MisterGreen

I also recently swapped out my system drive using Macrium Reflect. Cloned the old drive, copied the image to the new drive, removed the old drive and installed the new drive. Couldn't have been easier. Now I use Macrium to do periodic backups on my audio drive, instruments drive and samples drive. It's a great product.

With my current system being 12 years old and the release of a new Sonar, it's time to start a new PC build. As with all of my previous builds I start with the motherboard. I have had zero issues with ASUS boards so that is what I'm looking at. Everything seems to be geared toward "gaming" these days. Does it matter when building a DAW? Looking at ASUS ATX boards with Intel chipsets, is there anything to look for or avoid when choosing?

I was watching it when it was happening and the sound didn't match the behavior of the plugin. Each time through that section, the sound was different. It was definitely a static like crackle. Like someone twisting a dirty cable in the jack.

For what it's worth, I have a 58 track project with multiple plugins on each track and my memory usage is peaking at 13%. Why should I up it to 32?

Looks like I may have found the culprit. On the one project I'm working on, I noticed the crackling happened around the same part of the song. I started muting tracks until I found it. It was the Sonitus gate. When I disabled it, the crackling stopped. Now I'm going to check the other project.

On mine, I just click the "Output" button and it switches to the buses. Clicking it again switches back to the tracks.

I recently replaced my system drive with a larger one and since then, I'm hearing random crackling during playback. Prior to this, I've never had a problem with my system no matter how many tracks, plugins or virtual instruments. Looking at the system performance meter, it's never going over 10%. Before I start digging, I wanted to see if anyone ever ran into this same issue.

Never mind. I found it. Never would have thought it would be in the "Display Settings".

Hi All, I just started messing with articulation maps using Spitfire's BBCSO and noticed that they don't work. What I found is that, even though the map's articulation is set to C0 and the articulation in the instrument is C0, The MIDI note that triggers that articulation in CbB is actually C1. I seem to recall reading about a setting that corrects this somewhere, but can't remember where. Thanks in advance, G

I had a $50 loyalty voucher, so I just snagged it for $49.99. Really like it so far. Gonna keep playing with it.

Ah, I was doing that but could have sworn in the past it was reverting back to the default. Perfect. Thanks scook!

Yeah, I saw those tmp files. So I'm guessing I can make a new one from those, but is there a way to get the DAW to use them by default, or is it baked in?

Does anyone know where the default instrument menu layout file resides? When I open "Manage Layouts", there is an instrument list organized by manufacturer. If I change this, I have to save it, but there is no existing layout to save it to/overwrite. I have to create a new one. Then, in the browser, the old list still appears.

And I thought my Win7 machine was ancient. ?

It's definitely worth the exercise to learn how to create drum maps, especially with EZD2 since each EZX has different routing. AD2 is nice because no matter what the kit, they all use the same mixer routing. Once you figure it out, it's only about 10-15 minutes of work to make a new one, versus the time spent searching online for an existing map.

Time to upgrade.

That fixed it. You da man, scook. As always, thanks for your help.

Celemony provided me with a link to version 4 with instructions to uninstall any installed versions from my PC and to install version 4. After following their instructions and running the VST scan again, Cakewalk still isn't showing Melodyne as a Region FX nor seeing the VST3 version.

Correct, it was Essential 2. I'm reaching out to them as we speak. I'm not going to upgrade OS over Melodyne. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some step.

Thanks scook. I had tried that, but Melodyne 5 Essential is not compatible with Win7.

One thing on the VST scan: Melodyne appears under the VST category but not the VST3 category.

Yes, and no.

I haven't used Melodyne since SPLAT and now that I'm on CbB, I noticed it doesn't appear under Region FX. I found a post that mentioned adding it via Bandlab Assistant, so I went and did that. Is there an extra step involved to get CbB to recognize it as a Region FX?

As a bass player, I listen to that track and I hear a pretty straightforward, DI bass tone with a hi and lo filter and maybe some saturation. I'm no hip hop expert but I would think hip hop bass would tend to be synth rather than real bass guitar. So, after some research, I found that the bass line is a James Brown sample. So, go grab yourself a Fender Precision with some flatwounds.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm not familiar with Studio Drummer but by the looks of it, shouldn't the Kontakt mixer have 11 outputs?