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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56wTOgrEzHityGuCToqKnA @Xel Ohh 's YouTube channel should provide tax relief.

I'm one of those people who was using another DAW but went for the CA-2A freebie offer, so I can say. That act later came in very handy, as when BandLab took over and froze new registrations, I already had a Cakewalk ID. I was able to use it to download and install SONAR Home Studio, which came with some nifty add-ons that work great with CbB. Rapture Session was one of them. I could also post to the old forum while we were waiting for this one to come online. I think I was the only person active on there who didn't have a current license for SONAR in some form or other. Snagging CA-2A really worked out in a lot of other ways! CA-2A is registered via Command Center like SONAR and the other Cakewalk FX and VSTi's that required licenses to purchase if you didn't have SPlat. I did the offline license thing in case the old Cakewalk licensing server ever goes down. Good reminder, I need to check and make sure I still have my code around somewhere.

I have the earlier version of those cans, they're my "lightweight" phones. Replacement ear cushions are readily and cheaply available. I recently did mine as the original ones were starting to flake.

Bug fixes. This time there were some features introduced with v12, even for antiques like TrueVerb. These would be the resizable UI (a big deal on the older ones like TrueVerb with tiny buttons) and the new preset browser (kinda meh to me, but still it had to be grafted onto some pretty old code). Adding new stuff like that will induce bugs. Also, BTW, I notice that with 12.7, the Waves Local Server that broke Cakewalk's installation process no longer stays on after I quit the DAW. That could be the only reason for 12.6-12.7 and still be significant, because I'm sure people didn't like having that thing sitting there eating up the resources it did. Unlike, say, the PACE driver or BandLab Assistant, that server app did use enough memory to make a dent in older systems like my laptop. People moan about WUP, but it's not so different from most DAW licensing: you have to pay to upgrade to each major release. If there aren't new features you want, don't fork out. Waves like to sow a bit of FUD about how the previous versions are "unsupported" (which DAW companies do as well), but in my experience, Waves stuff gets very stable by the time they move up a rev. I've yet to experience bugs with any of their plug-ins, updated or not. One of my systems still runs a license for TrueVerb v.10, solid as a rock. If I iever run into trouble, I can always WUP it up.

Orchestools Funimator. A nice sequenced filter/amplitude modulator: https://musictop69.wixsite.com/orchestools/media While you're at the site, also check out their free orchestral instruments.

Ah smaat guy, eh? Fixed, thankyouverymuch. I was using my favorite limiter, Unlimited (by Sonic Anomaly, where did they go?), musta stuck in my mind. But if you know of anyone else who makes a BYOME (or Triad), let me know, 'cause I love the BYOME I got (which is by Unfiltered Audio, at least I think it is). The thing must be monstrous if Glitchmachines supplies factory presets.

I read somewhere that all that happens if you nuke Waves Local Server is that the new Preset Browser doesn't work any more. I haven't tried it, don't remember where I read it. I, too have checked and found Waves Local Server gobbling up resources. I have maybe a dozen of their plug-ins and only regularly use about 3 or 4.

As mentioned in the first thread, the Unfiltered Audio plug-ins are worth a look. At this price, especially BYOME and Triad. If you do glitch or sound design, I consider Unlimited's stuff essential.

Who are currently running a sale where all but a handful of their plug-ins are $29 each. A very good deal seeing as some of the ones included in the sale normally go for hundreds.

The only thing that I can offer is that in many cases I find that shaving mS in driver latency doesn't affect playability of MIDI instruments as much as latency induced by FX PDC very much does. I poke around bus FX first, then on tracks the usual suspects like just about anything iZotope. As someone who composes and plays in that genre, I understand that in many or even most instances, the effect is part of the instrument, or an instrument to itself (long delays and reverb tails), but it may be that it's not a plug-in on your piano that's inducing the gap. It may be something that isn't integral to recording your piano. If you have any unused extra audio takes, Cakewalk streams them from the disk whether they are muted or active, so delete or archive any audio takes that aren't being used. If you want to tune your system, there is currently an excellent thread on optimizing Windows 10 for DAW work here in this forum.

