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I just updated it and after a few seconds of loading dependencies it works fine. I have had the endless 'loading products' problem before and I just closed the program and it worked fine the next time I opened it.

Video card prices are insane. The Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 Ti I bought four years ago for $189.42 is now selling for $299.99.

You can right-click a track's number and select Set as Default Height. Any empty area of the track should do but right-clicking the number is easy to remember.

I had problems with Snap years ago and found that making sure Snap to MIDI Events and Snap to Markers were unselected at the top right of the PRV solved them. I don't know if that is your problem but it worked for me.

Ditto. It is so much more flexible and intuitive than the staff view, especially when it comes to timing and volume of individual notes.

Every MIDI track needs to have its own MIDI channel and you change the outgoing MIDI channel on your keyboard to choose which MIDI track to play/record on. Is your keyboard sending MIDI Program Change messages? Because that will change the patch on the virtual synths. What Keyboard are you using as a controller?

Thank you very much. That sort of thing is great to hear because I spent a lot of time on those things.

Thank you. The title refers to a fictional past girlfriend, and all the other girls, who broke the singer's heart when young love was so intense and it felt like dying when he was rejected. I got the idea from a friend named Kim years ago who wanted to start a band called 'Smiling Assassins'. I told her I thought that was a cool name and asked her if I could use it in a song. She didn't mind and so I wrote the song that night. Like every song I wrote there's a long and boring story behind it with lots of metaphors and symbology. Parts coming in and out representing people coming in and out of our lives and stuff like that. I am not happy with the sound of the guitars in the song because I just can't make them sound like what I hear in my head, so I will redo all the guitar parts when I have better software. Right now I'm using various free guitar sims from Overloud, IK Multimedia, Amplitube, Guitar Locker, and others I've collected along the way.

I don't have any experience with them... yet. I am thinking about getting a faster processor with more cores that highly recommends using liquid cooling because it runs so hot so I have been looking at some AOI (All In One) coolers. The main factors are what kind of processor you are using, How much of a load it's under and for how long, and how much airflow your case has, I think. My CPU now is running up to 47 C (116.6 F) and I'm just using a Wraith fan cooler and 6 case fans with no problems. The specs for my CPU say its Max. Operating Temperature is 95 C (203 F). So the two things you can check are your CPU's max operating temperature and how hot it's actually getting while in use.

I've decided to set this one aside until I can upgrade my guitar software and redo all the guitar parts, but all the parts I want are there. The story I want to tell is in there somewhere. This is a very rough mix but mixing it is wearing me down because every time I listen to it I hear something else I don't like. A song about love and loss as part of the human experience, for your amusement and and maybe your entertainment. All non-guitar and vocal parts were done in the Cakewalk by Bandlab PRV. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Kim and the Smiling Assassins

That looks like a great choice, especially if you want to use liquid cooling. It has three M2 slots so I would fill those up if it were me and I had the funds, because of their superior data transfer speed. I would also stay with solid state and make my fourth drive a 2.5" SSD.

One thing to consider is if the MB has a USB C connector for the front panel on the case. My ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming does not have one so I have a USB C port on my cases front panel that I can't use unless I buy an adapter of some kind.

I read years ago that ReWire could do that sort of thing but I don't know its status now that Reason Studios has discontinued it.

Sure, okay. If you say so.

Normalization does nothing to affect the dynamics of an audio track, just increases or decreases the 'volume' in relation to the loudest peak of the audio. If I normalize an audio track that peaks at -6 dB to -12 dB I am actually increasing the headroom without changing the dynamics in the audio. Personally, I like all my audio tracks to be about the same volume before I start mixing them.

I usually normalize a recorded audio track (vocals and direct guitar) to -1 dB in Adobe Audition 1.5. and then hard limit it -.1 dB at a time until any outrageous spikes are tamed. Usually once or twice is enough. That leaves me with a good dynamics range with no spikes. Then I'll normalize the vocal audio between -6 dB or -12 dB for use in Cakewalk, depending on how many audio tracks I'm using (usually more than 30). Another situation where I normalize audio close to peak is with a recorded direct guitar where I want a lot of crunch. When the guitar track is where I want it after any processing, I freeze it and normalize to between -6 dB and -12 dB. I mostly use the track/bus gain controls to balance the volumes since, pretty much, every audio track I use has volume and pan automation. It is perhaps a clumsy way to do things but it works for me and it has become intuitive.

