Starship Krupa

Not a great idea there. If you snag Cakewalk by BandLab while it's still free, you'll have everything in SONAR Platinum plus 5+ years of bug fixes and new features. As a free upgrade.

I think I get what you're trying to go for. You're not eschewing a whole frequency range, you're staying away from the instruments that traditionally put energy up there. Big fan of Peter's back in the day. Yes, if you eschew cymbals in a rock song, it may sound like something is "missing." Our ears are tuned to like high frequency transient sounds, as the ability to hear such helped humans survive in the wild. Listening for the footsteps of predators and the like. That's what our hearing evolved (or was designed, if you like) to pay attention to. Deep Ambient, which is designed to fade into the background, eschews spiky transients for this reason. One answer to this is to focus on emphasizing transients from the instruments you are using. They give the ear something to grab on to, and Security has lots of great processing of transients. Do a Google search for "transient shaping" and give it a shot. I have dedicated plug-ins for it, and I use it when I'm cleaning up phone-recorded jams, one of my favorite tasks. It makes instruments pop out of the otherwise muddy non-mix. It can also push otherwise spiky sounds more into the background. Check out EDM, which often uses no cymbals and manages to be exciting nonetheless. They use synth sounds and glitch processing to put information into the attention zone. David Tipper, Telefon Tel Aviv....

This. If you go over to the Instruments and Effects forum, there is a topic on Favorite Freeware Instruments, where I bet you can find free 64-bit substitutes for whatever you're using. If not, you can post there what you're using now and see if we can find you good substitutes. REAPER is known for being a DAW that plays very well with challenging plug-ins, but they are the Achilles heel of any host.

A less than .5% failure rate in power supplies, then? I hoped it was the power supply. They are one of the most stressed components in a PC.

Drumsynth has a scalable UI, for one. I have it, as well as Boom and DrumSynth 500 and I like them (got them for $10 a few years ago). I like Boom for its ease of getting meat-and-potatoes old school drum machine sounds, but its UI is suffering from tininess. DS500 has a larger UI, so not as much of an issue. Still, not scalable, which may become an issue in the future unless someone figures out how to scale legacy plug-ins. I got the WAP freebie (qualified via the xPand!2 Multivation presets bundle, which is surprising me with how good it is, it's got monster Synthwave sounds) and haven't been able to spend enough time with it to say for sure whether it can replace Boom. It seems to have the DrumSynth 500 engine with a new UI and more capable mixer. As such, the note mapping is not strictly GM, which always p's me o, because why, it just makes it harder to try different drum synths with the same MIDI track. Given that I use Cakewalk, with its....idiosyncratic drum map situation, this makes it something of a pain to use as a quick go-to. So, bottom line, it's a replacement for DS500, not Boom. If you need a cool old school drum box, Boom sounds excellent (typical of AIR in that regard) and comes with a ton of useful internal patterns that may be keyswitched. With my aging eyeballs, it's kinda small. Looks fine on my 40" monitor, but can't imagine it at 4K. All of them may be downloaded and trialed, so I suggest doing that before you buy.

And nothing I said was intended to be critical of Mike. Very much the opposite, I think that he and his videos are great and I sympathize with his situation, both healthwise and professionally. I hope he gives Sonar a chance once it's on the market because he brings so much. His Cakewalk vs. S1 videos are of service to the Cakewalk community because they emphasize what's at stake and how BandLab can't count on every CbB user to happily shell out for Sonar. The program will no longer be playing in the "best free DAW" leagues. It's trying to make a comeback in the "best DAW for the money" leagues. The competition have not been resting during Cakewalk's free period. Studio One Artist is now a $99 license (free if you buy a PreSonus interface) and supports VST plug-ins.

Matrix View was never removed. It's still there in Cakewalk by BandLab. Well, at least anyone who was/is using SONAR Platinum and installs Cakewalk by BandLab is still able to use all of those plug-ins. Some of the old SONAR Platinum plug-ins are shown in the teaser screenshots of Sonar, so it looks like you may get your wish there. ? One of the earliest features/fixes in Cakewalk by BandLab was "sandboxing" for plug-in scans, did that not solve the problem for you? You are using Cakewalk by BandLab, I hope. It sounds from your post that you might not be. The new Sonar will have all of the dozens of features and thousands of bug fixes that Cakewalk by BandLab has gotten in the past 6 years, minus Theme Editor (although some kind of return to theme editing has been hinted at). As far as an integrated sampler, such a thing is one of, if not the most-requested features that has yet to be delivered. You'll find a topic about that in the Feedback Loop section, which is the best place to post what you would like to see in newer versions of the product.