One issue with the Cakewalk plug-ins is that they would need their licensing code stripped before inclusion with CbB. ADHD Leveling Tool is a freeware LA/2A with a great-looking GUI that gives more control over Attack, Release, and Ratio should you want it. Try it, it may ease your craving for CA-2A.

What happens is that it works a treat! You, sir, are one steely-eyed Cakewalk man. I wouldn't call this a "workaround" so much as "a better tool for the job." I have nothing invested in getting Bounce to Track to do what I want, I just want tracks with my vocoder vocals printed.

In this time of "roll your own Platinum," there are plenty of 3rd-party freeware plug-ins that have presets that can load a system. A|A|S Swatches on a Chromophone patch with many layers and long releases can get greedy on sustained chords. I'd love to have a standard test project to play with, test the limits of a system, test the impact of different thread scheduling models, load balancing. While I get Noel's point about "real world" performance being the last word, there can be so many variables with edits, numbers of audio takes, plug-ins, some features like stretching and audio snap used or not. Also the possibility of file corruption.

I've tried both requirements, my tracks play back wonderfully and are audible when I do an Export of the whole project. Still produces silence if I Bounce to Track. The one thing I have yet to try is doing an Export while selecting only the track I want as the source. Not that it should be any different, but the results can't really get worse.

I picked up all the Unfiltered Audio products I wanted in last year's holiday sales, so I'll put in a plug (heh) for their BYOME, which encompasses most (or all) of their other FX, plus adds one of the sexiest UI's I've yet to see. It says something that Glitchmachines created a pile of the factory presets. I don't have Triad, which they describe as being similar to BYOME but with 3-band multiband processing added. If you do any work with glitch/experimental sounds, either of these is a must-have.

Dang, @Pete Brown, your approach to malware defense is so....rational. As opposed to crusty like mine or fear-mongering. ? Thanks for outlining the steps that you, as a savvy home network administrator, take. I've been away from IT as a profession so long that I've barely heard of "drive-by malware." Or Pi-Hole. My home firewallin' is done with DD-WRT-on-yardsale-Linksys. If there were people under voting age at my place, I'd be so fearful I'd probably set up an entirely separate network to prevent my Roku Box getting pwnd. I haven't disabled Defender, just the realtime scanning part of it (which choice is, I believe, more exposed on Pro). I use it ad hoc when I download .EXE's, and I do nothing to stop it from doing its thing during "idle" periods. I'm not against anti-malware software, just the kind that stays running all the time constantly examining my computer activity to make sure I'm not doing something to ruin my system. When I moved my main DAW system from Windows 7 to 10 and Cakewalk playback got noticeably balkier was when I fired up Resource Monitor. It revealed that A. Cakewalk streams every audio file in the project whether or not it's associated with an unmuted clip (unless it's entirely owned by an archived track) and B: Defender was malware-scanning my audio files, plug-ins, and other .dll's every time Cakewalk read them. At the time I had a spinny drive (a pretty fast one, but spinny nonetheless). 6 takes of drums x 4 drum tracks was (at least) 24 audio files filtering through the Defender engine every time I hit Play. I had to figure out how to put a stop to that and figured out how to turn off realtime scanning before I learned about folder and process exclusion. I'll look into Pi-Hole. I use Ad-Block for my browsers (and politely disable it on sites that ask politely), but having something stop those scripts and apps before they get to my trailing edge devices makes perfect sense.

IMO, the issue that needed to be "fixed" is that Waves Local Server keeps running after I exit my DAW. I guess they're trying to close the annoyance gap with iLok PACE. Waiting for support for generic thumb drives to be dropped.

I've been using Vegas Pro for my single-camera videos for years now (meaning about one a year). One thing I notice when browsing NLE's is that some of them crow about how they support multi-camera. I don't quite understand this in the context of an NLE where obviously I can import multiple videos from whatever sources I choose and dissolve and cut all I want. Does it refer to being smart enough to keep different files shot at the same time in sync or something like that?

