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Careful not to confuse correlation with causation. Plugins use RAM, too. As they are unloaded, they will release whatever memory they had needed to run. What you are probably seeing is the last plugin unloading after a long delay. That plugin is probably your elusive villain.

What John was suggesting was creating a new project with NO plugins. If that closes properly - as it probably will - start adding in plugins to determine which one is causing the hang. Disabling a plugin does not unload it.

1+1=10 Duh. But to be fair, F + 1 can also equal 10. Depends on how many fingers you're holding up. Two, or all sixteen.

I don't hate lo-fi guys. It is not a moral shortcoming. They are simply misguided souls who need our understanding and patience.

Best product name so far this year. Personally, I don't use loops, having studied the instrument for many years. You could say I was a Rhodes scholar. Mine ended up in a closet for years. I named it Dusty.

iDrums. From IKM, I think.

Sigh. Fortunately, none of the bullet points mention anything about "sounding better", or "sounds more like real Leslie". At least they have their priorities straight.

Technically, the term "pan" only refers to how mono tracks are fed into a stereo bus. With stereo tracks, "panning" is a bit of a misnomer, because a stereo track is really two mono tracks tied together and already hard-panned left and right. The pan slider is actually a balance control, like one you'd see on a hi-fi amplifier. It simply turns down one side or the other. Consequently, the track's stereo image does not change, just one side gets quieter. If you move the slider all the way to the left, the right channel completely disappears, possibly losing important information. This is not a problem for mono tracks, only stereo. A better way to "pan" stereo tracks is to use a plugin such as Channel Tools, which lets you actually position the left and right channels as if they were two mono tracks. That lets you actually alter the stereo image, e.g. making it less wide or shifting the whole thing to one side while preserving both channels' information. Things really get messed up if your interleave is wrong. If a stereo track's interleave is set to mono, the two channels are combined and the track becomes effectively mono. If a mono track's interleave is set to stereo, then the track is duplicated to get (identical) left and right channels at the output. In either situation, the pan control may not behave as you expect it to. A further complication happens when you insert a stereo effect onto a mono track. That turns it into a stereo track internally. Consequently, any panning choices you make should be based on it now being a stereo track. But if the interleave is still set to mono, the output of that track will be treated as mono. Sometimes that's no big deal, sometimes it'll leave you scratching your head wondering why that ping-pong delay is only pinging and not ponging. I know, it's complicated. But you can avoid problems by keeping the appropriate interleave and only change it if using a plugin that you know is going to switch the track to stereo, such as a chorus plugin.

I'm going to move this thread over to the Articulation Maps subforum, where more people are likely to find it down the road. Thanks for your contribution, John.

You almost got me again, Larry. $16.79 is a great deal. This time, though, I checked my plugin inventory first and found out I already have it. OK, so I apparently have too many plugins. In my defense it's still a far smaller collection than bapu's hoard.

You deserve the recognition, Jerry. You've long been an inspiration to me. There were some surprisingly philosophical and historically-relevant responses in there.

Most sustain pedals have a switch so you can configure it as either momentary-on or momentary-off. It can sometimes get accidentally toggled. Another thing that happens a lot with sus pedals is that the microswitch connected to the pedal can fail or become intermittent. Switches are rated for a given number of activations, and sustain pedals activate them a lot. Another common problem is broken TS connectors. If yours unscrews (as opposed to being molded), take a look inside at the connections. If you have an ohmmeter you can easily test the output of the pedal. You should measure an open circuit until the pedal is depressed, at which time the resistance will fall to zero or near-zero ohms. Fortunately, sustain pedals are fairly cheap. I'd just be inclined to get a new one. If it turns out to not be the problem, you'll still have a backup for the day when it does eventually fail. [EDIT] we were typing at the same time. Glad you got it sorted.

I know there are some serious orchestrators here, and this content isn't targeted at them. This will appeal more to the casual composer who just dabbles in pseudo-classical genres. Like me. Anne-Kathrin Dern is a working composer out of Los Angeles, originally from Germany (like another famous composer we all know and love, whose company she once worked for). Her background includes creating sample libraries for CineSamples, so she's very knowledgeable about that stuff. She's been doing this quite a while, despite her apparent young age. No, you won't recognize most of the movies she's done; they are third-tier flicks like Hallmark Christmas specials and kid's shows. But she's done a lot of them, makes a living at it and knows her sh*t. The channel's content ranges from orchestration/composition tips to library reviews to how-to techniques to the recording process. It's the latter category I find most interesting, as she explains how a cue gets from ITB mockup to live orchestra. Plus she's way cuter than Rick Beato.

Please don't. At least not unless you're testing it in a virtual machine. USB drives are the perfect attack vector for malware, because they automatically run software as soon as you plug them in. Yes, it's a real thing. Think about it: what do the sellers expect to get out of this? They have to know they won't make any money on SSD sales, since burned customers will be returning them and Walmart will drop the product after complaints roll in. I predict you'll start seeing warnings pop up about how your system has been compromised, with a helpful 800 number to "Microsoft Support".

I use a browser extension called Fakespot, which points out fake reviews and other warnings. This is what popped up when I went to that page: By "seller" they are not referring to walmart.com, but to Enlightened, the actual seller. I tried to find information about the brand, but couldn't find anyone selling it other than Walmart. I am tempted to buy one just to see what the deal really is. There has been a rash of bogus flash drives lately. What's worse, the device reports a spoofed capacity value to the O/S, resulting in missing or corrupt files if you try to write to it. Not what you want to back up your important files to. Some even come with malware pre-installed.

