Starship Krupa

By the time NuSonar came out, there were many obsolete color settings, ones that had no effect on the program. I had hoped that disabling color settings was only so the deprecated settings would be deleted and then we could go back to setting grid line colors. The only color settings that really affect my being able to use the program are the beat and measure grid lines and Aim Assist. The rest is just aesthetics. Not that aesthetics aren't important. I really miss having the Browser text in blue or green or orange or whatever. The Mercury Classic color scheme has blue text in the Browser, so I know that it's still possible to do.

To my memory, the plug-ins that were supplied with Cakewalk by BandLab were the Sonitus fx Suite (Compressor, Delay, Eq, Gate, Modulator, Multiband Compressor, Phaser, Reverb, Surround, SurroundComp, Wahwah) Studio Instruments Suite (Drums, Strings, Electric Piano), and the Classic Creative Suite (AliasFactor, Chorus/Flanger, Classic Phaser, Compressor/Gate, HF Exciter, Modfilter, Para Q, Tempo Delay). The Studio Instruments are VST2, all others are DXi, which functions as a pretty good DAW lock, as not many programs still support DXi. Vegas Pro and REAPER are the only ones I know of. Cakewalk Sonar added Session Drummer, which is VST2, and XSampler, which is VST3 and DAW-locked. When NuSonar came out, I made a new skin for Session Drummer to make it look like the Dark color scheme. Flat rather than the "brushed aluminum" look. Downloadable from the link in my sig. From what I can tell by following the forum and reading magazine articles over the years, the plug-ins that people would most like to see get an update are the Sonitus fx Suite. While their UI's look dated (they are over 25 years old now), they still sound great and have some useful features. I'd say they could stand a facelift to change the color scheme to something more subdued and for sure in these times of varying monitor resolutions, resizable. A switch to VST3 would be nice. One bottom line for me with using a DAW's stock (bundled) plug-ins is that I prefer not to use DAW-locked processors. I also do audio work in other programs, such as Vegas Pro, and want to be able to use the same tools in all of the programs I use that host audio plug-ins. The other ones that I can think of that only need to have their licensing mechanisms sorted out are the Linear Phase EQ and Multiband Compressor and CA/2A Compressor. These were part of the SPlat suite and were also sold separately. They look up to date and were well regarded back when they were available. The CA/2A algorithm lives on as a ProChannel module. One issue I can think of: if Sonar is to remain only available with a BandLab membership, if the user lets the BandLab membership lapse, the company may want to have a mechanism so that the plug-ins go into demo mode along with the DAW.

So it works in WASAPI mode, but when you try to switch to ASIO, the POD vanishes. Yet Cantabile does show the POD when it is configured to use ASIO. This is unusual. I don't know that I can remember someone having this problem. Usually if one program can run the interface in audio, they all can. Interested to see what the solution turns out to be.

It's possible for an effect plug-in to introduce excessive latency. Plug-ins inserted on buses can especially be an issue in this way. Try turning off all FX (you can easily do this by clicking the "FX" button in the Mix Module in Control Bar). If that fixes it, you can turn FX back on and either figure out which effect is introducing so much latency, or disable plug-in delay compensation by clicking the "PDC" button in the same Mix Module.

At this time, ASIO isn't something that Windows "uses." It's a proprietary technology that Microsoft are working on integrating into Windows, but haven't yet done so. That said, if you can play sounds through the POD Go, Windows is at least recognizing it as a class-compliant audio device, which means that it should be showing up in Sonar as an available WASAPI device. Do you have other audio software that uses ASIO that you can run to see whether the POD is recognized by it? That would help avoid finger pointing when trying to get help from Line 6. Cantabile Lite is one freebie that you could try.

Don't forget: 3. BandLab offer the Cakewalk by BandLab version of SONAR for free, and it has more than 10 years of improvements over SONAR X1 in the form of features and bug fixes. 4. BandLab also offer the current up-to-date and supported Sonar as part of BandLab membership.

That was a list of top plugin brands who offer loss leaders for free. To my knowledge, Fab Filter do not, although they are highly regarded. I think you didn't get what I was trying to say, which was that there are enough free plug-ins available that bundled plug-ins are less of a factor than they once were. I'm a particularly hard sell on plug-ins, I have the iZotope Music Production Suite and the MeldaProduction MComplete bundle. I even pass on most freebies that come out. That's why I mentioned tiered pricing: it worked in the past for Cakewalk customers who weren't interested in the boatload of plugins that came with SONAR Platinum. I do believe that any DAW in today's market should come with a set of at least the bread-and-butter mixing and modulation FX. A user who is new to DAW's (and most users are going to fit that description, as switching DAW's isn't that common) shouldn't have to bring their own chorus or EQ. All that said, it's ultimately impossible to say if the bundling of plug-ins would influence my decision without first seeing what plug-ins were bundled. For instance, a phrase sampler is one type of plug-in that I still don't have covered to my satisfaction. Sonar now has an integrated sampler, but it's not the type I use most. So if this imaginary plug-in laden Sonar included an integrated phrase sampler, that would influence a purchase decision. Compressor, EQ, chorus, reverb, not so much.

It probably depends on the plug-ins. One possibility that occurs to me is a return to the tiered pricing that SONAR had, where one could obtain SONAR Professional at a lower price and with fewer bundled plug-ins. The marketplace has changed in the 7 years since the first BandLab release of Cakewalk. Even if one were to stick entirely to free loss-leaders offered by name brand commercial developers (NI, iZotope. Melda, Kilohearts, brainworx), it's possible to equip a DAW very well for no extra money at all.

