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Me with eyes closed and hands over ears: nah nah nah nah... OK, you made me look. Watched the presentation. Sheesh, are those two nerds right out of central casting, or what? Well, if there's one thing we've learned from every sci-fi epic it's that those are the guys who've figured out how to save the world and we should probably listen to them. As impressive as Mike's monumental work is, I believe he's hit the limits of what Kontakt can do as a specialty platform. I've always felt that once articulate voices have truly become a viable virtual instrument, it'll be within a framework designed from the ground up specifically for that purpose. There are just way too many possibilities when concatenating vocal sounds for even a sophisticated sample player like Kontakt. Imagine if pianos and violins had different languages, dialects, regional accents, puns and homonyms; Kontakt libraries would be many terabytes in size.

That brings my collection of "ooh" libraries up to around 16. I really could have done without Blue. Oh well, this is where intoxicated shopping gets you.

Finally picked up Blue last night, after having considered it for years. After about two hours mucking about, I was successful in making her sing "OOH" quite convincingly.

That's some scary stuff, John. Like the setup for a Twilight Zone episode scary. I'd also be inclined to take the above advice and see an ENT in addition to an audiologist. I'm no expert, but the latter specializes in identifying what you can't hear, and your problem is hearing something that isn't there, or at least isn't supposed to be there.

Or deleted. Somebody had an issue recently where all the files in one of %appdata%\cakewalk's subfolders (I forget which one) had been deleted. I have no idea why or how that would happen, though (error raised during the update?). But it's a safe bet that the symptoms listed in the OP are indicative of a corrupt installation. I know this won't help you today, but I have to mention that the best defense against this sort of thing is having a backup of the %appdata% tree. Oh, and Steve's right: rolling back probably won't fix it. Worst-case scenario is uninstall/re-install Cakewalk.

The first rule of grounding is that you minimize the number of paths to ground. Multiple paths create differences of potential between them, which defeats the purpose of having a common reference. Those differences may be very small, but we're talking about an environment in which very small voltages are our stock in trade. Before I would resort to adding more ground connections, I'd take a hard look at my existing grounding and see where I might be creating problems. Your system may have shown improvement in the basement simply because you've moved to a different circuit, or went from having equipment plugged into multiple outlets to just one outlet.

This is why I almost never insert tempo events into MIDI-only projects until I'm happy with the composition, performance and arrangement. At some point you have to take the plunge and pronounce the composition "done" and then move on to mixing. Not everybody works that way, but it's a methodology that's served me well for a very long time.

It's an old advertising tag line, "Pepperidge Farms Remembers". The implication being that their products are made in some long-forgotten old-fashioned manner, It has become a joke and a meme punchline, because Pepperidge Farms is actually a factory in Connecticut.

I should add that %appdata% is also ground-zero of much malware activity, since most other critical file system locations are protected by stricter permissions. Back when Microsoft started locking things down in Win95, they realized that there needed to be at least one place with loose security, someplace where applications can freely store their stuff. That's why %appdata% exists, and why it's vulnerable to attacks. So it's also a good idea to run something like Malwarebytes on a regular basis to root out bad stuff in there.

This is why I make daily backups of %appdata%. Being the general-purpose storage locker for all applications, things will frequently change in there that you're not even aware of, including plugin settings, presets, authorization keys and log files. And, of course, your Cakewalk customizations.

Couldn't agree more! Sadly, ever-increasing complexity is endemic to the computer world, and eventually the simple solution will no longer suffice. Pepperidge Farms remembers (tm) when an entire operating system fit on one 5.25" single-sided floppy.

There are also plugins (Meldaproduction, FabFilter) that make use of the GPU, and that's a moving target.

Most likely another process that's changing the interface's sample rate. When you start CW back up, it resets the SR to match your project. Make sure Windows sounds are disabled. Also, you have better luck with WASAPI over ASIO, as it can better deal with mixed sample rates.

We may be misunderstanding the intention of the OP. He may have recorded everything to a fixed tempo and then added tempo changes afterward. If that's the case then there would be no problem temporarily bypassing the tempo map. Unfortunately, such an option has not been implemented, afaik.

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Hey! I never agreed to that. Cat memes only. That's what's in my contract.

I walked with a cane for two years before finally getting insurance approval for back surgery. Back then, standing in one place was actually more painful than walking. But even then it was a daily requirement. btw, I switched to the Dark Reader today just so I could take a screenshot for Shane. I've decided to keep it that way. So much easier on the eyes. If I should ever happen upon a website that doesn't like the color scheme, the extension allows for making it a per-URL option.

Oh, come on, Craig. I, for one, intend to stand at least once more today. It is a necessary prerequisite for going to bed.

I keep mine at 7, because some nights I get lonely and like it when my DAW talks to me.

I use Brave, which is built on the Chrome engine and can use all of the Chrome extensions. This forum looks pretty nice with the Dark Reader extension.

This is how I would do it. It also leaves open the option of fading the group in/out instead of using the mute automation.

Pressing CTL-End will move the cursor to what the DAW thinks is the end. Sometimes you'll spot an event there that explains the mystery. It'll often be an automation node, or sometimes a MIDI note that you can delete. However, deleting it won't necessarily shorten the track. To do that you can split the clip after the audio portion and delete the now-empty clip on the right.

In that case, I'd concentrate on finding the source of the noise. From your OP it sounds like there is no significant noise if you don't use an amp sim. IOW, you can turn up the recorded audio without hearing too much extra noise. Maybe you're demanding too much gain from the amp sim. Many amp sims inject noise to simulate both the white noise that tubes generate as well as the environmental noise that guitar pickups can pick up. Some of that might be avoided with a hotter signal going into the amp sim. Cakewalk's Gain control precedes the fx bin, so try increasing the track's gain and turning down the amp sim's gain. If that doesn't give you enough of a boost, grab a gain plugin such as the free one from BlueCat and insert that in front of the amp sim.

Until today, I was unaware that Trilian even had an arpeggiator. So thanks to the OP for bringing it up.

That is a valid point, and I completely agree. However, I would counter that the perfect bug-free and obsolescence-resistant program has yet to be written. It's an impossibility, because most software exists in a larger software and hardware ecosystem that is in a constant state of flux. I say "most", because it's possible that the software that powers your microwave is likely exempt from this principle.