Jim Fogle

Thank you for posting the update. We are all family (music, BandLab, human, whatever) here and it's nice to keep up with the family. ? I hope your recovery continues to go well and look forward to your renewed participation soon.

@Starise, I'm glad you got SampleTank 4 working. @Matthew Sorrels, I appreciate you taking time to provide your in depth explanations. One last comment about VST3s if I may. I've read several times that VST3 troubleshooting step one should be to try the equivalent VST2. I think there are multiple reasons but it boils down to three (1) the VST3 specification is imprecise, (2) developers have less experience creating VST3 and (3) plugin host developers have less experience interfacing VST3. There normally is no advantage to using a VST3 when a VST2 is available so my first choice is VST2.

Another free, modeled guitar VST2 is Spicy Guitar. The Spicy Guitar website appears to be down but a good description of the VST along with a video link is available here: http://www.vst4you.com/pages/vst instruments/spicy guitar.html Here is a link to the rar archive file which includes both 32 and 64 bit versions of the plugin: Spicy Guitar.rar

When I look at the Casio Privia website I see Casio has 9 Privia models and 8 Privia manuals. Let us know which Privia model you have and we can download the manual that is specific to your model to better answer your questions. https://www.casiomusicgear.com/products/privia-series

@Alan K, I don't see a link to your song.

Realitone's Acoustic Lite is presently on sale for $24.95. Here are some free downloads from Indiginus as well as their $59 US nylon string acoustic , $45 US jangly steel string acoustic and another $59 US steel string acoustic . Each guitar sounds different and the user interface differs from plain to great. @jude77, please forgive me for threading on your post.

@pigstoe, please check for a private message.

The add on here is the same as the trial version on the Celemony website. Plus there is no uninstaller.

@Steve Harder, Thanks for the post. I plan on trying it out. You may want to post a cross post in the Freeware Instruments Thread another forum member started some time back. That way your suggestion will be easier to find as the forum fills up with posts as people will search for the post with the most freebies!

The exception message states the VST3 version of SampleTank 4 experienced the issue. That is why I suggested using a VST2. However, I don't know if SampleTank 4 is available as a VST2 effect. The IKMultimedia site does not say and I don't have the product

No. I don't have a favorite sampler at this time. Your post is actually fairly timely. A few weeks ago there was an interesting thread started by forum user Eve Ripper suggesting Cakewalk by BandLab add sampler capability. The thread generated five pages of posts. That tells me forum users have plenty of sampler interest.

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/