Starship Krupa

Many of my favorite songs by artists are accompanied on their albums by less stellar tracks (post Pet Sounds Beach Boys were especially guilty of this, Surf's Up I'm listening to you, or about 2/3 of you, the rest is forgettable or downright bad), so I guess we're rewarding consistency over individual songs. That said, The Cure's Disintegration, Elliott Smith's XO, and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and The Beatles' Revolver contain my favorite songs by those artists and are otherwise solid. AIR's Moon Safari, not a less-than-excellent track on it, but since "Once Upon a Time" came out on Pocket Symphony, I can't call it my favorite. Favorite to listen to end-to-end? Not that the rest of Pocket Symphony is substandard, it doesn't rise to the heights of anything on Moon Safari. Maybe The Doors. Except that "Back Door Man" is a skipper....

??? Bandcamp has pirate downloads of major label artists? How is that even possible? I'd think that algorithms would sniff that out in a heartbeat. I'd think that Bandcamp would be ferocious about policing that sort of thing, this isn't 2000 and Bandcamp isn't Napster.

This. I can't remember a Waves plug-in even crashing in my many years of using their freebies, much less having a repeatable bug. Another reason is when older plug-ins have been given UI facelifts. Some of the tried-and-true ones like Renaissance Vox and SuperTap have gotten makeovers so that the "party like it's 2002" 3-D fake metallic look is left behind. Although SuperTap is probably the most advanced multi-tap delay that doesn't come from MeldaProduction, It's never made it into my projects due to the yoogly UI. I feel shallow admitting this, but dated UI's do make me less likely to use a plug-in. I'd been neglecting Addictive Drums 2 for years before 2.5 introduced the new, modern UI, then suddenly it piqued my interest. I wish looks didn't matter, but they do. Best electric guitar I've ever tried is the Parker Fly, and despite the fact that used ones are now becoming affordable, I just can't take that look. There are two types of UI that I find engaging: either the flat look that's currently considered "modern" or the very skeuomorphic design like T-RackS. My least favorite is the uncanny valley 3-D faux brushed aluminum, it seems as outdated to me as simulated woodgrain on small appliances. I've never needed my computer programs to resemble imaginary physical objects, but if the goal is to look like well-crafted rack mount gear, nobody does that better than IK Multimedia (IMO). Maybe UAD, but I can't afford UAD's products. IK don't put fake "wear marks" on the TRackS panels, they have dabbled in non-functional screws but have phased those out. If IK ever decide to go flat, it will be a sad day for me. As Waves phase UI updates in, I may WUP some of my oldies. I imagine that TrueVerb will end up looking like the newer SuperTap.

"Glitches" seem so good for business that I've been skeptical that they were unintentional. Especially when the timing seems a bit too right and especially when they go on for a week or more. Like how some iZotope biggies seemed to come right before the end of a fiscal year, and also right around the time they merged with Native. Remember how brainworx was shoveling vouchers and licenses out the door right before they merged into the same conglomerate? How about IK Multimedia's week long glitch not long after the introduction of T-RackS 6? The licenses that go out this way usually go to people who wouldn't have obtained the product otherwise, which costs the company nothing. I've never obtained anything through a glitch or insane virtual freebie that I would have bought at the regular discounted price. Except maaaaaybe some of the Unfiltered Audio processors from PA. I sure wouldn't have most of their catalog, as I now do. I have seen them blow up multiple forums, where the name of the product is put in a topic title and then stays near the top for a week. "People seem to buy a lot of audio software based on what they read in forums. How can we get the name of our product in a topic title and keep that at the top? How do we get them to keep discussing our product, keep our brand in front of them when so few read print magazines these days?" "I know a way we can do it for free. We let a few licenses go out for the price of our processing overhead and then claim it's a clerical error. It's a 'mistake,' so it won't ***** the users who paid the normal price, and we don't run the risk of devaluing the software." This would be a stealth way to get the effect that the juicier Plugin Boutique BOGO's (used to) have: the product's name stays on the front page for a month, a huge buzz is created, you get the registration info of a bunch of deal chasers who weren't going to buy it at regular price anyway, some of these people might be surprised at the quality and recommend it to others, they might even pay to upgrade when the time comes (I've done both). How much does PB pay vendors for BOGO licenses? I don't know, but if it's anything, it can't be much. Maybe even people who juuuuust missed the deal will be told by others that the normally discounted price is still a great deal. I was psyched about getting the entire iZotope Music Production Suite 5.5 for $150 I couldn't shut up about it. And I might even pay to upgrade it a few revisions down the road. How many weeks has this topic right here been bobbing around? Many upsides, and the downside is that you'll miss some normal price sales to people who were happy waiting. <rant> For a vendor to act all butthurt as if being lucky/savvy enough to wangle a free license for their $60 product is tantamount to piracy is unwise. The only way they "lose" any cash is when someone who would have bought at normal price ends up not doing so. I'd imagine that the percentage of people who glitched into this full version only Kontakt instrument who already wanted it but were saving up to be able to afford the $60 is....not significant. For the ethical people who obey your admonition to stop using the glitched license, your brand is now associated with a tinge of guilt. For most of the rest of us, we'll think that blaming your mistakes (only create codes that work for a SINGLE user, duh) on a vendor or even the end user is kinda spineless. Instead your brand could remind them of how slick and savvy they felt when they grabbed their license. Sheepishly welcome the new users, come out with a new product that they'll buy based on whether they liked the one they got for free, revamp the UI and sell them an upgrade, whatever. Leverage it. Don't treat them like thieves. </rant>

Maybe we could get that zMods guy to do a new skin for it.🤔

This is great! Thanks for making it.