Those channels are probably meant to be used with line-level devices. I have similar channels on my Yamaha mixer and use them with an MP3 player at venues that don't have music for intermissions. The easiest solution is to move your keyboard to two of the other channels (1-10) and pan them hard L/R, as suggested by 57Gregy. (Except that channel 1 should be left and channel 2 should be right, as nature intended ) If all your other channels are already spoken for, then an inexpensive preamp could also solve your dilemma. Can you just crank up the volume in Cakewalk? Sure. But you'll also be cranking up the noise floor, which may or may not be an issue, depending on how quiet your mixer is.

This is unrelated to the original post and unlikely to be a CW bug, critical or otherwise. Whatever has gone awry is specific to your system. First, re-scan your plugins and see if any are still missing afterward. If that doesn't fix your problem, make sure the scan paths are still correct. Those pathnames are stored in the registry under HKCU, which may have changed if you've logged into Windows under a different user name than you normally use, have re-installed Windows, or have reorganized your file system (e.g. moved the Cakewalk tree to another drive).

Rain experiencing a drought? A drought is defined as the absence of rain. Talk about your existential crises! I could never take Schecter seriously, for the dumbest of reasons: they always featured semi-nude models at their NAMM booth. Pretty girls who clearly had never held a guitar before (although perhaps a few guitar players). Sure, I dawdled there and took snapshots. But it seemed if they worked that hard to sell the sizzle, then the steaks would probably be disappointing. But then I'm not a guitarist.

OK, I think I understand your dilemma. Normally, upsampling in an individual effect is handled internally, meaning the sample rate is doubled at its input and then halved at its output. This assures that the rest of the surrounding ecosystem never even knows that trickery was done. Which makes sense, given that oversampling is used solely to mitigate issues that happen within the plugin. The oversampled signal should never affect anything else, nor need to. This is important, because the next processor in the signal chain is expecting audio at the project sample rate. It's possible the sidechain output somehow breaks that contract by sending out the oversampled version. This should not be the case, though. The send should be identical to the main output, except for level. Whether this is a bug that warrants addressing, I'm not sure. Faced with this dilemma, my first thought would be "am I making things unnecessarily difficult for myself?". In your described scenario, which I assume is to duck the bass when the synth plays, there would really be no reason for upsampling Trillian. It's a sampler. It's not going to sound better at 2x. The synth is probably not benefiting, either, although you'd have to verify using a spectrum analyzer. So the only potential benefit from upsampling would be within the compressor, assuming you're using attack times shorter than a single cycle of the lowest bass note being played, in which case audible distortion is likely and aliasing is at least a possibility. What I'm saying is you're making problems for yourself by going overboard with unneeded upsampling. I certainly understand the frustration of not being able to do something you think is reasonable. But rather than getting annoyed, I say just remove that rock from your shoe and move on. All that said, have a look at the compressor settings. A too-high threshold plus very fast attack and release times can cause chattering, a rapid opening and closing of the compressor.

Sorry, I was unable to reproduce it here. Is it the sidechain source or its target that is being upsampled? Or both? My test: Zebra2 (not oversampled) driving three instances of FabFilter Pro-C2 on 3 oversampled instruments (Kontakt, Zebra2 and Trillian). I tried it just with normal playback, after freezing, and after rendering to a new audio track.

It's still hardware-based, but using components within your system in place of a separate dongle. Upgrade your motherboard and all your plugins suddenly treat you like a thief. Depending on the protection scheme, you could have the same issues after replacing a disk drive or network adapter. When Dell bought millions of counterfeit capacitors that then failed, I was fortunate to have a maintenance contract on my Dell that covered the motherboard's replacement. However, many of my plugins no longer worked afterward. No problems with the ones that use license files or registry keys, just those that used "software-based" auth schemes. Unfortunately, I had a great many of the latter so although some vendors did make re-authorization easy (some did not) it was still a time-consuming and annoying process getting everything going again. As a software developer, I am offended by anything designed to not work by default, and any design built around a single point of failure. PACE in particular has a long history of disabling software en masse after updating their software. Not so. User-friendly protection is acceptable, and I have no problem providing proof of purchase when it's required. But said proof should be in the form of a file that I can back up. Fortunately, there are always non-PACE alternatives that do just that, e.g. FabFilter, Meldaproduction, Spectrasonics, Native Instruments, Voxengo, Celemony, Jamstix, D16, Overloud, AAS - just to name a few off the top of my head. Fortunately, I won't need to find an alternative to FETPressor because the non-PACE version already does exactly what it's supposed to do.

Correct, there is no option to download older versions from PSP. I had to get 1.0 from a backup. At least they offered me an iLok code in my account. All I'd need to do is install the PACE driver. Not gonna do it. Same as the objection to any hardware-based copy protection: sneeze on it and it stops working.

Woops, that didn't go well. The new version said it had to be authorized and the 1.0 auth code didn't work. I'd forgotten that PSPAudioware had gone to PACE a while back. Since I won't put Pace on my computer, I've reverted to 1.0. This doesn't change my opinion on the quality of the plugin, just that of PSPAudioware. I'd still recommend it if you don't have an objection to PACE/iLok.