Jim Fogle

@sarmad, Thanks for taking time to respond to my questions and comments. Please explain how you would like for Cakewalk by BandLab to handle external fx plugins. Shouldn't your interface handle external hardware routing?

It's a no for me. I think it would be hard to get everyone to come to a consensus agreement about how the feature should work, what the feature is and why it's needed.

I looked back at the webpage and saw this note was added: That's too bad. The quantity of choices to choose from dropped from about 16 to 6. The selection I chose, Band On Demand: Country Kit # 2, is one of the choices removed.

The R8 drum pads are internal sample triggers., the keystrokes are not intended to be exported outside the R8. You assign drum patches to each pad and can then play the pads in real time during R8 track playback. I believe you can also record keystrokes to create a drum sequence. There use to be a Zoom Yahoo music group and a Zoom user forum. I was the owner and moderator of the Zoom Yahoo Music Group. I deleted the group because of a lack of activity. The Zoom user forum moved to Facebook at the beginning of 2020.

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@Robert Bone, one solution might be the use to modify the existing guitar audio through a plugin that uses impulse responses to modify the audio into 12 string audio. Check out this discussion: You might also want to check out @msmcleod's post on using IR:

I watched the video. While watching the video a number of questions came to my mind. I hope you'll share your thoughts with me and clarify your suggestion. It appears Logic Pro is capturing midi in the video, please correct me if I'm incorrect. Does the feature capture audio when the input is audio? Is the DAW going to record in the background every time the play button is hit and the feature is enabled? Do you want the feature to be enabled and disabled with a transport button? Aren't you afraid the feature will mess with storage access by recording while the user is in the process of setting up a sampler or another feature that requires storage access? What's to remind you when the feature is enabled or disabled?

@msmcleod, Thanks for your initial post. The demonstration and explanation really helped me to understand how guitar IR pulses can be used. I just couldn't wrap the idea around my head. Now it makes sense. Great tool to have in the musical toolbox.

@Steev, which one didn't work out as expected, installing the PRE.sys into the Alvarez or getting married ❔ (running for cover!)

@Bill Phillips & @User 905133, Again, I apologize. I understand using an impulse response to recreate a space but I am not familiar with using an IR to recreate the sound of an instrument. Thank you for your responses. I missed @msmcleod post first go around so this post didn't make sense to me. After checking out Mike's post, this post makes much better sense.

@Bill Phillips, Excuse my questions but I've never heard of impulse responses (IR) used in thae manner your describing so I'm trying to better understand your process. So you're using the impulses to help your electric guitar sound like an acoustic or to make one acoustic brand sound like a Martin? What plugin are you using the impulses in?

Misha, Have you checked your profile notification settings? Go to Profile > Settings > Notification Settings. Sometimes these change if the forum application is updated.

Many laptops have touchscreen in addition to a keyboard. Even with a 13 inch to 17 inch screen, some of the items have a small focus area.

I think having a translate button on the reply window menu is a great way to indicate this forum welcomes all users of Cakewalk by Bandlab and BandLab to the forum. The Google Translate webpage settings recognize the computer operating system keyboard selection and takes an educated guess of text language pasted into the translate box. It is also possible to use an intermediate translation if needed.

A user's idea of how Windows looks depends on the Windows theme and display settings you set the operating system to use. You can make Windows 10 look like Windows 7 or earlier if you desire.

Google Translate is also a webpage. I envisioned my suggestion as a link that opens a new webpage to the Google Translate webpage

The MIDI 1.0 specification was adapted in 1983. Initially, the MIDI 1.0 specification was only available to the public for a $60 US fee. The Midi Manufacturers Association or MMA charged the fee to cover the cost of duplicating, collating and mailing the specification. In 2016 the MMA began providing the MIDI 1.0 specification as a downloadable pdf file . The fee was finally dropped. This time the MIDI 2.0 specification was released in January, 2020 and is available to members as a 4.6 MB zip file download one month later. Membership is free to anyone with an email address. That's progress! To me the interesting information right now is not that the specification is available as a download but that a committee is actively working on the transport specification for MIDI 2.0 data packets over USB. The USB cable connection is the most common method of carrying MIDI between devices. Getting that specification finalized and published will open the door for both MIDI 1 and MIDI 2 data messages to be moved between devices.

@locrian, why knock it? Have you tried it?

Bakers, What songs made it to the "made with Cakewalk" NAMM 2020 playlist?

@craigb I've heard some people dispute that and mention they think "Revolution #9" is the best Beatles song. Me, I think "Hey Bulldog" is an under rated treasure.

Purrfect Audio is a good solution. Even though audio computers are kind of rare, several other solutions exist. What I find unique are the combination of an embedded 64 bit Windows operating system and integrated audio and midi interface. In my opinion I believe having a built-in operating system and interface minimizes the need for driver and operating system updates which should make for a more stable system than adapting a general purpose computer for audio use

https://www.hofner.com/the-beatles-game.html

If you're interested, drum triggers are pretty easy to make. Here is a recent article that's all about drum triggers: https://drummagazine.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-drum-triggers-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ Here is a step-by-step construction guide that suggests you can build a trigger for less than $5 US in parts: https://drummagazine.com/do-it-yourself-drum-triggers/ There are also plenty of how to videos on YouTube. Of course you can buy aftermarket triggers to retrofit acoustic drums instead of making your own. Many drummers are picky, picky, picky about their drums and may feel uncomfortable with you taping triggers to their drums. One way around that is to mount several triggers to several drum heads. Then you can offer to provide your drum heads for the recording session so both the acoustic and midi can be captured.

@Tezza, Like you I approach guitar VSTi from a guitar player viewpoint more than a keyboard player viewpoint so I'm gathering a lot of important information from your observations. Many people suggest you need to think like an instrument "x" player to get a Instrument "x" VSTi to sound authentic. My guess is many VSTi designers do not play the instrument they design so when an instrument "x" player tries to use the VSTi it is more difficult to use than it needs to be. There are multiple reasons why I'm so interested in guitar VSTi. I have no interest in recording my guitar playing. I live in a very noisy area and I'm a terrible musician! But I understand music from a guitar perspective and most popular music has one or more guitar tracks. I like working with midi so guitar VSTi makes sense for me.

Per Google Translate Milton said: Firefox offers multiple translate plugin extensions. I downloaded the recommended extension but haven't tried it yet. The recommended extension automatically sends highlighted text to Google Translate. Look close and be careful as a few of the extensions have negative reviews.