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Since somebody mentioned bagpipes...

Verify that the vst3 version is in fact installed and in the right place, then rescan. All vst3 plugins should be in the same place, e.g. c:\program files\common files\vst3. As long as it's there, the scanner should have no problem finding them. If the file is in the right place, run the scanner with its log enabled (Preferences -> Files -> VST Settings -> Generate Scan Log). After rescanning, open the log (%appdata%\cakewalk\logs\vstscan.log) with Notepad and search for the name of the dll. If the init failed while scanning that plugin, an entry in the log file should indicate why.

Cakewalk has no concept of "end of song". It tries to figure that out based on where the last event occurs, which might be the end of an audio or MIDI clip, a MIDI note, an automation node, or an ARA region. Quite often, the "end" that it comes up with doesn't land where you think it should be. The good news is that it doesn't really matter until you export your final mix. At that time, you have to decide where the beginning and ending are and select the region in between for export. I deal with this by placing markers labeled "Start" and "End". When you export, you can specify those markers. If it really bothers you, you can find that last event and move or delete it. It would be nice if Cakewalk would let you indicate Start and End markers as references that the export dialog would default to, but I've been lobbying for years for that feature with no luck. But as I said, it's really not a problem.

A good price, but only get this if you don't already have any other choir libraries. There's no new ground here.

Anything can be a slide guitar with nimble use of the pitch wheel. Mostly, I use Zebra2. But if I'm feeling lazy, I do keep an arsenal of sampled bendy instruments on hand. None of them do it all, so selection is based on the particular part. The STEEL Lap Steel Guitar, The Resonator and Delta Blues Acoustic Guitar, all from Indiginus SLIDE Acoustic and SLIDE Lap Steel from OTS Young Love, Glorious Steel and Smoked Lap Steel patches from Omnisphere Here's a tune I'm currently working on that features The Resonator.

Classical music and Broadway show tunes, that's all keyboards are good for.

Even though I don't drink myself, I will never dismiss the power of drink to break down barriers. It was a crucial factor in 90% of my pre-marriage, um, casual romantic encounters. The other 10% was due to being a rock 'n roll musician.

While you're looking at the registry, check \core\userpaths\TplFolder. That should contain the path you specified in Preferences as the template folder. Sounds silly, but that's where I'd start: combine the TplFolder path with the filename in Default Template, paste them into a DOS window and see if notepad can open it.

Could there be something in the template itself causing loading it to abort? Just spitballin'. Can you make a different template work? IOW, have you determined that it's one template that can't be used as default, vs. no templates work. You might try setting/adding the ExceptionHandlingSeverity variable to 7 (Preferences -> File -> Initialization File), which causes Cakewalk to report every piddling error it encounters, even some that normally wouldn't warrant a visible complaint. That could potentially drop a clue into the debug log (%appdata%\cakewalk\logs\cakewalk.log). Also verify that Cakewalk knows which template should be the default. That's stored in the registry (search "Default Template" under the Cakewalk\Core key). Normally, it's default.cwt. If that file doesn't exist, I think you get a blank project.

Who'd have guessed a serious thread about alcohol could degenerate into a discussion of hockey? This is what happens when you invite a Canadian to the table. I was in Germany once during the Stanley Cup finals, staying with a German friend. He had like 400 channels on his TV and we stumbled onto a hockey match. Neither of us knew anything about the sport, but had a blast making up the rules based on what we saw on the screen. Apparently, it's like soccer/football except that injuries are not incidental to the game, but rather the point of it.

Count me among the clueless, then. "Too much" keys is not a concept I can grasp. Contrast that with, say, the digeridoo. Now, that's one I don't miss when absent from a song. Mainly because it has to be accompanied by the obligatory rainstick, and mine, being an actual organic one made out of some kind of cactus, has annoying poky things along the length of it that irritate my delicate keyboard player hands. I keep it behind the door to fend off intruders.

Root beer, Bourbon Street and Spirit Halloween. Last drink I had was New Year's Eve 1984. First hangover ever experienced was New Year's Day, 1985. The ultimate cure.

No need to be "sory". I never mentioned AC/DC. Also not mentioned: neither KISS nor Primus, and one of those two is a good band.

