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Many years ago, Herbie Hancock had two drummers on electronic drums for his Future Shock tour, although one also played a fair amount of percussion. Great Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDzqrO78V38

Yeah, I've noticed a fair number of drummers and percussionists using an spd-sx. I got one to input midi, but it's fun to trigger loops on some of the pads as well ...

Not drums, but that reminded me of seeing the who back in the 70's. They used tape or a tape loop for baba o'reily; I remember looking around for a keyboard player ? It was only years later that I read they were using tape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZBhgZBjiLE

Yes, but why? Do you want to use it live, or record the processed signal?

Going back to the 80's I've seen drummers use sequencers to play high hat parts on some songs. Some bands like the grateful dead had two drummers. Does it matter if it sounds good?

It depends on what you want to record. If you're recording guitar do you want anything over 15K? What about vocals? Vowels likely top out at 1.4k and consonants around 8k. The Royer R-121 is popular for both. It's 30 - 15K. They run around $1200. https://www.amazon.com/Royer-R-121-Large-Element-Ribbon-Microphone/dp/B00328HPIM

Considering it's now free, yeah upgrade. I don't know Homestudio so I can't say ...

I have a Quad Capture that I use with a laptop, Windows 10, and it's up to date. No problems here.

I use a 32" Viewsonic QHD monitor (2560 x 1440) @ 125% scaling and everything looks fine to me.

Bandlab has a number of products - two of which are Bandlab and Cakewalk. Cakewalk is just the latest version of Sonar. You download Cakewalk and open your projects in it. I haven't used Bandlab, but my understanding is that it's an online tool that you need to upload your stuff to. I suspect you want Cakewalk by Bandlab. If so you need to download it and install it on your computer. It's not clear from your post what you're writing about.

From the website - (S-Gear v3.0 will be a free upgrade for customers with a v2.9 license)

If you use an expression pedal some amp sims do have wah pedals. You can also use an expression pedal to control vst filters or eqs and that is basically the same thing.

Are you talking about an on/off pedal, liked a sustain pedal, as opposed to an expression pedal?

I've used Macrium Reflect free to do what you're saying a number of times. No problems. I don't remember the details, but I thought I cloned the disk, installed it and then used disk management to enlarge the partition. I could be wrong, it's been a while. My DAW is around eight years old now, I started with a 256 gb system SDD, switched to a 512 gb, and eventually a 1 tb.

Yes, you can record midi from keyboards and use them to drive software synths, and you can play midi through your external synths. How you connect depends on the HW, usb or midi. Check youtube or the tutorial section here. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/

It turns out the problem I had with the M1 in Live was operator error. I did a file save combi and that didn't save it. I tried file save all and that worked. When I opened the project to work today everything was fine.

I agree and plan to report it. With the M1 I created a new combination and it didn't seem to save it properly, but I haven't used the M1 much until now. I tried saving everything yesterday and today I'll see if that worked. If the vst 2 works it will save me from having to recreate the combination every time I open the project.

I will.

I was playing with the Korg ms20 as an fx with guitar last week and was surprised to find you can overdrive the input on the filter. I'm impressed. On the other hand, I'm using the vst 3 version of the M1 in Live 11, but it doesn't remember it's settings.

I noticed that with the M1 in Live 11 the last few days. I'll give the vst 2 version a shot.

I got a new laptop a couple months ago so I went thru the process of uninstalling and reinstalling. My old laptop was about 10 years old. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but it's easier with a new laptop than rebuilding.

After 8 years there's something to be said for a clean install. Clean registery and so on. Just sayin.

Oh, ok. I don't care for that ...

Disabled is what you want, so that should be OK. Make sure your usb cables are plugged in completely. It seems odd that a power management/plug and play driver is running.

The platinum installer still works. I got a new laptop recently and installed everything from platinum and then installed CbB. If you just want the synths you can try just reinstalling the pieces you want.