Controversial, to the point that I seldom recommend it unless people ask, but I disable Defender realtime scanning completely on all my systems. Excluding folders and processes from it as you suggest probably works as well. "Kids, do not try it at home" caveats apply. Background: I have my own anti-malware system in place I call "not clicking on random crap I get via email and on-demand scanning any executables I download." In the 40 years I have been using DOS and Windows, it's never failed me. Having been around that long in the industry, I'm also cantankerous about lowest common denominator precautions. In my IT career I never encountered malware that was as destructive and invasive than the malware solutions I encountered (slow startup, resource hogging, performance degradation, pop-up nags, etc.). I understand that as the user base for Windows has expanded (and to be fair, malware has gotten nastier) it may be considered essential to harden the protection to make it more fool-resistant. I'm a very persistent fool. ? Regarding updates, I've found that the standard control in Home is fine for my amateur home studio.

Beat me to it. I was going to suggest that if you still had the original spinny drive in a laptop that's old enough to have SONAR X2 on it, that you might run some in-depth fault tests on it. My guess is that crumbling drive was the issue. If the update had anything to do with it, it might be that installing it wrote to a section of the drive that had funky clusters but hadn't been used before. Well done, sir.

If those are not "VI synths" what do you consider them to be? "VI ROMplers?"

Excellent! It doesn't get more authoritative than this. I knew about excluding folders from Defender scanning (a tweak I figured out on my own, really good to disable it for your Cakewalk Projects folder and the VST3 and VST2 folders) but I didn't know that you could also exclude processes. One note: If you wish to mess with Group Policy settings (which are absent from Pete's guide) Group Policy Editor comes with Windows 10 Home, but the feature is not enabled by default. Fortunately, it's not difficult to enable it. I've done this, and it worked a treat (although at one point a Windows Update disabled it again so I had to re-enable it). I haven't tried the 3rd-party policy editor they recommend.

Still no go on any of this. Is Cakewalk supposed to be able to handle sidechained FX in this bounce scenario? I've never tried to bounce a synth bass track that is sidechained with a compressor from the kick drum track, but I imagine that it's a pretty common task.

My first suggestion won't address the drive space issue, but really, SPlat at this late date? Cakewalk by BandLab has 3 years of development on it (bug fixes, features, optimization) and is still supported. As for addressing your system drive issue, you may not even need to migrate any programs to another drive. First, move all of your VST2 plug-ins to one of those 1TB drives. Your system will run better anyway. You can easily tell Cakewalk where to find them in Properties @abacab is correct about checking to see what's taking up all that space. A favorite tool of mine is WinDirStat, a utility that analyzes a drive and shows you both in list and graphical form what files and directories are taking up space. One of my systems (on which I have Cakewalk and most of my plug-ins installed) has a 120G system drive and I got it to 25G free with the help of WinDirStat and then Googling the stuff I didn't know about. Windows has built-in utilities for drive cleanup that work pretty well. Disk Cleanup, if you've never run it before, will probably give you back several gigs of space. Access it by right clicking on your drive icon and selecting Properties. Halfway down on the General tab. Then click on Clean Up System Files. By default, Windows 10 keeps the installation files for its updates, so that it can roll back if something goes wrong. Also, check C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Temp and you'll likely find a ton of cruft left over by program installations, etc. Delete anything over a day old that the system will let you. They're temporary files left behind by installers and other sloppy programs that didn't clean up their messes. On my systems, I noticed a folder in Windows called WinSxS, which is where Microsoft stores information about indie rock artists. Kidding, it's where they keep those old versions of the OS. Here's how to clean that up. Another trick is that by default, Windows puts all of your user Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders on the C:\ drive. You can easily move all of those to another drive by right clicking on their names in the left pane of Explorer, selecting Properties, then selecting the Location tab. Move all of those to one of your TB drives. This may free up more gigabytes depending on how much stuff you keep in those folders. The installer shells for some companies like MAGIX and iZotope by default drop copies of their installer files in Downloads, where they just sit taking up space. I just delete them, but moving my Downloads folder to the D:\ drive has in general saved a lot of space on the system drive. Finally, Settings/Apps will give you a list of all the applications installed on your system. I can forget about some of the programs I have installed but never use. Do all that stuff and see if you're still maxed out. I bet you get back at least 5-10% of your drive. Once you've done that, at least download Cakewalk by BandLab and try it. Won't hurt your SPlat installation at all, and you'll still be able to use all the juicy SPlat extra content.

I've been attempting this one track at a time, but it hadn't occurred to me to try going through a bus. I'll try it, thanks!