My first thought after reading the OP was that one of the plugins is failing to initialize, and thus halting the scan. Two features exist to aid in troubleshooting scan issues: Scan in Sandbox and Generate Scan Log. The former isolates each plugin in its own process so a crash won't kill the scanner, and allow the scan to continue. The scan log option creates a debug log that contains a blow-by-blow story of the scan process. Sometimes, it can provide a clue as to why a particular plugin failed to scan. On a new install, it can take a few passes to identify every plugin that's having a problem. Usually, there's a workaround for each of them once you know which ones they are. In the meantime, just disable the failing plugins until the scan completes successfully.

Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Beatles, The Who, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Nightwish, Evanescence, Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, Dio, Vanilla Fudge, Grateful Dead, Genesis, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, Nine Inch Nails, Uriah Heep, Focus, Jethro Tull, Santana, Soft Machine, Allman Brothers, Kansas, Steely Dan, Gentle Giant, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ELP. Unexciting hacks, every one of them.

Anybody remember Resonant Serpent? He didn't think guitars had a place in music anymore.

Would that be the same Zebra3 originally scheduled for release in 2019? I stopped holding my breath for that one a long time ago. Summer of 2023, I think, was the last prediction. Of course, if it ever really does become reality, I'll be first in line to buy it.

Thanks for that link, Kenny. Now we know the name of the invisible keyboard player (Jamie Muhoberac). I get annoyed when a band lip syncs a song for a video, and the producer thinks it's unnecessary to include some of the actual contributors, e.g. backing vocalists, rhythm guitarists, even entire orchestras. If you're gonna fake it for the camera, at least make it a little bit credible.

Yeh, the chick's got attitude, but... is that Tim Pierce on guitar? Also of note: the Invisible Man making his first appearance on keyboards - completely nude!

Exactly. Those poor guys must have been eating cold beans out of a can to make ends meet.

Be patient, it'll pass. The first time I quit, I was on the road with a band and it was often just too much of a hassle to get coffee in the morning (we weren't staying at the kind of hotels that have in-room coffee makers). After a couple weeks, I'd forgotten that I ever needed coffee to get going, either in the A.M. or during gigs. In the pursuit of tranquility, I also find it helpful to avoid the news as much as possible.

My brother in law works for DOT, and often arrives at accident scenes before the cops. Working NYE means you drew the short straw. I don't even know what "neuro dubstep " is, but it sounds like something that's prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Yes, Geddy was quite the talented gymnast, playing the Taurus pedals, synthesizer, and singing all at once. At least nobody's gonna expect that from me. I do, however, often have to perform my own ambidextrous gymnastics, working swell and sustain pedals, switching patches and adjusting the vocal mix and fx, all while standing on one foot. When we use our own stage lights, I've assigned that duty to our bass player because I just didn't have any more hands left. I just told him "red for fast songs, blue for slow songs, red + blue for mid-tempo, add some yellow for the set closer". So naturally we played the whole night with blue lights on, one of them pointed at the floor. Oh well, he'll figure it out eventually. Good thing he's an awesome bass player.

It was good. This was our first time out after a three-week hiatus due to our drummer experiencing sudden extreme pain in his knee. We've had to cancel multiple gigs and haven't booked anything for November, not knowing if maybe we were just - done. Fortunately, his issue was worked out and the places we'd cancelled were gracious enough to re-book us for January. That means we finally have time to learn some new material. That's the downside of playing out constantly - you get tight but the setlist starts to become tedious. A few weeks' worth of woodshedding will be reinvigorating. The guitarist is lobbying to add some Rush tunes to the list. As long as I don't have to sing them, I'm fine with that, given that learning the keyboard parts should take about ten minutes.

"Import as mono" simply combines L and R into a mono stream. It's handy when you're given stereo tracks that aren't really stereo, with the same data on L and R. In that situation, however, I import as stereo, split to dual mono and delete one of the mono tracks. And then gently inform the submitter on how to create mono files in the first place. This avoids potential problems with phase cancellation (e.g. L and R are almost identical but not quite) and the 3dB loudness boost that marled alluded to above. There is no intrinsic function for automatically splitting stereo into separate tracks when importing an audio file. Of course, splitting the track is trivially easy after importing, which is probably why I can't recall the topic ever coming up before. OP, what is your use-case? Are you editing podcasts or something where you have two speakers talking into a single stereo microphone? [P.S. Let's keep the tone civil, guys. This topic isn't worthy of passion. The OP didn't suggest that Cakewalk should automatically do pitch correction on import or something, he just suggested a minor feature.]