dead horse think its a cat and won't stop bringing up the lifetime updates issue until all of its 9-lives are dead? ?

Since you took a very small part of my reply and chose to focus on that alone, I have nothing more to say to you.

When I researched the product, I must have missed that word. I will look again, but in the meantime I looked up "what is a perpetual license?" Here are just a few quotations I found. Obviously, there is a lot of info online including some lengthy user agreements for perpetual licenses. Evidently the terms vary from company to company. Some definitions say that a perpetual license involves a one time fee for the license v. making payments over time (renting, subscription, etc.). I do not know the terms of the Gibson license for SONAR Platinum (with lifetime Updates). Can you continue to use it for the rest of your life? If so, that would seem to quality as a perpetual license under the terms of some of what I found on line. I can still use Sonar 8.5, X1, and X3 even though they have been discontinued. (Those are the only ones I checked recently. I might be able to use others as well.) However, as far as I know there was never a rental option. They still work in 2023, but I prefer to use Cakewalk by Bandlab. If I cannot afford the upcoming Bandlab products, I have a number of options. Peace.

Sorry, but this only has the illusion of fairness. I think its absurd for consumers to be telling a vendor what pricing schedule they should set. Likewise, I think all of the whining by people who feel they were cheated by Gibson and should be compensated for that by Bandlab is pure selfishness. Let's say person A was new to Cakewalk/SONAR and purchased SONAR Platinum (with Lifetime Updates) for $500 to Gibson. Let's say person B was a loyal customer who bought their first Cakewalk/SONAR product for $300 from Twelve Tone Systems or Roland and thereafter paid $100 for each of 5 years for product add-ons and/or "updates" that were included in SONAR Platinum (with Lifetime Updates). Let's say both person A and person B got the free version of Cakewalk by Bandlab along with five years of free updates. Why should someone who paid $500 get a better offer than someone who paid $800? BTW, I do not have the price schedules from over the years, but I believe it is entirely possible that a long-term user like person B might have paid well over $1,000 while someone who just bought the Gibson product would have paid half of that. I do not have all my receipts, but I can tell you that my invoice for the SONAR 5 PE upgrade was $179 (plus shipping).

If this happens, I hope that long-term Cakewalk/SONAR users also get a crossgrade deal, not just those who paid money to Gibson. Some of us were long-term customers of the Twelve Tone Systems and Roland versions of Cakewalk products. I hope this is not going to a case of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. So far it seems like there are a lot of squeaky wheels. ? BTW, based on some historical website research I did a week or two ago, the specific product was called "SONAR Platinum (with Lifetime Updates)." If a perpetual Cakewalk Sonar license with lifetime updates is given to people who purchased that product and based on their collective outage, I will be very unhappy if I don't get that, too, just because I was skeptical of the deal when it was offered.

I have had this happen with my pre-M-Audio evolution keyboards but not just with Cakewalk. It happens with all MIDI software. It used to happen years before due to some instability with the usb connector, but I taped it down. Then it started happening again after a Windows update which undid all (or many) of my energy/sleep settings. When it happens, I close out of the software and run midi-ox. If that doesn't show the keyboard's midi, I know its not the software's issue. So I power cycle the keyboard and restart midi-ox so it can get the updated list of valid devices detected and reported by Windows. Over the past several years, its seems to have been that Windows caused the keyboard to become unseen. There could be other causes / solutions in your case. Just sharing some of my experience in case it helps. PS: Once in a while I go into all the power/energy/sleep settings and double check them in case Windows has undone them. I often check Windows Update History to see which updates I've had to try to figure out which updates might cause the reset, but since it is inconsistent, I have not been able to narrow it down.

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I assume you mean that Cakewalk can record both MIDI data and an audio signal at the same time if an attached synth has a built-in audio/MIDI interface. To me this is different than recording audio from a MIDI input. But maybe you mean something entirely different.

Not sure of the context for the recommendation but just so you realize, MIDI is not audio.

Just a footnote re: Driver Mode: MME (ASIO and WASAPI are unavailable here) under MIDI Playback and Recording Settings. When you don't have a project loaded, you have a choice of MME and UWP. (See below.) You cannot change that when you have a project loaded. However, those are MIDI driver mode settings, not to be confused with Audio driver mode settings.