From your post it looks like it's confined to Kontakt and the Aria Player. You mention no other virtual instruments. My first question is whether you're using your synths as "Simple Instrument Tracks" or as split Synth and MIDI tracks. By "the Cakewalk level slider," do you mean the audio level slider on the channel strip in Console View? That should never have any effect on a virtual instrument's own master volume control (or any other control internal to the synth). I have had it happen that Kontakt's internal volume control resets itself upon rewind and start. The solution to that was a setting within Kontakt itself.

That is a drag, TDR Nova is a very popular plug-in and I'm surprised that you didn't get it to work.

I believe that this service is already offered by a number of people. The level of its success would answer the question of how needed it is. I think I've seen a couple of the YouTube guys, maybe Robert McLellan and Mike "Creative Sauce," offer 1-on-1 tutoring. I agree that some people learn better when they're able to ask for clarification on topics they might be struggling to figure out, also to present their own individual scenarios to the instructor.

While I'd like to be able to change the colors in SampleTank, at this point I'm just psyched that they're even doing maintenance work on it. Maybe the ability to change UI colors will come with ST 5, whenever that comes out.

You are correct. I set up a new DAW computer for a friend, and rather than have him give me his email password so that I could respond to the myriad account confirmation messages, I made him a new Proton Mail account for the primary purpose of setting up accounts at all of the different companies whose free software I'd be installing. First account was BandLab, so I could install CbB. Same problem you had. Proton Mail informed me, though, that due to past abuse, they require an extra step of new account verification before you can start receiving and replying to 3rd-party account verification messages. I don't remember what it was, maybe verification via another existing email address, but whatever it was, it worked.

Not a big Next user, but the last time I tried it, it allowed me to save and load projects.

They are included with both CbB and Sonar. With CbB all you need to do is watch the video in the post immediately prior to yours and follow the instructions.

ST4 still has the known bug that loading and unloading too many presets in one session will crash it. This is in any DAW or the standalone. It's a real pain in the a55 when you want to audition a lot of different presets. Been reported many times on the IK Multimedia forum with no solution offered.

Mike has MANY free highly useful and instructive videos about Cakewalk on his channel. He also has a more in-depth course you can buy, and he (horrors!) mentions this fact briefly in his videos. He also pitches a music distribution service. This doesn't make his free videos any less useful. We all have to eat. There are MANY other YouTube channels that feature instruction in how to use Cakewalk. There is a list of them in the Tutorials section of this forum.

Right click in the Track Header area on the left side of Track View and select "Insert Instrument" from the resulting context menu. Be sure to check out the Bandcamp page in my sig as well as my YouTube channel. Don't forget to like and subscribe.🙄

I'll mention here that AD2 actually has been updated recently, with not only a new look to the UI, but new tools for creating and modifying beats. The new version is 2.6 and is a free update for all owners of AD2 licenses. They created a TON of good will with that update, and a TON of new interest in the product.

But since it's a plug-in, you're free to use as many instances as your system can handle. One of the advantages that plugins have over hardware.

It seems that the Cakewalk VST scanner has incorrectly identified the plug-ins. This can happen, although it happens very infrequently. My suggestion is that you open Preferences and in File/VST Settings, force a complete re-scan.

I don't know what a "vts scan box" is, so you need to give more information on that. Missing plug-ins is usually a matter of going into Preferences/Files/VST Settings and making sure that the path to the folder where you have installed your VST plug-ins is listed. In my case, my VST2 plug-ins are in S:\VST, so I have that set in Preferences. The file location for VST3 plug-ins is usually already set in Sonar because VST3's have a canonical location they all install to (C\Program Files\Common Files\VST3). Check those preferences settings. Uninstalling CbB shouldn't delete any plug-ins other than the ones that come with CbB, and those all come with Sonar as well. The only exception I can think of would be if you had your VST2's installed to a subfolder of the Cakewalk folder.

Good lord, what a nightmare, on multiple levels. In the debate about whether it's possible for one DAW to sound different from another, I've always been focused on the playback and rendering side of things. I've always taken it on deep faith that any raw recorded audio would be identical. After all, the DAW "only" has the job of taking in the zeroes and ones from the driver and putting them, with no changes, into files. Now I'm reading here that it is at least possible for DAW A to interact with an ASIO driver in such a way that audio recordings are mangled, while DAW B may not have that issue? That's nightmare fuel given how PC's are very complex systems whose parts (usually the drivers) often interact with each other in unexpected ways. I've had it happen that swapping out my video card miraculously cured my audio dropout issues. What, exactly was the issue, and what, exactly, was the fix, I wonder. And I don't mean top-level "Focusrite fixed their driver," I mean "what went wrong with the driver that Ableton was able to deal with it and Sonar wasn't?" and "is the way that Ableton and Sonar talk to the driver that different?" Time to go take the anti-anxiety meds....

I get the impression that they're not so interested in legacy support in general.

https://gooeyaudio.com/plugins/visage/ "Visage is a stereo fattener and pan sculpter (sic)" Haven't tried it, but it looks like it might be useful for people like me who like to mess with the spatial image.

I've used Dells for music production because they are built like tanks and available at low prices on the used (and even free) market. The caveats with them are that they are built to be workhorse business machines, and as such, the BIOSes are pretty locked down. Also they are notorious for LatencyMon reporting a lot of action with the driver ACPI.sys. This is true for my current Dell laptop, but it manages to handle DAW work without crackles and dropouts, so who knows. Depending on how much you have to spend, there are companies that make laptops specifically for music production. Lenovo has a page on their site with laptops they recommend for music production, so they're at least aware of that use of their products. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/workstation-laptop-for-music-production/

Luiz, you are in the right place, but unfortunately only one person in this forum has posted a ProChannel preset for download. The other topics are about various things, mostly not ProChannel presets. I don't know how to help.