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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.]

No doubt, the best defense against insomnia and daytime sleepiness is maintaining a regular sleep schedule. My normal routine, or at least the one that feels most natural, might seem better suited to a farmer: retire at 9:00 PM, read for half an hour and asleep by 9:30, then up around 4:30-5:00 AM. That works great until gig night, when I might not get to bed until 2:00 or 3:00 AM. That's where the Starbucks Iced Mochas come into play. Fortunately, the exertion from moving gear and performing rapidly metabolizes the caffeine so that it doesn't prevent sleep. Amplifiers seem to gain about 20 lbs by the end of the night. Plus speaker stands seem to magically increase in altitude, such that lifting a PA speaker off becomes more back-breaking at the end of the night. My setup has six powered speakers on stands. What's saved me is that gigs these days are typically over earlier than they were in the past. Where 1:30 to 2:00 AM used to be the norm, nowadays most gigs end around 10-11 PM. This past Saturday our hours were 6:00 to 9:00, so I was in bed before midnight despite a long drive. We've even got a New Year's Eve gig scheduled that'll wrap up at 10:00 PM, due to being on an island and needing to catch a ferry afterward. Perfect. The roads will be largely free of drunk drivers and I'll watch fireworks on TV.

Picture Professor Farnsworth: waa? Where am I? This isn't the cat fancier forum?

So last night we played a winery. This place has a very nice outdoor stage nestled in an orchard. Probably the ultimate stage, because it's not only large, you can drive right up to it for load-in. If only this gig had happened just one week ago, when we had temperatures in the 80's. But fall has arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and yesterday was cold and rainy (actually good news, as we really needed the air cleaned from wildfires) so we played indoors. The indoor stage was small for a six-piece band. So small that I had to literally crawl under my keyboards to get to my station. Backed against the wall, my amps were way too close to me, such that all I could hear was myself. I'm cranking away, trying to balance the keys with the rest of the band and blowing out my ears in the process. Then the singer turns around and says "we can't hear you, Dave. Turn up!". On the bright side, the audience was enthusiastic and the owners were very friendly. They brought in street tacos. Anybody who feeds the band is always gonna be OK in my book. We gave them an extra half-hour of music gratis.

Last time I tried Valerian root (in isolation, via capsules), it had the opposite effect and got me wired. That was probably 30 years ago, though. Back then pretty much everything got me wired, e.g. Melatonin, which is supposed to encourage sleep but had no effect on my overactive nighttime brain. High-CBD cannabis is the only thing I've found that truly lets my brain wind down long enough to sleep solidly. Now, if only my bladder would get onboard with the plan.

I am on day 5 of a no-caffeine regimen. One day last week I experienced what I can only assume was a panic attack. Heart pounding, shaking hands and an illogical feeling of being in imminent danger, you know the old fight-or-flight response. I'd never felt that before, and it just arrived out of the blue. Could have been at least partly psychological, as I have been under unusually high levels of stress lately. Stopping the coffee was easy. Just switched to mint tea and Lorazepam.

This was the basis for my conjecture that it's an intermittent hardware problem.

I like it. Not just generic rock, it's got a distinctive personality.