Jim Fogle

@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.

@AxlBrutality On the one hand your comment is absolutely correct and justified, especially considering Windows 7 supports ends shortly. But there is a BIG difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 no one mentions and that is the difference in support that each operating system was and is provided by Microsoft and the support each operating system provides to hardware and devices. Windows 7 service pack 1 was released February, 2011 with support ending January, 2020 so the lifespan was almost nine years. Each build of Windows 10 receives support for 18 months. Windows 7 has an extensive hardware driver base including the overwhelming majority of audio interfaces built to date. Each build of Windows 10 drops support for hardware devices. Just because Windows 10 presently supports my computer hardware and accessories doesn't guarantee my hardware and accessories will continue to be supported in the near future. The planned obsolescence path Microsoft and hardware manufacturers are following does not inspire my confidence I can purchase a computer or accessory that I can continue to use long term. I'd love to continue this discussion in another thread or by private message so this thread can go back on topic.

As of this date (Jan. 06, 2020) the Reference Guide remains at version 25.09.00. Since 25.09.00 was released Cakewalk by BandLab received two updates with many, many product changes. Will there be an announcement when the Reference Guide is updated to once again align with the product?

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/