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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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I believe that the Pro 40 can be used as a standalone powered mixer, if that's what you mean by "passively." With a 2i4 you wouldn't be able to simultaneously route its individual channels to the DAW to get more than the 2i4's 2 tracks. However, if you get a USB interface with ADAT input, such as the Scarlett 16i16, which by itself has only 2 inputs, the Pro 40 can be used as an expander to add 8 more channels via its ADAT output. This is how I plan on using mine if Firewire finally does go away, or if I switch to a computer that can't accept expansion cards. In this scenario, all software chores are handled by the USB device's driver and control panel. The Pro 40 would be sending data to the USB device, which would pass it on to the host device using its USB connection. This is already in common use, Focusrite's OctoPre is one of many ADAT expanders designed to be used that way. Another development that might be an extinction-level event for me and Firewire would be if Microsoft's planned audio-optimized USB driver for Windows 11 actually does what Pete Brown thinks it can (shown by independent testing). At that point, I might get a 16i16 or an Audient iD14, a USB interface similar to the 16i16 but less expensive, also only 2 preamps of its own, with channel ADAT input. Brand doesn't matter, to the Audient, or any other interface with ADAT in, what comes in via ADAT is just raw data, it doesn't care who the manufacturer was. One caveat is that you might need to use a Firewire-equipped computer one last time to configure the Pro 40's routing, so that all inputs are routed straight to their corresponding ADAT outputs. If you haven't changed the routing from stock, that probably wouldn't be a problem. Yet another possibility would be a USB interface that also has S/PDIF input, since the Pro 40 has S/PDIF out. That would only add 2 more channels to whatever the new interface already had, but it would still be a worthy use for a Pro 40. So you see, whatever happens, there's no reason to toss a working Pro 40 or any other recording interface that can output its channels via ADAT. It should still have plenty of life left in it switched to expansion duty. While it's true that a new Scarlett 16i16 costs about $150 more than a 2i4, even Behringer's cheapest 8 channel ADAT preamp is $150. Focusrite's OctoPre is $500 and has similar preamps to the Pro 40. The 16i16 also has 8 pin DIN MIDI, which is a must-have feature for me. I wonder how many working 8 channel Firewire interfaces have been chucked due to Firewire fear that could still be in use as 8 channel ADAT expanders. I hate to see anything go to waste.

This. If you want to know more about Thunderbolt 3 to Firewire connections, I believe that @Jim Roseberry has experience with that.