Jim Fogle

The Gigabyte website has a webpage for the motherboard. The webpage indicates the motherboard can accept up to 128 GB of ram. There is also a picture on the motherboard webpage that shows how the sockets are grouped. If you want 100 percent certainty the two sets of DIMMs are compatible, install a hardware identification program like CPU-Z that can tell you everything there is to know about the DIMMs. First run the program with the original set of DIMMs. Swap out the DIMM sets and run the program a second time and then compare the results.

How did you know to look for it? There are other samplers out there. The website indicates the beta 2 VST was just released December 19, 2019.

Is this the website? If so, here is a link to the website: https://decomposer.de/sitala/

It says the SampleTank 4 VST3 has an issue. I have a couple of thoughts. First the exception message indicates SampleTank 4 experiences the issue so you need to get IKMultimedia support involved. Collect the crash dump file and either provide a link to the file (if it's stored online) or attach the file to your IKMultimedia support support email. Look in my signature for the link pointing to a really good thread about how to collect a crash file. Second, VST3s seem to be more likely to crash than their VST counterparts. Try using a SampleTank 4 VST if one is available instead of the VST3. This might keep you going until the VST3 issue is addressed by IKMultimedia. Third, since the VST3 crashes in Cakewalk by BandLab I would also open a support ticket with Cakewalk by BandLab support. Cakewalk by BandLab developer Noel Borthwick has stated multiple times the development team will work with software developers to resolve issues.

Silly question perhaps but did you use the IKMultimedia Authorization Manager to register and activate the program? https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/authorizationmanager//

Office supply stores and vendors use to have locking tube sleeves for ring binders and hole fortifiers for the pages. A locking tube sleeve was placed onto one of the two rings while the rings were open. So a three ring binder would need three locking sleeves. To work properly the tube length was almost the same length as half a ring. When the rings were closed the user slid the sleeve over the ring joint covering the exposed top half of the ring preventing the pages from getting caught in the ring gap. Over time page holes deteriorate. When that happens, or to prevent it from happening in the first place, you attached vinyl or cloth hole fortifiers with an adhesive back to the paper around the hole. If a page hole was in really bad shape you placed a fortifier on both sides of the page. After a few years the glue dried out and the fortifier separated from the page. I still have a three hole punch capable of easily punching through 50 sheets. It can punch 100 sheets but I don't think I have the strength to press that hard on the handle. I love manuals as I made my living either using or writing them.

I remember Meng mentioning BandLab Technology has a new-in-box VS-700 remaining from the days his music store was a Cakewalk distributor. I believe Meng said then he hoped the driver can be updated for Windows 10. However, I would be surprised to know he initiated a conversation with Roland to get it done as I assume such a conversation would be low on a "nice to do" list.

Back in the seventies the US Air Force handled manual changes with change pages. Manuals were stored in manual binders. The binders had three circular tubes on the bottom cover, rods with a sliding lock mechanism on the top cover and a hard back connecting the top and bottom. Pages were three hole. The top sheet was always a revision sheet listing every revision made to a manual since the initial publication. Revisions were dated and labeled "A", "B", "C" and so forth. Pages were numeric with revision data added as needed. Pages were removed and replaced as they were revised. If a page needed to be inserted between two pages the new page was assigned the preceding page number with a small "a", "b", "c" and so on. The system worked real well as the pages were unbound and every change was transparent to the end user but it did require diligence and time to remain effective. While great in the "old days" I can't envision a similar system working now as the old system was labor intensive.

Will this work? ?

Does the guitar sound good to you while you're playing it? When you sit in a certain position (guitar tight against you, ear again the body, while sitting up straight as examples) does the guitar sound better than when you sit in a different way? Does the guitar sound better if you're facing an open doorway, in a big room versus a small room? My point is, get yourself and the guitar in a position where it sounds good to you. Then place your microphone close to your ear or over and in front of your head pointing toward the guitar so the microphone will pick up what you hear.

It is a good habit to bounce midi to audio when you're putting the finishing steps on a project. The midi soft synth may not be available but the original midi track and bounced audio still will be available.

Thanks to the BandLab Technologies team and Meng for keeping Cakewalk alive and the Cakewalk development team together.

What would be really nice would be to enable letting the user grab and hold the aim assist position marker to "slide" and reposition the position marker wherever the user desires on the aim assist line. That way the aim assist position marker can be positioned within the user's direct line of sight and moved as the user's attention shifts.