Check your e-mail for a summarizing mailing from the MIDI Association.

I see that sample packs are $50. So I wondered if Collective users can import their own samples to create presets. I took a quick look at the manual. So far as I can tell, it looks like Collective uses a proprietary sample format and there is no "Import Sample" button to convert other samples. I did see a way to move user samples to the right place, but to me it is not clear is users can user other sample formats. If this has a lower CPU usage than other sample-handling software synth, I might be interested. So, if anyone knows or finds out additional information, please share. Thanks. ADDENDUM: While searching the manual for "import" I saw that the arp section allows allows for importing midi patterns. That might be of interest to some who don't have that in any other arp or soft synth software.

I agree that the original post doesn't have enough information for others to be helpful. I will assume you have the keyboard's MIDI and audio connected to your PC correctly and that your preferences, settings, and routing are all correct. I also assume that by " . . . added an audio track to a midi file" you: inserted a midi track into a project, recorded midi data from your keyboard onto the midi track, then created an audio track to record, render, or bounce the audio playback of the midi track from the keyboard, and then selected the audio track and played the audio you recorded. Is the midi track still routed to the keyboard? Is the midi track midi echo button on?

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Warning: There are some scantily clad dancers towards the end of the audience participation section. Feel free to close your eyes, and just listen.

Interesting. To my ear (admittedly it could be my tinnitus), the mp3 is sort of close, but the patch doesn't sound quite right, or maybe the Minimoog is running through external FX. Unfortunately, there's a shout of the Minimoog panel, but the clip is too blurry to read the settings. It might even be helpful if there were a clearer version that shows how many oscillators are making the sound even if the settings can't be seen. I have no experience with nsmp files. Not sure what "there are very discrete harmonics (15 tones total) in his oscillator setup" means. Are you saying the recreation uses 15 tones (overtones) at various amplitudes to approximate the Minimoog wave used? See also this forum / thread . Some trivia about Manfred Mann's equipment can be found here (not necessarily about Blinded by the Light).

FWIW (another angle of the performance of the portamento) :

To me, Workspaces is an amazingly powerful and very useful feature. I have given some thought to ways could be less "Clunky" (i.e., less awkward / more accessible). First and foremost would education (mini-tutorial/step-by-step guide), hierarchical selection (workspaces within folders), and Workspace-sharing (from users, or perhaps submitted by users and fine-tuned by staff, if resources permit) .

Off-hand I don't know, I'd look up what instruments he was playing at the time. Also, in case it was Manfred Mann's standard organ, Old Joad posted a list of organ drawbar presets. Perhaps Blinded By the Light is on that list. If it is from a B3, there are a number of emulations available from various developers. CORRECTION: Looks like its played on the Minimoog based on the live version. Unfortunately, with the increased level of my tinnitus and upper frequency hearing loss over the past 5 years or so, I don't think I could figure it out the settings from listening. UPDATE ( from Wikipedia ) : Blinded By the Light Manfred Mann's Earth Band cover Manfred Mann – organ, piano, Minimoog, backing vocals, lead vocals If the studio version also uses a Minimoog (as listed in Wikipedia), you might want to try Arturia's emulation. From the video it looks like he hits a high note to trigger the portamento and then drops back down to use the mod wheel to add the LFO. NOTE: I am more familiar with Cherry Audio's Minimoog emulation; I see that Arturia's is very different; not sure how to design patches on Arturia's Mini.

Personally, I like the reverse compatibility, flexibility, and differences the various options have. Sometimes I like the Menu Bar approach, sometimes the right-click context menu is more intuitive, sometimes I like using the browser (but not too much since it takes up real estate), etc. I understand that some people don't like having more than one method. To me, that's OK because they are free to use only one method if they choose. Some people might like to only use the Synth Rack method, but if that were the only method available to users, everyone would have to use the Synth Rack. On the other hand, if that method is removed from the Synth Rack, people who always have the Synth Rack open (or really get a thrill out of opening and closing it constantly) would be at a disadvantage.

Thanks for clarifying this. I was wondering why Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. chose all caps (not curious enough to ask, though).

Two months ago I picked up a 2 TB crucial external SSD at a local store for $10 more than it is at NewEgg today ($100). I have just started to use it and have no feel for how good/reliable it is over the long haul. Any impressions / experiences with their external SSDs? Thanks.