Starship Krupa

I forgot, Waveform is another DAW that has a Linux version. Also a free version. As a strategy, I would first try one of the DAW's that also has Windows and Mac versions, because then if the Linux thing doesn't pan out, I wouldn't have sunk anything (money, time) into a DAW that I wouldn't be able to continue with on a commercial platform. Not to be defeatist, but it is likely that REAPER, Studio One, Waveform and Mixbus are more likely to have features that the industry has accepted as standard.

Agreed. There used to be an HTML code you could add to web pages to tell the various search engines not to spider them. I wonder if this is still true.

That sure changed in a hurry. You can now get a perpetual license for Studio One Pro along with a year's subscription to Studio One+ for $179. That puts it even lower than Logic Pro.

No.

This is a must-have. One of the most amazing sound warpers I've ever heard, and I have the entire collection of delays from both Glitchmachines, Unfiltered Audio, and Freakshow Industries.

I just open Services and disable the ones that don't do anything constructive. If I'm not sure, I set their startup to manual. Native Instruments also installs a whole program whose function is to configure their hardware. I uninstall that and it takes the NIHardware service out. Why don't they just include it among the other programs, instruments and plug-ins in the Native Access app and let people install it if they need it? So then if someone buys a piece of their hardware, they have to install Native Access to get the configuration program, and at that point, they get to install all of the great freebies and see the offers. It's backwards.

When seeking help for issues like this, you'll get faster and better answers if you post your actual PC specs. For an example, look at my sig. The most important ones are what audio interface you're using and what video card. I'm sure you have plenty of RAM and a fast CPU, but it doesn't hurt to post those as well.

Use WASAPI Shared and you should get better results. My favorite remote desktop app for long distances is Teamviewer, inside the house, I just use the built-in Windows Remote Desktop.

If I encountered such a plug-in, I would probably decide that it wasn't my interface driver that needed to be replaced....? But then, I'm not much for "no other XXXX does what this one can do" when it comes to plug-ins. I have hundreds of the damn things.

My complaint about Native Access is that when it first installs, and whenever it updates, it installs and enables 3 different services that are only used to connect and configure Native Instruments hardware. So every time there's an update to Native Access, I have to open Windows' Services app, shut them all down and set them to disabled. Softube have also started installing and enabling their own "Softube Installer Helper," which I go in and set to manual and only start up when I'm installing Softube updates. How egotistical do you have to be to assume that it's okay to install a service that's to support products the user doesn't own and/or are only needed during product updates? I also leave Waves Local Server set to manual. That thing is a joke, all it does is enable the fancier preset browser that was kluged on a few years ago.

As you know, I don't mind me a bit of the j-j. Thanks, that's kind of what I was thinking: it appeared that they were taking part of their product line and making it subscription-only. If that's not the case, then no foul. I'm happy to hear that all that fear was premature (at least I think it was?) Shoot, dropping $180 and getting a full license for Studio One Pro along with an entire year to play with the add-ons is a pretty damn good deal. Whether you continue the Studio One+ sub at the end of the year or pick and choose which of the extras you want is up to you (as long as perpetuals are still going to be available for the other products). Marketing-wise, it's a smart way to let wary people try out the subscription: maybe they'll think all of the extra stuff is worth it. And if they don't, they aren't risking their license. For me, I have too many plug-ins already, including a couple of huge bundles.

ThreadSchedulingModel is another Cakewalk variable worth looking into. Depending on your system, 2 is the more conservative model while 3 is the higher performance model. I usually keep it on 2, although I should probably mess with it some more now that I have a 10 core CPU. From the day I started using Cakewalk, I've been wishing for more explanation about the various settings. Most of the ones in the INI file only give descriptions like "increasing this setting may help performance." Okay, that's great, but what are the downsides of increasing (or decreasing) the various settings. The INI file seems to have been around a very long time, My guess is that some of the settings that grant extra buffers use up more memory, which is no longer as much of a tradeoff as it was when 4G was all Windows could even address. Yet I suspect that some of the default settings may be from those days. Most people doing DAW work have at the very least 8G of RAM installed, the majority probable even more than that. With 32G on my system, most of which never gets touched, I could probably sacrifice a Meg or two for the sake of a smoother DAW. In the meantime, I've found that Windows can be tweaked in several ways to make DAW's work more smoothly. Pete Brown is a Microsoft engineer and Cakewalk user. He maintains a guide to tuning Windows systems for DAW use: https://aka.ms/Win10AudioTweakGuide In your Windows Defender settings, be sure to exclude from realtime scanning any folders having to do with Cakewalk, plug-ins, and sample libraries. One favorite is using MSI Tool to set as many IRQ's as possible to use Message Signaled Interrupts. In the process of using it, also check to see if any of your PCIe devices are sharing an IRQ. I found out that my GPU and Firewire card were sharing one(!), and moving the FW card to the next slot down helped with glitches and pops at lower latency settings. Even though IRQ issues are supposed to be a thing of the past, it's still best they not be shared if possible. On most systems, you'll want to pay attention to the USB controller, but on mine, since I use Firewire, that's the most important. Another one of my favorites is using PowerSettingsExplorer to adjust Processor Performance Time Check Interval. I think I'm currently using 1500mS whereas the stock setting is 15mS. Many go as high as 5000mS, but I figure that cranking it up to 100X the stock interval is enough. The last time I tuned my system I sorted out both of those things and saw a noticeable performance improvement in Cakewalk

IME, ASIOALL does no better than the officially Microsoft and Cakewalk supported WASAPI Exclusive with the Realtek hardware CODEC. YMMV.

