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I just did a super quick test: It might be a font issue; I seem to recall seeing something about setting the correct font somewhere. I'll see if I can find what I am thinking of before I shut down. This is what I had in mind, specifically the posts from msmcleod. Hope that helps.

Makes sense. Sorry to hear you couldn't get it working. Evidently you don't have any other drum plugins (free or paid). I know I have downloaded at least one free one in the past year or so. I have Session Drummer from years ago, so it got picked up as part of the VST Scan. UPDATE: If you want to give the pad another chance, I just Googled "Free Drum Plugins" and there are several sites that should point you in the direction of some. One list (2025 update on the Bedroom Producer's site) lists several I know I have tried: Sitala, MT PowerDrum Kit 2, and a few others I have seen mentioned in the forum. Or, if you haven't traded in the pad controller for a guitar pedal yet, you might want to try the SI-Drum Kit if the Studio Instruments Bundle are included. Cakewalk Product Center > Cakewalk Sonar > Show Add-ons > Cakewalk Studio Instruments [includes SI-Drum Kit, SI-Bass Guitar, SI-String Section, SI-Electric Piano].

I believe you are right. I was just looking at that.

Isn't that the grabber, a bit higher up in the 1st screen shot?

FWIW I just installed Product Center 1.0.0.094 and because I am connected to the internet (and am logged into Bandlab), it did the check as expected and I was able to download and install 1.0.0.096.

Did you also have high frequency loss and if so, did this help with that? I ask because my range starts disappearing somewhere between 2600Hz and 3000Hz. I have attributed that to repeated exposure for workplace fire alarms, but it would be great to find out the sound is just being filter out by ear clutter!

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Unfortunately, some consumer targeted midi gear only comes with User Guides (as opposed to manuals). I have seen a number that are far skimpier than the one on that site. This is good as it show that (1) the pad is generating MIDI data and (2) the MIDI data is being recorded by Sonar. I took at a quick look at the guide earlier and will need to look again to see (1) if the Synido makes sounds and if it does (2) how it gets the sounds into the computer. If it doesn't (that is, if its just a pad controller), you will need to add a plugin and route the controller to the software instrument. If you downloaded the Cakewalk Sonar add-ons, you should have Session Drummer. Dare I say it? Adding a soft synth/sampler player, having it controlled by an external controller, and having the sounds played through Cakewalk Sonar, is pretty much the same as adding a piano-style soft synth . . . . 😉 Of course, Sonar has some features that are geared towards drum sounds and drum tracks. UPDATE: In the welcome paragraph, it says the device is "an input control device based on [the] MIDI protocol . . . [and] only outputs MIDI commands without generating sound . . . ." So, you need to insert an instrument plug-in to make sounds. For starters, I suggest inserting Session Drummer (or any other drum soft synth you have) and using the track widgets to make sure the controller is routed to it.

OK. After looking at the user guide, maybe it would help if you explain what you tried based on the tutorials that don't provide enough guidance and what results you got.

Are we allowed to ask if you checked the manual for your hardware or if you checked the manufacturer's website? Are we allowed to ask if you found anything via an internet search? BTW, I looked up both STPAD 16 and Synido TempPAD 16 in the forum and didn't find anyone else who mentioned this piece of hardware. Also, you didn't provide a link to the manual so if someone wanted to try to help could take a look. Maybe someone with a different drum pad might be able to help. Maybe the link on this page will help?

Do you know if there is an additional discount on the AD four-packs (2 ADpacks + 2 MIDIpacks)? Thanks

I researched a method and read up on the theory behind it on the internet a few years before the pandemic. Not sure if newer articles are based on the same material I read. Here's the basic theory I took away: Since the brain is busy turning up the gain for frequencies the ears no longer hear, you can train your brain not to amplify your tinnitus frequency/frequencies by doctoring up music and listening to it. I forgot how the doctoring was done in the method I read about, but IIRC it involved adjacent frequencies that could be detected by the ear. I'll have to see if I saved links to that material. But as I understood it from a psychology of music perspective, it was sort of related to masking, but where the adjacent frequencies (hence "notched") allowed the brain to not try so hard to make up for the one it couldn't detect. I am missing the details and I might have some of this wrong, but it sounded credible to me. At the time I was sitting in on some public lectures given locally by someone from IRCAM who turned me on to some other research regarding tinnitus. I forgot the name of the principal investigator, but I recall another article that talked about at least one other systematic method of distraction that resulted in lowering the distraction of tinnitus. Nothing I read about used electro-shock therapy on the tongue (or any place else).

Works on info panel, not table of contents / index panel on my PC