It used to come with SPlat, are SPlat licenses transferable? If used SPlat licenses are available, there's a TON of great bundled stuff in that suite. Addictive Drums 2, Z3ta, all manner of goodies.

The phrase sampler is unfortunately one category of utility VSTi that is still underserved. There was one called Sitala for a while, but they turned it into payware. At the moment, for my phrase sampling needs I use TX16Wx. Also, it would be helpful to know which ones you've tried that annoy you.

And I forgot to mention: all are free licensed. And speaking of Komplete Start, when I went to that link I noticed a whole bunch of stuff that was added to Kontakt 8 Player that I didn't know about, like Chords Tool, Phrases Tool, and an arpeggiator. After a somewhat weak start, Native have turned Kontakt Player into a must-have. Of course, many would argue that full Kontakt is a must-have, but I've never seen the need, and Kontakt Player was off-putting when I first tried it (in order to use Sennheiser DrumMic'a). It comes with a heaping helping of useful instruments, and now these tools. Music software companies have really embraced the loss-leader concept in the past decade.

Keep in mind what others have said about enabling external sidechain in whatever gate you're using. For whatever reasons, most gates I've seen don't do so by default.

https://kilohearts.com/products/kilohearts_essentials https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeFxBundle https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ https://www.izotope.com/en/products/free-audio-plug-ins.html https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/pa_free_bundle.html Get those and your new toy box will runneth over. If that's still not enough, check https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/5229-freeware-instruments-thread/ And https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/5064-favorite-freeware-fx-thread/

I snagged a Stutter Edit 2 license during one of iZotope's discounts. It's incredibly deep and capable, so much so that I've so far not used it as much as I thought I would. Even after working my way through a Producertech course, I still don't feel like I have a handle on it. Anyway, yeah, just about any gate with a sidechain input can do what you did in your audio example. It's just a matter of getting the settings right. The level coming from the send is important, as are the various attack, release, hold, and so on settings in the gate itself. It looks like the Sonitus gate works pretty well with minimum twiddling, which I guess isn't surprising for a stock plug-in. My number one favorite powerful gate is Unfiltered Audio G8 (don't let the price tag fool you, it's the most capable gate I've ever seen), which is also available for free in the Computer Music Magazine plug-in suite. There's some feature or other that the G8CM version lacks, but it's one that I never use. I bought a license for the "full" version mostly because I wanted the developers to be compensated for making such a great processor.

Wisely put. In creating his music, Avicii tried and used a variety of synthesizers. If Z3TA+2 had not been available, he would have used something else. As you seek to emulate your hero, one of the possible tools that you might use is not available, but many more are available, including ones that weren't available to him. All you can do is do as he would have done if this particular tool had not been available to him: find other tools and move forward.

They fulfill my desire to have emulations of classic hardware on hand. Their UI's are so pretty. Also, not mentioned often but important to me is that most of them can switch into M/S mode. It was actually their Fairchild 670 emulation that first lit my mid-side lightbulb. One of the presets is for master widening, and it sounds amazing, so I puzzled out how mid-side compression could enhance width. Since then, I've become very fond of mid-side processing in general.

Wow, glad to see some activity with the Focusrite Collective after such a long period of none.

Oh that T RackS installer. If you don't have T Racks MAX you are blessed with demo (unregistered) versions of every plug-in you don't already own. If you delete them, the next time you get a T RackS license you'll have to run the installer all over again, at which time they'll all be back. So instead of deleting the demo versions, I created a T RackS bullpen folder and move them to it. If I get a license for one of them, I copy it back to the VST3 folder and register it.

I guess you've already figured out: the tone control is a lowpass filter. You're only going to notice its effect when there's enough high frequency information to "miss." Round wound strings are WAY brighter than flat wounds, and what's coming from that bridge pickup also has more high-end frequency content.

It's now become something to consider when deciding whether to buy (or keep in the case of freebies) software: how much crap does the installer shovel vs. the thing I actually want to use? I don't mind installing installation managers, but I won't allow services that aren't needed by the plug-in.

+1 I usually avoid "forum no votes" on feature requests, but the clip context menu is already HUGE.

I was puzzled at first about what you were referring to in the "track view." Then I realized you were talking about the pair of console strips that by default appear to the left of Track View. That box to the left of the Track View has its own name, Inspector. I believe you're talking about Inspector. It's already possible to choose which console strip modules to display in Inspector, and a cool thing about it is that this setting can be different between Console and Inspector. Click on the Display button at the lower left of Inspector and you'll see the options, which include the ability to disable module resizing.: As you see, you can remove Sends and ProChannel, per your request, along with everything else except the track name. Unfortunately no matter what other modules you remove, FX Rack is still limited in the number of FX it can display, So there's your feature request: allow the FX Rack to show as many FX as space permits.

There's an aspect of this that still constitutes a feature request: there should be a way to also suppress display of notes that are in muted lanes, not just muted clips. It's easier to mute an entire lane than it is to mute all of the individual clips in a lane.

Word of caution: the installer includes the "Universal Audio Helper Service," which is set to start automatically. I disabled it and the plug-in is still functional. And it is a pretty nice 1176 clone. I think at the moment, I have at least 5 services set to manual start that were originally installed by some plug-in manufacturer or other and invariably set to automatic start. Native Instruments (2X), Arturia, UA, Antares, Softube. Two more that I allow to run, the PACE service and Waves Local Server. None of the disabled services prevent the associated plug-ins from working, although most of the companies' installer programs will complain if they're not running. This seems silly to me. There are plenty of services on my systems that the programs that need them start on demand.

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