A PC power strip!

I think the best deal in DAW software for Linux right now is Studio One Pro on the Hybrid+ plan. $179 buys you a perpetual license and a year's subscription to all of PreSonus' Studio One+ content and services. Just Pro alone gives you a lot of FX and instruments, and the Studio One+ stuff gives you many more. Of course, the license grants you the privilege of using the software in Windows or MacOS if the Linux build turns out not to work for you. I have no personal experience, so if you're interested, check their forums.

Studio One Pro 6.6 can now be had for $179.99 and comes with access to all the Studio One+ extra software, soundware and perks for a year.

I just ran through the presets and while a lot of them are cliched trance sounds, there are some nice basses, pads and some of the arps. When it comes to leads, most of them were not to my taste. But I'm a sucker for a nice shimmer pad and there are enough of that kind of thing for it to be a keeper for me.

Just need a KVR account. https://www.kvraudio.com/giveaways/get-native-instruments-utopia-free-and-win-a-copy-of-komplete-14-ultimate-ce-65 Works in Kontakt Player.

I feel your pain. But you could do like my Mac daddy buddy is doing and p1mp out a retired Dell office tower as a Windows gaming box for about $250 with GPU. The most important component is the video card, and even my GTX 1070 (about $60 on eBay these days) can handle anything I throw at it at ultra resolution without breaking a sweat. I don't play the latest AAA action games (which neither of these is). Red Dead Redemption 2 is about the most challenging, and it runs just fine. Minimum hardware ante is 16G RAM and a 256G SSD. As far as video cards go, the price of used ones is finally dropping, and even my earlier GT 1030 did okay with everything but RDR2. I played through Outer Wilds, Obduction, Portal, and Portal 2 on my old Dell 17-3770 system with a GTX 550Ti.

Well, that is what "silver lining" means, innit??

Could you elaborate on that? My understanding only goes about as far as Craig's. I'm just a lowly Studio One Artist license holder, but I'm interested in what's bothering the faithful. Is it that they see it as a slippery slope? A disturbing trend? Locking products behind a sub wall is dewsh enough for me....

The BandLab apps and Cakewalk by BandLab are two distinctly different animals. BandLab's virtual instruments and FX are in their own proprietary format. I believe that the forthcoming Cakewalk Next will support BandLab plug-ins, but whether they will be ported to VST3 for use in Sonar remains to be seen. In the meantime, there's a huge thread in this forum about freeware instruments. Or just get Vital, IKM SampleTank 4 CS, Arturia Analog Lab Play, Soundpaint and Native Instruments Komplete Start and you'll have enough free virtual instruments to keep you busy for weeks or months. If you don't want to take the trouble to download them, then just do without.

Perhaps, but at least in the audio software market, there's a lot of pushback, and still, the only DAW that is subscription-only is <irony>market leader and overall powerhouse Adobe Audition. /<irony> Even AVID offer perp licenses for Pro Tools. The subs are cheaper and offer better perks, which is as it should be if you're pushing subs. Make the sub a more appealing option. I think that the pushing of subs will go through some changes and shakeouts over time. Software companies will realize that it works for some types of products and not others, they'll realize that some people just want perp licenses period. If we lose alternatives to subs, people will vote with their feet and switch to other products. The silver lining is that when both are offered, the subs do provide a steady revenue stream that allows the devs more freedom to bring focus to bug fixes and smaller quality of life features and take their time on polishing the big features. Witness CbB, which has in a way been a sub model, with BandLab paying our sub fees. I actually think the "hybrid" model is a good idea, it quells the fear of losing the use of it. After you've paid in, you can kick back and not lose your access. They just botched the implementation by walling off these extras. Maybe they'll back down. How long did it take for Waves to cave?

The drums sound quite natural. Like I said, I'm a drummer, and they'd fool me. As far as what snare sound to use, the thing is to go with the sound you hear in your mind. If you imagine the song with certain sounds, then that's what the sound of the song is. So that's post-hardcore. Sounds reminiscent of early-90's indie rock, which is a favorite genre of mine, being last active in a band during that time.

Amish rakefight! Just a silly misunderstanding, mate. You know I think yer a good dude and a credit to the forum (I hope you know, at least). Sorry for the confusion. I guess I should have said "I think what he means is...." BTW, I have no secondary accounts and believe that it's bad form to do so. You can always recognize me by the long-winded pedantic style anyway. ?