I found a short article that provides an answer to the question, "Why engineers prefer analog VU meters". https://www.hoytmeter.com/news-events/sound-engineers-prefer-analog-vu-meters-recording-studios/

My personal choice would be to have a collection of four or eight meters in a module with the possibility of adding more than one module. In the track view they could be used for gain staging and in the console view across track, buss or main outputs. On a different note, wouldn't it be neat to have a meter bridge inline between your computer audio out port and your audio interface or audio mains input?

@Warner, another good resource for comparing tools is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_digital_audio_editors On another note, composition doesn't get any quicker than ChordPulse: http://www.chordpulse.com/

I never exceeded the capabilities of the Music Creator consumer DAW formerly offered by Cakewalk. The products were extremely stable and worked with audio, groove clips, song construction sets and midi. The earlier products shipped with a printed manual that explained how to set up the DAW and its capabilities in easy to understand language. The manual offered tutorials that were instructive and easy to follow. Some audio content was included to learn and practice on. My point is, Cakewalk use to know how to educate a beginner new to audio production. I believe Cakewalk has either lost that knowledge or that goal is far down the "to do" list. My question is what can forum members do to fill that gap and is there a desire to do so?

I just received an e-mail from the Midi Manufacturers Association or MMA announcing that forum member @Craig Anderton has accepted the position of Vice President of Public Relations. Congratulations Craig! The announcement is not up on the association's website yet: https://www.midi.org/

One example, I want to record myself. Prior to recording I mentally do a count-in while tapping the requested "tap tempo" button. The tempo switches from the 120 bpm default to my "tapped" count-in tempo of 102.37 bpm. I'm now ready to record. The Transport Module has three metronome buttons just to the right of the tempo window. The buttons turn on the metronome during playback, metronome during record and opens the metronome settings window. Perhaps one of those buttons can perform double duty as a tap tempo button.

What an excellent production. Great vocals, great instrumentation, great arrangement, great mix. It "feels" right.

@pwalpwal. I get what you're saying and agree more than you might think. I get aggravated almost anytime someone evangelizes a thought and did not suggest that method of attracting new users, But perhaps you misunderstood my post . @Joe Dun restated my thought much better than I possibly can. @Francois van der Merwe's comment is very interesting. I wonder how many forum members have looked at the online DAW. I admit I haven't but not for the reason many suspect. The online DAW requires the user to install and use Google Chrome and I don't use Chrome. I've tried alternate browsers that rely on Chrome technology but the BandLab.com website rejects them. However, I've used the online mixer available on another website and was happily surprised at the ease of use.

Welcome to the forum! I recognize your name as I subscribe to Bedroom Producer. I hope you'll often visit the forum.

@Tezza, Excellent post. I didn't see anything you wrote that I disagree with. The key point for me is we (forum members, DAW users and music lovers) HAVE to come up with solutions that will attract new people to the business or hobby. @chuckebaby, We have disagreed, I just can't remember when the last time was.

The idea is simple, you're new to computer based audio production so how do you get started? I'm proposing this thread as the go to thread to help beginners get started in this hobby. If you've found a video, downloadable pdf file, online course or other content suitable for an absolute beginner with no prior experience in the field of audio production then please place your links here. I'll begin by placing links to some content I'm aware of. Website: Play With Your Music http://www.playwithyourmusic.org/ Online Classes: The Technology of Music Production https://www.coursera.org/learn/technology-of-music-production? The Art of Music Production https://www.coursera.org/learn/producing-music These two online classes can be audited for FREE. YouTube Video Series: Mixing Fundamentals https://youtu.be/ydbkZ1ZWQGM

@Cookie Jarvis, I agree with you 100%. Audio production is not easy, simple or easy to learn. However a beginner is going to need more than the will to learn. They will also need a roadmap to follow, some direction. If someone wants to have a successful learning experience the learning experience needs to have structure; a starting point, middle and end. That starting point will depend somewhat on where each beginners interest lies. For example someone interested in recording performances will have different needs than someone wanting to create using loops. Yet both will need to learn about mixing and distribution. The Morten Saether "Getting Started" thread with links to various videos is a good start assuming you are familiar with audio production or perhaps live sound but if you have no background in audio production even those videos are a deep dive because you see what Cakewalk by BandLab can do but you'll have little or no idea what needs to be done.