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Just leave your SONAR installation in place so you can continue to use its effects and VIs. Your current and past SONAR projects will load up fine in CbB and you can continue on without interruption (other than maybe stopping by here with questions about new features).

Please, no bass player jokes. This is a serious thread.

I think we should all just standardize on ticks.

I understand there's also a "breve", and it's not a beverage. I wonder if my barista would interpret "semibreve" as an 8-ounce breve. I've always thought it strange that we've had to learn Italian in order to buy a coffee. Who gave Italy that authority? Coffee should be ordered in Ethiopian, should it not?

Have you ever actually uttered the term "hemi demi semi quaver" when communicating with other musicians?

Next you're gonna tell me Bill Gates didn't slip me a 5G chip in the last "security" update! I was looking forward to the upgrade.

Damn fact-checkers ruin everything. You couldn't just go with it, Craig?

2/2/22 will fall on a Tuesday.

TIL this fun fact: the most iconic bass line in history - talking about the Seinfeld theme, of course - was not played on a bass. It was a keyboard. Yeh, and the guy who played it was probably the un-coolest nerd in the band. The one with a "Math is Cool" t-shirt who plays D&D on Thursdays and knows for a fact which one was the best Star Trek captain. Take that, you cool bassists with your dark glasses and your motorcycle boots and, and, and your girlfriends.

For me it was the first time a big-box store employee tried to explain to me how computers work.

Your best advice is right there in the error popup: contact the vendor and send them the crash dump. They'll be able to quickly determine what the problem is. Could be the C++ Redist version or some other dependency, or it could be a bug. Whatever the problem is, odds are you won't stumble upon a solution on your own.

The problem is not with the OP's routing or export options. He's already determined that it's stereo, by playing the MP3 in Cakewalk. The problem is therefore in the playback software. I suspect that all MP3s lose their width, not just ones EmV created.

I have 73 keys on my synthesizer. I think there may be one that I've never played. I have 88 keys on my piano. Even my cat has played all of them.

Import your mp3 into a Cakewalk project and listen to it. Is it still mono?

The top one is the spittin' image of our Miss Bean. Except for the mask. Hers has a skull on it.

No. I tried, but I have no feeling in my fingers. Perhaps this is what arpeggiators were invented for.

Today it's a walk-in freezer.

Unfortunately, that won't save you much time or effort if what you want to do is shift a bunch of keyswitch values up or down an octave. It's not a search-and-replace kind of operation. More like search and add 12. It'd be a nice feature, to be able to select all articulations and shift all their values in one action. This has happened to me, where I've entered what I thought were the correct keyswitch values only to realize after considerable data entry that they're all off by an octave.

When I came out to the garage/office/studio at 5:00 this morning, I tracked in some snow. When I got up to go make a second pot of coffee at 8:00, I noticed it was still there. The band is scheduled to rehearse in this space on Thursday. The forecast is for more snow and much colder temperatures. But that'll just be acclimation for Friday night's gig, where the venue is at a much higher elevation with temperatures in single digits (-13 C for those outside the US). And twice as much snow. It's normally a 2-hour drive but will probably be double that in the snowstorm that's forecast. I don't think my rear-wheel drive van will make it, so we'll be jamming everything into three 4WD vehicles and caravanning up the mountainside. I have never cancelled a gig. Ever.

Can you point to previous reports of this? I only scan the Kontakt forum once in a while, but when I do I'm looking out for stuff like this - and I haven't seen any recent reports. There have been, however, multiple reports of long unload times (example).

Yes, I have actually seen that problem. But it was ages ago, probably Kontakt version 2 or 3. IIRC it did come down to a specific library, due to some corrupt samples preventing Kontakt from closing the files on exit. That would have been the fault of the drive, though, not the library. If you do manage to track the problem down to a library, try renaming the folder and copying it to a new location on the drive, or a different drive if that's an option. That's something I've had to do on multiple occasions, but again long ago when disk drives were considerably less reliable than they are today.

You're right, of course. And I do know some excellent singers. However, none of them seem thrilled about coming over at midnight just because I've had a sudden inspiration.

True Colors, you say. Interesting - and challenging - choice. The original performance covers the gamut, from robotic to soaring melodrama. I'll be interested in hearing your progress on that one. Most of the demos and tutorials I've heard remind me of the dancing bear analogy: at the circus you don't applaud because the bear dances well, just that it dances at all.

Here's what I'm working on today. I have no idea what "style" it might fall under. The oohs are five different patches from Omnisphere plus one Kontakt library. I've had no success yet finding a place for Blue in it. https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14355696

Check out this Synthesizer V demo. Impressive.