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Grabbed this from our ol' pal gamblerschoice on FB.

Just emptied out my storage unit a few months ago, after 8 years. But mine was only 40-50 bucks/mo.

A bit of advice my brother Mike gave me about 48 years ago which has helped me to not obsess over minor (or major) things: "Just play the damn thing!".

Soylent green is people!

I used to live there, too.

No apology necessary, just keep on choogling!

"I know Strummy, Ed, craigb, Kenny, ensconced, paulo, the other Ed, Mesh, Wibbles, S.L.I.P. , Gswitz " Not even an honourable mention. And I'm the only one here who has met your nephew. ☹️

It's normal to up the buffer size during playback to prevent glitches with high-plug-in-count projects. Where a low buffer counts is when recording so you can hear what you're recording in sync with the playback. You probably already know all that.

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like the perfect case for using Freeze or Bounce to Tracks. Maybe save the project under a new name then try out the 2 different approaches to lessen the processor load.

You can set your system to use the Focusrite with Cakewalk and the onboard sound card for Windows sounds. If your sound chip is a RealTek, it has "enhancements", one of which includes EQ with many presets.

It could be that those clips are selected or muted, maybe even locked.

If it's a groove clip, the only way I see is to undo looping, make the change in the first clip and groove clip/drag it out again. If you copy/paste instead, there is an option in the copy dialogue to link or unlink clips. That enables you to make a change in one clip and it will change all the clips. Be careful, though; you could end up with a mess.

I have a 5X9 studio. Does that count?

It looks like there is a 'direct monitor' button on the front and a monitor knob to adjust how much input and output you hear. There may also be a software mixer to set your ins and outs.

Hey, Marc. I went to high school in Fayetteville, although in the early seventies we called it Fayette-Nam. Now in Raleigh.

Thanks, scook. I'll try to remember. ?

Or, he's always going to have a job.

Not if your current interface uses ASIO. You can try changing the driver mode to WASAPI or possibly WDM or MME and use both devices, but there will probably be unacceptable latency.

I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but using the ASIO driver, arguably the best driver for audio recording, limits you to only one device. You will have to record and monitor from the Focusrite.

As a test, try Bounce to Tracks instead of freezing. See if it sounds correct in the bounced track. If so, you can archive the original tracks.

Do the MIDI tracks have a valid output, such as a software synthesizer with its output set to your sound card or audio interface or a Master bus>AI or a hardware synthesizer such as your keyboard, with its output connected to an amplifier/speakers or headphones?

Perhaps they were opening, but off-screen?

Ran into this last night and thought I'd relate what I found. An old project, all audio, but with 10 or so archived MIDI tracks. The song didn't stop at the end of the last clip, so I decided to find out why. I opened all of the archived MIDI tracks and took a look at the event list, and on the next-to-last drum track, I found one drum hit with a duration in the BILLIONS! I don't know how that happened, I don't think I held the key down that long (I'd probably still be holding it!), but decreasing the duration to a normal drum hit length, the project now stops where it should. Edit to add: didn't know archived tracks would still be read.

Hey! An honourable mention! Edit to read "twenty years", please. ?

At last! Someone who wants LESS cowbell! ?