In addition to the chorus/ADT effect, it sounds like he's also employing some slap echo. Slap echo (or slapback) is a delay of 40-100mS, sometimes slightly panned opposite the original signal. Listen to "Instant Karma" for a more extreme example of slapback. Back when it was first used, it was created by using the delay caused by the distance between a tape recorder's recording and playback heads. In record mode, if you took the signal live from the play head, it would be delayed by about 70mS (depending on the design of the deck and tape speed). If you then fed that back into the sound that was being recorded, it would produce an echo. The first dedicated echo effect units were specially-built tape machines with heads that could be moved to change the delay time, and included built-in mixing circuits to provide feedback. Elvis Presley's early recordings famously employed it. Stan Freberg made a parody of "Heartbreak Hotel" that revolved specifically around (over)use of the effect:

Which suggests to me that the term "forum jerk" could be applied to the path of a discussion that goes off-topic. Heavy meta.

The fact that disabling all FX cures the symptom is a clue. I'll go with what others have said about trying enabling and disabling individual plug-ins to see if you can find one that is triggering the behavior. And it might not be just one, I've had it happen where it was two specific plug-ins in a specific order that caused trouble.

Ain't meanin' to be a jerk Just wanna know if it worked Got them single post blues again... .... Oh, mama, did their problem really end? Are they stuck inside of Cakewalk with the one post blues again?

Check your Ripple Edit.

I'm still investigating that. Just installing it in Ultra Analog's own user banks folder didn't result in it showing up in Player, but I haven't tried finessing it yet. Not holding out a lot of hope; A|A|S are pretty good at locking their stuff down to only do what they want it to do.

The A|A|S Ultra Analog pack is excellent. Really good retro arps and basses. It also eschews the usual A|A|S tendency to load up their presets with FX.

Perhaps so, but it may have exacerbated it.?

I think that the Sonar announcement maybe hit Mike kinda hard. He's built a career (or at least a revenue stream) out of his CbB tutorials based on it being a great FREE DAW. He's also been doing tutorials for Studio One, but if you look at the number of views he gets on his Studio One videos vs. the ones for CbB there's no contest. He invested a lot of work in building up his set of tutorials. Now he seems to think that the best way he can serve his audience is by helping them transition to a different DAW.

Cherry Audio have a holiday gift for all, Synthesizer Expander Module. ...."a free emulation of the classic Oberheim® self‑contained synthesizer module of the same name." It's a monophonic monster, should be great for classic leads and basses. It's a faithful recreation, so only one built-in effect, phaser. So it will require external FX to sound like modern synths.

Perhaps they mean "we who are experiencing issues with sidechaining in Cakewalk." Which doesn't include me.

If it's just the plug-in and loop browser that has disappeared, press B to bring it back. Check Preferences/File/Folder Locations and make sure that those are set correctly. Then Preferences/File/VST Settings and make sure that your VST scan paths are set correctly.

Maybe it was a mid-side conspiracy? ? I, too endorse the idea of refurbished Logitech input devices. 30 years ago, I had a consulting gig at The Learning Company (when Reader Rabbit walked the Earth). Their headquarters were in the same business park as Logitech, which had a factory outlet store. That's when I first fell in love with Logitech's (refurbished) products, a love that has endured to this day. My current daily driver mouse is a refurbished Anywhere 2. I've mapped the thumb buttons to Alt and Ctrl, which is tres handy when editing.

Good advice so far. This. The PS may have zapped the motherboard when the incident happened, and/or the power supply itself may now be incapable of supplying one or more of the clean voltages needed to boot and run the system, etc. Fortunately due to their being made of certain building blocks, PC's are relatively easy to troubleshoot via substitution. If you turn the system on and the fans come on but no video, it could be a problem with: monitor, video card, power supply, motherboard, or even a video cable. I just had a monitor "die," but it turned out that replacing the HDMI cable miraculously fixed it. Glad I checked. If you turn it on and get a logo and option to go into settings, that is what indicates either an OS drive failure or corruption. But it sounds like maybe you're not getting that far. So you can troubleshoot it by substituting those components. Presumably you have donor parts from your previous system? First thing I would try is connecting the monitor to the motherboard's video out. If that doesn't result in being able to get to a UEFI/BIOS screen, then substitute another power supply. If that doesn't do it....things will be looking worse, but not necessarily enirely lost. Your OS configuration and so forth may be happily intact. Fingers crossed that all that happened was that your brand new power supply suffered infant mortality and didn't take anything else out with it. If perchance you ARE getting as far as the logo and UEFI/BIOS screen, that means that PS, mobo, monitor, and video card are all okay. Then we'll check and see if your drive is being recognized by the BIOS. If it is, there are safe mode boot and a variety of recovery options for Windows that can take you further.

How did I know it was going to be Mike Enjo? ?

You need to switch the Browser to display instrument plug-ins rather than FX plug-ins in order to see TTS-1. If you want TTS-1 to play back from a multi-track MIDI file, you must create a synth track for TTS-1 then set the output of each MIDI track to TTS-1.

I've never had one fail, but I only started using them about a year ago. For this question, the experience of one single user isn't going to help. Check the reviews on Amazon or Google.

Same, except for location of lump.