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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?

Let's open this up a crack: Do some Types of Food for Thought help or hinder Life Goals, or is it more dependent on the ingredients used, whether or not you are a slave to a recipe or a DIYer based on what others have done with similar ingredients, "proper" combinations and presentations, and preferences, sensitivities, and allergies? For me it's not how big a person's refrigerator, stove/oven, pots and pans, cooking tools, etc. are, it's how they use the ingredients, methods, etc. For me theory unlocks potential, options, choices; theory is not a set of rules to be adhered to as if created by a devine super power. Not knocking people who prefer to follow; just saying it's a matter of personal preferences. Sometimes following a recipe can be very quick and rewarding--esp. if you have all the ingredients on hand.

I find it very handy. I can read the lists, read the threads I am interested in, and then just mark everything read so the next time, I just get new stuff in my list. Works well if there are some people on my ignore list posting a lot of stuff I don't want to read to see who they are picking fights with.

I dealt with this a few years ago when I added audio to midi projects. I found Tempo seemed to control midi / soft synths but audio used its own tempo. Someone pointed out I needed to use audio clips that did sync to Tempo. Not sure if that's the problem you are describing. Is the original audio file a Groove Clip? If so, it sounds like you have a different issue than I faced.

Since the correct answer never works on the first or second time (it's an AI trick to get us to move the mouse and click inside a frame as some sadistic but probably money making exercise in futility)I have a personal method for dealing with those fraudulent captchas: I randomly click all around and sooner or later click on the "Verify" button. Most of the times I get another unsolvable puzzle. Every so often it seems like the AI catches on to my random moving and clicking and either just lets me escape further punishment or it gives me a puzzle that only requires one or two clicks in blatantly obvious places. I give in and so does the AI. It's sort of like a stalemate. Maybe it's not speed or accuracy but something random. Update: I wrote the above but decided not to post it. A while later, I got a super simple puzzle--a fire hydrant that occupied 4 and only 4 squares with no part of the hydrant in any adjacent cells and nothing out of focus that might remotely have been a hydrant. I did my random clicking and unclicking but then left just the 4 cells clicked before choosing Verify. The AI must have been annoyed at me (maybe it had read my unposted reply?) because it gave me a different puzzle to try just to annoy me. Disgusted, I clicked Skip which I assumed meant it would give me another puzzle. But instead the AI tossed in the towel and let me through!!!!!

I think it's good to pick the brains of others who use the nanoKontrol to identify possible options and how to implement them. I benefited from AZ's software (AZ Controller) to help me out with some tasks with my nanoKontrol. For other tasks, I use the nanoKontrol differently. So I agree that you need to decide what works best for you and under what circumstances. You might have a newer edition of the nanoKontrol than the one I have. If so, my comments might not apply. With that in mind here goes: When I used to use it more frequently, I generally used the KORG software (1) to set up / edit assignments for the buttons, knobs and sliders, (2) to backup the settings on my PC, and (3) to load different sets of settings for different purposes. For controlling parameters in soft synths I would generally map the nanoKontrol's CCs I had previously setup to the parameters in the plug-ins. In essence, the nanoKontrol just adds more sliders, knobs, and buttons to what I have done for years with keyboard controllers. For some purposes I might have a scene setup to use some CCs that duplicate the control of parameters on both the nanoKontrol and on my USB keyboard while the nanoKontrol will will also control different parameters. Personal preference: I generally use CCs I have used for decades; next I will use CCs assigned by manufacturers (software synth defaults) if they don't conflict with ones I have used for years; next I will get out either paper and pencil (or a spreadsheet) to add mappings in new / untested ways as needed. Different software synths and FX have different ways of setting up CC / parameter mapping. For some I really like how the system is setup in the software. When I create sounds in software synths I generally use a standalone version. Again, personal preference. So I map any new CCs I need using the synth's midi learn / remote control system. So, I really don't want a DAW to learn the CCs for its own purposes. But depending on your needs / preferences, you (or anyone else) might have equally valid reasons for mapping CCs primarily or exclusively in a DAW. I hope this adds some insights in addition to AZ's explanation of possible ways to use CCs.