Might a compander or expander be something like what you are looking for? I've seen them by themselves or coupled with a compressor but I have very little experience with them other than as presets in multi-function plugins like the Cakewalk VX-64 Vocal Strip, which I am quite fond of.

The TTS-1 is a different animal and was created in simpler times. It sounds like what you want is a multitimbral drum synth with more audio outputs. I'm not very familiar with free drum synths since I almost exclusivity XLN Addictive Drums 2, which will do exactly what you want to do, as will many other drums synths you have to pay for in some way or another. Three FREE drum synths I have used that can have multiple audio outputs are IK Multimedia MODO Drum CS (16 Stereo Audio Tracks), MT-Power Drum Kit 2 (8 Stereo Audio Tracks), and Steven Slate Drums 5.5 (24 Stereo Audio Tracks). All three are popular with great sounds but are also much more complex than the TTS-1. If you want to go that route, and have the free hard drive space, I suggest trying all three to see which one best serves your needs. All three will do what you want, and a whole lot more. IK Multimedia Free Software MT Power Drum Kit 2 Steven Slate SSD 5.5

Output an audio track to a bus. Mute the bus. Do you still hear the track's audio?

I had that problem and discovered that because I had an audio driver installed (Steinberg low latency driver) other than the one I needed to use (the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO driver) I was not able to use ASIO in Cakewalk by Bandlab. Didn't make any difference that I wasn't using the other driver or that it didn't show in the Cakewalk audio devices list. Just having it installed was the problem. Once I uninstalled the Steinberg driver I was able to use ASIO in CbB. I suggest opening the Registry Editor and looking in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO to see what is there. Before I did that I used Revo Uninstaller to see what other audio drivers were installed and that's when I saw the Steinberg driver was installed and I uninstalled it using Revo Uninstaller. I always use Revo to uninstall software because it has the ability to delete registry entries along with everything else related to the software you are installing.

I've been using 24H2 for three months and the only problem I've had, or change that I've noticed, is with the Windows File Explorer 'See More (Three Dots Menu)' when I want to change the icon view to 'List', which is my preferred way to view files. The 'See More' menu opens so high that only the options near the bottom are visible, so I have to either drag the top of the window down enough to see all the options or maximize the window. It was very annoying at first but I've gotten used to it. I've noticed no change in Cakewalk by Bandlab behavior. I'm using the latest CbB build (I check for updates every day). My specs are a 4.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming motherboard, CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 64GB, System drive is a SAMSUNG 990 EVO SSD 2TB PCIe Gen 4x4 Gen 5x2 M.2 2280 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive, Cakewalk projects are stored on a Samsung MZ-V7S500B/AM 500GB 970 EVO Plus M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive.

I suggest also considering other options, like the Surge XT free virtual synth. While I don't have much experience with Z3TA+, I can usually find something in Surge XT to fit my project, and its GUI and sounds are pretty straight-forward and useful. Like the song says: You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime, you'll find You get what you need Surge XT Free Synth

There or here. I check both sites daily. FOMO and all that. Thanks for the follow.

I don't work and I spend 99.9% of my waking hours sitting in front of two monitors doing nothing, and I'm get sick of listening to my own music. Listening to this 50 times a day would drive anyone to distraction. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEQUcALqX0m/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== , so my time isn't all that valuable My skills are meager but a project to keep my mind occupied wouldn't be unwelcome. The new Sonar is more likely to offer more synth options than Cakewalk by Bandlab as its support seems limited to maintenance at this point.

I have it because I have Cakewalk Sonar X3 Producer files installed. I could create an audio track from a MIDI track/file, though I have never actually used the Z3TA+. But if you knew which patch you wanted it would be doable, though someone who is more familiar with the Z3TA+ could most likely do a better job. I'm not hip to a lot of file sharing apps but Google Drive is pretty handy. If you create a project file with a MIDI track of what you want, upload it, and post the link to it, anyone with Z3TA+ could take a shot as it.